>> >Hi there,
>> >
>> >I haven't done it but in O'Reilly book, P.155, the author said
>> >that you can have large record by using File streaming (I
>> >think you are using it). "You create a uniquely maned file and
>> >a small record that stores only that filename"...
>> >
>> >or you can do multiple chinks in a seperate database
>> >..."If File Streaming Manager isn't available"...
>>
>> Read that as: If you want to write a conduit to export your databases
>> to the desktop, then don't use the File Streaming Manager. It's
>> great for something that stays on that particular unit, but no good
>> if you want to sync it out.
>
>There is NO problem using FileStreams and HotSync. They are merely a
>special form of Palm Database. There may be other reasons to use
>something different, but conduits aren't special - it is easier to
>construct or reconstruct the data from a filestream than to do the
>text conversion from the example conduit.
>
>(I use them in my GPL Boxer program - Filestreams and a conduit, at
>least for windows; Mac has converter applications)
I probably should have clarified on that...
Yes, there isn't a problem, but if you have, say, 256k of data arranged
in one filestream but you only want, say, from ~64k to ~128k range
synced, it would be easier and quicker to have 4 64k databases, where
you could sync the second database out, instead of either syncing out
the entire filestream, or having multiple filestreams (which are just
like multiple databases anyway), or extracting the chunk of data out of
the filestream and putting it in its own filestream. Anyway, that's
what Palm usually recommends, fwiw.
-Rus
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