Have you considered putting the entire database onto an expansion card in your own format? You'd be completely on your own as far as DB interface, but it sounds like that would be a good thing in this case. No 64k limits to worry about.
Initially you'd create the database directly onto the expansion card, using one of the cute little USB-based SD/CF/Memorystick writers and your favorite desktop OS. Updates might be tricky. I'd do it with a secondary app. The secondary app tells the desktop the last date it was synchronized. Desktop generates, on the fly, a packed database (PDB, large record size, many catalog records per PDB record) with the update. Secondary app sucks down the update PDB, disconnects,then cycles through the PDB records and edits the Expansion Card database appropriately. You'd be limited to recent production devices, of course. I wonder if anyone has ported mySQL to PalmOS yet, using expansion cards. ---- Hal Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile Geographics LLC http://www.mobilegeographics.com/ Seattle, Washington (206) 297-9575 MapTap public test now underway! http://www.mobilegeographics.com/maptap/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
