Archive for December, 2007

ASPECT Scripting Compiler Discovery

A while back I wrote a conversion of RFC 1321 (RSA Data Security’s Message-Digest Algorithm for C) to ASPECT script.  During this conversion I discovered that the C code that was used to generate a rotate no carry bit-shift did not work as intended.  (In the RFC they refer to it as circularly shifting.)
Back then [...]


What is the Procomm Matrix?

Added my “Matrix” style “screen saver” to the Symantec Procomm scripts page.  I really enjoy ASPECT scripting.  I’ve found it’s very flexible.  Amazing to think that Symantec hasn’t updated Prcomm in over 5 years.  There just isn’t a lot more to be added to what they have, unless they were going to start doing other emulation [...]


Meridian-1 resources relocated

Moved Meridian-1 resources page (http://www.datarave.net/meridian) to blog.


X11BARS.WAX v0.99.04 update

Updated code to:

Recognize Canadian area codes (to permit Canadian users to add all US and Canadian NPAs but exclude all other NPAs).
Added protection against NPA.TXT corruption: Validate NPA value from NPA.TXT before sending value to SL1 interface.  (Value must be between 200 and 999).
Updated NPA.TXT to include all area codes created since last update.  Still excluding [...]


Blast from the past

Today I got an email from someone in Canada who used a Meridian-1 script that I wrote.   They asked
Hello,
Was running your ESN script, and the NXXs went in beautiful, but then the NPAs started inputing garbage instead of the NPA.  I’m running Procomm version 4.8, and your script version V0.982.
Do you have a newer version, [...]