FC4: Ways to use PalmPilot

[Steve]

On 8/30/05, pking123-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org <pking123-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> 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

Paul,

Evolution can sync with the Palm: Addresses, Datebook & To-do. I've
used and it worked about 99%... the ONLY issue I noticed occasionally
(and I wasn't able to really find any permanent fix), is that
sometimes it will duplicate repeating events. For example, I had a
repeating event on weekdays called "Wake Up" with an alarm... I
noticed a few times after syncing that there were 2 events on each day
in both Evolution and on the Palm. I would then go through and delete
the dupes. I'm not sure, but it may have to do with me modifying some
of those repeating events (creating "exceptions", ie, deleting the
event for a holiday, or changing the time of a particular day). I'm
not sure what caused it in my case, but other than that it worked
fine. The To-dos and Addresses worked flawlessly for me.

PS... this was using FC3 at the time.

-Steve. 
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