Re: [pilot-db-list] Comment, question and a possible bug

[Tom D. <td...@vg...>]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Marlyse Comte wrote:

> What I mainly was hoping for is to EXPORT data from the DB - e.g. 
> ThoughtMill lets you export the data to the MemoPad and from there one 
> can synch it with the PalmDesktop etc. Also AllTime lets you do that, it 
> gives you the option to export as tab or comma separated. As there is a 
> size limit with the Memo, I have found that exporting large bodies of the 
> text to the MemoPad+ will work as long as I only synch it once (i.e. to 
> the desktop) and then instantly copy/paste/save/delete it out from the 
> Palm Desktop application into some other text editor and then to go then 
> from there for clean-up of the text and preparing it for FileMaker. Like 
> that I can get all the hour tracking info into FileMaker and can use the 
> hour database on the Palm and also on the desktop.

This may be something to add to the TODO list.

> The question regarding the conversion utility: I (again) did not mean the 
> palm-db-tools (at least I THINK I did not mean this utility) - I was 
> referring to comments on the listserver concerning version 0.3 having 
> some major changes which will need a conversion to allow databases prior 
> to 0.3 be read by the version 0.3 

I'll release a 0.3.0 version of palm-db-tools at the same time with
support for 0.3.x DB and also 0.2.x DB.

Tom