From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Masterson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Diary Usage Poll Date: 05 Nov 2002 10:16:36 -0800 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87lm4bas08.fsf@at_ipipan.waw.pl> <87d6pmxcia.fsf@wesley.springies.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036520956 21418 80.91.224.249 (5 Nov 2002 18:29:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 18:29:16 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1898R5-0005Ub-00 for ; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 19:28:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1898Q0-0001cf-00; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 13:27:16 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!news.webusenet.com!telocity-west!TELOCITY!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 31 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106766 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3320 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3320 >>>>> David S Goldberg writes: >>>>> On 04 Nov 2002 13:27:28 -0800, David Masterson >>>>> said: >>> FWIW, I ditched my Palm III in favor of BBDB and the Emacs diary. >> Could you be a bit more specific as to why? Isn't there a BBDB to >> Palm synchronizer out there (somewhere...)? > There is. In fact there are several. Unfortunately the only one I've > found that is a true synchronization as opposed to a one way export > from bbdb to pilot appears to be no longer active development. Nor > for that matter, is the synchronization tool it's built on. These > would be SyncBBDB and pilotmgr. They still work, but not nearly as > well under PalmOS4 as they did under PalmOS3. I get various warnings > that I suspect may become fatal errors in some future version of > PalmOS, and had to tweak some (shudder) perl to get it to work for > me. For a while I synchronized everything except the Datebook (we use > a proprietary calendar system at work in spite of my best efforts) > with pilotmgr and linux. Due to the problems I've had, now I have to > sync everything but bbdb with the Palm desktop. Bleah. Thanks to you and Alan for the replies. I had considered getting a Palm and eventually hooking it up to BBDB, but I guess I'll rethink that strategy. -- David Masterson David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc. Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA