Flash Flag (was Re: Backup Buddy / Pmgr)

[Philippe Coatmeur <cphilippe@xxxxxxx>]

Hello

While we're at files backup flags, I wonder if there is a spécial "flash
memory resident" flag, in the case w/ a file lives in the flash mem, either
because its a sys. file or its been copied to flash using a flash read/write
app ?

My question is, does the desktop app (on a general basis) knows that the file
originated from Flash or RAM ?

I had a case where a large lib file was duplicated on both the Flash *&* RAM,
the Pilot being deceiptively stupid there...
How would Pmgr handle this ?
I suppose it would retrieve only *one* of the 2, but where would it write it
back on the Pilot ?

Thank you all for your answers on the backup bit, its much clearer for me
now.

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  Philippe Coatmeur
   GameSpot France
   Ziff-Davis, Inc.
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Alan Harder wrote:

> >Does anyone here knows about a Pilot/Win app called Backup Buddy ?
> >
> >My question is -
> >is what the ReadMe of that app says true = Under Windows, "3rd party"
> >app databases *are not* backed up at HotSync, only the 3Com's...
>
> The above statement is not true for pilot-xfer or PilotManager.
> DBs on the pilot have a "backup flag" which must be set to "true" to make
> the Palm desktop software backup the database.  3rd party developers are
> often unaware of this flag and do not set it for their DBs.
>
> >Is pilot-xfer doing the same kind of distinction ? And Pilot mgr ?
>
> pilot-xfer and pilotmgr *ignore* this flag and just backup everything
> (or the files you have selected in the pilotmgr Backup conduit).
>
>         - Alan

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