On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 01:30:22AM -0800, Jon Baer wrote:
> It took me a while but I finally figured it out and its very cool,
> but if you are using Windoze with IR (I have a ThinkPad T20) you can
> simply drag the file (PRC/PQA/PDB) onto IR Transfer *or* right click
> on the file, send to IR Recipient (on COM4) and the Palm recognizes
> the file immediatley and synching (or @ least install occurs).
> I have learned to live without a cradle for the past 3 weeks loving it.
> I just wish there was a hack to "listen" for a sync instead of
> having to run the Hotsync IR on the Palm all the time, like if I
> just put the Visor up to the laptop and it knew to sync. I have
> been playing with JRed (Java IR) and KVM but cant get an app to
> listen/poll the port often enough. Could I write a PRC that just
> did that? Listen in on the serial port to activate IR once an
> interupt occured or device was near?
it would kill the battery if you left it on all the time.
You would need a smart hack to poll the serial port. Any flashing
light causes serial activity, so you would need to look for a correct
IrDA packet, then activate HotSync.
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