From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 28 11:49: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0D137B41C for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 11:49:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16K303-0006D0-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 19:49:04 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id F0E61116E; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:49:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:49:02 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Program to "guess" phone number? Message-ID: <20011228194902.GA2061@raggedclown.net> References: <20011228203504.F728@klamath.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011228203504.F728@klamath.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:35:04PM +0100, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all > > Is it there any program that will answer the phone or hang it (with the > modem, of course) only if the call comes from a _specific_ phone number? > Can the number be determined? > Mmm, I think that depends on what your phone company does as much as anything else. I have an ISDN phone with 4 numbers associated with it and which one I get phoned on gets logged on my PC (even though I do not have incoming calls enabled). As a corollorary to that (and more relevant to your question) it again depends on whether the number of the person phoning you is "visible". Here in Holland my phone displays the number of the person calling, but the caller can easily suppress that ability by typing in a special code. In short you should be able to do it somehow with ISDN, but with ordinary analog lines I have no idea. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message