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bizzybody · 04-01-2007, 03:06 AM

I'm looking for a simple ASCII TXT file reader for my old Visor Platinum, which has Palm OS 3.5.2H1.5.

It'll only be needed for really small files that aren't worth the bother to convert to some other format, which even with compression make them larger than the original TXT.

CardTXT .70 won't do as it requires Palm OS 4 or later. I've found references to two or three Palm apps that read TXT, but they also read a bunch of other format or they automatically convert TXT to their own format. (I have TealDoc for reading Teal and PalmDoc formats.)

What's so bloody hard about just writing a Palm app that does one thing, opening and displaying the most dead-simple electronic file format, ASCII TXT? It doesn't need to do it with pretty fonts or any other gee-whiz stuff.

I'll even toss out a name for the app, OTP-TXT. OTP is for One Trick Pony. Anyone who wants to write a simple TXT only reader for Palm is welcome to use the name, as long as you swear an oath that ASCII TXT is all One Trick Pony will ever do.

(Otherwise it'd become Two Trick Pony... or Thirty-Two Trick Pony.)

04-01-2007, 03:06 AM	#1
bizzybody Addict Posts: 294 Karma: 7742186 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Idaho, USA Device: Various PalmOS PDAs, Android Phones, Sharper Image Literati	Simple plain TXT reader for Palm OS 3.5? I'm looking for a simple ASCII TXT file reader for my old Visor Platinum, which has Palm OS 3.5.2H1.5. It'll only be needed for really small files that aren't worth the bother to convert to some other format, which even with compression make them larger than the original TXT. CardTXT .70 won't do as it requires Palm OS 4 or later. I've found references to two or three Palm apps that read TXT, but they also read a bunch of other format or they automatically convert TXT to their own format. (I have TealDoc for reading Teal and PalmDoc formats.) What's so bloody hard about just writing a Palm app that does one thing, opening and displaying the most dead-simple electronic file format, ASCII TXT? It doesn't need to do it with pretty fonts or any other gee-whiz stuff. I'll even toss out a name for the app, OTP-TXT. OTP is for One Trick Pony. Anyone who wants to write a simple TXT only reader for Palm is welcome to use the name, as long as you swear an oath that ASCII TXT is all One Trick Pony will ever do. (Otherwise it'd become Two Trick Pony... or Thirty-Two Trick Pony.)