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KPILOT 4.0.0 by Dan Pilone
===========================
Additional work by Robert Ambrose,
Preston Brown, Adriaan de Groot,
and probably many more.
KPilot is software for syncing the 3Com Palm Pilot and IBM Workpad
(UNTESTED!) with a machine running some flavor of unix. The actual PC->PP
communcations was originally based on pilot-link.0.8.7. By default it
attempts to connnect using /dev/pilot which should be a link to the actual
serial port, however this is configurable in the settings dialog.
Additional release notes can be found in the user documentation.
The user documentation (translations in: en and de) can be found
under kpilot/doc in this directory or in the KDE documentation directory
under kpilot. Or run kpilot --htmlhelp to start the KDE help browser.
Current features include:
* Now a KDE2 application.
o Plug in conduit support, currently including
KOrganizer, todolist, null and PopMail
o Hot-Sync daemon. - Now hot-sync with just the push of the
Hot-Sync button on your cradle. No need to launch KPilot.
o Add/Delete/Edit memos.
o Add/Delete/Edit addresses.
o Full Category support for both memos and addresses.
o KPilot now respects secret data.
o More configuration options including port speed and
docking control.
o Now supports signature files for email.
o Drag and drop to docked icon for file install.
o International Support
o Full Backup/Restore capabilities of Palm Pilot
o File (prc,pdb) installation
o Email syncing capabilities (via POP3 & sendmail)
o SmartSync backing up modified data even
for databases KPilot doesn't recognize
o Import/Export to/from virtually any text format for
Addresses.
o Import/Export to/from text files for memos
o Sort and display addresses in different ways
o A null conduit (programming example)
o Syncing with UNIX mailboxes
o Database dispositions (sync, backup only, or ignore)
(* = new in this release)
INSTALLATION
============
KPilot 4.0.0 _REQUIRES_ KDE 2 (http://www.kde.org/) and
v2.2.0 or better of the QT widget set (http://www.troll.no/).
KPilot also _REQUIRES_ pilot-link, which is not distributed with
all the linux distro's out there. You may have to go looking.
If you have these packages, a simple (see *NOTE*):
./configure
make
make install
from the kpilot-4.0.0 directory should configure and install KPilot.
If you are using KPanel (the panel that comes with KDE) restarting it
should insert an icon into the Utilities submenu. If you are not using
KPanel, the executable is named kpilot and will be installed in either
/opt/kde/bin/ or /usr/local/kde/bin (whichever is appropriate for your
system).
In some cases KPilot will not compile due to configuration
differences; in this case a less simple
autoconf
automake
./configure
make
make install
should do the trick. If this fails as well, you can subscribe to the
KPilot mailing list and state the nature of the failure there.
*NOTE* that KPilot makes assumptions about where pilot-link and
the Qt libraries are; in particular it is important to set QTDIR correctly
(to the Qt 1.44 directories) when compiling KPilot. On many systems the
command to do this will be
export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-2*
but your mileage may vary. RedHat 6.2 systems ship with Qt 1.45 and Qt 2.1,
in which case it is doubly important to set QTDIR properly.
USING THE SOFTWARE
==================
The user's documentation in the kpilot/doc directory is the
best source for information on using KPilot.
When KPilot is run for the first time it will display the settings
dialog. The default device is /dev/pilot (which should be a link to the
proper device for the pilot) though this is configurable. Please verify
this is correct.
IMPORTANT NOTE: the KPilot installation DOES NOT setup the serial
link; your OS installation may also require special handling. See the
section "Troubleshooting," below.
Other settings can be configured at this time but are
not mandatory (though HIGHLY recommended). The one setting that you might
want to take notice of is "Local overrides pilot". Setting this to true
means that if both the local record and the pilot record are modified,
during the next hot sync the local record will be considered the valid one
and both will be set to that. By default the Pilot is considered to be the
valid record and if both the local record and the pilot record have been
modified the local is overwritten by the pilot copy.
Hitting "OK" will continue to the main KPilot screen.
It is recommended you preform a full backup of your Pilot at this
point so that all of the data visible in KPilot is accurate and any
importing or exporting is properly merged the next time you hot-sync.
You can do a full backup of your Pilot by selecting Backup from the File
Menu.
TROUBLESHOOTING
===============
The default serial device (/dev/pilot) does not exist on
most systems. Be SURE to either (a) use the actual serial port the Pilot
is attached to (i.e. /dev/ttyS0 for the device DOS calls COM1:) OR (b) set
up the link to the actual serial port by running (as root) "ln -s
/dev/ttySx /dev/pilot", where x is the number of the serial port. Note
that some older Linux setups use /dev/cuax instead of /dev/ttySx.
If you're running Mandrake 7 and having trouble getting the
daemon to start or KPilot can't connect to the daemon, check the system
security setting. Sometimes local processes can't connect to *any*
local ports.
More information is available in the user documentation.
STANDARD DISCLAIMER, WARNINGS, ETC..
====================================
THIS SOFTWARE HAS BUGS. Use at your own risk. It has not even
been tested anywhere but on my machine and only with my Palm Pilot. I
have been using it against XCopilot for development then verifying it
works with a real pilot with my Palm Pilot Professional running OS v2.0.4.
I make no claims that it will work, or even try to work. I take no
responsibility for any data loss, damage, etc. done by this software.
ie: Should your pilot burst into flames while trying to sync a new game..
sorry.
That being said, I _really_ want comments regarding the software
as well as suggestions. Bug fixes are even snazzier and code
contributions are welcome. :)
Dan Pilone
pilone@slac.com
http://www.slac.com/pilone/kpilot_home/
July 20, 2000
Adriaan de Groot
adridg@cs.kun.nl
http://www.cs.kun.nl/~adridg/kpilot-bugs.html
July 20, 2000
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