Given your description, the best solution for your app would be to use the commercial application WiFile Pro from Hands High Software:
http://www.handshigh.com/html/wifile.html With WiFile Pro on your device, you can easily send files via WiFi from the VFS card to a PC over standard Windows networking or FTP. Hands High also goes the full distance by providing detailed developer information in order to make full use of WiFile Pro from your own application, so you can seamlessly integrate this solution right into your app. Click on the "developer Info" link on the left side of the web page listed above. You could easily use the "file:" scheme to save the text file on the memory card to the PC. No need for Hotsync or anything else. Simple, direct, exactly what you need. -- David Thacker http://www.SatelliteForms.net The Premier RAD Tool for PalmOS & PocketPC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: 8bit > > > I've written my first Palm application, a restaurant ordering > system, and it all works well except for one glaring omission. > > The "order" is built on the Palm then written to a memory card > as a VFS text file. The missing part of the system is the > facility to complete that process by sending the file to a > desktop PC. > > My desktop computer can pick up and parse the text file then > use existing software to process it, if the Palm can do what > should be the easy bit and send it. > > I have WiFi HotSync running, which works fine, and I want to use > WiFi to send the text file but don't see how I can do that without > a lot of learning/effort to accomplish what seems a pretty trivial > task. > > I seem to have 2 options - > > 1) Use a database on the Palm instead of the VFS text file - > I guess it would then be transferred by Hot Sync. > > I've managed to get this far without using the Palm database > system which looks quite daunting to learn and use so would > prefer to avoid it. Also, I don't know how easy it will be to > parse a .pdb file on the desktop. > > 2) Develop a conduit to transfer the file, which sounds the > cleanest solution. > > I probably have the tools to do this since I use Delphi for > desktop development but I don't have the knowledge and the > impression I get from the documentation is that there is a huge > amount to learn . > > Any advice or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. For > example, am I missing an easier solution? > -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
