[GreenKeys] Heavy Metal

[gil smith]

>... but it would be fairly
>easy to add a feature to have Heavy Metal watch a magic folder or directory
>and automatically print out (and then delete) any text file you drop into
>it.

Bill:

Hmm.  Watch a magic folder.  That sounds handy.  A program could simply
print to a file in that directory (in text format), HM could grab it, print
it, then delete it.  Quite cool.  And TTY auto-motor control can be handled
by HM.

I'm still looking for a way to get the CNN breaking news emails to
automatically print on the tty (by the time the find bin-livin-too-long).
I need to automatically get the text out of an email program to a text
file, and also strip down some of the extra crap and format it into a short
tty-friendly news message.  If this message file is then saved to the HM
magic folder, the printing would be automatic!   It would be quite cool to
have the tty just fire up and print news in semi-realtime.  Anyone have
ideas on sending an email message automatically to a file?  My old eudora
filters don't have that option, but perhaps another program does.  How
about piping it through a simple text filter?  Even something as simple as
delete N lines, save M lines...

gil

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