Station id and XP/2000 (AREV Specific)
At 14 DEC 2004 05:31:38AM C Mansutti wrote:
I've read through the various threads regarding the fact that the @station is set to 0 or null in XP/2000
I understand that the arevpid.dat is not being processed.
As I use @station in numerous areas, I would like to populate it with a unique id when using XP. Is there a way to either
Force arevpid.dat to be processed
or
Fill it in a particular way during the logon process. e.g. derive the card address by transferring ipconfig /all to a text file and extracting the info. Then fill arevpid - if possible
or
Force a change to @station - if so how?
e.g if @station=0 then
@station=details read from ipconfig text file.
Claude
At 14 DEC 2004 05:40AM Steve Smith wrote:
At 14 DEC 2004 08:22AM C Mansutti wrote:
I read that thread Steve.
What you are basically saying is
1. Arevpid.dat can't be processed/manipulated
2. @station can't be forced to be set to something I want it to be
The solution is
Otherwise, there's always a workaround - not elegant, but you can roll your own routine to suit the application. A DOS environment variable (like the environment username= along with TIME()) may suffice as a surrogate station ID, set at login time.
Set this as a new variable and use the new variable instead of @station - correct?
Claude
At 14 DEC 2004 10:34AM Steve Smith wrote:
I think you have it straight, Claude.
Plan B is to write a TSR to intercept AREV's "get station ID" call and return an ID (which you'd set on the DOS command line in a batch file ahead of AREV.EXE). I don't know what interrupt and function number that call presently is for Windows (in Novell it's int 21h function EEh or similar - from my rusty memory), but it could possibly be verified with some sleuthing…
Steve
At 14 DEC 2004 10:36AM Steve Smith wrote:
Hang on - no - I had a link in that thread to a Basic $routine to set @station.
At 14 DEC 2004 11:16AM C Mansutti wrote:
How about Plan C
RevTech provides us with a system compiler that lets us change the @station value.
Or is that asking too much?
Claude
At 14 DEC 2004 11:37AM C Mansutti wrote:
If you are refering to $setstat then if there was a link I couldn't find it. In fact I wouldn't have started this thread.
At 14 DEC 2004 11:44AM C Mansutti wrote:
Sorry Steve,
To subtle for me the way you linked it.
Found it now
Claude
At 14 DEC 2004 06:24PM Steve Smith wrote:
At 14 DEC 2004 06:47PM Carl Pates wrote:
Y'know, you're really going to have to stop using a white font when you reply :)
At 15 DEC 2004 04:46PM Don Miller wrote:
It's right up there with Steve's write-only memory ..
Don Miller