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From: James Y. <ja...@gn...> - 2008-11-06 05:08:36
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These makefile changes seem to be needed in order to allow us to link libpdbtools.so on x86_64. |
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From: James Y. <ja...@gn...> - 2008-11-06 04:54:36
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I attach a patch which you will need to apply in order to prevent compilation failure with g++ 4.3.2. |
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From: Leigh S. <le...@le...> - 2007-11-13 23:06:05
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Hello, I have been using pilot-db and palm-db-tools for several years. I notice that both lists seem now to be very quiet. Is pilot-db dead and the developers have moved on to other platforms and no longer use the application and the corresponding flatfile tools? Alternatively, is everyone happy with the current performance of the package? There did not seem to be a match of V0.3.6 in the CVS repository for palm-db-tools, which was released the middle of 2003. Is there a newer up-to-date repository for palm-db-tools than that at palm-db- tools.cvs.sourceforge.net? I have updated the palm-db-tools to compile with g++ V4.0.1 and have attached the patches. I also notice bug reports reported by Robby Stephenson in 11/2003 have not yet been incorporated into the CVS repository. I am prepared to do the maintenance work needed to continue support for the palm-db-tools. Despite JPilot being a great tool, working with CSV files is also worthwhile for interchange with SQL databases. I have managed a number of sourceforge.net projects under leighsmith at users.sourceforge.net if anyone can grant me developer status on palm-db-tools (or point me to where the current effort is being directed) so I can commit the changes myself. |
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From: Edward K. <ed...@ro...> - 2005-12-29 18:12:44
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csv2pdb.exe works with wine. wine csv2pdb.exe -i foo.ifo foo.cvs foo.pdb You don't need the .dll files. I copied the exe into /usr/local/bin and then wrote a shell wrapper. |
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From: Robby S. <ro...@pe...> - 2003-11-22 07:55:59
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I believe there's a minor bug in libpalm/File.cpp for writing the sort info. I'm attaching a small 1-line patch. Robby |
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From: Anita L. <ajl...@in...> - 2003-11-06 14:07:05
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Hi. I tried using pdb2csv and csv2pdb with a db from MobileDB. I have dates in it. I note that the manual says that MobileDB has only string types. That leaves me with some very funny looking dates. I also got a message that I must include a list view in the info file. I had made the info file using pdb2csv and was surprised that it did not work when I used it after editing the csv file. I made the view line and it worked, but gives the date as a string - naturally, because no other type was possible. Is that just the way it is or is there a way to work around this? Thanks Anita -- |
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From: Dennis C. <dch...@co...> - 2003-10-30 19:56:21
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To anyone who can guide, I have downloaded the latest version and managed to get it to compile with OSX's gcc by changing an environment variable, but it gives me two link errors. These appear to refer to the creation of shared libraries. Can you advise on how to change to just a static link? Dennis Christopher |
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From: Brent J. N. <br...@no...> - 2003-07-15 13:30:05
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Hello, I'm using palm-db-tools 0.3.6 to try and create my own database. First I compiled my own binaries on Linux and used csv2pdb to create a DB database, and then I tried the precompiled Windows binaries to do the same. In both cases, "pilot-xfer -i" (pilot-link 0.99.5-pre3) will not upload the .PDB file I made; it just says "failed". The database shows up in the list on DB, but DB won't open it. If I delete it and then rescan, it shows up again. I can't delete it using "pilot-xfer -d" or the built-in PalmOS tool either. The same "pilot-xfer -i" works fine for the .PDB files that are available on the pilot-db web site. I'm using pilot-db 1.0.4 (the db-lite .PRC) if that makes a difference. Any thoughts on how I can troubleshoot this problem further? -- Brent J. Nordquist <br...@no...> N0BJN Other contact information: http://www.nordist.net/contact.html * Fast pipe * Always on * Get out of the way - Tim Bray http://tinyurl.com/7sti |
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From: John H. <jo...@ap...> - 2003-01-16 21:30:08
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All:
Does palm-db-tools grok the standard PalmOS .PDB format? (Assuming there
is such a "standard format" - I'm a Palm neophyte...)
The documentation does not explicitly state this - it only appears to
support various third-party database formats.
If not, can anyone point me at a utility available for Linux that does
what palm-db-tools does for standard PalmOS .PDB files (i.e. conversions
between CSV and standard PDB)?
Thanks.
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From: Nate B. <in...@at...> - 2003-01-06 02:56:33
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As an un-abashed user (hopefully not a curse word in this list) I admit to my almost complete and total lack of programming skills. However, I do hold those skills in high regard and I beg some one of you, Oh most high and holy programming gurus: I beseech you, please point me to a working binary for Mac OS X that I might use it to convert the many PDB files I have created in DB on the palm to plain text! I have failed miserably to compile one and have resorted to *cough..choke* using my wife's windows machine for the task. Save me from this most undignified and embarrassing situation! Nate Berry http://in8.home.att.net iBook 700MHz G3 384Mb MacOSX10.2.3 |
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From: Per-Erik M. <pe...@te...> - 2003-01-03 12:57:48
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> > I am trying to compile the source in the db-tools package on a Mandrake
> > Linux 9.0 box, and here are the steps outlined in the README file that
> > comes with the tar.gz package:
> > > The problem is that I can't even get past the "./configure" step.
> > First, I chmod'ed the ./configure file to 755 to make it executable,
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> Where did you find it ? The script I got was executable...
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> > but even with this change, typing ./configure gave me a "command not
> > found" error. So I fell back to trying "sh ./configure", and here is
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> That is very strange also.
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> > the output:
> > <root@nikita palm-db-tools> sh ./configure
> > : command not found:
> > '/configure: line 14: syntax error near unexpected token `in
> > '/configure: line 14: ` case X$UNAME in
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> Can you send a trace of the execution ? (xtrace or so ?) ?
>
This has been mentioned on the palm-db-tool list as well:
The current tar-archive is completely broken for Unix users.
A lot of files have Windows CRLFs as EOL (instead of LF). This breaks
all the configure/make stuff. (This is what's causing the problem above.)
Some scripts are not executable (most notably, configure).
The file gui/q/Makefile.in is missing.
... and probably more. That's as far as I got before I got fed up and
did a rm -rf ...
/pem
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From: Jos D. <jo...@tu...> - 2002-12-26 16:30:53
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Hi all,
I tried to ./configure & make palm-db-tools v. 0.3.5, and found that, on a
linux machine (fairly standard SuSE 7.3 installation, nothing fancy), it
doesn't work at all just out-of-the-tar.
The problems that I ran into (and fixed):
configure doesn't have execute permission
Many files end in CR/LF (ms-dos style), making, among others, scripts fail
gui/q/Makefile.in doesn't exist
That at least allowed me to run make. But then make dies in
palm-db-tools/libsupport/, with:
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -ansi -pedantic -g -O2 -Wall -Werror
-Wp,-MD,.deps/csvfile.pp -c csvfile.cpp -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/csvfile.lo
cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors
csvfile.cpp: In function `void DataFile::CSVFile::write(ostream &, const PalmLib::FlatFile::Database &, const DataFile::parsing_state &)':
csvfile.cpp:120: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
csvfile.cpp:126: no matching function for call to `vector<PalmLib::FlatFile::Field,allocator<PalmLib::FlatFile::Field> >::at (int &) const'
csvfile.cpp:130: no matching function for call to `vector<PalmLib::FlatFile::Field,allocator<PalmLib::FlatFile::Field> >::at (int &) const'
make[2]: *** [csvfile.lo] Error 1
And as I don't speak C++, I'm afraid I can't solve this one.
Anyone?
Cheers,
Jos
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From: <so...@gm...> - 2002-12-11 14:43:22
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Hello, I'm having problems converting my data-files, which are all tab-seperated. I don't know, how to tell csv2pdb to use tab instead of ";" or ",". "seperator \t" (in the metafile) doesn't work, csv2pdb reports "csv file:1: number of fields doesn't match", but using a "," instead of "\t" everything is fine, so it doesn't understand the tab (i guess). Can anyone tell me how to use tab-seperated datafiles? Thanks in advance, Sören |
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From: Daniel T. C. <dan...@ma...> - 2002-10-04 05:37:48
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Hello: I am having problems compiling the latest release of palm-db-tools. The most recent version I've been able to compile is palm-db-tools-0.3.1. I'm doing the compilation in Linux RedHat 7.3 with the latest updates from Ximian. Do I need particular versions of other packages to be able to build? Any pointers are welcome. Thanks a lot. Daniel Tonda C. |
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From: Sadia K. <sad...@ya...> - 2002-08-16 20:28:04
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Hi, I used the utility to convert a info file and a text file into a pdb. I wanted to be able to use the database I just created in some palm application that I am writing. The database I created opens fine in my code. My question is when I get a pointer to the record stored how exactly can I get the fields out of it. Do I need to create a struct with the fields and point that to whatever DmQueryRecord returns??? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. Sadia Khwaja __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com |
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From: <mar...@vo...> - 2002-01-25 11:53:20
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From: Kaldewey M. <Mal...@pd...> - 2001-12-04 14:30:29
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Hello, im using Palm Db 0.3.3 and create a database with the new db Format. Now I will convert it to an csv spreadsheet. But it doesn't work, because the tools can't convert for example a Memo Field. It can only convert the old db type 0.2.x format. Is this feature planed? Malte Kaldewey |
