Re: [NTLK] OS X requirements, was Windows XP and NCU

From: John Del Pizzo (jdpizzo_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 12:50:59 EST

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On 11/19/01 2:47 AM, "james richter" <paparichter_at_yahoo.com> so eloquently
stated:

> Does anyone know if some enterprising developer is
> going to write OS X native software to replace NCU2?
> I've toyed around with RealBasic, but I'm no
> programmer. What would it take to write a simple
> program in RealBasic that could replace NCU2 to allow
> OSX native syncing?
>
> Jim R.

Hi Jim,

There are people more knowledgeable about this than myself... and I know
they will correct me if I am wrong, but...

Communication with the desktop is provided through the desktop integration
libraries (DIL's). Unfortunately, the DIL's rely on technology that has not
been ported to OSX from Classic. Hence, unless someone wants to recreate the
protocols from scratch, we're stuck with Classic.

The good news: Paul Guyot was working on this. (Technically, he's working on
new DIL's for a different platform but they can be repurposed for OSX.) The
bad news: Paul is very overworked and I wouldn't expect anything in the
immediate future.

John

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