DB: Open Source Database Program for PalmOS
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WARNING: This is program is ALPHA software. Use it at your own
risk. It may crash your Palm Pilot to the point where it requires a
hard reset. (Hard resets cause loss of all data.)

DB is free software as specified in the GNU General Public License
included in the file COPYING.

Future versions of DB may have incompatible changes made to the
database format. If this happens, you will need to use the pdb2csv
utility from the previous version of DB to convert your database to a
text file. Then you can use the csv2pdb utility from the new version
of DB to create a copy of the database in the new format. The NEWS
file will warn if incompatible changes were made.


Installation
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To install DB on your Palm Pilot, just HotSync one of the PRC file
included in the zip distribution to your Palm Pilot. The particular
file depends on which language you want:

  English     db.prc 
  German      db-de.prc
  Dutch       db-nl.prc


Resources (Web and E-Mail)
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You can find the latest version of DB at the following Web site:

  http://vger.rutgers.edu/~tdyas/pilot/

You can also join a mailing list for general discussion of DB. To
learn how to subscribe to this mailing list, just visit the following
Web site:

  http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/pilot-db-list

You can post to this list by sending email to the following address:

  pilot-db-list@lists.sourceforge.net

Development of DB is now hosted at the SourceForge site. DB's page on
SourceForge is at the following Web site:

  http://www.sourceforge.org/project/?form_grp=621


Building Databases on your PC
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This package does not contain the conversion utilities that will take
text files and produce DB-format databases. They are available in a
seperate package called "palm-db-tools". You can get the latest copy
of the palm-db-tools from:

  http://vger.rutgers.edu/~tdyas/pilot/
