Re: Palm PDA <--> as/400

Tim and I have different projects. His may be closer to
what you had in mind. I've found that the communication
part was extremely difficult to get to work.

----- Original Message -----
From: Brad Stone <brad@bvstools.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 3:54 PM
Subject: 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?
> >