[Coco] e-mail app???

[Bill Pierce]

David, NitrOS9 already has all that's needed if the work is being done on the PC Drivewire server. There are several types of DW4 "virtual ports" already on the nitros9 ditribution disk and in the boot.
What would have to be done, is to implement (in dw4 itself) a command code that lets DW4 know what it supposed to do. DW4 has a host of cmd codes already that allow many things that are not being used by software, so there may be something the you can use already.

DW4 already supports listing a text (or binary, dw4 doesn't care) file to the PC (virtual print to file through "/p"), and some have even set up Linux to intercept these files and forward them to the server's printer. This listing can actuall be renamed and directed to anywhere you need it to go with a few simplke dw4 commands (already implemented). It would be easier to just use this DW4 feature and then deal with the file that is sent.

I actually use this feature to write OS9 files from OS9 to the DW4 server in my MShell project.

Most of the work for the OS9 end was already forseen (and done), it's the PC end that needs work.

 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: David Gettle <david17361 at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Jul 4, 2015 11:26 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] e-mail app???


So it sounds like all that is needed is just add adding a virtual device
to
drivewire and a routine in drivewire to convert text sent to it to a
batch
file for the host machine, and execute it. and a Nitros9 device
descriptor,
sounds simple enough, just wish I had time enough to work on
it.....

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 12:05 AM, K. Pruitt <pruittk at roadrunner.com>
wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "K. Pruitt"
> Sent: Friday, July
03, 2015 7:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] e-mail app???
>
>
>  I think the solution
would be to run everything SMS-related from the PC,
>> and just configure the
software to accept  the text from the Coco via
>> drivewire.
>>
>> Of course I
don't have the details for this software I speak of, but it
>> seems logical to
throw all the work-load on to the PC.
>>
>> --
>>
>
> For example, I wanted my
CoCo to be able to tell my PC to do things. I
> came up with this Rube-Goldberg
style method of having the CoCo send a txt
> file to /p and then I used a cron
utility on my PC to check the printer
> directory every minute and convert the
text file to a .BAT file and run it.
> It was clumsy and inconvenient but it
worked.
>
> So what I am saying it the CoCo only has to treat the text message
it
> wants to send as any other string of characters. The CoCo never needs to
>
know anything about SMS. All that can be handled on the PC with
> pre-existing
open source software, with all that is needed to be added is a
> software
interface to pick up that simple string of characters from the
> CoCo and pass
it along to the SMS software.
>
>
>
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