[NTLK] Sync eMate to MessagePad over beaming?

[Doug Denby]

Simple as this may sound, it has a lot more details than you would believe. Check out my previous replay on syncing.

Check out the assumption of the n.data format, which I alluded to in my earlier monologue.

You might notice that any INK or vector graphics or bitmap graphics, and all font descriptions, and indicators of lists and checklists, and unique stationery patterns, are ignored in this NS BASIC example.

Many of the syncing problems should be able to be overcome because you are going between two Newtons.

But, I think it might be possible, given sufficient time, patience and effort. Why don't you try it?

I think however, that you can do most of this through the stock beaming functionality built into the Newton.

Doug.

On 2010-01-07, at 10:10 AM, Matej Horvat wrote:

>> Sounds like a good programming project.
> 
> It should be possible to build something similar that would work with a serial connection between two Newtons in NS BASIC (this sample is from http://www.nsbasic.com/newton/info/technotes/02.html ):
> 
> 0010 rem dump all notes to serial port
> 0020 open ch,"notes",timestamp
> 0030 environ io="s0"
> 0040 get ch,n
> 0050 if fstat=1 then goto 130
> 0060 print datentime(n.timestamp)
> 0070 if not n.data or length(n.data)=0 then goto 40
> 0073 mydata := clone(n.data) // copy the array pointers, but not the
> frames
> 0076 sort( mydata,'|<|, 'viewbounds.top )
> 0080 for i=0 to length(n.data)-1
> 0090   if n.data.text then print n.data[i].text // skip ink-only paragraphs
> 0100 next i
> 0110 print " "
> 0120 GOTO 40
> 0130 rem fin
> 0140 environ io="screen"
> 
> Now on the receiving Newton a program would listen to the serial port and write the notes to memory.
> 
> -Matej Horvat
> 
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