ADBIO 1.3 - Convert HP100LX .ADB files to/from comma delimited ASCII
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The built-in appointment book application of the HP100LX palmtop
computer uses a unique database format and cannot export or import data
in any foreign format (except exporting ASCII versions using
SmartClips). If your HP gets lost, stolen or broken you have no means
for accessing your appointment book data even if you have a backup on a
different machine. This was the main reason for writing ADBIO.

The ADBIO package consists of the following files:

   README       this file
   HISTORY      description of changes between releases
   ADBDUMP.C    C source code for ADBDUMP
   ADBLOAD.C    C source code for ADBLOAD
   CDF2SUN.C    C source code for CDF2SUN 
   ADBDUMP.EXE  MSDOS executable for ADBDUMP
   ADBLOAD.EXE  MSDOS executable for ADBLOAD
   ADBDUMP.DOC  documentation for ADBDUMP
   ADBLOAD.DOC  documentation for ADBLOAD
   CDF2SUN.DOC  documentation for CDF2SUN

ADBIO is freeware and may be distributed/copied/used/modified/eaten/microwaved
etc. freely.  I do not, however, take any responsibility for any damage
produced by doing that.

There is a package called DBIO that provides a graphical user interface
for ADBIO (and DBUTIL). It is available in library 11 of the HPHAND forum
on CompuServe.

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Please send comments, suggestions and bug reports (bugs, what bugs?) to

   Internet: garzotto@swssai.uu.ch
   or CIS:   73064,1657

Andreas Garzotto, December 1994

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ADBIO has now been re-compiled as a set of command-line Win32 executables; gone
is the 40K memory limit for ADBDUMP, and included is a compiled version of the
CDF2SUN.C source code. I do not know what environment Garzotto originally used,
but among other things I needed to explicitly include cstdlib.h and cstring and
re-format the source code from K&R to ANSI so that GCC would compile it.
You may send questions to lewisje@alumni.iu.edu
James Edward Lewis II, 20 September 2009