Re: [coldsync-hackers] Setting time

[coldsync-hackers@oldach.net (Helge Oldach)]

Andrew Arensburger:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Helge Oldach wrote:
> > Andrew Arensburger:
> > > 	Edit your .coldsyncrc and have this conduit run on some .pdb
> > > file. I use "date/DATA" myself, but it could be anything.
> >
> > Yes, but this is a database for which in most cases (unless there is an
> > explicit sync conduit for date/DATA) one wants the generic sync conduit
> > to apply. Hence the generic conduit must be specified explicitely, which
> > makes it more verbose:
> 
> 	Yes. <shrug>

Well... It's what you (of course) know, it's what I have learned
recently, but it's what a naive user would stumble over, leaving
her/him with unsynced databases. Aka: Violation of the Rule of Least
Astonishment. :-)

> > This isn't an case with the "Saved Preferences" database: this is a PRC
> > database for which a sync conduit wouldn't do a sensible thing anyway.
> 
> 	Since you don't care about the contents of the database, I'm
> pretty sure you can say
> 
> 	use Palm::Raw;
> 	&Palm::PDB::RegisterPRCHandlers("Palm::Raw", "");

Absolutely; works fine.

BTW, thank you for the truely excellent ColdSync stuff!

Helge
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