Chris Tutty wrote:
From: "Lance Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My application creates records. I do not want to create PDB files
because the destination for the records is FileMaker or Excel - which
don't know how to read those Palm binary file formats for import into
records or spreadsheets.
One option is to tag the databases for backup and then look for
them in the desktop backup folder after the hotsync has completed
and use a pdb2csv converter to produce files that desktop apps
can import.
What about writing the data to a FileStream on the Palm? It is then
stored as a file encapsulated as a PDB, and there are tools (like par)
to convert that to a standard file on the PC.
I agree a conduit is cleaner once written, but if the goal is to
find the absolute simplest way to get the data there, to me that's
the answer. Or at least it's no worse than trying to parse a PDB
file yourself.
- Logan
[1] I assume you can't programmatically make these other programs
(like Excel or FileMaker) import things, though I could be wrong.
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