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 Originally Posted by whmurray
Can it co-exist or interoperate with PDAReach?
It can co-exist. That is, you can have both installed on your PDA and can serially use them. They cannot interoperate. When Card Export is running one cannot start any other application. If PDAReach is running one can start Card Export but it cannot connect. If you press the connect icon, it reports that the connection is already in use. Therefore, while one may go from one of these programs (while they run as applications, I am reluctant to call them that) to the other and back, they cannot interoperate.
Note that there is no Card Export client on the PC side. XP simply recognizes the Treo (running Card Export) as a locally attached drive. Therefore, one uses the PC file system to operate it.
While Card Export is running, it displays two indicators; one tells you that the PC is reading from the PDA/SD and the other that it is writing. The documentation cautions that one can lose the file system on the card by terminating the connection while writing.
One can now get 1G SD cards. Some of us can remember when that was a big drive. (One gigabyte stored in punched paper would fill a box car and take a year and a half to read.) There is no reason to believe that this popular form factor will not get even denser. Because the PDA can only display the contents of one folder at a time, it is difficult to reorganize objects. There is an advantage for the operating system to be able to treat this device like any other.
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