Re: [pilot-db-list] Pilot-DB calculated fields

[Scott W. <swa...@my...>]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, Jan Erik Mostr=F6m wrote:

> 2003-03-01 13:38: Scott Wallace <swa...@my...> is
> believed to have typed:
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> >     Great! I took a quick look at your website and noticed that
> >     this is built for Mac OS X.  I should tell you that there is a
> >     problem with the Mac version of Palm Desktop that prevents it
> >     from transferring pilotdb databases to the palm correctly.  I
> >     don't know if you've tried to get pilot-link
> >     (http://www.pilot-link.org) to work on OS X, but it is one way
> >     to get /complete/ databases to the palm.  If you do have it
> >     working (and have found a place to download binaries), you
> >     could send the url to the newgroup?  A number of people have
> >     run into this problem, but there is no easy way to change the
> >     db format to deal with this bug in the mac palm desktop.
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> How does this bug manifest itself? I haven't had any problems at all
> with this since I switched to OS X (about a year ago now).


	Hm, well, I don't have a mac, so I'm not positive.  But a number=20
of users with macs (os x and os 9.whatever) and palm desktop 4.0 have sai=
d=20
they had trouble installing pilot databases from the web.  A year or two=20
ago, I found an article on the web saying that the mac palm desktop only=20
transmitted part of a database's AppInfo Block, basically it was limited=20
to a fairly small size, like 512 bytes or something.  Since DB stores a=20
bunch of stuff in the appinfo block (the db schema, all calculated field=20
scripts, views, etc) it seemed like this was likely the culprit for mac o=
s=20
people that had trouble installing databases they d/l from the web, or=20
that they had backed up on a previous hotsync.  (the trouble manifests as=
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pilotdb not being able to open a particular database)   But if you're=20
using the mac os 4.0 desktop and not having this trouble, then I my=20
initial guess must be wrong.

	-Scott