Re: Ann: Palm PDB Reader

[Terry Bayne <tbayne@...>]

Martin,

Ohhh Ok, I see this is a desktop tool that accesses the PDBs that have been synced?  Ok - I think I understand now.  This could be very useful, and now I have a reason to play with luacheia :)

I too am a recent convert to the Treo 600 :)

Thanks
Terry

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:35:54 -0000, Martin Kendall wrote:
>> Terry,
>>
>>
>> I needed the program to work on my desktop PC, so I am using
>> luacheia5-5.0.1a4 (http://luacheia.lua-users.org/)  This allows me
>> to also use Lua 5.0 features.  I had considered a plua version
>> (and it should not be too dificult to convert as plua has
>> excellent routines for reading pdbs already.
>>
>> Martin
>> "Terry Bayne" <tbayne@hiwaay.net> wrote in message
>> news:2004113144258.384642@tbayne1...
>> Martin,
>>
>>
>> Are you using PLUA, if so what version.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Terry
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:25:23 -0000, Martin Kendall wrote:
>>
>>>> I own a Treo 600 and wanted to obtain a copy of the call log on
>>>> my PC. This led me to produce two lua scripts. The first script
>>>> allows reading of any Palm PDB file, returning a record (with
>>>> it's attributes) one at a time. This script defines a function
>>>> which returns an iterator, allowing the calling script to use
>>>> the for statement.  As each binary record is specific to the
>>>> palm application that created the PDB, it is then up to the
>>>> calling script to decode the application specific records.
>>>>
>>>> The second script provides an example of real world usage of
>>>> pdbReader.lua to go through each record in a given Treo 600
>>>> PhoneCallDB.PDB, printing formatted CSV values to STDOUT.
>>>>
>>>> I hope people find either or both of these scripts useful.  It
>>>> would be nice to build a pluggable series of handlers for each
>>>> PDB type on the Palm (memo, date book, etc) if anyone is
>>>> interested.
>>>>
>>>> Martin
>>>> martinkendall@lycos.co.uk