Re: [coldsync-hackers] tree bad news and one idea

["David A. Desrosiers" <hacker at gnu-designs dot com>]

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> i think we can't get snum from palmos5.0 devices ;(

	That is correct. Palm OS5 devices no longer use RPC, which also
means that tools which query those values will no longer work (as well as
tools that use RPC to pull the ROM image from the device, like pi-getrom).

	The proper way to get around this change is to use the built-in Palm
debugger protocol, and some of us are working on it, but it's going to be a
bit of of reverse-engineering, and the docs are sketchy in this regard, and
of course, it'll be much slower than the equivalent RPC code.

	The best source for the docs on this protocol are in the POSE
sources, in Debugger.html (which I've put online[1] for anyone interested in
helping figure this out).

	With the newer devices (>OS 3.5), we should be using the Feature
Manager style constructs to ask for serial number, etc. from the device. The
older methods are being deprecated.

	Hope that helps, good luck.


[1] http://pilot-link.org/docs/Debugger.html


d.

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