On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:43:05PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Yup. You can pretty much kiss ease-of-use goodbye on any device > running Windows when it comes to handhelds, anyway, when it comes time > to synch.
I bought this app called PocketOutlook, which is a C# api to create or modify tasks, contacts, appointments, and wrote a C# app to sync from XML. On the Linux side of things my PIM data was already stored in XML (another custom app I wrote - tupim - on sf.net) so I wrote an xsl stylesheet, and wrapped it in a bash script. I use vsftp and bluez-utils and pand to set up an ip address over bluetooth, put the files I want to sync in an ftp dir, then run the C# app on the handheld. It slurps down the files, deletes/ recreates all the data, uploads whatever, logs stuff, shuts down. Then on the Linux side again I run the script to shut everything down and log stuff. Works great. The key takeaways are : (1) get your PIM data in XML, (2) use C#/PocketOutlook on the handheld to write your own sync app. (You'll need to d/l your own C# ftp client implementation -- it's out there, GPL. Look for it). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
