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One short-coming of the Palm OS device's built-in memo program is that it
does not deal well with large documents.
To compensate for this,
Rick Bram wrote
Doc, a document reader for the Palm OS device.
(See
http://www.concentric.net/~rbram/doc.shtml).
Documents can be converted to the Doc format with MakeDoc,
by
Pat Beirne.
Installing MakeDoc
MakeDoc can be downloaded from
http://www.concentric.net/~rbram/makedoc7.cpp.
Compile it with your C++ compiler and install the resulting executable
as ``makedoc'' in a directory in your search path.
There seems to be a small bug in makedoc (version 0.7a) in
that it does not output a newline as the last character displayed to
the user.
This does not seem to affect the resulting document file, but it is
annoying.
Using MakeDoc
Use MakeDoc as follows:
makedoc data.txt data.prc "Data to display with Doc"
This will create a file data.prc, which can be installed
on your Palm OS device with
pilot-xfer.
The text "Data to display with Doc" will be displayed in the
directory of documents that Doc manages.
The syntax for MakeDoc is as follows:
makedoc [-n] [-b] <text-file> <prc-file> <story-name>
or
makedoc -d [-b] <prc-file> <text-file>
- <text-file>
The file that you wish to convert.
- <prc-file>
The name of the resulting file. (End the name
with ``.prc''.)
- <story-name>
The name you want displayed in the Doc
or Jdoc directory of documents.
There are also options to decode the resulting .prc file
and manage various compression options.
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