calibre/format_docs/pdb/palmdoc.txt
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PalmDoc Format
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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
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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