pilot-foto(1)

💖 pilot-foto — the Palm 'Foto' Image Installer/Remover/Fetcher/Converter 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to pilot-foto(1) from the PILOT-LINK manual, section pilot-link: Userland conduits 🎀 this little icon handles literally everything photo-related for your Palm handheld, and we're gonna go through it together, no cap ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pilot-foto [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-?|--help] [-q|--quiet]
[--usage] [-d|--delete] [--delete-all] [-i|--install] [-l|--list]
[-f|--fetch] [-F|--fetch-all] [-c|--convert]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this is a palm conduit that fetches, installs, or removes Foto files from a Palm, and it can also convert *.jpg.pdb files that you already fetched off the Palm into jpeg files. it's giving multitasker 💅 here's the whole vibe:

• delete all the fotos, or just named ones, from the handheld
• install one jpeg image, or many, onto the handheld
• list all the jpeg files and thumbnails chillin' on the handheld
• fetch all the jpeg files, or certain ones by name
• it tries to detect whether a file really is a jpeg, and flat-out refuses to install it if it isn't 🙅‍♀️

and the iconic part: pilot-foto lets you do multiple operations in one sync. like, for instance, delete test.jpg and install test.jpg. both. in one go. main character energy fr fr 👑

🌸 USAGE 🌸

pilot-foto -p <port> [options] file

💜 OPTIONS 💜

🍓 pilot-foto options

• -d, --delete — delete a jpg file on the handheld
• --delete-all — delete ALL the jpg files on the handheld 😭 (yes, all of them)
• -i, --install — install a jpg file
• -l, --list — list all the photos and thumbnails
• -f, --fetch — fetch files from the Palm
• -F, --fetch-all — fetch ALL the jpg files from the Palm 🔥
• -c, --convert — convert [file].jpg.pdb files to jpg

🧚 Conduit Options

• -p, --port port — use the device file port to communicate with the Palm handheld. if you don't specify it, pilot-foto will look for the $PILOTPORT environment variable. and if neither of those are found or supplied? pilot-foto just prints the usage information. that's the whole plan 💀
• -q, --quiet — suppress the 'Hit HotSync button' message
• -v, --version — display the version of pilot-foto and exit without connecting

🎀 Help Options

• -h, --help — display the help synopsis for pilot-foto and exit without connecting
• --usage — display a brief usage message and exit without connecting

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Examples:
pilot-foto -p /dev/pilot -f pilot-foto -d MyImage.jpg
pilot-foto -i MyImage.jpg
pilot-foto -i *.jpg
pilot-foto -f MyImage
pilot-foto -c MyImage.jpg.pdb

🙈 PROBLEMS 🙈

• Palm has not published their database format for the thumbnails. so, pilot-foto puts a generic penguin thumbnail for every image uploaded 🐧 iconic honestly. Fotos can be accessed by a named list on the handheld as well as the thumbnails. this has been tried on a couple of handhelds. it is possible that a foreign palm or a different model will not like it 😬
• to get a thumbnail image you can copy the jpegs to the memory card. if you copy them back to the handheld they will have a new thumbnail that matches the jpeg ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was converted to XML by Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk> 🫶

💀 BUGS 💀

• if a jpeg is installed with the same name as one already on the palm, you will have 2 thumbnails pointing to the same jpeg. the new jpeg will overwrite the old jpeg. messy but that's the tea 🍵
• if the thumbnail fails to install then the jpeg should be removed. it is not. 😭

we have an online bug tracker. using this is the only way to ensure that your bugs are recorded and that we can track them until they are resolved or closed. reporting bugs via email, while easy, is not very useful in terms of accountability. please point your browser to http://bugs.pilot-link.org: http://bugs.pilot-link.org and report your bugs and issues there 🌸

⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

this program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. see the GNU General Public License for more details.

you should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

pilot-link(7)

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you're so ready 💖 this was pilot-foto(1), version 0.13.0, copyright 1996-2007 FSF — go forth and sync those jpegs, mwah 🎀✨