Re: Palm PDA <--> as/400

The communications part could be done that way.  Uploading
and downloading.  I didn't know it was an offline project.
But the synching part should be able to be done with
sockets, or the HTTP server acting as the socket program.

Brad

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:39:19 -0500
 "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org> wrote:
> From: Brad Stone <brad@bvstools.com>
> > I just realized palms can probably use any HTML with a
> web
> > browser.  That is if you have a network connection with
> > them.  Should be very easy then if you don't mind using
> your
> > AS/400 as the web server.
>
> Brad,
> Please don't say this is EASY. It ain't. The standard
> Palm
> application has its own look and feel that is tailored to
> the
> capabilities of the platform. What people expect on the
> Palm is that within the application there would be a
> single
> button saying 'sync' or 'exchange data' or some such. You
> 'tap' the button and the transfer of data to/from the
> AS/400
> happens transparently. Anything else is not acceptable.
> How can HTML and a browser on the Palm help here?
>
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