> Hi, thanks for thew quick response, but I'm confused. Can't I open > a file (simple textfile) and display the data?
simple answer = no. > The first problem was to get the file on the device. With my psion > siena it was easy (just drag an drop in the explorer), but somehow > Palm can't do this (except with Card Export, but only for expansion > cards. But I don't want to use them) if you have a text file, you need to convert it into a filestreaming .pdb file - it has been discussed a bit before (by me): http://www.escribe.com/computing/pcpqa/search.html?query=DBLK&mt=&th=&c=30 more specifically: http://www.escribe.com/computing/pcpqa/m50108.html http://www.escribe.com/computing/pcpqa/m32487.html http://www.escribe.com/computing/pcpqa/m31578.html > Surely there must be ways to do the things described. yes, there is. i wrote a utility a while back called file2pdb.exe which takes a raw data file, does the splitting and creates the record database so i can open it with the File* api calls. the main reason for your confusion is that palm doesn't have files in main memory, like other devices. there is no true file system, its just a large database management system. file type operations need to be emulated (hence, the FileStreaming api's) :P --- Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] CEO - CTO +46 70 656 1143 Mobile Wizardry http://www.mobilewizardry.com/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
