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· Why
is it named J-Pilot? It is not written in JAVA, is it?
That's true. But when Judd first started writing the programm,
he mainly did it for his wife and for himself to be able to use
the Palm Pilot with Linux. Back then, the "J" stood for
Jacki or Judd.Not much thought was put into this. Then, out of the
goodness of his heart, Judd wanted to release it under the GPL.
He asked around for better names, but didn't come up with one.
GTKpilot would have been more appropriate, but that name would
have been a pain to type.
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· Why
does Judd give the programm away for free?
1. Because he can and 2. World Domination
Judd would like to see Linux to become the dominating desktop
both in the workplace and at home. This is one of his
contributions to help make it happen. The more people use Linux at
home, the more we all benefit from the hardware support and
commercial software that will become available. The more
Unix/Linux is used in the office, the more pleasant the job
becomes.
And one more thing: If Judd would be driving cars for a living,
he'd rather be driving Ferraris and Corvettes around than
Chevettes and Yugos.
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· Are
you going to Gnome-ify it, or KDE-ify it?
Judd doesn't run KDE, or Gnome, and at this point he doesn't
even know what it would take to do this. If someone else wants to
do this, that is ok. Judd's only requirement is that KDE, or Gnome
isn't required to run J-Pilot.
Judd takes pride in the fact that Linux/Unix has many window
managers available to use.
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· How
do I cut and paste?
Copy is Ctrl-C and paste is Ctrl-V.
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· Are
the DateBk 3/4 extensions supported?
Yes. To turn on the support for those you have to
check the option »support Datebk3/4« option in the
settings menu on the second rider.
What do they do? Well, they enable the use of so called
floating appointments and alike. Once used these will appear in
the memo that goes with the appointment and will look something
like »##c« or »##f«. Do not erase those
entries since it will mess up the datebk3/4 support. In a later
version J-Pilot will be able to hide those entries so you will not
be bothered by them.
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· The
sync or backup quits because of "weird packages". What's
the problem?
A known limitation of either the pilot-link
package (i.e. pilot-xfer) or the Linux serial port. Either is
still in discussion. Some PCs seem to have problems with higher
transmission speeds.
Set the serial speed to 9600. That should fix the problem.
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· I
get an error message that says different UserID or Username. Now
what?
Every Palm has a Username and a UserID to it. If
they get messed up, you can run into problems syncing. To set
either one or both use the programm install-user from the
pilot-link suite.
To set e.g. the Username to "Henrik Becker" and the
UserID to "1234" do the following:
$:~>install-user "Henrik Becker" 1234
Make sure you put the Name in between quotation marks.
Otherwise install-user will think the Username is only "Henrik".
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· What's
it all about if the Palm says Null User ID?
That's the same problem as with 3.2. See above.
The reason can be that you either reset your Palm or have never
used it on Windows. The latter one would be very good. ;-) To
install a new (or reinstall an old) UserID, see above at 3.2.
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· I
got a unkown repeatType (16) found in DatebookDB. What the hell
...
The repeat time is field in the datebook
database, which holds the value on how the appointment should
repeat. "16" is not a known value. So the most common
cause for this is a slightly damaged database.
To cure this remove the database like this
$:~>rm ~/.jpilot/DatebookDB.pdb
and do a sync afterwards.
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· And
a pi_accept input/output error exiting with status -13. What about
that one?
Most likely you are trying to sync a more recent
version of J-Pilot with an old PalmOS device. The error was
reported before but no real solution has been posted yet.
The solution that works best is to klick the sync-button
shortly before pressing the HotSync button on the cradle. The
shorter the time between those actions the better chances you
have. Try multiple time.
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· After
testing my PalmOS device with Evolution I ran into the message
jpilot: relocation error: /usr/lib/jpilot/plugins/libsyncmal.so:
undefined symbol: jp_read_rc_file. What does it mean?
This message is cause by a conflict between the
GnomePilot software and J-Pilot since the GnomePilot software
messes up the J-Pilot settings. So next time you pull a stunt like
that, make sure to back up your .jpilot directory.
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· I
have a problem with millions of alarm windows popping up all over
my screen.
Worry no longer. ;-) Judd has fixed the problem.
Upgrade to at least version 0.99.1.pre which can be found at
jpilot.org/download.
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· It
says exiting with status -10. How do I sync now?
The permissions on the serial port are not ok.
You can do a:
chmod a+rw /dev/ttyS0
ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pilot
That allows anyone to read and write the serial device. Please
don't ever do that on a multi-user machine as it can get very
messy. Normally, the ttyS0 device will be owned by a group such as
"serial" and you should edit /etc/group (maybe with
"vigr") to add users who may sync to that group.
Another option, which may be better for most desktop users, is
to add commands to chown the device to the currently logged-in
user to the X session root startup script and chown it back in the
reset script.
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· I
installed a new plugin but it won't show up. Now what?
First be sure to restart J-Pilot after installing the plugin
since J-Pilot looks for the plugin only at startup in
$BASEDIR/jpilot/plugins.
If you obeyed the installation hints from the manual and the
plugin author, the plugin should be in $BASEDIR/jpilot/plugins .
If not, try to find where the files of the plugin went and copy
them into the named directory by hand. After that, restart
J-Pilot.
Still no plugin? Then it's reasonably safe to think that either
the plugin is not compatible with J-Pilot or J-Pilot is not
installed correctly. Also check the manual and what it says about
plugins.
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· J-Pilot
can not connect to the Palm. Why?
This is normally related to the setup of the serial port or the
port the cradle is connected to.
First, make sure the cradle is connected and that the serial
port is working. Then check if you have specified the port
correctly in J-Pilot or if you have set up a link form /dev/pilot
to /dev/ttySx where the "x" is the number refering to
you serial port.
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· Can
I sync J-Pilot and Gnomecard?
Yes, you finally can. There are three perl
scripts to synchronize J-Pilot (pdb and pc3) and Gnomecard (vCard)
written by Christian Feldbauer. You can download these from
www.inw.tugraz.at/spsc/feld_pub/sync.html
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· Can
J-Pilot be used together with the password protection offered by
PalmOS 4.0 and higher?
Yes, now it can. As of right now (May 5 2002 that
is) there is a patch that can be found in the CVS repository.
Important: A recent CVS image of pilot-link is also required.
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· I
have trouble writing saved databases back onto the PalmOS device.
From time to time some databases can not be
stored back onto PalmOS device. Normally, that is caused by
slightly damaged databases. To solve this problem store the
respective database using pilot-xfer -i FILENAME For more
information on pilot-xfer type pilot-xfer --help
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· How
can I dump the content of a *.pdb database as text?
To be able to do so Judd included a programm
called jpilot-dump. You can find out more about the programm with
a simple
$:~>jpilot-dump -h
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