These days, many applications are running in the "background", and
these can't generally be run from the SD card.  ChatterEmail is a good
example of an application that must reside entirely in RAM (though
mail and attachments can be stored directly to SD card).

Marc

--- In [email protected], Jeffrey Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello, Don Ferguson.
>
> > I may be behind the times, but I don't believe a file or
application will
> > actually run from the card just because you CAN move a
file/application to
> > the card.  See my previous email. 
>
> So far as I know, all apps can be run from the card.  However, apps
> that synch or handle alarms must be in the device's main storage in
> order to function properly.  Some, like Docs To Go, allow you to move
> most of the application to the card while keeping a much smaller "stub"
> or manager in the main storage to handle synching.
>
> Most apps that deal with potentially large databases can read the data
> from the card.  Databases that sync may or may not need to be in the
> main storage, it depends on the apps.
>
> > Am I wrong?  Am I stuck in the past?  Given my frame of reference,
I never
> > saw the purpose of the ability to move an installable file (.prc
or .pdb) to
> > the card using the installer.
>
> Astraware Sudoko is 760k.  TCPMP is 645k.  They add up.
>
> --
> Jeffrey Kaplan                                         www.gordol.org
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>
> "Daniel, will you tell them who I am? Please?"  "OK, love to. Who are
> you?" - young Jack O'Neill and Daniel Jackson, SG1
>






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