Revision History
Version 1.29 
- Reorganized data handling : All Newtonlink relevant files are now stored
into an own directory ~/newtonlink, including the Newtonlink config file
newtonlink.config. Newtonlink gets all Newton card datas and writes them into separate
files in this directory. All other modules can afterwards work with these datas.
- Config file -> ~/.newtonlink/newtonlink.config
- Cards -> ~/.newtonlink/newtonlink.cards
- Notes -> ~/.newtonlink/newtonlink.notes
- Dates -> ~/.newtonlink/newtonlink.dates (not implemented in version 1.29)
- Package Names -> ~/.newtonlink/newtonlink.packagenames
- During startup Newtonlink tryies to connect to Sloup and get it's version number (available
since Sloup 2.2d).
- New option -ksendfax
- New (and hopefully better) X-Windows mode.
- Bugfix for option -xfmail : Commas in addressbook names are removed.
- The Newtonlink homepage changed to http://misf67.cern.ch/~reinhold/Newton/newtonlink-doc-en.html,
please update your bookmarks.
- New CVS developer archive available.
Version 1.28
- New initialisation for the serial device under Solaris. Thanks to
Mark Bowyer for
his help.
- Bugfix : Option -input now works again.
- The personal config file ~/.newtonlink will now automatically
be replaced while upgrading to a newer version.
Version 1.27
- Complete recoded serial interface - now with timeout if there is no
response from the Newton. Thanks to Stephan Kauss for this work.
- Fax-Option now implemented.
- New option -soupinfo
- New soup parameter for the -send option to send a file direct to a Newton soup.
Useful for to to send a Latex file to
ViewMP, a nice Latex
interpreter for the Newton by Roger Golz.
- New option -lpkg. Thanks to Filip R. Zawadiak
for his permission to use lpkg as a package install tool.
- New option -kjots. Thanks to
Torsten Uhlmann for
his help.
- For faster install/remove Newtonlink and for building Debian
and RPM packages you can now call install.pl
with two options :
- -lfs for install due to the Linux filesystem standard.
- -rmlfs for remove due to the Linux filesystem standard.
- Running under FreeBSD and Linux/PPC
- Running under OS/2.
Thanks to Ralph Scharf for doing this (complex) port.
Look at the OS/2 specific parts under Platforms
and Download/Install.
- RPM archive available.
Version 1.26
- Newtonlink is now completely written in Perl and Tk. As a replacement
of the convdate tool it uses now the TimeDate Perl-Lib
by Graham Barr. Thanks to
Christian Leutloff for
his help.
- New interactive install procedure install.pl. You can now select if you want to
install Newtonlink due to the Linux Filesystem Standard or you can select your own preferred
directories.
- New option -xfadr. Thanks to
Zoran Cutura for
his help.
- New option -webadr.
- For the -mail and -nsmail options you can now select the type of
your Newton Mailreader. Thanks to Jack Snoeyink
for this suggestion.
- For the -plan option you can now select if you want to use the normal plan file or
your private plan file. Make this selection into your .newtonlink config file.
- Steve Weyer renamed his Slurpee application to Sloup (due to trademark conflicts),
so don´t worry about using Sloup instead of Slurpee in the documentation.
Version 1.25
- New X-Windows mode written in Tk. Previous versions used a GUI
software called
finesse, which is only freely available for
Linux.
- Option -plan : Global config options such as the spoolerstring
or time adjustments are no longer overwritten.
- Newtonlink now writes its process-ID in a file under
/tmp/newtonlink.pid to detect if another newtonlink
process is running.
- Better adaptions for running under Solaris and IRIX. Thanks to
Mark Bowyer for
his help.
- Enhancements for running under HP-UX. Thanks to
Roland Tanglao for his
help.
Version 1.23
- Newtonlink now detects under which OS it's running.
- Enhancements for running under SGI IRIX.
- Option -nsadr : Email groups are now supported.
- Option -plan : Stoptime for repeat meetings now supported.
Version 1.2
- Adaption to German, British and US date format's in the
Newtonlink config file. This caused problems with non German
Newtons and the -plan option.
- Bugfix : Repeat meetings are now correct transferred to Plan.
- Better install procedure with make install.
- Newtonlink man page.
- Newtonlink documentation as Newton book included.
Version 1.1
- User specific config file .newtonlink in your home
directory.
Version 1.0
- Better package install procedure now via Sloup.
- New option -getpkg.
- New option -getpnam.
- These features need and newer, which is currently available as a
beta version only for registered users. Thanks to
Steve Weyer for his help.
Version 0.96
Version 0.95
- Newtonlink now supports multiple entries in Netscape email TO,
CC and BCC.
- This feature needs
and newer, which is currently available as a beta version only for
registered users. Thanks to
Steve Weyer for his help.
Version 0.94
- Bugfix : New serial initialisation in
SetSloupBaudRate.pl.
- Newtonlink distribution now contains the Convdate Linux
and Solaris binary. Thanks to
Mark R. Bowyer for his
help.
Version 0.93
- New option -nsadr.
- New button for HTML online help.
- Newtonlink distribution now contains the Convdate Linux
binary.
Version 0.92
Version 0.91
- Advanced X-Windows mode (send button, file select box,
Ghostview option).
- New options +ps|-ps and filename in
-xrolo and -pr commands.
- Conversion of German Umlaute during -send command.
- Send option in X-Windows mode.
- Advanced -plan command.
Version 0.90
- X-Windows startup mode added.
- New option -send.
Version 0.89