[KLUG Members] gnome pilot conduits

[John Bridleman]

* Adam Tauno Williams (adam@morrison-ind.com) wrote:
> Isn't the memo conduit availble from the gnome control center?  I think the memo
> conduit simply comes with the gnome-pilot RPMs.  It doens't interface with any
> application,  it simply stores wee little text files in a directory that you
> specify.  These can be edited with gedit, vi, emacs, pico, joe, etc...  No real
> magic.  I'v often thought it would be nice if it would use CVS so changes to
> memos could be tracked but that might be likened to blowing out a candle by
> putting it in a wind tunnel.  At this point Memos are about the only thing I
> find the Palm to be useful for, besides consuming an inordinate number of
> batteries.  (Stupid thing is dead every time I *need* what is in it).

I also thought that last time I installed Ximian that the conduits were all there. Unfortunately that is not *currently* the case. There is a rumor that they will be providing them in the future.

> http://freecoins.sourceforge.net/ was working on a GnuCash conduit but the main
> developer has "retired".  Very unfortunate.  It has been a rough couple of
> months for GnuCash as the http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnupos/ (a POS system
> that integrated to GnuCASH) has closed down as well.   But if rumors are correct
> GnuCASH's development version will soon sport an XML-RPC interface which will
> make such things much easier than having to link to their engine shared library
> (ick!).

I was really needing the memo conduit. I would play with the expense one if it were available but I really don't want my wife to see where all those $ are going. If she wants to see, she can come to the next a1scs sale. 8-)

Anyway, I did end up finding them. They are in the gnome-pilot-conduits package (not currently available from ximian, but you can get it from
- http://www.eskil.org/gnome-pilot/download/old/gnome-pilot-conduits-0.7-1.i386.rpm

It provides the MAL (Mobile Application Link), Memofile, Sendmail and Time Sync conduits.
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John Bridleman / john@bridleman.org