[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> My wife has reluctantly agreed to let me get her a Palm V for >christmas so that we
>can keep our family schedule together on the home >computer. So my question is: Will
>this work? Can we have two different >units and hotsink them to the same computer a
nd share a calender? I >would think so but am not sure. Further, do we have to share
all files >or can we have a common calender file but share all of each others >phone
files and To Do lists etc.
I don't know about sharing stuff in the manner you describe.
It's easy enough to have 2 different Palm Pilots doing HotSync on the
same computer, they'll be saved as different users. We've done that on
Dan's laptop when we've been on trips together. (Something about it
being a lot easier to input the books bought each day at a SF con using
a keyboard, rather than the Graffiti system, and wanting a backup of the
booklist each time it's altered. Yes, I'm walking around with a list of
the books we own on my handheld, to keep me from buying stuff we already
own. That and my shopping lists are the most important functions I use
my handheld for.)
I think that you can export the date book data from one and import it
into the other on the desktop, or you can arrange times to have both
Palm units together to beam things back and forth. When we need to have
an appointment on both our handhelds, either one person e-mails the info
to the other for the second to enter it into his own, or her own, unit,
or the event is beamed from one unit to the other.
And I don't think that Bob is stupid; at worst, Bob is ignorant, and is
trying to get the information he needs, and he's smart enough to ask a
group of people that probably includes *someone* with the answer to his
questions, which shows a fair degree of intelligence. :)
Julia
