From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 2 20:42:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0664437B5D9 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 20:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA26574; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:11:59 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:11:59 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Henry F. Marquardt" Subject: RE: Irda support Cc: Jason Kasper , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-Aug-00 Henry F. Marquardt wrote: > I agree, this is a 'lost' technology, a solution in search of a problem. > Even the palm crowd doesn't use it much that I've seen - I remember some of > the early marketing hype there with people swapping IR business cards - I > don't think I've ever seen anyone do that and I don't think I could figure > out how in any reasonable amount of time with mine - it'd be quicker to > scribble on a napkin. Or give them a real business card.. Still, hotsync'ing via IR is neat :) Also, IR to a mobile is nice for making data calls.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message