Re: gnome-pilot-list digest, Vol 1 #125 - 1 msg

[Scott Otterson <scotto u washington edu>]

> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:34:39 -0500
> From: Jeffry Smith <jsmith alum mit edu>
> 
> Bob Robison said:
> > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 10:53:17 +0000 (GMT)
> > Ewan Birney <birney ebi ac uk>(EB) wrote:
> >
> > EB> On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> > EB>
> > EB> >
> > EB> > > > There is nothing on gnomecal that looks like "import from Palm" or
> > EB> > > > "sync" and going through a hotsync (either button press on the cradle
> > EB> > > > and/or intiated from the gnomecc) seems to do anything...
> > EB> > >
> > EB> > > I've been having similar problems.  I installed an alternate to
> > EB> > > pilot-link called coldsync.  The problem for me appears to be bad
> > EB> > > checksums coming from the address on my pilot (this is with either a
> > EB> > > calendar installed, or if I delete all the calendar stuff, even a
> > EB> > > complete reset).  Don't know where the fix is for this,
> > EB> > > pilot-link/coldsync or the serial stuff in Linux.
> > EB> >
> > EB> >         How about you enable the conduit in gnomecc? I've got it working
> > EB> > here with gpilotd, and pilot-link has nothing to do with this process
> > EB> > (other than being a requirement for building gnome-pilot)
> > EB>
> > EB> Which conduit - there does not seem to be a calendar conduit in the
> > EB> gnome-pilot-conduits that I have....
> >
> > The calendar conduit is in the gnome-pim module.  I had to check it out from CVS
> > because I couldn't find another distribution of it (tar or rpm).
> >
> 
> 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.

Scott