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pilot-addresses(1)		   Conduits		    pilot-addresses(1)

NAME
       pilot-addresses	-  read and write address book databases to and from a
       Palm handheld, such as those made from Palm, Handspring, Handera,  TRG‐
       Pro, Sony or other Palm handheld.

SYNOPSIS
       pilot-addresses	[-p <port>] [-c <category>] [-d <category>] [-r <file>
       | -w <file>]

       (Note that not all available options are shown above)

DESCRIPTION
       pilot-addresses allows the user to read all entries in the Palm Address
       Book  application,  write  new  entries into the database, and delete a
       category or delete all entries in the database.

OPTIONS
       -p, --port <port>
	      Use device file <port> to communicate with  the  Palm  handheld.
	      If  this is not specified, will look for the $PILOTPORT environ‐
	      ment  variable.	If   both   are	  not	found	or   supplied,
	      install-expenses will fall back to /dev/pilot.

       -h, --help
	      Display the help synopsis for pilot-addresses.

       -v, --version
	      Display version of pilot-addresses.

       -a, --augment
	      Augments fields in address book records with additional informa‐
	      tion.  The augmented information is placed before and  separated
	      from the field with a semi-colon, (;).

	      Augmented information can include any of the following below.

	      <category>  # Placed in front of each record or..

	      Placed in front of each phone number field:

	      ["Work"|"Home"|"Fax"|"Other"|"E-mail"|"Main"|"Pager"|"Mobile"]

	      Empty fields are not augmented.

       -c, --category <category>
	      Install  records	to  category  <category>  by default. Normally
	      pilot-addresses uses  the	 Unfiled  category  by	default.  This
	      option  is  overridden  by  the category specified in the record
	      with the -a option.

       -d, --delcat <category>

	      Delete all records in the specified category  <category>	before
	      installing new records.

       -D, --delall
	      Delete all address book records in all categories. Obviously, be
	      very careful with this one.

       -e, --escape
	      Escape all special characters with a backslash. This enables you
	      to  read and write entries with newline characters in a field or
	      note.

       -r, --read <file>
	      Reads records from <file> and install them to the	 Palm  Address
	      Book  application.  (Use	the  -w	 <file> option to get a sample
	      "template file" for input records to see how the fields are laid
	      out).

       -t, --tdelim <delim>
	      Include  category in each record, use the delimiter specified to
	      separate all fields of a record.	Delimiters  are	 specified  as
	      follows:	3=tab, 2=;, 1=,.  This overrides the default delimiter
	      of comma between fields and semi-colon between  a	 field's  aug‐
	      mented  information. (Please note that this may generate confus‐
	      ing results when used with the -a option.)

       -T, --titles
	      Write a header line with field titles as the first line  of  the
	      data file.

       -w, --write <file>
	      Reads all address book records from the Palm Address Book appli‐
	      cation and writes them into <file>

USAGE
       The program  will  connect  to  the  Palm  handheld,  and  perform  the
       requested read or write operation specified by the user.

EXAMPLES
       To write all address records in a Palm to the file addrbook.csv:

	      pilot-addresses -w addrbook.csv

       or

	      pilot-addresses -p /dev/pilot -w addrbook.csv

       To  read	 the address book records in the file addrbook.csv and install
       them onto the Palm:

	      pilot-addresses -r addrbook.csv

       To read the address book records in the	file  addrbook.csv  and	 place
       them  into  the Palm address book database category Special after first
       deleting all current records in the Special category on the palm:

	      pilot-addresses -c Special -d Special -r addrbook.csv

BUGS
       KNOWN BUGS

	      pilot-addresses has no known bugs at this time.

       REPORTING BUGS

	      Report bugs at http://bugs.pilot-link.org/

AUTHOR
       pilot-addresses originally written by Kenneth Albanowski,  this	manual
       page was written by Robert Wittig <bob.wittig@gt.org> and later updated
       by David A. Desrosiers <hacker@gnu-designs.com>

SEE ALSO
       addresses(1) pilot-link(7)

(c) FSF 1996-2003	      pilot-link - 0.11.8	    pilot-addresses(1)
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