pi-address: X11 Address Manager

What is pi-address?

• GUI frontend to address databases from a 3Com Palm Pilot.
  It can read/edit/save database files in PDB-format. Those files can be read from or written to the pilot using "pilot-xfer" from the pilot-link package.
• This version can also read the address database direct from the Palm Pilot.

  Warning: This is still beta software, be sure to have a backup
           of your address database before trying to write back files
           created with pi-address.

• The programm can also be used as a general address manager without a 3Com Palm Pilot. Some of the record fields may be not very meaningful in this case.

News

New in 0.2.2:

• Font being used for listing of all records (left window) configurable in rc-file with variable "ListFont" (Default: "fixed").
• Font being used for displaying a single records (right window) configurable in rc-file with variable "RecordFont" (Default: "Helvetica").
• Font being used in edit dialog configurable in rc-file with variable "EditFont" (Default: "fixed").
• Bugfix: core dump on importing csv file

New in 0.2.1:

• Write AddressDB record by record directly to the Pilot!
• Read AddressDB record by record and not as a whole entity.
• Display global information from the pilot.
• New file menu entry: reread user configuration file.
• Bugfix: display address field with embedded newlines correct.
• Bugfix: check for access of device before trying to connect to Pilot.

New in 0.2.0:

• Read the address database directly from the Palm Pilot!
• Purge deleted records from all Palm Pilot databases!
• Minor bug fixes in displaying records with "given name" only.

Where to find?

• The newest version can always be found at:
  ftp://linux.in-berlin.de/pub/pilot/pi-address.tar.gz
  (Thanks to Frank Ronneburg for providing me with this ftp space)
• There is a mirror site at ftp://walther.in-berlin.de/pub/pilot.
  (Thanks to Johannes Walther for providing this ftp area as backup).
  In case you have trouble to connect to the primary ftp server, try this one instead.
• For people in the US maybe this mirror will be much faster:
  ftp://pv915.pv.reshsg.uci.edu/pub/pilot/.
  (Thanks to Rainer Doemer for this ftp space).

Requirements

• libqt.so.1.32
  You need one of the newer version of Qt (http://www.troll.no). Both libqt.so.1.31 and libqt.so.1.32 are known to work. The former has a minor bug, which affects the programm slightly and was solved in 1.32. Of course the newest version of Qt (1.33) works too.
• pilot-link
  The program uses functions from the library libpisock.a, part of pilot-link. Any recent version of this should work (tested with 0.8.9 and 0.8.11). This library is linked statically against the program.

Tested platforms

• Linux, 2.0.x, i386
• Solaris, 2.5.x/2.6, Sparc
• NetBSD, 1.3, Amiga
• FreeBSD, 2.2.5R, i486
• If anybody runs pi-address successfully on another platform please let me know!

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Last modified: May 21, 1998