Re: [Asterisk-Users] Can someone explain the 's' extension

2005-11-15 Thread Matt Riddell
Umair Bari wrote: No, i really dont think so, we were talking about _. which I think you will find matches o, s,h,i,t :D and a couple of others. -- Cheers, Matt Riddell ___ http://www.sineapps.com/news.php (Daily Asterisk News - html)

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Can someone explain the 's' extension

2005-11-14 Thread Neil Cherry
Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: Neil Cherry wrote: Does someone explain the 's' extension? In the Wiki it says it's the catch all extension. In the Asterisk 1.2-rc1 it say it isn't but doesn't say anything more. Needless to say I'm confused. When a call comes into Asterisk (PSTN, VoIP, etc) and

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Can someone explain the 's' extension

2005-11-14 Thread Eric \ManxPower\ Wieling
Neil Cherry wrote: Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: Neil Cherry wrote: Does someone explain the 's' extension? In the Wiki it says it's the catch all extension. In the Asterisk 1.2-rc1 it say it isn't but doesn't say anything more. Needless to say I'm confused. When a call comes into Asterisk

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Can someone explain the 's' extension

2005-11-14 Thread Neil Cherry
Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: Neil Cherry wrote: Funny thing is I can get Asterisk to use the 's' extension as a catch all (I use the include = xcontext command). But I needed to describe it properly for chapter in a book I'm writing. Man I hope I get this stuff right! BTW, I'm using SIP

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Can someone explain the 's' extension

2005-11-14 Thread Matt Riddell
Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: exten = s is NOT a catchall it's more of a catch nothing i.e. it only catches calls that have no destination info. A catchall would be exten = _. but that would catch extensions that are not numbers (like o, i, t, T, h, etc). A catch all number extensions would

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Can someone explain the 's' extension

2005-11-14 Thread Umair Bari
No, i really dont think so, here are few lines from extensions.conf.sample. ; Extension names may be numbers, letters, or combinations; thereof. If an extension name is prefixed by a '_'; character, it is interpreted as a pattern rather than a; literal. In patterns, some characters have special

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Can someone explain the 's' extension

2005-11-14 Thread Olle E. Johansson
Eric ManxPower Wieling wrote: Neil Cherry wrote: Does someone explain the 's' extension? In the Wiki it says it's the catch all extension. In the Asterisk 1.2-rc1 it say it isn't but doesn't say anything more. Needless to say I'm confused. When a call comes into Asterisk (PSTN, VoIP,