Klemen Dovrtel wrote:
Is it possible to open the database with excel?
No. An Excel database has a specific format, which is definitely not
the same as a Palm database. The Palm database has a special header,
which is useless to Excel, and each record in the Palm database has a
stucture that is defined by the individual Palm application. So
different Palm databases could have completely different ways of storing
data. Some use simple flat records, some use compressed, variable
length records, some use encrypted records,... whatever the app
developer wanted to do. There is absolutely no practical way that Excel
can read PDB files in a generic sense. Before you can do anything with
a Palm database on a PC you need to know the address for each of the
database records, the number of records, and the structure of each of
the records. There are only 2 options: do all the work yourself to
understand the database structure and write an app to decode it, or find
a utility that someone else has created to do just that. Tools that
extract the information from a PDB file and present it as a csv file
that CAN be read by Excel do exist, but only for databases for certain
Palm apps. Bob
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