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

[Jan E. <li...@mo...>]

2003-03-01 15:34: Scott Wallace <swa...@my...> is
believed to have typed:

> ago, I found an article on the web saying that the mac palm
> desktop only transmitted part of a database's AppInfo Block,
> basically it was limited to a fairly small size, like 512 bytes or
> something.  Since DB stores a bunch of stuff in the appinfo block
> (the db schema, all calculated field scripts, views, etc) it
> seemed like this was likely the culprit for mac os people that had
> trouble installing databases they d/l from the web, or that they
> had backed up on a previous hotsync.  (the trouble manifests as=20

I might have been lucky (I don't normally use Pilot-DB, just installed
it a few days ago and started to look at the database format yesterday)
but I think that I have another applications that have fairly large
appinfo blocks. I'll have to look into this.

                    jem
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Jan Erik Mostr=F6m   je...@mo...    www.mostrom.pp.se