Re: TI-H: Pager thingy from Yahoo, pretty cool!

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Re: TI-H: Pager thingy from Yahoo, pretty cool!


Ok...Grant's been pushing his 8-bit I/O thingamajigger on this EII. Now, if
anyone else has ever looked at the SLIP protocol definion, you'll discover
that's it's ramarkably simple. You've got two important bytes ESC and END.
Basically, you encapsupate IP into that, send it with an ESC END at each
and, and replace every ESC with ESC ESC and yer done. I think it should be
fairly easy to build a (very simple) program for the TI that connects to the
internet using SLIP. I'd be glad to write up a little server proggie and
host it on any one of my boxes sitting out there on T1s. ICQ/AIM for teh TI?
Right around the corner - i say. Especially since it would always be talking
to a specific IP on a specific port. It could also use UDP to make things
simpler (for all those of you not familliar with this, just know that UDP is
simpler to use than TCP). If anyone feels like helping me code the TI end,
i'll gladly write a server (I can do this in about an hour).

-- Jon Olson

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Kalos <raptorone@geocities.com>
To: 'ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org' <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 1998 12:31 AM
Subject: RE: TI-H: Pager thingy from Yahoo, pretty cool!


As long as we're spamming, look at the last line on my sig.  That's the AOL
IM tool.  It's for internet users, and allows you to contact AOL users as
well.  It's also free, and it works rather well, I have most of my friends
suckered into it, because it works decently, and I can still keep tabs on my
less computer-literate friends ("What's an ISP???")
Now, if we could establish a client for that on the TI's, that would rock.
Just another addon to the Calc Internet project.
Christopher Kalos
raptorone@geocities.com
VirtuTech Developer's Group
AOL IM: Raptor1CK

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From: Robert Brack[SMTP:reb@netride.com]
Sent: Monday, March 09, 1998 10:49 PM
To: TI-86 Hardware List
Subject: TI-H: Pager thingy from Yahoo, pretty cool!


Have you seen the Yahoo! Pager?  It's like AOL's IMs, but over the whole
internet!

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