[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The real use I had for this was so my wife could take one of the remote controls > sitting around the house and query the computer to download email and read them to > her while she was doing other things (like cooking, cleaning, taking care of the > kids, giving me a back rub ;) ) The remote control thingy isn't so hard as there > are devices which can be hooked up to Amigas so they can be controlled with any > remote control. yo bo, The latest issue of 'Circuit Cellar' has some perl scripts used to control an X-10 home automation controller, which is an RS-232 device. Boy is that code uhglee$(.02)... You would probably blow away the hacker world with a small writeup on your system. Steve Shireman "OWN-LEE AH-MEE-GA MAY-KES ET PAH-SEE-BULL!" from a close digital friend
