Palm Stuff: Can It Be Better?

[Bill Smithem]

Piko A. Neal, Jr. wrote:

> 1.  I wanted to know if I could improve the way my system works with 
> my Palm.
>
> 2.  Today, I was able to successfully set it up with Kpilot.  It works 
> so that as look as Kpilot is open, it will hotsync whenever I press 
> the button.
>
> 3.  Yet, when I use pilot-xfer and jpilot, I have to time the 
> execution of the syncing from the program after I press the hotsync on 
> the Palm since the computer generates a /dev/pilot node for it each 
> time it hot sync, but it will go away once the Palm stoppes trying.
>
> 4.  I wanted to know if there was a way to get the /dev/pilot node to 
> stay, if I could somehow refer to it with something that does stay on 
> my system, so that pilot-xfer and jpilot are happy without doing some 
> kind complicated timing procedure each time.
>
> Thanks for whoever help.
>
> Very Respectfully,
> Piko A. Neal, Jr.
>
You can try this:

http://www.jpilot.org/pipermail/jpilot/2005-February/004825.html

Works great for me, but I don't run anything but jpilot.

Bill