otl2pdb(1) General Commands Manual otl2pdb(1)NAME
otl2pdb - converts vimoutliner outline to AddressDB Palm file.
SYNOPSIS
otl2pdb [filename]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the otl2pdb Perl script.
otl2pdb is a perl(1) script that takes an outline from vimoutliner(1) with contact information and creates an AddressDB.pdb file for a
Palm.
For now this script can only create a .pdb file. You then have to use a syncing tool to load it into your Palm. I recommend the pilot-
link package for linux.
The format of the contact outline is the following:
$category
$record_name
c:$cell
a:$address
....
You can have as many categories and records(entries) as you want. The following are valid fields for a record with the necessary text to
indicate them in quotes:
'a:'-address
'c:'-cell
'e:'-email
'h:'-home phone
'n:'-note
'web:'-website
'w:'-work phone
Also, each record's category is left as 'Unfiled' as I can't get the record's category to write correctly.
SEE ALSO vim(1), perl(1)REQUIREMENTS
This program uses the Palm::Address perl module, which is available on CPAN.
TIPS
If using the pilot-link package:
-load the pdb with 'pilot-xfer -i AddressDB.pdb'
-specify the serial port if other than /dev/pilot (which will usually be the case
unless you link to it) with -p in the above command; usually this is /dev/ttyS0 in linux
AUTHOR
The original version was written by Gabriel Walker <cldwalker@chwhat.com>.
If you like using perl, linux, vim and databases to make your life easier (not lazier ;) check out my website at http://www.chwhat.com.
<http://www.chwhat.com>
This manual page was written by Matej Cepl <matej@ceplovi.cz> (using perldoc(1) part of the documented script), for the Debian GNU/Linux
system (but may be used by others).
January 13, 2005 otl2pdb(1)
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Address(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Address(3pm)NAME
Palm::Address - Handler for Palm AddressBook databases
SYNOPSIS
use Palm::Address;
DESCRIPTION
The Address PDB handler is a helper class for the Palm::PDB package. It parses AddressBook databases.
AppInfo block
The AppInfo block begins with standard category support. See Palm::StdAppInfo for details.
Other fields include:
$pdb->{appinfo}{lastUniqueID}
$pdb->{appinfo}{dirtyFields}
I don't know what these are.
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{name}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{firstName}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{company}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{phone1}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{phone2}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{phone3}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{phone4}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{phone5}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{phone6}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{phone7}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{phone8}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{address}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{city}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{state}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{zipCode}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{country}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{title}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{custom1}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{custom2}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{custom3}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{custom4}
$pdb->{appinfo}{fieldLabels}{note}
These are the names of the various fields in the address record.
$pdb->{appinfo}{country}
An integer: the code for the country for which these labels were designed. The country name is available as
$Palm::Address::countries[$pdb->{appinfo}{country}];
$pdb->{appinfo}{misc}
An integer. The least-significant bit is a flag that indicates whether the database should be sorted by company. The other bits are
reserved.
Sort block
$pdb->{sort}
This is a scalar, the raw data of the sort block.
Records
$record = $pdb->{records}[N];
$record->{fields}{name}
$record->{fields}{firstName}
$record->{fields}{company}
$record->{fields}{phone1}
$record->{fields}{phone2}
$record->{fields}{phone3}
$record->{fields}{phone4}
$record->{fields}{phone5}
$record->{fields}{address}
$record->{fields}{city}
$record->{fields}{state}
$record->{fields}{zipCode}
$record->{fields}{country}
$record->{fields}{title}
$record->{fields}{custom1}
$record->{fields}{custom2}
$record->{fields}{custom3}
$record->{fields}{custom4}
$record->{fields}{note}
These are scalars, the values of the various address book fields.
$record->{phoneLabel}{phone1}
$record->{phoneLabel}{phone2}
$record->{phoneLabel}{phone3}
$record->{phoneLabel}{phone4}
$record->{phoneLabel}{phone5}
Most fields in an AddressBook record are straightforward: the "name" field always gives the person's last name.
The "phoneN" fields, on the other hand, can mean different things in different records. There are five such fields in each record, each of
which can take on one of eight different values: "Work", "Home", "Fax", "Other", "E-mail", "Main", "Pager" and "Mobile".
The $record->{phoneLabel}{phone*} fields are integers. Each one is an index into @Palm::Address::phoneLabels, and indicates which
particular type of phone number each of the $record->{phone*} fields represents.
$record->{phoneLabel}{display}
Like the phone* fields above, this is an index into @Palm::Address::phoneLabels. It indicates which of the phone* fields to display in the
list view.
$record->{phoneLabel}{reserved}
I don't know what this is.
METHODS
new
$pdb = new Palm::Address;
Create a new PDB, initialized with the various Palm::Address fields and an empty record list.
Use this method if you're creating an Address PDB from scratch.
new_Record
$record = $pdb->new_Record;
Creates a new Address record, with blank values for all of the fields. The AppInfo block will contain only an "Unfiled" category, with ID
0.
"new_Record" does not add the new record to $pdb. For that, you want "$pdb->append_Record".
SOURCE CONTROL
The source is in Github:
http://github.com/briandfoy/p5-Palm/tree/master
AUTHOR
Alessandro Zummo, "<a.zummo@towertech.it>"
Currently maintained by brian d foy, "<bdfoy@cpan.org>"
SEE ALSO Palm::PDB(3)Palm::StdAppInfo(3)BUGS
The new() method initializes the AppInfo block with English labels and "United States" as the country.
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