otl2pdb(1) General Commands Manual otl2pdb(1)NAME
otl2pdb - converts vimoutliner outline to AddressDB Palm file.
SYNOPSIS
otl2pdb [filename]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the otl2pdb Perl script.
otl2pdb is a perl(1) script that takes an outline from vimoutliner(1) with contact information and creates an AddressDB.pdb file for a
Palm.
For now this script can only create a .pdb file. You then have to use a syncing tool to load it into your Palm. I recommend the pilot-
link package for linux.
The format of the contact outline is the following:
$category
$record_name
c:$cell
a:$address
....
You can have as many categories and records(entries) as you want. The following are valid fields for a record with the necessary text to
indicate them in quotes:
'a:'-address
'c:'-cell
'e:'-email
'h:'-home phone
'n:'-note
'web:'-website
'w:'-work phone
Also, each record's category is left as 'Unfiled' as I can't get the record's category to write correctly.
SEE ALSO vim(1), perl(1)REQUIREMENTS
This program uses the Palm::Address perl module, which is available on CPAN.
TIPS
If using the pilot-link package:
-load the pdb with 'pilot-xfer -i AddressDB.pdb'
-specify the serial port if other than /dev/pilot (which will usually be the case
unless you link to it) with -p in the above command; usually this is /dev/ttyS0 in linux
AUTHOR
The original version was written by Gabriel Walker <cldwalker@chwhat.com>.
If you like using perl, linux, vim and databases to make your life easier (not lazier ;) check out my website at http://www.chwhat.com.
<http://www.chwhat.com>
This manual page was written by Matej Cepl <matej@ceplovi.cz> (using perldoc(1) part of the documented script), for the Debian GNU/Linux
system (but may be used by others).
January 13, 2005 otl2pdb(1)
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pilot-wav(1) PILOT-LINK pilot-wav(1)NAME
pilot-wav - Decodes Palm Voice Memo files to wav files you can read on your desktop
SECTION
pilot-link: Userland conduits
SYNOPSIS
pilot-wav [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-?|--help] [-q|--quiet] [--usage] [-f|--fetch [file|all]] [-c|--convert file]
OPTIONS
pilot-wav options
-f, --fetch
[file|all]
Fetch all wav files or specified wav file from the Palm.
-c, --convert
file.wav.pdb
Convert file.wav.pdb file to wav
Conduit Options
-p, --port
port
Use device file port to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this is not specified, pilot-wav will look for the $PILOTPORT environment
variable. If neither are found or supplied, pilot-wav will print the usage information.
-q, --quiet
Suppress 'Hit HotSync button' message
-v, --version
Display version of pilot-wav.
Help Options
-h, --help
Display the help synopsis for pilot-wav.
--usage
Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting.
EXAMPLES
# Fetch all of the voice memo files from your Palm and save them to .wav files on your desktop machine
pilot-wav -p /dev/pilot -f
MyVoiceMemo.wav.pdb
# Convert all voice memos found in MyVoiceMemo to .wav files on your desktop machine
pilot-wav -c MyVoiceMemo.wav.pdb
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk>
REPORTING BUGS
We have an online bug tracker. Using this is the only way to ensure that your bugs are recorded and that we can track them until they are
resolved or closed. Reporting bugs via email, while easy, is not very useful in terms of accountability. Please point your browser to
http://bugs.pilot-link.org: http://bugs.pilot-link.org and report your bugs and issues there.
COPYRIGHT
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
SEE ALSO pilot-link(7)0.12.5 Copyright 1996-2007 FSF pilot-wav(1)