PalmDoc Format -------------- The format is that of a standard Palm Database Format file. The header of that format includes the name of the database (usually the book title and sometimes a portion of the authors name) which is up to 31 bytes of data. This string of characters is terminated with a 0 in the C style. The files are identified as Creator ID of REAd and a Type of TEXt. Record 0 -------- The first record in the Palm Database Format gives more information about the PalmDOC file, and contains 16 bytes. bytes content comments 2 Compression 1 == no compression, 2 = PalmDOC compression (see below) 2 Unused Always zero 4 text length Uncompressed length of the entire text of the book 2 record count Number of PDB records used for the text of the book. 2 record size Maximum size of each record containing text, always 4096 4 Current Position Current reading position, as an offset into the uncompressed text