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- vCard for PalmPilot, v1.0
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- WHAT'S A VCARD?
-
- A vCard is a standardized format for transfering personal information, like
- that found on a business card. The standard was created by the versit
- Consortium, consisting of IBM, AT&T, Apple, and Siemens. The standard has
- since been transfered to the Internet Mail Consortum at "www.imc.org".
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- WHAT IS VCARD FOR PALM PILOT?
-
- vCard for PalmPilot is a utility to automatically import vCard files (*.vcf)
- into the PalmPilot Desktop. It can be run as a stand-alone utility, where
- you can select inividual files to import, or you can create a file association
- with the extension ".vcf". If you create a file association, you can import
- vCards from the Internet with a single click, and from 95's explorer by double
- clicking on a local file.
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- INSTALLATION
-
- Just copy the files PVCARD.EXE, PVCARD.INI, and SENDKEYS.DLL to a directory.
- I recommend that you create and use the directory C:\PILOT\VCARD. That's it!
-
- If you installed the Pilot desktop some other place than C:\PILOT, you'll need
- to edit the INI file.
-
- The first time you double click on a .VCF file, you'll need to create a file
- association with PVCARD.EXE. If you're using Windows 95, follow these steps:
- - From Explorer, double click on a .VCF file
- - An "Open With" window will appear. Click on the "Other" button.
- - A browse window will appear. Find and select PVCARD.EXE
- - Click on the "OPEN" button.
- - Click on OK to accept the new association.
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- TROUBLESHOOTING
-
- vCard for Pilot works by reading the VCF file, and creating a Pilot Desktop
- import file. Next it launches the Pilot Desktop if isnt already running.
- Lastly it simulates the key presses needed to import the file. If your
- computer is too slow to launch the Pilot Desktop, the key presses may be sent
- too soon, and not work. There are two ways to fix this. Load Pilot Desktop
- first, or adjust the PVCARD.INI file. The entry "LaunchDelay" is how long
- the program should wait between launching the desktop and when to send the
- keys. 1000 is one second. The default setting is 2000, for 2 seconds.
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- If you don't have a C:\TEMP directory, you may have trouble running PVCARD.
- You can create that directory, or you can change the temp file location in
- the PVCARD.INI file.
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- FINE PRINT
-
- vCard for Palm Pilot is copyright by Black Swamp Software. This utility is
- free for use, and is provided without waranty and workout support. You get
- what you pay for - a free program. If you have questions of comments, feel
- free to write me. I can't gaurente a response, but I'll try to help out if
- I can.
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- Blank Swamp Software
- Mitchell Ross
- 209 Findlay St
- Haskins, OH 43525
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- mitchr@bright.net
- www.bright.net\~mitchr
-