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• Jun-24-1999 I will have my honeymoon in Europe from Jun-25-1999 to Jul-23-1999. I will not bring my Newton MP with me that I will not be able to handle any enquries nor registrations. Sorry for any inconvenient.
• Jan-30-1998 Added packages for faster uploading -- Serial 115200, Serial 230400, but these packages need UnixNPI 1.1 to function.
• Oct-27-1997 Added a package for faster uploading -- Serial 57600.
• Aug-2-1997 Added the MIPS Ultrix 4.x, Alpha AXP OSF 4.x, and IBM RS6000 AIX 4 versions thanks Nils Faerber for his help.
• Jul-18-1997 I will go to a trap from Jul-18 to Jul-21, I may not be able to check E-mail in this duration.
• Jul-15-1997 Added the MIPS OpenBSD, SPARC Linux, Sparc SunOS 4.x, Alpha AXP Linux versions, thanks Nils Faerber for his help.
• Jun-25-1997 Added the IRIX versions, thanks John Wiederhirn for his help.
• Jun-19-1997 Added the BSD/OS x86 version, thanks Hannes Faestermann for testing.
• May-21-1997 Add more detail procedure in installing UnixNPI.
• May-7-1997 UnixNPI 1.02 is released. A minor bug is fixed.
• May-6-1997 UnixNPI 1.01 is released. Registration code generation method changed from user name and user id to Newton MP owner's name.
• May-2-1997 Added a FreeBSD version of UnixNPI. Thanks to Matthew Gessner for his help.
• May-1-1997 Updated the "Usage" section for MP2000 users.
• Apr-30-1997 Kagi registration is now availiable.
• Apr-30-1997 UnixNPI 1.0 is released.

Introduction

To upload a Newton package to your favorite MessagePad, you need a Newton Package Installer. The package installer supplied by Apple can only support MacOS and Windows platforms. For Linux users, installing a Newton package is rather clumsy, you need to reboot your machine to startup Windows and reboot again after you have finished.

To enable a user to upload Newton packages under a Linux environment, you can use some communication packages, but these programs cannot give good uploading speed. Therefore I intended to develope a Newton Package Uploader for Linux environment which target for speed and simple. Also, the package uploader will be ported to varies Unix platforms to benifit others Unix users.

The advantages to use the UnixNPI is that you do not need to have a communication package inside your Newton MessagePad. It uses the built in package uploading protocol for uploading. The time need to upload a package will be the same as your Windows or MacOS Package Installer, which is much faster than using other communication packages.

Features

• Easy to use
• Fast package uploading
• Unlimited Package size (for registered user only)
• Use the built in "Connection" application
• No need for additional software in your Newton
• Best compatibility, even system updates can be successfully installed.

Installation

1. Get the archive for your machine type.
2. Unpack the archive.
3. Copy the executable "unixnpi" to your executable search path.
4. Copy the file "unixnpi.rc" to your home directory as ".unixnpi.rc".
5. Edit the file ".unixnpi.rc" to set the path for your Newton Device or create a symbolic link of /dev/newton for your device.
6. If you have "Ser57600.pkg", "Ser115200.pkg" or "Ser230400.pkg" installed, set the speed to 57600, 115200 or 230400 respectively.


Usage

1. Type "unixnpi <Newton package filename>" in your terminal.
2. Use the connection utility same as you use the NBU
   
   • For Newton MP 100, 120 and 130 users:
     1. Open extra drawer in your Newton MessagePad.
     2. Tap "Connection".
     3. Select "Serial" or "Serial 57600" with "Ser57600.pkg" installed.
     4. Tap "Connect".
   • For Newton MP2000 users:
     1. Tap "Dock" icon.
     2. Select "Serial", if you have "Ser57600.pkg", "Ser115200.pkg" or "Ser230400.pkg" installed, you can select "Serial 57600", "Serial 115200" or "Serial 230400" respectively.
     3. Select "Connect".

UnixNPI 1.1 Archive

• UnixNPI 1.1 Linux ELF binaries

• UnixNPI 1.1 Solaris 2.x binaries

UnixNPI 1.02 Archive

• UnixNPI 1.02 Linux ELF binaries
• UnixNPI 1.02 Linux a.out binaries
• UnixNPI 1.02 FreeBSD binaries
• UnixNPI 1.02 BSD/OS binaries

• UnixNPI 1.02 Solaris 2.x binaries
• UnixNPI 1.02 Sun OS 4.x binaries
• UnixNPI 1.02 Linux ELF binaries

• UnixNPI 1.02 IRIX 5.x binaries
• UnixNPI 1.02 IRIX 6.x binaries
• UnixNPI 1.02 OpenBSD binaries
• UnixNPI 1.02 Ultrix 4.x binaries

• UnixNPI 1.02 Linux ELF binaries
• UnixNPI 1.02 OSF 4.x binaries

• UnixNPI 1.02 AIX 4 binaries

Serial Enchancements Archive

• Serial 57600
• Serial 115200
• Serial 230400

Registration

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