Re: [NTLK] Mac OS X, Newton Toolkit, PortShare, IMDb ebook

From: Eckhart Koeppen (eck1000_at_gmx.net)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 12:27:58 EST


Laurent Daudelin wrote:

> on 20/01/02 23:52, Tom Sheppard at TSheppard_at_mac.com wrote:
>
>
>>I guess the PortShare demo time ran out since I can no longer launch Newton
>>Toolkit under Mac OS X. The price of the full version is CA$128. Since all I
>>use Toolkit for anymore is to produce the IMDb ebooks, I cannot pay that
>>price. I'm spending less and less time in OS 9 now so booting back just to
>>build the ebooks is a real pain. Any alternatives to PortShare?
>>
>
> This is really a shot in the dark, but I would imagine that someone could
> write a piece of software that would act as a "fake" serial port. Maybe a
> Communication Toolbox tools would do. Any taker?
>
> -Laurent.
>

It already exists and is called TCPSerial. That's what I use to get NTK
running under Mac OS X. It can be found on a number of Mac download
sites, e.g. here:

http://allmacintosh.ii.net/preview/2338.html

Eckhart

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