I can assure you that IrComm support in W2K had nothing to do with Palm.
It is problematic with a lot of IrDA devices other than PDAs. I saw a
lot of OEM message traffic on this during W2K betas.
FWIW, TinyTP is exposed inside W2K. You can get an IrDA connection
going between PalmOS and Y2K, but you need W2K specific code to do it.
Regards,
-jjf
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Pelletier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 8:07 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: TCP/IP over Ir?
I have a hard time not believing that MS removed IrComm in a deliberate
attempt to push Palm devices out of the picture. But this is only an
opinion.
If I am remembering correctly Win2K allows computers to connect over IR
using PPP.
(*) The question was how they simulated a serial connection without
IrComm.
I'd thought it would be great fun to try to reverse engineer the lower
level
connection
so that Palm devices could again nicely interact with Windows. As much
as I
would have liked
trying to do this, it wasn't something my previous employer was
interested
in paying for.
(*) Please keep in mind that this could be completly wrong.
I haven't looked at Palm/Win2k intercommunication in about a year.
I don't have 2000 at my current employer and re-researching this point
is more work than it would be worth.
-Ray Pelletier
"Steve Sabram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:5624@palm-dev-forum...
>
>
>
> Ray Pelletier wrote:
>
> > Unfortunalty Windows 2000 is crippled with respect to its IR
capabilities.
> > Microsoft chose to remove IrComm support. Since upgrading I've had
> > to can the neat IR demos.
>
> This is the most suppressive thing I have seen from Microsoft in
while.
How much you want to be they have a proprietary IR format
> ready for release. Makes me glad I left Win32 development for Palm in
'98.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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