From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:01:06 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 927 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Monday 30 August 2004 Number 927 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 PDA's??? : Gavin Miller 2 Re: PDA's??? : Voytek Eymont" 3 Re: PDA's??? : Mark Dodel" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:23:12 +1000 From: Gavin Miller Subject: PDA's??? Hi all, Where is OS/2 / eCs with PDA's? I remember something about linking up to Palm Pilots, but haven't heard anything about the new models and different brands out there. Anyone know? Cheers G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:36:40 +1000 (EST) From: "Voytek Eymont" Subject: Re: PDA's??? Gavin Miller said: > Where is OS/2 / eCs with PDA's? I remember something about linking up > to Palm Pilots, but haven't heard anything about the new models and > different brands out there. Anyone know? it's either Palm, or, windoze ce/pocketpc, or symbian i think that's about it, so , there is not much new as such, apart from renaming wince to pocketpc so it really gets down to Palm or Symbian there is some Symbian apps... I think as for Palm, as before, there is pilot-link and jSync neither supports USB on OS/2, which is perhaps the main problem, as all the new devices need the USB.... -- Voytek ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:36:59 -0300 From: "Mark Dodel" Subject: Re: PDA's??? In <41327370.5080609 at impulse dot net dot au>, on 08/30/04 at 10:23 AM, Gavin Miller said: >Where is OS/2 / eCs with PDA's? I remember something about linking up >to Palm Pilots, but haven't heard anything about the new models and >different brands out there. Anyone know? I have a Garmin iQue 3600 which runs PalmOS 5.2. This works with JSyncManager http://www.jsyncmanager dot org/ which is a Java app. So far this only works with serial port connections. I had to purchase a serial cradle for the Gramin to get JSync to work. There is talk on the JSynch support forum of working on a general JavaUSB interface to allow for USB support on all platforms including OS/2 JSM allows for either a synching of files between desktop and Palm device, or a full backup/restore. Currently though there are no OS/2 desktop apps that can share the data from the Palm device, though I have heard that Sundial has done some work on interfacing the data with Relish. I just use JSM to backup the data from the Garmin. I didn't realize this was so important until I had to reset the Garmin after it was hung and found it lost all my data. That has happened a few times in the 8 months I have owned it, so I try to sync it on a weekly basis now. Mark -- From the eComStation Desktop of: Mark Dodel Warpstock 2004, Denver, Colorado, October 21 - 24, 2004 http://www.warpstock dot org Warpstock Europe 2004, Arnhem, The Netherlands, November 26-28th, 2004 http://www.warpstock dot net For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice dot org "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That in it's essence, is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power." Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Message proposing the Monopoly Investigation, 1938 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------