Palm Pilot Flat-File Database Utilities
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This package contains several utilities that allow you to convert text
files to and from several different Palm Pilot flat-file database
formats. The two formats currently supported are:

  The "DB" open source database
  http://pilot-db.sourceforge.net/

  MobileDB
  http://www.mobilegeneration.com/products/mobiledb/

  List
  http://www.magma.ca/~roo/list/list.html

  JFile v3.x (v4.x support later)
  http://www.land-j.com/jfile.html

Complete documentation for using the conversion utilities is provided
in the "manual.txt" file in the "docs" subdirectory. Windows users
should have several .exe files in this top-level directory. UNIX users
will need to follow the build instructions listed below in order to
get a set of executable programs.


Resources (WEB)
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You can always find the latest version of this package at the
following URL:

  http://palm-db-tools.sourceforge.net/
or
  http://pilot-db.sourceforge.net/

Windows Installation
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The windows distribution is a self-extractor file: pdbtools.exe.

Launch pdbtools.exe.

Follow the message box, and select your installation directory.
pdbtools.exe will install the files in your installation directory
and the subdirectories. It will create an entry in the start menu,
from which you can start the Excel model sheet.

UNIX Instllation
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see the "Compiling on UNIX" chapter in the INSTALL file.

