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I also was disappointed at the inefficiency and bloat of AvantGo. Based on what I wanted, the next best thing for me was Sitescooper (http://sitescooper.cx/). This is probably the most flexible solution for an avantgo like palm app (supports multiple browsers too). I finally decided that I only wanted to read summaries and not take too much space, so I wrote a simple shell script to get a bunch of sites using lynx and makedoc, which now dumps a bunch of sites into a single doc file, which I read and then delete. It is attached for your perusal, but you probably really want sitescooper. I will probablly use sitescooper eventually as well. If you want to use the script, you just need some stuff on your system: lynx (with the lynx.cfg already configured with proxy's etc.) makedoc (binary attached) pilot-xfer (part of the pilot-link tools that are also needed for pilotmanager) and a doc reader (many are available) for the pilot. The script just gets pages and dumps them in ascii of the correct width (lynx does this nicely) and then makes a doc file, and syncs it. John > I installed AvantGo onto my V, but was not impressed. AvantGo has > a noticable pause while parsing the document to be displayed. I > also objected to having advertisments on my pilot and the size of > AvantGo (~350k plus data). > > An alternative does exist however - Plucker is a GNU program to > suck web pages down to the pilot. The advantage with Plucker is > that much of the rendering is done before the pages are dumped > to the pilot. > > I have a couple of cron jobs running nightly and weekly to pull > down some newspapers and reference material. These save the > .pdb's into ~/.pilotmgr/Installer so the data is installed > automatically when I next sync. > > The Plucker homepage is at http://plucker.gnu-designs.com > > ...michael > > ---- > Michael Richmond > Information and Communication Sciences e-mail: mar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Macquarie University, Australia phone: (+61 2) 9850 6346 > > > >X-Authentication-Warning: moshpit.Corp.Sun.COM: majordomo set sender to > owner-pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx using -f > >Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:55:29 -0700 (PDT) > >From: Lisa Evren <Lisa.Evren@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > >Subject: [PilotMgr] Avantgo > >To: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >MIME-Version: 1.0 > > > >Has anyone tried to download Avantgo into a Palm V with any success? > > > >Many thanks, > > > > > >Lisa Evren > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *********************************************************** > * This is a public mailing list! * > * Please do not publish Sun proprietary information here! * > * - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * > * MoreInfo/Unsubscribe @ http://www.moshpit.org/pilotmgr * > ***********************************************************
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