Note, because pi-getrom uses the low-level RPC protocol to fetch the ROM image, and the new OS5 devices do not use this protocol, you currently cannot fetch an OS5 ROM image using this utility. This will be updated in a future release to handle fetching OS5 ROM images, using the debugger protocol.

-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 pi-getrom.

-v, --version

Display version of pi-getrom.

<filename>

Write the ROM image to the file named by <filename>. If this is omitted, the filename will be written out as the rom version name as follows: 'pilot-$VERSION.rom', where an OS 3.5 image would be written as the filename of 'pilot-3.5.0.rom'.

Use of this program MAY place you in violation of your license agreement with Palmsource, Inc. or other OEM partners. Please read your Palm documentation (specifically the "Software License Agreement") before running this program.

KNOWN BUGS

pi-getrom does not work with OS5 devices as yet, due to changes in the architecture and design of the Palm HotSync protocol and file type changes from m68k to ARM. Other than that, pi-getrom has no known bugs at this time.

REPORTING BUGS