[jp] Dumping and Merging Palm DBs - Removing duplicate records

> > > - to merge different versions of each of these PDBs
> >
> > Not sure. This would be tricky. What kind of merge do you mean? Just
> > 'combine'? How to determine which records are the same and one of
> > them should be dropped? You could probably do it with some Perl or
> > Python hacking.
>
> That's exactly the problem: many records are duplicated.
>
> Do you know whether I do need to compare field-by-field?

There's a nice little Palm app called 'undupe', I believe, which is worth 
every bit of its $10 cost.