Re: Does Palm desktop software have a full backup?

[Frank S. Fejes]

On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 10:10:29AM -0700, Jeff Valore wrote:
> I beleive you can also do this same thing from the palm by writing a program
> that goes through all the files and sets the backup bit.

     Well, our applications all set their databases's backup bits.
Should the Palm desktop get that?

> >Anyway, a backup conduit is quite easy to write. A conduit can open any
> database, not
> >just its own. So, you just have to go through all databases, and grab every
> record.
> >Since programs are databases, you will even backup the programs.

     I would not want a user to have to go through 4 different conduits
just to back up our 4 apps.  For our games a conduit makes even less
sense, but is equally important...a user would like to ensure that
his high scores are changed.

--frank