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NAME

read-todos - Syncronize your Palm ToDo application’s database with your desktop machine.

CONTENTS

Section
Synopsis
Description
Options
Usage
Examples
Author
Copyright

SECTION

pilot-link: Userland Conduits

SYNOPSIS

read-todos [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-q|--quiet] [-?|--help] [--usage] [-f|--file file] [-A|--archived]

DESCRIPTION

read-todos will read the ToDo database on the Palm handheld, or read the ToDoDB.pdb file directly from disk on your desktop machine, and print the contents to STDOUT (generally the screen).

OPTIONS

    READ-TODOS OPTION

-f, --file file
Save ToDO entries in file instead of STDOUT

-A, --archived

Write archived entries only, in human-readable format

    CONDUIT OPTIONS

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

-q, --quiet

Suppress ’Hit HotSync button’ message

-v, --version

Display version of read-todos and exit without connecting.

    HELP OPTIONS

-h, --help
Display the help synopsis for read-todos and exit without connecting.

--usage

Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting.

USAGE

Connect to a target Palm handheld and read the ToDo database, or read the ToDoDB.pdb file from disk and print the entries found to STDOUT.

EXAMPLES

Read the on-Palm ToDo database, and dump to STDOUT.

read-todos -p /dev/pilot

Read the ToDoDB.pdb file on disk, and dump to STDOUT

read-todos -f ToDoDB.pdb

AUTHOR

read-todos was originally written by Kenneth Albanowski

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

install-todo (1), install-todos (1), pilot-link(7)


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