05-21-2009
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Hello all,
I'm new to UNIX and new to this forum, so forgive my lack of knowledge. I'm new with editing in vi so I FTP scripts to a Windows machine and edit the script in notepad (when I need to do something quickly). Sometimes when I FTP the script back to the UNIX box, strange characters appear in the script like "M-^?M". I don't see the charaters if I edit the script with vi after ftping it back to UNIX; I only see the characters when using the more command.
Any information/guidance is appreciated.
Dan
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read-notepad
read-notepad(1) General Commands Manual read-notepad(1)
NAME
read-notepad - Connect to the Palm handheld device and list the record information found in the Notepad application. Alternately, if no
options are given, each record's image will be converted to files, using Portable Network Graphic (.png) or Portable Pixmap (.ppm) format.
The default type is ppm.
SYNOPSIS
read-notepad -p <port> --list --type <type>
DESCRIPTION
read-notepad allows a PalmOS 4.0 or later user to read the data stored in the Palm Notepad application and extract the data into images and
convert them to Portable Network Graphics (.png) or Portable Pixmap (.ppm) files.
OPTIONS
-p --port <port>
Use device file port to communicate with the Palm handheld device. If this is not specified, will look for the $PILOTPORT environ-
ment variable. If both are not found, will fall back to /dev/pilot.
-h --help
Display help synopsis for read-notepad
-v --version
Display version of read-notepad
-l --list
List picture information found on the device instead of converting them to image files
-t --type <type>
Specify the output picture type. Can be either "png" or "ppm".
USAGE
The program will connect to the target Palm handheld device, and list or convert the records and images found in the Palm Notepad applica-
tion to Portable Network Graphic (.png) or Portable Pixmap (.ppm) files.
KNOWN BUGS
read-notepad has no known bugs.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs at http://bugs.pilot-link.org/
AUTHOR
read-notepad was written by Angus Ainslie <angusa@deltatee.com>.
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