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Re: RE: [ECS] 4.1.006 BETA (8/23/99) Scott Danks Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:24:30 -0500

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 Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:24:30 -0500
Hey Michael;

I have wanted to run ecs under winnt, but I was under the impression that the NT operating
system will not allow a program to talk directly to a hardware location.  This would
prevent any i/o calls to an interface board.  I have one with a pio interface on it
and I was going to use the calls in ECS to write to the ports to make it work.  I suppose
if you buy a card that has an NT vdx driver, it would work, but I dont have one.  Do
you use anything like this under NT?  I will be using this to monitor the doors and
windows, etc.  I think I have identified 48 digital inputs for my house by the time
I'm done (doors, pir's, status switches..like deadbolt positions etc.)

Just thought you might have an idea.  Most of the commercially available stuff is limited
to 16 inputs.  My card does 96 inputs or outputs in groups of 8.

Scott

>>> "Michael David" <michael@michaeldavid.com> 08/25 11:44 AM >>>
Hi Dan!

I've been unnung ECS under NT for a while now.  All works well except:

1) The text from events in the event page don't line up into easily readable
columns.  This is because Mark had to display that text in a proportional
font.  For some reason that excapes menow, he had trouble with mono-spaced
fonts on that page.  So, it's messy to read, but otherwise works ok.
Because of this, I generally look at my events in a text editor.

If any of you are NT programmers, and have any thoughts on how Mark could
get around this, please speak up!  :)

2) The "About" button on the group page doesn't work.  I haven't mentioned
this earlier because it is insignificant.  Mark, if you are ever bored and
want to track it down, let me know, and I'll send you the error message.

Otherwise, It works great under NT, and is MUCH more stable than Win98.
Once I worked out the driver problems when I migrated to NT, I have yet to
see a crash.

In short, NT is a much better operating system for mission-critical
applications.  And, ECS is a much more mission-critical application than
anything else in my world.  :)

Cheers!

Michael David
michael@michaeldavid.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Carrington [mailto:dc grafx@microworks.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 2:14 AM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com 
Subject: Re: [ECS] 4.1.006 BETA (8/23/99)


Me too!!!!!!  Now I have another reason to finalize that upgrade into the
windows version....

NT maybe??
Dan Carrington



Michael David wrote:
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>         >BEGINIF and WHILE statements may now be followed by additional
>         >AND/OR conditional statements.
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> Ooo!  Ooo! I've been wanting that for years!  Thanks, Mark!  :)
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> Cheers!
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> Michael David
> michael@michaeldavid.com 

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