Re: Kansas Fest '98 Chat today

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:43:38 -0700, tws <adoyson@nccn.net> wrote:

>Supertimer wrote:
>
>> tws <adoyson@nccn.net> wrote:
>>
>> >Babelfish  (?)
>>
>> Hooty and the Babelfish?  ;-)
>
>Some sort of File <converter??> utility.  I've heard alot about it, but
>I still don't understand what it does.

It is an Init that supports translator files that you just drop into a
directory and you can convert files to and from different formats.  It
comes with a Convert File NDA to convert files and apparently
SuperConvert already has support for Babelfish built in and Spectrum
v2.2 is supposed to support it as well.  Basically you can convert
things like APF graphics to SHR screens, raw binary sounds to AIFF
instruments or Teach files into HTML documents.

>> >Spectrum Internet Suite 1.1 (IIgs web browser)
>>
>> With TCP/IP, SIS becomes a real web browser!
>
>LOTS more than that.  We'll have to wait for the press release.  It
>sounds to me like theres been alot of work done on SIS.....cookies and
>improved speed are things that stuck in my mind from the chat last nigh

SIS v1.1 may not support Marinetti.  Geoff Weiss hasn't finished the
update yet but he's not sure if he'll be able to make SIS work with
Marinetti before v1.1 is ready to ship.  It is on the books for adding
at some point, it is just a matter of whether that will be in v1.1 or
v1.2.

>> >Marinetti 2.0  (TCP/IP for the IIGS)
>>
>> For Spectrum!
>
>  For more than Spectrum!  Upcoming software (the Mailbox by Jeff
>Blakeney, an email program), Geoff Weiss <SP?>  told me in chat that he
>demoed an FTP client at Kfest.

Definitely more than just for Spectrum but Spectrum is going to
support Marinetti quite well from the sounds of things.  Apparently
Spectrum will be able to have 32 active connections going while using
Marinetti.  Not to mention scripting commands to support TCP/IP
connections.

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