On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Adrien Regimbald wrote:
Recently there was a post about a program Pilot Install which installed files to the Palm without using HotSync and had a really great speed. Is there any documentation on how this sort of thing is done?
If you look a little more closely at the site for that program, you'll see that it's using the HotSync client in the PDA. It just replaces the HotSync Manager on the PC side, but it's using the same protocol. Look at pilot-link (.org) for clues as to how that's implemented.
I was looking before at downloading and auto-installing databases, myself, but over a network. The technique that I came down to, but never really implemented, involved storing the PDB file being downloaded into a file stream, then unpacking that into a usable database using the Exchange Manager. If you left out the file stream in the middle, you could run into serious problems if there was a communication interruption... if I remember right, you HAVE to give the Exchange Manager the number of bytes that it requests in the callback.
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