"Richard Burmeister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:45465@palm-dev-forum...
> That is not a requirement for Palm databases. You can put anything you
want
> into each record (up to about 64KB). Of course, if each record is
> different, you also have to store something to distinguish the record type
> in each record.
The category can be useful for this purpose if it's not already being used
for something else. If you need more that 4 bits, you can use the beginning
of the record for the "tag", but this takes longer to access while you're
enumerating the records.
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Danny Epstein
OS Engineer, Palm Inc.
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