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Re: [ECS] ECST Known Issues Mark Gilmore Mon, 08 Feb 1999 10:58:47 -0800

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David, responses are inserted:

David Mccoll wrote:
> 
> Mark,
> Here is a summary of items that three of us are having trouble with in ECST
> / DOS  4.0.
> 
> Paul Venables:
> 1 PCBell locks sys after playing a few notes of
> bell tones I then try to (alt-s) to dos and the system freezes.

Sounds like CLKVCT is not being executed in \AUTOEXEC.BAT.

> 
> 2 Plug-n-pray SB16 won't work

I do not have the knowledge required to address this
problem: All I can suggest is to closely follow the
"Installation for STEREO Sound Blasters" section
of ECS.HTM.

> 
> 3 Iseek failure in message screen after deleting messages

Working on it...

> 
> 4 Long distance caller-ID not displayed correctly

I don't recall ever hearing of this one - need details.

> 
> 5 Free-Mem is 100k off from 3.4

This is misleading, as the "free-mem" is actually the
largest single free block of mem, NOT the total.
ECST 4.0 only takes a little more mem that 3.4.

> 
> 6 Unable to play a voice recordings

New to me - need details.

> 
> DAvid M:
> 1 Plug and play SB16 will not work
> 
> 2 Run from Ramdrive(D:), HD(C:) is accessed when switching between editor
> screens; looking
> at the W0.CFG file slows down screen writes
> 
> 3 Long distance caller-id not displayed properly 123-456-7890 should be
> 1-234-567-8901
> 
> 4 Cursor position bleeds through the screen saver
> 
> Wayne Whittenburg:
> 1 HAI thermostats does not work
> 
> 2 Lseek errors
> 
> 3 Seriously slower than 3.3/3.4 in both execution and screen switching
> 
> 4 Misses some CID info
> 
> 5 Error 'unsupported audio' when recording phone messages
> 
> 6 Losing item states when rebooting
> 
> 7 Losing entire (new) events when rebooting
> 
> That's the list. I am not sure id=f you need any further debug dumps but I
> will try to get them for you if you wish. Looking forward to ECST 4.0 being
> a solid version !
> DAvid M

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Mark Gilmore
Omnipotence (ECS Home Automation Software)
omnip@usit.net
http://www.usit.com/omnip

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