Re: [pilot-db-list] palm-db-tools 0.3.5 released

[Thomas R. <tr...@fr...>]

hermann griebel wrote:
> hi thomas ;-)

Hi Hermann,
I am sending this answer to the mailing list because you may not be the 
only one to ask these questions.

> i tried the new tools, i didn't found the exact way to write the 
> format of the date in the pdb2csv command
> 
> the command
> pdb2csv.exe   -d "DateFormat" didn't work with all ways to write 
> "DateFormat".

Look in the dbtools-0_3_5.zip in the metafiles subdir, there is a file 
name fr.ifo. It contains some sample format commands such as date. You 
can modify this file to fit your needs and then use it like this:

pdb2csv -i fr.ifo ....

> the second thing i can't understand is the new "merge tool", it isn't 
> described in the file manual.txt or in the french documentation.

the merge mode is briefly described in the command line help only (type 
"csv2pdb" with no options).
When you convert from csv to pdb, instead of creating a new pdb file 
from scratch, the merge mode opens the pdb file, keeps the database 
structure from the pdb file and adds records to the pdb depending on the 
option. "Rebuild" erases all records from the pdb and adds all records 
from the csv.

Thomas