Palm to Android via Linux

[Shachar Shemesh]

On 01/06/11 10:41, Meir Michanie wrote:

> Hi Shlomo,
> Android only uses the LINUX kernel. I was going to say that if your
> question is not relatyed to the kernel, then it is an android question
> and it is out of topic.
> Or not?
>    
The consensus seems to be that so long as we don't drown out the "Linux" 
side of the list, questions on anything Unixish or Open-sourceish in 
nature are okay. I believe the good people of this list will point it 
out when this arrangement seizes to work well.

Shachar
> If I have a question on running something on Debian GNU/Hurd is my
> question out of topic?
> If I use PCBSD and I have a question related to kde or gnome, is my
> question out of topic?
> If I have a question about configuring my linksys or d-link router
> that runs a linux kernel, is my question out of topic?
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Shlomo Solomon<shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> I'm having a strange problem moving some memo files from my Palm Zire to a new
>> Android phone. Since 2 of the 3 platforms I'm using are Linux (my PC and my
>> phone), I think this is on-topic - so long as we don't get into an arguement
>> about whether Android is really Linux or not ;-).
>>
>> 1 - I used jpilot to export Palm memo files to text files
>> 2 - the files look fine in a Linux text editor (Kwrite, Kate, etc)
>> 3 - I used Dropbox to move the files to my phone
>> 4 - When I open the files on the phone (with various editors), there are
>> strange line breaks (seem to be random - between words, in the middle of a
>> word or even after each letter) - like this:
>> This is a tes
>> t to show
>> an exa
>> m
>> p
>> l
>> e
>> 5 - I tried opening the files in Open Office (in Linux) and saving as .odt and
>> again copied to the phone with dropbox
>> 6 - The Android Open Office reader app now reads the files properly.
>>
>> Any ideas why the original text files show this behaviour?
>>
>> BTW - when I opened the files in Open Office (in Linux), I checked to see if
>> there were un-printable characters, but that doesn't seem to be the problem. I
>> even looked at the files in hexedit to see if there were any unusual
>> characters, but found nothing unusual.
>>
>> --
>> Shlomo Solomon
>> http://the-solomons.net
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