Andrew Terry responded to my question:
>ASL-Connect is the way to connect lots of Palm machines (or Windows CE)
>to corporate servers such as Lotus Notes, Exchange Server, Oracle, DB/2
>etc, either locally or remotely.
And Tilo added:
>I think the easiest way to accomplish this is to use a replacement for the
>HotSync manager. Fortunately, you do not have to write that replacement
>yourself, since it already exists.
>On Unix machines you can use the pilot-link package, which allows you to
>directly manipulate all the data on a connected Palm device. It includes
>support for Palm's built-in applications, and it has language bindings for
>C, C++, Tcl, Perl, Python, and Java.
But I don't want any of these things - no connection to corporate
servers, no need to "manipulate all the data on a connected Palm device",
nothing like that. All I need is a way to install a PRC/PDB (presumably
both as a pair) into a thousand unknown Palms of walk-up customers,
without disturbing any of the other data on their handheld and without
uploading a single thing to the desktop.
Shin referred me to "Pyrite"
>http://www.concentric.net/~n9mtb/cq/cq.html
but I don't know if that is relevant to my needs since he didn't explain
it further. So I'll say the question is still open.
Steve Patt
President, Stevens Creek Software
http://www.stevenscreek.com/pilot
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