>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Riddoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jack> I'm using pilot-addresses to push a collection of addresses to
Jack> my Palm M505. If I push the same file twice, I get duplicate
Jack> entries. Is this expected behavior? How do I only push changed
Jack> entries or nonexistent entries? So far, the only solution I can
Jack> see is to use pilot-addresses to download the addresses and diff
Jack> that against my list, but that won't sync properly either,
Jack> because any changed entries will be duplicated.
Chris> From what I've figured out in the last couple weeks,
Chris> pilot-addresses (and a few other programs) don't use quite
Chris> enough information to do the kind of sync you're talking abut.
Chris> You can think of the address book as a table in a database:
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Chris> If I added another entry for myself, with pilot-addresses, I'd
Chris> get another entry - pilot-addresses would need to look at a
Chris> copy of the database on the PC to compare fields. All it
Chris> really does is append on to the end. Reconciling differences
Chris> isn't *terribly* hard, but some of the pilot-link programs are
Chris> designed to be simpler than that. Useful mostly for adding
Chris> *new*, not changed, data.
That kinda makes sense. pilot-addresses is then more of a 'proof of
concept' sort of thing, as opposed to a workhorse sort of thing.
Chris> If you want a program that will actually *synchronize* entries
Chris> between the Palm and the PC, I'd recommend jpilot. Gnome and
Chris> KDE have their tools, if you happen to use one of them.
I'm looking for command-line tools. Do you know of any others that
might synchronize properly?
Jack.
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