If this is a one-time conversion, or one that you will be doing
in-house infrequently, consider doing it in POSE with
HostFRead/HostFOpen (defined in HostControl.h). This gives your
PalmOS program running in POSE access to the host computer's file
system and files.
This is particularly handy if you are using host computer files to
generate moderately complex PDB records on the PalmOS side. You can
use your existing, tested PDB routines from your application to
create the records, but can use host-side data to populate them.
Saves learning another tool, and saves verifying that the data
created by that tool looks the way you think it does.
I end up with two PRCs for my project. One is the actual end-user
application, and the other is a data conversion utility meant to run
only under POSE.
Note that with a little savvy, your POSE-based data conversion
utility can be turned into a general POSE/device utility or function
that imports text data from a removable memory card.
Hal
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