asterisk users - Jun 2023 - Expanding my answering-machine system

On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 7:48 PM Steve Matzura <sm at noisynotes.com>
wrote:
> OK, this is how I thought it's supposed to work. It just confounded me
why
> the book would say the Playback() and Background() syntax were the same,
> then in the very next paragraph give an example that belied that claim.
>
The syntax is the same. They both take a filename. The example gave a
filename of "enter-ext-of-person". You could pass that to Playback,
though
you would be unable to enter an extension.

-- 
Joshua C. Colp
Asterisk Project Lead
Sangoma Technologies
Check us out at www.sangoma.com and www.asterisk.org
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Sorry, Joshua, I don't understand. One's a filename, one's an
extension
number. How are they the same? In other words, why would 
'enter-ext-of-person' be considered a filename? I would think 
'enter-ext-of-person' would be an extension number.


On 6/17/2023 7:27 PM, Joshua C. Colp wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 7:48 PM Steve Matzura <sm at noisynotes.com>
wrote:
>
>     OK, this is how I thought it's supposed to work. It just
>     confounded me why the book would say the Playback() and
>     Background() syntax were the same, then in the very next paragraph
>     give an example that belied that claim.
>
>
> The syntax is the same. They both take a filename. The example gave a 
> filename of "enter-ext-of-person". You could pass that to
Playback,
> though you would be unable to enter an extension.
>
> -- 
> Joshua C. Colp
> Asterisk Project Lead
> Sangoma Technologies
> Check us out at www.sangoma.com <http://www.sangoma.com> and 
> www.asterisk.org <http://www.asterisk.org>
>
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