Manual Reference Pages  - pilot-foto (1)

NAME

pilot-foto - Palm ’Foto’ Image Installer/Remover/Fetcher/Converter

CONTENTS

Section
Synopsis
Description
Usage
Options
Examples
Problems
Author
Bugs
Copyright

SECTION

pilot-link: Userland Conduits

SYNOPSIS

pilot-foto [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-q|--quiet] [-?|--help] [--usage] [-d|--delete] [--delete-all] [-i|--install] [-l|--list] [-f|--fetch] [-F|--fetch-all] [-c|--convert]

DESCRIPTION

This is a palm conduit to fetch, install, or remove, Foto files from a Palm. It can also convert *.jpg.pdb files that have already been fetched from the Palm to jpeg files.
o Delete all, or named fotos from handheld.
o Install one, or many jpeg images to handheld.
o List all jpeg files and thumbnails on handheld.
o Fetch all jpeg files, or certain ones by name.
o Tries to detect if a file really is a jpeg and refuses to install it, if it is not.
pilot-foto allows you to do multiple operations in one sync. For instance, delete test.jpg and install test.jpg.

USAGE

pilot-foto -p <port> [options] file

OPTIONS

    PILOT-FOTO OPTIONS

-d, --delete
Delete a jpg file on the handheld

--delete-all

Delete ALL jpg files on the handheld

-i, --install

Install a jpg file

-l, --list

List all photos and thumbnails

-f, --fetch

Fetch files from the Palm

-F, --fetch-all

Fetch ALL jpg files from the Palm

-c, --convert

convert [file].jpg.pdb files to jpg

    CONDUIT OPTIONS

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

-q, --quiet

Suppress ’Hit HotSync button’ message

-v, --version

Display version of pilot-foto and exit without connecting.

    HELP OPTIONS

-h, --help
Display the help synopsis for pilot-foto and exit without connecting.

--usage

Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting.

EXAMPLES

Examples: pilot-foto -p /dev/pilot -f pilot-foto -d MyImage.jpg pilot-foto -i MyImage.jpg pilot-foto -i *.jpg pilot-foto -f MyImage pilot-foto -c MyImage.jpg.pdb

PROBLEMS

o Palm has not published their database format for the thumbnails. So, pilot-foto puts a generic penguin thumbnail for every image uploaded. Fotos can be accessed by a named list on the handheld as well as the thumbnails. This has been tried on a couple of handhelds. It is possible that a foreign palm or different model will not like it.
o To get a thumbnail image you can copy the jpegs to the memory card. If you copy them back to the handheld they will have a new thumbnail that matches the jpeg.

AUTHOR

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

BUGS

o If a jpeg is installed with the same name as one already on the palm you will have 2 thumbnails pointing to the same jpeg. The new jpeg will overwrite the old jpeg.
o If the thumbnail fails to install then the jpeg should be removed. It is not.

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-foto (1) Copyright 1996-2005 FSF
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