Re: [coldsync-hackers] file upload/download

["Alex Tronin" <at at urbis dot net>]

Palm OS has no files per se - it has databases (PDB) and programs (PRC) - so
question is fundamentaly wrong.
It must be reformulated as follows:
a) how can I see on PDA contents of my PDF file ?
or may be less obvious use:
b) can I transfer my file (PDF or any other) from one PC to another PC using
PDA as a medium ?
Let's discard case b) as pretty useless
So this leaves us with case a).
Answer is quite clear - if we will have PDF reader on PDA, we should be able
to view PDF file, and may be many of them.
Each PDF file should be a collection of  records in PDB.
I think this answers the question in theory.
In practice our good friends at Adobe did this trick, of course. They are
smart guys.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readerforpalm.html
So ColdSync can used for sure ...
Alex


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Noga" <an@moldtelecom.md>
To: <coldsync-hackers@lusars.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [coldsync-hackers] file upload/download


> Andrew Arensburger(arensb+CShackers@ooblick.com)@2004.06.27 11:23:21
+0000:
> > > > can i upload PDF file into palm device using coldsync ?
> > >
> > > Not directly.
> >
> > But this brings up a good point: the Zire can read non-Palm
> > files on its expansion card (in particular, MP3 and JPEG files). Since
> > I have a card reader, transferring files back and forth hasn't been an
> > issue for me, but would it be a desirable feature for ColdSync to be
> > able to copy arbitrary files to and from the expansion card?
>
> file-->Uuencode-->PDA-->UUdecode-->file
>
> But this way I can only transfer files, but not use them..
>
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