Re: [NTLK] Which Newton connection program to use?

From: Karel Jansens (kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 02:16:40 PDT


On Tuesday 08 April 2003 00:42, Steve Tedder wrote:
> On Monday, April 7, 2003, at 01:49 AM, Robert Benschop wrote:

> The question was:
> > Why use Classic when you can sync natively with OS X using the DCL
> > Prelimbinaries?
>
> A short answer is that I don't want to 'sync', I want to install
> packages.
> Another answer is that the recent long thread on 'Prelimbinaries
> problems'
> was not encouraging.

If all you want to do is install pkgs from OS X, you might want to take a
look at unixnpi. It will probably recompile out of the box for OS X.

A word of warning, tho': it's command line, so no mousey.

-- 
Jazz.
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 it will never make it on the desktop."
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