Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Sanford, Florida
Posts: 16

Ever since I got my Visor, I've been searching for a way to upload web pages wirelessly, without lugging around a laptop.

After reading much of the advice in this section of the forum, I purchased a cable from Supplynet, and the Palm OS HTML editor Torpedo from PalmGear. After a lot of fiddling around (which could have been avoided if I had read the documentation for Torpedo, but what fun would that be?), I was able to post a web page this morning.

Now, wherever I am, I can work! Wait a minute, this is a good thing?

Here's what I'm using:

Handspring Visor Deluxe
Supplynet cable
Kyocera 2035a
Verizon (in a formerly PrimeCo area, Central Florida)
Earthlink as my ISP
Torpedo for HTML editing, and LFTP, which comes with it

Registered: Dec 2000
Location: June 10, 2001 San Clemente Pier , CA
Posts: 211

I gotta tell you...

I think that's WAY COOL!!

Of course, you know what this means, you can only tell us, because if you tell any of the 'others', they will only think of you as SUPERNERD!

But, you have really inspired me 1st thing thing this morning.

And you know what that means, YUP, I'm one of you.




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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Arlington, TX
Posts: 334

I could never get LFTP to work. How did you do it?

Rick

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Originally posted by gadgetguru
I could never get LFTP to work. How did you do it?

Rick

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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: San Diego, California
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Is there anyway to change the extension of a file with LFTP.. such as if I were to upload test.pdb i could rename it to test.jpg?

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Originally posted by ashmed
Is there anyway to change the extension of a file with LFTP.. such as if I were to upload test.pdb i could rename it to test.jpg?

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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: San Diego, California
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Because it would be really neat to be able to go on vacation and upload pictures to my website and show people "see here's where I am right now" kind of stuff.

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Registered: Mar 2001
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Guess I could always write my own program to do this

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Originally posted by ashmed
Because it would be really neat to be able to go on vacation and upload pictures to my website and show people "see here's where I am right now" kind of stuff.

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Yeah, that would be cool I guess you're not so much interested in uploading .prc's and .pdb's from handheld RAM as you are in uploading jpeg's and whatnot from a MemPlug or Flashadapter memory card. Sounds doable, considering LFtp already has support for TRG/Handera CF and had Clie Memory Stick support.

Registered: Mar 2001
Location: San Diego, California
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Just need to find some information on the FTP protocol. If I can find information on that I think uploading files from memplug or visor's RAM would be very easy. LFTP is based on a sample from the palm os sdk anyways.

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Because it would be really neat to be able to go on vacation and upload pictures to my website and show people "see here's where I am right now" kind of stuff.

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Registered: Dec 2000
Location: Toronto, Canada
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Only .PRC & .PDB?

Does LFTP only upload .PRC & .PDB files, or can you create/modify an HTML file and upload it back to the server as an HTML file? Just curious to find out some more info.

Thanks!

Registered: Mar 2001
Location: San Diego, California
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This would be an instant killer app!

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I thought I was the only one I'll see what I can do.

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Re: Only .PRC & .PDB?

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Originally posted by Shakes
Does LFTP only upload .PRC & .PDB files, or can you create/modify an HTML file and upload it back to the server as an HTML file? Just curious to find out some more info.

Thanks!

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Location: San Diego, California
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I just uploaded a .jpg file to my webserver wirelessly using LFtp.. only problem is that it didn't upload the entire thing .. but it's a start. I downloaded the lftp source so i'll see what I can do with that. To upload a picture just rename it to whatever.jpg then use the pub command "pub whatever.jpg" and it'll send.. Here's the picture I took of my prism. http://www.jalbrant.com/a.jpg

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I had the camera too close the prism, so it's out of focus, but you get the point

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Pretty cool, ashmed.

Wait a minute! How did you get a JPEG into Handheld memory? Doesn't the PalmOS complain about it being a non-PalmOS file?

Registered: Mar 2001
Location: San Diego, California
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Actually, I have Jetsend 1.1 for Palm OS.. It's a program that HP doesn't even know they made(but they did) for Palm so that it can communicate with their printers and cameras. My digital camera is an HP so I just used Jetsend and sent the image to my Prism and had it not encode it for fireviewer(it doesn't seem to work if you do). So now I have a jpeg stored in my visor's memory as a PDB but the format is kept the same i guess cuz most of the image showed up when i uploaded it.

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Re: Re: Only .PRC & .PDB?

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LFtp can upload uncompressed DOC files as plain text. A DOC editor like ZDoc, which is free, works fine for basic html tagging. Just name the DOC file with a .html extension, then do the command "pub <webpage name>" at the LFtp command line after logging in, and it will show up as a viable webpage on your ftp/web server.

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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: San Diego, California
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It seems as though the pub command just uploads the file as-is so if the file is a memo it is just a plain text file so it can be html as well.

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