ebook 'reader' for Palm Doc format
Posted: Tue 12 Jul 2005, 08:07
Hi, I own several old Palm PDA's and I just love to read ebooks.
Now with the included app 'txt2pdb', one can convert ascii text to and from
Palm's pdb Doc formats. The palm doc format is basically a compressed
text format to save valuable space on these small PDA's.
To convert a ascii text to palm doc:
To convert a palm pdb to ascii file:
To 'read' a palm doc file on Puppy:
The tar ball just expands in a 'txt2pdb' sub directory.
It contains the executable 'txt2pdb', the c source code and the manual
page.
Probably a nice tcl/tk wrapper with file open dialog would be a nice
enhancement..
There are a lot of such ebooks for free out in the internet...
PS
BTW: If someone interested, I also have the newest pilot-xfer app
compiled for Puppy..?
Now with the included app 'txt2pdb', one can convert ascii text to and from
Palm's pdb Doc formats. The palm doc format is basically a compressed
text format to save valuable space on these small PDA's.
To convert a ascii text to palm doc:
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./txt2pdb "A good title.." <ascii file> <palm.pdb file>
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./txt2pdb -d <palm.pdb file> [<ascii file>]
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./txt2pdb -d <palm.pdb file> | more
It contains the executable 'txt2pdb', the c source code and the manual
page.
Probably a nice tcl/tk wrapper with file open dialog would be a nice
enhancement..
There are a lot of such ebooks for free out in the internet...
PS
BTW: If someone interested, I also have the newest pilot-xfer app
compiled for Puppy..?