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2 replies · 2,191 views · Started 03 April 2003

Dose anyone know anything similiar to avantgo for P800 ,
Syncronizes web pages and capable of browsing ofline.
or if it itself supports this feature , and i dont know :robot:

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Apparently they are working on a version for the P800 - but no dates when it will be released yet.

I subscribed to Avantgo last week to see if I could get a workable version, but no joy. Yet.

You don't need avantgo - I've been doing this for years on my palm, and got it working with the P800 after some hiccups.

Get the program "sitescooper" from www.sitescooper.org - it's a big perl script for downloading web pages, stripping junk from them, and putting them on a palm. However, it also supports html output, which is what you need for the P800.

Alternatively, look for a windows port of wget, and use that.

Then, you need to get the PC File Manager program from www.epocware.com. For some bizarre reason the standard P800 connectivity software cripples your access to the file system on the P800, so you have to use third party software if you want to actually put stuff in multiple subdirectories. If anyone knows of a free way to do this, please tell me! (Though the PC File Manager demo seems to work fine...)

Copy all your HTML files to somewhere on your P800 - I use "D:\Media files\document\webroot".

Then, there are 2 options:
1. Use the Prosit p800 web server. Point it to "D:\Media files\document\webroot". Then use "localhost" as your url in Opera : "http://localhost/index.html" for example.

2. Or, just tell Opera to open "file://D:/Media files/document/webroot/index.html". This will work as well as option 1, and probably faster and without wasting cache space. However, it does have the downside that it seems you cant save bookmarks to "file:" URLs.

Then you can browse local files to your heart's content!

- Korny