Nortel DMS 10 capture and edit

[COTech]

I use Procomm Plus 4.7 to communicate with a Nortel DMS 10 telephone switch. Years ago I used a DOS program called Cross Talk to capture data from my switch,edit it,and send it back in the same format as captured. Is there a way with ProComm that I can do the same.
I have written several scripts in ProComm to do something simular but it is very time consuming to edit each line with the transmit and wait for commands.
In Cross Talk I could set it to send a CR at the end of each capturd line and to look for a certain response before sending the next line. This was set for the whole capture.

 

[knob]

There's not an "out of the box" way to do this within Procomm. It seems to me that you could write a script to capture data to a file, pop up the file in a text editor to make any edits, and send the file back line by line, as long as the data and prompts are relatively constant. However, that's about the only option I can think of.


aspect@aspectscripting.com

http://www.aspectscripting.com

 

[hankm3]

Hello,

It's been awhile since I worked on the DMS-10; but it sounds like you're Dumping an OVLY and then wanting to perform an Update to Certain Data in the PC and then Transmit it back to the DMS-10.

Let me know. I'll be back working on the DMS-10's in a Month or so and I may need to do what you're doing.

Hank

 

[allteltec]

I am a DMS-10 tec. have been using PCPLUS DOS ver. for over 10+ years now. You can do just about any task if you work at it. I keep 12 old PII 400 working so that I don't have to conv. 5+ megs of scrips to the windows ver. You can do more with 4.7 windows ver. then I do with the dos vers. I have scrips as big as 110k.
Give so info on what you are trying to do good change I have a scrip. to do It.

 

[kodr]

Attached is a short script I put together to read the contents of a text file (or space delimited spreadsheet script.prn) into a DMS 100. Should be pretty much the same.

The script.prn file is basically just a text file that is read into the switch one line at a time, and responds to prompts for y or n acknowledgement.

You can dump the data out to a text file or spreadsheet, make changes, and read it back in with this.

The advantage of this over reading a file in through the 'send file' method, is it reacts to prompts, and creates an error log for certain types of errors...

Oh, and one thing I need to add. This can read in commands as well as data, for example:

quit all
edit sf_test
bottom
delete
file sfdev

(For anyone familiar with the DMS and Store File.)

string sLine
integer iLen


proc main

when target 0 "DMO REJECTED" MATCHCASE call test suspend
when target 1 "ENTER Y TO CONFIRM" MATCHCASE call test1 
when target 2 "***  ERROR - INCONSISTENT DATA  ***" MATCHCASE call test suspend
when target 3 "NO COMMAND IN LINE" call test2 suspend
when target 4 "***  ERROR  ***" call test3 suspend


if isfile "C:\script.prn"

   fopen 1 "c:\script.prn" READWRITE TEXT            ;Open our data file
   fopen 2 "c:\error.txt" readwrite text
   while not feof 1                       ;While the file still has data
      	fgets 1 sLine                       ;Read a line of data
      	
  	strlen sLine iLen
   	if iLen < 3
   		exitwhile
   	endif
   	transmit sLine
   	transmit "^m"
   	waitfor ">" forever  	
   	waitquiet 1

   endwhile
fclose 1
fclose 2


endif

endproc



proc test
	waitfor ">" forever
	fputs 2 sLine  	
	transmit "n^m"
	waitfor ">" forever
	;transmit "^m"
	when target 1 resume reset

endproc

proc test1
	waitfor ">" forever
	transmit "y^m"
	waitfor ">" forever
	;transmit "^m"
endproc

proc test2
	fputs 2 sLine
	when target 1 resume reset
endproc

proc test3
	waitfor ">" forever
	transmit "abort^m"
	waitfor ">" forever
	when target 1 resume reset
endproc




proc testdialog


dialogbox 0 8 20 264 169 66 "Error" 
   pushbutton 1 45 80 164 35 "Okay" cancel
   text 2 16 5 232 59 sLine left 
enddialog 


endproc