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- ///PreScan v.04ß (c) 2/94 WayForward Technologies, inc.
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- --Background
-
- Widely regarded as *the* best dialer on the market, ToneLoc has rapidly
- become the scanning utility of choice among pro and amateur alike...
-
- Of course, like all exchange scanning programs, its only drawback is the
- amount of time it actually takes to scan an exchange. Given 30 seconds a scan,
- it will take approximately 300,000 seconds (that's roughly 3.5 DAYS) to scan
- a single exchange. You're probably thinking, "But I scan 'intelligently', just
- a few hours a day, and only in ranges I know will pay off." But think about
- it: Even if you were to cut the numbers by 1/3, you would still have over
- 24 hours of scan time PER EXCHANGE, during which time you are vulnerable to
- detection. And, by skipping over "residential" areas of the exchange, you
- potentially miss some (usually VERY interesting) opportunities for carriers,
- VMB's, the occasional PBX, etc.
-
- Naturally, we need a way to try to eliminate the 97.4% of all residential
- numbers in a given exchange without actually dialing them. We think we can
- help...
-
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- Using PreScan can potentially cut your scan time by up to 85%. PreScan
- takes a text file list of phone numbers that you DON'T want to dial (such as
- the ENTIRE white page listing for the prefix you are scanning) and insert that
- data into a ToneLoc data file. Now you may ask "How the hell do I get the
- white pages into a text file without typing the whole damn thing in?"
- Well, we thought of two ways:
-
- 1. Use a good optical scanner and Optical Character
- Recognition software (available publicly) and then
- scan in pages of the white pages, convert to text,
- and then run PreScan.
-
- or
-
- 2. Do what we did, and get the CD-ROM for the white pages
- and there you have it at your finger tips.
-
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- To use PreScan, you need an ascii datafile of four digit numbers. They
- should be padded with 0's to four digits each, and there should not be any
- non-numeric characters in the file. There can be as many four digit phone
- numbers on a line as you like. For example:
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- 0003 4623 0593 0746 9164
- 0010 9766 1254 4912 5063 3145 6890
- 0042 4632 4067 0947 2525
- 0194 0142 4915
- 0486 0643 5762 8125
- 9914
- 6864
-
- ...would be a valid (albeit short) datafile.
-
- ** NOTE TO v.03 USERS: You no longer need to sort the numbers, nor do they need
- to be kept one on a line... PreScan will figure out just about any kind of
- spacing between numbers, and will sort the list internally.
-
- These numbers should be in the same exchange, the exchange of the datafile
- you want to put them into. (duh)
-
- Just type:
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- C:\TL> prescan numbers.txt voice
-
- to flag all the numbers contained in "numbers.txt" to voice. This will
- effectively add all the numbers in your text file to a file called PRESCAN.DAT
- as if you had already scanned them. Later you can combine this file with the
- already existing ToneLoc datafile of that prefix or if you haven't started on
- that prefix, you can simply rename it to something like: 555-XXXX.DAT.
-
- NOTE! UNLESS YOU WANT TO COMPLETELY OVERWRITE "PRESCAN.DAT" YOU *MUST* USE
- THE /a SWITCH ON THE COMMAND LINE. THIS WILL NOT BE A PROBLEM IF YOU USE
- COMBINE OR RENAME "PRESCAN.DAT" TO SOMETHING ELSE.
-
- C:\TL> prescan numbers2.txt blacklisted /a
-
- The above example with the /a command line parameter will add the numbers in
- "numbers2.txt" to the already existing data file called PRESCAN.DAT. They
- will be stored as being "blacklisted."
-
-
- If you have questions, comments, ideas, etc., you can reach us at:
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- apd@velcro.cis.temple.edu elvis@velcro.cis.temple.edu
- <Arthur P. Dent, esq.> <a.k.a. SubEthan>
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- Velcro is now an anonymous FTP site, so the current version (currently v.04ß)
- of the software will always be there.
-
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- ....... ....... Coding: Arthur P. Dent
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- . . . . . Additional Ideas: Elvis Presley
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- ...... ...... ayForward Technologies, inc. //
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