On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 11:55:41PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Probably the best way is to write ExgDBRead callback functions that read the
> data (formatted as a .prc file) from the TCP or serial stream, and let ExgDB
> turn it into a database.
>
> -- Keith Rollin
> -- Palm OS Emulator engineer
Since you are at Palm, and I am not, and as I brought up before, can
you tell me which one of the following statements is untrue:
1. Resource databases emerge from ExgDBWrite as a .prc image (which you imply)
2. The database can determine the length only from the header
information (which the documentation in the devzone says).
And is Palm certifying the PRC/PDB format is and will be used by the
ExgDB calls? This appears nowhere in any official documentation.
Also note that if 1. is true, there may be some unpleasant sideeffects
from taking the documentation too literally (e.g. if the TCP/IP
stalls, you might not want to return a nonzero length, but if you
don't return, the user can't send an event to cancel).
> "Yegor Bryukhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 07/06/2000 11:41:22 PM
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> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cc: (Keith Rollin/US/PALM)
> Subject: Manual install of applications
>
> How can I manually install application on Palm ?
> (for example with my own TCP/IP- or serial- communication program)
Yes, you merely have to build the database on the palm. ExgDBRead
might work (if Palm will document that the call does this), otherwise
it isn't too hard to build the DB by reading from the stream.
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