Re: [NTLK] Non-NCU NewtWorks Export/Import?

From: Robert Benschop (rbenschop_at_euronet.nl)
Date: Mon Dec 09 2002 - 15:16:01 EST


on 09-12-2002 9:07, Ed Kummel at tech_ed_at_yahoo.com wrote:

> Granted...I started reading the iSynch, or inSynch or
> whatever it's called in the beginning, but after the
> first hundred messages, I have just been deleting
> them...so if it had that subject, then I probably just
> deleted it...

Poor Ed ;-)

If it's any help I don't use OS X either. (yet ;-)

At least I'm helping you a bit to make your life easier, here is the post, I
think it might deserve a second reading:

The purpose of this project is to bring a complete multiplatform
connection framework for the Newton based on the Dock built-in
program. In a way, this will replace NCU/NBU/NPI/NP/NTK. The project
is planned to be open sourced under a strong copyleft license. It
already encodes and decodes data in NewtonOS native language. We
planned to provide an XML bridge so it could synchronize with plenty
of tools (Ronnie Simon was mentionning some Lotus stuff that used
XML). Backups also worked at some point.

I started that 2 years ago (in June 2000). Nicolas joined the project
since and works on the OS X part (he's an early adopter of OS X and
he had quite a lot of issues with NCU/NPI in Classic on his iBook).
We have some results, but nothing that could be published as is yet.
In particular, it can install packages natively on OS X over ADSP and
TCP/IP. We also have IrDA working on OS 9. POSIX File browsing (if
you start NCU and you tap install package on your Newton, you can
browse the desktop computer's files) is being debugged. ZeroConf
support will be added next week (on the Newton-side). Right now, I'm
recompiling ATA Support to fix the remaining issues before releasing
RC3. Unfortunately, Classic is damn slow and it takes forever (11
minutes).

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