install-expenses(1)
NAME
install-expenses - Install an expense record from various
parameters and arguments passed at connection time.
SYNOPSIS
install-expenses [-p <port>] [-qrt] [-c <category>] [<filename>]
DESCRIPTION
install-expenses allows a Palm handheld with the Expense
application to have expense records synchronized to it
from the commandline. You can pass any of the fields
(except categories, currently) to install-expenses and
create new expense records on your Palm handheld.
OPTIONS
- -p, --port <port>
- Use device file <port> to communicate with the Palm
handheld. If this is not specified, will look for
the $PILOTPORT environment variable. If both are not found or supplied, install-expenses will fall back to /dev/pilot - -h, --help
- Display the help synopsis for install-expenses
- -v, --version
- Display version information for install-expenses
- -t, --ttype <ttype>
- Add entries to the "Payment Type" field. These can
be in the form of Cash, Check, and Others. See the
Expense application on your Palm device for full
details on payment types. - -e, --etype <etype>
- Add entries to the "Expense Type" field. These can
be in the form of Airfare, Meals, and Others. See
the Expense application on your Palm device for
full details on expense types. - -a, --amount <amount>
- Add dollar amount entries to the "Amount" field.
These can be in the form of 1.00 or "$10.00" and so
on. See the Expense application on your Palm device
for full details on amount types. - -V, --vendor <vendor>
- Add entries to the "Vendor" field. These are
free-form values, and can be the name of a restau
rant, an airline, or any other text value you wish
to use. - -g, --guests <num>
- Add the number of attendees to the expense record,
identified by <num>. If you ate lunch with four (4)
additional people, you would put five (5) here, a
numeric value. - -i, --city <city>
- Add entries to the "City" field in the expense
record. These are free-form values, and can be the
name of the location, city, or town that the
expense record occured in. - -n, --note <note>
- Add a "Note" entry to the expense record. These are
free-form values, and can be some notes related to
the expense entry. - -c, --category <category>
- Create entries into the named category defined
here. See the Expense application on your Palm
device for full details on using these categories. - -r, --replace <category>
- Replace the entry found in the named category iden
tified by <category>.
USAGE
The program will connect to the Palm handheld, and install
entries into the Expense application based on values
passed to install-expenses arguments.
BUGS
- KNOWN BUGS
- install-expenses has no known bugs at this time.
- REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs at http://bugs.pilot-link.org/
AUTHOR
install-expenses was written by community authors, the
original author is unknown.