1pilot-link(7) PILOT-LINK pilot-link(7)
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6 pilot-link - A suite of tools for communicating with Palm handhelds,
7 such as those made by Palm, Handspring, Handera, TRGPro, Sony or other
8 Palm Compatible Handheld PDA device.
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11 Pilot-link: Overview
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15 The pilot-link suite of tools contains a series of conduits, libraries,
16 and language bindings for moving information to and from your Palm
17 device and your desktop or server/workstation system, as well as across
18 the network.
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22 The /dev/pilot fallback has been removed in v0.12. The environment
23 variable $PILOTPORT can be set in your shell, to save specifying the
24 port each time. A serial device specified on the command-line will be
25 used regardless of any $PILOTPORT setting. If $PILOTPORT is not set,
26 and -p is not supplied, all conduits in pilot-link will print the usage
27 information. The default connection rate is 9600 baud. You are welcome
28 to try higher baud rates (19200, 38400, 57600 or higher) by setting the
29 $PILOTRATE environment variable, but various machines have various lim‐
30 itations. (Be careful about values higher than 115200 on older Linux
31 boxes if you've been using setserial to change the multiplier).
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35 A complete list of conduits available from within the pilot-link pack‐
36 age as of the date of this manpage. If you invoke any of the conduits
37 from pilot-link with no command-line arguments at all, the usage sum‐
38 mary will be printed.
39 Note that there are widespread changes in this release - some conduits
42 have been merged, a lot have had new options added and some options
43 have been renamed or removed.
44 addresses
47 DEPRECATED: Use pilot-addresses --write|--human-readable instead.
48 pilot-hinotes
51 Syncronize your Hi-Notes database with your desktop machine.
52 install-datebook
55 installs a new datebook entry onto your Palm handheld.
56 pilot-install-expenses
59 Install an expense record from various parameters and arguments passed
60 at connection time.
61 install-hinote
64 Install local files into your Hi-Note database on your Palm handheld.
65 install-memo
68 Installs a new Memo Pad entry onto your Palm handheld.
69 pilot-install-netsync
72 reads or sets the Network Preferences information on a Palm Device.
73 Modifies the "Network Preference" settings and reports additional
74 intormation about the Palm, such as the IP, hostname, and other infor‐
75 mation as they are set on the Palm.
76 install-todo
79 Updates the Palm ToDo list with one new entry.
80 install-todos
83 Updates the Palm ToDo list with entries from a local file.
84 install-user
87 Reads or sets a Palm User and UserID on a Palm Device. Modifies the
88 "User Preference" settings and reports additional intormation about the
89 Palm, such as the Username and UserID as they are set on the Palm
90 pilot-memos
93 Manipulate Memo entries from a file or your Palm device.
94 pilot-addresses
97 Read and write address book databases to and from a Palm handheld.
98 Changes in 0.12: Incorporates functionality from the now deprecated
101 addresses conduit.
102 pilot-archive
105 DEPRECATED: Use pilot-read-todos -w --archived instead.
106 pilot-clip
109 Get or Set the Palm Clipboard contents from STDOUT/STDIN.
110 pilot-dedupe
113 Removes duplicate records from any Palm database.
114 pilot-file
117 Dump application and header information from your local PRC/PDB files.
118 pilot-foto
121 Palm 'Foto' Image Installer/Remover/Fetcher/Converter
122 pilot-read-screenshot
125 Read screenshots from Palm (ScreenShotDB).
126 pilot-schlep
129 Package up any arbitrary file and sync it to your Palm device.
130 pilot-treofoto
133 Copies Treo foto databases to current directory and extracts .jpg files
134 from them.
135 pilot-wav
138 Decodes Palm Voice Memo files to wav files you can read
139 pilot-xfer
142 Backup, sync, and restore databases from a Palm handheld device.
143 pilot-read-expenses
146 Export Palm Expense application data in a text format.
147 pilot-read-ical
150 Exports the DatebookDB and/or ToDo applications (DatebookDB.pdb and
151 ToDoDB.pdb respectively) to Ical format. (The ical application must be
152 installed and working on your system first. This is NOT the same thing
153 as the iCal Calendar format, however).
154 pilot-read-notepad
157 List the record information found in the Palm Notepad (Palm OS4 and
158 later) application.
159 pilot-read-palmpix
162 Convert all pictures in the files given or found on a Palm handheld.
163 pilot-read-todos
166 Syncronize your Palm ToDo application's database with your desktop
167 machine.
168 pilot-read-veo
171 Synchronize your Veo Traveler databases
172 pilot-reminders
175 Exports your Palm Datebook database into a 'remind' data file format.
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179 pilot-debugsh
180 Simple debugging console for a Palm Handheld device (deprecated).
181 pilot-dlpsh
184 An interactive Desktop Link Protocol (DLP) Shell for your Palm device.
185 This is very useful for debugging potential problems with your serial
186 port. Query the RAM/ROM, list databases, change your UserID or User‐
187 name, and many other useful functions. This is the "Swiss Army Knife"
188 of any of pilot-link's tools.
189 pilot-csd
192 Connection Service Daemon for Palm Devices
193 pilot-getram
196 Retrieves the RAM image from your Palm device for use in debugging.
197 pilot-getrom
200 Retrieves the ROM image from your Palm device for use in debugging.
201 pilot-getromtoken
204 Reads a ROM token from a Palm Handheld device.
205 pilot-nredir
208 Accept connection and redirect via Network Hotsync Protocol.
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212 (Available from the source code, not always installed from packages).
213 pilot-ietf2datebook.pl
216 Converts IETF agenda format to install-datebook format
217 pilot-undelete.pl
220 Turn previously archived records into normal (non-archived) records by
221 resetting the "dirty" bit.
222 pilot-sync-plan.pl
225 completely synchronize the Palm datebook with the "plan" calendar via
226 netplan, including authenticating to the netplan server itself.
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230 Some of these programs are not intended for general end-users. More
231 detailed documentation on their usage can be obtained by reading the
232 source of the application itself.
233 ccexample
236 test program demonstrating C++ interface.
237 iambicexample
240 test program demonstrating C++ interface.
241 validate
244 experimental program to test C++ features.
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248 The most current version of the pilot-link suite of tools can be found
249 at the pilot link homepage: http://www.pilot-link.org/
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253 The original pilot-unix mailing list has been taken offline, and is now
254 being hosted and maintained by David A. Desrosiers
255 <desrod@gnu-designs.com>. The original pilot-unix mailing list was
256 maintained by Matthew Cravit. Its mandate was:
257 The pilot-unix mailing list is for discussion and "idea-sharing" for
260 those interested in using your Palm handheld with UNIX systems. This
261 includes people who are interested in helping to develop tools to allow
262 the Palm to operate with UNIX and other POSIX systems, and possibly to
263 develop an SDK (Software Develop- ment Kit) for the Palm for Unix.
264 For more information, including how to subscribe to the pilot-link
267 mailing lists, please visit the pilot-link mailing list subscription
268 page:
269 http://lists.pilot-link.org/
272 pilot-link specific mailing lists are also available for Development,
275 General, and Announce topics, at the following:
276 http://lists.pilot-link.org/mailman/listinfo/pilot-link-devel
279 http://lists.pilot-link.org/mailman/listinfo/pilot-link-general
282 http://lists.pilot-link.org/mailman/listinfo/pilot-link-announce
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288 Most of the pilot-link tools were written by Kenneth Albanowski. This
289 manual page was written by David H. Silber <pilot@orbits.com>, and
290 updated for version 0.12 of pilot-link by Neil Williams < linux@code‐
291 help.co.uk > .
292 Current maintainer of pilot-link as of the authoring of this manpage is
295 David A. Desrosiers <desrod@gnu-designs.com>.
296 Any questions or problems with pilot-link should be directed at the
299 various pilot-link mailing lists or to the irc channel dedicated to
300 supporting pilot-link at irc.pilot-link.org in your irc application
301 (not a web browser).
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305 All patches you wish to submit should be sent to
306 <patches@pilot-link.org> directly, with a brief explanation of what the
307 patch adds or fixes. Please make sure to send your patched in unified
308 diff format (diff -u).
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312 pilot-addresses(1), pilot-dlpsh(1), pilot-hinotes(1), pilot-ietf2date‐
313 book(1), pilot-install-datebook(1), pilot-install-expenses(1),
314 pilot-install-hinote(1), pilot-install-memo(1), pilot-install-net‐
315 sync(1), pilot-install-user(1), pilot-getrom(1), pilot-getram(1),
316 pilot-addresses(1), pilot-xfer(1), pilot-read-ical(1),
317 pilot-read-notepad(1), pilot-read-palmpix(1)
318 David Silber <pilot@orbits.com> has written a Pilot HOWTO, which you
321 can find at http://www.sgmltools.org/HOWTO/Pilot-HOWTO/t1.html
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