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NAME

pdbdump - Print the contents of a Palm PDB file

VERSION

This document describes version 1.400 of pdbdump, released March 14, 2015 as part of Palm version 1.400.

SYNOPSIS

pdbdump [options] filename

DESCRIPTION

pdbdump reads a Palm OS .pdb file, parses it, and prints its contents. This includes both a hex dump of the raw data of each piece, and a human-readable list of the various values, insofar as possible. The aim of pdbdump is to allow one to verify whether a particular file is a well-formed Palm OS database file and if not, where the error lies.

If the database is of a known type, pdbdump parses the AppInfo block and records. Otherwise, it simply prints out a hex dump of their contents. pdbdump includes, by default, support for most of the built-in applications. Other helper modules may be loaded with the -M option.

OPTIONS

-h -help --help

Print a usage message and exit.

-nohex

Don't print the hex dump of the various parts.

-Mmodule

use the named module. This can be useful for loading additional helper modules.

SEE ALSO

Palm::PDB

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

main requires no configuration files or environment variables.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

pdbdump only recognizes record databases (.pdb files), not resource databases (.prc files).

AUTHORS

Andrew Arensburger <arensb AT ooblick.com>

Currently maintained by Christopher J. Madsen <perl AT cjmweb.net>

Please report any bugs or feature requests to <bug-Palm AT rt.cpan.org> or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=Palm.

You can follow or contribute to p5-Palm's development at https://github.com/madsen/p5-Palm.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2003 by Andrew Arensburger & Alessandro Zummo.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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