Re: beaming application within application

[Collin R. Mulliner (list account)]

At 19:58 06.12.00 +0100, you wrote:
> > >   with my experiences, to beam a ".pdb" file, you just need to make
> > >   sure that the file name does not have any "." inside it, and that
> > >   it terminates with the ".pdb" extension. when you beam, it'll
> > >   figure the rest out. with a ".prc" file, the same didn't work :(
> > >   for some reason, the receiving device did not know what the file
> > >   type was, so i had to manually specify the receiving target
> > >   (being the launcher application)
> >
> > There's a bug in the Exchange Manager. It looks for the first '.' rather
> > than the last one. This will be fixed in the next version of Palm OS.
>
>   i replace all "." with "_" chars.. so, this isn't a problem.
>

where do you replace the "." with "_", I have written a fix for this (for 
the receiving side) ... interested ?


> > I'm surprised that you had to specify Launcher's creator ID as the target
> > when beaming prc's. What version of Palm OS was on the receiving 
> device? Was
> > it running any hacks, launcher replacements, etc?
>
>   beats me too.. palmos version receiving was 3.1 (visor deluxe)
>   3.5 (m100, IIIc, TRG) all produced the same problem.. i slaped
>   myself around thinking "what the hell" for a few :)
>
>   devices were "freshly installed" :) either hard-reset or new
>   set of batteries (they live in my draw these days) :P
>
>   what gets me is that doing it for a .pdb file works.. but.. not
>   for a .prc :) it would not allow me to send a .prc with the .pdb
>   extension tho.. same error.. either way, supplying the target
>   resource solved the problem.
>
>   cheers
>
>// az
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