NAME
install-expenses - Install an expense record
from various parameters and arguments passed at connection time.
SYNOPSIS
install-expenses [-p
<port>] [-qrt] [-c
<category>] [<filename>]
DESCRIPTION
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 install-expenses and create new
expense records on your Palm handheld.
OPTIONS
- -p, --port <port>
- Use device file <port> to communicate with the
Palm handheld. If this is not specified, will look for the
$PILOTPORT environment variable. If both are not found or
supplied, install-expenses will fall back to /dev/pilot
- -h, --help
- Display the help synopsis for install-expenses
- -v, --version
- Display version information for install-expenses
- -t, --ttype <ttype>
- Add entries to the "Payment Type" field. These can be in the
form of Cash, Check, and Others. See the Expense application on
your Palm device for full details on payment types.
- -e, --etype <etype>
- 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 <amount>
- Add dollar 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 <vendor>
- 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 <num>
- Add the number of attendees to the expense record, identified
by <num>. If you ate lunch with four (4) additional
people, you would put five (5) here, a numeric value.
- -i, --city <city>
- 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 <note>
- 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 <category>
- Create entries into the named category defined here. See the
Expense application on your Palm device for full details on using
these categories.
- -r, --replace <category>
- Replace the entry found in the named category identified by
<category>.
USAGE
The program will connect to the Palm handheld, and
install entries into the Expense application based on values passed
to install-expenses arguments.
BUGS
KNOWN BUGS
- install-expenses has no known bugs at this time.
REPORTING BUGS
- Report bugs at
AUTHOR
install-expenses was written by community
authors, the original author is unknown.
SEE ALSO
read-expenses(1)