Nicholas, thanks for answering. > Nicholas Piper <nick-moongroup at nickpiper.co.uk> [2007-02-24 19:19]: > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > > due to business/employment, I had to switch managing my contacts > > and datebook entries from Linux/jpilot to Windows. > > > After a couple months, I have realised that for any strange > > reason, previous datebook, addressbook and GNU-keyring entries > > disappeared. > > > Since I have many PDB-backups from previous good-times, I wondered > > if there is any toolset related to palm/jpilot that I can use > > > > - to dump datebook, addressbook and GNU-keyring to stdout > > (preferrably one record per line, CVS or similar) > > I don't know about keyring, but for datebook and addressbook did you > try jpilot-dump? > I do use jpilot-dump and created meanwhile a script to linearize the records, one-per line. But I do not know how to dump the keyring stuff. > > - to merge different versions of each of these PDBs > > Not sure. This would be tricky. What kind of merge do you mean? Just > 'combine'? How to determine which records are the same and one of > them should be dropped? You could probably do it with some Perl or > Python hacking. > That's exactly the problem: many records are duplicated. Do you know whether I do need to compare field-by-field? > > - to install by any means addressbook, datebook and GNU-keyring > > entries either via stdin or from a ASCII-text-file back to the > > palm (Vx). > > You could beam ical/vcard entries to it? Created a merged pdb and > beam/install that? Maybe use a perl or python library to add entries > to the jpilot pdb or pc3 file, then sync? (If you edit the pdb, > don't sync, I believe you should just then use pilot-xfer -i) > Is there any way to install one record a time? Thanks! wbr, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf <http://www.lpr.ch> | Ad Personam rbacs <http://wiki.lpr.ch> | Restaurants, Bars and Clubs Raw IP <http://www.rawip.org> | Low Level Network Programming Style <http://email.rawip.org> | How to write emails <http://lists.lpr.ch/muttprint> | muttprint mailing list
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