I have a database that is very large -- large enough it needs to be put on an external
card to be useful. The Palm API allows easy read of this database, but not easy
writing to it when its on the card. I can't move the database back and forth from
memory because there typically won't be enough memory and it'll take too long.
I've studied the PDB format and believe that I can add new records using the
VFSFileWrite and manually manipulating the pointers myself, but the file structure
requires inserting data into the middle of the file (pushing the remaining data down).
Again, I run into the size issue -- I can't read and rewrite it all at once and I
suspect it will take minutes just to insert one new record.
Surely somebody else has run into something like this. Ideas?
Jason
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