Sometimes Palm applications are copy-protected, preventing them from being beamed to another Palm or being copied from the SD card to RAM. Attempting to copy these applications shows message "Copy-protected apps and databases cannot be copied. These are listed with a lock icon next to them."
To change make the application copyable:
- Download PRCedit from here, unzip, run PRCedit.exe.
- Open the PRC file.
- 0x20 is the offset of the 'flags' header. The 0x40 bit set to flag the executable as non-copyable (non-beamable). So to make it copyable, subtract 0x40 from the value. e.g. if the value is 0049 make it 0009:
- Save and then sync the updated application or copy to the SD card. Then beam/copy freely.
Thanks to Theodore Ts'o.