(pilot standard text document) file format
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) */
DWord reserved2;
};
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.
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 ``DWord'' is 32 bits. Both are in big-endian 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''
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.
Paul J. Lucas <[email protected]>