This is sort of correct, depending on which PalmOS you're using. If
you're using 3.0x (or older?), DirectLink will work fine. If you're using
3.1x (and maybe 3.2x), DirectLink will cause a reset, but LinkDirect (my
replacement for DirectLink) will work fine. If you're using 3.3x (or
newer?), you don't need either LinkDirect or DirectLink, since the
functionality is now included in the OS.
This is of course a user issue, rather than a developer issue, and does
not therefore belong on this list.
BTW, it's a good job LinkDirect is free under the GPL. If I was selling
it (which I think would be wrong for such a tiny program, but anyway...),
I'd think Palm was pulling a Microsoft on me by including the
functionality of a third-party utility in a new OS revision, therefore
putting me 'out of business'. As it is, I'm happy to see it in the OS,
since I'm not very good at documenting my software, and I get *loads* of
questions about how to use LinkDirect :-)
Cheers
Richard
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Ariel Barreiro wrote:
> whell, if you are using windows, you should check for DirectLink in palm
> central, you'll find a proggie that explains how to tcp/ip link with your
> desktop. If you are using unix, you will find the explanation there too, but
> that one I have already known it so I am gonna tell it to you. It is quite
> simple, you just put in your network configuration to dial a 00, just two
> ceros, and then, in your linux term, you have to establish a ppp interface
> with your serial, that is:
>
> pppd /dev/ttyS1 (com2) localppp:remoteppp, where localppp is an ip you asign
> to you desktop and remoteppp the one you asign to your device.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Ariel
>
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