On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 16:51 -0400, pking123@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Last night, I noticed that FC4 (Fedora 4) was able to read my > PalmPilot m105 (the first one to do so after much on again/off again > trying. > > Now, emboldened, I would like to know if there are any Linux > applications, similar to the Palm Desktop that can be used to add > updates to things like the Date Book and the To-Do list? > > Any suggestions? I would even accept suggestions on the level of > using vi, emacs, or whatnot. The problem is that the To-Do list and > the Datebook appear to have some kind of special format (upon > checking it with 'less') that would make it seem that vi/emacs is not > the way to go, except to add ascii files. > > Thanks > > Paul King > You might want to consider starting with Jpilot: # yum info jpilot > Name : jpilot > Arch : i386 > Version: 0.99.8 > Release: 0.pre9.fc4.1 > Size : 732 k > Repo : updates-released > Summary: Jpilot pilot desktop software > Description: > J-Pilot is a desktop organizer application for the palm pilot that runs under > Linux. It is similar in functionality to the one that 3com distributes for a > well known rampant legacy operating system. > After that, there seems to be some discrepancy/difficulties in the software included with FC4. There is gnome-pilot which can be coupled with Evolution and also kpilot. Problem has crept in due to FC4 having updated it's underlying "pilot-link" package to a version (0.12) that the other packages weren't quite ready for. jpilot is supposedly updated to use the new version but the others may still be experiencing some difficulties. HTH, --Rob
