Re: [coldsync-hackers] Newbie question: p5-palm and Yahoo Address Book

[Per Reedtz Thomsen <pthomsen@reedtz.com>]

Andrew Arensburger wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Per Reedtz Thomsen wrote:
> 
>> Andrew Arensburger wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Per Reedtz Thomsen wrote
>>> 
>>>> So far it seems that the file from Yahoo is fraught with problems.
>>> 
>>> 	Hm. Sounds as if it's not a Palm database.
>> 
>> Well, Yahoo claims that it is...
> 
> 	Perhaps it's in some format intended to be used by HotSync.
> What you sent previously definitely does not look like a PDB (or PRC)
> file.


Maybe.... The format almost looks right, but if I'm going to be finding 
all sorts of problems with this, it won't be worth it...

I might just cut my losses, and use the CSV file instead.

> It's also possible that Palm doesn't know the format of this
> file: when I asked them about the format of archive files, they said
> that they were serialized Visual-<something> objects, so Palm
> themselves didn't know the detailed file format.
> 


Wow. That's reassuring... :-)

Thanks,
Per


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