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Originally Posted by wallcraft
Many of the original PRC files in the e-books section should be PalmDOC compatible. The more recent ones are MOBI, and so probably not readable by eReader. Perhaps we need a MOBI2PRC command to down convert from MOBI to PalmDOC.
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I'd hate to see that. PalmDOC is essentially plain ASCII, with RLE compression to save space in RAM. If you do that conversion, you lose fonts, text attributes, hyperlinks, and any embedded images. Since Mobipocket Reader for Palm OS is free these days, there normally isn't a good reason to not install it to read Mobi format books. (And you need text files in *nix format, using only LF as the EOL character. Embedded carriage returns is DOS/Windows files are treated as hard breaks, and screw up reflow.)
For files that were plain text originally, from PG or wherever, you're better served to install something like PalmFiction or WeaselReader. PalmFiction can handle ASCII text files, Word docs, and RTF files on a card, as well as PalmDOC and zTXT files. WeaselReader was originally designed to be a Palm viewer for PG etexts, handles PalmDOC and zTXT files in RAM or on a card, and has an option to skip over the lengthy PG boilerplate PG used to stick at the head of every etext they produced.
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Dennis