"Greg Lutz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> This does indeed look like a great idea -- it has the additional advantage
of compressing the
> data before beaming it, which could lead to a significant reduction in the
demands on users' patience.
Compression would be optional. The advantage would be reduced transmission
time (and hence battery drain). The disadvantage would be the time and
battery drain on the sending and receiving devices to compress and
decompress. It's a trade-off where a really simple compression scheme, or no
compression at all, is likely to be the best solution.
> It's my impression that ExgDBWrite makes a local copy of a database
before beaming it,
> further increasing the demands on free RAM, on both sender's and
receiver's devices.
ExgDBRead and ExgDBWrite don't actually "beam". (They really belong in the
Data Manager.) They just convert between the internal Palm database format
and the external prc/pdb desktop format. It's up to the caller to be
space-efficient.
> Seems to me that Application Launcher should have some way of
automatically launching
> an application it has received via beaming.
It does. See my previous message RE sysAppLaunchCmdSyncNotify.
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Danny Epstein
OS Engineer, Palm Inc.
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