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- This is a quick and dirty package prepared for USR Pilot users that want
- to export data from any of the HP series of palmtop computers (95LX, 100LX,
- and 200LX) to the Pilot.
-
- This package uses GDBIO (an HP Palmtop extraction program), and a set of
- AWK scripts to prepare the data for importing into the Pilot using the
- Pilot Desktop Import function.
-
- It's quick and dirty - this is not intended for anything other than one
- time use, and I could be treading on a few toes by making the AWK and GDBIO
- executables available in this package. However, I'm doing it on the
- understanding that you will delete all of the files in this package once
- you have successfully imported your data into your Pilot. If you want
- AWK and/or GDBIO, go get them from the appropriate FTP sites. (AWK can be
- gotten from ftp.fsf.org I believe, and GDBIO is a popular HPLX program
- available in full on ftp.eddie.edu in /pub/95lx somewhere or other).
-
- How this works:
- ---------------
-
- The first thing you need to do is get your phone.pdb file from your HP palmtop
- to your PC, or transfer this package to your HP for use over there.
-
- Once you have all of the files in this package and your phone.pdb file in
- the same directory, simply type:
-
- TOPILOT phone.pdb
-
- On the command line. This will create a file called TOPILOT.CSV, which you
- can then import into the Pilot Desktop and subsequently HotSync to your Pilot.
- (You'll have to play around with the Import function to get the fields that
- you want - note that the first record in TOPILOT.CSV is a special one that
- I inserted in there to make it simple to match up the fields).
-
- It's pretty simple - further instructions are included in the TOPILOT.BAT
- file, in case you're curious.
-
- Note that I do not support this package in any fashion, nor am I taking
- responsibility for any damages or problems that occur as a result of the
- use of this package. I'm simply making it available for one time use to the
- few Pilot users that have asked me how I did this in the comp.sys.palmtops
- newsgroup. It worked great for me - I have imported over 500 records with
- these scripts and they came out just fine on my Pilot.
-
- j.
-
- Jay Vaughan
- jay@delphinus.com
- Delphinus Technologies
-