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LinuxFocus.org html to pda document converter

You can use this pda converter to convert web-pages into PDA friendly format. The generated .pdb files contain the document in compressed fromat and can be read on the Palm Pilot. The converter can convert to both doc and zTXT files. If zTXT files are generated then you can read it with the reader from gutenpalm.sourceforge.net otherwise with DOC readers such as: CSpotRun (32768.com/bill/palmos/cspotrun/, GPL), iSilo-free (www.iSilo.com) and many other document readers. If the url of this program is 2ztxt then zTXT files are generated. DOC files are generated if the url of of this page ends in 2pda.

You can convert web-pages by useing one of the following methods:

As a webmaster you can add the following link to your webpages:
<a href="http://cgi.linuxfocus.org/cgi-bin/2ztxt">Convert to palm</a>
You can convert any web-page by typing the following URL into your browser:
http://cgi.linuxfocus.org/cgi-bin/2ztxt?url=http://what_ever_you_want
You can convert any web-page by adding a bookmark with the following settings in your browser:
Title: LinuxFocus 2ztxt
Location: javascript:location.href= 'http://linuxfocus.org/cgi-bin/2ztxt?url=' +escape(window.location);

There are also a number of other free converters (unfortunately doc files only) available at:

Most of them use the commercial doc format and not the GutenPalm zTXT format which offers much better compression.

This 2ztxt converter is based on Open Source Software and runs under Linux®. It uses the txt2pdbdoc program by Paul J. Lucas/Christopher Heschong and the makeztxt by John Gruenenfelder in combination with perl and lynx.

Written by Guido Socher <guido(at)linuxfocus.org>. You can contact me if you want the source code for this cgi-bin.
2ztxt version 2.0