Im another EMPEG customer who is weighing in in favor of some palm support.. if you could execute a small script to output the info to the IR port as indicated at
All Things Empeg you can get a freeware IR port monitor program that will read any data coming from any IR source. You could then easily make a little proggie in any dev tool including basic on the palm pilot to read the output from the EMPEG.
i have a palm pilot that i love only half as much as my EMPEG :)
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