Frequently Asked Questions
This area is divided into questions asked by the general public and specific questions asked by members of MyDrawingBoard.
Who or What is My
Drawing Board?
The MyDrawingBoard of today is a massive archive and collection of
data bases. Originally these archives were those of ADSTONE DESIGNS,
a large memorial design studio created in 1972, which closed its
doors in 1995. ADSTONE DESIGNS' owner and head designer, Joe
Auricchio, changed his career to a florist - Ye
Olde Friendly Flower Shoppe - and
controlled a portion of his family's Internet networks he called
ADSTONE.net. It was across these networks: Data
Exchange and PSInet
- that ADSTONE DESIGNS transferred all their work and archived
it as well. Although retired from memorials, Joe and a
small group of designers wanted to share and sell their work.
Thus GemRock.com was born in 1995. GemRock had been many things
to many people, but has since found its niche. During 2001,
Gemrock changed its name to MyDrawingBoard.com when prompted to do so
by another archive which decided to turn its designs over to
MyDrawingBoard.com and close their doors. This opened the gates for
designers from many different industries to discover and employ our
new, more universal site. GemRock/MyDrawingBoard.com is
presently ran solely by Joe and active members. But don't
let us give you the impression that Joe is some kind of prolific
artist and MyDrawingBoard is his personal showcase. It is not
by any means. GemRock has been from the start a BBS
(Bulletin Board Service.) Artists contributed freely and some
with great passion. Contributing artists receive free access.
Since all contributors send a single file in .DXF format (most
often DXF) Joe also has the chore of converting the DXF's into the
several other formats we offer. Over the years we have had some
of the best artists from across several trades contribute. We
pride ourselves in that. Names like Joe Auricchio, Ken
Dyal, Bill Piesher, Ken Dyal, Moses Lietz, Hugo Calderara, Mark
Turco, Peter Maramorato, Ed Zawalsky, Derick Earp and several others
are represented at the Drawing Board.
Bottom line is that MyDrawingBoard is a huge library
where you and so many others take what you require and contribute
what you can. (Contribution of drawings nor of fees are not a
requirement for membership, most members are strictly
downloaders. This is an archive. By definition it is a online
resource for education, historical and commercial vector
art.) The network itself is supported by hosted websites,
e-commerce, and HTML design. The bandwidth required to
"host" MyDrawingBoard.com is increased, decreased and
calculated by the fees paid monthly per member. Fees are
calculated as explained below. As long as there are members
paying the bandwidth fees, MyDrawingBoard.com will be here for you.
Joe,
Hello I run a small monument co. in Meriden ct.
i have been looking for a good Harlry Davidson emblem,, do you have
any examples?? I am very interested in joining your site.I would
however like to learn more about it,, is there any one local that i
can talk to to get an opinion and some helpfull info??
Thank you for your time,
sincerely Robert
Robert,
I've attached 2 emblems for you. Harley.dxf is the Harley Davidson
orginal logo, Harley1. dxf
is the broken
wing logo. You will need to acquirer permission from Harley Davidson
to use either
logo. Simply import them into your CADD system and make sure you delete
them after
using them.
Best method to learn about us? Is to spend time reviewing it.
Visit the What's New page first:
http://mydrawingboard.com/new.htm
then explore
from there. All points of interest are found on our main menu at:
http://mydrawingboard.com/gemhome.htm
Once you think you got the idea, then join for a month. After
that you can join back up for a month again, or from time to time or
at different levels of access.
See: http://mydrawingboard.com/gemcount.htm
We don't number too many here. Roughly 40 members
world-wide. Pretty exclusive club.
And I am not
familiar with your area. I do have a member in Quebec
xxx-xxx-xxxx - William
A member in
Geneva, NY xxx-xxx-xxxx - Kelly. Linda is over in Maine - xxx-xxx-xxxx
I do know that
Bill is near you over the border in NY. xxx-xxx-xxxx
He's a bit
more adept at what we do here so I'll copy this email to him so he
knows what
the scoop is
if you contact him.
We're a not-for-profit group. Not a biz at all but a bunch of
CADD artists - 28 of us from
the monument
trade - who swap files, draw for each other and help each other out.
I'm a florist
myself, left the stone trade in 1988, and am webmaster for many big name
websites so
keeping my old friends alive on the Net is no biggie for me. Not to mention
that I still
love to dabble in the drawings!
Nothing is for sale and the (mostly imaginary BOOKS) zero out at
years end. Either in
reduced fees
or additional fees. The spread sheets are available in hard copy.
Just join the
mailing list -
once a member.
So, thanks, Robert for the visit and return often if
just to say HI!
Joe
Dear MyDrawingBoard, I
found your web-site through an Alta Vista search and I am intrigued
with the array of art work
you have available. However, I do not cut
monuments... I have a cnc
router and a small business to accompany it--I
make jewelry boxes, computer
graphic art cut in wood and a little bit of
sign making. I looked at
your membership agreement and there do not seem
to be any provisions for
what I want to do. Do you have any provisions
set up for this? I am very
interested, but I also don't want to infringe
upon any copyright
agreements that you have.
I would very much like to be
able to use some of your graphics for my
business but I want to be
clear about exactly what I could do with it.
Let me know as soon as
possible, and thanks.
David Peasley
dsp@peasley.com
A QUICK COURSE ON FINDING A DESIGN WITH THE
SEARCH ENGINE
When seeking a deisgn Always start at: http://www.mydrawingboard.com/search.htm This is what you'll find there:
Choose the type you want such as Generic Designs (Common stuf like cats, trucks, houses, cars, police, badge)
Click on your choice. You will be transported to
the Generic Designs page.
On that page will be a field where you can
input a keyword and a list of menu choices. We offer you two kinds of
searches - AUTO and Manual Searches.
The page you are on is for an Auto Search for Generic Designs.
In the SEARCH FIELD type in a single word (multi words are OK
but I notice a single word works best.) Let's ues the word
badge (Remember to always use lower case. badge not BADGE.)
Click on the Search button.
It will bring up a page of page listings where your keyword was found. Here are some that come up:
1. /html/free13.htm
".. department, hero fd, Fire Department, badge, shield, fire
hydrant, ladder .."
2. /html/ht2/free21.htm
".. one male, one feamle) 4badge, 4 inch badge for brooklyn
diosease, nassau .."
3. /html/free2.htm
".. 4 inch for brooklyn diocese, nypd, badge pondfish, fish,
bass, .."
4. /html/free20.htm
I show here 4 but there are 8 altogether. You now need to click on the link such as /html/free13.htm
When you visit the page, you will find
SOMEWHERE on that page where the word badge refers to a design.
If it is the design you like, then RIGHT CLICK on the file format you
want to take ...dxf, gcd, esp, etc.
You will then be given a choice as to where on your computer to save
the file. Save it. Once saved
you will need to change the file's name because we turnicate file
names. So a file.dx_ must be
changed to DXF, ep_ to EPS, etc and so forth. Then your
CAD system will be able to open the file.
Why are you taking the dogs off? Also, how do you get to the skip around area? I am still lost when it comes to getting around this giant site. But, I've learned to check What's New. Also, learned you sure better check a design before you put it on rubber. Some of the artists don't have a clue what size the lines need to be to sandblast. But, bet you already knew that one....Linda
Linda,
The dogs that you mentioned are
copyrighted by someone who
has not given us permission to
share their work. From time to time
artists will contribute work that
is not their own and is owned
by others. That's a big no-no
but sometimes artists swap
images in mass and don't know what
they are getting or giving.
Unfortunately, if the work is
challenged by the original artist(s)
the work is removed in a
hurry. Don't fret though, Linda, we have
more dogs than you can throw a
stick at. And very often I or other
contributors will re-draw the
material so it is again posted for us to use.
All those dogs have been or soon
will be reposted as new designs.
I see you are
'feeling' your way through the Drawing Board. Although
you are wise to check the What's
New often, you have to forget the SKIP
pages as they are of no value since
we introduced the Search Engine in
1997. Click on Find Designs
from our Main Menu to go to
http://www.mydrawingboard.com/search.htm
and try using that to search
designs instead of the SKIP pages.
The SHOW ME MORE DESIGNS found at
the bottom of each
download page does not mean to say
that it will show you more
of what you searched for. It
is a desired left-over from the old SKIP
method which just allows you to
browse all the Download pages in
the particular download area you
are in. For example to browse
all the pages in
html/HT2/ or in html/HT6 etc and etc.
There are 33 download areas in
all. Each contain from
16 to 89 full pages of posted
designs. Pages are added as
new designs fill up the existing pages.
Many monument
people have complained about the V-lines and the
non-memorial designs at the
Board. It's a fair argument. However,
several contributors - like Moses -
are not memorialists. We have
many fabricators, sign makers,
glass etchers and cabinet designers
as supporters and
contributors. I suggest you seek the work
geared to your needs but also
realize that half a drawing in a pinch
is as good as a whole one.
Sometimes an unusual scene or design
is called for by your customer, but
there's just nothing like it in
the stone trade. That's when
these mis-matched designs can give you
the shape, outline, image you need.
All you need to do is V-line it.
I do it several times each day, I
know your dilemma.
Joe
I scanned that image in and drew it out of a book that specifically says on the front non copyrighted images. It's a book that I bought at Barnes and Noble and is specifically to copy images out of. Will the board be sued if I send the image(s) to you to post? Thanks, Sherri
That does make it perfectly legal. Please send me the copy of the noticed from that book so I can keep it on file.
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Angry Bob
Sometime around 1999, we stopped the multi-level pricing.
We had the original members paying nothing since 1988.
Members who joined from '88 to 1993 or 4 were paying $5.
And so on until we had to bring new members to a price of over
$100 to pay the bills over here. Was then we decided (with
consent from those who replied to our request for the change)
to bring all members to $47. That's what happened, but you
weren't paying attention when the switch took place.
Since we are a non-profit service, changes like this
take place depending on the Internet duty fees we are
hit with. Sometimes, we also drop as we did in March of
this year when our fees dropped by $215. (@15 divided by
43 members - at that time - equals $5 off per member.)
Joe
Jim,
I can
understand your confusion since traditionally all of us regard
anyone in the trade who
handles drawings as a design studio.
Those days are over.
Gem Rock
has been around since 1962.
We were never a design
studio, ever. Even when we offer
to get a design drawn up we
do not assure anyone in anyway that the
design will be what you
visualize. It will be cutter and plotter ready, but that
is all we can be sure
of. We are not practicing memorialists either.
We are all graphic designers,
architects, illustrators, and networkers.
All the same, your fellow
members, like Shelbym are practicing members
of the memorial stone trade.
He like others are willing to draw up your
designs for you but not as a
function of MyDrawingBoard. Therefore a fee
might be charged by these
individuals and such fees and negotiations
have nothing to do with
MyDrawingBoard; we only "network" the two of you
together.
Your
membership fee helps maintain over 100,000 designs and as
many programs posted and hosted
on the WWW at MyDrawingBoard.
It also contributes to the open
forums, chats,
featured resources and public
data bases here at MyDrawingBoard.
And, yes, it
also contributes toward the
hiring of artists to design custom work for you
at your request. However, since
said artists are not in any hurry, are paid
and refuse to draw "a
monument" per se, (and often do not have access
to a CADD system which can letter
and re-size) we can not assure you that
the requested work will be in
actuality what you originally visualized... and
no time frame can ever be 'cut in
stone.' Not now,
not in 1982 - when we
first offered the service -
and not ever.
Joe
Why does it take you people so
long to post designs?
Not for nothing but I sent you 5
designs over 10 months ago and I just noticed them posted today!
Rich
Richard,
At the last count I had close
to 2 million drawings to post.
Which means - follow this
closely cause I am a fast guy - I have to put time aside from my real
occupation of florist which pays my bills (remember MyDrawingBoard is
non-profit) to maintain, design and "run" the network (not
just MyDraw, the web site) and then to take every single design sent
to me and make sure it is at least drawn so that it can be cut into
stencil and further into metal, wood, glass and stone. Then I have to
convert every design into a usable format; which means taking every
design, one at a time, and opening it into several CADD programs -
one at a time - then converting it into the native format for that
program. Then I have to create a GIF image from the original so I can
"show" you what you are getting. Once that's all done I
have to rename all the files, save them into directories all over the
network (for security and back-up reasons) then I add the HTML to a
webpage and, Wha-la! I return to the florist. Not an easy task.
And very time consuming.
Joe
Hi Joe & Kathy,
Tony from Walla Walla Wa.
I'm having a couple of problems
downloading files.
DXF files, I have been successful in
downloading this file type in the past but recently I can't get any
results. I get a page that looks like a list of numbers. I would
really like some help in figuring out why I can't download this file
type any longer.
PLT files, I've had a similar problem with a few plt files or a notice (couldn't find page) some designs I would like are.
Last Supper on (ht7 2)
Jesus on (ht5 54)
Lighthouse on (ht7 17) two
lighthouses also having problems with this plt design
"waterfall" on ht7 8 i would like that design if you can help.
Thanks,
Tony
Tony,
You're
using Microsoft Internet Explorer, aren't you, you Bill Gates type-guy.
Explorer will always attempt to
OPEN the file and that's what's happening to you.
We design and program our pages to
work in Netscape, thus you can run into
trouble. Here's how to solve that
particular problem. When you want a DXF, or
HPG, or HPG-2(plt), or GIF, click
the format tag with the RIGHT button of your
mouse, not the left. A dialog box
will open and choose SAVE TARGET AS...
I am
surprised how fast you found the lighthouse. I only posted it
last night around midnight! Wow!
And I thought you guys never paid me any mind!
So you know - every PLT file must
be supplied by Shelbym@VCN.com
I create only the EPS, DXF and
GCD. Once I create a new design,
such as the lighthouse, I then
post what I have and send email to Shelbym
that I posted the lighthouse and
he then, at his leisure, goes and converts
it. Usually in time for the next
Re-Bang which is due for Oct. 2.
It is not
uncommon NOT to find a PLT file. Shelbym has only
supplied us with PLT files from
October of 1997. We've been around since
1982. So, he has his work cut out
for him. If you need a file, like the one
mentioned below, simply alert me -
ADDES - to the file name and I will
send it along to Shelbym who will
convert it and send it back to both of us.
He will also do custom work for
you, but that's another story. Contact
him for the details.
Joe
How do I install the TTF fonts
found at Gemrock into my Windows95?
This will be the same
instructions for Windows98.
Very easy. First download the
font from the download area or from our libraries at ADSTONE.
Next, click on START, then
click on SETTINGS, now click on CONTROL PANEL.
Double click the FONTS
folder. Click on FILE and INSTALL NEW FONTS.
In the lower left, hi-lite
the folder you downloaded the font into. The font or fonts will
appear in the dialog box above. Click on SELECT ALL, then click on
OK. The fonts will load in seconds.
Gem Rock,
I am considering membership to
this very interesting service you have here.
The designs you do show are, to
say the least, extraordinary. The programs
you have across your web service
can also be very useful. However, just as
a pointed question, why would I
ever need a drawing of a girl throwing a frisbee,
or a unicorn, or the Titanic?
Thanks,
On the Fence.
Dear On the Fence,
Simply put, you don't need them
until you need them.
When you do, they're here 24-7,
year round. And, thanks for the nice comments.
GemRock
Could you please give me some
instructions on how to get rid of the _ at the
end of a design. example a design
will download as font39.pl_, how or when
I change that to font39.plt? when
I save design to disk I save it as
font39.plt, but then when I go to
open it it comes up as font39.plt.pl_. I
doing something wrong but I can't
figure out what it is. I am new to this
Internet stuff, please be patient
with my limited computer knowledge.
What is happening to you is very
much like what happens when you open a
HTML file in Windows Notepad and
then try to save it as a HTM file.
Notepad refuses to do so and
saves it as file.htm.txt
See? What you need to do is when
you go to save the PLT make sure
that on the file type dialog box
(usually found at the bottom of the save
as dialog box) that the file type
is *.* or ALL FILES.
I will explain even further
if needed, get back at me if this is unclear.
Send Email to me: ADDES@GemRock.com
Joe,
I downloaded the Greek font only
to realize that I have no idea which Greek character goes with which
English character. Do you have a "cheat sheet?"
Greek to me.
It's all Greek to me,too!
All the same, until I come up
with a better plan you can 1) Right click on the GIF image of the
font found on the download page and view it in any image program
for the matches or, 2) Send me an email with your FAX number and
Kathy, Shelbym, Raul, Lou or I (One of us will get it right!) will
FAX you the "cheat sheet."
Send Email to me: ADDES@GemRock.com
Here's an ease-drop from an email between ADDES and Shelbym about getting the best for PLT files.
You are trying to get Gerber's
File converter to read your EPS file....well it wont....so I wouldn't
even try....DXF works sometimes....but not often....I just tried
making a HPGL and Gerber
seemed to read it fine although I have not tried 6.2 (still waiting
for it, so I can review it as the first CADD system to be reviewed in
my new CADD Review area. The wait might be what I talk most about!)
OK....here is the deal. Your
EPS file is actually an Adobe PS 3.0 file....Gerber cannot read
these....it reads Adobe Illustrator file or AI...which sometimes has
the extension EPS...but this is a different file format.
This is what I have to do to
read you files....I have to change their extension to .PS and have a
Postscript interpreter convert them to an AI file which Gerber can
then read. Then I have to take the Gerber file and convert it to the
older Gerber 3.5 format so that everyone can use it.
I really don't know what to
suggest....unless you can export/save as an AI file....or we just
keep letting me convert them to PLT's. Thought? Let me know.
Shelby
OK, Shelby, I'm on the
lookout for such a converter.... hopefully I'll find it soon.
Joe
Send Email to Shelbym: shelbym@v-cut.com
AND THIS FOLLOWING LETTER ALSO PERTAINS TO THIS LAST QUESTION.
Hi Joe,
During our chat Friday I
mentioned that I was having trouble with
.dxf files being displayed rather
then downloaded. I was using Internet
Explorer 4.0. I just tried d/ling
with Netscape 4.0 and it worked just
fine. Don't know if it's the way
IE4 is configured for files, but I
haven't changed it much since the
install. Just thought you might like
to know if someone else comes
across this problem.
I also notice that when I looked
at the designs with my Gerber
system, all the points in it were
open. When I pen plot it, it over
draws every line twice and leaves
gaps where the points are open. I know
I can close the points with my
editing tools but I was wondering it this
is normal for all designs? On
large designs or complicated ones, this
can be quite time consuming and I
was wondering if I"m doing something
wrong.
I wanted to thank you and Shelby
for getting me the bgcel.plt file
so quickly. I was quite surprised
to see it in my mailbox so fast. Also,
thanks for the info you gave me
when we talked on the phone. Now that I
can get the .dxf files which I
can convert, I'm a happy guy.
Thanks again,
DAVE
Dave,
Unfortunately, depending on the
system you import to,
it is very common to have gaps.
Just the nature of the thing.
It would be sweet, if some more
of our members would fix them
up and send them back to me for
posting for others...hint, hint.
Some browsers will download
files without alerting the user as to where
and the file name that is being
downloaded. Mostly the browser of
suspect is MS Internet
Explorer. It behooves uses of this browser to
read their manual to see if
there is a setting for this problem. Not knowing
where the file is being saved,
or the name of the file will result in a lost file.
Meanwhile, thanks for this
info, I will post it for other who are
having a difficult time at it.
Joe
Hi Joe,
Thank you so much for your quick
response to our Blue Cross dilemma. We were able to complete
the layout this weekend.
We do however have a question for
you. We have noticed that so often the designs download have
numerous open points. Is there some way of correcting this
situation? It takes a lot of time for us to manually close all
these points, and if there is some way to eliminate them it would be great.
We look forward to hearing your
ideas on this. Thank you.
Anita
Clinton L Allen Monuments, Inc.
Maryville, MO
Anita, (Please
note: Open points are a thing of the past thanks to Josh at Gerber.
Still, keep in mind that as on this writting - October, 1999 - 95% of
our drawings are "Of The Past.")
This
is how a drawing comes to Gemrock. Either someone like you
draws it in a format, such as
DXF or I draw it up over here. If I draw
it the format is GCD.
Once you send your DXF to me I have to
now convert it into our
inventory of formats... DXF, GCD, PLT, HPG
EPS, AI, 2D CMX, GIF and
CDR often I will also add others.
To do this I must take your
original DXF and bring it into several
CADD systems and converters to
get it into these other formats.
For example here is exactly
what I do. I open a DXF in Draftsman
Plus and convert it into EPS,
HPG and 2D. Then I open a
generic converter and convert
that EPS into Ai, CMX and CDR
then I open Gerber and convert
the ai into PLT. Then I open
Adobe Paint and convert the HPG
into a GIF.
As the
original DXF moves through this process, it gets
truncated and corrupted.
There's little anyone can do about
this. However, there are
systems out there which get better
end products than others.
Shelbym often feels that the drawings
are very much like the
originals. He runs Gerber 6.2. I seldom
hear complaints from Cochran's
systems and never from Monu-Cad.
Thus I have to assume that they
also get a good drawing after downloading.
But until all drawings are in
one format, well, you'll have to close those gaps.
You might think
about downloading the DXF, since it is often the original.
But, not always. Members
send me drawings in all formats and if I get a PLT
then I can assume the DXF will
have gaps...nature of the beast.
Dear
MyDrawingBoard,
If
you happen to have a large heart with small roses clustered around
the base which will fit on a slant marker 2-0x1-4 I could use it.
Believe it or not- the heart has to be large enough for 5 lines of type.
Thanks,
Linda
Linda,
No
problem with the large heart. First do a search for a HEART
in
our search engine. If you don't find what you're looking for, simply
write
back and give me a rough idea of what you're looking for
in
the way of type of rose, and amount of space needed in the heart.
I
will put one of our artists on it and you should have it by the next Re-Bang.
Joe
Joe@gemrock.com
Some times even mild mannered Joe can lose his temper...............
Dear Joe,
We have had an account with your service for more than three years now - lately, we have been experiencing more and more difficulty in trying to download designs from your webpage. When selecting a desired design, we are prompted to imput not only our password (which has been occuring for some time now), but as of today, we are now being asked for a domain name as well. In our experience, this has never occured and we have no idea what to input in this area. As a result, we are currently unable to download any design. Also, despite clicking the box "save this user name and password" we are repeatedly prompted to re-enter the password (sometimes twice!) for each download.
Why has it become more difficult to perform simple function on your site?
We frequently utilize this service as we find it most helpful, but needless to say, if the current situtations are not resolved we will be forced to consider alternative design-acquiring methods. We are currently paying for . . . nothing.
Please help!
Tom
************ Enter only your user-id and password in the new authorization box, ignore the domain.**********
Tom,
You really ought to visit the What's New page at least once a week over at http://www.mydrawingboard.com/ new.htm The answer to your problem(s) are posted there. And, Tom, you are paying your share of the hosting fees to place close to 2 million designs online for the taking at no cost to you at all. Any one of those designs is worth $47, but you don't pay for designs here, you pay your fair and non-profitable share to put the data online. You do not pay me a salary. You do not pay to have $200 per hour techs to look at you like you're a stupid moron cause some archane program is screwing up your server or get hit with a $7,000 charge all at once for a new server cause some demented kid decides to destroy 20 years of hard work with a virus his teacher taught him about in school. Or have to fly back and forth to Chicago to defend myself against a $35 million dollar copyright infringment because some jerk uploads copyrighted fonts to the board. Then lose the case and have to pan out $1,000 per month out of my pocket cause you need designs. Sorry to be so huffy, Tom. And perhaps a little too calous about your particular situation. I'm a florist and sometimes forget the urgency for the memorial sales trades. It's been a really tough week as those who read the What's New know all too well. And, yes, maybe it is time for those members who don't help out or contribute to start looking elsewhere for their designs.
Joe
My Drawing Board,
Does anyone ever do stones for black people. I have a lot of black customers and can not find anything with black babies, children, jesus, etc. am I the only one. It seems that our industry is in the dark ages ethnically.
Linda
Linda,
I understand from where you are coming with the comments you sent. But, as I was scolded myself about way back when, the art of memorial design is victim to the culture of the locality. Just as a memorial designer is tied to drawing only florals in Catholic cemeteries, menorahs and stars for our Jewish brothers and sisters, so are we bound to communicate only the memories of the present and living. If they ask for a black Jesus, that's what they get. I've been doing this now for over 40 years. The cemetery just down the block from where I designed from 1962 until 1992, was Amityville Cemetery in NY. All black. In fact I personally renovated an Indian and slave cemetery in the same Township - Babylon. Never once did I even get a request for St. Martin, no less an ethic Jesus.
Not that I didn't suggest it, trust me, I did.
joe
My Drawing Board,
I noticed that most of the listing on your website from Oklahoma City
are actually area code 405 instead of 580. Just thought I
would let you know.
Aaron
Aaron,
The errors in area
codes in our Data Base of memorialists,
that's something that happens every time the
phone company
changes the codes. Since our research and development
department never got researched or developed I
rely on
folks like you to point out the errors.
Than they are
corrected. And only then.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Joe
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