On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:41:18PM -0600, Darren Hiebert wrote:
> I am wanting to use Plucker for eBooks that I will make available to
> a certain audience and want to make them available for a free
> reader. However, the 32kB restriction is a significant problem for
> me, because it chops the text in the middle of a sentence.

My intrepretation on why this is is actually a limitation of the size
of each record on the PDB and the total amount of (stackable?) RAM
available for running programs.

Sorry if my terminolgy is off, I read about this in O'Rielly's
Programming for the Palm.. which I dont have infront of me so I cant
quote it exactly. But basically it has said to expect anywhere between
8k and 64k of memory to handle the programs functions; it wen't
on to recommend to use 32k as resonable limit which would benifit
the widest audience considering the current usage of palm.

IE, this isn't something specific to plucker, but there might be some
ways to cope. For example, im not sure if plucker is smart enough
(or tried this already?) but it could be set up to call the first
32k 'packet' of data, display it, and when the user scrolls down
past the limit, the program calls for the next 32k 'packet'...

What do you developers think?

..

BTW, correct me if I'm wrong on this :)

-- 
Adam McDaniel
Infrastructure Technology Consultant
M-Tech Mercury Information Technology, Inc.

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