Here's another link:
http://www.swcp.com/~hudson/pilot/crosspad.html
It looks like he's got the basics done. (Including a perl-based
interface module).
I'd also like to see a better Linux interface for this, but
don't have much time to devote to the effort. However, I'm
willing to help in any way that I can.
Jeffry Smith wrote:
>
> Earlier, I asked about getting the Cross Crosspad to work. Someone
> (unfortunately, I deleted the message, but kept the link) pointed me
> at some perl work someone had done to read xpad .nbk files and turn
> them into postscript, but I guess I need to start a new project to get
> the xpad to talk to Linux. Any pointers on starting work on it? I've
> got the pilot software, figuring that would be a starting point for
> building the communications, but I will also need something to monitor
> exactly what's going across the serial port. If I end up doing this,
> my plan (in addition to open sourcing it) is to build in good Unix
> fashion: one program to handle the communications, one to do the file
> formatting (SVG?), a command line interface, a GUI (GTK) interface for
> controlling it, a tie-in to a vector drawing program to display the
> files (GILL?), etc. However, I plan to start small, simply getting my
> computer to talk to the xpad.
>
> Note that I've never tried to do any of this before, so I'm really
> hoping get a lot of help on this. However, they say open source is
> built to scratch an itch, and this is mine.
>
> thanks for any pointers or help
>
> jeff smith
>
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