What is the actual version of Newtonlink,
where
can I get it ?
The actual version of Newtonlink is 1.29 from
Sep. 1998. It is useable, most things work, but there may be some
bugs left and some features are not perfectly implemented. If you
find some bugs, errors or missing features, please report to the
Newtonlink user mailing list.
For downloading please look at our Sourceforge download page.
Newtonlink is also available at:
How to install and use Newtonlink ?
- Log in as root
- Expand the tar.gz-file
- Go to the new Newtonlink directory
- Start the installation with perl install.pl. If you like
to install due to the Linux filesystem standard, use perl
install.pl -lfs, to remove Newtonlink use perl install.pl
-rmlfs.
- Create a link to your serial device connecting the Newton.
- ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/newton for using COM1 under
Linux on a PC.
- ln -s /dev/cua/a /dev/newton for using COM1 under
Solaris on a Sun workstation.
- ln -s /dev/ttyd2 /dev/newton under IRIX on a SGI
workstation.
- Install the Perl modules TimeDate and DBD-XBase (included in the Newtonlink
distribution).
- Make sure that newtonlink is in your path.
- Start Sloup on your Newton with the correct baudrate.
- Start Newtonlink with newtonlink <param> &
- A good first test is newtonlink -getpnam.
When this works, start Newtonlink without a parmeter to check if the GUI works.
Important :
During the first use of
Newtonlink it will create a user specific config file ~/.newtonlink/newtonlink.config
in your home directory. Then you have to edit this file and to
change the entrys in the user editable section if neccessary.
When
upgrading from an older version, your user specific config
file will be replaced !
How to install and use Newtonlink under OS/2 ?
- Copy the ZIP archive to the directory where you would newtonlink
to reside on your system.
- Expand the ZIP archive.
- Install Newtonlink with perl install_os2.pl.
- Install the TimeDate Perl-Lib (included in the Newtonlink
distribution).
- Start Sloup on your Newton with the correct baudrate.
- Switch to the directory where newtonlink is installed and start
Newtonlink with perl newtonlink <param> &
- Important :
On OS/2-Systems, there is
just one config file, located in the installation directory of
newtonlink. It's called newtonlink.config.
- Tip :
To create a Newtonlink object on the desktop,
copy the OS/2 windowed session object. Change the symbol of the
object to <instpath>\newtonlink.ico and the working
directory to <instpath>.