Date : Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:13:23 +0000
From : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Fwd: New Screen Modes with ARM7 Co-Processor?
Richard Gellman wrote:
> Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> > I read & write, send & fetch my emails with a BBC.
> I always wanted to know how you do that..... some sort of esoteric link
> up involving the mythical Econetii Ecolinkus ?
I use the mail utilities at http://mdfs.net/Software/Comms/JGH
I have a BBC that runs continuously as a server - most of the time
it runs DeSpool <http://mdfs.net/Apps/Networking/>, a printer
despooler. At about 01:30 it quits and runs MailRun, a offline
mail send&fetch program.
*MailRun dials into Arcade, uploads and waiting outgoing mail,
downloads any waiting incoming mail, logs off, then passes control
to MailSort.
*MailSort scans through the downloaded mail scratchpad and splits
it up into messages and demangles the atrocious mishmash of mail
headers that fly around out there.
*ml scans through email messages giving a message header summary,
viz:
=>*ml
Message Date From Subject
M03032220 03 Mar 2009 Richard Gellman Re: Fwd: New Screen Modes with ARM7
Co
M03040058 04 Mar 2009 Phill Harvey-Smi Atom rombox question
M03040133 04 Mar 2009 "Richard Wilson" Re: Fwd: New Screen Modes with ARM7
Co
...etc...
The messages are just plain text. I read them in VIEW.
I create outgoing messages with either *MailTo or *ReplyTo. *MailTo
creates a blank text file with an upload header at the start and a
tag line at the end. *ReplyTo does the same, but creates a text
file with the replied-to file quoted in it.
Once all outgoing messages are read for dispatch, I join them all
together and save them as the file to upload.
At 01:30 the cycle then repeats.
I also have *Attach and *Extract which attach and extract
uu-encoded files to mail files.
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J.G.Harston - jgh@... - mdfs.net/User/JGH
In 1939 $50 of groceries would fill three station wagons. Today I
can lift $50 of groceries with one hand. I must have got stronger.