Re: [Evolution] Can I sync the Sharp Zaurus with Evolution?

[Joost De Cock <joost decock astrid be>]

Talking about Linux PDA's 

I have an Ipaq 3800 that runs OPIE (http://opie.handhelds.org). It seems
that as far as synching to a linux'ed Ipaq, you're (I'm) not going to
get far.

There is a perl script that should be able to sync the zaurus with
evolution. I've been trying to edit the script so I can sync it with
opie, but all I seem to accomplisch is to import from Ipaq to evo.

For you Zaurus people, the script 'should' work just fine, so I took the
liberty of including a link to it. I found it hard to find, since the
link on the opie page seems broken. Keep in mind that (with this script)
you have to close all involved software when syncing the pda. You'll
find some usefull info on how to automate the syncing on the opie wiki: 
(http://opie.handhelds.org/wiki/index.php/OpieSyncing)

I'm nowhere when it comes to cooking somethin up myself, since my
programming skills rival my brainsurgery skills. Like many others, I'm
waiting for the chosen one to stand up :)

Here's the script, hope this helps:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/zaurus/evolution-sync.pl

Joost

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 21:31, Rupert Heesom wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 17:39, Jim Meyer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 08:51, Rupert Heesom wrote:
> > > Being a Linux guy, I bought the Zaurus PDA.  However it's not clear to
> > > me whether I can sync the Zaurus with Evolution.
> > >
> > > Does the Pilot conduit only work with Palm Pilot PDAs or with PDA
> > > generally?  If only with the Palms, I'm surprised that a Linux PDA is
> > > not supported in Evolution!!
> >
> > I, too, bought a Zaurus before I fully understood the issues involved;
> > it's largely because of the fact that the Zaurus is a Linux box and not
> > a PalmOS device that the sync'g system built up around Palm's standards
> > doesn't work for the Zaurus. 
>
> I would understand there being a difference between the synching of a
> Palm OS device/ Windows CE/ etc and of a Linux device.
>
> What I find incredible is that Evolution being a Linux program doesn't
> support a Linux PDA.  I would think that Evolution should support any
> Linux PDA BEFORE any Windows/Palm device (unless the Zaurus wasn't
> available when Ximian's developers were working on a PDA conduit for
> Evo).
>
>
>
> > Meanwhile, there are a number of people who've worked out rudimentary
> > scripts that munge the files between the two and work it all out; you
> > might try searching Sourceforge and/or Freshmeat for "Zaurus". If you
> > turn up something interesting, please inform the list as this question
> > pops up about once per month. When last I looked the available products
> > were all still heavy alpha and not useful enough that I felt I could
> > rely upon them. =\
>
> I may have a look and see if I can help any efforts to produce Zaurus
> software, but my programming skills are VERY rusty!  However I'm NOT
> going to give up my Zaurus just because it can't synch!
>
>
>
>
>
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