Re: [NTLK] Hello from a new Subscriber

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 17:43:48 EST


On 21 Nov 2001, R Pickett wrote:

> Newtonlink is perl/tk based, and there's both perl and tk for BeOS,
> although I think you have to run an X server for the tk half. Might
> give that a try. It's a little weird to get going the first time, but
> it can install packages and pull various data back and forth.

Also note that it uses Sloup for comms, which means serial only. And the
Tk portion is just the GUI (which IMHO sucks) - all the comms stuff is
done in Perl, which makes it easy to use from the command line or to slap
a new interface on it.

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