[NTLK] Anyone a Sloup expert ?

[Victor Rehorst]

It's been about a million years since I was 19 and wrote a tool in 
Visual Basic that used Sloup to extract data...

... but if pageData is the slot name, don't you need to specify a data 
type for it?  Like 'binary:bits' or 'binary:bitmap' ?

-V

On 2024-06-19 09:18, Tom wrote:
> I'm trying to dump my outbox, including the page data that describes a fax (not just the text, the actual drawn graphics if any)
>
> Outbox
> {toPhone:"0101",pageData:''}
> DUMP!
>
> Doesn't appear to show the data, only text.
>
> I can find the page data using a Soup explorer on the Newton itself, so the stuff is *there* but how can I get at it ?
> None of the examples at https://web.archive.org/web/20190418002007/https://communicrossings.com/html/newton/sloup/SL_HELP.htm[1] are much help.
>
> If Sloup can't retrieve non-text data (?) I'd even settle for help writing some NewtonScript to dump it - I think I could send and execute this over the serial connection instead (I'm sure I've seen a way to do this) ?
>