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New MessageTrancell Unix Shell, FTP, File storage, etc (modified 0 times) wildcard
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Hey sorry yikesman, my message had the wrong tone.

Yikesman pointed out in the z80 hackers thread that using a website called
http://trancell.com/info.html#unix

the mailstation can be used as a terminal for lots of other powerful uses.

I'm getting news and sports updates, access to web sites, and just scratching the surface. Take a look.

08-20-2001 16:27:12

New MessageRE:Trancell Unix Shell, FTP, File storage, etc (modified 0 times) redwood
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ok, my mailstations are 'on their way' ... this sounds great, gonna do some reading, but, hey, Feel Free, to elaborate on what yer doing.. :) since this site is talkin about Wireless.. I guess yer just using yer dialup email? ... these things may start gettin Snaped up if this turns out to be very useful! thanks
08-20-2001 18:11:48

New MessageRE:Trancell Unix Shell, FTP, File storage, etc (modified 0 times) wildcard
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I have just been using trancell with dialup. Trancell sends out the responses to any email address. It doesn't care if its wireless or a standard yahoo pop address.

So, so far, its just an interesting way to get news, weather, sports, jokes sent each day to the mailstation. And much better than what I had been using (infobeat) which was much more commercial than news. On trancell there is also a clutzy way to get web content, but you would not want to be using it regularly. That's more in the nature of, that's cool that it can be done with such limited email program

The trancell site gives the idea that it might be possible to telnet, and keep an ongoing communication with a unix machine, but so far it hasn't worked for me. What I mean by an ongoin communication, is like a normal dialup session that could last for half an hour, compared to the way mailstation usually works of send out a file, checks for new messages, then hangups.

Even if you haven't got your mailstation, you can test the trancell waters by grabing an account, and exploring it with the telnet program on your normal machine.

08-21-2001 21:59:46

New MessageRE:Trancell Unix Shell, FTP, File storage, etc (modified 0 times) yikesman
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Yeah the Trancell service is actually not so great for my cellphone beccause of its short char limit per email.
What kind of limits does the Mailstation have for email total memory?
Have you tried the ICQ interface yet? I don't know anyone else who uses ICQ so I didn't have a way to test it.
The Trancell site made me think you could use the MailStation on the road as a term to your computer at home-if you have a server type thing at home.
All you'd have to do is set up your mail server to autorespond to the MailStation to do give or do whatever you want.
'Course you'd need an ISP that would let you dialup from wherever you were wanting to go.
Before I had PPP access (in like '93) I used to do FTP by email.
This reminds me of that. Kinda cool what you might be able to do w/a $20 box.
08-21-2001 22:23:58

New MessageRE:Trancell Unix Shell, FTP, File storage, etc (modified 0 times) wildcard
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The Mailstation is limited to 8 k messages. The mailstation holds a lot of messages, I've had over a 120 messages with about 25 percent memory left. When memory resources go low, you can "optimize" memory and reclaim a portion, under that scenario would rise to about 40%. Deleting email take more keystrokes than it should.

Trancell, is set with a default of 4000 character email, but there is a configuration screen on which I changed its setting to 8000 to be equal with the mailstation.

08-22-2001 21:48:40

New MessageRE:Trancell Unix Shell, FTP, File storage, etc (modified 0 times) wildcard
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Redwood,

Ignore this if I am stating something too obvious, but if your trying out the trancell account, also look at using the email addressbook for entering the addresses such as

info@trancell.com (I set this to the character "`" so that it would be easy enter and be at the top of the list.
jokes@trancell.com
sports@trancell.com

If trancell sends you a webpage, the links become numbers, so when you want to click on link to see the page below it, you reply to message, cursor up to the subject field, (not the text) and enter and check your email.

If you would also tryout these commands to see if we can find a good way to use them.

To: info@trancell.com
Re: tel (an abbreviation for a unix host you have defined on the trancell page.)

08-22-2001 22:09:54

New MessageRE:Trancell Unix Shell, FTP, File storage, etc (modified 0 times) redwood
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wildcard, thanks for this site, I'm _working on it... makin progress... really amazing, what can be brought to this little gem... let me practice a bit, then get back to you..
thanks for the help!
08-23-2001 09:25:32

New MessageRE:Trancell Unix Shell, FTP, File storage, etc (modified 0 times) redwood
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wildcard,
I'm having fair luck with this, but...
sometimes, when I 'reply' to a msg... its too long (subject field) and, I can't type a number at the end...
I Can, on my PC, using eudora.. so, I need to figger this one out, otherwise, this Really brings interesting content to the mailstation!
08-27-2001 07:40:41

New MessageRE:Trancell Unix Shell, FTP, File storage, etc (modified 0 times) wildcard
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Redwood,

I just found the solution to that problem yesterday. Go to the trancell page, and there is a configuration or user profile page with four choices. These include how long a message, (change to 8k).

The last choice asks if your device allows you to enter information into the subject field. Even though the mailstations do allow that, they are limited to about 35 characters. So toggle that field to "no." Afterwards, when you want to retrive a link on a webpage you just visited, you include the link number in the first line of the text area, rather than in the subject field.

08-28-2001 08:50:12

New MessageRE:Trancell Unix Shell, FTP, File storage, etc (modified 0 times) redwood
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wildcard,
Thank you very much, :)
08-28-2001 20:46:55

New MessageRE:Trancell Unix Shell, FTP, File storage, etc (modified 0 times) redwood
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yikesman,
I just got ICQ working, Very cool, simple to setup!
so, get yer mailstations, get icq, get trancell... :) have Fun!
09-20-2001 08:06:57

New MessageRE:Trancell Unix Shell, FTP, File storage, etc (modified 0 times) redwood
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woops... careful, don't set Check when user online.. you will get mailBombed... :)
09-20-2001 09:01:54

New MessageRE:Trancell Unix Shell, FTP, File storage, etc (modified 0 times) OrangeTruckGuy
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Kinda lost on what exactly you are doing here, anyone care to elaborate on what this really is, and how to set it up?
12-01-2003 17:19:21

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