[Coco] e-mail app???

[K. Pruitt]

Yeah, it is totally on the PC at this point. Drivewire can deliver our 
outgoing message to the PC right now, as is. And grabbing an incoming 
message for the CoCo from the PC is already there in Drivewire in the form 
of the list command. I often use it to list a file from my PC to a file on 
my CoCo. So we have two-way communication already implemented via Drivewire.

On the PC end we just pick up the file that the CoCo has sent it via 
drivewire and process it in to email or SMS. Using pre-existing software and 
a few batch files, I think this can be implemented without even writing a 
line of code.

I'm still waiting for Aaron to speak up and tell us to just use the dw sms 
command. Hehe.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Pierce via Coco"
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2015 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] e-mail app???


> 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
> 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 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.
>>
>> --