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INTRODUCTION:
This is a bare bones utility to enable people who have Palm OS
devices to sync to Mobile Application Link (MAL) compliant servers.
AvantGo (www.avantgo.com) and Puma Technologies (www.pumatech.com)
are the first two companies committing to producing servers which speak
this protocol. This utility will allow a user to sync with multiple servers,
simultaneously or separately. The AvantGo.com service (www.avantgo.com)
is the first such server.
There is currently no way to set server parameters on the desktop; you
need to use the MobileLink application on the device.
MALSync only operates from the command line. If you want to build it
into some Unix-based, HotSync-like GUI, more power to you.
BINARIES:
Executables for MALSync on Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD are available at
http://www.tomw.org/malsync
Whether you use the pre-existing binaries or build MALSync yourselves,
you will need the Palm OS applications. Get these from
http://www.avantgo.com/download/unsupported/ and install to your Palm
with either HotSync (MS Windows/Mac OS) or pilot-link (unix).
The binaries are also included with all the binary distributions of
malsync from http://www.tomw.org/malsync
COMPILING:
To compile you need the source, which you can get
from http://www.tom.org/malsync.
You also need the pilot-link distribution, which can be found at
ftp://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/pub/PalmOS/
Download the latest version. You need libpisock.a. You
can either compile the whole thing and the library will be in
libsock/.libs or you can just type "make libpisock.a" in
the libsock directory (after running configure first).
Now you need to edit the Makefile in the mal/client/unix
directory. Change "PILOT_LINK_DIR" to the appropriate
directory.
It should all make and be happy. If not, send email to me
(tom@tomw.org) or the mal-dev mailing list (see below).
RUNNING:
You need to set two environment variables:
PILOTRATE is the baud rate you want to use
PILOTPORT is the port your handheld is connected to.
All this stuff is documented in the pilot link distribution.
Usage: ./malsync [OPTIONS]
-p, --proxyaddress Proxy address.
-r, --proxyport Proxy port.
-u, --proxyname Proxy username.
-d, --proxypasswd Proxy password.
-s, --socksproxy Socks proxy.
-o, --socksport Socks port.
-q, --quiet Be as quiet as this program can.
-D, --daemon Work as a daemon (disconnect from shell).
The serial port to connect to may be specified by the PILOTPORT
environment variable. If not specified it will default to
/dev/pilot
The baud rate to connect with may be specified by the PILOTRATE
environment variable. If not specified, it will default to 9600.
Please use caution setting it to higher values, as several types
of workstations have problems with higher rates.
SUPPORT AND BUGS:
THIS PRODUCT IS NOT OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED BY AVANTGO. IT IS
PROVIDED AS IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE UNIX COMMUNITY.
The pilot-unix mailing list can be investigated by sending
email to pilot-unix-requests@lists.best.com with the body
message "help".
If you have any bugs or feature requests you can send them
to tom@tomw.org. Also feel free to fix or add them yourself
and send me the diffs!
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