Re: NTLK Re: Software piracy woes in the face of unknown options. Was: NTLK Lo oking For NCU For Mac

From: Brian McEwen (brian@bmcewen.cvm.okstate.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 11 2000 - 16:25:26 CDT


>> 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.
>

        And, were I to prigram the conversion (which I can't), I would just
tell people to get a USB/serial adapter, and keep the access via regular
serial, if I were doing it "for free" and it were easier for me to convert.
:)

        B

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