Re: NTLK HOW Making NCU recognize packages

From: Heiko Cultus (Heiko.Cultus@edag.de)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 06:53:03 EST


Till wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I recently got a Longshine Ethernet card to connect my MP2100 to my Rev. B
> iMac, which is much more comfortable than installing packages via IR and
> having no way to backup the Newton. I use NCU for installing packages, but
> unfortunately, some programs attached their "tags" to some packages (i.e.,
> some packages appear as Netscape documents, Simpletext documents and so
> on). NCU won´t recognize them. Maybe this is a dumb question, but I guess I
> have to change the type of those files. Could anybody tell me how I can
> accomplish this? I use MacOS 8.6, and I know that the packages are not
> damaged (I installed some of them via IR, and they work).
> Thanks!
>
 
Steve Weyers PackType will change the type/creator to NCU.
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~sweyer/newton/toolinfo.htm#PackType

mgf
Heiko
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