| Re: Fitnesslogs.com
Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll try something soon.
Too bad the developer never replies to my E-mails.
Dave
On Jan 28, 3:54 pm, Bill Baka <b...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Mike Causer wrote:
> > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:56:45 -0800, DC1999 wrote:
>
> >> I seem to recall that in ms/dos there was something named "append"
> >> whereby you could attach one file to another and they would become one.That used to be, for me, copy file1.txt+file2.txt>>newfile.txt, or
> something very close. It might even work in Windows under the cmd.exe
> DOS emulation mode. I think in Linux/UNIX it would be CAT
> file1,file2>>(|)newfile. There have been postings on the e-book groups
> that have pdf001, pdf002, etc. where the method of making the whole pdf
> file is just to copy them together into one file which is the original
> pdf file. Play around and learn something, it never hurts.
> Bill Baka
>
>
>
> > Seeing that they discuss the restrictions of data size on the Palm, I
> > strongly suspect that the file format is their own proprietary, and that
> > simply joining two files together is unlikely to work. What may work is
> > for you to borrow a MS-Windows PC, get the 30-day evaluation copy for
> > Windows, download to there, join the data (if Fitnesslogs allows), and
> > copy back to the Palm -- being very, very careful not to overwrite your
> > original data....
>
> > They talk about export to MS-Excel, but not import from, so that's an
> > unlikely solution. Two more possibilities: Find someone who writes
> > programs for PalmOs and ask if there's a commonly used database format
> > that another program may be able to read, or dump the data and persuade
> > someone with tools to poke inside binary files to have a look. If you can
> > figure out my email address and send a smallish file I'd spend a few
> > minutes poking at it. Neither of these has a high probability of success.
> > Don't ask me about PalmOs, MacOs or /Windoze though, I'm a Unix/Linux type.
>
> > Mike
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