On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Chris Antos wrote:
> this is exactly the same problem that one of my users reported to me. Reset
> dialog, and then continuous PalmIII screen, after installing the IR
> enhancement and the new MacPak.
>
> by the way, another user complained about my app crashing. it turned out he
> was using the beta MacPak2 and he sent me his database and it was corrupted
> in the header area. the contents of all the records were intact, but using
> a hex viewer, i was able to discover that the AppInfo block and the record
> headers at the beginning of the PDB were pretty badly damaged. i fixed them
> by hand and verified the database worked with my app in POSE, verified that
> Windows HotSync worked on it, and e-mailed it back to him. the Mac HotSync
> corrupted it again. i advised him to send the info to Palm, and he said he
> would do so.
Very interesting. If the new MacPak has a highly uncommon tendancy to
damage database records, that could easily be causing the problems that (a
very few) people seem to be seeing.
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Kenneth Albanowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED], CIS: 70705,126)
