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Re: [ECS] Re: TVL Event mistake Bill Walters Tue, 4 Jan 2000 19:07:58 -0600

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Mark,

No problemo...... as to your "humility day", I'll defy anyone to generate
the amount of code required for something like ECS and not have a few.....
er, "features".

Your setting of 'a' to 'A' is, I think, due to your trying to catch errors
on the part of the user, and having ECS change the case of characters to
match those stored within the ITEM list...  Perhaps for a test such as this
(ASCII pattern matching) you might wish to use something like a single quote
mark...... 'a'      or 'A' which ECS could interpret as "...alright, ignore
case here, the user knows what they want.....)   while we as users, could
think of such test conditions as matching ASCII  character 'exactly' (or
some such nonsense).

Bill


----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Gilmore <omnip@usit.net>
To: Bill Walters <wtwalters@home.com>; <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 6:54 PM
Subject: [ECS] Re: TVL Event mistake


> Hi Bill,
> This is indeed a bug (which I'm sure has been around for
> a long time). Till I fix it, please make the corrections
> manually.
> I hereby deem Jan-4 to be Mark's humility day :-).
> --
> Mark Gilmore
> Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
> http://www.usit.com/omnip
> 423-745-0026
>
>
> Bill Walters wrote:
> >
> > Mark,
> >
> > Tried with ECS 4.2.007 to make the edits;  while the initial display
showed
> > lowercase letters, upon executing SAVE and re-opening the event, ECS had
> > changed the letters back to uppercase...
> >
> > i.e. I enter (and save) the following via the event editor:
> >
> >  | BEGINIF Character-A Is A
> >  | Or Character-A Is a
> >
> > (then re-open the event) and I see:
> >
> >  | BEGINIF Character-A Is A
> >  | Or Character-A Is A
> >
> > sorry...... ;<{
> >
> > Bill Walters
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Mark Gilmore <omnip@usit.net>
> > To: Alfred Holzheu <alfred@syv.com>; Barry Law <bklaw@alum.mit.edu>;
Bill
> > Smith <wasmith@gte.net>; Bill Walters <wtwalters@home.com>; Bob Fisher
> > <bhfisher@bouldernews.infi.net>; Bob Phaneuf <vacman1@cyberzone.net>;
bob
> > terfruchte <bob.terfruchte@amd.com>; Brian McGinnis <brianm@lyrec.com>;
> > Brian Wells <bdub@earthling.net>; Bruce Winter <bwinter@vnet.ibm.com>;
Carl
> > Keyes <Ckeyes@global.california.com>; Dan Carrington
> > <dc_grafx@microworks.net>; Dan Dubay <ddubay@umich.edu>; David Kindred
> > <DKindred@AutomatedLiving.com>; David Mccoll <thishouse@home.com>; David
> > Schmidt <djs@molmed.ummed.edu>; Don Stephens <stephens@west.net>; Donald
> > Stephens <don@sb.net>; Doug Storey <dastorey@swbell.net>; Douglas Palmer
> > <dpalmer@DigitalRiver.com>; Ed Rohner <edrohner@internetwork.net>;
Garnet
> > Bailey <gbailey@pop.telusplanet.net>; garry viele <gviele@gfn.org>; Gary
> > Mull <jgary@mindsp
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 5:40 PM
> > Subject: TVL Event mistake
> >
> > > I just found a mistake in the TV-GUIDE and TV-LISTINGS Events:
> > >
> > > THIS:
> > > | ; If user enters A, S, or V, append to TVLFAV.TXT:
> > > | BEGINIF Character-A Is A
> > > | Or Character-A Is a
> > > | Or Character-A Is S
> > > | Or Character-A Is s
> > > | Or Character-A Is V
> > > | Or Character-A Is v
> > >
> > > SHOULD BE THIS:
> > > | ; If user enters A, V, or R, append to TVLFAV.TXT:
> > > | BEGINIF Character-A Is A
> > > | Or Character-A Is a
> > > | Or Character-A Is V
> > > | Or Character-A Is v
> > > | Or Character-A Is R
> > > | Or Character-A Is r
> > >
> > > Sorry about that.
> > > --
> > > Mark Gilmore
> > > Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
> > > http://www.usit.com/omnip
> > > 423-745-0026
> > >

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