On Monday 27 August 2001  6:24 am, Peter Seebach wrote:
> Has anyone gotten coldsync working with a Handspring Visor on ttyU*?  I got
> it to compile (removing a spurious _POSIX_C_SOURCE from config.h), and it
> almost works... except that it can't sit on ttyU1 waiting for the visor,
> and by the time ttyU1 is configured, the visor is about to give up.
>
> jpilot partially worked for me on ttyU1, but I like the coldsync interface
> better.

This came up at the beginning of the month, checking back in the archives 
reveals that someone also suffered this issue, and did a workaround style fix 
for it:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2001/08/06/0001.html

Chris