[GreenKeys] teletype server software

[Robert McConnell]

Henry,

Absolutely! Let me at it.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP

At 11/25/02 07:36 PM -0500, Henry Minsky wrote:


>I recently decided to rewrite the software that drives my Model 28 teletype.
>In the house I mostly use the teletype to print out upcoming appointments 
>from our Yahoo
>calendar.  Yahoo will send email at a pre-set time before the event, and I 
>have
>a script that runs when mail is received at a special address, to print 
>out the
>message on the teletype.
>
>I decided this time to start with a small lightweight web server which is 
>designed for embedded systems, called boa
>(http://www.boa.org), and then added in some code to drive the serial port.
>When a special URL is accessed on the server (/cgi-bin/teletype.cgi), any 
>message
>POSTed to that URL is printed on the teletype. The server also runs a 
>little command
>line monitor for the TTY, so you can type commands to get the weather, 
>news, and various other things.
>Each of these commands just fetches a pre-defined URL and prints the text 
>to the
>teletype, so it's easy to add new commands and services.
>
>So, web services, the latest buzzword technology,  meets Teletype technology.
>
>I can put the source code for this up on the web if anybody is interested.
>
>
>Henry