Re: [coldsync-hackers] p5-palm on mac OS X

[Andrew Arensburger <arensb+CShackers at ooblick dot com>]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:10:01AM -0800, Terry Sanger wrote:
> I've gotten p5-palm to compile on the Mac, but Palm's Mac version of 
> hotsync/desktop doesn't seem to use the same .pdb and .prc files as the 
> windows version.  There is instead a file called "User Data" that 
> contains all the data from all the palm databases.
> 
> Does anyone know how to break this apart so it can be read with the 
> p5-palm tools?  Is there some way to convert back and forth to the 
> windows-style files?

	The subject hasn't come up before, so I suspect that you're
the first one to run into this. Unfortunately, Palm Desktop under
Windows uses a proprietary data format to store information, so it's
entirely possible that this is the case under MacOS as well.
	However, PDB files have certain things in common with MacOS
resource forks (namely the four-character creator and type
attributes), so it might be worth checking to see whether there's a
PDB file embedded inside "User Data". Or perhaps what shows up as a
single "User Data" file in the Finder is really a directory that
contains PDB or XML files or something.
	Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

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