doctotext1
Convert doc-format e-text to ordinary text
Usage
doctotext DATABASES ...
Overview
This manual pages documents doctotext, the part of Doc Toolkit that converts e-texts back into ordinary text. The Doc to text conversion is not as sophisticated as the reverse; it simply uncompresses the Doc database and dumps its contents into a plain text file.
Specifying databases
Each command line argument specifies one database to convert. Databases may be specified in several different ways:
- As a simple file name, referring to a local file in prc/pdb format.
- As a http: or ftp: URL, referring to a remote file in prc/pdb format.
- As a URL of the format
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user:[//username][/path]/dbname . This type of URL refers to a database in the Pyrite repository. If the username is not provided, the Pyrite default user name is assumed. If the path is not provided, the default is "backup". Note that the specified database name refers to the actual title of the database as it would appear inside the palmtop, not to the name of the prc/pdb file it happens to be stored in on the desktop.
Releases
2 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink); the text changed 1 time.