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[Tod Harter]

The other program that will sync via ANY of the available methods, USB, 
Serial, IR, and even network is Coldsync. However its a different kind of 
system, it has no GUI. It does however do some things really well. It gives 
you a lot of control over backup and initialization of your palm device, and 
makes replicating one palm to another pretty simple (as long as you're 
comfortable with the shell). 

It also provides a conduit architecture that lets you write perl scripts to 
sync your data with external data sources. That is cool if you have data you 
want to get in and out of the palm and nobody has bothered to write conduits 
for it yet. I've been able to do things like display my palm data on a web 
page with around 10 lines of code and nice stuff like that ;o).

On Tuesday 10 December 2002 05:23 pm, David Grindrod wrote:
> As far as I understand the situation jpilot uses pilot-link to the the
> connections. To use USB connections you need a recent version of
> plot-link (> 0.10) and jpilot needs to be compiled with this option. I
> presume if you have a recent distribution this will be the case. I think
> it is possible to use any package that uses pilot-link to do a sync.
> Personally find jpilot very convenient.
>
> Dave
>
> Harry Mangalam wrote:
> > Holy Synchronization, Batman!
> >
> > It worked for me as well - the **1st** time my Visor has EVER synced
> > with any non-Win OS/distro.  I just set the Serial Port to /dev/pilot
> > (previously symlinked to /dev/ttyUSB1) and hit the button.  Fast and
> > apparently accurate.
> >
> > Thanks very much for the hint.  I had thought that because JPilot
> > wasn't (to my browsing) set up for USB connections, it would fail
> > anything except a true serial port.
> >
> > Fabulous.
> >
> > Harry
> >
> > Gerard van Winssen wrote:
> >> On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 11:26:11 -0800
> >>
> >> Harry Mangalam <hjm@tacgi.com> wrote:
> >>> Downsides:
> >>> - The default KDE installation does not autoamtically allow syncing
> >>> of Kpilot with my USB visor
> >>
> >> I recommend Jpilot for this.
> >> Works perfect with my Visor.
> >> ;-)
> >>
> >> Gerard

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Tod Harter
Giant Electronic Brain