I might not have allocated enough space in last week's column to answer reader Sylvia Wong's question about importing a FileMaker Pro database from a friend's Macintosh to her PC-based Palm Pilot.
A number of issues have been pointed out to me since that are worth mentioning. An utility called Aladdin Expander for Windows apparently can expand a Mac .sea file easily enough.
As one reader pointed out, FileMaker Pro files are cross-platform, so one saved on a Mac can be opened on a PC. However, FileMaker Pro has to be installed on the PC first.
I had suggested that the person sending the file export it as a CSV file, or some other format that would make it easy to import directly into the Palm Desktop software. CSV uses commas to separate fields in a database and might not be a great idea if commas are present in the data itself. This is quite common, and will mess up the file completely. Exporting data with tab separators might be a better idea.
com/pilot can do the job.