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KPILOT 4.2.1 by Dan Pilone
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Additional work by Robert Ambrose,
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Preston Brown, Adriaan de Groot,
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Heiko Purnhagen, Jorg Habenicht,
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and probably many more.
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KPilot is software for syncing the 3Com Palm Pilot, Palm III, IIIe,
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IIIc, IIIx, V, Vx, M100, Handspring Visor and IBM Workpad with a machine
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running some flavor of unix. The actual PC->PP communcations was originally
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based on pilot-link.0.8.7, though you should use pilot-link.0.9.3 now.
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By default KPilot attempts to connnect using /dev/pilot which should be
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a link to the actual serial port, however this is configurable in the
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settings dialog.
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This is the second release of KPilot 4.x, the first version of
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KPilot that works with and under KDE2. It is released as part of KDE 2.2.
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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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=========================
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The file ../README contains minimal information on how to compile
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and install KPilot. Since KPilot is part of the tdepim package, you
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should also have the INSTALL file for tdepim, probably in ../../INSTALL.
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This README file only contains the release notes for KPilot 4.2.1.
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UPGRADING FROM OLDER KPILOTS
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The first time you run KPilot 4.2.1, it will automatically display
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the setup screen and you can check all the configuration settings.
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If you used KPilot 3.x, you should also immediately configure all your
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conduits (again) because many things have changed there.
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CURRENT FEATURES
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* Conduit for abbrowser (experimental).
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* Conduit for expenses (experimental).
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* Improved international-character support.
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o Conduit for KNotes (still experimental).
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o Now a KDE2 application.
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o Plug in conduit support, currently including
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KOrganizer, todolist, null and PopMail
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o Hot-Sync daemon. - Now hot-sync with just the push of the
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Hot-Sync button on your cradle. No need to launch KPilot.
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o Add/Delete/Edit memos.
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o Add/Delete/Edit addresses.
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o Full Category support for both memos and addresses.
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o KPilot now respects secret data.
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o More configuration options including port speed and
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docking control.
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o Now supports signature files for email.
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o Drag and drop to docked icon for file install.
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o International Support
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o Full Backup/Restore capabilities of Palm Pilot
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o File (prc,pdb) installation
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o Email syncing capabilities (via POP3 & sendmail)
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o SmartSync backing up modified data even
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for databases KPilot doesn't recognize
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o Import/Export to/from virtually any text format for
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Addresses.
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o Import/Export to/from text files for memos
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o Sort and display addresses in different ways
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o A null conduit (programming example)
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o Syncing with UNIX mailboxes
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o Database dispositions (sync, backup only, or ignore)
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(* = new in this release)
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KNOWN BUGS
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All the known bugs in KPilot can be found in the KDE bugs database
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http://bugs.kde.org/db/pa/lkpilot.html
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Please check with that database before reporting bugs.
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STANDARD DISCLAIMER, WARNINGS, ETC..
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====================================
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THIS SOFTWARE HAS BUGS. Use at your own risk. It has not even
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been tested anywhere but on my machine and only with my Palm Pilot. I
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have been using it against XCopilot for development then verifying it
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works with a real pilot with my Palm Pilot Professional running OS v2.0.4.
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It works with Adriaan's Palm V running PalmOS 3.5 as well.
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I make no claims that it will work, or even try to work. I take no
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responsibility for any data loss, damage, etc. done by this software.
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ie: Should your pilot burst into flames while trying to sync a new game..
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sorry.
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That being said, I _really_ want comments regarding the software
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as well as suggestions. Bug fixes are even snazzier and code
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contributions are welcome. :)
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Dan Pilone
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pilone@slac.com
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http://www.slac.com/pilone/kpilot_home/
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July 20, 2000
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Adriaan de Groot
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adridg@cs.kun.nl
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http://www.cs.kun.nl/~adridg/kpilot-bugs.html
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April 11, 2001
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