palm2vcal

palm2vcal

This package provides a script converting palm OS .dba calendar files into standard .ics vCalendar files. If requested, the other direction could be easily introduced.

It relies mostly on the palmFile.py <http://www.totic.org/develop/palmFile.py>_ script written by Aleks Totić, and improved by Jeff Mikels. In order to generate the vcalendar file, this script uses the icalendar <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/icalendar>_ package.

Usage

The script can simply be called with::

palm2vcal <source_file> <dest_file>

Where <source_file> and <dest_file> are either file names or - for stdin/stdout.

When using the --verbose option, the number of converted event is printed to stdout (or stderr).

Encoding

The target file will be written in UTF8, as per RFC5545 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545>_.

The encoding of the input file defaults to cp1252 (microsoft standard encoding), but another encoding can be chosen using the --encoding switch::

palm2vcal --encoding=latin1 <source_file> <dest_file>

Links

• Original palmFile.py: http://www.totic.org/develop/palmFile.py
• Palm file format specification: http://www.notsofaqs.com/datebook_dat.php
• icalendar documentation: http://readthedocs.org/docs/icalendar/en/latest/
• vcal format RFC: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545
• Package on PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/palm2vcal/
• Issues and code on GitHub <http://github.com>_: http://github.com/rbarrois/palm2vcal