"Steve Sabram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Technically, an app like this is very possible on the
> Palm. Someone just needs to write it.
Exactly. Note that the self-extracting archive doesn't need to be
compressed. The tricky bits are:
- Extracting destructively to avoid the double-space requirement.
- Deleting the extracting code when you're done.
I'd break the data into reasonable-size chunks, 16K or so, putting each
chunk in a resource. Then I'd delete the resources as I read them in my
ReadProc.
The second problem goes away if the self-extracting code is just part of the
application itself.
All apps get a sysAppLaunchCmdSyncNotify launch code when they're received
via beaming. This would trigger the self-extraction. When the
self-extraction is complete, the extracted application would be sent the
sysAppLaunchCmdSyncNotify launch code.
If anyone does this, I'd love to hear about it. :)
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Danny Epstein
OS Engineer, Palm Inc.
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