USR Pilot tools
This manual page documents the application pilot-xfer .
pilot-xfer /dev/serial# [commands]
pilot-xfer:
allows the user to
- retrieve databases from a Pilot
- list the databases contained in a Pilot
- backup or restore all of the databases at once.
Several options exist, including
r dir which installs all files contained in a directory into the Pilot (use this to restore your Pilot after a hard reset has cleared its memory),
i file will install a file into the Pilot
f dbname will fetch a database out of the Pilot.
"l will list the databases in the Pilot.
-p purges any data that hasn't been cleaned up be a sync (this is a safe
operation, and will prevent your Pilot from accumulating crud if you delete
records but aren't syncing with the PIM. The only information you can lose is
archived but un-synced records.)
-d dbname lets you delete a particular database. Obviously, be careful with this one.
The program will connect to a target, and perform the quested database options.
pilot-xfer was written by Kenneth Albanowski. You can find the original
0.5.3 version for linux here
The very quick and dirty port to BE OS was (quickly) done from version 0.5.3 by Marc Abramson
SYNTAX:
- install databases contained in the standard .prc and .pdb formats into a Pilot
NOTICE:
run if from a terminal.
Once the user has executed
pilot-xfer
the user must invoke HotSync on the target device.
OPTIONS:
b dir which backs up the Pilot into the specified directory (which will be created if it does not already exist)
USAGE
BUGS
It seems to work only at 9600 bps... why ? I must improve it .AUTHOR(s)