I ran into a similar issue with a game I wrote. I used .pdb files to ease
the VFS/main memory transition, but specified that people needed to put the
.pdb files into a special directory of the sort:
/Palm/<name of company>/<name of app>/

As the rest of the game was as simple .prc I didn't want to have to write a
complex installer (besides, there's no chance I'd write a Mac installer).

However, this caused a ridiculous amount of support questions. Despite the
fact there are some nice VFS file management utilities, it seems that the
average Palm user with SD/MMC/Mem Stick storage does not want to be bothered
with this sort of nuisance.

So now what I do is query both that private directory as well as
/Palm/Programs for .pdb files matching the type & creator that I care about.
This gives people the option of quickly just using the Launcher's "move"
function or if they want to be more organized, putting them in a separate
directory. I think it's a decent compromise.





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