# .Call files & variables

**URL:** <https://community.asterisk.org/t/call-files-variables/1182>\
**Category:** Asterisk Support\
**Created:** [September 3, 2005, 8:30am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/call-files-variables/1182 "2005-09-03T08:30:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Yves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Yves](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Yves)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 8:30am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/call-files-variables/1182/1 "2005-09-03T08:30:20Z")

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Hello,

I try to use .call files to generate a call. I read almost everything about it, and it’s working fine.  
But in the dialplan, I need to check some variables (DIALSTATUS,…) to send them to a res\_perl program. It seems that every variable is empty, I even tried to just print current time with NoOp(${TIMESTAMP}). But it does nothing.

Is there something special to know about generating calls with .call files ?

Thank you.