[NTLK] Receiving files in Einstein (In/Out Box and Newt's Cape)

[Greg Goodwin]

Needing a little help on receiving files in Einstein.  I have some things I have tried, maybe some of you might have answers or experienced some of these.

What I want to do:

Working to download ,mod music files off the internet using the Mod Saver app under Newt's Cape.



I've gotten this to work on real hardware a lot back around 2005.   I think then I was able to upload files through the serial port (possibly eeTerminal) in the in/box where the ModSaver was able to turn the mod files into Newton Mod Packages.   It is amazing how much of this I've forgotten.  :P

Newt's Cape under Einstein and the wonderful "Einstein Network Card" that uses the computer's network is now zipping around the internet nicely.  Even loads https://modarchive.org/ where we see on that page recommended new music files, and all of them UNZIPPED!  How nice.

In theory Newt's Cape not only as a app for converting .mod files, but also a unzip app?   So Newt's Cape is supposed to save to the In/Out box where the conversion takes place?   But there are.. here we go, challenges.

Challenge One: Newt's Cape 2.1e-2(NIE)

I tried two links.   Neither saved to the in/out box.

FIRST LINK I tried was https://api.modarchive.org/downloads.php?moduleid=212016#anders_hamre_-_wrath_of_aphrodite.mod

This one Newt's Caoe cut down to https://api.modarchive.org/downloads.php?moduleid=212016 

And then it fails.  Why can't Newt's Cape recognize "#" in a URL?

SECOND LINK I tried was https://dflund.se/~fernbom/music/mods/files/takeonme.zip 

     which it thought about for a good minutes like it was trying to download, and then... nothing.

BTW, I did try both "https://" and "http://".   And "http://" in this case was a bit more successful.

After the second link I started to wonder if the IN/OUT box is in fact working in Einstein yet?



Challenge Two:  Einstein's IN/OUT box

No items were received from what I was trying in Newt's Cape.

I looked under "receive" and all were laughable... Fax, Beam, Update (by phone?) yeh those were probably not active in the Einstein environment.  But then I saw "Fetch URL" and thought "I'm SAVED!!  (Maybe...)"

So I put in the URLs I tried in Newt's Cape into this URL entry field and ...

"https://api.modarchive.org/downloads.php?moduleid=212016#anders_hamre_-_wrath_of_aphrodite.mod" - some activity and then -48204 was referenced.

"https://dflund.se/~fernbom/music/mods/files/takeonme.zip" - Error code 400



From all the above, any ideas or recommendations come to mind?   I think I am trying to tackle remembering exactly how the ModSaver app on Newt's Cape worked along with trying to get it to work in the Einstein environment.

Thanks,

Greg / Doc Clu