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Re: Amiga<>newton hookup?

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From: spoonman
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:02
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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          
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From: aehall@netcom.com (spoonman)
Subject: Re: Amiga<>newton hookup?
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