Manual Reference Pages  - pi-getromtoken (1)

NAME

pi-getromtoken - Reads a ROM token from a Palm Handheld device.

CONTENTS

Section
Synopsis
Description
Options
Usage
Licensing
Author
Bugs
Copyright

SECTION

pilot-link: Tools

SYNOPSIS

pi-getromtoken [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-q|--quiet] [-?|--help] [--usage] [-t|--token token] [-s|--sysinfo] [--ram] [--rom] [filename]

DESCRIPTION

Tokens you may currently extract are:
adcc: Entropy for internal A->D convertor calibration
irda: Present only on memory card w/IrDA support
snum: Device serial number (from Memory Card Flash ID)

pi-getromtoken is used to fetch the ROM from your Palm handheld for use in debugging Palm applications through the use of POSE, the Palm OS Emulator application.

Note, because pi-getrom uses the low-level RPC protocol to fetch the ROM image, and the new OS5 devices do not use this protocol, you currently cannot fetch an OS5 ROM image using this utility. This will be updated in a future release to handle fetching OS5 ROM images, using the debugger protocol.

OPTIONS

    PI-GETROMTOKEN OPTIONS

-t, --token token
A ROM token to read (i.e. snum)

-s, --sysinfo

Print SysInfo

--ram

Read RAM

--rom

Read ROM

<filename>

Write the ROM image to the file named by <filename>. If this is omitted, the filename will be written out as the rom version name as follows: ’pilot-$VERSION.rom’, where an OS 3.5 image would be written as the filename of ’pilot-3.5.0.rom’.

    CONDUIT OPTIONS

-p, --port <port>
Use device file <port> to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this is not specified, pi-getrom will look for the $PILOTPORT environment variable. If neither are found or supplied, pi-getrom will print the usage information.

-q, --quiet

Suppress ’Hit HotSync button’ message

-v, --version

Display version of pi-getrom and exit without connecting.

    HELP OPTIONS

-h, --help
Display the help synopsis for pi-getrom and exit without connecting.

--usage

Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting.

USAGE

Connect to a target Palm handheld and fetch the ROM for use in debugging Palm applications through the use of POSE, the Palm OS Emulator or with the CoPilot application (deprecated).

LICENSING

Warning: Please completely back up your Palm this program! The developers of pilot-link are not responsible for any data loss that may occur from the use of this application.

Use of this program MAY place you in violation of your license agreement with Palmsource, Inc. or other OEM partners. Please read your Palm documentation (specifically the "Software License Agreement") before running this program.

AUTHOR

pi-getrom was written by Owen Stenseth.

This manual page was written by Neil Williams linux@codehelp.co.uk

BUGS

    KNOWN BUGS

pi-getrom does not work with OS5 devices as yet, due to changes in the architecture and design of the Palm HotSync protocol and file type changes from m68k to ARM. Other than that, pi-getrom has no known bugs at this time.

    REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs at http://bugs.pilot-link.org/.

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 MERCHANTABILITY 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., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

SEE ALSO

pi-getram(1), pilot-link(7).


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