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CASIO BOSS Interface
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Mon Nov 6 02:40:39 1995
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 21:22:52 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: ME <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Subject: CASIO BOSS Interface
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I just uploaded a port of M. Muhlenberg's DOS casio interface
to Sunsite (at the moment it is in /pub/Linux/Incoming as
casio-2.0.tar.gz)
This is an interface to the CASIO (BOSS) series of handheld
organizers
below is the lsm :
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Title: CasioBoss - backup/restore CASIO BOSS data
Version: 2.0
Entered-date: October 26, 1995
Description: It is a package ported from DOS to allow communication to
the CASIO series of hand-held organizers.
Keywords: CASIO casio BOSS PDA organizer device driver
Author: ad828@freenet.carleton.ca (Jamal Hadi Salim)
Maintained-by: ad828@freenet.carleton.ca (Jamal Hadi Salim)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps
60kB casio-2.0.tar.gz
1kB casio.lsm
Alternate-site: tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/binaries/casio-2.0.tar.gz
Platform: A cable to hookup the casio to the PC's serial port.
Copying-policy: Freely distributable/useable
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a portion of the readme file:
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What is CasioBoss?
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It is a package ported from DOS to allow communication to
the CASIO series of hand-held organizers (with a few added
features).
It is provided as is i.e. i am not to be responsible for any
damages it causes to you, your CASIO or your environment.
features:
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- Backup from CASIO to your Linux box file
- Restore a Backup file from your Linux Box
to the CASIO.
- currently supports only: Phone, Calendar,schedule
memo, and reminder. if you need any other format
and i get access to a model that has this format
then i could add it.
- Outputs 3 different files when sending data from
the CASIO to the PC during backup:
i) the binary file whose name must be
chosen by the user. This is the file
used when restoring
ii) data.<yyddmm> --- an ASCII file.
A user can view this file. At the moment
this is all that can be done. J. Pellan is
working on a conversion utility that will
allow the conversion of ASCII<-->binary
which means a user would be able to edit this
or another file and run the conversion utility
when s/he requires to selectively backup.
iii) debug.<yyddmm> contains debug information.
by default the debug level is turned off i.e set to
0 -- so this file will only contain one line which
identifies the file id of the debug file.
- User can stop the transmission:
- from the CASIO side -- by pressing the 'next' button
(or whatever the prompt says on the CASIO)
- from the PC side by hitting the ESC key or just killing
the process via a control-c
- Supports 2400,4800 and 9600 all at 8N1; support for other
modes of transmission will be available with the next
release; if you *really* need it let me know.
- Online help is available; just type casio with any bogus
options; or casio -h or casio -? or just casio to get the
verbose help output; future plan is to have different option
levels for help (i.e verbose and quick)
- Status display of transmission both ways.
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cheers
Jamal
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