RE: pInstaller vs Catapult

2003-06-14 Thread Bobby Kolev
> Why not change to Pilot Catapult ? IMHO it's better than pIntaller. > -- J. Machado Well thank you for that :-) While I too would like to think Catapult is better, the truth is it does not support Java conduits and the sole reason behind this is that it would defeat the very purpose of it -

RE: bus error building dynamic list

2003-06-14 Thread Jeff Wheeler
Whoops, one more thing... Since you're going to give data to the list, if you use the stack method your declaration will need to be "static" since the data must exist for the life of the list. Jeff -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff W

RE: bus error building dynamic list

2003-06-14 Thread Jeff Wheeler
Your error isn't related to the lists at all, but rather to incorrect use of pointers and memory allocations. Your memory allocation is wrong or incomplete. You are allocating a block of memory and telling the compiler that it will contain an array of pointers to other characters, but then you ac

Re: Database Vs Text files(Beginner)

2003-06-14 Thread Veronica Loell
Steve Jerrett wrote: [...] One last thing to take into consideration is the level of knowledge that potential users have (a nice way of saying "computer literacy"). Many of our users either use computers only because its a job requirement or "know just enough to be dangerous". If there's a way

Re: Database Vs Text files(Beginner)

2003-06-14 Thread Steve Jerrett
Sadanandam O. asked: I see information is stored in text files on desktop side most of the times. Why the databases such as MS-Access or SQL server are not used as often as text files. I 'll be implementing a conduit for an application. If there are no precise reasons to use text files, I would pre

Re: Database Vs Text files(Beginner)

2003-06-14 Thread Veronica Loell
A palm database is not like a database table in ms-acess or sql server. In a "traditional" database that you work with by means of SQL (standard query language, usually a subset of sql92) you have a "table" a table have some set fields, each record has the same fields. You may be used to see it

Database Vs Text files(Beginner)

2003-06-14 Thread Sadanandam O.
Hi All, I see information is stored in text files on desktop side most of the times. Why the databases such as MS-Access or SQL server are not used as often as text files. I 'll be implementing a conduit for an application. If there are no precise reasons to use text files, I would prefer to use