This is p5-Palm, a set of Perl 5 modules for reading, manipulating, and writing the .pdb and .prc database files used by PalmOS devices such as the PalmPilot and its successors. Copyright (C) 1999-2000 by Andrew Arensburger This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License, a copy of which can be found with the Perl distribution. This code 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 Artistic License for more details. * INSTALLING: This is pretty standard: - Run "perl Makefile.PL" to create the Makefile. - Run "make" to build everything. - Run "make install" to install the package. Easy, huh? * DOCUMENTATION: All documentation is in the form of PODs embedded in the module files themselves. Use pod2text Palm/PDB.pm to read the documentation for Palm::PDB. You'll want to start with Palm::PDB, then Palm::Raw, then the others. * FEEDBACK: If you have any comments, suggestions, bug reports, patches, etc., please send mail to the maintainer, brian d foy, at . * CONTRIBUTING The source is in Github: http://github.com/briandfoy/p5-Palm/tree/master If you have a change, fork the repo, make your patch, and send me a pull request. Don't be scared; it's easy! * AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS: Andrew Arensburger : principal perpetrator Robert Norris : patch for empty PDBs Sumant S.R. Oemrawsingh : patch for inconsistent record fields in Mail.pm John Jannotti : patches to make Perl 5.6 shut up. John-David Smith : added "archive" attribute. Kenneth Lorber : fixed "pdbdump" to handle arrays in parsed records (e.g., Datebook exceptions). Alessandro Zummo : DateTime.pm, ZirePhoto.pm Kurt Starsinic : documentation patch. Seb Wills : documentation. brian d foy