Re: [NTLK] PowerBook IrDA adapter that works with a Newt?

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 09:25:21 PST

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Quoting Paul Guyot <pguyot_at_kallisys.net>:
> Er. The Newton natively handles package installation on top of IrLMP
> via the Dock application. Unless you want to implement it for
> NewtonOS 2.0, I can't see why you would like to re-implement it.
>
> What would be nice is IrLMP on desktop platforms. We have Thomas'
> DILTester that can do it on OS 9, but there is no software available
> on any other platform to do that, when the platform actually has
> IrLMP support....

What we need is to access the IrLMP layer on a desktop OS... using new APIs
and not the old Mac CTB and stuff like that.

Looking at some IrDA documentation for Windows here:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alanjmcf/comms/infrared/Microsoft%20Windows%20IrDA%20programming.html

it seems that it is possible to tell the IrDA Winsock stack to speak directly
in IrLMP frames (at least for Win2000/XP, and maybe for Win98). Hrm.
Intriguing. Maybe I'll have to overcome the VC++ IDE and write some damn code...

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