install-expenses(1)		   Conduits		  install-expenses(1)



NAME
       install-expenses	 -  Install an expense record from various parameters
       and arguments passed at connection time.

SYNOPSIS
       install-expenses [-p ] [-qrt] [-c ] []



DESCRIPTION
       install-expenses allows a Palm handheld with the	 Expense  application
       to  have	 expense records synchronized to it from the commandline. You
       can  pass  any  of  the	fields	(except	 categories,  currently)   to
       install-expenses and create new expense records on your Palm handheld.



OPTIONS
       -p, --port 
	      Use device file  to communicate with the  Palm  handheld.
	      If this is not specified, will look for the $PILOTPORT environ-
	      ment  variable.  If   both   are	 not   found   or   supplied,
	      install-expenses will fall back to /dev/pilot



       -h, --help
	      Display the help synopsis for install-expenses



       -v, --version
	      Display version information for install-expenses



       -t, --ttype 
	      Add  entries  to	the "Payment Type" field. These can be in the
	      form of Cash, Check, and Others. See the Expense application on
	      your Palm device for full details on payment types.



       -e, --etype 
	      Add  entries  to	the "Expense Type" field. These can be in the
	      form of Airfare, Meals, and Others. See the Expense application
	      on your Palm device for full details on expense types.



       -a, --amount 
	      Add  dollar  amount entries to the "Amount" field. These can be
	      in the form of 1.00 or "$10.00" and  so  on.  See	 the  Expense
	      application  on  your  Palm  device  for full details on amount
	      types.



       -V, --vendor 
	      Add entries to the "Vendor" field. These are free-form  values,
	      and  can	be the name of a restaurant, an airline, or any other
	      text value you wish to use.



       -g, --guests 
	      Add the number of attendees to the expense  record,  identified
	      by . If you ate lunch with four (4) additional people, you
	      would put five (5) here, a numeric value.



       -i, --city 
	      Add entries to the "City" field in the  expense  record.	These
	      are  free-form  values,  and  can	 be the name of the location,
	      city, or town that the expense record occured in.



       -n, --note 
	      Add a "Note" entry to the expense record. These  are  free-form
	      values, and can be some notes related to the expense entry.



       -c, --category 
	      Create  entries  into  the named category defined here. See the
	      Expense application on your Palm device  for  full  details  on
	      using these categories.



       -r, --replace 
	      Replace  the  entry  found  in the named category identified by
	      .



USAGE
       The program will connect to the Palm  handheld,	and  install  entries
       into   the   Expense   application   based   on	 values	  passed   to
       install-expenses arguments.



BUGS
       KNOWN BUGS

	      install-expenses has no known bugs at this time.


       REPORTING BUGS

	      Report bugs at http://bugs.pilot-link.org/

AUTHOR
       install-expenses was written by community authors, the original author
       is unknown.

SEE ALSO
       read-expenses(1)



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