read-expenses(1)
NAME
read-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 follow
ing:
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
DESCRIPTION
read-expenses is used to output the Expense data in a sim
ple text format, which can be used to import into any
other application you wish, such as Excel or other appli
cation.
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 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/
AUTHOR
read-expenses was originally written by Kenneth
Albanowski.