druid wrote:
Is there a program to allow me to view a database
created by my application, so I can check structure
and data to see if there created correctly.

Quartus RsrcEdit ( http://www.quartus.net/products/rsrcedit/ )
is pretty handy for that and runs on the Palm.  You can view
each record with a little hex editor, delete records, add
records, and even disassemble 68k code.

FileZ lets you do similar things to what RsrcEdit does, and FileZ
is free whereas RsrcEdit is not.  However, FileZ isn't quite as
powerful as RsrcEdit either.

Or, if you are running on the desktop, the command-line utility
"par" is handy.  The command "par x foo.pdb" will extra each
record of foo.pdb into a separate file.  I sometimes use this
under Mac OS X to examine records' contents with standard Unix
utilities like "strings", "od" (octal dump, which also does hex
dumps, contrary to its name), and "less".  I've managed to
track down a few bugs that way.  It's a little bit extra pain
to transfer the database from the Palm to the desktop sometimes,
but it's nice to have the power of a desktop machine (and its
much larger display) to view the data.

I believe the "pilot-file" utility from the pilot-link package
will also let you list records, dump their contents, etc., although
since I've tried par, I've found that it seems more useful to me
personally.

  - Logan

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