Re: Spectrum Internet Suite

[mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune)]

In article <5gk7jj$rd@borg.svpal.org>, wily@svpal.svpal.org (Paul Creager) wrote:
>I'm not affiliated with them, but the following hasn't generated a lot of 
>discussion here on csa2.  (But it sure has on Genie & Delphi!)

Well, I for one want to strike up a conversation on the technology behind SIS. 
 Are they keeping it secret?  I'm very interested in knowing exactly how it 
works!  I already placed my order.  I can't WAIT to play with it.  :)

For awhile, (when I first got Spectrum v2.0) I actually tried to design a 
script that would FTP to a specified site, download the HTML, and attempt to 
organize it on screen based on the tags.  (In other words, a browser.)  I 
eventually canned it out of frustration, but I wondered how long it would be 
before somebody really exploited Spectrum's scripting power and made something 
like this.  And now?  hehe  The anticipation is killing me!  :)

How does SIS handle downloads?  Won't it have to go to the provider first, 
then to the GS (since it's through a shell), or did they figure out a way 
around that?  

Since they went ahead and turned off the mouse while downloading in SIS, why 
not turn it off for normal downloading in Spectrum?  (Zmodem, etc.)

- Matt

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