ro6ot
05-12-2004, 02:25 PM
All I want to do is write simple text files!
why is this so difficult and frustrating?
it took me hours and hours of searching and downloading several different crapshoot programs before I was even able to write a decent length document on my handheld (an i705 for anybody who cares, though I don't think that's particularly relevant.) Finally I settled on Wordsmith, for editing, and Palmreader for reading.
Now I want to open and edit these text files I've written, on my Macintosh. I've been googling and BB/forum-surfing for hours with absolutely no luck. On the PC I could just change the extension and bam there's the text.
If nobody has any useful advice for how to take a block of text on the palm and turn it into a block of text on the mac, could somebody at least explain to me why this is such a herculean task? God I wish i knew anything about programming (besides that I know nothing about it) but I just don't.
Seriously, am I the only person who wants to write a long textfile and can't just write my own software for doing so?
Am I the only person who wants to open up a 4KB ".pdb" file (which is actually 360 words in 5 paragraphs) from the backup directory on my desktop computer, who doesn't know how to just write my own conduit or whatever it would take to make what seems like it should be a really easy thing to do into an actually easy thing to do?
Honestly, what am I missing here?
(if you're going to tell me that my problem is that I'm stupid for using a macintosh, shut up, it was free and I'm editing digital video on it. If you want to give me your old sub-gHz firewire-capable PC and free software equivalent to everything that came with this iMac, THEN you're allowed to tell me that's where my problem is.)
why is this so difficult and frustrating?
it took me hours and hours of searching and downloading several different crapshoot programs before I was even able to write a decent length document on my handheld (an i705 for anybody who cares, though I don't think that's particularly relevant.) Finally I settled on Wordsmith, for editing, and Palmreader for reading.
Now I want to open and edit these text files I've written, on my Macintosh. I've been googling and BB/forum-surfing for hours with absolutely no luck. On the PC I could just change the extension and bam there's the text.
If nobody has any useful advice for how to take a block of text on the palm and turn it into a block of text on the mac, could somebody at least explain to me why this is such a herculean task? God I wish i knew anything about programming (besides that I know nothing about it) but I just don't.
Seriously, am I the only person who wants to write a long textfile and can't just write my own software for doing so?
Am I the only person who wants to open up a 4KB ".pdb" file (which is actually 360 words in 5 paragraphs) from the backup directory on my desktop computer, who doesn't know how to just write my own conduit or whatever it would take to make what seems like it should be a really easy thing to do into an actually easy thing to do?
Honestly, what am I missing here?
(if you're going to tell me that my problem is that I'm stupid for using a macintosh, shut up, it was free and I'm editing digital video on it. If you want to give me your old sub-gHz firewire-capable PC and free software equivalent to everything that came with this iMac, THEN you're allowed to tell me that's where my problem is.)