Re: [NTLK] Noobie to the newton...

NCX is quite promising, It is ethernet capable wired or wireless.
It does a pretty good job of syncing names from Newt to Mac but from
Mac to Newt I get duplicate entries.
Dates from Newt to Mac works but gives duplicate entries, no sync.
I have not tried from Mac to Newt since The Newt is my calendar.
Package install is very good, however there are problems. NCX and
Dock do not communicate well regarding installing older incompatible
pre 2.x packages, it stalls till you quit Dock. NCX also sees
packages that do not have the correct 'file type', Dock does not
attempt to install and NCX stalls till you quit Dock. In both cases
relaunching Dock reestablishes a connection.
It also does backup so it meets most of my connection needs.
I only need pre OS X for Newton Press and moving Packages from the
Newt to the desktop computer.

Woody

On Mar 11, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Dan wrote:

>
> The OSX solution that is being developed by Simon Bell might do
> syncing
> in time, but again you need a serial cable (at least I don't
> believe he
> is adding wireless or at least not for a while). It is the old boot
> strapping issue: how do you install drivers when you need the drivers
> installed to do it. Also while you can install packages and get
> online
> etc via wireless, I can't imagine doing a sync wireless. It can be a
> problem via serial let alone wireless. Simple exporting and importing
> should be ok, though NCX (Simon Bell's program) only does
> installing of
> packages and backups last I heard.
>
> In short, this may be available soon....but not right now.
>

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