Eric just mentioned this thread to me. He emailed me a few days back and I
ended up knocking together a (very nasty) python script to convert the data
for him.

If you're interested in the record format I found it here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040604084948/http://www.aquadivelog.org:80/palmdatabase

There was from memory one thing that wasn't in the right place (the buddies
string in the dive record), perhaps a version difference, I'm not sure. At
any rate, it's relatively straightforward given that, just the usual time..

-nick







On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 5:33 AM, Linus Torvalds <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 4:20 AM, Eric Schlicker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > in the past I dived a lot and made nearly 330 dives.  But then my wife
> get 3
> > kids and I quit diving for a long time. Now my oldest son made his dive
> > license and so we will dive together. In the past I had a dive log
> software
> > on the Palm, called Aqua Dive Log.  Palm is gone :-( So I try to find a
> > solution to transfer it to a new software. Is ist possible? I attached
> the
> > Aqua Divelog files.
>
> Well, they are "palm DB" format, and there are tools to look at the
> pdb records (google "palmdump", for example).
>
> Sadly, the records themselves are then some proprietary binary stuff,
> that is probably not too complicated, but would need a fair amopunt of
> effort to figure out..
>
> So it doesn't look trivial.
>
>              Linus
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