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6 SynCE - A project for connecting to devices running Microsoft Windows
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11 The SynCE project aims to provide libraries and tools to connect to and
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18 libsynce
19 Core library that provides various support services and functions.
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23 Core library implementing the RAPI protocol, equivalent to rapi.dll on
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27 This library actually implements two versions of the protocol. RAPI 1
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33 Library implementing RRA (Remote Replication Agent), a protocol used
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39 dccm
40 The dccm daemon negotiates the initial connection with a WM device, and
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56 [1m(1) Ensure the rndis kernel module or a serial connection mechanism is
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60 SynCE. For older devices or to use serial with WM5, if synce-hal is not
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75 See http://www.synce.org/ for more information about the SynCE project.
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78 This manual page was written by David Eriksson <twogood@users.source‐
79 forge.net>. It was later updated by Jonny Lamb <jonnylamb@jonny‐
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87The SynCE project November 2002 SynCE(7)