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- From: aehall@netcom.com (spoonman)
- Subject: Re: Amiga<>newton hookup?
- Message-ID: <aehallDoJBwF.42o@netcom.com>
- Organization: are you kidding?
- References: <Pine.PMDF.3.91.960318162205.541083818C-100000@bsuvc.bsu.edu> <aehallDoHLFo.6A2@netcom.com> <4in6fp$2bji@thebes.waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:02:39 GMT
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-
- In article <4in6fp$2bji@thebes.waikato.ac.nz>,
- Len Trigg <trigg@waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
- >spoonman (aehall@netcom.com) wrote:
- >> In article <Pine.PMDF.3.91.960318162205.541083818C-100000@bsuvc.bsu.edu>,
- >> Rebel without a pause. <01ksdavis@BSUVC.bsu.edu> wrote:
- >> >I know, I know, maybe I should just try an emulate a mac or IBM on my
- >> >amiga to do this, but I would rather do it in Amiga mode.
- >> >
- >> >Kyle S. Davis
- >> >http://www.journalism.bsu.edu/kylesfiles/
- >>
- >> Len Trigg (trigg@jane.cs.waikato.ac.nz) had been working
- >> on a Newtl-like program (see http://www.tcel.com/~aehall/newtl/ for
- >> details on Newtl) for Amiagas. This was QUITE a while ago, so I'm
- >> not sure if any progress has been made.
- >
- >Early February is "QUITE" a while ago?? :-)
-
- yeah, so my memory sucks...
-
- what's this email about again? I forgot. :-)
-
-
- >
- >The original message hasn't shown up on my mail server yet, so
- >I'm not sure exactly what Kyle wanted to do.
- >
- >The program I have written allows sending of email from the
- >Newton (basically the mail just gets sucked out of the Outbox
- >soup via Steve Weyer's Slurpee and sent off using a SMTP posting
- >program on the Amiga).
- >
- >It also allows the entire contents of the Names soup to be dumped
- >(as this is what I'm most worried about loosing if something
- >happens to my newton).
-
- Could you post the slurpee script for this? I'd like to
- include it in Newtl (http://www.tcel.com/~aehall/newtl/)
- as a mini-backup option.
-
- Later,
- -A
-
- >
- >I haven't done anything on the program for a month, but I am
- >planning to add (roughly in the order that I'd do them): sending
- >email to the newton, restore of the backed up Names, backup and
- >restore of Notes and Dates. These should be fairly simple (I
- >just have to make the time).
- >
- >Cheers,
- > Len.
- >--
- > Len Trigg ===================================================
- > Comp Sci Grad DoD#1334 trigg@cs.waikato.ac.nz
- > Waikato Uni GPX250 http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~trigg
- > Finger trigg@jane.cs.waikato.ac.nz for PGP Public key
-
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