Wow, Victor! What a great idea! Good luck!
KAI
----- Original Message -----
From: Victor Rehorst <chuma@chuma.org>
To: <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 9:57 PM
Subject: NTLK More on syncing
>
> With all of this talk on possible new syncing technologies, I downloaded
and
> read the vCard specification, which isn't too complex at all. It seemed
to
> me that using vCard and vCalendar would be the most likely way to sync
from
> the Newton to any recent desktop PIM.
>
> I started messing around with the Windows 2000 address book, noted that it
> could export records to vCards (and it actually conforms to the standard,
a
> first for Microsoft), and even wrote a vCard for myself in a text editor
and
> imported it into the Address book. Importing the card into the address
> book, the application detects changes and automatically updates the
record.
>
> So it seemed to me that being able to dump all of Names to vCards would be
> useful, so I started writing it into my NewtDump utility. I should have
> something to show for by tomorrow, and then (time permitting) I'll start
on
> vCalendar. And maybe after that I'll start on synching back to the
Newton.
>
> So, where are all you people who said that you'd pay for a sync util? :D
>
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