This is Palm::SMS, a Perl module for reading, manipulating, and writing the .pdb files used by Handspring SMS application on PalmOS devices such as Handspring Treo 270. More recent devices have partial support, and will use other device-specific modules if they are available. Palm::SMS module is the result of a reverse engineering attempt of trasforming a Handspring Treo 270 SMS PDB file into a plain text file. The PDB test file was produced by Handspring's application SMS v. 3.5H. Due to lack of knowledge about how PDB files work and what format SMS database files conform to, at present this module is not suitable for from-scratch SMS generation. Conversely, you may find it extremely useful if you intend to extract SMS messages from merged PDB files and convert them to a human readable form. I heard rumors that SMS format changes with GSM network providers. Please, contact me if this module cannot correctly handle your messages, hopefully attaching a patch which corrects the shortcoming. To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install