Re: Which ROM for syncing w/ Linux?

On Wednesday 15 October 2003 12:53 pm, David A. Cafaro wrote:
> Actualy it is well documented (including some source code examples)
> but no one has taken up the cause yet.  I'm trying to contact
> Andrew at http://www.cyph.org/zsrep/ to see if he has the info
> (from his page and the reverse engineering stuff I'm guessing not).
>  My next step is to contact the multisync people to find out
> information on maybe helping that out as well.  Sharp has definetly
> provided the information, they just have implemented it themselve
> for the zaurus and linux. I'm finaly starting to get the bug for a
> linux sync for my 3.10 zaurus.  Been to long without it....
>
> So it is unfair to say Sharp is being nasty.  At most you could say
> it's may be a break down in communications.
>

David,

I went over the DTM.zip file I got from the Sharp dev website.  It 
certainly does describe the API on the Zaurus to access the DTM 
files.  What it doesn't do is describe the sync'ing _protocol_ 
between the Zaurus and the desktop which the Z software already 
implements.  That is what zsrep is trying to discover.   I don't know 
if the source code which implements the sync on the Z is available.

Otherwise someone would need to write their own client program on the 
Z to provide the Z-side adds / updates / deletes to implement 
sync'ing.  Then the have the Sharp-defined DTM APIs to use.  Lots of 
redundancy.

Too bad Sharp hasn't provided the source for QTDesktop.  It shouldn't 
be that tough to port it to Linux.

(I use OZ "3.3.x" snapshot 090903 with QTDesktop 1.7 on MDK 9.1/9.2.)

Dave