pilot-install-expenses(1)

1pilot-install-exp(1)              PILOT-LINK              pilot-install-exp(1)
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NAME

6       pilot-install-expenses  -  Install  an expense record entries onto your
7       Palm handheld device.
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SECTION

10       pilot-link: Userland conduits
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SYNOPSIS

14        pilot-install-expenses  [-p|--port  <port>]  [--version]  [-q|--quiet]
15       [-?|--help]   [--usage]   [-t|--ptype    STRING]  [-e|--etype   STRING]
16       [-a|--amount   STRING]  [-V|--vendor    STRING]   [-i|--city    STRING]
17       [-g|--guests    NUMBER]  [-n|--note   STRING]  [-c|--category   STRING]
18       [--replace]
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DESCRIPTION

22        pilot-install-expenses allows a Palm handheld with the Expense  appli‐
23       cation to have expense records synchronized to it from the commandline.
24       You can pass any  of  the  fields  (except  categories,  currently)  to
25       pilot-install-expenses  and  create  new  expense  records on your Palm
26       handheld.
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OPTIONS

30   pilot-install-expenses options
31                               -t,
32                               --ptype STRING
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35       Add entries to the "Payment Type" field. These can be in  the  form  of
36       "Cash",  "Cheque"  and others. See the Expense application on your Palm
37       device for full details on payment types.
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40       Note that the long name for this option has been renamed since 0.11.8.
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43                               --etype STRING
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46       Add entries to the "Expense Type" field. These can be in  the  form  of
47       Airfare,  Meals,  and  Others. See the Expense application on your Palm
48       device for full details on expense types.
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51                               --amount STRING
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54       Add currency amount entries to the "Amount" field. These can be in  the
55       form of 1.00 or "$10.00" and so on. See the Expense application on your
56       Palm device for full details on amount types.
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59                               --vendor STRING
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62       Add entries to the "Vendor" field. These are free-form values, and  can
63       be  the  name  of a restaurant, an airline, or any other text value you
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67                               --guests DIGIT
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70       Add the number of attendees to the expense record, identified by DIGIT.
71       If  you  ate  lunch with four (4) additional people, you would put five
72       (5) here, a numeric value.
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75                               --city STRING
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78       Add entries to the "City"  field  in  the  expense  record.  These  are
79       free-form  values,  and  can be the name of the location, city, or town
80       that the expense record occured in.
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83                               --note STRING
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86       Add a "Note" entry to the expense record. These are  free-form  values,
87       and can be some notes related to the expense entry.
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93       Install  entries  into the named category defined here. See the Expense
94       application on your Palm device for full details on using  these  cate‐
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100       Replace the entry found in the named category identified by the --cate‐
101       gory option
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104       Note that the short name for this option has been removed since 0.11.8
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107   Conduit Options
108                               -p, --port
109                               <port>
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112       Use device file <port> to communicate with the Palm handheld.  If  this
113       is  not specified, pilot-install-expenses will look for the  $PILOTPORT
114       environment   variable.   If   neither   are   found    or    supplied,
115       pilot-install-expenses will print the usage information.
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117                               -q,
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121       Suppress 'Hit HotSync button' message.
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123                               --version
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126       Display version information for pilot-install-expenses and exit without
127       connecting.
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130   Help options
131                               -h, --help
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134       Display the help synopsis for pilot-install-expenses and  exit  without
135       connecting.
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137                               --usage
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140       Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting.
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USAGE

144       The program will connect to the Palm handheld, and install entries into
145       the    Expense    application    based    on    values    passed     to
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EXAMPLE

150        pilot-install-expenses  -p  /dev/pilot  -c Unfiled -t Cash -e Meals -a
151       10.00 -V McDonalds -g 21 -l "San Francisco" -N "This is a note"
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154       Installs a new expense; you are recording having 21 guests at McDonalds
155       in  the city of San Francisco for a meal which cost 10.00 units of your
156       default currency and you added a simple note. The expense will take the
157       default date - today.
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AUTHOR

161        pilot-install-expenses  was  originally  written by community authors,
162       the original author is unknown.
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165       This manual page was converted to XML  by  Neil  Williams  <linux@code‐
166       help.co.uk>
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REPORTING BUGS

170       We  have  an  online  bug tracker. Using this is the only way to ensure
171       that your bugs are recorded and that we can track them until  they  are
172       resolved  or  closed. Reporting bugs via email, while easy, is not very
173       useful in  terms  of  accountability.  Please  point  your  browser  to
174       http://bugs.pilot-link.org:  http://bugs.pilot-link.org and report your
175       bugs and issues there.
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COPYRIGHT

179       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
180       under  the  terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
181       Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at  your
182       option) any later version.
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185       This  program  is  distributed  in the hope that it will be useful, but
186       WITHOUT ANY  WARRANTY;  without  even  the  implied  warranty  of  MER‐
187       CHANTABILITY  or  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
188       Public License for more details.
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191       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
192       with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
193       51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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