From: Jim Witte (jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us)
Date: Wed Sep 22 2004 - 10:03:13 PDT
>> I'm trying to figure out how does the docking protocol works, and
>> don't
>> get much idea. After reading Newton Formats 1.1, I don't fint the same
>> thing when I try to connect with my Newton. The stream I receive in my
>> COM port is 4 times this block of data:
>>
>> 16 10 02 26 - 01 02 01 06 - 01 00 00 00 - 00 FF 02 01
>> 02 03 01 08 - 04 02 40 00 - 08 01 03 09 - 01 01 0E 04
>> 03 04 00 FA - C5 06 01 04 - 00 00 E1 00 - 10 03 B9 BF
>>
>> Anybody know what does it mean and how to understand it? Do I have the
>> right data or, by port configuration, the data shoud be different?
>
> The data exchanged looks like what is in Newton Formats 1.1 and in the
> Docking protocol specification you could find on my website indeed.
> However, it is MNP-compressed over serial (it's not really compressed
> in
> fact, it's rather a matter of putting redundancy).
> Hence what you get.
Look at the DCL (http://www.kallisys.com/newton/dcl/) for a framework
for native exchange with the dock, and a while bunch more too. It's
open source (under the Kallisys Reflexive license - see
http://www.kallisys.org/reflexive/)
Jim
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