[NTLK] Newton-Linux (was Utilities, Applications)

From: Rhonda Hyslop (0x7ff00025_at_paradox.homeip.net)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 11:32:13 PST


* Victor Rehorst <victor_at_newtontalk.net> [12 Feb 2003 10:38]:
> Quoting Rhonda Hyslop <0x7ff00025_at_paradox.homeip.net>:
>
> > (Ever since I got my new computer, I've been having trouble.
> > Sometimes newtonlink will make the connection, but when transferring
> > a package it'll crap out and I won't be able to connect again until
> > I wave a dead chicken over it while dancing under the new moon.)
>
> Instead of messing with NewtonLink, just use a terminal emulator to talk
> directly to Sloup to dump the package, capture the output to a file, and run
> the file through sup to decode it to a PKG file. All the info and code (yes,
> source code *and* Linux binary!) are here:
>
> http://www.narcosislabs.org/newton/index.php?page=sup

Cool, I'll try that. But I'd rather use Basilisk, except that I can't
seem to get it speaking with my serial port either.

-Rhonda

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