I have collected my perl scripts together with a small amount of documentation and placed them on the web :
http://www.oplnk.net/~ajackson/software/ http://www.oplnk.net/~ajackson/software/palm_address_tools.tar.gz dump_addrs This script does just what it says, it dumps the contents of the address book to STDOUT. It makes a good basic script to modify for your own devices. print_labels This script also makes use of the module PostScript::MailLabels to generate a postscript file suitable for printing onto mailing label stock. I use this to address my Christmas cards. The key things I have done for this script and the next one are the use of the custom fields. The Palm has 4 custom fields in the address book. I define the first one to be family names, so I enter husband and wife, children so that for addressing Christmas cards, I can pull out the "husband and wife" part of the field and use that in the address. In custom2, I put my database keys for selecting subsets of the data. I simply put in a comma-delimited list of keys. For example, everyone on my Christmas card list gets an "Xmas" flag in custom2. create_teampage Another very simple example, here I select out a subset of addresses, and output html for a 2-column table, in alphabetical order, of the selected addresses. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Alan K. Jackson | To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
