[ale] Palm/PDA devices and Linux

[Robert Butera]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Jennifer Taylor wrote:

> I had great success with jpilot and my Palm III, on Redhat.  When I made
> the great leap to Slack 7.1, I couldn't use jpilot anymore BUT
> (disclaimer), I tried to install it, didn't work, I said "I'll look at it
> later" and never did.  So as always, YMMV. :)

For some reason I could never get 0.98 to compile (something weird in the
Makefile), but 0.97 compiled just fine.  Regardless, consider this another
endorsement of jpilot, and most distributions have this available as a
package.

I will heartily NOT endorse the Event manager in Star Office.  It is
supposed to "autodetect" activity on the serial (dunno about USB) port when
you want to HotSync.  In reality, it doesn't seem to do that to well, and
you wind up playing annoying games trying (update the screen, pull down a
menu, try hotsyncing a 2nd/3rd time) to sync.  Why they just didn't add a
"sync" button (like jpilot) is beyond me.
 
I use Star Office a lot, but after 2 months I went back to jpilot for my
appointments and addresses.  Also jpilot will sync your expenses (if you use
that app) -- even the Palm Desktop under Winbloze won't do that!


Robert Butera, Assistant Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences	
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0363 USA
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