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Re: [coldsync-hackers] file upload/download
On Sunday 27 June 2004 11:23, Andrew Arensburger wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 10:31:25AM -0400, Christophe Beauregard wrote:
> > On Sunday 27 June 2004 01:33, Andrew Noga wrote:
> > > can i upload PDF file into palm device using coldsync ?
> >
> > Not directly.
>
> But this brings up a good point: the Zire can read non-Palm
> files on its expansion card (in particular, MP3 and JPEG files). Since
> I have a card reader, transferring files back and forth hasn't been an
> issue for me, but would it be a desirable feature for ColdSync to be
> able to copy arbitrary files to and from the expansion card?
Yeah, I was thinking that as I wrote it. The simplest solution would be for
the installation logic to grab anything in the .palm/install directory and,
if a card is present, drop it there. You'd probably need some kind of table
mapping extensions to card directories or something.
Of course, this brings up a bunch of issues. First, what if the user doesn't
want something installed on a particular card? Store card idents? What
about multi-card devices like the Zodiac? A card ident would solve that
too, I guess.
Hmmm... There's also concepts like http://palm-storage.sourceforge.net/
It would also be handy to have "converter conduits" which could reformat
before install. i.e. automagically convert HTML to Doc, Ogg to MP3, GIF/PNG
to JPEG, etc. Might be too slow to do during sync though.
Could be smart about it and do the conversion based on the apps installed on
the device. i.e. convert .txt to Doc, or ZTxt for Weasel, or Plucker, or
even PDF is Adobe is the only reader available.
Ugh... That's getting complicated, isn't it?
c.
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