Re: pilot-link / coldsync

[Jeffry Smith <jsmith alum mit edu>]

Scott Anderson said:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:34:39 -0500
> > From: Jeffry Smith <jsmith alum mit edu>
> > 
> > I've got the calendar conduit from gnome-pim.  However, I also did 
> > testing by doing a command-line grab of the address db via pilot-link 
> > (read-ical and pilot-xfer) and coldsync (coldsync -mb).   In the 
> > coldsync case, I got checksum errors wehn reading the calendar from 
> > the palm, my thought was that it was the same problem with pilot-link
> > or gpilotd (or jpilot, I've tried that as well), but that they didn't
> > report the error.
> 
> Yes, I think this was confirmed by the author of coldsync.  On my
> computer, there are enough checksum errors to make pilot-link unusable;
> coldsync handles them and therefore synchs reliably.  It would be great
> if the gnome tools could be configured to allow using coldsynch instead
> of pilot-link.

Unfortunately for me, coldsync doesn't work either, but it does report the 
checksum errors.

jeff
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