TIM Tools

The TIM Tools are an easy-to-install binary distribution of some selected command-line tools from the Lino Scripts collection.

This selection is targeted to my customers who work with TIM.

TIM users use mainly the following TIM Tools:

• prn2pdf.py and prnprint.py to print classical text-mode reports on printers without text support.

• sync.py makes backups and mirror copies. sync.py is a simple directory synchronizer. It is almost like xcopy /s/d on Windows, except that it also deletes the files on the destination that no longer exist on the source.

• sendmail.py — reads an e-mail from a text file in standard RFC 2822 format and sends it to the recipients specified in a separate file.

Some less often tools are:

• diag.py displays some system settings and prints out a text containing non-ASCII characters. Non-ASCII characters are handled depending on the context and your computer settings and thus might fail to display correctly.

• sysinfo.py creates a file sysinfo.html with a selection of technical information about your computer.

Some other TIM Tools are now rather obsolete:

• pds2pdf.py lets TIM print business documents as PDF files

• openurl.py invokes the user’s Web browser to visit a Web site of a business partner.

• openmail.py opens the user’s default mail client with a ready-to-send but not-yet-sent mail message.

TIM Tools are available as a zip of executables for windows. Get it from the Download page. On UNIX you just install the Lino and maybe write a main lino script.