Re: [NTLK] NewtSync -- Oh! Oh! -- Pkg? Sheez!

From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Wed Jan 29 2003 - 08:42:29 PST


On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:30:22AM -0500, Zachery Bir wrote:
> On Wednesday, Jan 29, 2003, at 11:20 US/Eastern, John Anderson wrote:
>
> > That's a pretty cool feature. Up until now, I've been manually changing
> > the creator/file type from ResEdit. Kudos to the developer.
>
> I just toss 'em in my ~/Sites/Newton/ directory, and hit it with
> Newtscape. Works great.
>
> Had to make a one-line modification to /etc/httpd/httpd.conf to enable
> Apache to serve up Newton Packages properly:
>
> AddType application/x-newton-compatible-pkg .pkg

Did the same thing the other day to my httpd. I was talking the Newt up
at a coffeehouse gathering last night, and this was that made a die-hard
Palm user gulp: being able to install software by just sucking it off a
website. No cradle, no additional software on a host machine, no setup.

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