Just for completeness, if somebody stumbles onto this thread via a search engine - I did some research and found the following links that seem to be relevant :

• http://manila.mems.rice.edu/behr/activities/minidisc/ - using Sony NetMD on the Apple / Mac OS X via emulators and directly
• http://gargoyles.monochromatic.net/pipermail/netmd-dev/2002-June/000212.html - Some generic NetMD discussion which highlights possible problems.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web
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