Mike
I am confused. (Don’t worry this is a common condition). I thought that we were working with newer handhelds that either had a serial (9 pin) connection or came only with a usb connection and computers that had only usb connectors.
On the one hand if your computer had a serial port it was quite easily solved by a connecter/adapter that would transform the serial port female to a usb port female.
Since the program was set to send and receive data to that com (serial) port the, problem would be solved.
On the other hand, in the case of the non-existing 9 pin serial port there was no way to get the program to recognize the usb port as a serial port. The question as I see it is: How do you redirect data from a com port to a usb port?
I know that there is a simple command line command to redirect printer information to a usb port from a parallel port, but I have not been able to find a way to do the same for serial ports.
The link I saw is the first to suggest that this can be done. Their cable is a usb male from a serial female.
which suggests that their driver redirects.
From reading earlier posts, it seems that The TrueSync that comes with Sidekick 98 and Sidekick itself only works with com ports. Later versions of TrueSync which supports usb ports dropped support for Sidekick.
Does your computer have a (9 pin female) serial port which you adapted your usb equipped palm to? If not is your Palm serial based and adapted a usb port ? Does the Palm software allow backward compatibility to com ports, does it redirect? Did the Jornada have a serial connecter?
Sorry this is so long. If you can explain without investing too much time I would appreciate it as I find it difficult to let things go. I am glad your problem was solved.
Tom
