À (At) 19:57 -0800 30/11/02, John Anderson écrivait (wrote) :
>I don't speak French, and I don't see any downloads either. I ran the
>text through BabelFish and couldn't get anything coherent. What is the
>purpose of this project, and how does it work? Does it run on Mac OS X?
This is a French project.
No, just kidding.
The purpose of this project is to bring a complete multiplatform
connection framework for the Newton based on the Dock built-in
program. In a way, this will replace NCU/NBU/NPI/NP/NTK. The project
is planned to be open sourced under a strong copyleft license. It
already encodes and decodes data in NewtonOS native language. We
planned to provide an XML bridge so it could synchronize with plenty
of tools (Ronnie Simon was mentionning some Lotus stuff that used
XML). Backups also worked at some point.
I started that 2 years ago (in June 2000). Nicolas joined the project
since and works on the OS X part (he's an early adopter of OS X and
he had quite a lot of issues with NCU/NPI in Classic on his iBook).
We have some results, but nothing that could be published as is yet.
In particular, it can install packages natively on OS X over ADSP and
TCP/IP. We also have IrDA working on OS 9. POSIX File browsing (if
you start NCU and you tap install package on your Newton, you can
browse the desktop computer's files) is being debugged. ZeroConf
support will be added next week (on the Newton-side). Right now, I'm
recompiling ATA Support to fix the remaining issues before releasing
RC3. Unfortunately, Classic is damn slow and it takes forever (11
minutes).
Paul
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