Re: Ann: Palm PDB Reader

["Martin Kendall" <martinkendall@...>]

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