NAME

smsdump - converter for SMS PDBs to human readable formats

SYNOPSIS

smsdump [options] file

OPTIONS

-h, --help

Print a brief help message and exits.

-o FILE, --output=FILE

Write output to FILE instead of standard output.

-t TYPE, --type=TYPE

Define which type of format the output should be written in. Possible values are txt (default) and raw. See smsdump(1)'s DESCRIPTION section for further explanations.

DESCRIPTION

smsdump is a small utility written in Perl. It is shipped with and makes use of Palm::SMS(3) Perl module in order to provide an easy and quick way to extract your SMS messages out of a Palm PDB database file and convert them to a human readable format. The PDB format understood is that of Perl::SMS(3)'s.

smsdump output format can be chosen via switch --type among several possibilities enlisted below.

txt

This is the default format. It writes the SMS messages as plain text.

raw

This format is meant for further processing of your messages when you can not or do not want to use Perl and Palm::SMS. Each line of the output represents a message from the input PDB file. A line consists of a NULL (e.g., \0) separated list of values where new lines (e.g., \n) and backslashes (e.g., \) have been escaped with two plain characters, \n and \\ rispectively.

SEE ALSO

Palm::SMS(3), Palm::PDB(3), smssync(1)

AUTHOR

smsdump is written and maintained by Lorenzo Cappelletti <lorenzo.cappelletti@email.it>.

COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER

This program is Copyright 2005 by Lorenzo Cappelletti. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.