On 1/23/2000 11:50 PM, Victor Rehorst [mailto:victor@gear.torque.net]
wrote:
>
>I just had an idea while zapping Web*Pager messages around tonight with
>NPDS. NPDS already takes soup data and returns it in a simple form (HTML
>for meetings, vCard or HTML for Names). It uses http and NIE for
>communication, both of which are well supported.
>
>My idea is this: take the (already open source) NPDS code and modify it
>to basicially do a "dump" of all of, say, Names. A simple client on the
>desktop side can take this data and turn it into, say, CSV (or something
>else suitable for importing into a PIM, I really don't know ahat the
>options are since I don't use a desktop PIM). The client can be very
>portable since it only uses HTTP to communicate (it could even be written
>in Java, or even a Java applet that communicates with teh Newton and
>redisplays the info in a Newton-looking interface).
>
>I hope that made sense, as I'm very very tired right now, so let me know
>in the morning if I made sense or not :)
Makes great sense to me, Victor!
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