Hi Ann:
Thanks a lot; now, I know why I don't ActivSync, >grin>. I think
I'll keep using my cards.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann K. Parsons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Braillenote List <[email protected]
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 08:56:18 -0400
Subject: re: [Braillenote] Active Sync For Braille Users Only
Hi all,
No, Rhonda, Jeff is referring to the fact that when using
Activesync,
the computer is always the master and the BN is the slave. You
cannot, for example, search and control the list views of folders
on
your PC via the BN, making it the master instead of the slave.
You
can not, for example, use the BN to delete files on the PC.
Everything must be done via the PC as the master. This means
that if
Jeff cannot use speech, the PC *must* have a means by which he
can
read what is going on while the BN is connected to the PC. I
don't
think this is possible. This is one of the primary, though
unmentioned until now reasons for asking, and asking, and asking,
and
continually reasking for FTP support so that people who are *not*
interested in transferring info from their BN's to Outlook can do
so
handily!! If there were FTP support, someone who *needed*
braille
access to his/her computer could use it to transfer files and
control
the transfer from the BN instead of from the PC side of things!!
FTP
can be controlled from either machine. <smiling> That's why most
of
us dispense with Activesync for mere file transfers and use a CF
or SD
card and a card reader. It gets rid of the hastle of having to
monkey
around with Activesync.
Now, if I'm wrong about this, I'll be most happy and relieved to
be
corrected. If it were up to me, I'd have Activesync and FTP.
You
could use Activesync for synchronizing stuff, what it was made
for,
after all, and then use FTP for plain, old file transfer, what
*it* was
made for.
Ann P.
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