DrPeter has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, I'm trying to extract records form my Palm datebook.dat file. It seems that the Palm modules available on CPAN are not compatable with the latest formats.

I have a Tungsten E running Palm OS 5.2.1 and Calendar v1.0.

Running this:

use strict; use warnings; use Palm::Datebook; use Palm::StdAppInfo; my $pdb = new Palm::Datebook; $pdb->Load("datebook.dat"); my $record = $pdb->{records}[1];

Produces lots of messages like this:

Record 10734 has same offset as previous one: 65536 Record 10735 has same offset as previous one: 65536 Record 10736 has same offset as previous one: 65536 Record 10753 has same offset as previous one: 0
Thanks,

Peter

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Re: Reading Palm datebook.dat
by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on May 27, 2005 at 18:37 UTC

    I'm interested in which Palm modules you tried, what you expected to get, and what actually happened. I hope this doesn't mean that I need to update the Palm:: modules I've written. :)

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    brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com>
Re: Reading Palm datebook.dat
by pboin (Deacon) on May 27, 2005 at 15:59 UTC

    Well, what have you tried? Do you have any code? Any error messages?

    You didn't even *ask* a question for crying out loud...

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