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-foto-treo600
133 Copies Treo 600 foto databases to current directory and extracts .jpg
134 files from them.
135 pilot-foto-treo650
138 Copies Treo 600 images and videos to the current directory
139 pilot-wav
142 Decodes Palm Voice Memo files to wav files you can read
143 pilot-xfer
146 Backup, sync, and restore databases from a Palm handheld device.
147 pilot-read-expenses
150 Export Palm Expense application data in a text format.
151 pilot-read-ical
154 Exports the DatebookDB and/or ToDo applications (DatebookDB.pdb and
155 ToDoDB.pdb respectively) to Ical format. (The ical application must be
156 installed and working on your system first. This is NOT the same thing
157 as the iCal Calendar format, however).
158 pilot-read-notepad
161 List the record information found in the Palm Notepad (Palm OS4 and
162 later) application.
163 pilot-read-palmpix
166 Convert all pictures in the files given or found on a Palm handheld.
167 pilot-read-todos
170 Syncronize your Palm ToDo application's database with your desktop
171 machine.
172 pilot-read-veo
175 Synchronize your Veo Traveler databases
176 pilot-reminders
179 Exports your Palm Datebook database into a 'remind' data file format.
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183 pilot-debugsh
184 Simple debugging console for a Palm Handheld device (deprecated).
185 pilot-dlpsh
188 An interactive Desktop Link Protocol (DLP) Shell for your Palm device.
189 This is very useful for debugging potential problems with your serial
190 port. Query the RAM/ROM, list databases, change your UserID or User‐
191 name, and many other useful functions. This is the "Swiss Army Knife"
192 of any of pilot-link's tools.
193 pilot-csd
196 Connection Service Daemon for Palm Devices
197 pilot-getram
200 Retrieves the RAM image from your Palm device for use in debugging.
201 pilot-getrom
204 Retrieves the ROM image from your Palm device for use in debugging.
205 pilot-getromtoken
208 Reads a ROM token from a Palm Handheld device.
209 pilot-nredir
212 Accept connection and redirect via Network Hotsync Protocol.
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216 (Available from the source code, not always installed from packages).
217 pilot-ietf2datebook.pl
220 Converts IETF agenda format to install-datebook format
221 pilot-undelete.pl
224 Turn previously archived records into normal (non-archived) records by
225 resetting the "dirty" bit.
226 pilot-sync-plan.pl
229 completely synchronize the Palm datebook with the "plan" calendar via
230 netplan, including authenticating to the netplan server itself.
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234 Some of these programs are not intended for general end-users. More
235 detailed documentation on their usage can be obtained by reading the
236 source of the application itself.
237 ccexample
240 test program demonstrating C++ interface.
241 iambicexample
244 test program demonstrating C++ interface.
245 validate
248 experimental program to test C++ features.
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252 The most current version of the pilot-link suite of tools can be found
253 at the pilot link homepage: http://www.pilot-link.org/
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257 The original pilot-unix mailing list has been taken offline, and is now
258 being hosted and maintained by David A. Desrosiers
259 <desrod@gnu-designs.com>. The original pilot-unix mailing list was
260 maintained by Matthew Cravit. Its mandate was:
261 The pilot-unix mailing list is for discussion and "idea-sharing" for
264 those interested in using your Palm handheld with UNIX systems. This
265 includes people who are interested in helping to develop tools to allow
266 the Palm to operate with UNIX and other POSIX systems, and possibly to
267 develop an SDK (Software Develop- ment Kit) for the Palm for Unix.
268 For more information, including how to subscribe to the pilot-link
271 mailing lists, please visit the pilot-link mailing list subscription
272 page:
273 http://lists.pilot-link.org/
276 pilot-link specific mailing lists are also available for Development,
279 General, and Announce topics, at the following:
280 http://lists.pilot-link.org/mailman/listinfo/pilot-link-devel
283 http://lists.pilot-link.org/mailman/listinfo/pilot-link-general
286 http://lists.pilot-link.org/mailman/listinfo/pilot-link-announce
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292 Most of the pilot-link tools were written by Kenneth Albanowski. This
293 manual page was written by David H. Silber <pilot@orbits.com>, and
294 updated for version 0.12 of pilot-link by Neil Williams < linux@code‐
295 help.co.uk > .
296 Current maintainer of pilot-link as of the authoring of this manpage is
299 David A. Desrosiers <desrod@gnu-designs.com>.
300 Any questions or problems with pilot-link should be directed at the
303 various pilot-link mailing lists or to the irc channel dedicated to
304 supporting pilot-link at irc.pilot-link.org in your irc application
305 (not a web browser).
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309 All patches you wish to submit should be sent to
310 <patches@pilot-link.org> directly, with a brief explanation of what the
311 patch adds or fixes. Please make sure to send your patched in unified
312 diff format (diff -u).
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316 pilot-addresses(1), pilot-dlpsh(1), pilot-hinotes(1), pilot-ietf2date‐
317 book(1), pilot-install-datebook(1), pilot-install-expenses(1),
318 pilot-install-hinote(1), pilot-install-memo(1), pilot-install-net‐
319 sync(1), pilot-install-user(1), pilot-getrom(1), pilot-getram(1),
320 pilot-addresses(1), pilot-xfer(1), pilot-read-ical(1),
321 pilot-read-notepad(1), pilot-read-palmpix(1)
322 David Silber <pilot@orbits.com> has written a Pilot HOWTO, which you
325 can find at http://www.sgmltools.org/HOWTO/Pilot-HOWTO/t1.html
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