Re: OG database File Formats

Michael Halleen (halleen@mcs.net)
Sat, 27 Jul 1996 08:18:51 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, Ken Chen wrote:

> Is there any public information as to how the APPT.ADB and
> and other databases in the OmniGo can be read? Is it in
> the Geoworks SDK, or does HP provide it?

> Has anyone tried to "reverse engineer" it? I'd be willing
> to help write an application/translator if anyone has this
> info.

I don't know about these formats directoy, but there is a file conversion
utility called gdbio that will convert the phone book and database app
files into comma delimited text. I wrote a Windows 95 front end that can
convert those files to Excel, Tab delimited text, and .dbf files.

All of the above are available at www.mcs.com/~halleen/shareware/

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