Re: [NTLK] Has anyone played with Newtonlink yet?

From: Rob Hoehn (robert.hoehn_at_wamu.net)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 15:13:18 EST


I am running a Pismo with OSX actually. I haven't heard of Newtonlink
before, sounds interesting. If it is able to run on OSX (which I'm sure it
could) we could just add a Perl module to handle OSX applications.

Rob

Jim Anderson wrote:

> SlashDevNull wrote:
> > Does it work?
> > Does it work under OS X?
> > Will it work with applications under OS X?
> > And any other general questions with OS X.
>
> It works pretty well, for me at least. I don't screw around with
> trying to keep two seperate set of contacts in sync, so all I use it for
> is installing software and dumping my Names into KAB. The whole thing is
> pretty modular, with individual perl modules handling each function (ie:
> export dates to XOrganizer). The modules tend to get out of date for
> some of the more rapidly changing applications (in the case of KAB, for
> instance, I had to hack on the module to get it to work with the most
> recent version of KAB).
> I don't run OS X, so I don't know how well it runs under it.
> Newtonlink will run on BSD, so I'd imagine it would run just fine.
> However, I don't know how useful it would be. Newtonlink is oriented
> towards talking to various tools that you might find on a unix box, and
> I don't know if any of them run on OS X. You should at least be able to
> use it to install applications.
>
> If you want to send me a Pismo running OS X, though, I'd be
> happy to check on it... ;-)
>
> Jim Anderson
>
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