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- This file describes how to use the music player ROLALARM.EXE as the
- external alarm in Telemate.
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-
- 1. Before you can run ROLALARM.EXE, you must have the following files:
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- SOUND.COM the sound driver for Adlib music card, or
- SB-SOUND.COM the sound driver for SoundBlaster music card
- STANDARD.BNK the music instrument bank
- *.ROL any ROL music file
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- If you cannot find the SOUND.COM or SB-SOUND.COM, you should call
- your dealer or your music card producer for them. Or you can
- download TMALARM.ZIP or .ARJ from our support BBSs:
-
- Land of the Gypsy's: Oregon, USA ---- 503-297-0626 14400 V32BIS
- Late Night BBS: New York, USA ---- 315-592-7300 14400 DS
- PC Connect: Toronto, Canada ---- 416-733-9052 2400
- User To User #1: Dallas, USA ---- 214-492-6565 14400 DS
- User To User #2: Dallas, USA ---- 214-492-5695 9600 V32
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- 2. You MUST run SOUND.COM or SB-SOUND.COM BEFORE you run Telemate. The
- sound driver is a TSR utility that will stay in your memory. It is
- a good idea to add it to your AUTOEXEC.BAT, for example, add the
- line
- SOUND or
- SB-SOUND
- in your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
-
- 3. Choose one of your .ROL music files and copy it to ALARM.ROL in the
- Telemate directory.
-
- 4. Copy STANDARD.BNK to the Telemate directory.
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- 5. You should have TMALARM.BAT in the Telemate directory. It is the
- batch file Telemate run when it activates the external alarm.
- In this batch file, you can run anything you like, say a music
- player or a picture viewer, anything.
-
- Telemate comes with a music player called ROLALARM.EXE. The default
- TMALARM.BAT has the line
- ROLALARM ALARM.ROL /S%2 /T%3
- It tells ROLALARM to play the ALARM.ROL music file. You can replace
- ALARM.ROL with any .ROL music files. Here, we use ALARM.ROL as an
- example.
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- 6. You should have ROLALARM.EXE in the Telemate directory. It is a
- music player that play a .ROL music file. It requires the SOUND.COM
- installed in your memory. And it needs the STANDARD.BNK at run time.
- You should be able to play ALARM.ROL using
- ROLALARM ALARM.ROL
- in the DOS command line.
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- 7. Run Telemate and turn ON the 'External Alarm' option under the
- Options/General dialog.
-
-
- Now you have installed the ROLALARM.EXE as your external alarm. Since
- ROLALARM.EXE requires quite a lot of memory, you may need to turn ON
- the 'Swap Telemate to XMS/EMS' or 'Swap Telemate to Disk' options
- under the Options/General dialog. This suggests that you should only
- use the external alarm if you have XMS or EMS or you have a fast hard
- disk.
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- Have fun and don't be afraid to experience in using the other music
- players as your external alarm.
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-