NAME

       otl2pdb - converts vimoutliner outline to AddressDB Palm file.

SYNOPSIS

       otl2pdb [filename]

DESCRIPTION

       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.

SEE ALSO

       vim(1), perl(1)

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

AUTHOR

       The original version was written by Gabriel Walker <cldwalker@chwhat.com>.

       If  you  like  using  perl, linux, vim and databases to make your life easier (not lazier ;) check out my
       website at http://www.chwhat.com.

       This manual page was written by Matej Cepl <matej@ceplovi.cz> (using perldoc(1) part  of  the  documented
       script), for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

                                                January 13, 2005                                      otl2pdb(1)