>Regarding your idea of copying the file to an 
>SD card, that would work, but most likely, 
>the customer would still have to copy it into 
>internal memory to use it, unless it's a very 
>enlightened application.

Thanks for the response. 

Actually, my app is "enlightened" in that it is written to access databases 
directly off a memory card, and by managing the internals of the PDB file 
directly with VFS instead of using those really lame and slow VFS-DB calls. I 
even implemented my own cache control so that repeated reads from the same DB 
record do not require another memory-card read. The app is only slightly slower 
when reading from an SD card than when the database is in main memory. I did 
this precisely because many customers have large databases that will not fit in 
main memory, especially on old 8Mb devices, etc.

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