Re:[pilot-db-list] Bugs, features, and random musings (long)

[Mike R. <mik...@al...>]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Tom Dyas wrote:
> Boolean fields are stored as a single byte. Look at the DB_PackRecord
> function to see how fields are packed into the PalmOS database. The PDB file
> is so large because the PDB file contains not only the packed data but also a
> header containing the database structure as well as the PalmOS record headers
> and PalmOS PDB header. There is a lot more in the PDB file than just the data!

Yes, I think I got snookered by the fact that the csv and pdb files were
almost exactly the same size. I finally looked at the code a bit, and you
have it right. (Well, at least as far as I can understand such things.)
I'll still take my bit field though ... :-)

> It should be possible to give CVS access to people doing a lot of
> documentation so that you could just update the DB source tree directly with
> the documentation.
>
> I am thinking the documentation should probably reside in the docs/
> subdirectory just like the existing documentation. We could have:

The open source program I'm assisting (LyX) has a separate CVS area for
documentation. Just before the release of a new version of LyX, they copy
over the latest documentation into their .../lib/docs directory. Perhaps a
similar scheme could be employed here? This keeps incompetent programmers
(like me) from accidentally touching code, while allowing us to play with
the docs.

Mike

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