Fwd: Re: [pilot-db-list] another feature request

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

I forgot to send the reply to the list. Here it is.

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Subject: Re: [pilot-db-list] another feature request
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 19:52:14 -0400
From: Tom Dyas <td...@us...>
To: Fab <kr...@bi...>


On Thursday 28 June 2001 01:38 pm, Fab wrote:
> 	Can't you find someone who could port the db-tools to mac ? I think
> you just need a C++ compiler for this tools are not directly related to
> palm but pdb-csv comverters.
> 	Somebody interested in porting those tools ?

I did have some interest from someone in porting the tools to the Mac.
However, I have not heard from them in a while.

If someone wanted to port to the new UNIX-based Mac OS X, then the
palm-db-tools should compile with a C++ compiler and be runnable under the
Terminal. (The palm-db-tools frontends pdb2csv and csv2pdb both use Standard
C++ calls to handle files and output to a console. That is why both programs
can compile on UNIX and Win32 with only minor modifications.)

For older versions of MacOS and the GUI of MacOS X, then the porter would
have to write GUI code to talk with the backend library which actually reads
from the PDB files. There is a very clean seperation between the PDB code and
the command-line interface. Writing a GUI should be trivial for someone with
the time.

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