>I have a request to write a small app that would take basic salesorders on a pocket device and later download them to the main application that is writen in fox. I would like to write the pocket app in fox. Is this posible?

Nope. No version of fox will run on Palm or WindowsCE. You can however write your app in VB for CE or other Palm/CE development languages then transfer the data down to your pc or lan. See below.

>Can anyone give me an idea of a good place to start learning? I know nothing about pocket devices or the OS behind them...Yet, or how Fox interfaces with them.

Whil used Satellite Form to on a Palm to transfer fox data

Join the Palm forum. There are some great links and do a search on "development" or "programming".
http://www.foxtalknewsletter.com/FT/FTMag.nsf/WebIndexOfFreeTips/F639B296C85C310E852568CF0076EBF8?opendocument