[PLUG] PDB information extraction

Asa Nathannael Hunt anhunt at anhunt.org
Sun Jul 26 06:10:57 UTC 2009


Thanks for the help Fred,
I am running into semantic fuzziness... when you say 'printable as a 
text file' I am unclear on what you mean. Opening the file in a simple 
text editor turns out characters I cannot make sense of.

à(+Å‚-àa/à?)/àË0=â1KâH,Yâx.gâ®2uâÿ3
ä4Îä85?äh6±äò7¯ä»8’ä¯9 
-- a bunch of symbols & letters with accents over them, for example.

there are snippets of plain english, which are notes saved within the DB 
file.

the person that wrote the program has the source code on SourceForge, is 
there anything in there that might help me "translate" it so to speak?

Thanks

Asa

Fred James wrote:
 > Asa Nathannael Hunt
 > Stretching my memory from my long ago life with a Palm ... hope this
 > isn't too far off the mark ...
 > The Palm database is printable as a text file (yes?)
 > The text file is fixed length (yes?), or can it be printed directly in
 > CSV format?
 > ... no matter ... if it can be printed to a text file, AWK or SED can
 > easily make it a CSV file.
 > Once the data is in CSV format, any spreadsheet I know of can handle it
 > (you mileage may vary).
 > Hope that helps
 > Regards
 > Fred James
 >
> Asa Nathannael Hunt wrote:
>> My partner uses the PalmOS program Unicycle 
>> (http://unicycle.sourceforge.net/) to log personal information. The palm 
>> is getting on in years and so before the information in the PDB file is 
>> lost, I'd like to find a way to port it to a more open format, such as a 
>> spreadsheet.
>>
>> I feel like it should be easy, but being the novice I am, have no idea 
>> where to begin.
>>
>> google turns up a bunch of loosely-related commercial solutions, but 
>> nothing quite on topic. I'm open to the idea I'm using the wrong 
>> symmantics, cuz I can't imagine I'm the first person to try to do this 
>> sort of thing.
>>
>> Where can I learn how to extract information from a palm database file, 
>> for use in a spreadsheet, etc?
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>> Asa
>>   



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