Re: Re: palm perl porting, problems?

Doesn't have a filesystem?

Then how does it store the add-on programs, text files and graphics, and all the stuff the PDA app uses?

It needs some way to organize and find it again.

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Re: Re: Re: palm perl porting, problems? by bikeNomad (Priest) on Jul 24, 2001 at 20:02 UTC
It only has "databases", which are accessed record by record (as opposed to the Unix byte-stream model). I suppose you could use one of these to emulate files, but it wouldn't interact with anything, and so would not be useful. To make a Palm language useful, you have to provide access to the databases (as records, not as bytes). And ideally, you'd have some GUI layer so that you could interact and respond to the many PalmOS events (like being put to sleep).	[reply]

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Re: Re: Re: palm perl porting, problems?
by bikeNomad (Priest) on Jul 24, 2001 at 20:02 UTC

To make a Palm language useful, you have to provide access to the databases (as records, not as bytes). And ideally, you'd have some GUI layer so that you could interact and respond to the many PalmOS events (like being put to sleep).

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