pilot-link(7)

NAME
pilot-link - A suite of tools for communicating with Palm handhelds, such as those made by Palm, Handspring, Handera, TRGPro, Sony or other Palm Compatible Handheld PDA device.

SECTION

Pilot-link: Overview

DESCRIPTION

The pilot-link suite of tools contains a series of conduits, libraries, and language bindings for moving information to and from your Palm device and your desktop or server/workstation system, as well as across the network.

TARGET DEVICE

The /dev/pilot fallback has been removed in v0.12. The environment variable $PILOTPORT can be set in your shell, to save specifying the port each time. A serial device specified on the command-line will be used regardless of any $PILOTPORT setting. If $PILOTPORT is not set, and -p is not supplied, all conduits in pilot-link will print the usage information. The default connection rate is 9600 baud. You are welcome to try higher baud rates (19200, 38400, 57600 or higher) by setting the $PILOTRATE environment variable, but various machines have various limitations. (Be careful about values higher than 115200 on older Linux boxes if you've been using setserial to change the multiplier).

CONDUITS

A complete list of conduits available from within the pilot-link package as of the date of this manpage. If you invoke any of the conduits from pilot-link with no command-line arguments at all, the usage summary will be printed.

Note that there are widespread changes in this release - some conduits have been merged, a lot have had new options added and some options have been renamed or removed.

  addresses

DEPRECATED: Use pilot-addresses --write|--human-readable instead.

  pilot-hinotes

Syncronize your Hi-Notes database with your desktop machine.

  install-datebook

installs a new datebook entry onto your Palm handheld.

  pilot-install-expenses

Install an expense record from various parameters and arguments passed at connection time.

  install-hinote

Install local files into your Hi-Note database on your Palm handheld.

  install-memo

Installs a new Memo Pad entry onto your Palm handheld.

  pilot-install-netsync

reads or sets the Network Preferences information on a Palm Device. Modifies the "Network Preference" settings and reports additional intormation about the Palm, such as the IP, hostname, and other information as they are set on the Palm.

  install-todo

Updates the Palm ToDo list with one new entry.

  install-todos

Updates the Palm ToDo list with entries from a local file.

  install-user

Reads or sets a Palm User and UserID on a Palm Device. Modifies the "User Preference" settings and reports additional intormation about the Palm, such as the Username and UserID as they are set on the Palm

  pilot-memos

Manipulate Memo entries from a file or your Palm device.

  pilot-addresses

Read and write address book databases to and from a Palm handheld.

Changes in 0.12: Incorporates functionality from the now deprecated addresses conduit.

  pilot-archive

DEPRECATED: Use pilot-read-todos -w --archived instead.

  pilot-clip

Get or Set the Palm Clipboard contents from STDOUT/STDIN.

  pilot-dedupe

Removes duplicate records from any Palm database.

  pilot-file

Dump application and header information from your local PRC/PDB files.

  pilot-foto

Palm 'Foto' Image Installer/Remover/Fetcher/Converter

  pilot-read-screenshot

Read screenshots from Palm (ScreenShotDB).

  pilot-schlep

Package up any arbitrary file and sync it to your Palm device.

  pilot-foto-treo600

Copies Treo 600 foto databases to current directory and extracts .jpg files from them.

  pilot-foto-treo650

Copies Treo 600 images and videos to the current directory

  pilot-wav

Decodes Palm Voice Memo files to wav files you can read

  pilot-xfer

Backup, sync, and restore databases from a Palm handheld device.

  pilot-read-expenses

Export Palm Expense application data in a text format.

  pilot-read-ical

Exports the DatebookDB and/or ToDo applications (DatebookDB.pdb and ToDoDB.pdb respectively) to Ical format. (The ical application must be installed and working on your system first. This is NOT the same thing as the iCal Calendar format, however).

  pilot-read-notepad

List the record information found in the Palm Notepad (Palm OS4 and later) application.

  pilot-read-palmpix

Convert all pictures in the files given or found on a Palm handheld.

  pilot-read-todos

Syncronize your Palm ToDo application's database with your desktop machine.

  pilot-read-veo

Synchronize your Veo Traveler databases

  pilot-reminders

Exports your Palm Datebook database into a 'remind' data file format.

TOOLS

  pilot-debugsh

Simple debugging console for a Palm Handheld device (deprecated).

  pilot-dlpsh

An interactive Desktop Link Protocol (DLP) Shell for your Palm device. This is very useful for debugging potential problems with your serial port. Query the RAM/ROM, list databases, change your UserID or Username, and many other useful functions. This is the "Swiss Army Knife" of any of pilot-link's tools.

  pilot-csd

Connection Service Daemon for Palm Devices

  pilot-getram

Retrieves the RAM image from your Palm device for use in debugging.

  pilot-getrom

Retrieves the ROM image from your Palm device for use in debugging.

  pilot-getromtoken

Reads a ROM token from a Palm Handheld device.

  pilot-nredir

Accept connection and redirect via Network Hotsync Protocol.

PERL SCRIPTS

(Available from the source code, not always installed from packages).

  pilot-ietf2datebook.pl

Converts IETF agenda format to install-datebook format

  pilot-undelete.pl

Turn previously archived records into normal (non-archived) records by resetting the "dirty" bit.

  pilot-sync-plan.pl

completely synchronize the Palm datebook with the "plan" calendar via netplan, including authenticating to the netplan server itself.

ADVANCED PROGRAMS

Some of these programs are not intended for general end-users. More detailed documentation on their usage can be obtained by reading the source of the application itself.

  ccexample

test program demonstrating C++ interface.

  iambicexample

test program demonstrating C++ interface.

  validate

experimental program to test C++ features.

OBTAINING

The most current version of the pilot-link suite of tools can be found at the pilot link homepage: http://www.pilot-link.org/

MAILING LIST

The original pilot-unix mailing list has been taken offline, and is now being hosted and maintained by David A. Desrosiers <desrod@gnu-designs.com>. The original pilot-unix mailing list was maintained by Matthew Cravit. Its mandate was:

The pilot-unix mailing list is for discussion and "idea-sharing" for those interested in using your Palm handheld with UNIX systems. This includes people who are interested in helping to develop tools to allow the Palm to operate with UNIX and other POSIX systems, and possibly to develop an SDK (Software Develop- ment Kit) for the Palm for Unix.

For more information, including how to subscribe to the pilot-link mailing lists, please visit the pilot-link mailing list subscription page:

http://lists.pilot-link.org/

pilot-link specific mailing lists are also available for Development, General, and Announce topics, at the following:

http://lists.pilot-link.org/mailman/listinfo/pilot-link-devel

http://lists.pilot-link.org/mailman/listinfo/pilot-link-general

http://lists.pilot-link.org/mailman/listinfo/pilot-link-announce

AUTHOR

Most of the pilot-link tools were written by Kenneth Albanowski. This manual page was written by David H. Silber <pilot@orbits.com>, and updated for version 0.12 of pilot-link by Neil Williams < linux@codehelp.co.uk > .

Current maintainer of pilot-link as of the authoring of this manpage is David A. Desrosiers <desrod@gnu-designs.com>.

Any questions or problems with pilot-link should be directed at the various pilot-link mailing lists or to the irc channel dedicated to supporting pilot-link at irc.pilot-link.org in your irc application (not a web browser).

PATCHES

All patches you wish to submit should be sent to <patches@pilot-link.org> directly, with a brief explanation of what the patch adds or fixes. Please make sure to send your patched in unified diff format (diff -u).

SEE ALSO

 pilot-addresses(1), pilot-dlpsh(1), pilot-hinotes(1), pilot-ietf2datebook(1), pilot-install-datebook(1), pilot-install-expenses(1), pilot-install-hinote(1), pilot-install-memo(1), pilot-install-netsync(1), pilot-install-user(1), pilot-getrom(1), pilot-getram(1), pilot-addresses(1), pilot-xfer(1), pilot-read-ical(1), pilot-read-notepad(1), pilot-read-palmpix(1)

David Silber <pilot@orbits.com> has written a Pilot HOWTO, which you can find at http://www.sgmltools.org/HOWTO/Pilot-HOWTO/t1.html