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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: drydiggins on March 20, 2004, 05:09:45 pm

Title: It\'s in the mail (I hope)
Post by: drydiggins on March 20, 2004, 05:09:45 pm

I bought an SL5600 (with the cf camera) from auctionguy100 on EBay last Wednesday evening.  Put the cashier\'s check in the mail on Thursday.  This will replace a USR(!) Palm Pilot I have had since \'97.  I have been watching prices for a year I guess.  When it dropped below $300, I started paying more attention.  Long story short, when you figure in fiddle factor I probably paid Amazon price.
I\'ll probably leave the innards alone for a little while at least.
First thing is to get my Lotus Notes calendar synced with the PDA.  I understand that Notessync isn\'t there yet for the 5600.  What the heck is the \"DTK\" format and why did that replace XML?

Thanks!

Title: It\'s in the mail (I hope)
Post by: BlackCardinal on March 20, 2004, 06:27:39 pm

It\'s actually called \"DTM\" (for DaTa Manager) and it\'s a binary format for storing the PIM application data.  I think it replaced XML because of the overhead involved in using XML (larger data files, slower access).  I thought I remember a library available for accessing DTM files, but of course I can\'t find it right now when I\'m looking! :shock:

I did find header files and documentation here:

https://www.oesf.org/commu...0/projects/dtm/ (https://www.oesf.org/community/66.180.235.230/projects/dtm/)