These proposed extensions to REBOL are from Mark Dickson:
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They've been sent to the Rebol crew and to me, and I thought they were
pretty cool, so Mark's asked me to pass them onto the list. They follow my
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Andrew Martin
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> I've recently been thinking a lot about Rebol
> & Telephony and there are a few words & functions
> I think would make a very useful addition to
> the already excellent Rebol Functionality.
>
> These words should be fairly easy to implement
> across operating systems and platforms as
> all popular PC's Windows, Mac, Be, Linux etc
> already offer these basic functionalities.
>
> The additions I would like to see incorporated
> into future releases of Rebol products are these;
>
> PRINTER this is fairly self explanatory & would
> send output to the printer rather than the console.
> Almost every system has a default printer even if
> it is just a generic text printer.
> I don't know whether this should be a separate
> command or a refinement of the existing PRINT
> command.
>
>
> DIAL this command would enable Rebol to dial out
> a telephone or fax number. Rebol already invokes
> & communicates through the systems modem for the
> internet utilities & functions.
>
>
> FAX or SEND-FAX this command would be similar to
> the existing SEND command for email but would
> allow for messages to be sent to remote fax
> machines. An example of this command might be;
>
> Send-Fax 01315550951 "Urgent! Please phone home."
>
>
> PAGER for SMS Text Messaging. Similar to the FAX
> command outlined above and Rebols existing email
> SEND command this would enable communication with
> mobile phones, pagers etc. probably via a telco or other
> text messaging gateway. For example;
>
> PAGER 07957222707 "Good Morning Harry"
>
> a refinement to this command could be
> /LIMIT which would specify a limit to the number
> of characters the message can send.
>
>
> Other useful commands for REBOL in a similar vein
> would be for specifying information & details
> for the network protocols SLIP & PPP which
> establish network connections to remote machines.
>
> Your thoughts on these ideas for Rebol enhancements
> would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark Dickson
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