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 mailing list.
How to install and use Newtonlink ?
- Log in as root
- Copy the tar.gz-file to a temporary directory, e.g. ~/tmp
- Expand the tar.gz-file
- Install Newtonlink 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 TimeDate Perl-Lib (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> &
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
you upgrade from an older version, your user specific config
file will be replaced !
How to install and use Newtonlink under OS/2 ?
- Copy the tar.gz-file to the directory where you would newtonlink
to reside on your system.
- Expand the tar.gz-file
- 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 :
Cause OS/2 isn't an UNIX you
don't need an user specific config file. 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>.