The built-in appointment book application of the HP100LX palmtop computer uses a unique database format and cannot export or import data in any foreign format (except exporting ASCII versions using SmartClips). If your HP gets lost, stolen or broken you have no means for accessing your appointment book data even if you have a backup on a different machine. This was the main reason for writing ADBIO.
I included the C sources for all programs. They should be quite
portable. I developed them on a Sun workstation. They compiled on first try on the HP100LX (using Microsoft C 5.0). To make it work, however, I had to change the arguments for the open() procedure. The current version works on both platforms.
The ADBIO package consists of the following files:
README this file
HISTORY description of changes between releases
ADBDUMP.C C source code for ADBDUMP
ADBLOAD.C C source code for ADBLOAD
CDF2SUN.C C source code for CDF2SUN
ADBDUMP.EXE MSDOS executable for ADBDUMP
ADBLOAD.EXE MSDOS executable for ADBLOAD
ADBDUMP.DOC documentation for ADBDUMP
ADBLOAD.DOC documentation for ADBLOAD
CDF2SUN.DOC documentation for CDF2SUN
ADBIO is freeware and may be distributed/copied/used/modified/eaten/microwaved etc. freely. I do not, however, take any responsibility for any damage produced by doing that.
Please send comments, suggestions and bug reports (bugs, what bugs?) to
Internet: garzotto@swssai.uu.ch
or CIS: 73064,1657
Andreas Garzotto, May 1994
All files are checked for viruses before being made available online.
This file can be found in the PDA Software Library. Keyword PDA.