Re: Reading new SMS on nokia 6230 over bluetooth on Mac OS X

[Martin Ritchie]

On 25/06/07, Jari Turkia <address@hidden> wrote:
> Martin Ritchie wrote:
> > I was using this of gnokii 0.6.16. This was just a quick script to use
> > "--monitor once" to detect when Unread messages have arrived. Then
> > --showsmsstatus to detect how many messages are in the mailbox IN.
> > Then getsms is used to download all these messages and the unread
> > messages detected and processed. Currently the processing is hardwired
> > in to the script. In fact the only message that is processed is the
> > "reset-modem" message.
> >
> > Future thoughts for this were:
> > - Allow processing scripts to be "loaded" in some fashion detached
> > from the main script.
> > - Allow monitoring of a folder for outgoing messages.
> >
> Ever thought making this as a Perl script? Your semi-complex
> shell-scripting would get a lot easier especially on the result
> evaluating and processing phase. That would also make your future
> enhancements easier.
>
> Regards,
> Jari Turkia

I agree doing it in Perl would have been much better. I think
semi-complex is being kind. I didn't think it was going to be that
awkward to start with but as you say using Perl would make future work
easier.

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Martin Ritchie