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- General
- -------
- This is an attempt to a conduit for the Yanoff news reader for the Palm OS
- (Palm Pilot). The conduit works in combination with HotSync 3.0 and
- Yanoff v1.4.2b. You need quite a lot of development tools (see below) since
- this conduit is written in Java and uses a Unix-like development
- environment (Cygwin), while Windows 95/NT is used as a development platform.
-
- IF you don't plan to recompile, you only need Yanoff 1.4.2b and JSync. JSync
- is part of the CDK-J, but can also be downloaded from the conduit web site.
-
- See the COPYRIGHT and COPYING files for details on licensing terms and
- (the absence of) warranty. See the HISTORY file for version history.
-
- The most recent version of this package can be found at
- http://www.sepa.tudelft.nl/webstaf/janb/yanoff/index.html
-
- Needed tools (development only)
- -------------------------------
- Of course you need Yanoff itself, from
- http://www.free.de/mjordan/yanoff/yanoff.html
- For this conduit, you need version 1.4.2b from the
- conduit web site. 1.4.2 will crash!
-
- You need a recent Java Development Kit, such as jdk-1.1.8 from Sun.
- Download from http://www.javasoft.com/products/jdk/1.1/
-
- The Makefile is for the Cygnus Solutions CygWin GNU environment for
- Windows 95/NT.
- Download from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/download.html
-
- You need the JSync Java synchronisation runtime from Palm computing,
- buried in the "Conduit Development Kit - Java".
- Download from http://www.palm.com/devzone/cdkjava/cdkjava.html
-
- Directories
- -----------
- The Java source files are in the src/ directory. To make things complicated,
- the class files (Java bytecode) are in the Java/ directory.
-
- Installation
- ------------
- Quickest installation instructions:
- 0. Install Yanoff
- 1. Install JSync
- 2. Install the conduit using the .zip-file distribution
- 3. Restart the HotSync Manager
- 4. Try it, and mail me bug-reports!
-
- Quick installation instructions:
- 0. Install Yanoff ;-)
- 1. Install the CDKJ
- 2. In the directory you installed the CDKJ in, there is a subdirectory called
- JSync Installer. Install the JSync runtime from here.
- 3. Unpack the yancond archive.
- 4. Use the instructions from the CDKJ to instruct HotSync to use your
- brand-new Yanoff conduit. You need to run CondCfg.exe from the CDKJ.
- Add a conduit with creator ID "MJyf", class name
- "palm.conduit.yanoff.YanoffConduit" and class path of the form PATH1;PATH2
- where PATH1 is the path you installed yancond, appended with "\java" and
- where PATH2 is the path you installed yancond, appended with "\NetComponents.jar".
- In my setup, the classpath is
- "d:\java\yancond\java;d:\java\yancond\NetComponents.jar"
- 5. Restart the HotSync Manager
- 6. Try it, and mail me bug-reports!
-
- Full installation instructions (if you want to hack the conduit source):
- 0. Install Yanoff ;-)
- 1. Install the JDK
- 2. Install Cygnus Solution's CygWin
- 3. Install the CDKJ
- 4. In the directory you installed the CDKJ in, there is a subdirectory called
- JSync Installer. Install the JSync runtime from here.
- 5. Unpack the yancond archive, if you haven't already.
- 6. Edit the Makefile. Set the paths in the first couple of lines
- 7. do "make"
- 8. If you're daring, type "make install" to insert the settings into the registry
- Else, you need to run CondCfg.exe from the CDKJ. Add a conduit with creator
- ID "MJyf", class name "palm.conduit.yanoff.YanoffConduit" and class path of
- the form PATH1;PATH2 where PATH1 is the path you installed yancond, appended
- with "\java" and where PATH2 is the path you installed yancond, appended
- with "\NetComponents.jar". In my setup, the classpath is
- "d:\java\yancond\java;d:\java\yancond\NetComponents.jar"
- 9. Restart HotSync Manager
- 10. Try it, and mail me bug-reports!
-
- Author
- ------
- This software is written by Jan-Pascal van Best.
- Reach the author at janb@sepa.tudelft.nl
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