THIS DIRECTORY: Open-sourced other-OS-based data-exchange & similar tools. o All known open-source / free-software programs for PalmOS devices are in the parent directory. o All open-source development tools for PalmOS are in subdirectory "development" (sibling to this one). o All PalmOS offerings NOT under open-source / free-software licence terms are in subdirectory "proprietary" (sibling to this one). o All PalmOS offerings that technically may not be publicly distributed because of licence problems are in subdirectory "unlicensed" (sibling to this one). Date/Time of Size File Arrival Filename Description ------- ------------ ------------ ----------- 18913 Dec 8 14:03 00index.txt This file you are reading. 10158 Jan 11 01:53 autopilot-1.0.tar.gz AutoPilot is a Unix daemon to monitor the state of a hot-sync cradle's serial port to auto-execute a command of your choosing (such as a pilot-xfer command) when the PalmOS device attaches. By Leigh Morresi. Source code under the GNU GPL. From: ftp://signal-x.com/pub/ 663307 Mar 5 2002 coldsync-2.2.5.tar.gz ColdSync PalmOS-device sync tool for Unix OSes. By Andrew Arensburger. Source code under the Artistic Licence. From: http://www.coldsync.com/ 10890 Oct 19 20:53 ddbugtopbm-1.0.tar.gz ddbugtopbm is a graphics converter by Russell Marks to convert Diddle or DiddleBug sketches to PBM files with appropriate names. C source code under the GNU GPL. From: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/ graphics/convert/ 34622 Dec 8 17:53 docreader-src-0.69.tar.gz DocReader Win32 reader for PalmOS DOC- format documents, by Michael Pickering. Delphi4 source code under a free-usage licence. From: http://www.crosswinds.net/~mpicker0/ DocReader/DocReaderFr.htm 43730 Dec 9 01:45 docreader-1.1.tar.gz DocReader for Java, by Christopher Y. Wong. Java source and bytecode under a free-usage licence. From: http://world.std.com/~cwong/reader/ 30471 Dec 8 18:01 doctoolkit-1.1.4.tar.gz Doc Toolkit is a set of Python scripts (e.g., for Unix platforms) to convert between HTML/ASCII text and DOC format, by Rob Tillotson of The Pyrite Project. Source (scripts) under the GNU GPL. From: http://pyrite.linuxave.net/dtk/dtk.html http://purl.oclc.org/net/n9mtb/cq/ 9332 Sep 17 21:27 doctype-1.2.tar.gz doctype is a shell script to tell which PalmOS program to use to read a .pdb document, and informs you whether a db or .prc file is a document file or a PalmOS application or a PalmOS Hack extension. Supports DOC, DB, FireViewer/ImageViewer, HanDBase, InfoView, iSilo, JFile, LIST, MobileDB, QuickSheet, TealDoc, TealMeal, TealInfo, TealPaint, ThinkDB, Tides, and TomeRaider types. By Hasan Umit Ezerce. Source (script) under the GNU GPL. From: http://freshmeat.net/projects/doctype/ 24462 Dec 14 14:27 doorknob-0.9.3b.tar.gz DoorKnob is an MD5-based challenge / response authentication tool, with a PalmOS client and a Unix server. By Per Harald Myrvang. Source code and PalmOS binary under the GNU GPL. From: http://www.pasta.cs.uit.no/~perm/ PASTA/pilot/software.html 45055 May 23 1999 gpalmdoc-0.5.tar.gz gPalmDoc is an X11/GTK+ - based HTML- DOC converter by Jiva DeVoe. Source code under the GNU GPL. From: http://users.linuxbox.com/~jiva/ (site vanished) ftp://ftp.medasys-digital-systems.fr/ mirror/linux/pilot/jpilot/~jiva/ 10907 2004-01-07 12:26 ical2ics.pl ical2ics.pl converts data already exported by the Pilot-Link suite's "read-ical" utility from PalmOS Datebook to Sanjan Ghemawat's non-RFC2445 "ical" format, over to genuine RFC2445 "iCal" (aka .ics) format. Author Florian Schaefer says the script doesn't yet convert all repeated events correctly. Note that there is no provision for converting data to PalmOS Datebook format, only from. Source code (Perl script) under the GNU GPL. From: http://www.netego.de/hpc?p=download&l=en 252208 Jan 11 23:27 imgvtopgm-2.0.tar.gz Palm Pilot Image Viewer to PGM Converter, for Unix, by Eric Howe. Converts Pilot Image Viewer (a proprietary "shareware" graphics utility) PDB files to and from Portable Greymaps (pgm) and Portable Bitmaps (pbm). Requires the pbmplus package. Source code under the GNU GPL. From: http://www.trends.net/~mu/pilot.html 218428 2004-01-07 11:27 jetsync-1.0.zip JetSync is a suite of utilities to sync PalmOS data (addresses, memos, to-do lists, datebook) to/from Linux. Note the "ical" format supported is Sanjan Ghemawat's non-RFC2445 "ical" format. C source code under the GNU GPL. From: http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~frias/jetsync/ 428050 Oct 28 17:10 jsm-initial2-javadoc.zip jSyncManager is a protocol stack, set of data abstraction objects, set of development tools, and utilities to make and use conduits and other tools to sync PalmOS with Java apps, by Brad Barclay. Documentation under the GNU GPL. From: http://jsyncmanager.sourceforge.net/ 428458 Oct 26 13:38 jsm-initial2.jar jSyncManager is a protocol stack, set of data abstraction objects, set of development tools, and utilities to make and use conduits and other tools to sync PalmOS with Java apps, by Brad Barclay. Java source code and bytecode under the GNU GPL. Requires Java 1.1 or later, Java Communications API, and IR/serial cradle/modem. Doesn't yet support USB or PalmOS 4.x system passwording. From: http://jsyncmanager.sourceforge.net/ 17819 Dec 6 13:09 justintime-0.3.tar.gz Sets time on your PalmOS device to match your Unix host over a modified version of pilot-xfer. (Modified pilot-xfer.c source code provided, which is part of pilot-link, mirrored here.) By Holger Klawitter. Source code and PalmOS binary under the GNU GPL. From: http://www.klawitter.de/palm/ 31613 Dec 6 13:09 justintime-jpp-03.tar.gz Sets time on your PalmOS device to match your Unix host. JPilot version. By Holger Klawitter. PalmOS binary of JustInTime.prc, andJPilot plugin source code for Unix, under the GNU GPL. From: http://www.klawitter.de/palm/ 7598 Dec 1 20:41 makedoc7a.tar.gz MakeDoc DOC-creator by Pat Beirne, with assistance by Rick Bram and Harold Bamford. The author licensed this C++ source code explicitly under the GNU GPL on 2000-12-01: Other "makedoc7.cpp" files on the Net have no licence statement, and should be amended to include this licence. From: http://www.daveltd.com/pilot/PalmOS/ 6942 Dec 1 21:48 makedoc8.tar.gz MakeDoc DOC-creator by Pat Beirne, with assistance by Rick Bram and Harold Bamford. The author licensed this C++ source code explicitly under the GNU GPL on 2000-12-01: Other "makedoc8.cpp" files on the Net have no licence statement, and should be amended to include this licence. From: http://patb.dhs.org/Programming/ makedoc8.cpp 6915 Dec 1 21:48 makedoc9.tar.gz MakeDoc DOC-creator by Pat Beirne, with assistance by Rick Bram and Harold Bamford. The author licensed this C++ source code explicitly under the GNU GPL on 2000-12-01: Other "makedoc9.cpp" files on the Net have no licence statement, and should be amended to include this licence. From: http://patb.dhs.org/Programming/ makedoc9.cpp 13700 Dec 1 21:48 makedocj2.tar.gz MakeDocJ DOC-creator by Pat Beirne. The author licensed this Java source code explicitly under the GNU GPL on 2000-12-01: Other "MakeDocJ2.zip" files on the Net have no licence statement, and should be amended to include this licence. From: http://patb.dyndns.org/Programming/ MakeDocJ.htm 53448 Dec 8 00:12 makedocj-3.6.0.tar.gz MakeDocJ DOC-creator by Jeffrey A. Krzysztow, based on Pat Beirne's MakeDocJ. Requires JVM or JDK. Also does DOC to ASCII. Java source code and Java bytecode under the GNU LGPL. (As this is derived from Beirne's version, I acquired and added on 2000-12-01 Beirne's statement authorising this derivative work. Please replace other versions on the Net with this fully licensed archive.) From: http://www.qni.com/~brisk/ PalmPilot/MakeDocJ/ 2844 Feb 14 22:40 mpadq.pl Perl script to let the Mutt e-mail program search PalmOS addressbook database files for names/addresses. By Lucas Maneos. Perl source code (script); licence unstated, but this is a very minor script. From: http://www.quiet.demon.co.uk/software/ mpadq 38275 Mar 5 2002 p5-palm-1.2.4.tar.gz p5-Palm is a set of Perl 5 modules to read, manipulate, and write .pdb and .prc databases. By Andrew Arensburger. Perl source code (scripts) under the Artistic License. From: http://www.coldsync.org/ 14860 Dec 4 15:56 pad.pl Pilot Address Dumper finds and displays PalmOS AddressDB.pdb address entries. By Martin von Weissenberg. Perl script under a free-usage licence. From: http://www.hut.fi/~mweissen/pad.html 380059 Dec 1 20:22 palm-db-tools-0.3.0.zip Palm Flat-File Database Tools are conversion tools for Unix and Win32 for sundry PalmOS database formats, by Tom Dyas. Win32 binaries under the GNU GPL. From: http://palm-db-tools.sourceforge.net/ 155710 Dec 1 20:22 palm-db-tools-src-0.3.0.tar.gz Palm Flat-File Database Tools are conversion tools for Unix and Win32 for sundry PalmOS database formats, by Tom Dyas. Source code under the GNU GPL. From: http://palm-db-tools.sourceforge.net/ 10526 Jan 12 00:37 palmlib-0.0.2.tar.gz Set of PHP3 functions to on-the-fly convert ASCII or HTML to DOC format. By Pierre Dittgen. Source code (scripts) under the GNU GPL. From: http://mmmm.free.fr/palm/ 26856 Dec 14 14:47 palmmod-1.1.tar.gz PalmMOD shows the Message Of the Day. By Intrepid Software Solutions, Inc. PalmOS binary, and source and binary for a Win32 utility to construct message of the day databases, under a gratis-usage licence. (The source code package for the PalmMOD PalmOS utility is under the GNU GPL.) From: http://www.intrepidsoft.com/ http://www.pda.tucows.com/palm/ 20400 Dec 19 13:35 palmmod-src-1.1.tar.gz PalmMOD shows the Message Of the Day. By Intrepid Software Solutions, Inc. Source code for the PalmOS app and for a Win32 utility to construct message of the day databases, under the GNU GPL. (A separate package containing the PalmOS app binary and source + binary for the same Win32 application are available under a free-usage licence.) From: http://www.intrepidsoft.com/ 132834 Apr 26 14:29 pdbreader.tar.gz PDB Reader displays the contents of PDB binary files. By Steve Kienle. Win32 binary under a free-usage licence. From: http://home.att.net/~sckienle/palm/ 97964 Apr 26 14:21 pdbreader-src.tar.gz PDB Reader displays the contents of PDB binary files. By Steve Kienle. C++ source code for MS Visual C++, under a free-usage licence. From: http://home.att.net/~sckienle/palm/ 43771 Jan 11 23:27 pbitmtopbm-1.4.tar.gz Bidirectional converter between prc-tools pbitm and pbm formats, for Unix, by Jeff Howe. Source code under the GNU GPL. From: http://www.trends.net/~mu/pilot.html 120323 Jan 12 02:22 pbm2palm-1.2.tar.gz PBM2Palm is a utility for converting black-and-white PBM files into Java classes, which can then be displayed on PalmOS devices using the KVM. By Andreas Heilwagen. Java source code under the GNU GPL. From: http://www.kvmworld.com/Downloads/ Graphics/PBM2Palm.shtml 376208 Jan 11 23:28 pbmplus_10dec91.tar.gz Image file conversion utility for Unix, by Jef Poskanzer. Handles pbm, pgm, ppm, and pnm -- and optionally tiff, jpeg, and png with the required libs. Source code under a free-usage licence. From: http://www.acme.com/software/pbmplus/ 1103392 Dec 1 18:46 penguinbackup-2.0.tar.gz Single-floppy Linux system designed to backup, manage, restore, and reset PalmOS devices on the road, by René Witte. Includes custom kernel, root filesystem, and kernel config. Linux binaries, all under open-source licences. From: http://PenguinBackup.sourceforge.net/ 460174 Dec 19 21:16 pilot-link.0.9.3.tar.gz Pilot-Link is a collection of tools for *ix to transfer data to and from PalmOS devices, debug the devices, synchronize with calendars, and build related apps. By David A. Desrosiers, Kenneth Albanowski, and others. Source code under the GNU GPL. From: http://www.gnu-designs.com/pilot-link/ http://www.gnome.org:65348/gnome-pilot/ download/pilot-link/ http://www.daveltd.com/pilot/PalmOS/ ftp://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/pub/PalmOS/ 1395675 Jan 12 00:50 pilot-mailsync-0.5.tar.gz Replacement for pilot-link's pilot-mail component. Transfers e-mail between a PalmOS device's Mail app and a wide range of Unix mail sources, including mbox, mh, imap, and POP3. Delivers outbound PalmOS e-mail to the Unix MTA. By Hollis Blanchard. Source code under the GNU GPL. From: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~hollis/palm/ 10794 Dec 4 14:06 pilot2pine-0.2.tar.gz pilot2pine Perl script, utility to grab PalmOS address book and saves it to a file in Pine's address book format. By Mike Hughes. Source (script) under the GNU GPL. From: http://www.psilord.com/code/ 12501 Dec 1 23:29 pm2qif-0.1.tar.gz PocketMoney to QIF is a Perl script for exporting PocketMoney for PalmOS data to standard Quicken Interchange Format (.qif), used by sundry personal finance programs, e.g., GNUcash, by Gareth Watts. Source (script) under the GNU GPL. From: http://pm2qif.sourceforge.net/ 469999 Jan 9 10:27 sitescooper-full-3.0.2.tar.gz SiteScooper by Justin Mason is a tool to autoretrieve news from popular Web news sites (or any other sites you configure it for), and package it in any of several formats for PalmOS. Source code (Perl scripts) under the GNU GPL. From: http://sitescooper.org/ 45858 Jan 12 01:08 syncal-0.8.6.tar.gz Syncal synchronises Unix ical calendars with a PalmOS device's DateBook app. NOTE: Unfortunately, the "ical" in question is Sanjay Ghemawat's ical app at ftp://ftp.lcs.mit.edu/pub/sanjay/, NOT to be confused with the IETF-std. RFC-2445 iCAL calendar-file format. By John Franks. Source code under the GNU GPL. From: http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/syncal/ 29674 Nov 22 17:45 txt2pdbdoc-1.2.1.tar.gz Paul Jay Lucas's DOC utilities for Unix, which comprise txt2pdbdoc, html2pdbtxt, and pdbtxt2html. Source code under the GNU GPL. From: http://www.best.com/~pjl/software.html 1707 Dec 16 21:25 url2palm.tar.gz url2palm is a Perl script to convert HTML to DOC format. Calls the txt2pdbdoc utility and two LWP modules. By Rich Bowen. Source (script) under either the GNU GPL or the Artistic Licence. From: http://www.rcbowen.com/imho/palm/ Not Yet Ready: o FreeERP aims to be a large-scale accounting & business-management system with (among other things) a PalmOS front-end. Alpha status a/o 2000-12. http://sourceforge.net/projects/FreeERP/ o Java Progect Manager will be a Java-based desktop application to work with Palm Progect Manager. Extremely early alpha / developer's release, a/o 2000-12. By Laurent Burgbacher. http://sourceforge.net/projects/jprogect/ Other Resources: o The Mahogany X-based GTK+ e-mail and news client for Unix, MacOS, and Win32 includes a PalmOS synchronisation module. http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/ o Ximian Evolution, the e-mail and scheduling client, includes a conduit for gnome-pilot. http://www.ximian.com/products/ximian_evolution/ o Orrick MP3 Player, an MP3 server for Linux/perl, includes a PalmOS interface application. http://www.bellinghausen.net/mp3/index.shtml o ldap-abook is an LDAP-based Perl script to query and manipulate LDAP address-book information. It includes a Perl script to dump the directory to a PalmOS device. by David Leigh. GPL-licensed. http://ldap-abook.sourceforge.net/ o NetteBook is a Web-based PIM, which is planned to include a conduit for synchronisation with PalmOS devices. By Shawn Rutledge. GPL-licensed. http://www.nettebook.org/ (which is not responding, a/o 2000-12). o SGMLtools-Lite (formerly SGMLtools) is a set of Python and DSSSL scripts to interact with Jade and produce SGML files (mostly DocBook) easier. Among its many output formats is PalmOS iSilo format. o The Pyrite Project (formerly PalmPython), run by Rob Tillotson, has Python-based tools to provide object-oriented access to PalmOS devices and their data. http://www.pyrite.org/ o Pilot-Link Portal Page: Concerns various PalmOS-connectivity tools for *ix. http://www.gnu-designs.com/pilot-link/ o J-Pilot is desktop-management software for X11/GTK+ and pilot-link. http://www.jpilot.org/ o KPilot is desktop management software for X11/Qt and pilot-link. http://www.slac.com/pilone/kpilot_home/ o PilotManager is a graphical tool to synchronise and manage your PalmOS device from Unix, for Perl/Tk & X11. http://www.moshpit.org/pilotmgr/ o GNOME-Pilot is desktop-management software for X11/GTK+ and pilot-link, replacing two earlier incarnations, Pilot Applet and gpilot-fileman. http://www.gnome.org:65348/gnome-pilot/ o Linux Palm Desktop is a complete PalmOS-device management environment in the Shelf programming environment, with integration for ApplixWare Builder and other ApplixWare components. http://shelf.sourceforge.net/projects/ o PilotBean is a Java desktop interface for managing PalmOS devices http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/pilotbean/ o Sitescooper is a set of Perl scripts to retrieve/parse popular Web news sites on Unix, and deliver them to PalmOS machines. http://sitescooper.org/ o pi-address is a X11/Qt graphical front-end to read/edit/save address database files in PDB format. It can also read the address data directly from the PalmOS device (or stand-alone as a general address manager, without a PalmOS device). By Michael Wiedmann. http://me.in-berlin.de/~miwie/pia/ o PalmImage is a Java-based tool for X11 or console that converts GIF and JPEG files to VIEW pdb ones for PalmOS. By Sean Robinson. GPL-licensed. http://palmimage.sourceforge.net/ o Yomip is a Java tool for desktop OSes to compress arbitrary files to PalmOS PDB format for transportation, and decompress them. http://www.gjt.org/~jjt/yomip.html o Linux kernel & tools port to PalmOS-capable hardware http://www.uclinux.org/ o Palm Modem/Web/E-mail/Fax FAQ (Don Reed) http://www.lan-ks.de/~ralfm/palm/mypalm/doc/1fe515.txt ftp://www.nicholson.com/pub/rhn/palmemailfaq.txt ftp://www.nicholson.com/pub/rhn/palmemailfaq.zip o Newt's Cape for Apple Newton has a PilotDOC plug-in module. http://members.bellatlantic.net/~sweyer/newton/newtscape/pilotdoc.html o XNotesPlus is a "sticky notes" implementation for X11/GTK+ with integration to a provided PalmOS module for cross-platform "sticky notes" on PalmOS, and also conversion capability to and from PalmOS Memo and AddressBook entries. By Michael J. Hammel. http://www.graphics-muse.org/xnotes/xnotes.html o WMSync is a Window Maker dockapp that front-ends your favourite PalmOS sync utility (such as pilot-xfer or coldsync). Requires libDockApp. By Markus Schaub. http://home.t-online.de/home/db7ne/wmsync.html