Re: [hylafax-users] Caller ID

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 05:42:14AM -0400, Patrice Fournier wrote:
> Quoting "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>:
> > Since Lee gave you a *productive* answer (:-), I will simply note that
> > the standard thing to call that datum is "TSI" for, I think, Terminal
> > Station Identifier.
> 
> Right, but it's for Transmitting Subscriber Identification.

Ok, I was close.

> > "CSID" is a bit too close to "CNID", which is Bell-speak for Calling
> > Number Identification; what most people call "Caller ID".
> 
> It's also close to CSI which is the Called Subscriber Identification. A 
> machine will send the Fax identification in either CSI or TSI, it just 
> depends of if it made or received the call.

It is a two way handshake?  Yeah, I guess it would have to be, since
both fax machines have the opposite's on there.

Hmmm... maybe faxsend and faxgetty/cico ought to diddle their argv[0]'s
so you can see which call is on which process...?

Cheers,
-- jra
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