read-expenses(1) Conduits read-expenses(1)NAMEread-expenses - Connect to the Palm handheld and dump the Expense
application data in a simple format
SYNOPSIS
If you have expense entries saved on your Palm in the ExpenseDB.pdb
file, you can dump them to a simple text format, and redirect that to a
file/pipe, or STDOUT (the default) using read-expenses. The syntax is:
read-expenses [-p <port>]
The output data will resemble something like the following:
Category: Unfiled
Type: 5
Payment: 7
Currency: 23
Amount: 400.00
Vendor: Super Salads
City: Westerly
Attendees: Joe, Mary, Bob
Note: Some simple note text
Date: Fri May 9 00:00:00 2003
DESCRIPTIONread-expenses is used to output the Expense data in a simple text for‐
mat, which can be used to import into any other application you wish,
such as Excel or other application.
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 pi-getram.
-v, --version
Display version of pi-getram.
USAGE
Connect to a target Palm handheld and dump the Expense data.
BUGS
KNOWN BUGS
read-expenses has no known bugs at this time.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs at http://bugs.pilot-link.org/
AUTHORread-expenses was originally written by Kenneth Albanowski.
SEE ALSOpilot-link(7)
(c) FSF 1996-2003 pilot-link - 0.11.8 read-expenses(1)
