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Lookup Caller using the Internet
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| If you want to lookup a caller's name and address using their number, right click on the caller in the incoming call list and select Lookup. You can use 1 of several Internet sites to do this. By default Call Soft will use Switchboard (www.switchboard.com) but several others are available and you can even define your own site.
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| Right click on a name in the incoming call list and select Lookup.
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| Setting the lookup Web site:
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| To setup the lookup site right click anywhere in the incoming call list and select Lookup then Setup.
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| By default Call Soft uses Switchboard. The actual URL required to access the site is shown under the label "The formatted URL".
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| If you want to use one of the other pre-defined sites simply click on one of the button then click the OFF button. Now when you lookup a name that site will be used.
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| If you want add your own lookup site you will need to modify a text file called lookup.ini found in the Call Soft folder (c:\program files\call soft). You can open this file with any text editor. We will make this procedure easier in a future release.
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| The content of the lookup.ini has two sections [Names] and [URLS]. name1 refers to url1, name2 refers to url2 etc. You can have up to 6 names/URLS. To modify or add simply change one of the nameX= to any name you want then change the associated URL. After modifying the file
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| Contents of lookup.ini file.
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| [Names]
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| name1=Switchboard
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| name2=Whitepages
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| name3=AnyWho
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| name4=Info Space Yellow
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| name5=Info Space White
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| [URLS]
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| url1="http://www.switchboard.com/bin/cgirlookup.dll?SR=&MEM=1&LNK=32%3A36&at=<areacode>&e=<prefix>&n=<number>&type=BOTH&Search.x=35&Search.y=8"
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| url2="http://www.whitepages.com/find_person_results.pl?fid=p&ac=<areacode>&p=<prefix><number>"
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| url3="http://www.anywho.com/qry/wp_rl?npa=<areacode>&telephone=<prefix><number>&btnsubmit.x=31&btnsubmit.y=11"
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| url4="http://ypng.infospace.com/info/ypv3/list.htm?&kcfg=ypus&ypinsp=0&searchtype=all&fromform=revphone&qp=<areacode><prefix><number>&qpa=<areacode>&qpx=<prefix>&qpp=<number>"
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| url5="http://kevdb.infospace.com/info/wp/results/kevdb?OTMPL=/wp/results.htm&QFM=p&QK=5&KCFG=US&QP=<areacode><prefix><number>&qcat=reverse"
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