"Shay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:33868@palm-dev-forum...
> i have an application that have many files (PDB's) and i want to beam them
> all in one piece.
> 4) and the final frontier - put all the needed files inside a self-extract
> package <snip>. the
> only disadvantage of this method, is that both sides of the beaming, needs
> to have twice the memory of the files to be beamed.

Not if the archive deletes parts of itself as it self-extracts, much like
destructive read mode for file streams. This isn't hard to do. The hard part
is deleting the last bit: the code that does the self-extracting.

Now that the cat's out of the bag, I can tell you that Palm OS 4.0 supports
beaming multiple objects directly. In particular, if you beam an application
with an overlay between two devices running Palm OS 4.0, the overlay will be
sent as well as the base, and the user will only be prompted once. This
probably doesn't help you because you probably want to support back to at
least 3.5.
--
Danny Epstein
OS Engineer, Palm Inc.


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