[coldsync-hackers] address and datebook conduits.

[Fred Gylys-Colwell <fredgc@ktb.net>]

Hello all,

I have written some conduits for the address database and the datebook
database.  They are written in C++, and require the coldsync libraries
libpdb.a and libpconn.a.

You can find them at <http://www.ktb.net/~fredgc/palm/index.html>.


These are really just hacks to play around with how syncing works.  If
you try them out, you should back up your data regularly, and you
should check every now and then to make sure nothing is corrupted.


I made no attempt to use an existing text file format.  I choose formats that
were easy to write conduits for, which contained everything that was in the
palm database, and could easily be read and edited with emacs.  In particular,
the address record matches the emacs regular expression "%[^%]*%", so it can be
sorted with out too much trouble.


I would be flattered if someone were inspired by this code and wrote a
much better version, or barring that, sends me suggestions or patches.


Can someone give advice or pointers to testing conduits?  I would
like to use pose, so that I won't mess up my own address book, but I
have not yet tried it.  Is it easy?  Should I look out for something?
I would like to automate my tests as much as possible.


-- Fred GC.





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	    Fred Gylys-Colwell      fredgc@member.ams.org
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