Mark, Don, Paul,

Thanks to all your help I have TV-Guide / TV-Listings up and running great!!!!!!!!
I had two things wrong first of all I didn't realize that my TZ-E file was overwritten
when I upgraded so I had to go back in and "start from scratch" adding "*"'s and changing
the channel #'s. Secondly, when I cut and pasted some of the TVL items into ecs.cfg
somehow some extra spaces got into the 'FILE : ' lines and so ECS was looking for "
  :  TVL.TXT" for example. So , a little editing repair work and now everything works
great!!

Now for a question. I want to get the VCR to record my favorites! I understand the selection
of favs no problem. Now I need to get the 'IR stuff' working using my HV-PC w/ Xantech
dual emitters plugged into the back. Help file describes how to input the IR signal
data but I want to know if I can simply edit the existing VCR:REC ect  items instead
of starting over. Also, I don't need the Announcement along w/ the Record (am using
the bedroom TV/VCR for this and the 'BOSS' will get very upset if the computer starts
announcing that it will 'Record Poirot in 60 seconds' at 2am!!!). Can this be done?

Thanks,

Tom
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Don Stephens 
  To: ecs-list@netbloc.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 9:13 AM
  Subject: Re: [ECS] problem upgrading


  Tom:

   And I thought I got up early. :-) 
  OK, here's TVL.BAT. It requires three arguments, Time Zone,Amount of Days forward,
and the last number channel override. In my case it looks like this.
  TVL.BAT TZ-P 8 1. This is reflected in the TVL.BAT Item in your ECS.CFG.
  If you run this manually....

  DEL ISPSTAT.DAT
  Deletes file ISPSTAT.DAT

  IF "%1"=="" GOTO ERR
  If there is no argument (TZ-P) the batch file jumps to ERR, else..

  rem Generate TVLDL.BAT to download listings starting at 12:00AM
  rem (%2 is the day-count - default is 8 days)
  TVL0 %1 %2

  TVL0 Runs with 1st and 2nd arguments, TZ-P and 8 or TVL0 TZ-P 8
  rem Download listings:

  CALL TVLDL
  Calls the batch file TVDL and then returns here...

  START /W RASDIAL /DISCONNECT
  This is some of Mark's magic stuff to deal with the state of the modem..

  IF NOT EXIST TVL.HTM GOTO ERR
  If the file TVL.HTM isn't found then jump to ERR...


  rem Convert HTML to text file and assign chan #s if applicable
  rem (%3 denotes channel# override):
  TVL1 TVL.HTM %1.CHN %3 TVLNEW.TXT

  This converts TVL.HTM to TVLNEW.TXT parsing the stuff in %1.CHN or in my
  case, TZ-P. At this point TVLNEW.TXT should exist...The 3rd argument tells the
  executable TVL1 if you want to override the channel numbers...

  rem Delete unwanted channels:
  FILTER @%1.CHN TVLNEW.TXT 0 29
  Throw out unwanted channels from %1.CHN or in my case TZ-P.CHN...

  rem Calculate length (minutes) of each show:
  TVL2 TVLNEW.TXT TVL.TMP
  Like Mark says in the comment...TVL.TMP is a temporary file storing the future
  TVLNEW.TXT

  COPY TVL.TMP TVLNEW.TXT
  DEL TVL.TMP
  Coping the TMP file to TXT file, and then deleting the TMP file

  rem Save original TVLNEW.TXT (for possible reference)
  COPY TVLNEW.TXT TVLNEW0.TXT

  creating a TVLNEW0.TXT, mirroring the TVLNEW.TXT file..
  And So on. You can copy TVL.BAT to another file and place pauses (PAUSE)
  between the commands of this new file and watch it execute. Just make sure you include
the three arguments TimeZone, Amount of Days, Switch for channel override (0 or 1) and
see what happens. I'm going to be home for part of the day, so drop me a note if you
have any questions.

  Don

----- Original Message -----

From: Don Stephens

To: ecs-list@netbloc.com

Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 9:13 AM

Subject: Re: [ECS] problem upgrading

Tom:

 

 And I thought I got up early. :-)

OK, here's TVL.BAT. It requires three arguments, Time Zone,Amount of Days forward, and the last number channel override. In my case it looks like this.

TVL.BAT TZ-P 8 1. This is reflected in the TVL.BAT Item in your ECS.CFG.

If you run this manually....

 

DEL ISPSTAT.DAT

Deletes file ISPSTAT.DAT

 

IF "%1"=="" GOTO ERR

If there is no argument (TZ-P) the batch file jumps to ERR, else..

 

rem Generate TVLDL.BAT to download listings starting at 12:00AM
rem (%2 is the day-count - default is 8 days)
TVL0 %1 %2

 

TVL0 Runs with 1st and 2nd arguments, TZ-P and 8 or TVL0 TZ-P 8

rem Download listings:

CALL TVLDL

Calls the batch file TVDL and then returns here...

START /W RASDIAL /DISCONNECT

This is some of Mark's magic stuff to deal with the state of the modem..

IF NOT EXIST TVL.HTM GOTO ERR

If the file TVL.HTM isn't found then jump to ERR...

 

 

rem Convert HTML to text file and assign chan #s if applicable
rem (%3 denotes channel# override):
TVL1 TVL.HTM %1.CHN %3 TVLNEW.TXT

 

This converts TVL.HTM to TVLNEW.TXT parsing the stuff in %1.CHN or in my

case, TZ-P. At this point TVLNEW.TXT should exist...The 3rd argument tells the

executable TVL1 if you want to override the channel numbers...

 

rem Delete unwanted channels:
FILTER @%1.CHN TVLNEW.TXT 0 29

Throw out unwanted channels from %1.CHN or in my case TZ-P.CHN...

 

rem Calculate length (minutes) of each show:
TVL2 TVLNEW.TXT TVL.TMP

Like Mark says in the comment...TVL.TMP is a temporary file storing the future

TVLNEW.TXT

COPY TVL.TMP TVLNEW.TXT
DEL TVL.TMP

Coping the TMP file to TXT file, and then deleting the TMP file

 

rem Save original TVLNEW.TXT (for possible reference)
COPY TVLNEW.TXT TVLNEW0.TXT

 

creating a TVLNEW0.TXT, mirroring the TVLNEW.TXT file..

And So on. You can copy TVL.BAT to another file and place pauses (PAUSE)

between the commands of this new file and watch it execute. Just make sure you include the three arguments TimeZone, Amount of Days, Switch for channel override (0 or 1) and see what happens. I'm going to be home for part of the day, so drop me a note if you have any questions.

 

Don