Re: GEOS file format, assembly, etc.

Tony Dean <tdean@lookout.ecte.uswc.uswest.com>
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 94 20:22 PST
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From: Tony Dean <tdean@lookout.ecte.uswc.uswest.com>
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Subject: Re:  GEOS file format, assembly, etc.
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> >I want to create a file by hand, and I can't find the file structure. What
> >chapter is it in?

> Hahhahahahahahahahahaha...  Had a bit too much to drink? :-? :-) :-) This
> certainly is *not* documented anywhere and won't be anytime soon I'm sure.
> It's something that is really quite hard to do correctly in general.  Palm
> Computing has publically stated in the past that they are working on
> producing a code library that would allow outside developers to access GEOS
> files (and also, of course, Palm's various data files) from outside of GEOS
> (e.g., DOS or whatever).  Waiting for them to do the hard work is my
> recommendation.

I was never able to find any significant amount of info along
thee lines. I suspect that this information is seen as highly
proprietary by geoworks. I had similar interests back before
other projects took me away from geoworks and zoomer development...

> >That's right.  Any info?  By the way, I'm not just talking Object-Assembly,
> >I'm talking Object-Machine code :).  I want to know how they do it.

> Why?  Besides curiousity that is.  That Forth hacker mentality is showing
> through... :-) :-)

In my case I usually develop low level products like developer libraries
and API based products. There was no development kit for a long time
and I am not sure if the current SDK with its reliance on an out
of production compiler is adequite. The least they could have done
was add realistic support for object assembler.

tdean