I have purchased over the years both Cyclists and Runners Logs from fitnesslogs.com for my Palms, now Palm Treo 650 and I like them. But, I want to consolidate all the entries onto Cyclists Log because the past few years that's what I do.
How do I do this other than one by one, manually -- which is out of the question. There are literally thousands of entries. I have sent several messages to the developer, and gotten no response.
I seem to recall that in ms/dos there was something named "append" whereby you could attach one file to another and they would become one.
I'm currently synching via Missing Synch to a MacBookPro Intel machine.
Humm... good question. Are you able to save your entries to a text file with the fields delimited with something like a comma? If so, you might be able to find "software tools" to help you merge the files. For example Excel or some other software package that's able to merge delimited text files. Maybe you could google for "text file merge" programs.
I looked at your demo page, and while it looks like a good program, I'd just rather not post my cycling log on the web. Just a personal thing. Thanks for the suggestion, too.
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Humm... good question. Are you able to save your entries to a text file with the fields delimited with something like a comma? If so, you might be able to find "software tools" to help you merge the files. For example Excel or some other software package that's able to merge delimited text files. Maybe you could google for "text file merge" programs.
I seem to recall that in ms/dos there was something named "append" whereby you could attach one file to another and they would become one.
Seeing that they discuss the restrictions of data size on the Palm, I strongly suspect that the file format is their own proprietary, and that simply joining two files together is unlikely to work. What may work is for you to borrow a MS-Windows PC, get the 30-day evaluation copy for Windows, download to there, join the data (if Fitnesslogs allows), and copy back to the Palm -- being very, very careful not to overwrite your original data....
They talk about export to MS-Excel, but not import from, so that's an unlikely solution. Two more possibilities: Find someone who writes programs for PalmOs and ask if there's a commonly used database format that another program may be able to read, or dump the data and persuade someone with tools to poke inside binary files to have a look. If you can figure out my email address and send a smallish file I'd spend a few minutes poking at it. Neither of these has a high probability of success. Don't ask me about PalmOs, MacOs or /Windoze though, I'm a Unix/Linux type.
I seem to recall that in ms/dos there was something named "append" whereby you could attach one file to another and they would become one.
That used to be, for me, copy file1.txt+file2.txt>>newfile.txt, or something very close. It might even work in Windows under the cmd.exe DOS emulation mode. I think in Linux/UNIX it would be CAT file1,file2>>(|)newfile. There have been postings on the e-book groups that have pdf001, pdf002, etc. where the method of making the whole pdf file is just to copy them together into one file which is the original pdf file. Play around and learn something, it never hurts. Bill Baka
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Seeing that they discuss the restrictions of data size on the Palm, I strongly suspect that the file format is their own proprietary, and that simply joining two files together is unlikely to work. What may work is for you to borrow a MS-Windows PC, get the 30-day evaluation copy for Windows, download to there, join the data (if Fitnesslogs allows), and copy back to the Palm -- being very, very careful not to overwrite your original data....
They talk about export to MS-Excel, but not import from, so that's an unlikely solution. Two more possibilities: Find someone who writes programs for PalmOs and ask if there's a commonly used database format that another program may be able to read, or dump the data and persuade someone with tools to poke inside binary files to have a look. If you can figure out my email address and send a smallish file I'd spend a few minutes poking at it. Neither of these has a high probability of success. Don't ask me about PalmOs, MacOs or /Windoze though, I'm a Unix/Linux type.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll try something soon.
Too bad the developer never replies to my E-mails.
Dave
Bill Baka said:
Mike Causer said:
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:56:45 -0800, DC1999 wrote:
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I seem to recall that in ms/dos there was something named "append" whereby you could attach one file to another and they would become one.That used to be, for me, copy file1.txt+file2.txt>>newfile.txt, or
something very close. It might even work in Windows under the cmd.exe DOS emulation mode. I think in Linux/UNIX it would be CAT file1,file2>>(|)newfile. There have been postings on the e-book groups that have pdf001, pdf002, etc. where the method of making the whole pdf file is just to copy them together into one file which is the original pdf file. Play around and learn something, it never hurts. Bill Baka
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Seeing that they discuss the restrictions of data size on the Palm, I strongly suspect that the file format is their own proprietary, and that simply joining two files together is unlikely to work. What may work is for you to borrow a MS-Windows PC, get the 30-day evaluation copy for Windows, download to there, join the data (if Fitnesslogs allows), and copy back to the Palm -- being very, very careful not to overwrite your original data....
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They talk about export to MS-Excel, but not import from, so that's an unlikely solution. Two more possibilities: Find someone who writes programs for PalmOs and ask if there's a commonly used database format that another program may be able to read, or dump the data and persuade someone with tools to poke inside binary files to have a look. If you can figure out my email address and send a smallish file I'd spend a few minutes poking at it. Neither of these has a high probability of success. Don't ask me about PalmOs, MacOs or /Windoze though, I'm a Unix/Linux type.
