pilot-install-user(1)

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💖 pilot-install-user(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the pilot-link girlies — this one lives in the pilot-link: Userland conduits section, and the manual name is PILOT-LINK. that's the vibe. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

pilot-install-user — Reads or sets a Palm User and UserID on a Palm Device.

like. it reads your Palm's lil identity. or it changes it. both slay. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pilot-install-user [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-?|--help] [--usage]
[-q|--quiet] [-u|--user  username] [-i|--id  userid] [-l|--list]

copy that exactly bestie, i'm not about to let you typo your way through this 💅

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

pilot-install-user allows the user to read or change the User and UserID information on the Palm handheld.

that's it. that's the whole job. it's giving "identity management but make it 2007." 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

okay the original manpage has these weird <variablelist> XML artifacts everywhere — iconic mess honestly — but here's the actual tea, option by option, nothing skipped. 🍓

🎀 pilot-install-user options

  • -u, --user username — set the username. use quotes for spaces in the username, as in "John Q. Public". yes you need the quotes, the shell will not save you. no cap.
  • -i, --id userid — set the 5-digit numeric UserID on the device (used for many Palm application registration methods). five digits. numerically. do not get cute with it.
  • -l, --list — list the current username and ID. this is the default behavior, so if you do nothing it still does something. main character energy tbh.

💜 Conduit Options

  • -p, --port port — use device file port to communicate with the Palm handheld. if this is not specified, pilot-install-user will look for the $PILOTPORT environment variable. if neither are found or supplied, pilot-install-user will print the usage information. so it's not gonna just guess your port, it's gonna shame you with usage text. 😭
  • -q, --quiet — suppress 'Hit HotSync button' message. for when you simply cannot with the reminder. 🙈
  • -v, --version — display version of pilot-install-user and exit without connecting. no device required, no vibes required. ⭐

🧚 Help Options

  • -h, --help — display the help synopsis for pilot-install-user and exit without connecting. (the synopsis line up top says -?|--help, so, yeah, both exist in this house. iykyk.)
  • --usage — display a brief usage message and exit without connecting. brief. usage. done.

🦋 USAGE 🦋

The program will connect to a target Palm handheld, and read or set the Palm UserName specified or display the Palm username and UserID if none is specified.

lowkey the whole thing: it connects, then it either reads or sets your Palm UserName, or — if you specified nothing — it just shows you the Palm username and UserID. default behavior. list. periodt. 🔥

👑 AUTHOR 👑

pilot-install-user was originally written by D. Jeff Dionne <jeff@RyeHam.ee.ryerson.ca>.

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

shoutout to the OGs fr fr 🫶

💀 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.

so like. use the tracker. emails are cute but they do not count. accountability understood. 💅

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.

(the all-caps warranty bits are REAL bestie — no warranty, none, zero. read them twice. 😭)

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

ok that's the page!! go forth and name your Palm 🌸

so yeah — that was pilot-install-user(1) from pilot-link, version 0.13.0, Copyright 1996-2007 FSF. signing off bestie, mwah 💖🎀✨

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