Ben, thanks for the reply. The device I'm planning to use is an ACCECA 'Meazura', a ruggedised PDA, I believe developed with Handera help. It has a CF option and some other hardware features that suit my industrial application purpose. Unfortunately ACEECA are less than helpful with technical software assistance claiming that the Meazura is typically 'Palm' and I'm therefore on my own.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Combee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:35 PM Subject: Re: About VFS On 3/13/06, colmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am preparing to write a Palm application to handle VFAT files on a CF card. Are there any traps for newbies? > > If I purchase a PDA with a CF card installed can I assume that VFS and Expansion managers together with the necessary libraries will already be resident in the device. Having tested for their presence can I then just follow the instructions in the OS Programmer's Companion for VFS Create, Write, Save, Read, Delete etc.? What device are you planning on getting? There are no currently shipping Palm OS devices that use Compact Flash; in the past, CF as available on the TRGPro HandEra 330 and on a few Sony CLIE devices. The CLIE devices required a separate driver which provided a VFS layer, while the HandEra 330 did VFS access. None of those devices handle FAT32 formatted devices, although I think they should be able to deal with VFAT-style directory listings. -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
