Hello, folks: I'm new to the list, so I'm not caught up on current threads just yet. But I did have a question, and I beg your collective pardon if it's been done to death already. :)
It's a simple one: what do _you_ do with Plucker? I'm a systems/telecom administrator for a living. My company was kind enough to buy me a Handspring Visor Deluxe, so I started looking for things I could do with it that might be useful in my work. I'm now the happy owner of a Visor Pro (the old Deluxe failed an accidental drop test) with a 16MB Flash Module Expansion card. I'm still looking for useful work related tools, and Plucker is one of them. I don't currently have wireless connectivity set up in the Pro, and I'm in no hurry to do so. I don't really want to read email or newsgroups on the Pro, or surf the web on it. The Pro is my portable memory extension, with as much the stuff I might need to look up stored on it as I can get in or convert to a PDA format. One of the first things I went looking for was useful tech info in Palm format. There's a fair amount out there, but in a plethora of different formats, and not necessarily up to date. I can live without maintaining half a dozen different apps to view it all, so I looked for ways of reducing the clutter. I also gave strong preference to free, standards based, open source products. Enter Plucker. A lot of the stuff I want to refer to is documented in HTML format. Since most of what I do is on Unix systems of one flavor or another, so much the better, as the docs are readily available. At this point, half of the Gnu manuals are in Plucker format on my Visor Pro, and Plucker has become my standard format for maintaining documentation on the Pro. I convert anything else I can to Plucker, too (like the readme files that come with most Palm apps), since I like to have the docs for the programs I run on the same device as the programs. I'm still coming ujp the learning curve on Plucker: I have a pretty good feel for the program in the PDA, but I have a lot to learn about Plucker-build and the conduit, and why some HTML files convert wonderfully and others have problems. (I suspect I'll have to dig into the Python code to see what is really going on.) Thanks in advance for your experiences. I look forward to learning a lot. _________________________ Dennis McCunney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
