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Re: [ECS] Phone Bill Walters Sun, 16 Jan 2000 23:34:59 -0600

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Guys,

My reference to the memory bug in 4.2.007 is taken from Mark's "UPD.TXT"
file......

I was having random problems getting 4.2.007 to properly read/execute my
.CFG file... Dunno why but does not happen with 4.2.009   (I'm going to use
".009" for brievity from here on)...

What I'm seeing  with .009 is:

1.  Event that worked flawlessly for 5 months no longer works.  Serial port
& interface both check out ok.  I'm not having any luck with .009 returning
a valid value on a Serial-Byte type item.

2.  Random COM I/O errors (overflow) on all serial items (Modem, Prairie
Digital, PLC, etc.... ALL of 'em)
3.  Phone-Interface-C (VFP 14.4 voice modem) randomly answering phone and
aparently expecting some sort of "carrier" as error message reports:

055b O 01/16  5:03 PM:No carrier (Item "Phone-Interface-C")(PHN_C_RESET)


This was after a phone call that ECS answered, but took no message.

4.  Today, I also had a "stutter" with a voice announcement.... I suspect
TVL taking too many resources from ECS and my processor (Cyrix MII-300)
unable to keep up...

As to "memory leak", well, I'm just watching the value for "Free-Memory" on
the System page in ECS...  Over period of hours goes from >12000 to less
than 4000, for whatever that's worth.

My system has 64K memory; System resources (Control Panel, System,
Performance, shows 64% system resources available.....


Bill



Anyway, did a complete cold reboot...  Disabled TVL stuff..  Disabled all
remote networking stuff..  Only running ACE-S, Sygate 3.11 and ECS
4.2.009...



That's about it for now......





----- Original Message -----
From: David Kindred <david_kindred@iname.com>
To: <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 10:36 PM
Subject: RE: [ECS] Phone


> Guys,
>
> What phone problems are you seeing? I've had a weird one where it answers
> the phone, then immediately hangs up without playing the OGM or recording
> the message. I thought it was my logic. Has anyone else encountered this?
> The only solution seems to be a reboot. Haven't had it occur the last
couple
> of days. I'm now using 4.2.009.
>
> I'm also seeing the COM overflows.
>
> --David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Walters [mailto:wtwalters@home.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 10:11 PM
> To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
> Subject: Re: [ECS] Phone
>
>
> Gary,
>
> 4.2.007 has a bad memory bug; either go up a version or back a version.  I
> was also having problems with phone messages using 4.2.007.....
> Unfortunately, doesn't seem much better in 4.2.009.
>
> Bill
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: J Gary Mull <jgary@mindspring.com>
> To: <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 8:32 PM
> Subject: [ECS] Phone
>
>
> > My phone-event is not working properly.  When you press a specific
button
> > for someone's mailbox it just starts playing the message again and will
> not
> > allow you to leave a message in a specific box.  The default mailbox
works
> > most of the time.  I left a message this afternoon and when I arrived
> home,
> > it never recorded the message.   I have not changed or touched my
> > phone-service event for six or more months.
> >
> > I am currently using 4.2007.  I have the latest beta version so I may
try
> > installing a new version and see if that helps.
> >
> > Anything happening on the possibility of adding a telephone board
> support???
> >
> >      Gary
> > jgary@atl.mindspring.com   Gary at Home
> > jgmull@us.ibm.com          Gary at Work
>

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