i will be highly grateful if u can tell me from where to get LinkDirect.
i didn' understand the meaning of GPL.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, October 29, 1999 2:44 PM
Subject: RE: tcp/ip over serial connection
>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
>>
>>
>
