Mares Dive Organiser data import to subsurface

[Willem Ferguson]

Gimme a day or 2 for an answer on that one. The short answer is no. But 
there may perhaps be a longer answer.
willemf

On 02/12/2013 22:12, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> Or...
>
> Does the app have an export function to a saner format? Many do...
>
> /D
> ---
>  From my phone
>
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Willem Ferguson
>> <willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za> wrote:
>>> Looks like Mares Dive Organiser saves dives as a database in a zipped .sdf
>>> format, the latter format written by Microsoft SQL Compact edition. What is
>>> the existing infrastructure for reading such files? Not sure that there are
>>> C++ classes to do this sort of thing, i.e. outside of MS.NET.
>> We've supported similar things for the Suunto DM4 format, which is a
>> zipped sqlite database.
>>
>> However, that was easy since sqlite is open-source and you can easily
>> find bindings for it. I know of no equivalent library to access the
>> MSSQL CE format. So I don't really see it being supported, although
>> maybe somebody could write a simple Windows app that uses the MS
>> libraries to read the Dive Organizer files and writes them out as
>> XML..
>>
>>                 Linus
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