Re: [coldsync-hackers] An idiot and his Mac

[Andrew Arensburger <arensb+CShackers@ooblick.com>]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:31:45PM -0800, Lars Bell wrote:
> >	This ought to be possible, but unfortunately I can't give you
> >much help with this. In particular, you'll have to set up the bit
> >about dialing in yourself. If you can get to a shell prompt from a
> >Palm, I might be able to help.
> 
> Yes I think I can do that.
[...]
> 
>  From there I can get a terminal shell with palm applications 
> installed on the palm to do vt100 emulations.

	So presumably now you can start ColdSync from the Palm:

	coldsync -dsync:5 -dmisc:5 -l/tmp/coldsync.log -md -

If and when this works, you'll want to set up your PPP daemon to run
this automatically when your Palm dials in. Find the part where it
runs a shell, and replace that (or supplement it) with ColdSync.

> >	You may also want to consider using something like
> >		./configure --prefix=/Local
[...]
> 
> Would I need to delete the installed files before trying this /Local 
> thing or can I just do it "on top of"  the existing install 
> configure? Is it possible to have multiple versions of Coldsync 
> installed?  Running simultaneously?

	You can have multiple versions installed and running
simultaneously, if that's what you want. However, this can lead to
confusion if you forget which one is the "real" version you want to
use, and which ones are botched installs. If it were me, I'd delete
everything and reinstall just one version, cleanly. But only because
this keeps things simple.

> >	This says, quite simply, that there's no /dev/palm , which is
> >the default device. I'm not sure what the MacOS X serial device is,
> >but it might be one of:
> >
> >	/dev/ttyd.printer
> >	/dev/ttyd.modem
> >	/dev/cu.<something>
> >	/dev/tty.<something>
> 
> Serial device?  I'm not sure that the iBook or any new mac for that 
> matter has a serial port.  Maybe that is not the same thing.  But the 
> only ports that this iBook has our a POTS rj11 for the internal 
> modem, a RJ 45 for the ethernet, a firewire, a usb, a audio/video, 
> and the power supply.  So can there be a "serial device" with out a 
> "serial Port"?  (when I think serial I'm thinking of RS232)  But I 
> must not be seeing the whole picture.

	Yes, there can be a serial device without an RS232 port, but
let's not go into that just now.
	If your Palm is dialing in through the modem, you'll need to
futz around with PPP, as mentioned above. There, you'll want to set
things up so that the PPP daemon takes care of giving you a connection
between the Palm and your Mac, and then have it run 'coldsync', and
tell it to talk to the Palm on standard input (the "-" argument,
above).
	If you're using a cradle, I'm not sure. If you don't have an
RS232 port, then presumably you're using a USB cradle. Under FreeBSD
4.2, you'd use
	listen usb {
		device: /dev/ugen0;
	}
but even though MacOS X is based on FreeBSD, I don't know whether this
will work for you.

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