Need help with code...

[Rob Wirtz]

Thanks for your suggestions Paul.  As this is server hardware, it has no
game port or sound interface.  I'll keep looking for alternative methods.  I
apologize for any "attitude" I may have inadvertently projected, it was
certainly not my intent.  

Rob Wirtz CNE, MCSE
Senior Network Systems Analyst
Computing and Network Services
Kansas State University
2323 Anderson #146
Manhattan, KS  66502
785-532-3346
rob at ksu.edu

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[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Paul L. Allen
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 11:30 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Re: Need help with code...

Rob Wirtz writes: 

> Do you have any alternative suggestions?  I'm not trying to sound too
> critical here, but I don't really see any helpful suggestions in your
> reply.

I suggested using CTS or the fire button on the games port, either of
which are likely to reduce the complexity of the software you need. 

> The basic idea is that a relay connected to the alarm system will somehow
> interact with a PC running NS_Client.  Does anyone have suggestions/code
> to make this happen.  I really don't care what the method is.  CTS/DTR,
> TX/RX, whatever.

I am sure there are people who would be delighted to quote you a
price for the custom software you want.  Given the number of replies
you've had so far, I doubt anyone is going to do it for free.  Oh, and
thanks to your attitude, I doubt there are many people who would be willing
to do it for money, either.  I certainly wouldn't. 

> I wanted to avoid using PERL and stick with something that I could
> compile and EXE from C++ or Vbasic code.  I didn't want to have
> to load the whole PERL language to run a short script.

Your choice as to which language you pay somebody to write your custom
code in.  If I were doing it I'd go with perl because it would be a lot
quicker to write and the memory footprint is likely to be a good deal
smaller since perl itself is under 1M while any Windows exe compiled
from C++ or Vbasic is going to pull in a whole load of unnecessary cruft
that will take it over 2M. 

-- 
Paul Allen
Softflare Support 




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