[geeks] PDF t Palm conversion...

Kurt Mosiejczuk geeks at sunhelp.org
Thu Sep 27 09:56:20 CDT 2001


On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Kris Kirby wrote:

> > Why do you want support for tarballs? There are easier ways to physically
> > transfer 1-8 Meg files between machines, esp. if you have to carry a
> > hotsynch cable with you and install software on each machine you want to
> > communicate with...
>
> Not to mention wearing out your flash cells, which have a finite life.

Uh, wearing out the flash cells is not an issue... unless your taking
special steps to put stuff in flash (which not only PalmOS units have)
stuff goes in RAM.... just average normal RAM.  A Palm is never truly
'off'.  Well, except when you take out the batteries for a while =)

--Kurt




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