> Uhm, I thought that generating a report on the PDA and sending it to a > PC or to another PDA is something that PDAs are normally used for?
Quite right, but not necessarily in destination format. PDAs are commonly used to acquire data of many forms, and sometimes this data is viewable, to some extent, on the PDA. But, if it is ultimately destined for a PC or other resource 'unlimited' platform, it is often left as an exercise for the reader to format and display the data. >> 1. Stream your report to a text file on an SD card. > Not good; the receiving device might not have an SD card. Memory card readers are cheap. Cheaper, at times, than the effort to do without. Most PDAs have them and most recent PCs have them. You might be faced with a PDA that doesn't specifically use the SD format. That would be a problem, although a local PC with a multiformat reader could convert, in a pinch. > I was thinking of splitting the report into multiple memos as a possible > (albeit ugly) solution. Is this what you mean by the above? Yes. It's ugly, but expedient. I often do tracing to memos, as some devices don't have serial ports %^$#%$#. > What is considered "a common DOC format" in PalmOS and what is the > reader for it? I thought it was the memo and MemoPad respectively. MemoPad is simply available, but certainly not optimal. Kind of like the PalmVII using the Mobitex pager network and proxy for network access. As for "a common DOC format", there are several. You'll have to ask around. > Am I stuck with > writing a conduit that translates the report into a TXT file? Maybe, if it works for you. > Can MemoPad *view* memos larger than 4 Kb? Can I somehow disable the > ability to edit a memo (e.g., write-protect it or something)? AFAIK, MemoPad is limited to 4Kb for convenience. The size limit allows easy access to existing UI resources. There are open source office automation tools out there. Maybe one of those could be used to generate and read the report on the PDA, and then 'standard' office tools could be used on the PC. Doesn't address getting it to the PC, though. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
