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01-26-2007, 05:56 AM

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.

Thanks for the help.

Dave

01-26-2007, 08:50 PM

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.

If you're able to save your entries as text files, I'll be happy to see
if I can merge all your files into this cycling/running Web
application:
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

01-27-2007, 04:53 AM

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.

On Jan 26, 9:50 pm, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ].com wrote:
> 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.
>
> If you're able to save your entries as text files, I'll be happy to see
> if I can merge all your files into this cycling/running Web
> application:[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

01-28-2007, 11:06 AM

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:56:45 -0800, DC1999 wrote:

> 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.

Mike

01-28-2007, 02:54 PM

Mike Causer wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:56:45 -0800, DC1999 wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Mike

01-29-2007, 05:27 AM

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll try something soon.

Too bad the developer never replies to my E-mails.

Dave

On Jan 28, 3:54 pm, Bill Baka <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:
> Mike Causer wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:56:45 -0800, DC1999 wrote:
>
> >> 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
>
>
>
> > 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.
>
> > Mike

01-29-2007, 02:58 PM

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:54:56 +0000, Bill Baka wrote:

> I think in Linux/UNIX it would be CAT file1,file2>>(|)newfile. o

cat file1 file2 > newfile

But just try it with a couple of .doc or .html and see if you get a
clean merge of the two files in the appropriate viewer......

Mike