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///PreScan v.04á (c) 2/94 WayForward Technologies, inc.
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--Background
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Widely regarded as *the* best dialer on the market, ToneLoc has rapidly
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become the scanning utility of choice among pro and amateur alike...
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Of course, like all exchange scanning programs, its only drawback is the
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amount of time it actually takes to scan an exchange. Given 30 seconds a scan,
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it will take approximately 300,000 seconds (that's roughly 3.5 DAYS) to scan
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a single exchange. You're probably thinking, "But I scan 'intelligently', just
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a few hours a day, and only in ranges I know will pay off." But think about
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it: Even if you were to cut the numbers by 1/3, you would still have over
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24 hours of scan time PER EXCHANGE, during which time you are vulnerable to
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detection. And, by skipping over "residential" areas of the exchange, you
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potentially miss some (usually VERY interesting) opportunities for carriers,
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VMB's, the occasional PBX, etc.
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Naturally, we need a way to try to eliminate the 97.4% of all residential
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numbers in a given exchange without actually dialing them. We think we can
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help...
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Using PreScan can potentially cut your scan time by up to 85%. PreScan
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takes a text file list of phone numbers that you DON'T want to dial (such as
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the ENTIRE white page listing for the prefix you are scanning) and insert that
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data into a ToneLoc data file. Now you may ask "How the hell do I get the
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white pages into a text file without typing the whole damn thing in?"
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Well, we thought of two ways:
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1. Use a good optical scanner and Optical Character
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Recognition software (available publicly) and then
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scan in pages of the white pages, convert to text,
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and then run PreScan.
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or
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2. Do what we did, and get the CD-ROM for the white pages
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and there you have it at your finger tips.
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To use PreScan, you need an ascii datafile of four digit numbers. They
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should be padded with 0's to four digits each, and there should not be any
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non-numeric characters in the file. There can be as many four digit phone
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numbers on a line as you like. For example:
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0003 4623 0593 0746 9164
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0010 9766 1254 4912 5063 3145 6890
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0042 4632 4067 0947 2525
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0194 0142 4915
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0486 0643 5762 8125
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9914
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6864
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...would be a valid (albeit short) datafile.
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** NOTE TO v.03 USERS: You no longer need to sort the numbers, nor do they need
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to be kept one on a line... PreScan will figure out just about any kind of
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spacing between numbers, and will sort the list internally.
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These numbers should be in the same exchange, the exchange of the datafile
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you want to put them into. (duh)
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Just type:
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C:\TL> prescan numbers.txt voice
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to flag all the numbers contained in "numbers.txt" to voice. This will
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effectively add all the numbers in your text file to a file called PRESCAN.DAT
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as if you had already scanned them. Later you can combine this file with the
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already existing ToneLoc datafile of that prefix or if you haven't started on
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that prefix, you can simply rename it to something like: 555-XXXX.DAT.
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NOTE! UNLESS YOU WANT TO COMPLETELY OVERWRITE "PRESCAN.DAT" YOU *MUST* USE
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THE /a SWITCH ON THE COMMAND LINE. THIS WILL NOT BE A PROBLEM IF YOU USE
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COMBINE OR RENAME "PRESCAN.DAT" TO SOMETHING ELSE.
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C:\TL> prescan numbers2.txt blacklisted /a
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The above example with the /a command line parameter will add the numbers in
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"numbers2.txt" to the already existing data file called PRESCAN.DAT. They
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will be stored as being "blacklisted."
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If you have questions, comments, ideas, etc., you can reach us at:
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apd@velcro.cis.temple.edu elvis@velcro.cis.temple.edu
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<Arthur P. Dent, esq.> <a.k.a. SubEthan>
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Velcro is now an anonymous FTP site, so the current version (currently v.04á)
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of the software will always be there.
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....... ....... Coding: Arthur P. Dent
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. . . .
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. . . . . Additional Ideas: Elvis Presley
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...... ...... ayForward Technologies, inc. //
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