> okay, I thought of a legitimate application for a program that does a > hard reset that would be genuinely useful: In a fleet environment (e.g. > the company bought 20 of them for field service work or meter-reading of > some kind) and something like repair orders are beamed in at the > beginning of the day, then the results are beamed back to a server at > close of business. As each employee leaves the building he/she runs the > "Forget" program and leaves the palm device in a charging dock. The next > morning the dispatcher beams orders into the devices (as memos?) before > the field service people arrive, so all the devices are interchangeable; > no history to preserve. > > It would be just as good or better to implement a "Forget" button in the > application that only wiped the local pdb clean, but I can just imagine > losing that argument with a middle manager (sigh. think I'll go read a > dilbert cartoon...)
why not just provide instructions on how to do a hard-reset? :) some things are best NOT done in software *g* --- Aaron Ardiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] CEO - CTO +46 70 656 1143 Mobile Wizardry http://www.mobilewizardry.com/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
