From: "Clive Walden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What I am trying to clarify, is how that affects the way I build the > Palm records. > The best answer IMHO is not to investigate this yourself. There are a number of tools for building PDB files and there's little reason to write this code again. A search of the group's archive should point you at some tools, the commercial tool I use is called PDBGo, but there are a number of free and opensource alternatives.
> I am deducing from your response that Palm Record Number one > will now have an offset of > (8*numRecords+ 80+sizeOf(appInfo structure)) > > i.e. First Palm record is now "pushed forward" by the size of the > appInfo struc. > > Is that correct? > Yes, given that there are also alignment issues that sometimes introduce packing. > I saw nothing in the file format descriptions that I could find that > definitively placed the appInfo struct immediately following the > Header and Records info. > The Palm "PDB and PRC Database Formats" document I last used has a diagram that shows the AppInfo block ahead of the optional SortInfo block immediately followed by the database records. I haven't tried to find an updated version of this, or the "Palm File Format Specification", but to my knowledge the format hasn't altered. Chris Tutty -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
