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The UltraLite Palm utility


Function 

The UltraLite Palm utility is a Palm Computing Platform application that deletes all of the data stored in an UltraLite application's remote database.

Description 

The UltraLite Palm utility is installed as the following file:

%ASANY9%\UltraLite\Palm\68k\ULUtil.prc

ULUtil is useful in deployments where devices are shared between different users. When a different user gets a device, they may want to clear out the previous user's data, to save storage space. Also, the previous user might want to clear out their data because it is confidential. Without ULUtil, the only way to clear out an application's data would be to delete and re-install the application.

You can set ULUtil to back up the Palm store to the PC on subsequent synchronization. You can use this feature to perform an initial synchronization and then backup the store which can be deployed on other devices so they do not need to perform an initial synchronization. The backup option is automatically turned off by the UltraLite runtime to prevent subsequent backups. If you explicitly want to require the database to be backed up on every synchronization, you must add the palm_allow_backup parameter in UL_STORE_PARMS.

For more information, see UL_STORE_PARMS macro.

Once ULUtil is installed on the device, you can delete an UltraLite application's data as follows:

  1. Switch to ULUtil.

  2. Select an application from the list of UltraLite Applications.

  3. Tap the Delete button.

On devices with expansion cards, ULUtil provides access to both file-based and record-based stores.


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