[GreenKeys] AP "Top Stories" gone?

[Virgil Bierschwale]

I haven't been following this so excuse me if it has already been discussed.

There is a way to do this without any hardware changes of any type.

Have a computer receiving the RSS feed you want, automatically send any new
articles received via email to the autostart email address at
http://www.rtty.com/





On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Duncan Brown <duncanancy at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> On 29-Apr-18 14:59, epvgk at limpoc.com wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 02:03:08PM -0400, Duncan Brown wrote:
>>
>>> If some of you software types could just put together something we could
>>> just download and run to print these news feeds, it would be greatly
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>> That's sort of the whole problem. If your setup were exactly the same as
>> mine,
>> it would just work. But if anything's different, it gets much harder to
>> account
>> for what kind of computer, what serial adapter, what version of
>> everything, etc.
>> HeavyMetal was a pretty good attempt but also a really big program
>> suffering
>> from not being maintained too much for a while.
>>
>> The other approach is dedicated hardware - I set up a couple of people
>> with a
>> pre-configured raspberry pi with all the software already installed, but
>> then
>> the same problem comes up if they want to add something new - their
>> current
>> setup isn't what the new thing is expecting.
>>
>> I don't really have any good solutions but it's definitely a big part of
>> the
>> challenge of computer systems in general.
>>
>> eric
>>
> Eric,
>
> OK, understand that there are a lot of variables.  But I was wondering if
> you or someone could take what you have done already and put it in a exe
> file that would run on any PC.  Something that would just go out to the AP
> top stories, clean it up, convert to 5 bit and send it to the serial port
> at 60 wpm.  Doesn't need any bells & whistles, just 60 wpm would be OK.
> Just something simple that we could use to demonstrate receiving the news
> on a TTY.
>
> Something to think about??
>
> Thanks,
>
> Duncan
> K2OEQ
>
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