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Entries from February 2007

Diff and Patch Notes

February 28th, 2007 1:41 am · No Comments

Useful diff and patch commands:
Create a patch with 3 lines of context and amount of blank lines. I want to see other whitespace difference - it might expose a typo.
diff -u 3 oldfile newfile > patchfile

Use CVS diff to create a patch comparing the local file (newer) with the repository version.
cvs diff [...]

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Tags: CVS · Cygwin Linux · Subversion

Configure Microsoft Outlook for access from home, work, Treo and a laptop

February 21st, 2007 8:00 pm · No Comments

Microsoft outlook is widely used and though it has some caveats, works well with Treo’s and Blackberry’s.
This tutorial will detail the set-up I use with my email and I believe works well. I access and send email from 3 different computers (desktop at home+work, laptop, + Treo 600). The standard Outlook configuration [...]

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Tags: Microsoft Office

vtiger - custom webforms with drop down and custom fields

February 7th, 2007 1:48 am · No Comments

1. create a custom field, say “Loan Purpose” in the Leads module. In my forms, I’ll call this “loanpurpose”
2. Using phpmyadmin, browse to the Table: vtiger_leadscf
3. Look at the custom field name for the field in question - mine was called cf_453 This is the field name to be used in webforms.php
4. The name cf_453 [...]

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Tags: vTiger