[Discussion] Palm 700

[Douglas Clark]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:01:24 -0700, Joyce E. Clarke wrote:

>I remember looking at that when I first heard about it at a
>Warpstock some time ago and never really did get the idea
>of how to install.  Brad is off of OS/2 now and I don't see
>any other development.  This is Palm OS 5 (from what I'm
>reading) and the instructions say definitely not to use
>older palm software with this system.

Jsync software, and the program that you are remembering from WarpStock, both backup a 
palm device and restore a palm device but do not "sync".  Sync means transfering changes from 
the desktop software to the palm, and visa versa.  (There was a "feature" that ran in jSync that 
sync-ed palm to Lotus Notes.)

If you are (essentially) only running OS/2, then you probably aren't utilitizing the palm desktop 
application(s), or in all probability, any other desktop application that utilizes the data from the 
palm handheld.

I was successful in getting hotsync to run under ODIN and used that to Sync a palm V for a 
number of years. The desktop software also (mostly) worked under ODIN. But I could not get 
(that version of) hotsync to work in Virtual PC. My Palm cradle was serial rather than USB.

I am not familiar with the palm 700. But I purchased a Palm TX a number of months ago and can 
recommend it. The desktop software installs and runs in Win2K under VirtualPC just fine. And 
the HotSync also runs fine in virtualPC. This works because the Palm TX has WiFi built in, and 
will HotSync over WiFi. So even though Virtual PC doesn't have USB support, because you can 
HotSync with WiFi, and VirtualPC connects to the network, HotSync works.

The only thing I haven't done in Win2K/VirtualPC was convert/download a video to the Palm TX. 
This requires something Windozy to be installed (Media Player I believe) that I haven't installed 
in the Win2K/VirtualPC. I have another PC with Win2K that I used a convert/download a couple 
of videos - just haven't tried it on Win2k/VPC.

You can also transfer programs and files to the handheld using a SD card, or using FTP and 
connecting to an OS/2 machine running an FTP server, such Peter Moylan's. You can also 
install programs via FTP with some FTP clients available for the palm. The Palm Device comes 
with an SMB network "client", but I could never get it to connect. However I am running Netbios 
and suspect that if I added Netbios overt TCP/IP it *might* work.


Thanks

Douglas Clark