J-PILOT(1)

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version 1.8.2 · 3 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

👑 J-PILOT 👑 (that's the jpilot command, bestie, section 1 of the General Commands Manual)

okay so picture this: it's 2005, you've got a Palm Pilot in your bag, and you want a desktop buddy to keep all your stuff in sync. that's literally jpilot. let's get into it 💖

✨ NAME ✨

jpilot — a Palm Pilot desktop for Linux/Unix 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

jpilot [-v] [-h] [-d] [-a] [-A] [-i] [-s]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

J-Pilot is a desktop organizer application for the palm pilot and other Palm OS devices. no cap. it does basically the same stuff as the one that 3Com/Palm ships out themselves — same energy, but it's yours and it's open ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -v — shows you the version and then dips. bye 👋
  • -h — shows you the help and then dips. also bye 👋
  • -d — dumps debug info to stdout. it's giving "tell me everything" 💀
  • -a — ignores the alarms you missed since the last time the program ran. ghosted them, respectfully 🙈
  • -A — ignores ALL alarms, past and future. full alarm blackout, no survivors 👑
  • -i — makes jpilot iconify itself right when it launches. tiny little window moment 🎀
  • -s — kicks off a sync on the jpilot instance that's already running. get in sync bestie 🌈
⚠️ real talk: if you've got more than one jpilot running at the same time, the sync may not work as expected — because literally nothing is done to support a multi-instance configuration. it's not built for that, it's not gonna pretend it is 💀

🌱 ENVIRONMENT 🌱

the PILOTPORT and PILOTRATE environment variables are what you use to say which port to sync on and at what speed. set the vibes, basically.

if PILOTPORT isn't set, it defaults to /dev/pilot. that's the fallback, that's the home base 🏠

💀 BUGS 💀

see /usr/share/doc/jpilot/BUGS — yes, they really put the bug list in a file, go read it 📖

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

jpilot-sync(1)

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Judd Montgomery <judd@jpilot.org> — the main character who made this whole thing happen 👑

November 22, 2005 is when this page was dated, and the whole thing came out of the General Commands Manual for J-Pilot, version whatever-the-source-said — mwah, iconic, periodt 💅✨

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