| Title: | POLYCENTER Console Manager |
| Notice: | Kits, Scans, Docs on CSC32:: as PCM$KITS:,PCM$DOCS:, PCM$SCANS: |
| Moderator: | CSC32::BUTTERWORTH |
| Created: | Thu Aug 06 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1541 |
| Total number of notes: | 6564 |
I have a customer who has Polycenter interfaced to a DECtalk Unit.
He wants to share the DECtalk Unit with another application but the
DECtalk Unit is not shareable between applications. It seems that
this may be a common request for Polycenter users interfacing with
DECtalk units and I'm wondering if anyone has written a front - end
program to pass ownership to Polycenter/Dectalk or has suggestions
on this problem. Below is the actual request from the customer.
Thank you,
Victoria MacVicar
We are currently using the DECtalk interface in DCM. It pages
support personnel when DCM finds something wrong. We would
also like to have a DECtalk application that will answer the phone,
present the caller with a menu, accept keypad input, and present
the caller with the requested information. Our particular
application would give out home and pager numbers of people on
call for various areas of support. I have a program that will
answer the phone, do the menu, etc... However, it locks out the
LTA device from the DCM application (It does a dtk$initialize
first thing, and then goes back to a dtk$answer_phone after a
call is completed.) What is the recommended way to share the
device between the two applications ? Does DCM support locks
and the breakthru ast function ? I could change the program
that answers the phone to look for this ast and release the
device for a given amount of time. Any help you can provide
will be greatly appreciated.
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| 82.1 | GVPROD::MSTEINER | Wed Jun 30 1993 13:58 | 6 | ||
When DCM needs the DECtalk, it first tries to allocate the device (and
it deallocates it when it has finished to speak). If VMS answers "device
allocated to another users", DCM will retry at the next scan. So, as far
as DCM is concerned, DECtalk can be shared with other applications.
Michel.
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