Re: NTLK HOW do I get my eMate and iMac to talk to each other over IrDA?

From: Bill Davis (newton@ecity.net)
Date: Thu Dec 09 1999 - 01:33:56 EST


On 12/8/99 3:26 PM, Darren Watson [mailto:Darren@macos.freeserve.co.uk]
wrote:

>

(It's usually customary to put your question in the message body, not the
subject...)

The answer is twofold

1. If you're trying to use Newton Connection Utilities over IrDA, the
answer is: You can't.

2. However, it _is_ possible to do other types of data transfer over IrDA
with either Sloup or EETrans. See Steve Weyer's page:

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~sweyer/newton/sloup/connect.htm#IrDA

The above two items are mentioned on the FAQ for the Newton Community
available at:

http://www.info-newt.com/faq/

(among other places). Just search for "IrDA" (I added a search engine
for JUST the FAQ section of the Info-Newt site recently!)

Always a good place to start searching for the answers to your Newton
question (this one gets asked a LOT.)

Another cool way to use IrDA to transfer info is using a terminal program
and EETrans; this is a bit different from the Sloup method above and also
has it's uses and may be a bit easier:

I wrote about it on Info-Newt a while back:

http://www.info-newt.com/backissues/1999/19990919.html

(search within the page using your browser's page/file search command to
find "IrDA" or "kieran", or just scroll down until you find it.)

 - Bill Davis

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