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Heads-Up: pilot-link is now in Solaris

Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:41:08 +0800
From: "Ryan.Shen" <ryan dot shen at sun dot com>
To: onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com
Subject: Heads-Up: pilot-link is now in Solaris

If you don't use Palm devices or you don't sync your Palm with Solaris 
by USB port, you can probably delete this message.

This may be of interest to ON gatelings although the putback was in sfw 
gate.

I putback pilot-link into sfwnv gate:
LSARC/2005/414 PalmSync: Palm Sync with USB port on Solaris
6321205 Pilot-link for syncing Palm devices through USB ports on Solaris

Opensource software pilot-link (www.pilot-link.org) is a suite of tools 
used to connect your Palm or PalmOS� compatible handheld with Unix, 
Linux, and any other POSIX-compatible machine. pilot-link works with 
almost all PalmOS� handhelds, including those made by Handspring, Sony, 
and Palm, as well as others.

pilot-link includes userspace "conduits" that allow you to synchronize 
information to and from your Palm device, as well as libraries of 
Palm-compatible functions that allow other applications to take 
advantage of the code included in pilot-link.

User command "pilot-xfer" (the swiss-army-knife of the entire pilot-link 
suite) is now installed in /usr/sfw/bin and the man page pilot-xfer (1) 
is in /usr/sfw/man.

To sync Palm with Solaris by USB port, pilot-link makes use of libusb 
(also in sfwnv gate). Man page libusb (3lib) is in /usr/man.

In project "Palm Sync with USB port on Solaris"(LSARC 2005/414), 
pilot-link is the fundamental suite. It offers libraries to support some 
other GUI applications (eg. "Evolution", "Gnome-pilot").

The frame work of Palm Sync project is below:
+----------------+
| Evolution      |
+-------------+  |
| gnome-pilot |  |
+----------------+
| *pilot-link*     |
+----------------+
| libusb driver  |
+----------------+


If your snv build version is below snv_24, you can also add packages for 
pilot-link from the sfw gate:
binary package (SUNWpltlk):
/net/sfwnv.sfbay/gates/sfwnv/gate/packages/i386[sparc]/nightly-nd/SUNWpltlk

source package (SUNWpltlkS):
/net/sfwnv.sfbay/gates/sfwnv/gate/packages/i386[sparc]/nightly-nd/SUNWpltlkS

man package pilot-xfer (1) is including in (SUNWsfman):
/net/sfwnv.sfbay/gates/sfwnv/gate/packages/i386[sparc]/nightly-nd/SUNWsfman


For bugs:  pilot-link/pilot-link

For questions:  solaris-palmsync at Sun dot COM

Related alias:
     usb-china at sun dot com
     pdasync-interest at sun dot com
     libusb at sun dot com

For more information:
    http://www.pilot-link.org/
    http://greatwall.prc.sun.com/solx86/Program/ProjPage/usb/pdasync/

-Ryan