[plug] Agenda VR3

[Christian]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:26:23PM +0800, Peter Wright wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:03:38PM +0800, Christian wrote:
> > (You may actually be able to get a telnet server for Palms too...
> 
> But what good would it do (if you can't get eg. a shell, as you would be
> able to on the Agenda)?
> Of course, this presumes there isn't a shell of some variety available for
> PalmOS, which, now I think about it, there probably is (hell, if you can
> port Python to the Palm, you should be able to port at least ash or a rough
> approximation thereof). Not that you'd really be able to _do_ much on a
> Palm via a command-line interface.

I'm not aware of any shell so, you're right there probably isn't much
point.  You can get a VNC client though so maybe you can get a VNC
server too which would be much more useful. :)

> Of course again, you might ask what you would want to achieve by telnetting
> into an Agenda and getting a shell. Well... anything that you'd do by
> getting a remote shell on any UNIX-ish machine, I'd guess. General admin
> stuff. From what Simon said, the handwriting recognition is bad enough that
> if you wanted to do anything "serious" (admin-wise) on the Agenda, you'd
> definitely want to use a real keyboard (and a terminal on a decent monitor :).

I wonder if you can do anything related to the built-in applications
from the shell...

> Can you? I remember the story a while ago (must have been more than a year)
> about Apache being ported to the Palm, but that turned out to be an
> elaborate (and impressive) April Fool's prank. :)

There was an article on O'Reilly's web site where they talked about it.
It wasn't Apache -- just a very basic web server but I'm pretty sure it
wasn't a hoax.

<looks up URLs>

Try:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/05/05/magazine/PalmLinux.html?page=2
http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/rees/pilot/ 

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