How to read .pdb file in Pocket PC

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"Yam Cheuk Yin" <cyyam@graduate.hku.hk> wrote:

>Dear all experts,
>
> I am a layman in PDA, and would like to ask for help from all the
>experts...
> I have some .pdb files, and it seems can be read in Palm. Can I read them
>with Pocket PC ? Mine in hp ipaq 2215. What software do i need?
>
>Many thanks in advance for your valuable advice

Depends. All Palm files are converted to .PDB files. The PalmOS
doesn't understand files so everything is converted to a database.
Those PDB files might really be Excel, Word or even Text files. Find
out what kind they are first then see if there is an equivalent Pocket
PC app. I currently use two PDB files. Some open with eReader (ebooks)
and some with HanDBase (database files).

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In article <abudd.203$H9.176@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net>, "josie" <jo.finn1[nospam]@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>Try this, I've found it excellent
>http://www.yenc32.com/

What does yEnc have to do with Palm DataBase files? Are they supposed to be
yEnc encoded???!??

>Josie
>
>"Yam Cheuk Yin" <cyyam@graduate.hku.hk> wrote in message
>news:urwtJlntEHA.4040@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Dear all experts,
>>
>> I am a layman in PDA, and would like to ask for help from all the
>> experts...
>> I have some .pdb files, and it seems can be read in Palm. Can I read them
>> with Pocket PC ? Mine in hp ipaq 2215. What software do i need?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for your valuable advice
>>
>>
>
>

fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.

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In article <urwtJlntEHA.4040@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>, cyyam@graduate.hku.hk
says...
> Dear all experts,
>
> I am a layman in PDA, and would like to ask for help from all the
> experts...
> I have some .pdb files, and it seems can be read in Palm. Can I read them
> with Pocket PC ? Mine in hp ipaq 2215. What software do i need?
>
> Many thanks in advance for your valuable advice

..pdb is also the file extension used by HanDBase database files
(www.ddhsoftware.com). HanDBase is available for both the Palm and PPC
platforms but I don't know whether a .pdb file from one platform
is directly transferable to the other.

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"Ed Hansberry, MS-MVP/Mobile Devices" <spamfree-
silvernino@hotmail.spambegone.com> wrote in
news:ugbfn0p90qnd0ticof0j8lnq1n3p62hn4b@4ax.com:

> SoftSpot <softspot_ihatespam_brugge@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>try to google for palmreader CE. That is a piece of software to read
Palm
>>.pdb e-books on a Windows CE PPC, like the 2215.
>
> Been renamed. It is eReader and at www.ereader.com

thanks, didn't know that.

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