txt2pdbdoc(1) User Commands txt2pdbdoc(1) NAME txt2pdbdoc - Text to Doc file converter for 3Com PalmPilots SYNOPSIS txt2pdbdoc [ -b ] [ -c ] [ -v ] document-name file.txt file.pdb txt2pdbdoc -d [ -v ] file.pdb [ file.txt ] txt2pdbdoc -V DESCRIPTION txt2pdbdoc converts a plain text file to a Doc(4) file in PDB(4) (Pilot Database) format used by all models of the 3Com PalmPilot and the IBM Workpad. (It can also convert a Doc file to plain text.) Resulting PDB files can be down- loaded directly to a Pilot during a HotSync. The document-name is used in the Document List view of a Doc reader application on the Pilot. OPTIONS -b Ordinarily, characters with an ASCII code less than 9 are removed and both carriage-returns and form-feeds are converted to newlines. This option suppresses that behavior. -c Ordinarily, text is compressed. This option suppresses compression. -d Decode the given Doc file to text either to a file or to standard output if no file is specified. -v Verbose mode. For encoding, print progress and compression statistics per 4K of text to standard error as well as overall statistics when completed; for decoding, print progress in a ``countdown'' style. -V Print the version number of txt2pdbdoc to standard out- put and exit. EXAMPLE To convert a text file to Doc file: txt2pdbdoc 'Through the Looking Glass' alice.txt alice.pdb EXIT STATUS Exits with a value of zero only if conversion completed sucessfully; non-zero otherwise. CAVEATS 1. Document names are limited to 31 characters in PDB for- mat. Longer names are truncated but have the 29-31st txt2pdbdoc Last change: August 18, 1998 1 txt2pdbdoc(1) User Commands txt2pdbdoc(1) characters replaced by ``...'' to indicate truncation. 2. The command isn't called ``txt2doc'' to avoid confusion about possibly having anything to do with Microsoft Word documents that use the .doc extension. SEE ALSO doc(4), pdb(4) AUTHOR Paul J. Lucas txt2pdbdoc Last change: August 18, 1998 2