otl2pdb1

Usage

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the otl2pdb Perl script.

otl2pdb is a perl(1) script that takes an outline from vimoutliner(1) with contact information and creates an AddressDB.pdb file for a Palm.

For now this script can only create a .pdb file. You then have to use a syncing tool to load it into your Palm. I recommend the pilot-link package for linux.

The format of the contact outline is the following:

$category
$record_name
c:$cell
a:$address
....

You can have as many categories and records(entries) as you want. The following are valid fields for a record with the necessary text to indicate them in quotes:

'a:'-address
'c:'-cell
'e:'-email
'h:'-home phone
'n:'-note
'web:'-website
'w:'-work phone

Also, each record's category is left as 'Unfiled' as I can't get the record's category to write correctly.

Requirements

This program uses the Palm::Address perl module, which is available on CPAN.

Tips

If using the pilot-link package:

-load the pdb with 'pilot-xfer -i AddressDB.pdb'
-specify the serial port if other than /dev/pilot (which will usually be the case
unless you link to it) with -p in the above command; usually this is /dev/ttyS0 in linux