Re: [NTLK] Useless(?) update function

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On Friday, December 27, 2002, at 02:44 AM, Jon Glass wrote:

>
> on 12/27/02 7:21 AM, Martin Joseph at martyNT_at_barknaturalpet.com wrote:
>
>> However, it seems ridiculous at this late date to try to reverse
>> engineer the update function, with the concept of someone maintaining
>> a phone line for this purpose...
>
> Yes, but if you could hack the OS so that you could choose your own
> phone
> number, and then somebody write a quickie app on Windows/Mac that could
> answer the phone and install a package, then it would be useful... :-)
<snip>

As Paul pointed out, NCU and the dock function already achieve this
without the need for installing special software...

Marty

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