Re: [LHA-misc] Sample Commands (was Line parsing routine)

[Jay H. <jh...@fa...>]

At 12:03 AM 11/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Jay Hogg wrote:
>
> > The same *exact* format carries to the ADICON RS-485 direct
> > devices except that address 0 is actually on the network and
> > not the Ocelot... or if they ever get the Ocelot to fully support
> > RS-485 access then you could have a Leopard or Ocelot at an
> > address on the ADICON RS-485 bus and all the X10/IR/KEYTOUCH
> > domains are valid.
> >
> > >  Also I noticed that each
> > >device has a seperate port are these seperate agents (daemons)?
> >
> > Yes. They can all be on one machine, separate machines, on
> > remote networks through firewalls...  It also makes adding/
> > changing or creating brand new interfaces real easy...
>
>Good, that is very clear now, the ADICON device threw me, I had
>considered it a subdevice of the Ocelot. I see that it is not in this
>case.
>
>Have you given any thoughts to the subdevices being described in XML?
>It would probably cause some difficulty but it is what XML is made to
>handle.

Yes but it is dated and needs to be revised. I did it before I had
gone to address.domain.point so domain was a separate tag. It was a
mess and is what forced a rethink of addressing.

That level obviously gets into nesting of "points" under an interface
and provides a "global symbolic name" to "interface:address.domain.point"
xref along with the all-important stuff like capabilities (on/off/abs/
rel/in/out), scaling, and some "nifty" things like "momentary" and
how long for things like garage door openers.

It is designed to be read by both the "server" and the "agent" (along
with interface.conf). Each uses the information that it cares about.

I'll try to get my stuff updated tonight to at least something
reasonable. I haven't done a DTD for XML yet...


>BTW, I purchased a book on XML "Teach Yourself XML" by Sandra E.Eddy &
>John E. Schnyder (IDG books). It was the only book on the shelves (that
>I could find) on XML. I also found a student guide on XML from some
>classes given in the building I'm in (at work).

I've got an XML book to but haven't found anything that I'm overly
impressed with either in print or online.


> > Always fun. I'm having to learn IE messages on ISDN PRI at the moment
> > and doing some advance work on G729 channel banks over ATM without
> > the hardware in hand. I can relate fully :)
>
>AH! I actually understand all of that! Hey how about ATM over BiSync over
>IP over frame over ATM (the first ATM being Automated Teller Machines at
>1200 :-).

You've got me beat. And you've got my sympathy ;)  I'm currently looking
at stuff the IP/Frame/ATM arena, but the closest I got was IBM Cash
registers via BiSync to System/34/36/38 18 years ago.  It was always
fun writing protocol level stuff on a machine designed only for report
generation (the screen was basically an interactive report).

Jay


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