Scott Gruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> A co-worker of mine claims that he installed his application on an 
> m505's SD card and was able to use DmGetNextDatabaseByTypeCreator to 
> find his databases (that he also stored on the SD card) and open them 
> using DmOpenDatabase. 

I think that your co-worker is pulling your chain.

> Everything I've read and tried shows that this is not possible. I've 
> done a bit of reading about VFS and the closest thing I'm found is 
> opening a file using VFS and then using the VFS call to get a
> resource.

This is correct. There is also a VFS call that treats the open file as a
Palm database and gets a record from it. There is no corresponding call
to write to, or resize the record.

> Is it possible to use the standard Database Manager routines to access 
> files on SD? 

Not that I'm aware of, and I've been doing quite a bit of VFS
programming lately.

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