thanks,
i'll give it a try.
i figured that the OS 4.0 support this, but as you said i wanted to bring it
to OS 3+
shay
"Danny Epstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:33908@palm-dev-forum...
>
> "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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