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- INTRODUCTION
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- PdaLink bases on the PilotLink software by Kenneth Albanowski. Anyhow,
- it is not just a Un*x port, but has been written from the scratch new.
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- PilotLink is very memory consuming. Each layer allocates a new buffer,
- adds the layer headers and trailers to this buffer and then copies the
- data from the previous layer to the new layer.
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- PdaLink has only one buffer for the data and all the headers. It does
- not require to copy the data all the time, thus it is faster and less
- memory consuming.
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- I don't have the time to improve PdaLink any further. So I decided to
- make its source code public.
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- What you have here is the latest and unreleased version of PdaLink.
- I have translated all in line comments to English. Anyhow the function
- headers of all library functions are still commented in German. You
- should read the AutoDocs to get their meanings.
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- REQUIREMENTS
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- You will need the latest SAS/C, PhxAss and PhxLnk package to compile
- PdaLink. I don't know if other compilers, assemblers and linkers can
- be used as well. The assembler part only provides a library skeleton;
- maybe you can even port it to C, so you won't need an assembler at all.
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- Unfortunately, SAS/C is not produced any more, but you might get it
- second hand or try another compiler. PhxAss and PhxLnk is a FreeWare
- assembler and linker made by Frank Wille. You will find it in the
- AmiNet.
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- In order to understand the source code, you should know about packet
- layer techniques. I also suggest to have a look at the PilotLink source
- from Kenneth Albanowski. You should find it on most Linux distributions
- and in the internet.
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- For compilation of the Assembler file, you should put the lvo/exec.i
- file into your INCLUDE: path. In all those years I programmed for the
- Amiga, I have developed my own way to call library functions. :-)
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- If you use an editor which supports text folding (as e.g. GoldEd),
- configure it to use '//>' and '//<' as fold markers.
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- GNU
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- The GNU General Public License will apply.
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- PdaLink - Connecting Amiga to the Palm
- Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Richard Körber
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- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- (at your option) any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
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- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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- For further details, see the COPYING file of this package.
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- ADDRESS
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- If you want to contact me, you can reach me at one of these addresses:
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- shred@shredzone.de
- rkoerber@gmx.de
- shred@web.de
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- Please don't contact me if you want me to put some improvements to the
- source code. Also, don't ask me newbie questions. I am quite busy and
- don't have the time to answer to minor problems and RTFM stuff. :)
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- Also, visit my home page at:
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- http://www.shredzone.de
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