Syncing PDA

[Giles Orr]

On 1/15/07, Neil Watson <tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Now comes the search for calendar, todo and contacts software that works
> with the PDA.  I currently use remind and abook but, I do not believe
> they sync with PalmOS.

I use jpilot (http://www.jpilot.org/ , available as a package for most
distros) and have for about five years.  A couple years back it was
miles ahead of kpilot (http://cvs.codeyard.net/kpilot/) - I doubt
that's the case anymore but look into both yourself.  Syncing to
jpilot doesn't preclude using other sync methods such as the Palm
desktop on Windows or pilot-xfer.  Both of [jk]pilot are GUIs, not
text-based.  One advantage that jpilot retains is that it's small and
has very few dependencies.  If you find a text-based app that syncs
all the info off a Palm, let me know!

Also useful: txt2pdbdoc, which allows conversion of text files to .pdb
format, readable by Palm Reader.   (I've had better luck with
txt2pdbdoc than bibelot recently.)
http://freshmeat.net/projects/p5-palm/ is interesting - it still
works, although it's dated - uses perl for limited command line access
to Palm database files (thanks to David Patrick for pointing this one
out to me).  And finally - I have no idea if this works, I didn't even
look at the home page, but it came up when I was trying to locate
p5-palm: http://freshmeat.net/projects/perlabook/ .  It claims to use
perl to sync a Palm DB with abook.

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