Ubuntu Manpage: pilot-install-expenses - Install an expense record entries onto your Palm handheld device.

Provided by: pilot-link_0.12.5-dfsg-2build2_amd64

NAME

       pilot-install-expenses - Install an expense record entries onto your Palm handheld device.

SECTION

       pilot-link: Userland conduits

SYNOPSIS

        pilot-install-expenses  [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-q|--quiet] [-?|--help] [--usage]
       [-t|--ptype  STRING] [-e|--etype   STRING]  [-a|--amount   STRING]  [-V|--vendor   STRING]
       [-i|--city   STRING]  [-g|--guests   NUMBER]  [-n|--note   STRING] [-c|--category  STRING]
       [--replace]

DESCRIPTION

        pilot-install-expenses allows a Palm  handheld  with  the  Expense  application  to  have
       expense  records  synchronized  to it from the commandline. You can pass any of the fields
       (except categories, currently) to pilot-install-expenses and create new expense records on
       your Palm handheld.

OPTIONS

pilot-install-expenses options
-t,
--ptype STRING

Add entries to the "Payment Type" field. These can be in the form of "Cash", "Cheque" and
others. See the Expense application on your Palm device for full details on payment types.

Note that the long name for this option has been renamed since 0.11.8.

-e,
--etype STRING

Add entries to the "Expense Type" field. These can be in the form of Airfare, Meals, and
Others. See the Expense application on your Palm device for full details on expense types.

-a,
--amount STRING

Add currency amount entries to the "Amount" field. These can be in the form of 1.00 or
"$10.00" and so on. See the Expense application on your Palm device for full details on
amount types.

-V,
--vendor STRING

Add entries to the "Vendor" field. These are free-form values, and can be the name of a
restaurant, an airline, or any other text value you wish to use.

-g,
--guests DIGIT

Add the number of attendees to the expense record, identified by DIGIT. If you ate lunch
with four (4) additional people, you would put five (5) here, a numeric value.

-i,
--city STRING

Add entries to the "City" field in the expense record. These are free-form values, and can
be the name of the location, city, or town that the expense record occured in.

-n,
--note STRING

Add a "Note" entry to the expense record. These are free-form values, and can be some
notes related to the expense entry.

-c,
--category STRING

Install entries into the named category defined here. See the Expense application on your
Palm device for full details on using these categories.

--replace

Replace the entry found in the named category identified by the --category option

Note that the short name for this option has been removed since 0.11.8

Conduit Options
-p, --port
<port>

Use device file <port> to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this is not specified,
pilot-install-expenses will look for the $PILOTPORT environment variable. If neither are
found or supplied, pilot-install-expenses will print the usage information.

-q,
--quiet

Suppress 'Hit HotSync button' message.

--version

Display version information for pilot-install-expenses and exit without connecting.

Help options
-h, --help

Display the help synopsis for pilot-install-expenses and exit without connecting.

--usage

Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting.

USAGE

       The program will connect to the Palm  handheld,  and  install  entries  into  the  Expense
       application based on values passed to pilot-install-expenses arguments.

EXAMPLE

        pilot-install-expenses  -p  /dev/pilot  -c Unfiled -t Cash -e Meals -a 10.00 -V McDonalds
       -g 21 -l "San Francisco" -N "This is a note"

       Installs a new expense; you are recording having 21 guests at McDonalds in the city of San
       Francisco  for  a  meal  which  cost  10.00 units of your default currency and you added a
       simple note. The expense will take the default date - today.

AUTHOR

        pilot-install-expenses was originally written by community authors, the  original  author
       is unknown.

       This manual page was converted to XML by Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk>

REPORTING BUGS

       We  have  an  online  bug tracker. Using this is the only way to ensure that your bugs are
       recorded and that we can track them until they are resolved or closed. Reporting bugs  via
       email,  while  easy,  is  not  very  useful  in terms of accountability. Please point your
       browser to http://bugs.pilot-link.org: http://bugs.pilot-link.org and report your bugs and
       issues there.

COPYRIGHT

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License as  published  by  the  Free  Software  Foundation;  either
       version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This  program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
       without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  PURPOSE.
       See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program;
       if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor,  Boston,
       MA 02110-1301, USA.