On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> The NewtonLink project is open source. It means that if you use any of
> this code, you need to provide your own application free. Unless the
> code would be really easy to port, I doubt anybody will ever take on the
> task. Specially since it seems from my observations that NewtonLink uses
> a serial connection only to the Newton. Since there is no longer a
> serial port on all shipping Macs, for close to 2 years now, that would
> mean that the programmer doing the port would have to re-write all the
> connection stuff, all of this for free.
NewtonLink is written in Perl and Perl/Tk, making it rather portable.
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