[asterisk-users] Knowing incoming call technology and channel [SOLVED]

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Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
> Olivier wrote:
>
>   
>> I don't have any spare zaptel enabled system I could try this on, but I 
>> was not aware of this CHANNEL variable.
>> Now, I can see it here http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+variables
>> Maybe, I will add a line in www.voip-info.org <http://www.voip-info.org> 
>> to keep others (me?) from searching again.
>>     
>
> You should have looked in /path/to/arc/asterisk/doc/channelvariables.txt 
>   There's lots of cool information there, and all of it is up to date 
> for your version of Asterisk, unlike voip-info.org.
>
> I often wonder why nobody seems to read the docs that are included with 
> Asterisk.
>
>   
Web and/or context-searchable documentation will ALWAYS win out over a
somewhat loose collection of text files.

That's basic UI psychology 101.

N.