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Re: [ECS] New upgrade experiences Scott Danks Fri, 08 Sep 2000 09:51:41 -0500

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 Fri, 08 Sep 2000 09:51:41 -0500
Well I spent 6 hours last night upgrading to 4.4.006 from 4.4.004.  I found that if
I wait too long I REALLY have a lot of updating to do.  Anyway I have a few questions
(mostly to spawn discussion)  But, I have questions, you have answers. . . . 

I found that if I have a mistake and duplicate a group it seems to "IGNORE" the second
one.  Does this happen with items and events too?  I am trying to find a way to keep
from having to update the .cfg files each time I want to use Mark's new whizbang code.
 Usually I just keep the ecs.cfg and dump the example.cfg, but there are some really
good enhancements in this one.  

I fought the type: download-status for several hours last night trying to figure out
why it would not find that type and this morning it dawned on me that it was probably
a "Custom Item type".  I guess the installer does not write over the itpcst.def file?
 I installed over the old program to retain all my wav files etc.

Now for the update I am going to do this weekend.  I made an Access Database called
"Home.mdb" and when run, it opens to a form that asks for several bits of info about
a caller.  Like callerid number, and name and wav file name to play and if they can
call afterhours etc.  I will share it if you all are interested.  Then when you exit
the file, it writes all the info to "t.csv" (telephone.csv)  The file has info like
"2|1002|Jan|Adams|918|1234567|4|0|0|1|1|adams.wav".  I will write a routine this weekend
to parse through this file and look for the callerid number.  Then use the data to set
the rings count, answer count, and what file to play when this caller calls (adams.wav)"
 This way, I can have hundreds of people in my database, and it's easy for my wife to
enter the caller information on the ACCESS97 form and then the next time this person
calls the system will handle it correctly.  I had to use a macro and events that trigger
the macro when the database is closed, to write the data to the "|" delimited fields.
 I just hope the computer is fast enough to run throught the database and find the match
in between phone rings.    Would anyone be interested in this?  When I get it working
I would be willing to share the code.  The numbers above represent, Record 2, id number
1002, firstname, lastname, area code, phone number, ring to answer on, email the recording,
ring phones at all, call afterhours, send text page after caller leaves message, name
of wav file to play to caller.   comments?

I'm also thinking of using an mp3 format to record a lot of things like a greeting to
be played at my front door when someone rings the doorbell.  Didnt someone use winamp?
 I wa trying to figure out how to use command line switches to play the files, but I
cant find any command line switches.  Didnt AJ use something like this? my memory clouds
the older I get. (37).

planning a great weekend....
Scott Danks

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