05-06-2002
The main issue seems to be that the text document does not hold any formatting info so whatever the default setup is on any of the windows based editors you use will result in the document being reformatted.
For example if Wordpad is set up by default to be in courier new font size 10 and print in portrait mode then when the e-mailed text file is loaded into it the document is formatted in courier new font size 10 portrait mode.
This seems to apply even if you make changes to the settings and save the document from wordpad. Notepad has less flexibility.
I suppose there may be a way to embed MS Word format commands in the text document to make this functional but I am not aware of how to do that.
I appreciate the help I have received on this board. Thanks!
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NAME
DOC - (Pilot standard text document) file format
SYNOPSIS
struct doc_record0 { /* 16 bytes total */
Word version; /* 1 = plain text, 2 = compressed text */
Word reserved1;
DWord doc_size; /* uncompressed size in bytes */
Word num_recs; /* not counting itself */
Word rec_size; /* in bytes: usually 4096 (4K) */
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DESCRIPTION
The Doc file format is the standard text document format used by all models of the Palm Pilot. A Doc file is a pdb(4) file: this manual
page describes only those aspects specific to Doc files.
A Doc file consists of 0 to num_recs records; record 0 is the header for the document. (This header is distinct from the pdb(4) header.)
The remaining records contain text, either plain or compressed depending upon version.
Word Sizes
In the synopsis above, the types ``Word'' and ``DWord'' are used just as in the Pilot headers. The type ``Word'' is 16 bits; the type
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Compression Format
A character ``c'' in a compressed record is in one of four classes:
01-08 Copy ``c'' bytes
00,09-7F Self
80-BF Sequence
C0-FF A space plus the ASCII character ``c ^ 0x80''
SEE ALSO
txt2pdbdoc(1), html2pdbtxt(1), pdbtxt2html(1), pdb(4)
Christopher Bey and Kathleen Dupre. Palm File Format Specification, Document Number 3008-003, Palm, Inc., May 16, 2000.
AUTHOR
Paul J. Lucas <pauljlucas@mac.com>
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