On 5/30/02 11:26 PM, "Ryan La Riviere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm not familiar with the Sharp. Is it Palm OS based? If so, Microsoft's >> conduit for Entourage vX is due out in a couple of weeks. I'd hang on that >> long if you can because the only other option is a third party utility >> called QueSync that will do a one way copy (and early version had a lot of >> problems - I don't know how well it works now). > > Actually it's Linux based. According to the "get info" for the system > it's: Linux Kernel version 2.4.6-rmk1-np2-embedix and the GUI seems to be > Qtopia for Embedix Plus PDA as well as it has a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) > > All in all, it's some sweet hardware. Just doesn't seem to be much software > for it yet...fortunately there is a terminal program available...so I'll be > sshing to my servers from my PDA. :) > > I figure that since it likes Java, maybe there would be some Java program > that I could run on my OS X box that could intermediate between EvX and the > apps on the PDA over the network. > If it exports its data as tab-delimited text files (Unix line endings are OK) and imports same, then scripts which I am almost finished will export and import them into Entourage for you. there are techniques for selecting just new items to export, at least in Entourage, so you don't have to export your entire Address Book, Calendar, etc. every time. If the Sharp can do the same, it makes everything quicker. Otherwise, the scripts will also exclude duplicates, but it's a lot slower that way. > That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Big deal - it's not much of a story anyway. ;-) -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
