From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 3 7:18:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from privatecube.privatelabs.com (privatecube.privatelabs.com [198.143.31.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 549F337B81B for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 07:18:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mi@virtual-estates.net) Received: from misha.privatelabs.com (misha.privatelabs.com [198.143.31.6]) by privatecube.privatelabs.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA28256; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 09:16:50 -0400 Received: from virtual-estates.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by misha.privatelabs.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA37960; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:13:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi@virtual-estates.net) Message-Id: <200008031413.KAA37960@misha.privatelabs.com> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:13:07 -0400 (EDT) From: mi@aldan.algebra.com Subject: RE: Irda support To: "Henry F. Marquardt" Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2 Aug, 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. Right -- and then you end up with dozens of those napkins piling up. Or not you -- your company's business people, who will then force YOU to support their Windoz machines, because Windoz does have support for the IR and the software that makes use of it... -mi (who sees his client's executives exchange data with their Palm Pilots over IR quite often and efficient) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message