read-expenses(1)		   Conduits		     read-expenses(1)



NAME
       read-expenses  -	 Connect  to  the  Palm handheld and dump the Expense
       application data in a simple format



SYNOPSIS
       If you have expense entries saved on your Palm  in  the	ExpenseDB.pdb
       file,  you can dump them to a simple text format, and redirect that to
       a file/pipe, or STDOUT (the default) using read-expenses.  The  syntax
       is:

       read-expenses [-p ]

       The output data will resemble something like the following:

       Category: Unfiled
	 Type:	 5
	 Payment:   7
	 Currency:  23
	 Amount: 400.00
	 Vendor: Super Salads
	 City: Westerly
	 Attendees: Joe, Mary, Bob
	 Note: Some simple note text
	 Date: Fri May	9 00:00:00 2003




DESCRIPTION
       read-expenses is used to output the Expense data in a simple text for-
       mat, which can be used to import into any other application you	wish,
       such as Excel or other application.



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 pi-getram.



       -v, --version
	      Display version of pi-getram.



USAGE
       Connect to a target Palm handheld and dump the Expense data.



BUGS
       KNOWN BUGS

	      read-expenses has no known bugs at this time.


       REPORTING BUGS

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

AUTHOR
       read-expenses was originally written by Kenneth Albanowski.

SEE ALSO
       pilot-link(7)



(c) FSF 1996-2003	     pilot-link - 0.11.8	     read-expenses(1)

UNIX/Linux commands referenced on this page:

1. dump
2. file
3. which
4. import
5. as
6. look
7. install-expenses
8. at