smsdump - converter for SMS PDBs to human readable formats
smsdump [options] file
Print a brief help message and exits.
Write output to FILE instead of standard output.
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.
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.
This is the default format. It writes the SMS messages as plain text.
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.
Palm::SMS(3), Palm::PDB(3), smssync(1)
smsdump is written and maintained by Lorenzo Cappelletti <lorenzo.cappelletti@email.it>.
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.
