[cisco-voip] Is there any place for TCL IVR discussion?

[Kyle Stone]

Peter Nixon wrote:

>On Friday 12 December 2003 06:14, Jared Mauch wrote:
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>>On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:15:13AM +0200, Peter Nixon wrote:
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>>>Kyle Stone wrote:
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>>>>I'm looking for a mailing list or discussion group for Cisco TCL..
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>>>>Anyone have any ideas?
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>>>I don't know, but it seems that not many cisco people (IRC channels etc)
>>>even know the it is possible to run TCL scripts on cisco.
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>>>I just spent the last 3 days teaching myself CiscoTCL as I could not
>>>find anyone who knew anything about it.
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>>	Greetings,
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>>	I'm the operator of the machine the list is hosted on.
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>>	Seems to me that this list would be a fine forum for such
>>discussions.
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>Yep. In future if I have emailable questions I will ask them here. As it was I 
>managed to teach myself everything I needed to get the job done by reading 
>cisco.com and www.tcl.tk
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>I do have a question about "signing" cisco TCL scripts though. I found a 
>Solaris binary called "lockScript" on a cisco ftp site, but I am looking for 
>the same thing for Linux. Does anyone know where to find it? I no longer have 
>any Sun boxes in my posession. I would even settle for a windows binary (even 
>though that means installing windows on a machine somewhere)
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>Cheers
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    To my understanding, it was only required to sign scripts in older 
versions of IOS, before it was really considered stable.  The utility 
was released so that non-Cisco employees could run TCL scripts, and in 
later version of IOS it's disabled.  I didn't have to sign any of my 
scripts to get them to run.   I learned a fair bit from reading the 
example TCL scripts available on Cisco's site, and what documentation is 
available.

  Also, one caveat to be warned of, if a call leg is in use, that's tied 
to the script, and you update it, it can render that script unusuable 
until the router is rebooted.  In other words, don't write a tight loop 
and call the leg.  You'll have to reboot the router to use that script 
profile again.   I learned this the hard way.




Kyle Stone
Teledvance Technologies
Systems Engineer