On 4/2/02 19:22, "Jonathan Wise" <jonwise_at_mac.com> wrote:
> Hello World,
> After a couple months of just using my Newton, I've decided to
> contribute something.
> Being a Palm user (well Handspring) user, there are some things I
> thought I couldn't do without when I bought my first Newt.
> One of them was synching. However, I soon realised that I could get
> by synching my contacts once a month. I have too many Calendars to be
> able to synch them all, with even the most capable Palm. And too many
> e-mail accounts/servers/rules/subfolders to make e-mail synching worth
> it.
> What I have found though, is that I would really like an easy way to
> get notes from my PC onto my Newt. Sometimes I open up Notepad and type
> things in while on the phone -- only to copy them down later.
> While it would be a massive undertaking to write a HotSynch-like
> program, it wouldn't be that difficult to get a note onto my Newt from
> my PC. But that's rather simplistic, and not that practical since I only
> have one serial cable. What would be simple is IrDA. Experiments with
> IrDA leads me to believe that it's entirely possible and not obscenely
> difficult.
> I know this is no WaveLan driver, ATA Support, or MP3 Player, but
> I'm thinking it might be useful. If anyone has any expertise on this,
> please let me know. My thinking is I'll need to do a lot of reading on
> Windows IrDA (sorry, I'll have to start with Windows), Newton IrDA, and
> whatever method the Newt uses to receive notes over IrDA from another
> Newt.
>
> Wish me luck!
> Jonathan Wise
>
You might start corresponding with the guy at SmartDog Software, he has
written obex stacks for the Newton. If you could do a WinDesktop End for
that it would be helpful. Thomas Templeman also wrote some stuff that does
some of what you want.
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