Mike Comb

This is version 0.01 of ColdSyncX, a backup utility for your Palm Pilot. It is basically just a graphical wrapper for the utility coldsync*.

Its purpose is to allow you to backup your palm pilot files and install new applications to your palm pilot. It is intended as a temporary solution to allow palm backup while we wait for Palm to release Palm Desktop for OS X.

This program requires that your computer have a serial port. It does not work with USB or IRDA. It may work with USB to Serial converters if they create a unix device node at /dev/tty.modem or /dev/tty.printer. I do not know if there are any existing converters that will work under OS X and create an appropriate /dev entry.

This program is completely free and it's source code is available under the same Artistic license* used for the coldsync utility which it is based on. However, the code for this program is heavily based on the wrapping command line utilities tutorial from www.cocoadevcentral.com so you may want to go straight to the source. This program, it's source, and the Artistic license are available from http://macgeek.dyndns.org/software/ColdSyncX

This program will create a directory called ColdSyncX in your Documents folder. In the ColdSyncX folder you will find an archive folder (items are saved here if you delete them from your palm but select "Save Copy on PC"), backup folder (containing all of the data files and applications from your handheld), and install folder (drop PDB and PRC files in here and they will be installed with the next sync).

I provide absolutely no warranty that this software will work as advertised. I did not write the program that does most of the actual work and I don't have any experience writing code for OSX (at least not with ObjectiveC). It may destroy your files, cause your palm to burst into flames, and make your wife ask for a divorce. What did you expect for $0 anyway?

If you really like this program and feel the need to repay me, go write some software for OS X.
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*coldsync is a command line utility for palm pilot synchronization that can be found at http://www.ooblick.com/files/coldsync/ its source code is made available under the Artistic license. I did not write this product and have no connection to it.

* the Artistic license was originally developed for the perl package. As such parts of it do not really apply to this software. Oh well.