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NAME

pilot-archive - Exports any ToDo records marked as "Archived" on your Palm to CSV format.

CONTENTS

Section
Synopsis
Description
Options
Usage
Examples
Author
Copyright

SECTION

pilot-link: Userland Conduits

SYNOPSIS

pilot-archive [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-q|--quiet] [-?|--help][--usage]

DESCRIPTION

pilot-archive is used to print records marked as "Archive to Desktop" on your Palm handheld to a generic CSV format, which can be used to create "archive" files on the desktop, if you choose to do so.

When you delete data on your Palm device, whether it in in the Datebook or ToDo or other application, the Palm will prompt you to "archive" these deleted records. With pilot-archive, you can store and maintain those deleted records, if you wish.

OPTIONS

-p, --port <port>
Use device file <port> to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this is not specified, will look for the $PILOTPORT environment variable. If neither are found or supplied, pilot-archive will fall back to /dev/pilot.

-h, --help

Display the help synopsis for pilot-archive and exit without connecting.

-q, --quiet

Suppress ’Hit HotSync button’ message

-v, --version

Display version of pilot-archive and exit without connecting.

--usage

Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting.

USAGE

Connect to a target Palm handheld and return the "archived" (deleted) records in your ToDo database in a common, generic CSV format, which can be used to create "archive" files on the desktop.

pilot-archive only speaks to the ToDoDB.pdb file at this time, but adding support for the other applications is very trivial. Just look at the code and add your database connection as required.

EXAMPLES

To output the "deleted" items on your Palm handheld into CSV format with pilot-archive, simply supply the port option to pilot-archive and connect to your Palm device as follows:

pilot-archive -p /dev/pilot

pilot-archive will connect to your Palm device, and output something similar to the following:

"Category", "Technology", "Priority", "1", "Completed", "No", "Due", "Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 2003 ", "Description", "Mail expense forms to work", "Note", "",

AUTHOR

pilot-archive was written by David A. Desrosiers

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

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

pilot-link(7).


pilot-link 0.12.0-pre4 pilot-archive (1) Copyright 1996-2005 FSF
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