If you do the port, please be sure to let the list know!
I checked the site for NewtonLink and there is someone there who was
working on BeOS port as *some* stage... I'm intending to email him to
see where it's at.
>On Wed, 2001-11-21 at 14:43, Victor Rehorst wrote:
>> Also note that it uses Sloup for comms, which means serial only.
>
>Yah. It can also use lpkg on Linux to install packages directly to
the
>Dock (at 115200bps, yay), but I haven't looked at lpkg's source
closely
>enough to know if it's all Linux-specific or vaguely POSIX looking.
If
>I actually had BeOS ever working, I'd try it there, but I couldn't get
>it to play right with my NVidia card, so it went away.
>
>> And the Tk portion is just the GUI (which IMHO sucks)
>
>Hear, hear.
>
>> - all the comms stuff is
>> done in Perl, which makes it easy to use from the command line or to
slap
>> a new interface on it.
>
>Hmmn. Anyone ever done Perl -> Be-GUI bindings=3F That would be nifty.
>
>There's also a BeOS port of Gtk that's coming along; my little
>connection tool might port over once I get it a little saner and
>liberate it from some unfortunate Gnome dependencies. So far, tho,
all
>it can do is install packages.
>
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