Thanks again.  Can you tell me where to fin the vCard format?  I've looked
in the Palm documentation and two Palm books I have and none have that
format listed.


"Robert McKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:63780@palm-dev-forum...
>
> John-
>
> Beaming to another Palm is done via the Exchange Manager -- much like
> sending it to the address book application.  You need to encode it to the
> vCard standard prior to beaming.  For maximum flexibility, I would give it
> the vCard MIME type and NOT send it directly to address book.  This would
> give you interoperability with users who have address book replacements on
> their devices.
>
> This process, by the way, has been made considerably easier on OS 4.0 by
the
> Personal Data Interchange libraries.  These contain, essentially, the guts
> of the transmit and receive code from the built-in applications in former
OS
> versions.  I would look at the source code for the 4.0 address book (in
the
> 4.0 sdk) to see how address book uses the PDI libraries to send vCard data
> through the exchange manager (though to really understand this code, you
> also need to understand how address book represents its data internally).
> Note also that this address book code handles both transmit and receive
(you
> probably only want Xmit) and shares some non-trivial code between those
two
> (somewhat disparate) functionalities.
>
> -bob




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