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[Buchan Milne]

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Tod Harter wrote:
> 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).

For example, there was someone with some coldsync scripts to sync with
phpgroupware (though it required direct access the the db, instead of
going via xml-rpc which would work for any account).

Buchan


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