pilot-install-dat(1)

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pilot-install-dat(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the PILOT-LINK manual page. This is all about pilot-install-datebook, the conduit that installs datebook entries onto your Palm handheld. It's giving retro-PDA main character energy, and we're gonna go through every single detail together. no cap. ✨

NAME 🎀

pilot-install-datebook — installs one or more new datebook entries onto your Palm handheld. slay.

SECTION 🌸

pilot-link: Userland conduits

SYNOPSIS 🦋

 pilot-install-datebook [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-?|--help]
[-q|--quiet] [--usage] [-r|--read  file]

DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so pilot-install-datebook lets you create one or more datebook entries from one or more source files.

The source file format is literally one datebook entry per line, containing four tab separated fields. Those fields are: start date/time, end date/time, alarm settings, and the description of datebook entry. Also, heads up: this program doesn't yet support repeated entries. The date and time must be in a format understood by parsedate.y. At the very least, the following two formats are understood:

August 11, 1997 0800 GMT+300

1997/08/11 08:22:33 GMT+300

If either one of the date and time fields is empty, the entry is installed without time. If the alarm field is empty, the entry is installed without setting any alarms. The alarm field can contain numbers followed by "m" (minutes), "h" (hours), or "d" (days). 🫶

OPTIONS 💅

pilot-install-datebook options 🎀

  • -r, --read — Read entries from file.

Conduit Options 🔥

  • -p, --port <port> — Use device file <port> to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this is not specified, pilot-install-datebook will look for the $PILOTPORT environment variable. If neither are found, pilot-install-datebook will print the usage information.
  • -q, --quiet — Suppress 'Hit HotSync button' message.
  • --version — Display the copyright information, version number, license details and build details and exit without connecting.

Help options 🫶

  • -?, --help — Show the help message and exit without connecting.
  • --usage — Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting.

USAGE 🌈

The program will connect to the target Palm device, and create Datebook entries based on the datebook-formatted file given on the commandline onto the Palm handheld (into the DatebookDB.pdb file). iconic behavior, honestly. 👑

EXAMPLES 🍓

quick legend: [__TAB__] = tab, [__NL__] = newline in these examples:

1997/08/11 0800 GMT+300 [__TAB__] 1997/08/11 0900 GMT+300 [__TAB__]
[__TAB__] IETF Registration [__NL__]

August 11, 1997 0900 GMT+300 [__TAB__] August 11, 1997 0930 GMT+300 [__TAB__] 2m [__TAB__] Introductions [__NL__]

AUTHOR 👑

pilot-install-datebook was originally written by Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi>. This program was based on pilot-install-todos program written by Robert A. Kaplan <kaplan@openmarket.com>.

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

BUGS 💀

Known Bugs 🙈

If no timezone is given, pilot-install-datebook will assume the time is in GMT and it will convert it to localtime. If you don't want to create timezone entries for all begin and end times, set the TZ environment variable to GMT before running this program. consider this your dramatic but useful warning, bestie. 😭

Reporting Bugs 😭

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.

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-install-todos(1), pilot-link(7).

mwah 💋 that's the whole page. this one is version 0.13.0, the source/copyright vibe is Copyright 1996-2007 FSF, and the manual name is pilot-install-dat(1). go be iconic with your Palm, bestie ✨🫶

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