May 2000
Intermediate to advanced
620 pages
18h 2m
English
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Where to Go from Here
The best resource for the rapidly evolving world of Palm/Unix/Linux information is, of course, the World Wide Web.
- Linux/Unix based PalmPilot tools (ftp://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/pub/PalmOS)
The mother ship for distributions and various packages. pilot-link and makedoc can be found here. The page is just a long list of files with version numbers and dates.
- KPilot Homepage (http://www.slac.com/pilone/kpilot_home/mainpage.html)
Home of KPilot. The latest versions of KPilot may be found here. A mailing list is also available.
- PilotManager (http://www.moshpit.org/pilotmgr)
Home of PilotManager. Very informative site with a lot of detail about PilotManager.
- Gnome-pilot (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-pilot/)
Home of gnome-pilot, the PalmPilot utilities for the GNOME desktop.
- Unix Pilot Software Repository (http://www.pilot.pasta.cs.uit.no)
Mainly a site for development tools. This site has versions of pilot-link and PalmPython; each package is followed with a mini-list of instructions on how to build and install it.
- Z-Doc/PalmPilot (http://www.geocities.com/Area51/7689/zdoc.html)
Home of Z-Doc, a freeware Doc-format file reader.
- CQ Codeworks: Pyrite (http://www.concentric.net/~N9mtb/cq/pyrite/pyrite.html)
Home of Pyrite (formerly PalmPython), the extension to the Python programming language.
- Linux/Microcontroller Home page (http://www.concentric.net/~N9mtb/cq/pyritepyrite.html)
Home of uCLinux—Linux for the Dragonball microcontroller.
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