Re: Fwd: PilotManager

[Craig George - Rochester SE <Craig.George@East>]

Maybe ignorance is bliss, but why is it I just dropped in 1.105 on my 
machine and it works flawlessly, without any screwing around?

BTW, I had to hard reset my pilot and reloaded it with the Windows HotSync. 
Egads, only the default applications were loaded back in when I restored it! 
It did restore other application's databases, but not the apps themselves.

I reloaded it using PilotManager and it loaded EVERYTHING. So guess which 
app I use more often?


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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 09:03:33 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Re: Fwd: PilotManager
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> From: Peter.Jodda@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> In contrast to your normal mail I must say the Pilotmanager is a mess.
> It does not work at all.
> I downloaded the package. The call of PilotManager leads to
> a 'perl can not find .....' .
> This is not user friendly.
> I have the latest versions of perl and Tk installed, but this does not
> help.
> Your Readmes are a joke.

Sorry to say, but the guy is quite right actually.
Bharat yesterday wrote something about
'ow, where did you get this old version' to somebody
who was using 1.009-beta4. Actually I'm using it
as well and you can get it from the same place where you
copy the latest version, just a couple of lines below
in the 'unsupported' section. 

So I got the latest packages and found that they don't
work with the Sun ENS provided /usr/dist/exe/perl.
I copied perl from perl.org as pointed out on the page.
Compiled it, installed and tried perl -V:bincompat3, as
suggested in some Readme. The option is not known to perl.

So here I am, wasted Disk space for some perl
stuff that I don't need normally and more important wasted
1 hour trying to make it work, but it still doesn't.

Needless to say I'm still using the old 1.009-beta, because
it simply installs and works and you can work with it after a
couple of minutes.

The guy is right, the stuff is absolutely not user friendly.

-Regards,
	Klaus



> In contrast to your normal mail I must say the Pilotmanager is a mess.
> It does not work at all.
> I downloaded the package. The call of PilotManager leads to
> a 'perl can not find .....' .
> This is not user friendly.
> I have the latest versions of perl and Tk installed, but this does not
> help.
> Your Readmes are a joke.
> 
> Why couldn't you write in C, which is easy to compile and debug?
> 
> Is anywhere a description about the Hotsync-process and the dataformat.
> Then I can write a C-program.
> 
> The not happy
> Peter Jodda
> 
> 
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Best Regards,
	Klaus
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