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1992 09 14
The little program following in NRC.EXE will dial the digital
data time signal at National Research Council in Ottawa, CANADA
and set your PC clock to the real time. Please do not bother
trying to make a collect call.
How...
Create a N.BAT file as follows
NRC 3 T9527729 -4 1989
That is all there is to it, just one line which means as follows
NRC - is the name of the program as in NRC.EXE
3 - is the number of the COM port your modem is on
T - (as in T9527729) is for Tone dialing, us P for pulse dialing
9527729 - is the local Ottawa phone number. you can put the area
code (613) in front of this if needed, also extra's like a 9 for
outside lines on a PBX will work.
-4 - is the offset (in hours) from Universal Co-ordinated Time
that the data is formatted in.
1989 - is the year since the data does not have the year encoded
into it.
That is all there is to it....Have fun
The exit codes can be checked by a batch routine as the routine
sets ERRORLEVEL.
Here are the levels set.
0 - Successfully synchronized to NRC
1 - Usage error on command line or
Timeout or
User abort via <ESC>
2 - Comm port error - Base address not found in system data area.
Thus if you use this in an AUTOEXEC batch file, you can have it
alert you if the sync up did not occur for some reason.
This little program was created to slave the Telecommand PC's to
NRC's time for telecommanding the Amateur Radio MICROSAT
satellites due for launch in November 1989. The program was
created by Rod Boissinot for Larry Kayser, WA3ZIA/VE3PAZ.
Comments and things to VE3PAZ @ VE3JF on packet radio
or to the Heath Zenith BBS to Larry Kayser at (613) 228-1285....
ENJOY