Once you've developed a Palm application you may ask yourself,
“Now how do I get the database it needs from the desktop machine
onto the handheld?”. PDBMake
is a generic
(non-application specific) desktop program which accomplishes this.
It takes an arbitrary desktop file, text or binary, and embeds it into
a Palm Program DataBase .pdb file. Once you've created a PDB
file with PDBMake you can install it on the handheld (or
emulator) just like any other application or database. When you next
HotSync, the database will be installed, then your application can
access it through the usual Data Manager mechanisms.
PDBMake runs on Windows and Unix platforms, and is
insensitive to platform byte order and structure padding conventions.
Complete source code and a ready-to-run Win32 executable are included.