Yes, in fact if there's a Web Service out there to show movie listings,
you could fetch this information pretty easily and put it on your
Newton.
John
> I have recently moved from being a Palm user to being a Newton user.
> The Newton almost completely replaces everything I did with my Palm.
> One thing that I haven't been able to replicate so far is the Showtimes
> application <http://showtimes.jrray.org/> , which allows me to keep an
> up-to-date list of movies in local theaters on my Palm device. The
> application consists of two pieces, a package on the Palm device which
> has associated databases it reads and displays, and a Perl script that
> runs periodically and downloads movie listings, parses them, turns them
> into a Palm database, and then installs the database in such a way that
> it gets uploaded the next time the Palm device is synchronized.
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