[Coco] e-mail app???

Sat Jul 4 18:55:01 EDT 2015

The example is not backwards.  The intent is not to transfer a file from
the coco, instead it shows how data can be submitted to a web server using
a standard http get request (the number and text arguments in my made up
url).  The data returned by the web server for the request could be parsed
to determine whether the action was successful, or simply ignored.

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015, 6:41 PM Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> 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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>
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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
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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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