[slinkelist] WishLists

[Mike Kropp]

You don't need NT to automate CDJ.  Just make sure it uses Slinkeserv.  CDJ,
Slinkeserv, and your app will all live quite happily on a Win98 machine.
Just write your app to create the text file you want and other apps on your
network can read it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Macgirvin [mailto:max@netscape.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 4:07 AM
> To: Mike Kropp
> Cc: Slink-e List
> Subject: Re: [slinkelist] WishLists
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> Mike Kropp wrote:
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> > > Maybe we could kill two birds with one stone. I mentioned earlier that
> > > it'd be nice to have the "now playing" exported to file for
> those of us
> > > unable to setup active-x/com (for various technical reasons)
> and get the
> > > info via RPC. I'd still like that, so what if "now playing" was a
> > > program which just read from that file in a separate program? Then we
> > > could use the same program from networked computers and just
> access the
> > > file share without the COM setup issues.
> > >
> >
> > You can do this now.  Just write a small program that runs on the CDJ
> > machine and talks to CDJ via its automation interface.  You can
> write the
> > file with whatever info you want to take from CDJ at whatever
> interval you
> > choose.
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> Yes, I know that - but it requires setting up the automation interface,
> which in turn requires an NT domain controller on my local net so that I
> can still share printers/files etc. with the slink-e machine (win98),
> which I do today without NT. It's the latter step I take issue with.
> Right now I operate a strictly peer-to-peer network where one machine
> doesn't care if another is down. Adding an NT domain controller to the
> mix requires network dependancies I don't care for, especially since I
> don't run Windows exclusively and would like to see my Linux boxes
> participate in any voluntary file sharing I create.  Putting NT/win2000
> on the slink-e machine is likewise a non-starter because neither of
> these OS's currently support the full range of software which I require
> for other uses (MIDI, IPsec, digital camera, etc.) . This box has to be
> win98 and it cannot rely on NT. Someday Microsoft may make it all work
> painlessly on an NT derivative but that isn't the case today.
>