I've been playing around with a Palm V, a Pic 16F84, and some Ir modules,
trying to get simple communication between the devices.

1.  I tried to open the serial port on the Palm with the address spec of
$8001  (the programming docs indicate that this will open the Ir port),
but no luck.

2.  I have been digging through the IrDA specs on the IrCOMM protocol (3
wire raw, in particular) and it seems like a whole lot of work to
implement on the pic side.

Really all I want is to be able to treat the IR port like a normal serial
port and be done with it (on the Palm side and on the Pic side) but so far
I haven't been able to get too far.

SO...Does anyone have any hints or  clues on how to get the Palm to talk
plain serial over the IR port? (I have seen a utility program for the
palm that evidently lets you "trick" the OS / application into thinking
it is dealing with the serial port when it is really talking over the IR
port).

-OR-

Does anyone have any tips or info on implementing IrCOMM on a Pic?

Thanks

-Steve

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