Re: [coldsync-hackers] generic database processing

["olan" <olan at freesurf dot fr>]

I found this utility under GPL that works very well from the command line :

http://obermuhlner.com/public/Projects/Palm/PDBC/

It compiles text to PDB and decompiles PDB to text (though not csv).

Regards
olan

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On 17/03/2006 at 16:06 Wim Heirman wrote:

>If your python is any better than your perl, you might want to take a
>look at my coldsync-python package
>[ http://www.elis.ugent.be/~wheirman/coldsync-python/ ].
>Basically it's just a python port of the p5-palm perl modules, but with
>somewhat better support for the newer formats. You'll still need to
>write some code to convert Python objects to your CSV format though.
>
>Regards,
>Wim.
>
>
>cilantro05@comcast.net wrote:
>> After lengthy experimentation with pilot-link, I'm rapidly coming to the
>> conclusion that there is a need for a generic tool for parsing Palm
>databases.
>> Each of the above conduits has one or more deficiencies; in most cases it
>> would have been quicker for me to reformat my CSV data using sed and awk
>than
>> to master the often undocumented quirks of the conduit.
>> 
>> Is there a simple, reversible way to convert Palm databases into CSV
>format on
>> the command line?
>> 
>> The closest claim to this I've seen are the coldsync conduits, using the
>> p5-palm perl modules.  But I don't speak perl very well, and haven't
>been able
>> to figure out how to use these tools to actually do the conversion -- I
>don't
>> really want to run coldsync itself, and have no interest in a GUI such as
>> kpilot.
>> 
>> I've also tried progconv, from Palm-Progect, which claims to be
>precisely the
>> frontend to the perl scripts I'm looking for.  But e.g.
>> 	progconv AddressDB.pdb AddressDB.txt
>> yields an "Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq" error somewhere in
>the
>> Progect perl code.
>> 
>> So I looked directly at the p5-palm perl modules, but clearly don't speak
>> enough perl to get started -- I think I've got them loaded correctly, but
>> don't have a clue how to process a file with them.
>> 
>> Any other ideas?  Suggestions?  HOWTOs?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>
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