You could edit the PDB on your PC using any free hex editor and then sync
the PDB back to the Palm.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 9:43 PM
Subject: Creating PDBs


> This is sort of a newbie question but it's not.
> I need to create a static database that I distribute.  The data was
exported
> from a text table to CSV.  I wrote a program to convert the CSV file to a
> file that PDBMake would read and then PDBMake converted it to a PDB.
>
> The problem is the Nulls.  I want each record to have a two byte binary
> number (ID)  followed by null terminated text. This worked for every
record
> except where one of the two first bytes were 0x00.
>
> I searched high and low for a PDB hex enabled editor, but could not find
> one.  I would have no quams about going in and manually fixing the 50 (out
> of 680) records that didnt work, but I can't find anything that will let
me
> do it.
>
> Short of writing my own, are there other solutions out there?  I thought
> "PDBConverter" would work and I updated all the records only to find out
> that while it exported the text (unlike PDBMake) it didn't export the
actual
> nulls correctly.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
>
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