Short: Psion files convertor Author: Pavel Fedin Uploader: Pavel Fedin Type: util/conv Version: 0.8.2 Replaces: psiconv.lha Requires: ixemul.library Architecture: m68k-amigaos INTRODUCTION ============ This is the Amiga port of PsiConv, the utility to convert files from Psion PDAs to some format usable on desktop machine. INSTALLATION ============ Ordinary user will need just one executable: 'bin/psiconv'. Just copy it anywhere you wish, and you're done. Other utilities from 'bin' directory was written by PsiConv's author for testing purposes, you can learn more about them from their source code. Also i've included a compiled version of libpsiconv library which can be used to write your own applications which will suport Psion files. LIMITATIONS =========== This program is in rather beta state, so it has too many limitations itself. You can read about them in the original documentation in 'src' directory. Unfortunately one more limitation was introduced by Amiga environment. Original PsiConv can be compiled to support image (Sketch, MBM and ClipArt) formats, but only when ImageMagick program installed. There is no ImageMagick port for Amiga, so i coudln't make use of this feature. Probably this will change in future. COMPILING ========= This archive contains an already configured source code. Unfortunately there seem to be a lot of problems with shared (#?.ixlibrary) libs on Amiga, i've managed to compile PsiConv with shared libraries support after a large number of corrections in compiling scripts and makefiles, but the code was completely non-working (it crashed even when i typed 'psiconv --help'). So this version uses static libraries (#?.a) instead. If you will wish to reconfigure the package, you should do the following sequence (here i assume that you work in AmigaShell, not the ADE shell like ksh): 1. Run command 'sh Configure --without-imagemagick --disable-shared'. 2. Edit makefiles in directories 'program/psiconv' and 'extra'. Change LDFLAGS definition in them to: 'LDFLAGS = -all-static'. My gcc didn't link the libpsiconv library properly without it. Probably it's a bug in my version of gcc. The package is self-testing, after compiling it converts the supplied files format documentation from Psion Word format fo HTML format. AUTHOR ====== This work was done by me, Pavel Fedin . Unfortunately i don't have much time, i serve in Russian Army at the moment, so i have Internet access only on holidays and can't offer much support, but you still can write something to me. Please read the original documentation in 'src' directory, it is very poor but still contains some important information about known bugs and limitations, so please don't send bug reports to me, instead of it you can send them to the original author, or even help him to track down the problem and fix it.