[ale] pilot question

[Bryan Rank]

Thanks John,

Seems to have worked with the exception of the registration numbers
for Datebook4 and tinysheet.

> before gravity interfered with your life.

...wasn't gravity it was my knee!  I left it on the car seat and when
fishing around in the back seat, found what I wasn't looking for.


On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, John M. Trostel wrote:

> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:00:43 +0100 (EDT)
> From: John M. Trostel <john.trostel at gtri.gatech.edu>
> To: bryan at compgen.com
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] pilot question
> 
> ---Reply to mail from Bryan Rank about [ale] pilot question
> 
> Having just done a similar thing to 'clean up' my Visor, this is what I
> would suggest.
> 
> 1. do the pilot-xfer -b /backup_directory/primary
> 
> 2. make a copy of the primary backup
>     $ cp /backup_directory/primary /backup_directory/secondary
> 
> 3. rm the things youy don't think you need from the 'secondary'
> 
> 4. restore from the 'secondary'
>     $pilot-xfer -r /backup_directory/secondary
> 
> 5. test the restore and see if it all works.
> 
> if not.... you can always use the primary backup to get back where you
> were before gravity interfered with your life.
> 
> 
> > Hello Everyone,
> > 
> > I was wondering if anyone using "pilot-xfer" as an interface to their
> > palm with Linux.  I smashed my PalmPilot Professional to bits yesterday
> > and now have a IIIxe.  I did a backup using...
> > 
> > pilot-xfer -b /home/bryan/PilotBackup/11SEP2000 
> > 
> > ....so now and have all the "stuff" on my linux box.  The master plan
> > is to now put the IIIxe on the hotsync cable and use the "-r" option on
> > pilot-xfer to spit everything to the new one.  Only thing that worries me
> > is that I have old palmOS update files and other "garbage" that I don't
> > want on the new boxet.  Common sense dictates that I go and "rm" the
> > prc's that I don't want, then do the sync; been bitten by common before
> > however and would much rather benefit from the knowledge of others here.
> > 
> > ....Any comments or war stories would be appreciated.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks (I will summarize), 
> > 
> > 
> > Bryan
> > 
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