Hal's Appointment Book

[NCWeber]

Since I'm already using Palm Desktop for my appointments, is there any way to format data from Palm and import it into Ultra Hal's Appointment Book?

[Morlhach]

quote:Originally posted by NCWeber

Since I'm already using Palm Desktop for my appointments, is there any way to format data from Palm and import it into Ultra Hal's Appointment Book?

Export your appointements in a text files ... then, with a dos script, you can put it in the apptmnts.dat of Hal.

[NCWeber]

Excellent!  That's just what I wanted to hear.  However, could you be more specific about the DOS script?  What exactly do I need to do?

[Morlhach]

quote:Originally posted by NCWeber

Excellent!  That's just what I wanted to hear.  However, could you be more specific about the DOS script?  What exactly do I need to do?

I do not know the palm export formatting. But the most easy will be to use a script based upon the cygwin grep & awk. Otherwise, a script using the standards tokens and find /v /i with redirections will me enough. ;)

[NCWeber]

Ok, I have no clue what you just said.  But, I'm guessing it's a moot point as Palm Desktop exports as a proprietary database file ).dba) that can only be read by Palm Desktop.  So, guess that shoots the heck outta my day.

[Morlhach]

quote:Originally posted by NCWeber

Ok, I have no clue what you just said.  But, I'm guessing it's a moot point as Palm Desktop exports as a proprietary database file ).dba) that can only be read by Palm Desktop.  So, guess that shoots the heck outta my day.

It can not make a conversion to a dos readable text format ?

[NCWeber]

Dunno.  I guess I'll have to experiment with it.

[CoCoKid]

If Palm will export to DBA... there are many programs out there, including ShareWare that will convert the DBA to a text delimited file or other formats.
If all else fails, I would try a Google for the conversion util.