Old PilotManager News Items

• Fixed a bug in several conduits that caused major data loss if the connection to the pilot was lost during a sync.

• Compatibility with pilot-link 0.12.0-pre2. Among other benefits, this brings libusb support, which means you can finally sync via USB on Solaris. Compatibility with pilot-link 0.11.8 is maintained; if you don't need the new features of 0.12.0-pre2, I recommend that you wait for the official 0.12.0 release before upgrading pilot-link.

[Update: this patch is no longer necessary with more recent versions of PilotManager.]

Who wants this patch?

• Everyone with a PalmOS 3.5 device and a Sun/Solaris desktop will probably want it.
  It is particularly helpful to people who have perl 5.003 (who can't sync at all), but for people with newer versions of perl it will also get rid of the "Error backing up ''" message from the backup conduit.
• I have only done testing on sun/solaris so I don't know if this problem exists at all for linux users...

• Here it is:
  Shutdown pilotmgr, then change these lines in PilotMgr.pm:

      do
      {
  	status("Refreshing Database List", int(100 * $count++ / $count_max))
  	    if ($count_max);
  	push(@$result, $dlp->getDBInfo($i,1,0));
  	$i = $result->[-1]->{"index"}+1;
      }
      while ($result->[-1]->{"more"});
  

  to this:

      my $rec;
      eval { do
      {
  	status("Refreshing Database List", int(100 * $count++ / $count_max))
  	    if ($count_max);
  	$rec = $dlp->getDBInfo($i,1,0);
  	push(@$result, $rec) if (exists $rec->{"name"} and $rec->{"name"});
  	$i = $rec->{"index"}+1;
      }
      while ($rec->{"more"}); };
  

• Use a text editor to edit the file "PilotMgr.pm".
  For example, open a terminal window and use the "cd" command to change directories to your "pilotmgr" directory. On solaris/CDE you could then type "dtpad PilotMgr.pm" to bring up a text editor.
• Search for the string "Refreshing Database List" to help you find the right section of the file.. it is around line 2650.
• Change the lines as shown above, save your changes and then restart PilotManager.

*** PilotMgr.pm.orig    Sat Jan  1 11:39:34 2000
--- PilotMgr.pm Sat Jan  1 11:39:52 2000
***************
*** 2637,2641 ****
      $mon++;
!     return sprintf("%02d/%02d/%02d %2d:%02d:%02d",
!                    $mon, $mday, $year, $hour, $min, $sec);
  }

--- 2637,2641 ----
      $mon++;
!     return sprintf("%02d/%02d/%04d %2d:%02d:%02d",
!                    $mon, $mday, 1900 + $year, $hour, $min, $sec);
  }