On a PC you would store your db's in a file on disk, an have the associated
app, read the data into memory and do whatever it needs to do to it, and
save it back on disk again. On a Palm everything is memory. That memory is
divided into two parts. 1) Dynamic memory , which is analogous to the memory
you've got installed on your PC. 2) Storage memory which is analogous to
your PC's hard-drive(s). Instead of creating files in the storage area, you
create databases and you manipulate the contents of the database via the
data-manager functions(Dmxxxxxxxx...()). A conduit just allows you to
manipulate your palm database from the pc, so that you can get data from
your CSV file to your palm db, and vice-versa. POSE emulates the Palm
exactly, well almost :) So it also emulates the 'all memory' situation of a
real palm. So if you are emulating a 4meg device, then POSE will grab 4megs
of your pc's memory and create db's etc in there, and save an image of that
4meg memory to disk when you exit POSE so that it can resume where you left
off when you use it again.
I hope this has pointed you in the right direction. If not check out this
link http://www.palm.com/devzone/docs/pptdg/TableOfContents.htm
Garth Watkins
----- Original Message -----
From: "John J. Corelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 9:54 PM
Subject: point me in the right direction
> Greetings all -
>
> I'm looking for into or any other good starting point information on
being
> able to Hot Sync a handheld to a data base. I envision that I could have
a
> CSV file on the desktop which I would want to get onto the Palm. I know I
> need to write a conduit for this and have started to go through that
> documentation (and I subscribed to the Conduit Dev Forum).
>
> On the handheld, I'm going to want to access the data in a similar
manner
> with the ability to insert record, search and sort for records etc. Is it
> reasonable to do this all with just the API data manager functions or is
> there an additional "data base" API or complete app that I could use on
the
> handheld? How is this emulated on POSE?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
> John
>
>
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