[Coco] e-mail app???

[Aaron Wolfe]

You might be able to save some steps using URIs with the list command.
Anywhere you can use a file path im a dw command you can also use URIs like
http://something/whatever.  So if there was a web to SMS gateway that let
you submit texts using an http get, you could do something like "dw server
list http://smsgateway.com/send?number=5551212&text=howdy".. Something like
that.
There is also a parameter you can specify in a printer definition to
execute an arbitrary command or script when a job is flushed, and you can
define lots of printers and switch between them with dw commands... So that
might provide a nice way to submit data to various scripts on the server
side.

Just some thoughts.

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015, 3:01 PM K. Pruitt <pruittk at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> > Bill Pierce
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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.
> >>
> >> --
>
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