On 08-23-95 Benjamin Scott wrote to John McLachlan... 
 
 BS>   When you check Options -> General -> External Alarm, Telemate will 
 BS> run the batch file TMALARM.BAT whenever an alarm is generated.  This 
batch 
 BS> file can do anything you want -- play a tune, run a screen saver, format 
 BS> drive, 
 BS> etc, etc.  For awhile, I was using this: 
 BS> @echo off 
 BS> play c:\snd\trnscomp.wav 
 BS>   It was a .WAV from Star Trek, "Transport Complete".  I even got 
 BS> fancy and had it play different alarms based on alarm type.  The sample 
 BS> TMALARM.BAT included with Telemate explains it fairly well. 
G'day Benjamin 
 Have tried it out and it works well, Thanks. 
How do you determine the alarm type? Is it dependent on the error 
level returned by Alarm.bat? 
 
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