Mobipocket prc???

pruss · 07-28-2007, 09:22 AM

I was wondering why Mobipocket files are distributed with the prc (palm resource database) extensions when in fact they are just pdb (ordinary palm database) files?

Robert Marquard · 07-28-2007, 10:45 AM

No, the are PRC format. The main difference lies in the index table for the blocks of the file. The difference is minor anyway. Now they use .mobi to solve any problem with extensions. The format is still the same.

pruss · 07-30-2007, 01:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robert Marquard

No, the are PRC format. The main difference lies in the index table for the blocks of the file. The difference is minor anyway. Now they use .mobi to solve any problem with extensions. The format is still the same.

Well, at least the Harvard Classics mobi files are PDB, not PRC. They start out as standard DOC files with HTML-style markup, followed by images in BMP format, one BMP image per record.

Robert Marquard · 07-31-2007, 01:05 AM

The PRC and PDB formats only define the blocks not the content of the blocks.

07-28-2007, 09:22 AM	#1
pruss Evangelist Posts: 461 Karma: 819417 Join Date: Nov 2004	Mobipocket prc??? I was wondering why Mobipocket files are distributed with the prc (palm resource database) extensions when in fact they are just pdb (ordinary palm database) files?

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07-28-2007, 10:45 AM	#2
Robert Marquard Delphi-Guy Posts: 285 Karma: 1151 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: iLiad, Palm T3	No, the are PRC format. The main difference lies in the index table for the blocks of the file. The difference is minor anyway. Now they use .mobi to solve any problem with extensions. The format is still the same.

07-31-2007, 01:05 AM	#4
Robert Marquard Delphi-Guy Posts: 285 Karma: 1151 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: iLiad, Palm T3	The PRC and PDB formats only define the blocks not the content of the blocks.

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