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NAME

LinPQA - compiler and decompiler for PalmVII Palm Query

Apps

SYNOPSIS

LinPQA  is  known  to  run on a Linux/Intel box. It should
have no problems on just about anything. It should have no  problems with endianity. You will need to have libpisock (part of the
pilot-link package. Also available from Debian GNU/Linux) and development headers installed.

STATUS

Useful, but not yet feature complete. Call it early alpha.

LICENSE

LinPQA is Free software released under the GNU General

Public License, also known as Copyleft.

LIMITATIONS

Does not support GIF due to the ongoing patent issues. In

stead, it uses .pbm (Portable Bit Map) files, but calls them .gif

for compatability.
Only some tags are supported. This will change with time,

it's just not complete yet.
The PQAs are uncompressed. Once again, just a matter of

time. Supporting all tags is a bigger priority. (But if you'd

like to add it, be my guest).
User interface. It's more functional than friendly at this

time.

SUPPORTED FEATURES

Bold
Form
all input tags
Select and option
submit
checkbox
table
tr
th
td
IMG
<
>
&tm; (trademark symbol)

USE

The tools are set up to work with one PQA per directory.

pqadecompile will place all files in it's pwd and pqAcompile ex

pects all files to be in it's pwd. The files LgIcon.pnm and SmI

con.pnm are 32x32 and 15x9 pixel icon bitmaps (2 level lineart).

Note that the bottom 10 pixels of the large icon will not be dis

played by the Palm launcher (not my fault!).

All html should have a .html extension, and all images

should have .gif. IMPORTANT: although the images have a .gif ex

tension (for web compatability), they should be raw pnm files

(The GIMP and Image Magick can handle them).

pqadecompile is invoked as pqadecompile <pqafile>

pqacompile is invoked as pqacompile <pqafile> <version>

<title> <input file(s)>

pqafile is the file to be output
version is the version of the PQA (this comes in handy

when revisions are made)
title is the name displayed in the launcher on the PalmVII
input file(s) is a list of files to be encoded into the

PQA. Any file explicitly listed here WILL be encoded, even if it

is not referenced. The first listed file will be the page ini

tially displayed by the app. Any files referenced in the html

files specified will also be included (hyperlinks with href or

src =file:// hyperlinks with href or src =http:// will be ac

cessed over the web at run time.)

3rd Berkeley Distribution 2003-11-16

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