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Apple 2 manual Routing Incoming Items, Sending Out Box Items

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C H A P T E R 7

Routing and Communications

Sending Out Box Items

Items a user chooses to send later (as described in “Send Button and Close Box” on page 7-18) wait in the Out Box until the user is ready to have the transports transfer the items out of the Newton device. At that time the user connects the Newton to an output device and chooses a matching output service from the Send picker that pops up when the user taps the Send button in the Out Box. For example, to send faxes waiting in the Out Box, a user connects a fax modem and chooses Fax from the Out Box’s Send picker. The Send picker lists all Newton transports capable of transferring items from the Out Box to an output device. Figure 7-17 shows a sample Send button and picker in the Out Box.

Figure 7-17The Out Box’s Send picker lets users send items to output devices

Send picker

Send button

Services for sending to output devices

Before choosing an output service from the Out Box’s Send picker, a user can select specific queued items to be sent. If the user does not select items first, the chosen service sends all items waiting for it.

Routing Incoming Items

As mentioned earlier, users receive incoming data items through the In Box part of the built-in In/Out Box application. The items come from Newton transports that connect to sources of incoming items, retrieve items, and transfer the items to the In Box. For example, the built-in fax transport can connect to a calling fax machine, retrieve a fax, and transfer it to the Newton In Box.

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