Re: Is there a way to beam from emate to Mac via IR?

Forrest <[email protected]>
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Yes; I now seem to recall a discussion here on NTLK some time ago—years—about that software.

Perhaps a search through the archives for posts about it would yield a result. I would search for the word “beam”—speaking as someone who has done such searches in the past.

Mahalo,
Forrest

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> On Jun 12, 2019, at 3:46 AM, Jon Glass <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 10:14 AM Forrest <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I thought the beaming feature was only useful in transferring between Newtons; that one of the (few) problems within the Newt’s design was that the format was not compatible with anything else.
>> 
>> I recall reading this somewhere. I don’t, however, recall ever actually trying to beam to a Mac, so I could well be wrong. Perhaps it was that feature did not work with WINDOWS computers.
>> 
> 
> I used to beam notes from my Pismo, and packages to my Newt all the
> time from Pismo. In fact, I installed a mirror behind the Pismo so I
> could do the beaming without turning it around. I don't remember what
> software I used, though... It may have been third-party. That was
> looong ago
> 
> -- 
> -Jon Glass
> Krakow, Poland
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