Which version to get

I'm keeping two different versions now. Version 1.0.1 is the stable release, and should be preferred. Version 1.1.0 is the development release, and you should try it if you're having problems to connect with the calculator. Note that not all new features of the development release are working properly, so be sure to check the README file.

Mirrors

HPTalx now is hosted at sourceforge. There you can find older releases, and get the newest code by CVS.
You can also download it from hpcalc, in this section.

HPTalx 1.0.1

Introduction

HPTalx is a HP48/49 calculator to PC communication program for Linux. It's released under GPL.
This is the stable release.

Requisites

HPTalx is a frontend to C-Kermit. You should get version 7.0 (all tests were performed with Beta 11) in C-Kermit's own site.

 HPTalx is written using GTK+ library. You should get version 1.2 (or risk with 1.0) in gtk.org.

 You also should have libutil. I'm not sure, but it seems that libutil is not provided with libc5. I believe you can get libutil somewhere (thanks for any info here) and use it with libc5.
 

Screenshot

You can see a screenshot here (640x480, 82kb).
 

Features

Here they are:
  Version 1.0.1 has several bug fixes.

Download

You can get it here (you may get a file error when you unpack, and this is cause by Geocities; do not worry, it'll work fine) or in hpcalc.org. File size: only 42kb!
 
 

HPTalx 1.1.0

Introduction

HPTalx is a HP48/49 calculator to PC communication program for Linux. It's released under GPL.
This is the development release.

Requisites

HPTalx is a frontend to C-Kermit. You should get version 7.0 (all tests were performed with Beta 11) in C-Kermit's own site.

 HPTalx is written using GTK+ library. You should get version 1.2 (or risk with 1.0) in gtk.org.

 You also should have libutil. I'm not sure, but it seems that libutil is not provided with libc5. I believe you can get libutil somewhere (thanks for any info here) and use it with libc5.

If you want to use XModem or the ROM upload, you need stty (part of the sh-utils GNU package, get it at your closest GNU repository); versions 1.6 and 2.0 are OK. You also need the lrzsz package; version 0.11 didn't work properly here, but you may give it a try; since it's quite old, the best is to upgrade to 0.12.20, which I tested successfully:

http://www.ohse.de

stty, lsx and lrx must be in PATH. Note that HPTalx will run without them,
only unable to do ROM uploads and without xmodem support.
 

New Features

Note that not all the new features may be fully implemented of working.
 

Download

You can get it here (you may get a file error when you unpack, and this is cause by Geocities; do not worry, it'll work fine). File size: 51kb.

Author

HPTalx Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Bruno Barberi Gnecco brunobg@geocities.com. HPTalx comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see `GPL' file in the package. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see `GPL' for details.

 Please email your comments, suggestions and bug reports.
 
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