Remind -> Palm (naive way)
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I'm still trying to find and ideal way how to get my calendar data into
the Palm. I'm still use on-line  stuff (calendars from the OwnCloud and
the Google) which can be imported into "ical" format.

There is a "ical2rem" [1], [2]  tool which allows to convert these data
to the  format for  the "remind"  program. There used  to be  a program
called  "rem2palm" but  it is  unavailable for  ages (i  only saw  some
internet forums where it was discussed but no actual code).

So I have made something for myself.  I don't understand Perl so I used
the AWK [4] (my AWK knowledge is very limited as you can see):

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#! /usr/bin/awk -f
BEGIN { }
{a = $1 ; c=$5 ; d=$6 ;  $1=$2=$3=$4=$5=$6="" ; b = $0 ;
e=d ;gsub(":","",d); gsub("am","",d) ;
if (c < 480){c = c/60*100} else {c="130"} ;
if (match(d, /pm/)>1) {gsub(":","",d); gsub("pm","",d) ; d=d+1200; };
print a," ",d" GMT+100 \t", a," ",d+c" GMT+100 \t \t"b}
END { }
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I call the script "rem2palm". The  strange "if (match())" stuff is used
because  remind -p  produces times  like 11:33pm  but the  "pilot-xfer"
tools (the "install-datebook" in particular) wants to use format "2333"
instead. The "GMT+100" means "GMT +  one hour" and you probably want to
change it to your local settings.

The "if (c < 480)" is my  trying to fix the "ical2rem" script behaviour
(it puts  strange values  into the  field where  should be  duration in
minutes).


It should be used in this way:
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remind  -p .reminders |grep -v "\#" | rem2palm | grep -v "^[A-z]"|tee calendar.txt
install-datebook /dev/ttyf2 calendar.txt
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The  "grep" is necessary to remove some failed conversions.

Well, it is a half-baken solution  to copy stuff from on-line calendars
to the Palm. You  will probably find many cases when  this way does not
work (for example, when a description starts with number). It also does
not support events without time.


References:

[1] https://www.roaringpenguin.com/wiki/index.php/ICal2Rem
[2] http://wiki.grahamenglish.net/index.php/Ical2rem.pl
[3] https://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK