Yeah, my understanding for the purpose of the db version is so your
program can detect an old database and possibly upgrade it to a
new version or something like that.
I don't think it is meant to be used so you can maintain multiple
versions on the device at the same time.
Brandon
> "William Brodie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7274@palm-dev-forum...
> > Can anyone shed light on the standard model for creating and using
> databases
> > with different version numbers?
>
> The only uniqueness criterion for databases in Palm OS is the name. You
can
> only have a single database with a given name, regardless of the type,
> creator, and version. I don't know of any convention for naming databases
to
> include version numbers. This would allow multiple versions to coexist on
a
> device. Why would you want to do this?
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> Palm
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