NAME
pilot-install-expenses - Install an expense record entries onto your
Palm handheld device.
SECTION
pilot-link: Userland conduits
SYNOPSIS
pilot-install-expenses [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-q|--quiet]
[-?|--help] [--usage] [-t|--ptype STRING] [-e|--etype STRING]
[-a|--amount STRING] [-V|--vendor STRING] [-i|--city STRING]
[-g|--guests NUMBER] [-n|--note STRING] [-c|--category STRING]
[--replace]
DESCRIPTION
pilot-install-expenses allows a Palm handheld with the Expense
application to have expense records synchronized to it from the
commandline. You can pass any of the fields (except categories,
currently) to pilot-install-expenses and create new expense records on
your Palm handheld.
OPTIONS
pilot-install-expenses options
-t,
--ptype STRING
Add entries to the "Payment Type" field. These can be in the form of
"Cash", "Cheque" and others. See the Expense application on your Palm
device for full details on payment types.
Note that the long name for this option has been renamed since 0.11.8.
-e,
--etype STRING
Add entries to the "Expense Type" field. These can be in the form of
Airfare, Meals, and Others. See the Expense application on your Palm
device for full details on expense types.
-a,
--amount STRING
Add currency amount entries to the "Amount" field. These can be in the
form of 1.00 or "$10.00" and so on. See the Expense application on your
Palm device for full details on amount types.
-V,
--vendor STRING
Add entries to the "Vendor" field. These are free-form values, and can
be the name of a restaurant, an airline, or any other text value you
wish to use.
-g,
--guests DIGIT
Add the number of attendees to the expense record, identified by DIGIT.
If you ate lunch with four (4) additional people, you would put five
(5) here, a numeric value.
-i,
--city STRING
Add entries to the "City" field in the expense record. These are
free-form values, and can be the name of the location, city, or town
that the expense record occured in.
-n,
--note STRING
Add a "Note" entry to the expense record. These are free-form values,
and can be some notes related to the expense entry.
-c,
--category STRING
Install entries into the named category defined here. See the Expense
application on your Palm device for full details on using these
categories.
--replace
Replace the entry found in the named category identified by the
--category option
Note that the short name for this option has been removed since 0.11.8
Conduit Options
-p, --port
<port>
Use device file <port> to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this
is not specified, pilot-install-expenses will look for the $PILOTPORT
environment variable. If neither are found or supplied,
pilot-install-expenses will print the usage information.
-q,
--quiet
Suppress ’Hit HotSync button’ message.
--version
Display version information for pilot-install-expenses and exit without
connecting.
Help options
-h, --help
Display the help synopsis for pilot-install-expenses and exit without
connecting.
--usage
Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting.
USAGE
The program will connect to the Palm handheld, and install entries into
the Expense application based on values passed to
pilot-install-expenses arguments.
EXAMPLE
pilot-install-expenses -p /dev/pilot -c Unfiled -t Cash -e Meals -a
10.00 -V McDonalds -g 21 -l "San Francisco" -N "This is a note"
Installs a new expense; you are recording having 21 guests at McDonalds
in the city of San Francisco for a meal which cost 10.00 units of your
default currency and you added a simple note. The expense will take the
default date - today.
AUTHOR
pilot-install-expenses was originally written by community authors,
the original author is unknown.
This manual page was converted to XML by Neil Williams
<linux@codehelp.co.uk>
REPORTING BUGS
We have an online bug tracker. Using this is the only way to ensure
that your bugs are recorded and that we can track them until they are
resolved or closed. Reporting bugs via email, while easy, is not very
useful in terms of accountability. Please point your browser to
http://bugs.pilot-link.org: http://bugs.pilot-link.org and report your
bugs and issues there.
COPYRIGHT
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.,
51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
SEE ALSO
read-expenses (1), pilot-link(7).