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Plucker
A free multiplatform tool for reading
web pages on Palm OS handhelds
User's Guide

Copyright © 2000 The Plucker Team plucker-team@rubberchicken.org. All rights reserved.

This software is supplied free of charge under the terms of the GNU General Public License (see appendix for details).

The following are trademarks or registered trademarks of Palm Inc: Graffiti, Palm Computing, Palm, PalmPilot, Palm III, Palm V, Palm Vx, Palm OSAll other product names used in this document are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

- Contents
- 1. Preface
  - 1.1 System Requirements
    - 1.1.1 Device
    - 1.1.2 How Plucker works
    - 1.1.3 Converters
      - 1.1.3.1 Additional Software
      - 1.1.3.2 Where to find the required software
  - 1.2 Conventions
  - 1.3 We'd Like Some Feedback
- 2. Installation and Quickstart Manual
  - 2.1 OS specific instructions
    - 2.1.1 OS/2
      - 2.1.1.1 Using the Installer
      - 2.1.1.2 Setting up by hand
    - 2.1.2 Unix/Linux
    - 2.1.3 Windows
  - 2.2 Basic customization - Or: Before you start
    - 2.2.1 Specifying the pages you want to view - The Home Document
  - 2.3 Running the Parser
  - 2.4 Transfer to your Palm
    - 2.4.1 Pilot-Link
    - 2.4.2 The Windows conduit
  - 2.5 Finally..
- 3. Viewer
  - 3.1 Basic Operations
    - 3.1.1 Starting The Viewer
    - 3.1.2 The Main Screen
  - 3.2 Customization
    - 3.2.1 Preferences
    - 3.2.2 Tap Actions
    - 3.2.3 Gesture Actions
    - 3.2.4 Button Actions
    - 3.2.5 Autoscroll Options
  - 3.3 Find Function
  - 3.4 Document Library
  - 3.5 Bookmarks
- 4. The Parser
  - 4.1 Description file
  - 4.2 Invoking the parser
    - 4.2.1 Control Over the Result
    - 4.2.2 Status Information and Debugging
    - 4.2.3 Description filenames
    - 4.2.4 How deep should we go?
    - 4.2.5 Plucker Home and the Plucker Directory
    - 4.2.6 Image handling
    - 4.2.7 URL handling
    - 4.2.8 Excluding Things
    - 4.2.9 Sections
  - 4.3 The Configuration File
    - 4.3.1 [DEFAULT]
    - 4.3.2 [POSIX]
    - 4.3.3 [OS2]
    - 4.3.4 [WINDOWS]
  - 4.4 The Exclusion List
  - 4.5 Use Cases
    - 4.5.1 Pluck local targets
      - 4.5.1.1 Creating an E-book
      - 4.5.1.2 An Admin Guide
    - 4.5.2 Pluck remote targets
      - 4.5.2.1 Daily News
      - 4.5.2.2 Comics
- 5. Advanced Topics
  - 5.1 POST Requests
  - 5.2 Perl-based Conduit
    - 5.2.0.1 Usage
- A. Palm Friendly Links
  - A.1 General Links
  - A.2 In French
  - A.3 In German
  - A.4 In Spanish
  - A.5 In Swedish
- B. The Plucker Format
- C. Credits: The People who brought you Plucker
  - C.1 Authors
  - C.2 Credits
- D. GNU General Public License
  - D.1 Preamble
  - D.2 GPL Terms and Conditions
- Index
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