I think you need some other technology than Palm VII. Your application
doesn't fit the Palm VII and Palm.net technology and usage models as I
understand them.
The only integrated device I know of is the Qualcomm pdQ phone (yes, a
shameful self-promoting plug). I've used it to telnet to a UNIX box and run
Pine. Other alternatives are a Palm cabled or IR-connected to a cell phone,
or a Novatel CDPD modem. There are options here with Ericsson, Nokia and
Qualcomm phones.
LL
At 06:02 PM 11/4/99 -0700, Hawke wrote:
>I'm sorry, I thought I specified:
>Palm VII (7). the palm.net feature.
>Even if it's slow, that doesn't matter if I'm stuck in traffic and a simple
>command could fix a downed website costing $10,000/minute of downtime,
>anything
>is better than just sitting there (or driving down the median :) ).
>Sometimes I can use my cell and laptop, but other times only the palm is
>handy.
>I had worked out a succesful way to do this with email commands using qmail
>and pgp for palm. But sshing would be far more useful. I'm not a palm
>programmer (I only work with Java applications and servlets), so I'm hoping
>someone has already made a generic util, rather than having to patch together
>the api myself. I know the api has to be there because of the other utils (web
>browser, email, etc) that DO work. (that's probably the api you're referring
>to).
>Any other help anyone?
>-Hawke
>
>
>On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > Which kind of wireless? Which Palm OS device?
> >
> > If you're talking about a wireless modem like a Minstrel or a
> > Ricochet connected to a Palm IIIx, you should be able to use your
> > apps normally, just as if they were running over PPP and a POTS
> > modem. At least so the Minstrel folks tell me; I haven't tried it
> > yet myself.
> >
> > If you're talking about the wireless LAN in the Symbol 1700, talk to
> > Symbol directly.
> >
> > If you're talking about using a Palm VII and the Palm.net services in
> > place of PPP, check the archives of either here or the PQA forum for
> > comments on why this isn't a good idea (palm.net has a lot of latency
> > built in, and is aimed at short data transactions).
> >
> > The API needed to run network services over palm.net (arbitrary http
> > retrievals, sockets) was just released at Palmsource. Look for info
> > on Inetlib.
> >
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