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Caller-ID Program
Name: Peter S. Date: July 13, 2005 at 08:30:37 Pacific OS: MS-DOS 6.22 CPU/Ram: 486/66
Comment:
Hi, is there any program that will get the caller ID information from the telephone line and display it on the screen? (My caller ID is activated) I have an internal modem that works fine on COM2.
Name: wizard-fred Date: July 13, 2005 at 09:07:19 Pacific
Reply:
The next thing you need to verify is whether your modem supports caller id. Seach google for caller id. There are a few sites that have a test program for the modem. Otherwise check your moden's manual.
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Response Number 2
Name: Peter S. Date: July 13, 2005 at 10:23:31 Pacific
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Yes, the manual says it supports Caller ID
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Response Number 3
Name: Peter S. Date: July 13, 2005 at 10:30:59 Pacific
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I found a program at FileLibrary.com called "CallInfo" (callin10.zip)
http://www.filelibrary.com/Contents/DOS/2/6.html
However the link us broken. Does anyone know where to get Callinfo?
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Response Number 4
Name: hiho Date: July 13, 2005 at 12:04:58 Pacific
Name: wizard-fred Date: July 13, 2005 at 12:56:22 Pacific
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If you only need to display the information on the screen, all you need is a terminal program. Just open com2 and wait for input. You may have to set it for 1200 baud to match the callerid output of the modem.
You can write a similar program in QBASIC.
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Response Number 6
Name: Peter S. Date: July 13, 2005 at 13:14:00 Pacific
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Could you point me in the direction of the QBASIC program?
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Response Number 7
Name: hiho Date: July 13, 2005 at 13:49:24 Pacific
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"You can WRITE a similar program in QBASIC"
QBASIC is included in the MS-DOS install....
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Response Number 8
Name: Peter S. Date: July 13, 2005 at 14:40:31 Pacific
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YES, I know that! I guess I should have clarified. I mean could someone help or tell me where to find the QBASIC program because I have little experience with writing them. Or at least get me started.
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Response Number 9
Name: jboy Date: July 13, 2005 at 18:13:45 Pacific
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.. kinda doubt you'll be initially successful if you are only now aware of the concept.
As already mentioned, it should be part of your DOS install - it's what runs that version of DOS Edit and the excellent 'Help' interface.
Once you manage to find the application - next stop -> programming
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. -John Wayne
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Response Number 10
Name: wizard-fred Date: July 14, 2005 at 01:35:08 Pacific
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In place of programming may I recommend letting your fingers do the walking.
Google - caller id dos
http://www.filelibrary.com/Contents/DOS/2/6.html - prg 213 to enable your modem. prg 217 to display te caller id.
Caller ID - http://www.modem-help.co.uk/help/clid.html - has a good example of using a terminal program to test and do caller id.
I didn't give a basic example since I don't have a modem on this computer. (wireless lan) Using a terminal program with an initialization string to enable the modem is what I would do, to save the calls turn logging on.
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Response Number 11
Name: Peter S. Date: July 15, 2005 at 18:42:32 Pacific
Reply:
Well I dug out my old copy of QuickFax II and entered the command AT#CID=1. The caller's name, the date and the time now show up on the screen. Thanks
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