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DB: Open Source Database Program for PalmOS
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*** WARNING: While every effort has been made to find and remove bugs
*** from DB, it is still under active development. You use it at your
*** own risk. Since DB is still under active development, there may be
*** bugs which will cause your PDA to crash to the point where a hard
*** reset is required. (Hard resets cause loss of all data on the
*** PDA.)
DB is a flat-file database application for PalmOS-compatible PDAs from
companies such as Palm and Handspring. Using DB, you can create
databases to store any sort of information that can be stored as
records in a database. Several field types are provided for the
information in each record.
DB is Free Software provided under the terms of the GNU General Public
License (GPL). Read the file "COPYING" that is included in this
distribution to learn more about the GNU GPL.
Since DB is under constant development, read the file "NEWS" included
in this distribution to learn what major changes have taken place
since the previous releases. A more in-depth list of changes is
available in the file "ChangeLog" included in this distribution.
Installation
------------
Since DB is available in multiple languages, you must first choose
which file will actually be installed to your PDA. Choose the
particular file based your desired language:
English db-en.prc
English db-en-mobileDB.prc (the MobileDB support compiled inside)
German db-de.prc
Portuguese db-pt.prc
Italian db-it.prc
French db-fr.prc
Dutch db-nl.prc
You can choice differents plugins:
information Plugin/information/information.prc
(display nunber of record, just a sample plugin)
JFile3 Plugin/JFile3/JFile3.prc
(driver for JFile3 support in alpha)
MobileDB Plugin/MobileDB/MobileDB.prc
(driver for MobileDB support, a prc contains already
this support)
DB2 Plugin/DB2/DB2.prc
(driver for old DB 0.2.x support)
The next step is to actually install this file on the PDA. Users of
Microsoft Windows and the Macintosh should use the Install Tool that
comes with the Palm Desktop software to install one of the above PRC
files. Afterwards, initiate a HotSync to complete the installation.
UNIX users should use a program like "pilot-xfer" which is a part of
the pilot-link package to install one of the above PRC files. (Other
packages like KPilot, JPilot, and gnome-pilot will work just as well.)
Resources (Web and E-Mail)
--------------------------
You can find the latest version of DB at the following Web site:
http://pilot-db.sourceforge.net/
You can also join a mailing list for general discussion of DB. To
learn how to subscribe to this mailing list, just visit the following
Web site:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/pilot-db-list
You can post to this list by sending email to the following address:
pilot-db-list@lists.sourceforge.net
Development of DB has been hosted at SourceForge for some
time. SourceForge is a hosting site for many Open Source software
projects provided by VA Linux Systems, Inc. DB's particular project
page on SourceForge is at the following Web site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pilot-db/
Building Databases on your Desktop System (Windows and UNIX)
------------------------------------------------------------
This package does not contain the conversion utilities that will take
text files and produce DB-format databases. They are available in a
separate package called "palm-db-tools". Get version 0.3.2 or higher
which supports this version of DB. You can get the latest copy of the
palm-db-tools from:
http://palm-db-tools.sourceforge.net/