NCID.CONF(5)

💖 NCID.CONF 💖

okay bestie, so we're talking about ncid.conf(5) — the little config file that runs the whole show for ncid, the Network Caller ID Client. sit down, grab a boba, we're gonna read it together 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

ncid.conf — the ncid configuration file, aka the vibe-setting document for your caller ID life 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The ncid.conf file is where all the configuration tea lives for ncid, the Network Caller ID Client. it's literally the blueprint. the main character document. 👑

It's a tcl/tk configuration file, and its whole job is setting options. that's it, that's the gig ✨

Now, ncid.conf only understands 3 types of lines, and honestly? iconic minimalism:

• blank line — ignored. we love a quiet moment 🎀
• comment line — one that begins with #, and it's ignored too. speak your truth, no one's listening (affectionately) 💬
• shell variable — set to a value, for example: foo=bar. this is the one that actually does stuff 🔥

pro tip from the page itself: go look at the ncid.conf file for the complete list of variables to set and what the default values are. the manpage is not gonna list all of them, bestie, that's a you-and-the-config-file conversation 💖

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🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

okay this is the fun part, the show-and-tell, the getting-ready-with-me of config files ✨

Set ncid to use the page output module:

set ModName     ncid-page

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Set ncid to format its date output in alternate form 1. assuming the date separator is a /, the display will be DD/MM/YYYY:

set AltDate     1

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Set ncid to format its date output with hyphen (-) as separator. the display will be MM-DD-YYYY. and if the date is in alternate form, the display will be DD-MM-YYYY:

set DateSepar   "-"

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Set ncid to format its date output with period (.) appended to year (ordinal numbers), when the period (.) is the date separator. if the date is in alternate form, the display will be dd.mm.yyyy:

set YearDot     1

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Set ncid to format its date output in alternate form 2. the display will be: weekday month dd yyyy

set AltDate     2

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Set ncid to add a dial prefix to the phone number sent to the server to dial. the dial prefix may be "9" or even "91" — but a leading 1 can be set in the GUI instead, if the leading 1 is not always needed 👀

set DialPrefix=""

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Set the number of characters to display a name in the GUI to 40. the range is from 20 to 50:

set nameWidth   40

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Set ncid to tell the server to send the call log — only used in the NoGUI mode:

set CallLog     1

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• ncid.1

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and that's the whole page, bestie, no cap. this was NCID version 2022-11-8, and the manual page is NCID.CONF(5) — go forth and configure your caller ID like the icon you are 💜✨🎀