[Coco] e-mail app???

Sat Jul 4 18:35:10 EDT 2015

Aaron, I think you're a little backwards on the "dw server list" command as it will "list" TO the Coco, not from it. Giving it a URI will just end in "http://www.xxx.com is not a file", unless the URI was actually to a file, then it would be listed on the Coco, not the URI (unless you have another implementation of it I have not seen :-) 
This is the very same command I use in the "Internet Update" feature of all my software to download the software updates from the net , to the Coco as well as the "PC to Coco" copy mode in MShell.

The only way I've found to list a file TO the PC (or a URI), without using the "Inetd", "Http", or "Telnet", is by using the print function you mentioned. In my software, I save the current dw print settings, then redirect the print file to the destination and filename of my choice, "print" the file, then reset the dw printer to it's origial state afterwards.

I use "dw config set Printr(1).OutputFile C:/xxxx/xxxx.xxx", to set the dir/file I need for the file, then to get the newly updated files for my updater to the dropbox site, I just send (list xxxx.xxx >/P) the new updated files to my local copy of my dropbox folder (monitored by dropbox), dropbox then picks it up and uploads it to the dropbox site.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Jul 4, 2015 3:17 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] e-mail app???

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
> > "Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't stop
going, no way to
> > slow down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro Tull
> >
> >
> >
> > My
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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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