Is there an easier way to make a simple conduit?
Yes, there is. Pat Beirne decided that requiring users to learn 2 more APIs (Windows DLL and Mac) in addition to learning how to program the Pilot was too much to ask if all you want to do is sync up a simple database. He created the Generic Conduit Manager to take care of this problem. The assumption is that in most cases, the translation between the desktop system and the Pilot system won’t require any hard core tweaking, so you should be able to make one conduit that will work for any number of registered applications. Several shareware programs make use of this to update their files, including JFile.and CBasPad. You can get GCM from Ray’s Software Archive. Use the quick search field and search for “GCM”.
