try: http://members.xoom.com/palmdev/pdblib.zip
It might do what you want without coding.
-----Original Message-----
From: DeAnna Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 12:47 PM
Subject: RE: text doc to pdb
>I don't know what utilities there are to do it, but I make my own .pdb
files
>from text files. Basically, looking at the pdb file format, you have to
>create the header file and then store your text data as records. If you're
>just trying to make something that you can read on the palm, then you
>probably should look for one of those DOC converters or something. If
>you're actually making a database you want to use with a program, you may
>have to actually create it. I've seen a set of predone functions for
making
>pdb files, but, like said, I found it easier to just make my own. The
steps
>are basically as follows:
>
>1 - Create the header data. It must have exactly the right number of bytes
>in it or you will end of with an invalid file.
>
>2 - You will have to determine the size of each of the records, because the
>records list requires you to input the size of each record you are going to
>enter. I believe the records list follows the header.
>
>3 - Then you add the record data to the file and, assuming you didn't write
>too many bytes anywhere or leave something major out, it should be fine.
>
>Key point: You will need to do a little endian/big endian conversion on
the
>numbers assuming you have an Intel based processor.
>
>Outside of that, converting a text file to a pdb file is basically reading
>data from the text file and writing it in the right format to a file with a
>.pdb extension.
>
>DeAnna Davidson
>Software Engineer
>iBrite
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alagesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 5:48 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: text doc to pdb
>
>
>Hi ,
>
>Can any one pl. tell me how to convert a text document to a PDB format
that
>a palm accepts.
>I went through the pdb file format but couldn't make out how to convert a
>text to a pdb file.
>
>TIA
>Alagesh < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >.
>
>
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