> I understand that a table is a Palm database.  

Not really. Palm databases are badly named, IMO. They are certainly very
different beasts than you might expect from the name. Databases have no
metadata at all, and no filtering/querying of the type you will be used
to. Records have no definable internal structure - they are just blobs
of bytes that can contain anything you like. Different records in the
same database will almost certainly be different lengths, and can even
have completely different contents (eg a bitmap in one, 3 strings in the
next, and so on).

Thinking of them as equivalents to normal database tables can be
misleading.

> First, can this be done with a Palm database?  

Yes, but you need to do things differently than you might expect. You
need to read the PalmOS docs and/or a good book like the PalmOS
Programming Bible.

The most important thing to remember when reading those docs/books is
that a Palm database is NOT a database - get rid of your preconceptions.

Cheers,
Jim Cooper

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Tabdee Ltd      http://www.tabdee.ltd.uk

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