pilot-read-notepad(1)

✨ pilot-read-notepad(1) ✨

ok so this is a page from the PILOT-LINK manual, and it's literally about pilot-read-notepad — yes the name is a mouthful but she's iconic, don't come for her 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

pilot-read-notepad — lists all the record info it finds in the Palm Notepad 👑

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🌸 SECTION 🌸

pilot-link: Userland conduits — that's the vibe check, bestie, this is a userland conduit 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pilot-read-notepad [-p|--port <port>] [-q|--quiet] [--version]
[-?|--help] [--usage] [-l|--list] [-t|--type  ppm|png]

that's the whole shape of it, no cap ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the tea ☕ — pilot-read-notepad connects to your Palm handheld and lists the record information that's chilling inside the Palm Notepad application (which, btw, only exists on OS4 and newer devices, so if you're on something ancient, respectfully, no 🫶).

And if you pass --type, each record's image gets converted into actual files, using either Portable Network Graphic (.png) or Portable Pixmap (.ppm) format. slay 💅

Basically: pilot-read-notepad lets a user running PalmOS 4.0 or later read the data stored in the Palm Notepad application, pull that data out into images, and convert them into Portable Network Graphics (.png) or Portable Pixmap (.ppm) files. it's giving extraction but make it cute ✨

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🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

⭐ pilot-read-notepad options

• -l, --list — list the picture info it finds on the device instead of converting anything into image files. lowkey the "just show me, don't touch" mode 🙈
• *-t, --type *type — specify the output picture type. it can be either "png" or "ppm". those are your only two choices, bestie, pick wisely 🎀

🔥 Conduit Options

• *-p, --port *port — use device file <port> to talk to the Palm handheld. if you don't specify it, pilot-read-notepad will go looking for the $PILOTPORT environment variable instead 👀. and if neither of those turn up or get supplied? pilot-read-notepad just prints the usage information at you. not me getting ghosted by a port 😭
• -q, --quiet — suppresses the 'Hit HotSync button' message. for when you simply cannot with the chatter 🤫
• -v, --version — display the version of pilot-read-notepad and exit without connecting. no Palm, no problem 💅

🧚 Help Options

• -h, --help — display the help synopsis for pilot-read-notepad and exit without connecting. the classic "wait what does this do again" button 🫶
• --usage — display a brief usage message and exit without connecting. short and sweet, fr fr ⭐

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💜 USAGE 💜

the program will connect to the target Palm handheld, and then either list or convert the records and images it finds in the Palm Notepad application into Portable Network Graphic (.png) or Portable Pixmap (.ppm) files. that's it, that's the whole ritual ✨

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

pilot-read-notepad was originally written by Angus Ainslie <angusa@deltatee.com> — absolute legend, we stan 🫶

This manual page was converted to XML by Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk> — also iconic for doing the paperwork 💅

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💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

ok so there's an online bug tracker, and using it is the only way to make sure your bugs actually get recorded and that they can track them until they're resolved or closed. reporting bugs via email? while easy, it's not very useful in terms of accountability — ngl, the tracker is the main character here 👑

Please point your browser to http://bugs.pilot-link.org: http://bugs.pilot-link.org and report your bugs and issues there. yes that's the URL written twice, don't @ me, that's just how it is 🙈

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🍓 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. free software rights, periodt ✨

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. like, zero warranty, bestie, don't come crying to the GPL 😭

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.

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

pilot-link(7) — go read that one next, iykyk 💖

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and that's a wrap, bestie 🎀 this whole page is from pilot-link 0.13.0, with Copyright 1996-2007 FSF, and it's the pilot-read-notepad(1) page itself — slay, go extract some notepad images 💅✨🦋