U.S. $7.95 Publisher's Message ...... 1 Letters to the Editor ...... •.•.•. .4 E HP Palmtop News ...... 6 - New DOS-only version of the HP 200LX; N Attend the 1995 HP Handheld Users' Conference, Q.) New HP calculator for high school math students; ..0 SunDisk 175 MB Flashcard; PDA makers alliance E :::J :z New Products and Services ....•.•.....•... 10 - P Palmtop -.::t
Q.) E :::J o > Paper User to User: HP Palmtop as a Reference Tool .....•.. 13 HP Palmtop users carry with them a world of information, from movie guides, to star guides, and much, much more! Bible Software for the HP 100/200LX • 18 The PC Study Bible and other DOS programs bring scriptures to the HP Palmtop. How Users Turned Their HP Palmtop into a Reference Tool ...... •.•.. 21 From English/German translations to a Pilot's database, these creative users prove the HP Palmtop a robust reference tool. Learning Spanish on the HP Palmtop ...... 23 On the road, with time between sales appointments, this user harnesses the power of DataBase to learn a second language.
Programmer's Corner: Programmer's Reference Tool •.•.....•.•. 25 Ed Keefe shows how to turn DataBase into a powerful reference for all those hard to remembE programming details. .
Palmtop Wisdom ...... 2-3 Personal effectiveness using the HP Palmtop. Use the Palmtop to memorize important facts, keep vital facts at your fingertips, manage your time better, and find the true value of a discount.
User Profile: Get Out of the Office and Still Do Your Job ...... 30 While sittinfj on a park bench in New York -+ City, or vacatIoning In Scotland, he keeps his en office in his pocket with an HP Palmtop. ';j Ecco IntelliLink and the HP Palmtop ...... 35 Ecco is a full-featured PIM for your Windows C PC. It won't slip into your pocket like the Palmtop, -+ but here's how a couple of subscribers got the Q. best out of both worlds. -+ Getting the Most Out ofSystem Macros ...... •...... •. 40 o System Macros is a powerful feature that ~ saves time by turning many keystrokes into a ~ few. Learn how to create macros and how to get around the Palmtop's 10-macro limit on the HP 100/200LX. -< Through the Looking Glass Teach DataBase How to do Arithmetic ...... 44 Ed shows how to add the missing arithmetic capabilities to the built-in 100/200LX DataBase application using Lotus 1-2-3. Basic Tips ...... 50-51 04 Quick Tips ...... 52-54 HP Palmtop Users' Groups ...... •. 10 Product Index ...... 55 Advertiser's Index ...... 56 Files on Mar/Apr 95 ON DISK •.•.•...•.•.•. 56 a 7447083112 9 YOUR HP PALMTOP JUST TOOK A UANTUM LEAP.
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The HP Palmtop makes me a walking reference library. I have a Dictionary, Thesaurus, Span ish/English Dictionary, the Bible with a concordance, 5000 quota tions, a guide to thousands of Volume four / Number two March / April 1995 movies, and several great novels Executive EditorlPublisher in my pocket! Hal Goldstein In most cases, electronic refer Managing Editor ence works are superior to Ricnard Hall Technical Editor clunky paper references. Finding Robert Roney related information is fast and Associate Editor easy, and many general, as well Paul Merrill as profession-specific reference Department Editors Ed Keefe works have been written for DOS Mark Scardina computers. That makes them Contributing Writers Michael Allgood candidates for the HP Palmtop, if Lanny Staton you have a Flashdisk card large Joseph Tomasone Top: Hal Goldstein enough to carry them with you. AdvertisinglMarketing Bottom: Robert Roney and Rich Hall Brian Teitzman In this issue we describe how Margaret Martin to use an electronic dictionary to Diane Wimett Circulation quickly find the definition of a word, even if you don't know the word's Sharon Ash Sharon Dilmore exact spelling, and look up synonyms or a second word contained in the Cindy Ericson definition of the first. You'll read how you can instantly access any Bible Tom Gibson Tiffany Lisk verse and find out what movie won best picture in 1958. Colleen Rodibaugh You'll also discover ways to use the built-in applications to for Executive Advisor reference purposes. Most of us already depend on the Palmtop's Rita Goldstein The HP Palmtop Paper (ISSN 10656189) is reference capabilities: our Palmtop PhoneBook references names and published bimonthly by Thaddeus Computing Inc., at 57 East Broadway Avenue, Fairfield, addresses; our AppointmentBook organizes our schedule and todo lists; IA 52556. Second·class postage paid at Fair we press ~ if we need to find out how to use a Palmtop feature. In field, Iowa. Subscription rates payable in U.S. dollars, checks drawn on a U.S. bank, or by addition, we use World Time application to find area codes, relative credit card - one year: $39; two years: $69. Postage: U.S. and U.S. possessions free; time, longitude and latitude; and we consult HP Calc for currency, Canada, Mexico add $6 per year; other coun tries add $18 per year. Please allow four to length, area, temperature, and volume conversion information. six weeks for receipt of fIrst issue. Executive, Editorial, Circulation, Marketing and Adver Many of us take things a step further, creating DataBase and tising Offices: P .O. Box 869, Fairfield, IA NoteTaker reference files. Palmtop subscriber Lanny Staton describes 52556. Telephone: (515) 472-6330, FAX: (515) 472-1879. Copyright 1995, Thaddeus Comput how he stores Spanish vocabulary in DataBase to learn the language. Ed ing, Inc., all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without writ Keefe describes and provides a number of DataBase tools for program ten permission. Reasonable efforts are made to provide accurate and useful information, mers. CFO Michael Allgood describes in his user profile his use of but the reader must make his or her own investigations and decisions; the Publisher Quicken to store travel expenses, and DataBase to store critical company and Editorial Staff cannot assume any respon information. sibility or liability for the use of information contained herein. The ability to instantly access electronic reference material is a boon. POSTMASTER: Please send any address changes to The HP Palmtop Paper, Attn: Having all this information available to you when you need it, in your Thaddeus Computing, Inc., P.O. Box 869, Palmtop, dramatically increases the information's value and your produc Fairfield, IA 52556. tivity.
MARCH / APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 1 The editors of The HP Palmtop Paper welcome yo~ to Eress ~ (Subset) ~ (define), Tab to the Category fiela,arrow down to Palmtop Wisdom. Palmtop Wisdom takes the latest thmk the category you want and press ing in leadership, human relations, time management, IEN,rl. Press i!!21, .name the Subset an press ~ agam. finance, self-development, travel, and entertainn:ent an,d Remember, you can create "flash cards" to help you learn just about provides concrete applications of these concepts usmg HP s anything including: medIcal terms lOOj200LX Palmtop pes. ana theIr definitions; client names and client information; products and We welcome your feedback, ideas, and contributions. the key benefits associated with them' the Palmtop's keys and what those' keys accomplish; Palmtop procedures and what keys to press; and so forth. (See page 23 t? see By Hal Goldstein your index screen). If the Category how this idea is used m learmng a field was not displayed, you can add foreign language). SELF it to the main NoteTaker display by pressing ~, highlighting Category STAYING DEVELOPMENT and pressing ~ (OK). Let's start entering arithmet~c ORGANIZED Use the Palmtop to help examples just to illustrate how thIS you memorize important works. Press ~ (Add). In the Title Keep important facts facts or vocabulary field key in 7 + 8. Tab to the Note at your fingertips field (or press 1m) and put the an The Palmtop's great forte is it's abili Many of us used flash cards in swer 15. In the Category field type ty to allow you to ~eep ~ll of your school to learn our multiplication Add. Press ~ to Add another entry, important informatIon "':It~ you ~t tables, to memorize vocabulary from say, 6 x 9 in "Title", 54 in "Note", and another lar:tguage, or. h? master .ter all times. The suite of bUIlt-m apph Mult in "Category." cations provides many excel~ent minology m a speclahzed ~ubJect. After entenng a few such re The idea is simple. On one SIde of a ways to organize your lI~JormatIon. cords, press i!!21 to go back to the Unfortunately, on occaSIOn I have card, put the probl.em (eg. ~ x 9,,= (?) index view. On the HP 200LX, press or, if you are learnmg Sp~msh, bue found myseff wondering which of ~TRLI-IEJ so the answer (card view) the database-related E~ograms I. used nos dras"). On the other SIde put the oes not show. Now move the cur answer ("72" or "good morning"). for a specific piece of mformatIon. sor to any of the problems. When The fewer place~ you have t.o g? You can set up your own flash you think you know the answer, card learning system with your HP looking for informatlO!l, the eaSIer It Palmtop to increase your vocabulary, Eress Ic RLi-1EJ on the 200LX and the is to manage your tIme and stay aatacara pops up with the correct organized. I decided to take that help learn another language, remem answer. ber personal information about your pnnciple a step further on my' Palm customers or associates, or any other All Nolos top by keeping most of my ImEor ="",T~ill,,--. ___ I.... ! task that requires rote learning. &3i3: _ _ ':....:.8______tant information in one of two plac .:::\III..S-Om.____ = "... s es: Appointment Book for appoint ON THE PALMTOP ". r& ments and immediate To-Dos, and This system is especially easy with Phone Book for everything else. the HP 200LX ana its datacard fea I keep both applIcations. open at ture. However, it works almost as all times. My use of APPT IS rather well on the HP 100LX. traditional. How I use PHONE as a On the HP 100 /200LX start catch-all of names and addresses and NoteTaker (press ICTRLi-1 MEMO I. Then NoteTaker with Datacard answer displayed also for notes on my most c~rrer:tt open a new file (press IMr UI file !:!ew, and important projects/topICS IS gIve the file a name an press ~). On the lOOLX press ~ or }ENmR I to more interesting. On the main screen (index view)we see the answer in the "Note ie . ON THE PALMTOP want only "Title" and optionally Using the Categ?ry field. lets you For example let's say I decide to buy "Category' showing. To do this, from divide your list up m a logIcal way a new computer. I open Phone Book the main screen (inaex screen), press for different drills. In the example and press ~ to ada a ~hone Item. ~ (Columns). Move the cursor to above, you can display yOU! ~ulti In the Name field I key m OComputer llie Note field (if it is there) and plication Eroblems by de~Imng. a and press ~ (OK). Back in the List press 1m (Delete). (The Note field subset to aisplay only .entnes. wIth view I nownave an entry for that still exists, it just won't show up on Mult in the category fIeld. SImply topic.
2 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 you probably need rethink how RII Phone Book ILel'ls , Don't "lose" your car a~ain I NlI.I'Ig I 8usinftU I Ho!!g I lmportant they really are. Unfortunately, I am one 01 those ij!IJiftYA f'J j\ noLe abouL Lhis Phone fib IIICo!!puserve B01kB4B- B199 sa people that can enter a mall, attend III HP Aulol'lalod Infon.alion Serv B0i!I - 44]- 1254 • OOOName -- (The "000" places an III HP Custo!!er SuPport 50]- 715- 2884 -SII8 Noles a trade show, or stay at a hotel, and III HP Pall'ltop E)(pross Exchango 50]- 715- 2884 entry at the top, right below any " HP SL4rUnk B00- 917- LINK 15 forget where I put my car. This be " Tho HP Pal!!lop PlIIIQr B00- ]73- 1>114 entry that is preceded by an empty space.) I use this level for my most comes even more frustrating when I important, long-term projects and travel and leave my car at an airport topics. For example, I nave an entry parking lot. I am now in the hablt of creating an event (a timeless Phone Book with topic/project item at top OODGOALS, containing in notes on personal long-term goals. aPl?ointment) in APPT which de scnbes the car's location. For the When I have an idea about the com • OOName -- (The "00" £laces an entry APPT date I choose the date I will puter or doing some researching on at the top, below the 000" entries.) I be returning. It, I open Phone Book, highlight use this for less important, long-term OComputer and press I!!I to enter my projects and tOEics, or contInuing ON THE PALMTOP: thoughts. This might include a list of lists of things to dO. For example, 00- 1. Start APPT and press ~ to add what I need in a computer, possible HOME contains a list of trungs I an appointment. In the Description places I could buy it, the names of have to fix around the house. field, type: I
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4 THE HI' PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 In case you didn't know, from home for the first time. 2. Turn modem on. the dial tone my modem was Intuit is fairly good at fixing Here's the story. 3. Turn the HP Palmtop on. looking for! problems discovered by We arrived at the hotel 4. Go to acCIS and enter the I remembered that there users, and posting corrected about noon. After surveying "online" command. is an obscure modem com files on CompuServe. I the beach and having a cool mand which tells the modem I waited for a while as the hope this helps people get one, I broke out my comput to ignore the dial tone. But dialing screen displayed the Pocket Quicken up and run er and modem. The phone in with all my careful prepara number for the German ning on their Palmtop a little the room was hard wired to tions, I didn't pack my mo CompuServe node. Finally, easier. Quicken has made the wall outlet but there was dem manual! acCIS displayed... "Discon managing my finances al a cover which could be re Well, the sun was so nice, nect, no dial-tone." I picked most fun. With Pocket Quic moved. There was also what the beer so cold, and the up the phone in the room ken on my lOOLX it should appeared to be an empty scenery on the beach... I and heard what appeared to be even more "fun." RJ-ll jack on the phone. This decided to save playing with be a busy signal. Then I Allen Tucker is going to be simple I the modem for another trip. went down to see the techni CompuServe ID:[74720,1470J thought to myself. When I got home, I cian again. After much talking to the found that "XO" was the I told him about the busy Greek Modem hotel technician and fiddling command I was looking for. signal - he picked up the Odyssey with the phone jack wires, I You should remember XO if phone at the desk, listened Recently I took a one week figured I was ready. With a you ever find yourself on the for a few seconds and then holiday to the island of smile on my face and visions isle of Rhodes! Those two handed it to me. I heard Rhodes in Greece. Not only of data streaking across the characters are the only thing what sounded like a busy was this to be a week of fun screen of my HP, I followed that stood between me and signal with longer spaces of in the sun but it was also an the step-by-step procedure I the CompuServe node. I silence between the tones. opportunity to test out my had developed for modem don't even like to think He explained that this was HP lOOLX and CompuServe communications: about it. the normal dial tone on access program acCIS away Casey McCullough 1. Put battery in modem. Rhodes. It definitely was not CompuServe ID: [100041,2130J
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New DOS.only version Palmtop-related products. • Bruce Bruemmer - Archivist, of the HP 200LX Conference organizers (listed at Charles Babbage Institute. Hewlett-Packard recently the end of this article) are looking for • Diana Byrne - HP48 Corvallis announced the HP 1000CX speakers, people to conduct work team leader. Palmtop PC, a DOS-only 1MB shops, Palmtop users who wish to Ii Craig Finseth - Conference orga version of the HP 200LX for third submit papers, vendors with Palm nizer and developer of programs for party developers who want a plat top-related products, and others. the HP Palmtops. form for DOS applications and do Interested persons should send Ii Hal Goldstein - Publisher and not need the built-in software. papers by July I, 1995 to the Confer Editor of The HP Palmtop Paper. The hardware of the DOS-only ence Organizer or the Technical Pro • Kheng Joo Khaw - Head of HP's version is virtually the same as the gram Organizer (details below). If Singapore Division. regular 200LX, except that the key you need more information, please • Oleg Linetsky - Postmaster, Insti tops and keyboard overlay have been contact one of these organizers. tute of Mathematics, Odessa State modified to exclude any reference to Speakers planning to attend in University and leader of HP User's the System Manager compliant func clude, but are not limited to: Group, Ukraine. tions and it is the color of the 100LX. The 1000CX comes without any built in PIMs or other applications. It does include DOS 5.0, a setup utility, and 1995 Hewlett-Packard Handheld Users' Conference LapLink Remote. The 1000CX comes Registration Form with a multilingual User's Guide. (Fax to Thaddeus Computing, 515-472-1879) English, French, German, and Name: Spanish versions of the 1000CX are Address: available in minimum orders of 50 units built to order with 4 weeks lead Email: time). The price per unit is approxi Phone: mately $449 U.S., but may vary de Fax: pending on the size of the order. What you want on your badge (name I occupation I employer I home town I country I club I Memory cards, AC adapters, Connec equipment used): tivity Packs, and other Palmtop-relat ed hardware should work fine on the Line 1: 1000CX. For more information, con Line 2: Line 3: tact your HP Palmtop distributor or HP sales office. Can we include your registration information on the printed attendee list? _ yes no
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6 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 CONFERENCE STILL NEEDS YOUR INPUT The content of the conference is not Now Available: Pocket Quicken for your HP IOOLX. complete and the organizers need to know what you want to see (and hear) on the program. Also please contact us if you are interested in The fastest, easiest way being a speaker or are interested in volunteering in any other capacity. The organizers need help in a variety of areas including a program prepa to organize your finances. ration person to create a camera ready master of the program guide; and an on-site registration person to staff the registration table at the con Wherever you go. ference. In addition, the organizers are thinking about having an auction and/ or designated time for people who want to swap, buy, or sell Palm New Pocket Quicken'· Because it's from top-related things. Does this idea is designed especially the makers of the appeal to you? Do you have anything for HP Palmtops # I financial software, to auction? Contact the conference to let you easily Pocket Quicken is the organizers, listed at the end of the track all your only software that article, with your ideas. Also, the expenses on-the completely synchronizes traditional Sunday evening confer go. So it's easy to get the with desktop versions of ence banquet is being planned (tick information you need to make the Quicken~ Up- and down ets are extra). Send in any feedback right financial decisions. With loading financial you have on the type of food you data is easy with would like to have for this event. Pocket Quicken, you can track Minnesota has lots of other attrac business expenses by trip, project the latest HP tions besides the Mall of America or client. Instantly update your (the world's largest mall). Parks, checking, savings, credit card, even zoos, museums, and beautiful scen cash accounts. Check your account ery are also available. Drop a note to balances and registers. Create the organizers and let them know if reports from any category or ,. to tracking your you are bringing other people (e.g., account. And then, reconcile those finances on HP family members) with you. If so, accounts for up-to-the-minute Palmtops, Pocket Quicken is the what sort of activities would they be accuracy-anytime, anywhere. best thing going. interested in? This information will help the organizers prepare the con ference packets and limit our rese rTry~~;tQ~k~~~;O~YU9.~i arch to those areas most likely to be I No risk 60-day money-back guarantee I of use to you. To order direct, call Or fax your order to I 1-800-781-5999 602-295-3015 I REGISTERING FOR I ext. 81 0 204 I THE CONFERENCE I 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Credit Card orders only. Please include ad code. I Thaddeus Computing (that's us) has I * Requires desktop connectivity to load Pocket Quicken onto the HP I OOLX. Plus $10 shipping & I volunteered to handle registration for handling. (International shipping extra.) the conference (see information at the L. Special offer ends 8/31/95 .J end of this article.) The conference System------ Requirements: HP IOOLX Palmtop PC with 450K free storage on a 2MB HP IOOLX or PCMCIA card. (PCMC I A card required for 1MB HPIOOLX). For installation: Desktop PC with HP Connectivity Pack FI021A or B (or any other method of transferring fee is $75 U.S. if your registration is files from a desktop computer to the HP IOOLX). For connectivity to Quicken from Pocket Quicken: Desktop PC with HP Connectivity Pack F I 021 B (includes Quicken connectivity), Quicken for DOS 3.0 or higher or Quicken for Windows 1.0 or higher. received by June 1, 1995. Speakers © 1995 Intuit Inc. are free. After that time, the fee goes up to $85 through July 1, 1995 and Look for Pocket Quicken built-in on the new HP 200LX! then becomes $95. Tickets purchased
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* YOU RECEIVE TWO ADDITIONAL BONUS ISSUES FOR EACH YEAR YOU SUBSCRIBE. NEWS: HP Palmtop News at the door are also $95. time), +44 71 5947767 (direct office line also has a sliding hard cover attached The fee includes attendance for 20.00 - 23.00 UK time), +44 71 589 for protection. both days, the conference proceed 5111 ext. 47767 (if you can't get through The HP 3SG is available at an esti ings, and a chance to win the door on the direct line); Fax: +44 71 594 7772 mated street price of $79.95, with prize. As mentioned, tickets for the (work), +44 819929130 (home); E-Mail: product documentation available in Sunday evening conference banquet [email protected] or [email protected]. several languages. The product will are extra. Please note that the confer be available through a variety of ence fee does not include any other New HP calculator for education res ellers, as well as retail food and refreshments. high school math students and computer outlets. For further You should make room reserva HP has introduced a new graphics information, contact SOO-443-1254 tions directly with the hotel. The calculator for math teachers and stu (U.s. only), or your local HP dealer. conference hotel is the Mall of Ameri dents at the high-school level. The ca Grand Hotel, a full-service hotel HP 3SG provides pre-calculus teach SunDisk 175MB FlashCard with both airport and Mall of Ameri ers and students an easy and intu SunDisk recently announced the ca shuttle services. Single or double itive approach to developing a deep introduction of a new high-capacity accommodations are $S9 per night. er understanding of math. ATA Type III flashcard in capacities You must state that you are with the The HP 3SG incorporates a up to 175MB (350MB with file com Hewlett-Packard group to qualify, unique concept called "Aplets." Ap pression software). These Type III and reservations must be made by lets are small applications packaged cards will not fit in the HP Palmtop's July 5, 1995. For further information, as electronic lessons. They provide a Type II card slot. However, this pro contact: Mall of America Grand Hotel, simple, intuitive way for students to duct should be of interest to Palmtop 7901 24th Ave 5., Bloomington, MN learn math. These applications are users because it is flashdisk technolo 55425, USA; Phone: 612-854-2244 or similar to class handouts, complete gy and not a physical hard drive like 612-854-4737; Fax: 800-222-8733. A with variable pictures, graphs and the previous Type III devices. Be less expensive alternative is the Exel notes. Students use them to explore cause of this it may be possible to Inn of Minneapolis; Phone: 612-854- new concepts, try new approaches, use the new SunDisk card in a 7200 or 800-356-8013. and start over if things don't work Palmtop with a Type II-to-III adapter. Northwest Airlines is the Pre out. Aplets can be created and shared As we find out more about this we ferred Airline for the conference, and with others using the HP 3SG's built will let you know. is offering a special discount off their in infrared capability. Aplets for the SunDisk reports a mean time published fares to conference HP 3SG will be available free between failure rate of 500,000 hours attendees. You must mention North through on-line BBSs, HP BBS and at for their flashcards. The new cards west WorldFile code NC2VP when educational conferences. are not yet available to end users. you make your reservations. Some The HP 3SG lets students graph Prices for volume OEM purchases of restrictions apply. Contact Northwest all the functions and expressions for the 175MB card are currently $3,245 Airlines at SOO-32S-1111, Mon.--Fri. high school level math. The split per card. 7:30 am. to 7:30 pm. for more infor screen feature lets students see mation. graphs and numbers side-by-side. Group of PDA Makers The built-in functions and commands Form Industry Alliance HOW TO REGISTER are organized in clear accessible dis Apple computer,IBM, Casio Comput play menus. Students can enter equa er Corp., Motorola, and 14 other Registration information only, contact: tions in algebraic notation that looks companies have joined forces to cre Colleen Rodibaugh, Thaddeus Computing and works like equations on paper. ate the PDA Industry Association. Inc, 57 E. Broadway or p.o. Box 869, The new calculator also comes with The PDAIA will promote the hand Fairfield, IA 52556; Phone: (515) 472- HP Solve, which lets the student held industry through research, edu 6330; Fax: (515) 472-1879. enter a formula and solve for the cation, and standard-setting. Send conference suggestions to, or re unknowns. The interactive history of The PDAIA held a forum in San quest further information from: calculations lets the users recall and Jose, California January 11- 12, 1995 reuse problem solutions which were Craig A. Finseth (Conference Organizer), to "exchange information and ideas." created earlier. 1343 Lafond, St Paul, MN 55104-2437, According to World Market Strate The HP 3SG comes with a serial USA; Phone: 612-644-4027; E-mail: gies, Hewlett-Packard has also ex port, letting students connect to Mac [email protected] .edu, or Craig.Finseth pressed interest in participating in @mr.net. or DOS computers for file exchange the association. and storage. In addition, its built in For more information, contact: Wlodek Mier-Jedrzejowicz (Technical infrared port lets students and teach World Market Strategies, Ltd., 4307 Program Organizer), 42 Heathfield Rd., ers share files with each other and 17th. St., San Francisco, CA, 94114 London W.3 8EJ, UK; Phone: +44 81 print them out on an optional HP USA; Phone: 415-252-8008; Fax: 415- 9922039 (0.00-1.00, or 10.00-12.00 UK Infrared printer. The new calculator 252-8055; Internet: [email protected].
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Third Party Products of Interest to HP Palmtop Users This section lists products new since the last issue and includes hardware, software, books, videos, training, and services of interest to HP Palmtop users. The icons above the product name indicate which Palmtop the product is suitable for: IilD3 for the 95LX, 1100/200LX I for the 100/200LX (in some cases, the product may be suitable for the 100LX or 200LX, but not both). Prices listed are suggested retail. We invite vendors and subscribers to send us information about HP Palmtop related products they discover. We rely on information we receive from the manufacturer and cannot test every piece of hardware or software. We welcome any user feedback on product suitability.
By Richard Hall HP Palmtop Users Groups Hardware topes. The Scout by Quan Those interested in participating in an HP Palmtop users group should contact the following individuals. Write trad, is designed for the envi us ff you wish to be added as a contact for a users group in your area. ronmental restoration and Cleveland, OH (USA) - 95LX110012ooLX users in the Cleveland area should contact: Craig de Fas selle. c/o MEM, Inc., 4702 East 355th St., Willoughby, OH 44094. waste-management projects Bar Code I of the nuclear industry and Boston, MA (USA) - 95LX110012OOLX users in the Boston area should contact: Btyan Krauthamer. Phone: 617-374-9600 x 197 (work); Fax: 617-374-9620; CompuServelD: (70444,41). can be used for emergency BRAZIL - 9511001200LX users in Brazil should contact: Marcos L. Pedroza, Rua Trairi 647 Ap 100-B, IilD3I 100/200LX I response plume monitoring 59020-150 Natal, RN-Brazil; Phone: 55 64 211-6162. of nuclear accidents. De Detroit, MI (USA) - 95LX110012ooLX users in the Oetro~ area should contact: Jeff Zorn, 29311 Ara-ne/, BCS·1040 Self· signed for gamma, alpha and Fannington Hi"s, MI48334-2815; Phone: 313-489-1855 (EST) or Louis Peeples, St. Clair Shores MI48080; Powered Bar Phone: 313-m-9390. x-ray spectroscopy, the Scout GERMANY - HP PalmtopfOmnibook users in Germany should contact: Eckart Prinz, Obere Mahlstr. 56a, Code Reader stores up to 244 individual 64291 Dannstadt, GERMANY; PhoneiFax: +49 6151 376065. This bar code reader weighs spectra, each with date and GERMANY I LUXEMBOURG - Not an official user group but this individual is willing to help HP 3.5 ozs. and connects to the Palmtop users w~h questions or technical problems; contact: Gilles Kohl, Hagsfelder Allee 16, 0-76131 time stamp. An optional bar Karlsruhe, GERMANY; CampuServe 10: [I 00114,3146}; Internet 10: [email protected]; Phone: +49-721-69- serial port of either the HP code reader is also available. 36-55 (affer 6 p.m. Central European time). 95LX or 100/200LX. Specifi The system including the HP HOLLANDIBELGIUM - HP 95LX110012ooLX users in the low countries should contact: PROMPT HP cally designed for use on all Palmtop measures 4.5" x 2" x GC, Mister G. Dongs, Postbus 1081, 1500 AB Zaandam, HOLLANO; Phone: +31 75704205. portable/mobile computers, Illinois (USA) - 95LX110012ooLX users in the Chicago area should contact: Gordon Campbell, 29W051 7.5" and weights 1.8 lbs. Barnes Ave, Wesl Chicago IL 60185; Phone 708-231-6796. the BCS-1040 is self-powered Includes a rechargeable bat INDONESIA - HP Handheld users (HP 75C, 110,48,12, l0012ooLX) in Indonesia should contact Dirk H. by two AAA batteries, so it tery (8-10 hour charge life) Eversbert, c/o P. T. Austinda Mitratama, Mr. Elman Sunarlio, JI. Gunung Sahari 2I6E, Jakarta 10610, won't eat into your Palmtop's and charger. INOONESIA. battery life. For accuracy, the ITALY - 9511oof2ooLX users in Italy should contact: Stefano Gigli, Via E. Toff, 13-60123 Ancona, Italy; Availability ...... Now Phone: 071-36645 or 071-200916; Fax: 071-200916; Intemet 10: [email protected]; Fido-Net 10: reader confirms the bar code 2:3321316.4. data three times before enter Full system price: ...... $8,395 (Includes Base, tOOLX, 1"probe, PC Kansas (USA) - Contact: Marietha Wilson, P.O. Box 1151, Manhaffan, KS66502-oo12, USA; Phone: ing the reading. 913-532-9775. card, C-pack, case) Los Angeles, CA (USA) - 95LX110012ooLX users in the LA area should contact: Oave Shier at 80S- Availability ...... Now Component pricing ...... call 371-9391; Fax: 805-371-9391; CIS: (75030,3374) for more infonnation. Pricing ...... $495 CONTACT: Quantrad Sensor, 2360 New JerseylNew York (USA) - 95LX110012ooLX users in the New Jersey/New York area. Contact: CONTACT: Nippondenso ID Sys Owen St., Santa Clara, CA 95054, Stanley Oobrowski, 169 Springfield Avenue, Rutherford, N.J, 07070-1642; CIS 10: {71031,2162}; Phone: 201- tems/a Toyota Company, 10916 USA; Phone: 408-727-7827; Fax: 408- 807-5857 (work). Moorpark St. Suite 4, Los Angeles, 727-7828. Oklahoma City, OK (USA) - 9511OOf200LX users in the Oklahoma City area. Contact: Richard B. CA., 91602-2258, USA; Phone: 818- Meek, 1804 Huntington, Oklahoma City, OK 73116, USA; Residenffal Phone: 405-642-1267. Richmond, VA (USA) - For 95LX11 00I2ooLX users in the Central Virginia area. Contact: John Haskell, 766-9335; Fax: 818-762-2471. 7102 Three Chopt Road, Richmond, VA 23226-3615. CIS 10: {7075O, 1243} or Phone: 804-288-6073 (work). San Diego, CA (USA) - For lOO1200LX users in the San Diego area. Contact: Mark GiUitz, Internet: • ~I _ C_on_n_ec_t_iV.itY_ ..1 [email protected]; Work phone: 619-537-3000; Fax: 619-695-9501. Input/Output ! _ _ San Francisco, CA (USA) - S.P.A.M (Society for Palmtop Advancement through Meetings). For HP Palmtop users in the Bay Area, Northem Califomia. Contact: Dennis Dodd, CompuServelD: {7330I,3214}; ...... ------. 1100/200LX I Phone: 415-592-3970. 1100/200LX I Seattle, WA (USA) - For HP Palmtop and Handheld users in the Puget Sound area. Contact: Kent PalmConnect Pelerson, 360 N.W. Dogwood, A-201, Issaquah, WA 98027. CIS 10: {72310,2174}; Internet: peter Detector for This connectivity pack is for son @halcyon.com; Phone: 206-392-3123. HP Palmtop users with Win SCANDINAVIA - For HP Palmtop users in the Scandinavian countries. Contact: Martin Hagvall, Radioisotopes Vaennegatan 9,41832 Goeteborg, SWEDEN; Phone: +46-31-533300; Fax: +46-31-141410. This Multi-Channel Analyzer dows-based desktop PCs. It SOUTH AFRICA - HP PalmtopJOmnibook users in South Africa should contact: James Dean. CIS 10: in concert with the HP 100/ provides file transfer and {70714,613}; Internet address: [email protected]; Phone: (011) 806-1382 (OIH); Fax: (011) 200LX provides a portable backup, and file synchroniza 806-1353. tion between the HP 100/ TURKEY - HP Palmtop users in Turkey should contact: Ahmet G. Ozisik, Soyak Binasi, Buyukdere Cad. nuclear spectroscopy system 38, Mecidiyekoy, Istanbul 80290, TURKEY; Phone: (212) 27509 10 (ext. 309); Fax: (212) 211 5761. for on site characterization 200LX and Windows-based UKRAINE - For HP Palmtop users in the Ukraine, Odessa, Kiev, Crimea regions. Contact: Linetskvy V. and identification of radio iso- desktop computers. O/eg,llPEDllPHflTHE 'llPOfPECC', I, VarvarovskySpusk, Nikolaev, 327015, UKRAINE; Phone: (051)36-73-51 PalmConnect software 36-73-13; Fax: (051) 24-41-25.
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comes with "HotSync!", a which lets you access the planner, moving map and lows the recording of addi feature that compares files Palmtop's C and A drive automated logbook. The tional flight details. A built and records on both devices from the Windows File Man program lets you prepare a in report generator lets you and executes an intelligent ager on your Pc. flight plan on the Palmtop create quick summaries by update of the information so [See Advertising, page 5.] using airways, city look up flight category, aircraft type both desktop PC and Palm and airport name look up and remarks keywords, mak Availability ...... April 30 top have the latest informa tables. Pocket FMS automati ing insurance reports easier. Medium ...... Hardware/software tion. It's Windows-based Pricing ...... $129 cally calculates leg times, The current version 5.6 notetaker, appointment book Discount price for HP Connectivity ground speeds and heading. running on the lOO/200LX and phonebook are compati Pack owners. Proof of ownership reo The program also lets you requires 2MB of PC Card ble with the Palmtop's built quired (no connectivity cable) . . $49 view ahead of your current memory. Other versions, in applications, using the CONTACT: Palm Computing, Inc., location; see your entire flight including the 95LX version, same file formats. 4410 EI Camino Real, Suite 108, Los line including Class B, Class can be configured to run PalmConnect is Windows Altos, CA 94022; USA; Phone: 800· C, and Special Use Airspace; without a memory card. compatible, allowing the user 881·PALM (7256); Fax: 800·437·3299 see runway diagrams; super All versions are set up to to cut and paste information or 415·949·0147. impose a compass rose over take positional information to and from its PIMs and the map; plot direct to cours on the serial port in NMEA other Windows programs. es; overlay an approach or 0183 format from either a The product supports Com hold; de-clutter any map CPS or LORAN. ma Separated Values, Tab Software symbols or unused options; Availability ...... Now Delimited, and DBF III and toggle to information screen Medium ...... Floppy disk IV file formats. Users can listing relevant runways, Pricing ...... $89 import Aviation I and export Phone communication and naviga with GPS/ Book data and notes to and tion frequencies, and more. LORAN capability ...... $159 from other applications. IMU 100/200LX I FMS automatically carries CONTACT: GOEN Industries, 3172 PalmConnect also in Pocket FMS your flightplan waypoints, air Longmeadow Road, Burlington ON, cludes Lap Link Remote Ac time, and flight time to the CANADA, L7M 2X6; Phone: 905·336· cess from Traveling Software, Complete flight management built-in logbook, which al- system, integrating a flight 1564; Fax: 905·338·6632.
Increase Productivity with your Palmtop Palmtop Printing Quick Financing Multi-Functional ~CITIZEN' Attention lOOLX Users! ~1'You will have ~ • 7 Now you can reap the 1!}m• t?tal c~~munica- benefits of the 200LX with tlOn abIlity com- . Intuit's Pocket Quicken for . bined with the the l00LX. convenience of U V The fastest, quickest way to organize your fi- Flash memory tech- /1 nances on-the-go. Quick, easy access to your nology. EXP's Thin- ; Now you'll be able to print anywhere your data and the information you need to make the Fax 144LXM Modem has palmtop goes. This plain paper printer has right decisions on the spot. Track and categor- 14.4 bps send/receive flash memory. Faxes great resolution (360 dpi) and allows you to ize your financial or travellbusiness expenses you receive can be stored in memory right print last minute, life-saving charts and with the only software that completely syn- on the card, so you get both functions in graphs in color. Small (10" x 2" x 1.85") and chronizes with desktop versions of Quicken. your one PCMCIA slot. light (1.1 lb), the Citizen PN60 prints 2 From the makers of the #1 desktop financial Stock #3057 (No memory) . · $229 pages per minute on cut sheets, letterhead software. Stock #3058 (2MB version) . · $299 and transparencies. Prints approximately 30 Stock #3274 (100 Pocket Quicken) . . $69 Stock #3059 (4MB version) . · $369 text pages on a black cartridge or 3-5 pages with a color cartridge. Don't sacrifice office EduCALC is your place ~ printer performance while working on the SMART road. Versatile, portable, and perfect for to· to find the newest, hottest i dlbll-..fol~Ofl'bld;., day's palmtop user. products available for your - Stock #PN60 (pN60 Printer) . . $374.95 Hewlett-Packard palmtop! Smart Modular provides you with a 9600/ Stock #3289 (NiCad Battery) · . $79 Call Today 4800 send receive fax/modem with either 2, Stock #3290 (Car Adapter) . $44.95 4, or 6 MB memory. Fax larger files with Stock #3061 (100/200 Cable) . · $8.95 your palmtop! Stock #3292 (2 black carts) . · $8.95 Stock # 3251 (2MB version). · $199 Stock #3293 (2 color carts) . $13.95 (800)713-6526 Stock # 3252 (4MB version). · $369 Stock # 3054 (6MB version) · $429
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view four different Gantt Availability ...... Now physician's aides, and nurses Engineering I charts to keep your project on Pricing in work. The Newton (Ap track. 3 or more persons ...... $295 ple) and Psion Palmtop com ProTracs lets you review 2 persons ...... $395 puters are also discussed. Im!3II 100/200LX I seven different reports, pre 1 person (DC, NY, LA, The library contains useful Palm Lot Align v iew your schedule on CONTACT: Computer Instructors programs and text files for Engineering screen, print it or save it to a Company, Inc., 2320 South Eads St. , Palmtops useful to health disk.You can even customize Arlington, VA, 22202, USA; Phone: professionals. Software 800-487-5040 or 703-486-2222; Fax: Programs that cover Indicator management reports. In addition, ProTracs 703-486-7244; SkyTel: 2277563. CONTACT: CompuServe's MEOSIG Reverse, Long Spacer Cou Forum, Section 21 (Palmtops/Laptops) pling, Rim & Face methods of Professional works seemlessly llOiO 100/200LX I Forum Sysop: Frank Meissner MO, alignment, as well as shim with Project KickStart, the 30 CompuServe 10: [71333,3377} change and lateral shift cor minute project organizer. Free Internet for Section Leader: Steven Zweibel MO, rections while compensating Used together, these two Travelers and CompuServe 10: [71543,1345]. for the effect of gravity. products let you brainstorm and schedule your projects Residents of Availability ...... Now on your HP 100/ 200LX. Rural Areas Medium ... .. PC Card, floppy disk [See Advertising, page 17.] The non-profit International Upgrades, Pricing Internet Association (IIA) has PCMCIA card ...... $145 Availability ...... Now announced a new program to Updates and Floppy disk ...... $75 Medium ...... Floppy disk make Internet accessible to Corrections CONTACT: Sam Pickens, 347 Colora Min file size (uncompressed) .. 360K traveling business people and do Ave., Hapeville, GA, 30354, USA; RAM occupied when running .. 512K people living in rural areas of I 100/200LX I Phone: 404-316-6153; Fax: 404-762- Pricing the USA. The program offers 1353. ProTracs ...... $79.95 free and unlimited access to Sparcom Docking Project KickStart ...... $79.95 Combo ...... $129.90 all Internet services including Stations Now Graphics CONTACT: Experience in Software, but not limited to, E-mail, all 1 00/200LX I 2000 Hearst Avenue, Berkeley, CA Usenet newsgroups and dis Compatible 94709, USA; Phone: 800-678-7008 or cussion groups, Gopher, Arc Sparcom's line of docking I 100/200LX I 510-644-0694; Fax: 510-644-3823. hie, and World Wide Web. stations, Station, PrintStation, Also offered is a low-cost 800 and MailStation, are now ful Picture Editing dial-up number. on the Palmtops ly compatible with the HP Trionum, Inc. has released Seminars Availability ...... Now 100/200LX. The products PEP 1.6 (Picture Editing Pack and Services CONTACT: International Internet provide connections between age), a drawing program Association, USA; Phone: 800-669- the 100/200LX and selected compatible with the HP 100/ 4780; Fax: 201-928-1057. E-mail services.printers. and 200LX. Developed in Assem 11010 100/200LX I desktop PCs. bler for maximum speed, PEP 1995 HP Handheld I 100/200LX I Availability ...... Now was originally written to run Users' Conference Palmtop.com Pricing, Station ...... $99.95 on XT class machines like the This annual conference for Establish a global Internet E PrintStation ...... $199.95 HP Palmtop. Works with users of HP Palmtops and mail address for only $9 per MailStation ...... $289.95 either a mouse or keyboard calculators will focus on pres month using the Palmtop's (Prices above include required soft commands. ent uses and future direc built-in cc:Mail software. ware, cables and AC adapter. Station may be purchased without software for and will include pre See ad on page 5 of the Availability ...... Now tions, $79.95 .) Medium ...... Floppy disk sentations, workshops, and 1995 Best Tips issue for in CONTACT: Sparcom Corporation, 897 Pricing ...... Shareware an exhibition hall. (For more structions on how to connect NW Grant Ave., Corvallis, OR 97330, Tech. support 6 mo ...... $45 information see HP Palmtop to this service. USA; Phone: 503-757-8416; Fax: 503- Tech. support 1 yr, printed News, page 6 this issue.) Availability ...... :. Now 753-7821; CompuServe 10: [75320, manual, free upgrade . . ... $75 Pricing per month ...... $9 2440}; E-mail: [email protected]. CONTACT: Trionum, Inc., P.O. Box 11011' 100/200LX I CONTACT: Palmtop.com , 934 Del Rio 305, Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA, Seminars on Court, Milpitos, CA 95035, USA ; I 100/200LX I 02142, USA; Phone: 800-874-6686; . Phone : 408-450-3467; E-mail: CompuServe 10: [71344,356]. HP Palmtops [email protected]. EtherFlash Card Computer Instructors Compa memory problem ny, Inc. of Arlington, Virginia Silicom Ltd. has notified us llO1'!' 100/200LX I Planning I conducts seminars in the use that the Flash memory por of HP Palmtops. Regularly New CompuServe tion of their card does not I 100/200LX I scheduled seminars include Medical Forum work properly with HP Palm cities in the USA and Lon A new CompuServe medical top computers. They are at ProTracs don, England (other locations forum has been formed de tempting to remedy the situa Professional on demand). Seminars in voted to the use of Palmtop tion. We will notify our read Schedule projects and man clude: Overview of the HP and Laptop computers in the ers as soon as we hear any age deadlines on your HP Palmtop; Lotus 1-2-3 for the health professions. Discus thing more on this. (See origi Palmtop. Define your project Palmtop; ACT! for the HP sion principally revolves nal announcement on page 10 (up to 2000 tasks per project) 95LX (and other topics to fit around the use of the HP of Vol.4, No.1, 1995.) and put in task dates, then client needs). 95 / 100/ 200LX by physicians,
12 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 The HP Pall11top as a Reference Tool HP Palmtop users carry with them a world of information - from movie guides to star guides.
By Hal Goldstein
One of the great boons of Webster's Electronic Diction 10MB, Webster's takes twice as much carrying the HP Palmtop is ary I Thesaurus, Spanish Assistant, disk space as American Heritage, so that we have instant access to Banner Blue Movie Guide, and PC you need a large Flashdisk. In addi reference information when Study Bible on my Palmtop. In addi tion, American Heritage can be con and where we need it. Al tion I have Gilles Kohl's Vertical figured to run from within the built most every HP Palmtop user Reader Ii and some Guttenberg Elec in applications provided 384K of accesses his Phone and Ap tronic texts such as the Bhagavad RAM are free. Webster's must be run pointment Books for phone Gita, poems from Poe iii stories of from DOS after exiting all applica numbers, To-Do's, and ap Sherlock Holmes, and the Autobiog tions (press I!J IMENU I Applications ... pointments. Many of us also raphy of Benjamin Franklin. Ierminate All ... ). To return to Ap take advantage of the built-in But before you run out and buy a plication Manager type 100 on the Database and NoteTaker files particular product you might want to 100LX or 200 on the 200LX. to create and store informa examine the possible problems I You can run Webster's in stand tion as varied as a list of challenges of installing relatively alone mode or as a memory resident local restaurants, the books large reference databases on the HP (TSR) pop-up program. Suppose you in a personal library, or the Palmtop. If these products do not are typing along in your word pro collection of projects we come customized for the HP Palm cessing program. When you hit the manage. top, you might need a little patience hotkey in pop-up mode, it will look Because the HP Palmtop and experimentation, as well as up the word that your cursor is on at is a DOS computer, Palmtop enough disk space on a PCMCIA that moment. You will want to use a users can take advantage of card. (See page 16 for installation DOS word processor if you use it in commercial databases with suggestions.) pop-up mode since it will not run information written for PC's. One nice thing about reference with MEMO in System Manager. Per Doctors with Pepid software can programs. Once on your Palmtop, sonally, I use it in stand-alone mode. access diagnostic and pharmacologi they are usually easy to learn and I terminate all applications and start cal information needed in emergency use. Most have obvious user inter it using a batch file (see batch file situations. Programmers can use faces to conduct searches and a help command listed at the end of this ExpertHelp with hundreds of lan system. section). guage-specific functions. And dieters Besides being useful, an electronic can even monitor their caloric intake Webster'S Electronic dictionary is fun, a good way to learn with Mirical's Personal Food Analyst. Dictionary & Thesaurus about word origins and increase your (See page 21 for other examples.) I really like having an electronic vocabulary. Webster's contains 180,- There are a number of products as dictionary I thesaurus always avail 000 words and 275,000 synonyms. well that we can use whatever our able. I had been using the American Definitions may include hyphenation profession. For example, later in this Heritage Dictionary (reviewed Vol.3, points, derivations, etymology, idi column I talk about several excellent No.4, Pg.24, 1994) for some months oms, and usage notes. (If you want to dictionary I thesaurus combinations and was reasonably pleased with it save disk space, you don't have to and language translation tools, and until I started using the Random install etymology or pronunciation). on page 18 of this issue you'll find a House Webster's Electronic Dictio review of Bible software that works nary and Thesaurus. The Webster's is HOW TO USE WEBSTER'S on the HP Palmtop. I personally have much faster and more comprehen For example, let's say I look up the the American Heritage Dic sive. However, the speed and com word "ancestor". I would get the tionary IThesaurus, Random House prehensiveness come at a price. At following screen:
MARCH / APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 13 Palmtop as reference tool
Finally, if you misspell a word "Spanish" is a basic Spanish-to-Eng that you are trying to look up, lish dictionary and "English" is a Webster's will provide you with basic English-to-Spanish dictionary. alternatives. If you give it "maen", it Both versions "English" and "Spanish" will let you select from "amen, mean, are quite useful for looking up words men, men-, main, and mane." For quickly. you Scrabble and word puzzle fans, Webster's also does anagrams - it Say, for example, I selected "Eng Definition of "ancestor" displayed forms a word by rearranging the lish" and typed walk. I would get the I see the word "progenitor" and I am letters of another word. following screen: not sure exactly what it means, so I move my cursor to "progenitor" and INSTALLING WEBSTER'S press ~ (Dictionary) to get its defi To run Webster's I use the following nition. command: rhwd /p / dba : \dict\
S OmJ F'laJaR l..!r .. ,•• :':'cn lD ... ol'l,lnates so ... th,n,0 .. n ...... u;r. The Ip is optional. It tells the pro !~!tft~t::a~~i ~~?!;~f~~ : ~ :/;~~~ .. ~ f;o;.,1.t gram to run in stand-alone mode rather than as a pop-up TSR. The Idba:\dict\ is required - it tells the English-to-Spanish dictionary program that the files are on the A drive in a subdirectory (I arbitrarily "Verb" lets me see how a verb is named it \dict). Definition of "progenitor" displayed conjugated. So, for example, to see how the Spanish verb "decir" is con On the "progenitor" screen, if I put Language Assistant Series jugated, I would select "Verb" and the cursor on "ancestor" and press I have tried a number of language type decir. ~ (Thesaurus) I get this screen. translation tools on the Palmtop, and in my mind the clear winner when considering both Palmtop compatibil ity and features is the Assistant se ries. The Spanish, French, German, and Italian Assistant programs take ~~~' ~. · I' between 2.5MB and 3MB each of storage space. The main translation program must be run from DOS after exiting Verb conjugations displayed Thesaurus showing antonyms at bottom all applications. However, the gem A related feature allows you to type for Palmtop users is an Assistant As you can see, the present tense is in a word and find all definitions utility that can be run from within containing that word. You can even System Manager. The utility requires listed and other tenses can be select enter Boolean expressions - for ex only 256K and can be run from Ap ed. ample, you can search for each dic plication Manager with other applica "Topics" is a great feature for tionary word that contains the word tions open. coming up to speed in the language's "element" and either "toxic" or "radio grammar. For example, when I select active" in its definition, by searching LANGUAGE ASSISTANT OPTIONS "Topics" I get the screen below. on "element AND (toxic OR radioac When using this utility (SP ANTOOL tive)". This feature requires some .EXE for Spanish Assistant) from Ap patience though since on the Palm plication Manager, the following top, it is a bit slow. screen appears: Another feature lets you do "fuzzy" searches using "wild cards." So, for example, if you can't quite re 11 '._ ." .. ","· · a.m "· ,,~.="· ·": '" l :· · •. l•.• . "".... , ~ member what DNA stands for, you ! could type "d*ribo*". Or if you re membered that the word for the "Topics" displays various subjects denomination of Italian currency (Lira) was made up of four letters If I select "Possessive Pronouns" from starting with "L" and ending with "a", Main screen, Spanish Assistant that screen, I get the following you could enter "l??a". screen.
14 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH I APRIL 1995 In Application Manager my P.!th version still has movies introduced contained the following: through 1993 such as The Fugitive, In :: ~ n! : :. .. twP~:: ~ ~: ,;,. ~e: s:~ ~!;:tl~:?n ... n . " ...... '0 ...... , .... " no .. n the Line of Fire, and Jurassic Park. l aM INSTALLATION HINTS ; Global ConnecUons ; ~ 1" Here's how I installed Spanish As ; 170 South Jackson Street, Janesville, WI 53545 ; sistant. If you purchase French, Ger ; OrderLine: (608) 752·1537 FaxOrder: (608) 752·9548 ; man, or Italian Assistant, follow the same procedure, but with that pro 1"1"1"~1"1"1"1"1"1"1"1"1"1"1"1"~1"1"1"1"1"1"1"~1"1"1"1"1"1"1"~1"1"1"1"1"1"1"1"1"1"~1" gram's appropriate files. MARCH / APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 15 ~ _7:11'" __"'" ·f1 -' · M " "'flc't~-·. " ·"f" " " .. PCMCIA card drive installed into or II Cact 1ft Ilnlf is nathln,. It-I, .,;11"0101. only for the i .. ltililUn .... I toit,or o .. t ... 'roar"'t.. ch.tr".... shes. --CI;I.\ld..e..... a .. d • attached to your PC such as those ~_H,~;mt~Sp~tF:~f~~thf.n ;I rloCt. ct! tht h.~ls. o~ the lacts .. III !ftt !lOll. An. llhen "ou ,Itt 'It.. , ,It I .... I' advertised in this issue (see Product ~!'l:!;,Jrr!rr: .... ,11 9ft you .. ron,. ~~~~~!~~~~~{::~ rr.!ir!:*~,~:;~~~: .. P~~~d.. :.:,:!~~ :t,:=::v Index, page 55). Or you can run HP ~~:~i~.. :;:'s rirst, a"d then YOll C~ .isto .. t I ..... as .....,h .. 111011 Connectivity Pack software such as _ I the 200LX's LapLink Remote, the 100LX's Redirector, or DOS Interlink. Gone with the Wind information screen Correct Quotes "Facts" screen Doing so "fools" your desktop system into thinking the PCMCIA drive from The program takes 500K. Selecting your Palmtop is simply another drive LCD from the File Display Options on your desktop. That way you can menu maximizes readability. install directly onto the Palmtop. Although installing directly onto Some Installation Tricks the PCMCIA card is the simplest There are several potential impedi method, there are several problems. ments to running a piece of DOS First, some installation software Banner Blue search screen software on your Palmtop. Here are won't let you install onto any drive some suggestions: but the C drive, or won't let you AN INSTALLATION TIP install the program on any "remov 1. Check requirements - First look at Once you transfer the files to the able" media such as a PCMCIA drive the program's requirements (usually Palmtop, the program runs fine and (see #5). on the packaging) and see whether is readable. However, running MO Secondly, sometimes the software the program can run on the Palmtop. N08025 from DOS and adjusting the will configure the system for the The program must be able to run on contrast of the HP Palmtop display desktop's capabilities (eg. VGA grap an 8086 (XT) processor using DOS by pressing l£!!i-I] and l£!!i-II) can hics) rather than the Palmtop's. Many version 5.0 or less, under mono make DOS program displays even users prefer to test the program and chrome or CGA graphics. First the clearer. configure it properly from the desk bad news - many newer programs top before transferring it to the Palm require Windows or an 80386 class Correct Quotes top. machine. The good news is that Browsing software bins in computer many DOS programs written for 4. Install it on a desktop first - The stores is a great way to discover older machines don't take up much most common method is to install the inexpensive Palmtop products. Re disk space and they are often avail software onto the desktop's C drive. cently I came across Correct Quotes able in close-out bins at computer Then copy only the needed files to in one such bin which contains 5,000 stores for under $30. Be sure to see the Palmtop using the HP Connec quotes searchable by subject matter how much disk space the program tivity Pack, ZIP.ZIP ii, ACE Link, or or author. requires and compare that with the Interlink. If possible, configure the The example below shows a list of disk space available on your Palm program to run on the Palmtop from "F" topics. top. If the package requirements say the desktop. Then be sure to copy that the software requires a hard any of the configuration files that disk, usually a Palmtop Flashcard were created by the program when it will do the trick. was installed. These will be the files that have the system date for the day 2. You need a PC - You must have and time you installed the program. access to a PC compatible computer with some empty space on its hard 5. Configure it so it recognizes the drive or the program will be virtually flashcard drive - The most annoying Correct Quotes "F" topics impossible to install. and frustrating configuration problem has to do with programs which insist 3. Transfer the software directly - that the files be found on the C drive. Highlighting "Facts" on this display The easiest method is to install the Remember, your Palmtop PCMCIA and pressing IEnter I reveals the fol software directly onto a PCMCIA drive is the A drive. Here are some lowing screen: card. You can do this by using a suggestions to fix the problem: 16 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH I APRIL 1995 a. Check the manual or the READ file, in which case you can edit it ME files from the distribution in MEMO - you can search for C: disk for a software "switch" that and replace with A:. If you make Nf,lV!PIIlmtop you can use when you start the a mistake you could damage the Project PlRnner! program. That switch, usually a file, so be sure you have a back Plan a project in 30 minutes or parameter like /DOA, tells the up. Also, in many cases, techni less, anywhere, anytime, with your program you are running it from cally aitering a file may void your HP 100/200LX Palmtop PC. the A drive (Flashdisk). Alterna license agreement. Cut through the guessing and the frustration tively, you may be able to config when beginning any new project. .~~ ___ ure the system from within the Project lUckStart"' developes task 6. Make sure you can read the lists, resource lists, and assignments program using a configuration screen - Whether you configure the in just minutes. Project KickStart options command. Often this prompts you to define tasks by con software on your Palmtop or a desk information is deeply buried in sidering project phases, clarifying top, the most important configuration your goals, anticipating obstacles the manual or README file, but option besides drive information is and delegating assignments. can be found with a little effort. screen type - you want to be able to A Plan in ~o Minutes b. Call Tech Support. Sometimes Thanks to Project KickStart, you'll have a thought-out see the software. Here are some there are undocumented switches strategy that you can print out. And, you can transfer things to remember: your plan to Microsoft Project or eight other project hidden in the program. management programs for scheduling and tracking. c. Use the DOS ASSIGN command a. If there is an option for LCD or o Yes! I am ready to try Project KickStart on my built-in to the HP 100/200LX. The Monochrome Monitor, it is almost next project. I'll order at the Speei4, Prlu of $79.9;. I understand that results are guaranteed, that it wiU assign c:=a: command fools the always best to choose it. Other work ""wless'y with my HP IOO/200LX and I may Palmtop into thinking your A wise, choose CGA. return it within 60 days for a eomplete refu,"" drive is your C drive. Typing b. Try running MON08025.COM on assign from DOS or a batch file your Palmtop before starting the Experience In Software 2000 Hearst AYe. Berkeley. CA <)470<) resets the system. Or better yet, if program. In many cases this will you have DOS 5.0, find the SUB make the display more readable. 1-800-678-7008 Fax: 510-644-3823 ST.EXE utility and copy it to your Just type mono8025 from DOS. If Palmtop. that fails, type: These DOS commands are d: ... ). You can pick up 58K of System cd \bin somewhat clumsy, but they can mono8025 RAM by closing FILER (run CLOSEF also be used to fool the Palmtop c. Many programs have configura- LR.COM found in CLSFLR .ZIPIi). into thinking the A drive is the C tion options within the program, You can make even more System drive. You will need to experi or switches from which you can RAM available by eliminating TSR ment. [Note: The HP IOO/200LX's control and experiment with programs and keeping open only built-in DOS ASSIGN command screen options. those built-in applications you really need. conflicts with Stacker and ACE d. Press ~-(!) or ~-O to adjust DoubleFlash compression soft screen contrast. 8. Exiting System Manager and run ware. If your disk is compressed, ning a program from DOS - Often 7. Running from within System you'll probably have to find a you must terminate all applications Manager - When defining the ap copy of the SUBST.EXE utility.] by pressing [!] IMENU I Applications plication in AppManager, you can d. For the brave and knowledgeable: Ierminate all ... and run the software specify the amount of memory re Use a hex editor such as the built straight from DOS. This is especially quired. For example, if you want to in Debug program or Norton true if you are running BUDDY Ii, specify 384K, place I 384 at the end of Magnify, Doskey.com or other TSR Utilities to edit the configuration the path line in the Path field. To (Terminate and Stay Resident) appli file or the actual file itself. As specify all remaining memory, just cations. mentioned earlier, often you can put a I at the end of the path, with tell the configuration file from out a number. Otherwise, you will other files because it will have a only be allotted the amount of mem Product Index: pg 55 recent date. ory you have defined in System Ad a Share/Freeware index: pg 56 If you're lucky, the config vanced in SETUP (press [!] ~etup uration file may be a simple text I MENU I Qptions ~stem ... Advanced- MARCH / APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 17 PALMTOP REFERENCE TOOL: Bible Software Bible Software for the HP 1 00/200 LX The PC Study Bible and other DOS programs bring Scriptures to the HP Palmtop. By Joseph Tomasone Technology is wonderful. Today, I added or removed at will. Examples use from 2MB to 35MB each. On my can carry my TV in my pocket, my include: HP 10MB Flashcard, I have both King phone on my belt loop, and my sub James and New King James, Strong's, • Different Bible versions - King way tokens in electronic form on a Nave's, and Nelson's. Together they James comes standard; you can add swipe-card. However, even with all use a total of just under 11MB. Those New King James, American Standard, these advances, I always wanted one wanting a basic setup can do it in New International Versions, and more: a way to carry the Bible and 2MB or so with just one Bible version possibly more. related reference materials with me. and the built-in concordance. When I began searching for a Bible • Nelson's Bible Dictionary - Con program for my lOOLX, I figured that tains articles on many bible topics. Configuring your any old DOS Bible program would Similar to an encyclopedia. HP Palmtop to run work. But the programs that would • Strong's Dictionary - Defines the PC Study Bible work correctly on the Palmtop of Greek/Hebrew words in the Bible. I have my system set up as follows: fered none of the reference materials Many words have more than one 1. I have the command FILES=30 in I wanted, so I kept looking until I way to translate into English. You the CONFIG.5YS file. found the PC Study Bible by BibleSoft. supply the chapter and verse of the 2. I have created a batch file named word occurrence you want. Customize your Bible BIBLE.BAT that launches PC Study Bible on the Palmtop. It has the fol software with add-on • Nave's Topical Bible - Indexes lowing lines: modules scripture by topic. PC Study Bible is a comprehensive e : • Vines Expository Dictionary - cd\bible30 Biblical reference program containing Combination of Nave's and Strong's. bible30 different versions of the Bible with Lists all Biblical occurrences of the assign c : =a : c : various dictionaries and concordanc word you select and their es. Greek/Hebrew variations. Pressing I£!!J-IZ) makes the text read black on white instead of white on • Englishman's Concordance - a black which can be helpful on some Greek/Hebrew concordance. A stan of the screens. dard concordance comes built in. [Editor's note: ASSIGN and Stacker The ability to add-on these modules or DoubleFlash do not work correctly at will allows you to balance features together. Users with these will have to you want against available storage find a DOS 5.0 version of SUBST.EXE.] space. The space consumed by these Features, options, PC Study Bible main menu modules can be far from trivial; while the main program takes up and Palmtop concessions From the program's main menu you only sOaK, each Bible version averag I'll give you the bad news first - the can easily move to a dictionary, in es 1.5MB, and the reference options program is no speed demon on an dex or concordance. In addition, add-on reference modules can be accessed by a hotkey combination. ABOUT THE AUTHOR One of the PC Study Bible's greatest Joseph Tomasone is a PC/LAN service technician in New York City. strengths is that almost all of the He and his wife Tracey (both 100LX users) live on Long Island. You features of the program are in the can reach Joseph at [email protected]. form of add-on modules that can be 18 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH I APRIL 1995 XT -class machine like the Palmtop. IALTI-I£) will bring up Nelson's dic for the word "coming", call up On my desktop 486, it is super fast, tionary with topics of Birth, Love, Strong's to , get the specific but on the Palmtop it can be painful and Forgiveness (among others). Greek/Hebrew term (from among ly slow. The program allows you to the words that are translated as open multiple windows to view or "coming"), then use Englishman's to work with several items at once (the find the verses with that specific same verse in two different Bible Greek/Hebrew term. There is a rudi versions can be put side-by-side, for mentary notebook editor included, to example), but the keyboard com which you can paste individual vers mands to re-size and move the win es or entire books. I recommend dows are cumbersome. doing rough drafts in the editor, then Strong's Greek/Hebrew Dictionary copying to a more robust program for editing. You can also "chain" them. For exam ple, you can search the concordance ~- --;-\ \ - L , Split screen showing Genesis and John E&BCompa , '. from the King James version Computer Leather C :'_lS ~~-~~ Protect your palmtop However, switching between, and with this zippered case, This practical and maximizing the size of the windows and carry it ill your small case is S/lit pocket ideal for your Palmtop Dim.: 6.S W x 3.75" x 1.375" Dim.: 6.88 " x 4.25 " x 1.5" are simple affairs. This is often all (16.5 x 9.5 x 3.49('m) (17.5 x 10.8 x 3.8cm) Black leather· Black leather· you need. The windowing capability, ReguJar-S4S.00 Regular-SSO.OO by the way, is also one of the greatest $44.95 strengths of PC Study Bible, and its usefulness should not be underesti Protect your palmtop mated. with this small and Carry your Palmtop beautiful case with apager The program is not System Manag Dim.:6.S w x 3.75" x 1.75" (16.5 x 9.S x 4.4cm) or Connectivity Pack er compliant, and requires more base Notepad Included Dim.: 9.75" x 4.5" x 1.75 " Black leather· (24.7 x 11.4 X 4.4cm) memory for its multiple windows Regular - 560.00 Black leather· $54.95 Regular - $55.00 than can be achieved while System $49.95::MWW'~ __'" Manager is running. Therefore, you must exit System Manager complete ly to use the program. (To exit Sys tem Manager, from AppManager, press IMENUI APplication Terminate All... IENTER I. To return to System Manager from DOS: on the 100LX, organizers type 100 press IENTER I; on the 200LX, Dim.:S " x 6" x r (20.3 x 15.2 x S.lem) Notepad included type 200 press IENTERI). The program Black or burgundy leather· comes on floppies. Installation is Regular 69.95 most easily achieved by installing the program modules you want on a desktop PC and copying them to a Flashcard. On the positive side, while read ing a particular verse, the add-on reference modules can be accessed, in context, with just an ALT keystroke. For example, while on John 3:16, pressing IALTI-I!) will bring up that verse in the Strong's dictionary, and MARCH / APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 19 Bible software Altima Trading Other Bible Programs Users have gotten other Bible programs to work on the HP 100/200LX. Here are excerpts from some CompuServe discussions on Bible programs that have been used on the 100/200LX. System© Thanks to the following CompuServe users for their comments: Tom Hoover, Roger H. Howe, Bob Hughes, Robert Jung, Robert Kreisler, Tomm F. Larsen, and Joe Tomasone. (Contact information for the products mentioned is found in the Product Index on page 55 of this issue.) position management software for hand • E-Text of the King James Version of the New Testament - You can download the held computers available today. King James version of the New Testament from CompuServe HP Handheld Forum, library 13. Powerful Derivative Pricing and Position This is a deposit of a Project Gutenberg ASCII text, and works well with Vertical Reader (VR). Management Software. VR allows you to drop bookmarks then return to your previous location so you never lose your If you are a floor trader or a trader who needs place. We received contradictory reports on VR's search capabilities. portable valuation power, look no farther. • InfoBase Bible - Reported to work well on the 100/200LX. One reader installed InfoBase Designed for the HP 100 & 200 LX. Altima Bible from 5.25" disks to his desktop, laplinked it to an Ace DoubleFlash card, and it worked on allows for multiple equity, commodity and his 100LX the first time! He added HELV100.COM to his AUTOEXEC.BAT file and now reads index positions. Utilizing advanced modeling fonts in all three font sizes (40, 65 and 80 column). He has the program set to display 40 columns techniques, Altima will give you an edge over by default and can change it to 80 columns by toggling ~-II1. the crowd . Available pre installed on a The InfoBase Bible provides topical guide lookups a"iiallieJoseph Smith translation of the PCMCIA Type II card or on disk. Bible. The program saves blocked text to a file and will append several items of text called up, to Currently in use on trading floors and the last saved file. desks in the US, UK and Europe. • Online Bible (OLB) - Compatibility with the 100/200LX has so far been limited, but is still Designed for and by traders, now being worked on. OLB requires less than 500K of disk space. The current version includes the available to the public. "1769 Authorized Version with 1833 Webster Update, combined with the 1890 Darby Bible and 1898 Young's Literal Translation, Strong's Numbers from Englishman's Greek and Hebrew Call for demo and literature. Concordances, and Verb Parsings." -8~0r.0-642-7116 One individual used Vertical Reader (VR D) to read the Bible text found in Online Bible's li!iiiijii1.. OLB/MASTERSITEXTS directory. VR is a shareware program that allows you to read text on the Palmtop vertically like a book, rather than horizontally. The user said that VR didn't give tremen dous search capabilities, but he preferred the fonts VR uses to display the text. He made some changes to Vertical Reader's configuration file (VR.CFG) file to make each verse starts on a new line, rather than having VR wrap everything together in one paragraph. Specifically, he modified the TEXTEXT and WRAP lines in the [TEXT] section at the end of the file to read as follows: Text Ext = * . txt; * .doc; * . c ; *.msg ; * . kjv Wrap .KJV = ' 1 1213141516171819 ' • PC Bible Card - PCMCIA flash card with Quickverse 2.0 pre-installed. (See description of Quickverse below.) • Quickverse - Quickverse 2.0 is a commercial Bible program that supports multiple transla tions including transliterated Hebrew and Greek. It allows complex searches and permits viewing Don't ignore the desktop! of multiple windows, which lets you look at two different translations at the same time. Results of PC Study Bible is wonderful on a searches can be downloaded into ASCII text files in a number of formats. It uses a lot of disk desktop. It's quick, though it lacks space (3.3MB for one translation, 2.5MB each for additional translation. You have to terminate System Manager completely and run it from the DOS prompt. the graphic pizzazz that make some Version 2.0 is discontinued, but may still be available from some software dealers. It is programs much richer. It also comes reported to run well on the 100/200LX. The latest version, 3.0, was reported by one user to run on in a Windows version which retains the 100/200LX, but very slowly. much of the structure of the DOS • Seed Master (SM) - SeedMaster/DOS Bible study software is reported to run well on the version. Having a mouse makes deal 100/200LX, but requires you to exit System Manager due to memory requirements. One reader ing with the windows a breeze. reports that "the speed of SM is not bad even on an ACE DoubleFlash+ 20MB with compression." His SM directory is made up of the following files: AV-DBY; CXREF; BIBLE.DCT; BIBLE.EXE; LEX.DAT; LEX.NDX; MESSAGES.BBV; MESSAGES.TXT; MESSAGES.$BB; MODE.SMI; Go your way, Daniel ••• OPTIONS.DAT; SM.EXE. Deleting OPTIONS.DAT sometimes helps the program to run. And don't forget to run This is a great program that works D:\BIN\MON08025.COM (in the 100/200LX's built-in ROM) before you start or you will have very well with the HP lOO/200LX. difficulty reading the screen. Running D:\BIN\MON08025.COM may render the underline feature Having the PC Study Bible with me in mono option useless. (Note: White Harvest Software, the company who markets SeedMaster, has enabled me to study the Bible at also carries other Bible software products including French and Spanish translations.) times when it would have been im • WordSearch 2.2 - Older version of WordSearch designed to run on 8088 PCs. Reported to possible or greatly inconvenient be run well from a flashcard on the 100/200LX. Newest version runs on Windows. One reader reports "it runs like a jackrabbit on the HP 100LX. A full Bible search for one word takes less fore - to find that elusive verse that than TWO seconds! The screen I/O is character oriented, so it takes two to four seconds to I couldn't quite remember, to finish display a page of text." Options include: Strong's Word Numbers, Greek/Hebrew lexicon, NAVE's the chapter I was reading before I left Topics, various translations, and more. Since it is an older version, you may find it at discounted prices. for work, and to enjoy some time in WordSearch 2.2 takes up a minimum of 3MB for the .EXE, .HLP, and the .KJV text version. God's word. On a stacked flashcard, the KJV text compresses at only a 1.2 ratio. Additional modules (NIV, L1V, NAB, NKJV, NRSV) take about 2.5MB each. The Strong's Greek/Hebrew module takes about 2.5MB. I use a stacked 10MB HP Flashcard to hold the Bible and some other programs. Product Index: pg 55 The Windows version of Word Search for PC's options include Bible Map, Life Application Bible Notes, Greek/Hebrew lexicon, Thompson's Chain References, and Nave's Topics. a ShareJFreeware index: pg 56 20 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 USING THE H P PALMTOP As A REFERENCE TOOL [Note: Recently, we asked the 200LX. However, even wide edition of the Official including one containing the CompuServe HP Hand forum though it is a TSR program, Airline Guide (OAG) on my FCC & International EMI members how they used the it cannot pop up over System Palmtop. It comes with (electro-magnetic interfer HP Palmtop as a reference Manager. It must be installed monthly updates and is avail ence) limits. This has come tool. Here are some of the in non-TSR mode in App able in DOS, Windows and in handy while testing off responses we got - Hal Manager or used in non-TSR Mac versions. I install it to site. Goldstein.] or TSR mode with System my desktop and transfer it to Ted Geist Manager terminated or from my Flashcard using my Pro CompuServe 10: [70732,50J General DataBase, System Manager's DOS tege memory card reader. It English/German shell. ExpertHelp may even gives flight arrival, departure, Rail schedules translations, work on the 95LX from DOS, equipment, meal service, I keep the Long Island Rail programmer's although I have never tried it. connecting times, airline Road train schedule for the reference I have guides for 80x86 phone numbers, car and stops near my home & office. assembly programming, hotel phone numbers, and I'm using the general Data I got the information from a Borland and Microsoft C, the frequent flyer program infor Base application to keep giveaway chart, typed it into CXL library, 'Interrupts and mation, but no fare informa track of users who have Excel on my desktop, export Ports,' 'Programmers Refer tion. It runs quite well on the ed it into MS-Word and registered my VRIi and ence,' etc. I also regularly LX. OAG also publishes a saved it as a text file. Then I FCLIi shareware programs. update the Norton Guide for paper Pocket Flight Guide, use the HP Connectivity This enables me to quickly PAL, the 'Palmtop Applica but the electronic one is so Pack to transfer it to the provide users with registra tion Library' project that is much more elegant and easi Palmtop. It's not as tedious tion serial codes. I also have being carried out in section er to carry. Only problem is as it sounds. DataBase files to organize 15. you have to figure out your I used the same method photos, TV channel frequen Gilles Kohl own connections; it only with the New York City street cies, books, etc. CompuServe 10: [1OO114,3146J gives point-to-point informa guide. I currently have ad I also use Langenscheidt's tion. dress listed, I still need cross German/English dictionary for 747 Pilot's reference Lastly, I have Expert As street references. DOS on my HP 100LX It is I use the American Heritage tronomer to identify stars and Richard S. Butwin small (about 1.2MB for both Dictionary on my 100LX. I constellations. It lets me CompuServeI0:[7570~347~ German/English and English/ have text files with FARs input latitude, longitude and German modules) and works (Federal Aviation Regula time, and give me a pictorial Engineering very well - I have it installed tions) that I copied from a representation of the sky Reference in AppManager with a memo CD ROM offered by Summit wherever I am. The best spot I use the LX extensively as a ry requirement of 150K. The Aviation. I also obtained a in the world for stargazing is reference tool. I have text Palmtop makes it available at text file with a copy of my the cockpit of a 747. Expert files containing everything the touch of a few keys. companies' crew operations Astronomer runs real slow on from product engineering (While both translation direc handbook. I'm able to search my Palmtop, but is not much notes to mainframe and tions are included in the and find the duty time rules, better on my 486DXl40 note workstation messages and program, the manual is in credit hour computations, book. However, for stars I error codes. Soon I'll be German) etc., that I need to know to rarely get to see, like those attempting to use a flatbed As a programmer, I need argue technicalities with crew in the Southern Hemisphere, scanner to store engineering technical reference material a scheduling. The union of you can't beat it. I got Expert diagrams as well. I'm looking lot. I'm using the ExpertHelp which I'm a member is pres Astronomer from the ten for some sort of PCX share Hypertext system on my ently negotiating a contract dollar clearance bin at Egg ware viewer for these graph 100LX to access existing with the Company and I head Software over a year ics files. databases in the "Norton expect to replace the hand ago. It takes about 500K of Mark Gitlitz Guide" format. (The Norton book with the official contract disk space. CompuServe 10: [70334,2703J Guides from Symantec is a as soon as it is available. James W. Bailey hypertext program making I do a lot of traveling on CompuServe 10: [71144,64J available volumes of cross Referencing commercial airlines, both to scientific articles referenced information to pick up trips and when re FCC & EMI reference programmers. ExpertHelp I'm using Pro-Cite, a biblio turning home from live I've created several Memo graphic database, to refer can read Norton Guide data legs .... so I have the World- files that serve as references, files.) It should also work on ence reprints of scientific MARCH / APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 21 articles. I list in it author I have several specialized DataBase contains data files with me all the names, publications, dates, DataBase files for reference list of files on HP time, so I can take down im etc, and also keep notes on use, containing information Handhelds Forum of portant information as I dis a reprint after reading it. on the following: CompuServe cover it. When I go to scientific meet 1. Airline Codes for all the I use the LlBDBD.GDB data 6. I have a ToDo list archive ings, I copy any relevant files base to look up information world's airlines, including: which holds the new, as yet to my Palmtop. For example, about files in CompuServe's Full Name, lATA Code, 3-let un-prioritized ToDos and I have one database dedicat HP Handheld forum libraries. which lists my ToDo's rela ter code, old 2-letter code. ed to ethanol research. If I'm This file is formatted for the tive to other parts of my life, going to a meeting on that 2. My company's on-site 100/200LX's built-in Data e.g., HPHAND, work, person topic, I copy that database representative by airline, Base application, and al stuff, commitments as well into the 200LX's Flashcard, including lATA Codes, old contains the following fields as space for recording prog- and can then look up infor lATA, address code, fax, for each of the more than ress. mation on the researchers I phone. 1,300 files in the public librar Jini Scammell-Tinling meet (or want to meet). ies of HPHAND: File name, CompuServe 10: [73240, 1310J The database contains 3. Restaurants and dining Library number, Size in keywords for the university, out. bytes, Type of file, Date Memo journal uploaded, Last update, ID of I use Memo to create a daily country, and can search for 4. Airlines' fleet for our prod subject and author at the the user who uploaded the journal, which contains re ucts Uet engines) by aircraft same time. My most used file, Title of the file, Keywords cords of phone conversa type (expanding this to in database has information on list, and a Full Description of tions, meetings, ToDo items, clude all engines) about 1600 reprints, including the file in the Notes field. etc. I save each day's journal information about the author. 5. CompuServe access num This is a large database separately and combine them (569,000 bytes). There is a You can also insert abstracts bers. all at the end of the month. smaller version (LlBDB.GDB of the article into the data Kevin Trammel I use a utility called FIND- base. CompuServe 10: [72550,3346J ii, 193,000 bytes) that does TEXT.EXEii to locate any J.C. Craig not contain the complete file information that I need. I now description in the Notes field. CompuServe 10: [71054,3230J Training have two years of daily jour Each of these files are updat nal files on my HP, with me curriculum manager 1-2-3 as a ed periodically and are avail at all times. I cannot even As a training curriculum man able in Library 11 of the HP reference tool begin to tell you how useful ager, I use the DataBase Handheld forum. this information is. I have Lotus 1-2-3 is my "Swiss application to keep informa Stan Dobrowski [TeamHPJ settled arguments, shown Army Knife" of computing. I tion about every class we CompuServe 10: [71031,2162J sales people prices they use it's list capability to keep teach. Information includes have quoted to me, solved information on the following: the course name and course All-purpose issues prior to litigation, dis 1. Price indices for the past number, the tuition, the reference tool covered that I WAS WRONG 25 years, containing data on: course length and the course I use the 200LX as follows: on an issue, etc, etc. Dara Khoyi energy, labor, material, CPI, performance objectives. 1. I use DataBase to main etc. I add people, addresses tain a status log of personnel CompuServeID:[7414~242J and phone numbers to a 2. Budgets for projects, de actions in process, or dead separate phone book when Computer consult partment, division. lines pertaining to them. All people telephone me to re of the entries are dated, to ant's reference 3. Statistical tools I've built quest a course catalog or help me keep track of the I'm a computer consultant over the years: inventory information about the classes need to check on the status and keep a DataBase of requirements, t-tests, etc. we teach or the services we of a particular issue. computer abbreviations with me at all times (it's a little provide. (I open this phone 4. Market forecasts. 2. My DataBase also helps difficult to remember them book file in DataBase so I me track assignments from 5. "Typical" business model all. I use NoteTaker as a log can have it and my main our Regional and Washington template with Forecast, Op of computer problems. When phone book opened at the offices. the problem comes up again, erations, P&L, Balance same time.) 3. Hold a copy of the entire I look it up in NoteTaker. I Sheet, Cash Flow, Ratios, I have about 2 dozen text of a major piece of legis also use HP's Diction Sensitivity analysis. tracking numbers I must use lation under which we oper arylThesaurus card for look to describe what type of work 6. My salary history and ate. I use Buddy's bookmark ing up words that I don't forecasting model. I have I and my team do. I can only feature to keep and find the understand (English is not been trying to use Buddy 2.0 remember 3 or 4 of the most most frequently needed text. my native language. to link this spreadsheet up used codes, so all the codes, Kent /IIemann 4. Hold my daily notes with my "1st-Things-First"ii descriptions and billing rates CompuServe 10: [100315,2451J (phone calls, meeting notes, DataBase so I can make are in a DataBase. etc.) in Notetaker. accurate financial projections Conrad D. Cox Product Index: pg 55 and create an action plan CompuServe 10: [76164,467J 5. I keep Brother's Keeper (genealogy software) and its a SharelFreeware: pg 56 22 THE HP P ALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 , :PALMirOP AS 'REIfER-ENCE -~t~~OL: -" Learning Spanish .with DataBase ,"T". , J..~- - ..... -.,-./' "'- Aprendiendo EI Espaiiol en el HP Palmtop • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Spanish on the HP Palmtop By Lanny Staton I've wanted to learn Spanish for years now, but never thought I had j"Wllitl"htiWli4:&BPIl:l:' the time. My life has been very busy. [Spanish Word I'm responsible for a multistate sales A bit, a little Un poco territory and travel 30,000 miles per A large bed Una gran cal'la year by car and additional miles by A pair of ... Un par de ... air. Then I totaled my time spent in About Acerca de About, uPon, on Sobre motels (100+ evenings a year) and Abroad En el extranjero time waiting to see a customer, and Absurd Absurdo discovered that I had at least 1,000 Acceptable Aceptable extra hours per year available to me. Acceptance La aceptacion Hours that I had been wasting! Act EI acto There was plenty of course mate Action La accion rial available from local colleges and Active Activo courses on public television. But "'__ ~lIiImIIlD.Immmllllmllrm:mmmllimml_ lugging books around with me on the road was not desirable, and tele DataBase list view, English/Spanish vocabulary database vision schedules were hard to predict Then press IMENU I file Define for the of what I have already committed to from town to town. Finally, I turned Add Field dialog box. Enter the field memory. In addition, it provides a to an old friend that had been travel name (e.g. "English Word"), tab to the convenient way to review words ing with me for years, the HP Palm Field Type and check the appropriate while driving the interstate, sitting on top. I developed a system using the (e.g. "Text"), and press ~ (Add). a plane, spending the evening alone 100/200LX DataBase program to help Continue until you have defined the in a motel, or waiting to see a cus me practice my Spanish. desired database fields and then tomer. As it grows, it is becoming a press ~ (Done). Next adjust the complete English/ Spanish dictio Start by creating look of the screen and the size of the nary. a vocabulary list fields using the F3 (Move/Size) key I started by simply keeping track of and the ArrowKeys. When you've Practicing individual words vocabulary words with a DataBase got the individual item screen look As I mentioned earlier, I also am file I created (SPANISH.GDB ii, see ing the way you want, press ~ using a college textbook and a TV graphic on this page for the List view (Done) and give your new database a course to learn Spanish. As I study a of this file). This, and all my Spanish name. (For more details on defining particular lesson, I enter new words .GDB files are kept on my memory new databases, see "database defini into my "new words" DataBase file, card in A:\ESPANOL. (Note the tion, creating" in the index of your NEW-WDS.GDB ii for further prac Spanish letter N in the directory HP 100/ 200LX User's Guide.) tice. (Note: This and other .GDB files name. Press I!!]-I!!) to make an N on I use SP ANISH.GDB to keep track the HP Palmtop. From DOS on a desktop PC press ICTRLI-IALTI-164 to make an N.) ABOUT THE AUTHOR My SP ANISH.GDB database has Lanny Staton is a sales manager for a large manufacturer of steel and three fields: English Word (a text plastic strapping, tools, and machines. He is responsible for 30 distributors field), Spanish Word (a text field), at over 64 locations. Contact: S. W. Regional Sales Manager, Delta Cyklop and Note (a Note field) To design a Division, ITW, 212 Robert E. Lee Drive, Tyler, Texas 75703, U.S .A. new .GDB file, open the DataBase application by pressing I CTRLI-I PHONEI. MARCH / APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 23 Learning Spanish name (say, TRAN-WD.GDB) and As I do with vocabulary words, I press !!!2J (OK» . Then I merge have three files for verbs: New verbs TRAN-WD with NEW-WOS so I can (NEW-VBS.GDB iii), Transfer file practice the tagged words. (TRAN-VB.GDB Iii), and Practice file (PRAC-VB.GDB iii). In addition, I Separate verbs DataBase have a separate file for irregular I designed a separate verb DataBase verbs (VERB-IRR.GDB iii), since template so that I could include addi these verbs take special attention. ~ tional information with each verb Another DataBase file (CHARTS. GOB Infrared Printing From including present and past partici~ pIes, tenses, etc. The verb DataBase ~ ) holds usage notes on pronouns, dIrect objects, and other parts of Your HP 100 and 200LX allows a list of English and Spanish speech or individual words. • Cable·free printer connection verbs. • Works with any parallel printer I keep all of these files on a 1MB • Fas~ reliable and easy to use .,.,mili !IItym, In.! card which I may soon have to reo To ahapl Adaplar To accept. Aceplar place with a larger card. Of course, To answer Cont.oslar _ Extended To anllWIlr. rospond RQaponder To arrive •• Ueg4r you can print out any of these lists To Pr !iii/VUII/I I09aato/l logo/li"gaJlloS/llogllron travel. 1. Open SPANISH.GDB in the Data Fu I Co I Base application. PS 1'lillsue/lil!9UlIs/lllIgtlll/llIlQUlIl'los/illlgulln I IS I I More time to spend 2. Press IMENU I file Merge, tab to the _1IllD!II------IiImD~ I started with an HP 95LX some Files box, select NEW-WDS.GDB and years back and moved to the 100LX press!!!2J (OK). English/Spanish verbs database, Item view when it was introduced. I use it ex tensively in my business along with I have another practice DataBase I also include two asterisks (**) after the English verb to indicate an irreg a Kodak 180si portable printer. I'm file called PRAC-WD.GDB iii, where ab~e to maintain all my files and I keep words I'm trying to memorize. ular conjugation; include abbrevia tions after the Spanish that indicate pnces sheets, print out correspon I also merge NEW-WDS.GDB with dence and organize my daily routine. this file and delete words as I feel I just how the verb is irregular; and use a single asterisk (*) at the start of The HP Palmtop has relieved my have learned them. Periodically, I'll briefc~se of several pounds of paper go through SP ANISH.GDB (my mas each tense that contains irregularities. This.is useful when you tab through and gIven me more time to spend on ter list), looking for words I either important things. Now it's helping didn't learn well enough, or forgot the list or when you print out a "List" of DataBase items. As I learn a new me learn Spanish while I'm on the through lack of use. As I come across road: one of these words, I'll tag them tense (I have learned four), I simply fill in the newly learned tense for Que bueno! (highlight and press I 24 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH I APRIL 1995 Programmer's Corner Make the HP Palmtop a Programmer's Reference Tool Ed shows how to use the 100/200LX DataBase as a reference for all those hard to remember programming details. By Ed Keefe There are at least three things every BIOS and DOS interrupts. Assembler. You can quickly find the programmer wants more of - more Following is the list view screen information you need with a simple time, more disk space, and more for this database showing the Data search. "silicon-based" memory. As veteran Card with a short definition of the programmers get older they also operator. DBG_HLP.GDB n want faster and more reliable "car Sometimes using a full Assembler bon-based" memory, the kind that Dos AII ~II S program would be overkill. The pro Instr sits between your ears. When this 111 1KEV FLAGS: F AND Cl ARA ASCII adjust ------gramming task can be accomplished III MD ~~~11 :~j~ :~ ~ Log ical AND : type of memory starts to fail I tell !:J AAM with the Debug program built into " MIS ASe II adJ ust Il9 III ADC Add . Ith Car IINDs the bits In the myself that my biological memory is III ADD Add . , thout dest I nat I on operand the HP Palmtops. And it may even a,m ! m'+'W.lmR u i th the source operand. III CAll Cal [ a prace not any "leakier", just that the deluge IIICBN Convert byte be more overkill to write a Debug ClC LC Clear carry of information is pouring in faster. program when someone else has Whatever the case, the Palmtops done the job already. couldn't have arrived at a more aus List view of BOBBIS.GOB picious time in my life. Over the past Cllnd All D~se Itells three years I've found myself relying A view of the sample record shows ;;;;;' ''"*'"••''"' U5 'OE ~~~~""~p;TO r F=' L r-' PI'IWSE ClHEWRW.AStt Script 11 [ ------more and more on my Palmtop bat the details of flags and formats along : ~~~~~~ ~g:!~~ll ~ b;t g~~~~T FILE a~Cl M~!b~e~ed!lllll~2;£~::!!n'~iui'! ~ ~~~SE. con tery-powered brain. Since you can with the definition. III PSCR 5CR I PT F Il JMP 120 fl PSP PROGRAM SE DB A. D. 'S' fl PUll SCRIPT Fil DB 'Press Enter to carry the Palmtop as a reference tool fl PUTS SCRIPT Fil continue .. • S· in your pocket or purse you could fl Qult Coamane : - mix a couple of TV commercials together for a new motto: "This is The OBG_HLP.GOB showing your brain: don't leave home without the pause script file it." The descriptions of the databases The DBG_HLP.GDB database has 38 and hypertext files that follow show records that give help on using all of how I use my HP Palmtop to aug "Logical AND" record from BOBBIS.GOB the Debug commands. The other 81 ment my organic memory nowadays. of the 119 records in the DBG_HLP The 8088IS.GDB database has a sub database file contain Debug script Customized Databases set that allows me to scroll through files that do everything from chang just the interrupt listings. This is very ing the size of the keyboard buffer to 80881S.GDB n handy for the programmer who occa stuffing characters into it. At one time I did more Assembly sionally dabbles in the arcane art of There are script files to capture language programming than I do now. A lot of the information that I used to have readily in mind has ABOUT THE AUTHOR now been put into the Palmtop. The Ed Keefe is an author, programmer, computer science instructor, and long 80881S.GDB database contains 170 time contributor to support publications for HP computers. He is the presi records that show Assembler func dent of the FastAid Company, 314 S. W. Logan, Ankeny, 1A 50021. Ed's tions and how they work along with CompuServe 1D# is [75300,3667]. many of the more commonly used MARCH / APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 25 Programmer's reference screens, lock out the print-screen key, standard, extended, or HP Palmtop are currently 75 different "batch tips" change the volume of the beep on the keyboard. I'll start typing in "B200." If in this 120K file. HP Palmtops, and put huge letters on the speed search feature doesn't jump the screen. to the key code, then I'll try the F4 E61 !¥1rmmM I ... lHlti.l I te_ -810M WWIW!iP[1 Ha.e ~ I!esc Undocu.ented feature of For In Do Iext The follo.-ing bo batch fll~ are froll! oris Yorld. Mar 95-; Search function. THE ... MUST BE RUN AT THE ABSOLUTE DDS PROMPT: OTHERW I SE THE ... HANG THE COMPUTER ANSIED.GDB REM: PARSE FILE HAME. USE PARSEFN F I LEHAME. EXT REM: R~~ns BAS~AM~ AHO OH,hY F I LEHAME. TOPic s --=-=c-::---:=-c-::-=-:--:::-::c-:-:-~~---. 1 I still use the ANSI.SYS program on o frrLev III EnvJ,!ar 0 1f If Hot 0 Edlin 0 SubRtns I2l EorlnOo I{] flplng D OlskOrv 0 Sybst 0 Prjl_pl o 501ft ABOO 0221 AEOO ABOO FILER I J my desktop computer, and at times I ' 1., W@C' W :ijI W lp l ····G".· J o ~ult C .ds 0 ~.dParllls D COPYEile 0 Find 0 Ctt.\!.Hul 0 ANSI BOOO 0-423 8600 8300 APPT II J o Oir:.s 0 faths 0 Debug - - even use Edlin, the original DOS B-400 052-4 8AOO 8700 PHONE S J 8800 075E 8EOO B900 MEMO A J ..... 8COO 0826 C200 8FOO 123" J ----_ _-- ,.""....",. editor. It's the only editor that can be COOO OA28 C600 C300 CALC ( J MOO 0829 MOO A700 MORE) J C800 C900 8REAK CBOO MENU J driven by "script files", but its com 0028 0625 8300 + ~ Fn=PASTE J BATIP.GDB record showing mands are definitely not intuitive. So ACOO ACOO A200 ACOO ON/OFF J an undocumented use of "FOR IN DO" ''"'''''''- on those rare occasions when I need to use Edlin or ANSI.SYS, I pop up The KEYCODE.GDB file Many of the tips and techniques in this database containing information this database come from the pages of on how to use these programs rather early BYTE and PC Magazine articles. than wade through several books BATIP.GDB D The magazines have long since suc searching for something I used to The largest database file on my Palm cumbed to age but the information keep in my head. top is the one that contains all of the lives on in the Palmtop's memory. I use the subset function to dis tips, traps, and techniques that I've (Here's an interesting and possi play the 23 records for the ANSI.SYS come across in my 13 years of creat bly useful DOS trick I just picked up. commands or the 18 records for the ing MS/PC DOS batch files. At the DOS prompt type the follow Edlin commands. It seems that I learn something ing two command lines exactly as new about DOS every week. When I they appear ("for" through "echo %i" do, I add it to this collection. There below is written on one line): Cllnd Prop Na.: II O~.S IIIIN!U';J'DJSWRJ:E!Ql : ~~~!~~VS IX ~~~:N ;0=_ f3_='D.:cLH.:.::.A:::HS ______!:I COPY EDLIN _.x. l':"J ESC[[O;72;3;"- 1"; 13p Up : g!~!~~ ~gt:~ ~~~t "~~~~~~;~o;~~~~~~~~j~En~~~n !:I Edit EDLIN COli.. arro\l : ~ C.lncrellent ; Enter !-I#I !8:C!IIO___ *!01M ::! I.. ESC((O; 81 ;3; ".15, +30L+1S " ; 13p mEDl.BAT ANSI : Edll PgDn : sholll lines beg i nning Palmtop Circuit HP 95/]()(}/2(}(JLX !:l End EDLlN E En with Cl ESC[2J ANSI elea current line +15 for Cl ESC[code; st AHS I Sel ' .. Nonlinear. analog circuit imalysis' '.-- '-'~ ...... '-"';':' ~;'. ~,: ..'.' . Study and design linear and nonlinear analog ANSIED.GDB file showing EDLN.ANS electronic circuits on your HP 9511 001200 - get it right with this electronic breadboard. Sketch and simulate The above screen shows the in minutes - cutting design costs and reducing experimentation. EDLN.ANS entry, which summarizes COMMon eMitter BC107f1 aMpli Her the use of ANSI.SYS to modify the You can evaluate circuits by DC, AC or transient arrow and function keys to perform Fl-Help =-Ins ert "'Z-ZOOM F6-Redraw analysis with waveform. options (pulse, unit-step, sine, square, triangular, trapezoidal). You also get symbolic editing tasks within Edlin. (This 20. 0 analysis (closed-form. expressions) for linear circuits, brings back memories of the "bad old 5.0 plus plots for functions. days" when Edlin was the only editor -10.0 Transfer. funct ion:~ . in town.) -25.0 ~CS ) =~:R;;C;;~L;C;;:2 Why waste time with a series of trials? Pick the -40.0 outcome you want. Palmtop Circuit will deliver the 1.0k 10.0k 100.0k 1.0M ' Gain CdBl necessary parameters using optimization. With KEYCODE.GDB D .,.. Frequency (Hz] Palmtop Circuit, the power of circuit analysis is When I'm working with macros on always in your pocket. And if you buy Palmtop 2.0 the Palmtop or programming the Circuit now, you get the same fully featured mM PC 1.38 keyboard on my desktop, there's compatible version - Absolutely free! 0.75 often a need to find the scancode for 0.13 Hardware requirements: HP 9S/I00/200LX, and a particular key. To do this I use the minimum 1 MB of memory card. Comes on 3.S"disk, -0.5 0.0 5.0 10.0 15.0 20.0 requires serial cable & HP Connectivity Pack for PROHLP.EXE D program. However, .: Output voltage [V] * l.a if I'm looking at some Assembler • ; TiMe [us] downloading to HP 9S/I00/200LX . code and see a reference to "B200", I could spend several minutes hunting Palmtop Circuit ...... $89.95 and pecking until I figured out that it I)csignWarc Inc. Order TolI·Free: was code for the ICTRLI-(CSMAiE) key 17 Main Street Watertown MA 112172 Tel.: (617) 923-4275 Fax: (800) 536-7595 combination. The KEYCODE .GDB file will let me look up any key on a 26 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 echo off for %i in (/h/p/-/p/a/l/ m/ t/o/ p) do echo %i Detect · Plot Radiation On Your HP 100/200 LX Press IENTERI and see what happens. 9J!en a door to the fascinating world of nuclear science with the RM·60 Micro Roentgen Radiation Monitor. This ~alm.sized unit detects (Be sure and type ECHO ON and press Alpha, Beta, Gamma & X·Rays. Displays 10~0 times the resolution of t'w",:~~~.. _...... SUrl'el' geiger counters. Track Radon gas. Find sources. Check food, I ENTER I to put things back to normal.) water. ceramic coffee mugs for contamination (e)'e opening). Plot Muon showers. Easy to setup and run. Learn about radioacti vity. Exciting computer application. ~e".'onstrate SLVR_HLP.GDB Ii alpha emission from smoke detector, beta and gamma emiSSIOn from lantern mantle, other common items. Plot background cosmic ravs, rocks, One of the "programming languages" bricks, plane ride. Wipe tissue on T.V. screen then generate a beautiful ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;::======i~ decal' ~Iot of the collected Radium B (Radon daughter, half life: 27 mins. ) built into the HP Palmtops is the Check TVs, CRTs for X·Rays (U.S. Dept. H.E.W. 21 CFR 1029.10). calculator language in Solver. The Rugged and accurate digital circuitry, ne.eds no adjustments . .Draw~ a minuscule amount of power from HP's serral port. Cable extendible With SL VR_HLP.GDB file contains 93 re telephone wire. Should last a lifetime. Superb user friendl y software including TSR ~rogram (run ot~er cords listing all of the functions in programs simultaneousl)'), Ma~es excellent dosl.metry s)'stem, ~n\h Solver along with some helpful hints alarm, real time graph, data logging and TSR. Medical personnel, shp In pocket when making rounds. Add strobe· siren to meet OSHA's reg. on using this math "engine." There 29CFR 1910.96 & 1910.97. Used bv medical waste facilities, cancer ::====='======~=~ treatment centers, water & sewer plants, universities (lessons al'ailable), are nine different subsets to help Also {II'ai/able: LCD·60 Digital readolll for lise nuclear facilities, high schools, scrap handlers, hob.byists. Works with any wilholll complller, RM·70 & RM·80 pal/cake Pc. Thousands sold for over fil'e years. Call or wrrte for PC Mag. & Byte speed up the process of searching IIllits, as well liS other types of sellsors. reviews. . through the database. VISAIMC/EURO 45 day S back. Complete RM 60 System: S 149.50 To order or for more EQNS.NDB Ii information call: (800) 729-5397 ~~ft~~ics The EQNS.NDB NoteTaker file picks P.O. Box 4299. Wilmington DE 19807 Phone/Fax: (.102) 655-.1800 up where the SL VR_HLP.GDBII leaves off. It contains 70 "notes" that are actual Solver equations and do involved with teaching or training. use them or modify them at your everything from solving a 3x3 matrix Borland language products all own discretion. The databases are to picking a lottery number. The come with a small hypertext viewer offered "as is". There are no docu notes may be copied to the clipboard called THELP.COM. I have THELP mentation files. Simply transfer the and pasted into the Solver editor as configured to pop up help screens for .GDB or .NDB files to your Palmtop they're needed. Turbo Pascal, Turbo Assembler, Tur and load them into either the Data This database, like many of my bo Debugger, and Turbo C/C++. On base or NoteTaker application. You memory-jogging files, is a "work in average each of the "help" files con will find that some of the material in progress." This means that some of sume 150K of disk space. If I didn't the databases refers to copyrighted the entries give references to books have the Palmtop, I'd need to carry software which we can't distribute. and articles where more equations around six different reference books You can delete such entries if you may be found. Eventually, I plan to to replace these files. wish. Here's hoping that you find add the equations to the database. In the area of C++ programming, something of value in return for your Borland and Microsoft offer very effort of browsing around in some DOS Reference little help on using objects and mem one else's electronic "brain." Programs ber functions in the iostream classes. [Editor's note: ExpertHelp is a TSR To supplement their help files, I've I also use some large hypertext appli hypertext help program targeted for any cations on the Palmtop. Their data adapted a text file reference docu DOS programmer using C, Basic, As files could be converted to a text or ment (IOSTRM.NDX Ii) so that I can sembler, Pascal, Clapper, D-Base, etc. database format, but that would load it in either the Qedit II or LIST D The SofSolutions BBS has over 70 mean losing the "hot links" (cross programs and "hotkey" to the desired ExpertHelp databases available free to referencing) feature of hypertext. topic. The data file itself is 97K and ExpertHelp users, including Borland C, "Teaching Tips Hyperdeck" II is contains lots of sample code. Eventu Microsoft C, Assembler, Netware, Clip a 281K hypertext viewer that comes ally I'll get around to putting this one per, and D-Base. (Also see ExpertHelp with a 130K compressed data file in either a customized Palmtop data note on page 21.) - The Palmtop Paper containing information on everything base or making it accessible to the Staff] from "accessibility to students" to THELP.COM hypertext viewer. "videotaping lectures." There's a All of the above references except wealth of anecdotal material in this for the Borland databases are avail Product Index: pg 55 reference source that's relevant to able on this month's HP Palmtop a Share/Freeware index: pg 56 college instructors and anyone who's Paper OnDisk. You're welcome to MARCH / APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 27 , I COMMUNICATION SOLUTIONS YOUR COMPLBTIl HP PORTA ". "'lL,"",-' :;",~~~: ••••,~M~ ..;!,. • ...:..~ _ '::".-!w ~~ ..... _:~ __...... ~ ;10 .... ," .. _. ACE~FJ.X HP 100/2001)( Send/Receive Fax Software ACE ..FAX For Tho HP Pal",t.op sow. sn: HifJhliGht. Seleet.ian - - PrG:SS EnlQr ./ Send, Receive, View and Print Faxes an your HP Palmtop ./ Full installation in less than 200k of disk space ./ Requires as little as 30KB on C: drive for modem card users ./ Auto installation program included with ACE~F,A)( 2001X Systems Megaherlz XJACJ( System DoubleFlashfB Plus t/ HP 100/200l.)( compatible Available only from ACE, this complete package contains everything t/ Pop-out telephone connection that you will need to start enjoying the full benefits of the HP 200LXI t/ No external phone adapters t/ Easiest way to send faxes t/ ACE ~ LINK file transfer software with HP-PC serial cable t/ DoubleFlashEil Plus hi-performance storage cord t/ BADman 2.0 + Two 1200mAH high capacity NiMH batteries t/ AppMAN! gives you complete control of DOS applications t/ HP world-wide universal AC adapter Modem-Saver 200LX 1MB Systems with DoubleFlashe Plus t/ Don't let your modem become a fuse t/ Convenient, pen-sized, no batteries req . 6M (up to 6MB) ...... :$799 t/ Multi-Color LEDs display jack's status 10M (up to 10MB) ...... $869 t/ Connect your modem safely and reliably 20M (up to 20MB) ...... $999 40M (up to 40MB) ...... $1,299 60M (up to 60MB) ...... $1,549 BOM (up to BOMB) ...... $1,849 For 200l.)( 2MB Complete Systems ...... add $190 HP 200LX Basic Systems CableCard 1MB with AppMAN! ...... $499 1MB with ACE ++ LINK, PC Serial cable, and AppMan! .... . $529 t/ Carry your phone cable conveniently 2MB with AppMAN! ...... $679 t/ PCMCIA sized integrated case 2MB with ACE~L1NK, PC Serial cable~ and AppMan! .... .$699 t/ 8 ft length reels in and out easily ACE ~ FAX for HP 100/200l.)( ...... $29 )(JACK 14.4K/14.4KFax/modem + ACE~ FAX ...... $229 ModemSaver ...... $29 CableCard ...... $10 External 14.4K Pocket/Fox Modem + Dir. coble ...... $269 External 2.4/9.6K Pocket/Fax Modem + Dir. cable ...... $139 ./ High speed reliable transfers with ActWin/dos ./ Store up to 4,000 contacts and 400 activities HP CARRYING CASIlS ./ Doily and weekly calendars for quick reference to activities , .. '...... "" . ./ Multi-scheduling capabilities: calls, meetings, and to-do's ./ Customized contact record fields to suit any business contact Custom Black Nylon case ...... $19 ./ Import and Export capabilities including the HP Phonebook Custom Black Leather case ...... $39 Deluxe Black Leather case ...... $49 ACTI for HP Palmtops version 1.1.1 (C1255) ...... $89 Executive Block Leather Portfolio ...... $59 CASE SPECIAL! SAVE 10% with any purchase of $50 or more BATTman version 2.0 BatteI)' Management Soffware for HP J00/2001)( ./ Use NiMH, NiCd, Alkaline or Lithium batteries in your HP Palmtop ./ Predictive algorithm prevents loss of your valuable data. BADman 2.0 Battery Management Software ...... $39 BADman 2.0 with 2 NiMH 1200mAH batteries ...... $49 BADman 2.0 with 2 NiMH 1200mAH batteries & charger ...... $59 BLE COMPUTING SOLUTION CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS - . . .. • , ~ _. -'> •• !Flash'" 0)'» Now t!'IUS WIRELESS! 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V' Desktop performance under 41bs Pentax V' Super VGA Color video external output V' Patented built-in pop out mouse Palmtop PocketJet V' Windows for Workgroups (enhanced mode) pre-installed ./ Smallest, lightest, Portable Printer ./ Ultra-sharp 300dpi printing HP OmniBook Super Portable Systems ./ Up to 3 pages per minute ./ Print directly from your PC/Palmtop OB600C 486DX2/50 4MB RAM, 170MB Hard Disk ...... $2,649 ./ Premium bonded thermal paper included OB600C 486DX2/50 4MB RAM, 260MB Hard Disk ...... $3,049 ./ 24 Hour "Hot Swap" Exchange warranty included OB600C 486DX4/75 8MB RAM, 170MB Hard Disk ...... $3,349 OB600C 486DX4/75 8MB RAM, 260MB Hard Disk ...... $3,649 F1 054A - OmniBook 600C 4MB system RAM expansion cord ...... $399 F1 055A - OmniBook 600C 8MB system RAM expansion cord ...... $649 Fl044B - OmniBook AC/DC world-wide Adapter ...... $99 Fl058A - OmniBook 600C Rechargeable NiMH battery pock ...... $99 Ethemet PCMClA Cord for OmniBook (Coox and Twisted Pair) ...... $249 Serial to Parallel Converter ./ Connect to any parallel printer ./ Connects with HP-PC serial coble ./ No batteries required E SOLUTIONS . . . Palmtop PocketJet with Parallel & DIRECT cables ....$399 PocketJet with Parallel coble ...... $369 Bonded thermal paper (100 sheets) ...... $8 ~nifyl _J.J ACE Serial to Parallel Converter ...... $79 ~' HP l00/200LX Software Magnifying Lens Adjustoble sizes 1X, 2X, 3X ond 4X To ORDER Move lens with cursor keys 800-825-9977 ./ Pop-Up magnification from 1X to 4X ./ Hotkey activation in any Built-in Application ./ Auto alignment with lines and columns in Phone Book A~ ID® ACE Technologies, Inc . ./ Remembers and returns to lost position in each application ./ Move Lens with Quick Keys and Arrow Keys 592 Weddell Drive, #6, Sunnyvale CA 94089 U.S.A Tel (408) 734·0 J00 Fox (408) 734·3344 IMagnify! (C1240) for HP 100/200LX ...... $19 I PP503 User Profile: Get Out of the Office and Still Do Your Job While sitting on a park bench in New York City or vacationing in Scotland, he keeps his office is in his pocket with an HP Palmtop. By Michael Allgood Last summer on a business My job requires me to travel, and laptop battery ever survived a Trans trip to New York City, I when I am away from the office I Atlantic trip for me. The hassle of found myself sitting on a need to have financial data, projec getting a laptop through security, bench at the South Street Seaport tions, spreadsheets and other infor customs, and even past the security near Wall Street. I was early for an mation at my fingertips. I also need guards in banks and other office appointment and had about a half an to monitor the financial condition of buildings, made carrying the laptop hour to kill. It was about 80 degrees, the company daily, which I do unpleasant. It seemed I was always the sky was blue and bright, the through several computer generated carrying the weight around when I humidity was comfortable - it was a reports. Based on the information in didn't need it, and never had it with good time to be outdoors! Almost these reports, investments are made me when I did. without thinking I pulled out my HP or sold, projects are accelerated or Three years ago I discovered the 200LX and used it to answer the delayed, and other decisions are HP 95LX. I initially bought it to re twenty office E-Mail messages I had made which may have a considerable place the oversized address and ap downloaded earlier via CompuServe. financial impact on our investors. For pointment books I had to carry in Then I looked at my To-Do list and these reasons I need tools which addition to the laptop. The fact that it returned all the telephone calls I had allow me to remain in contact with had Lotus 1-2-3 built-in intrigued me, pending using my cellular telephone. my office wherever I am, to receive but I never thought I would use it for While walking to my next appoint the data necessary to monitor the serious work, since I had 1-2-3 in ment I realized that just five years company, and to manipulate that stalled on the laptop. I had tried ago if someone had told me that I data as necessary to reach the proper other PDA's in the past but had not would be performing my normal decisions. been satisfied with them either. They business routine, not in my office, kept breaking and I couldn't back but on a bench in the Great Out Better than a laptop them up on my computer. Although doors, I would have doubted their For years I traveled with a laptop expensive, I bought the 95LX because rationality. The future is here and it computer - starting with the lugg it could be backed up and I couldn't is the HP 200LX Palmtop and cellular ables - but was never satisfied with afford to lose the data it contained. technology. the power, battery life, or weight. No Like so many other users, the I am the Chief Financial Officer of a publicly traded international leas ing company headquartered in San ABOUT THE AUTHOR Francisco. As part of my job, I am also in charge of the MIS department, Michael Allgood is the Vice President and Chief Financial although I am not particularly techni Officer of PLM International Inc., a publicly held leasing cally competent and I have never company and sponsor of publicly held investment vehicles. been a programmer. However, I un He has been involved in international business and finance derstand and appreciate technology all of his business career. He is a graduate of the University for the increased productivity it of of California, Berkeley. fers me. 30 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 95LX impressed and surprised me Connecting to office E-mail ness, and the 200LX immediately be more and more each day with its with the 200LX and acCIS came a necessity. About the same unexpected uses. Over a few months I had seen various comments on the time, Shier Technologies introduced it went from being just a PDA to HP HAND forum of CompuServe acCIS 3.0, a newer commercial ver being essential to how I worked and from people who used acCIS on their sion of the program mentioned earli traveled. With its small screen and 95LX to communicate with Compu er. small keyboard, I always had it with Serve. However I was unable to con me, and thanks to spare AA batteries, figure it on my Palmtop to work !cCIS/SH 3 . Ba 11/16/94 4: 42 P" properly with my PPI 14.4 Pocket CIS: r1ail it was always powered up. I found RAM : 28Bk= Fax/Data Modem. Hence, I still need QSC? DSK : 416k myself writing spreadsheets on the as du .. Mai 1 ed to carry a laptop with me to com cis nel.ls [eKternalJ 95LX rather than on the laptop or in ~cd ~pra;;tice [ALLI my office, as I could get it out easily, municate with my office. tscd hphand [1.4- 11.14.15] That situation changed with the qscdu pah.top [1,11,12,13,15] turn it on, and work away while announcement of the HP 200LX. It waiting in offices, airports, and on probably changed with the 100LX, accis 3.0 main screen planes. It seemed like the only place but I resisted buying that computer, where I could be reasonably uninter thinking that it was only a cosmetic acCIS 3.0 came with a built-in com rupted long enough to finish a improvement over the 95LX. In addi munications package and used Memo spreadsheet was on an airplane, and tion, when I looked the 100LX over, on the 200LX as an editor. It worked the 95LX was easy to use. I was writ I didn't appreciate the utility of its fine right out of the box and had an ing all of my memos, notes, and new DataBase program. understandable manual. I was laptop faxes on the 95LX. The one thing I I bought the 200LX because it was bound no longer. was never able to do on the 95LX, available with 2MB of RAM and - Our office E-mail system, Da however, was communicate through came with Pocket Quicken built in. I Vinci E-Mail, supports Novell's MHS, a modem. use Quicken for both home and busi- Novell's mail handling standard Easy File Transfer • Between Your Palmtop and Desktop Supports the HP 95LX,lOOLX and 200LX! • Transfers/Translates important data between your lIP Palmtop and Windows PC • Reconciles data, notifying you when conflicts are found • Controls what data is transferred, how it's formatted and where it's transferred • Keeps your HP Palmtop and PC data in synch! Add the SCT CL680 Card-Link to supported Software your desktop PC: ACT! for Windows Commence Excel Paradox Windows .. Fast-80, 000 Bytes/sec ASCll (CSV) Files dBASE Lotus Organizer Schedule+ Cardftle/Calendar CaLANdar ECCO PackRat Sidekick 2.0 Word for Windows .. Easy to use-works just All products listed are trademarks or trade /lClllles of tbeir respective entities. like a floppy disk drive IntelliLinkfor Windows Only $99.95 .. Convenient-plug-in "IntelliLink surpasses otber desktop-to-palmtop links in its ease of use, its smart way of ban installation to your dUng of data files, and its error correction features during uploads and downloads ." parallel printer port Windows Sources june, 1993 .. Reads /writes SRAM and "IntelliLink is a major step forward in tbe effort to make your palmtop and desktop machines FLASH cards a smootbly functioning team ." PC Magazl1le April 28, 1992 "IntelliLink removes tbe user from the complexities of accurately translating data. " Only $189.95 The HP Palmtop Paper Marc/JIApril28, 1992 Steele Creek Technologies, Inc. To order or/or more InteUiLink One Tara I3ivd. , Suite 210 Tel: (603) 888-0666 14035 Appling Lane hijormafiol1 please CO lll(lct: Corporation Nashua, NH 03062 Fax: (603) 888-9817 Charioffe, NC 28278 Phone or Fax: (704) 588-1780 MARCH I APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 31 Doing your job out of the office for its Netware Networking system. cellular and some places I only can , CARD BASIC This allows me to forward my incom get 2,400. I can always get 14,400 ing office messages, reports, binary when using regular telephone lines. Creates card-based applications for Palmtop and Pc. files, and faxes to my CompuServe Using the cellular phone, I have lost • Complete CGA and VGA graphics. mailbox via a MHS hub we set up at connections when transmitting in a • Perfect for Engineering/ Scientific! CompuServe. This E-mail hub is moving car occasionally but never Business programming. quite useful for all of our travelling when stationary. I haven't tried my • Low-cost solution to Full-Value from executives and has recently been cellular outfit in Europe yet, as I your HPIOO/200LX. expanded to tie our 12 remote offices know my phone will not work. I ------to our office E-mail system. This intend to rent a local Motorola cell- I 1995 OFFER-NOW SHIPPING I I Send CARD BASIC on 3~" disk I phone the next time I'm there to try service is quite easy to set up at I 0 Enclosed is $19.95 (Ck. or MO) I CompuServe and can support all the modem out on a European I 0 Please send FREE Infonnation Kit. I commonly used E-mail formats. Most phone. I don't know why it wouldn't I Name ...... I of the popular E-mail software today, work. I Address ...... I i.e. MS Mail, cc:Mail, etc., have utili Several other colleagues and cli I City ...... State ...... I ties that make the setting up of a ents have seen acCIS in action on my I Zip ...... Te l...... I private corporate mail hub simple 200LX and now have a Palmtop. I Overseas add $5 for shipping charge. I Check box for your computer. and economical even for a small They originally bought one to get I 0 HPIOOLX 0 HP200LX 0 PC Compatible I business. The E-mail hub allows me their E-mail, but eventually started I Send to: MICROGRAM SYSfFMH415)747-0811 I P.O. Box 252. La Honda CA 94020-0252 .J to access my office by making a local using the built-in applications as L call from anyplace in the world that well. The 200LX has gone from being ------has a CompuServe access number. I an office joke to the most coveted Reading Faxes can download my mail, faxes, business tool in the company. on the HP Palmtop CompuServe forum messages, and Setting up the 200LX with acCIS I copied Da Vinci's DCX fax reader to binary files together in 3 to 5 min software is at first time consuming. the 200LX. This lets me read faxes utes. Using acCIS communications But once configured properly it be that are received through our E-mail software makes this an automatic and comes an effective, low-maintenance system. I have a fax/data modem for unattended procedure. system. my Palmtop, allowing me to not only connect up to CompuServe via the Mobile Communications Importing spreadsheets modem, but to send faxes directly as While I initially traveled with the PPI and word processing files well. However, I find it easier and Pocket Modem, I have recently con Although we use Excel in the office, faster to send faxes through Compu verted to a Motorola CELLect 14.4 my staff knows to save their spread Serve using the modem and acCIS. PCMCIA cellular modem used with sheets as Lotus .WK1 files to send to a Motorola TAC Lite cellular phone. me. This is done using the "Save As .... w ...... _ __ .. ¥_.__ ...... Each unit cost about $325, so I have File Type" command in Excel. With $650 invested in this setup. I really out this file conversion Excel files are FaXFaXFaXFaXF"""~ "".""dAIIIInd r.'tIlrlllr"alklw preferred the external PPI modem as unreadable in my Palmtop's Lotus 1- ~ ... , .... I...... c....'"'' P_~l l'lDr'alb'lO no. I didn't have to remove my memory 2-3 or Memo applications. Microsoft I '.~ 32 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 Pocket Quicken sary. I don't need to keep track of application almost makes some finan tracks travel expenses business expense categories for per cial analysis too easy. As a leasing As I mentioned earlier, one of the sonal reasons so deleting the expense company, we don't really know the main reasons I bought a 200LX was categories after a trip keeps my per total economics of a transaction until Pocket Quicken. I use it to keep track sonal budgeting manageable. I used the equipment we lease is sold. Being of travel expenses in US. and foreign to use a Lotus spreadsheet on the able to list the cash flows and then to currencies. When I travel to foreign 95LX to track expenses, but I find calculate the IRR (Internal Rate of countries, I press ~ from the main Quicken even easier and more "sort Return) and/or NPV (Net Present Pocket Quicken account list and able", and being able to synchronize Value) of each major transaction create a temporary account such as the Pocket Quicken files with my helps me check our profit assump "sterling lodging", "dmark dining" or desktop Quicken files means I am no tions made at the time of purchase "peso transportation." When I incur longer surprised when the credit card and adjust these assumptions for an expense, I'll open the account, bills come. future transactions as necessary. I am press ~ to add the expense, and sure that better information allows enter the amount of the expense in HP Calc replaces you to make better decisions, so the Amount field. I use the "Trip" business calculator being able to check returns on invest box in the Quicken Add screen to The new improved calculator on the ments "on the fly" prevents us from identify expenses by the main loca 200LX was a pleasant surprise. The letting the assumptions we used (to tion travelled to and then print a cash flow, currency conversion, and make purchase decisions) get stale report of only these trip expenses date conversion applications have and outdated. The old 12C would do upon my return. proven useful and have replaced these calculations as well, but you spreadsheets for my most common couldn't see all of the input on the calculations. I use the calculator ev screen. It was difficult to find mis eryday and have finally retired my takes or explain the results to others. beloved HP 12C. The cash flows Again, I used a Lotus spreadsheet on Pocket Quicken "Add Transaction" screen ~3 This report then serves as my ex JM pense report for reimbursement of out of pocket expenses and for IRS Pocket Liberator-Palm Top Holster purposes. The PL-PTH is a palm top carrying system designed to allow 100% mobility to keep your information safely, securely, and at On the airplane home I convert your fingertips. each entry to U.s. dollars and post • The Main Compartment is designed to mobility and is secured to a belt loop which hold most palmtop brands. It can also pivots and un snaps fo r easy harness removal. them to the permanent dollar ac hold most cellular phones, walkmans, and • Flexible Velcro adjustme nts allow the counts in Quicken using "reimburs items of similar scale. It·s angled design PL-PTH to conform to fi t your body. allows easy access - more available thall ill • The Secondary Compartment is piggy able expenses" as the expense catego YOllr briefcase and safer thall YOllr jacket backed to the Main Compartment to house pocket. beepers, flashcards, batteries, ry. I do this conversion either manu • Flaps with Velcro fasteners secure the items business cards, etc. from accidental drop page. • The fronts of the PL-PTH is ally or using a system macro, de • The standard PLH hamcss pivot-type made of I OO'k fine leather. pending on how many entries there assemhly provides 100'70 flexiblity and are. Once this task is finished, I delete the temporary foreign currency ac counts and their expense category entries as all of this information is saved on the trip report I use as an expense report. When I receive an expense reimbursement, I credit it to "reimbursable expenses" as well. In this way I know that if there is a bal ance in my "reimbursable expense" account, then my company owes me money and I can follow up if neces- MARCH I APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 33 Doing your job out of the office the 95LX for these calculations, but and faxes to ACCIS.TXT for later the calculator is quicker to invoke, as transmission via acCIS, and to trans there is no searching for files to re port data between applications, espe · t:'9Jion trieve. cially between the calculator, · the clipboard, and Lotus 1-2-3. I also use HP Connectivity Pack them ad hoc for repetitive calcula wr/V{tlI( integrates scheduling tions such as the currency conver Project Planning in your palm! I have installed the HP Connectivity sions done in Quicken. For HP 100/200 and DOS based PC's Pack on our Novell Network. The Features include: Free Demo Pc Di 'k installation was uneventful as I just Company database o One Hour Learning Curve s. o Uses 300K with Max fIle size from SDK to IMEG. told the install program to install in your pocket ; Logic Networks,Timelines,Resource Histograms CPACK on the network's shared F Our company programmers wrote a o Critical Path, Milestones,Variable Zoom drive. Both my secretary and I have comma delimited format file which o Multiple projects, Max tasks of 75 or 1000 activities access to it on our desktop PC's so downloads information from our o Mouse and keyboard operated for portability we can share files. I back up my Sybase database to the database func Inmax Publishing Ltd. 200LX everyday on to our shared tion on the 200LX. Contained in this 2673 Terrace Ave. North Vancouver, BC drive, whether I'm in the office or database is our equipment list, the Canada V7R IBS traveling. My secretary uses the syn equipment's purchase price and date, chronizing utility in CPACK200 to the depreciation expense, the net Tel. 604-980-9991 track our individual appointment and book value, the lessee, the lease rate, Fax: 604-985-5597 phone book entries. I call my phone the lease expiration date, the various identification numbers, and some and appointment files JMA.PDB and tions at all, or go where there were .ADB respectively. She calls hers other minor data. Since some of our no phones available. I love the out PMC.PDB and .ADB. Before she goes equipment is quite expensive, i.e. doors and most places I want to go home she synchronizes the two JMA aircraft, ships, off shore oil rigs, etc., to are far from telephone lines. But and PMC files. When I am traveling this information is constantly used cellular cells seem to be popping up she receives them from me as an for forecasting purposes and to de all over. A friend called me on his upload to her E-mail mailbox. From cide whether to re-lease after the cell-phone from Mt. McKinley last there she saves them to the shared F initial lease expiration, or to sell. May and I received a call on my cell drive and then runs the synchronize Being able to sort 70,000 individual phone while on a hill in the High routine. She and I can both enter ap pieces of equipment quickly (the lands of Scotland where there was no pointments and telephone book en smaller equipment is grouped in sign of human habitation. Recently, I tries, either on the 200LX or the desk pools or equipment types, so I only closed an important transaction re top, knowing that we can synchro have about 600 records in the 200LX) motely from a ski slope and felt no nize them at the end of the day. In makes us much more efficient and need to be either in my office or at productive. this way she always knows where I the office of the banker. All necessary am, where I can be reached and can documentation and information was schedule my activities without fear of More effective at work - sent to me as binary files and we conflicts. This feature of CPACK has more time for play! negotiated the deal over cellular proven to be very useful and produc The HP Palmtop has not only al phones. I didn't miss the old office tive. lowed me to give up my laptop, but bound way of doing things even a I have read complaints about the I have been able to take more and little bit. Now that I've proven that I slow speed of file transfers in CPack. longer vacations as well. I can now can effectively manage my depart Since I usually mark the files to tran stay in touch while hunting in Scot ment from afar thanks to the HP sfer, begin the process, and then land or Africa, fly fishing in Mon 200LX and cellular technology, I move on to something else - I do not tana, or skiing in Utah. A company think I'll post my picture around the find the pace of the transfer annoy in California named TeleAdapt sells office so the staff will remember ing. I do the same with the synchro telephone adapters for every country what I look like, as I won't be around nization of the file types. Quicken I have traveled in lately, so connect much. The old adage, "My worst day does take about 15 minutes to syn ing has never been easier. fishing was better than my best day chronize, so I time it to start as I am Without the 200LX, acCIS, and working" won't mean much anymore going off to a meeting. cellular phones I would be unable to as I will be doing both simultaneous leave the office for any length of ly. System Macros save time time. While friends may complain The macro utility in the 200LX has about me working an hour or so a proven to be a great time saver. I use day while on vacation, I used to Product Index: pg 55 it to call up ACE's Battman to check spend all of my time on the hotel my batteries, to save E-mail messages telephone and couldn't enjoy vaca- 34 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 Ecco, IntelliLink, and the HP Palmtop Ecco is a full-featured PIM for your Windows based desktop PC. However, it won't slip into your pocket like an HP Palmtop. Here's how a couple of subscribers got the best out of both worlds. As strong as the HP Palmtop built-in with the Palmtop in their pocket, to the formats of the HP Palmtop PIMs software is, some users don't find the manage their life. Fortunately Intel relatively easy. The articles below Palmtop PIMs sufficient to organize lilink, a file transfer program, pro document successes and obstacles their life. The PIMs don't have the vides a file transfer package with overcome by two users as they at features or the same ease-of-use as tools that make translating Ecco (or tempted to integrate their HP Palm Windows-based applications - you other desktop PIM file formats) and tops and Ecco. can't move a mouse and click on an icon. And except for the clipboard or ECCO 2.0 features added by 95/100Buddyii, Information Management System the built-in PIMs aren't well linked. This award winning program comes in two varieties: ECCO Professional 2.0 ($279) with "Advanced Programs like the ACT! contact man Features" for power PIM users, including the ability to customize views and create a personalized ager have an advantage over the filing system; and ECCO Simplicity 2.0 ($99) a slightly less sophisticated version for users with more Palmtop in this respect (see ACT! straightforward information management needs. Both versions of ECCO share a large number of review, Vol.3, No.5, Pg.18). features. The following lists some of the main features of ECCO 2.0: The greatest single strength of the PIM - Integration that provides multiple views of the data through a unique "outlining" metaphor HP Palmtops is portability. Add this using extensive cross-referencing; quick start templates are provided. to the fact that the built-in programs PhoneBook - Contact management with contact history; customizable PhoneBook forms; are solid and serviceable applications, autodialing and autocall logging; unlimited notes and custom fields; shared group phone books. and the HP 95/100 /200LX are excel Calendar - Daily, weekly, and monthly calendar views; unlimited notes for appointments and To-Do's; automatic customizable multiple alarms for appOintments, To-Do's or outline items. lent choices for a portable Personal Group Scheduling - Ecco users on a network can schedule meetings and send messages; Information Manager. automatically schedule resources and find first available common meeting time; supports Microsoft However, it is natural for people Schedule+. used to a stronger desktop PIM to Workgroups - Manage and access mUlti-user phone books, projects, tasks and activities; want to continue using it along side create public or private (password protected) views for each item. the HP Palmtop. Ecco is one of the Global Features - The "Shooter" feature exchanges text or graphics with other Windows most highly regarded Windows applications; Search can locate data in any Ecco view or file; can synchronize multiple copies of a based PIMs because of its flexibility, file; alarms can run a batch file or display a document; compatible with most common E-mail interfac outlining capability, and a thorough es, OLE 1.0, and DOE-based API; works with Delrina Winfax Pro; supports international currency, date, time and holidays; interfaces to Sharp Wizard, the HP 95LX, and other handhelds; (interfacing integration of its functions. For ex with the 100/200LX requires separate IntelliLink program); prints many label and calendar sizes; ample, you can look at Ecco To-Do imports/exports of ASCII text files; and more. lists from a number of different per spectives (e.g. To-Do's relating to a Professional's "Advanced Features" include: specific person,- To-Do's due on a Folders - User defined folders, drag and drop to cross-referenced multiple folders; group specific date, all high-priority To sharing of Ecco folders and outlines. Do's, etc.). Columns - Up to 50 custom columns in any view, pop-up lists to ease column entries and Although Ecco does not run on specify entry values. Files, Sorting, and Forms - User-definable filters; sort in any view; use forms to auto the HP Palmtops, many users employ matically add information to one or more folders. (Contact info, see page 55.) it on their desktop PC in conjunction MARCH / APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 35 Ecco PIM software IntelliLink, able in a more portable form. Three years ago, I thought the GIVE YOUR PALMTOP BAR CODE Ecco,andthe answer would be the then-new HP CAPABILITIES FOR: HP 1 00/200 LX 95LX Palmtop computer. I rushed out to purchase one but after about six • INVENTORY months I fell out of love with the By Charles Humble • DOCUMENT TRACKING gadget primarily because its built-in [Charles Humble is a former newspaper applications lacked the capabilities of reporter and business editor who is now my desktop PIM. In addition, I found a partner in a public relations and mar lacking the file translation capabilities keting firm in Portland, Oregon. He can of the Connectivity Pack, making it be reached via MCI Mail: CHumble; difficult to integrate the Palmtop with CompuServe: 73077,2027; Internet: my desktop PIM. [email protected]. After carefully scrutinizing the HP This article is about using Ecco with 100/200LX at several trade shows the HP 100LX, but applies to the 200LX and grilling other users, I plunked as well.] down $500 earlier this year for the new and improved HP Palmtop. It Ever since purchasing my first per was a huge leap forward compared to the 95LX and for awhile I aban sonal computer 12 years ago, I've Our systems are "turn key," complete with all the been in an uninterrupted pursuit of doned my desktop PIM altogether in hardware and software necessary to print bar code labels, scan bar codes and transfer data into PCs or MACs. the "perfect" Personal Information favor of working directly with the Manager. Needless to say, I'm still 100/200LX. However, I missed Ecco's features and soon found myself drift CORVALLIS searching. Don't get me wrong. PIM SYSTEMS software has come a long ways since ing back to using Ecco and maintain SALES the original DOS SideKick, but most ing two calendars and phone books. 919 N E 2nd Street, Corvallis, Oregon 97330 of it is tied to a desktop or notebook Telephone: 503.752.4419; 1.800.733.5017; computer. The problem is that I can't Fax: 503.752.7037 IntelliLink helps take a desktop with me when I leave to the desktop PIM works better be the office and notebooks are inconve integrate desktop Ecco cause IntelliLink actually synchro nient to lug around. and Palmtop PIMs nizes files moving this direction. Most often, I need my calendar Realizing the futility and danger of Translated files are merged with the and address book when I'm away maintaining two separate calendars desktop PIM files and new appoint from a computer. Most PIM makers and phone books, I decided to spring ments or phone entries you've en gloss over this fact by offering poor for a copy of IntelliLink, a Windows tered in the Palmtop are added to the quality paper printouts for your ap connectivity program that has built-in desktop's appointment and phone pointment and phone book, or as translation routines for a number of book without changing any of its sume that you'll lug a notebook com popular PIMs and Palmtops. While existing entries. puter everywhere you go. IntelliLink is a fairly straightforward IntelliLink includes several op program, it took me several weeks of tions for this synchronizing and is HP Palmtops bring experimentation to figure out how to capable of either notifying the user of portability to PIMs use IntelliLink and develop a routine conflicts (e.g., two appointments for Until the arrival of new and capable that met my needs. the same date and time) or automati Palmtop computers like the HP 100/- IntelliLink overwrites HP Palmtop cally updating or overwriting con 200LX, I had always placed the bur files when it translates and transfers flicts. The notify is a nuisance be den of proof for portability on a files from Ecco or any desktop PIM cause it requires too much user inter PIM's ability to produce attractive to the HP Palmtop. There is no intel vention. Each time a conflict arises, and useful paper output - most PIMs ligent synchronization of data so a dialog window pops up and asks still aren't doing this very well. My beware! Changes you've made in the you how you wish to handle the con ongoing dilemma was how to marry Palmtop phone or appointment books flict. I use the Update option, which my desire for the convenience and are overwritten by the converted files causes the data from the HP 100/200- power of a desktop PIM with my you are importing. LX to take priority when a conflict need to have the information avail- Moving data from the 100/200LX arises. 36 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 I have experienced other occa well and does not require the interim sional and unexplained problems step of creating an ASCII file. I add when trying to move my calendar, new entries directly to my 100/200LX phone book and To-Do list from the ph.o,ne book and then synchronize the HP 100/200LX to -Ecco. IntelliLink whole thing with my Ecco phone supports moving all three at once, book. but sometimes the communication link is dropped before all of the in How much time does formation is transmitted. I've also all this take and is Infrared Serial Adapter experienced IntelliLink crashes dur it worth the hassle? ing a transfer. Fortunately, when I Initially you'll spend a lot of time For Your 200LX move each individually, I don't en getting the hang of IntelliLink and • Supports lIP Connectivity Pack for 200LX counter the problem. developing the routine that works for • "Point-and-shoot" data transfer Since Ecco's data _lie1ds aren't you. If you want to use Ecco as your • Fas~ reliable and easy to use exactly the same as those used in the desktop PIM and if having your _ Extended 100/200LX, I added Category and appointment calendar and important Systems® Note fields to Ecco's phone book and contacts information with you at all 5777 North Meeker Ave. Boise, 1D 83713 mapped them to corresponding fields times is important, then all this is Tel: 800·23)·7,76 or 208·322·7,7, Fax 4O~'87·mO on the 100/200LX. I also created a worth the hassle. It's certainly better priority field in Ecco/s To-Do section than carrying around the inadequate to match the same field on the paper printouts provided by most the HP 95LX, 100LX, and 200LX, 100/200LX To-Do list. PIMs. Sharp Wizard, Casio BOSS, HP IntelliLink includes support for Omnibook, Tandy 2 PDA and Casio Exporting phone book 27000. Besides Ecco, it supports Act! subsets to the 1 00/200LX My Ecco phone book has become a large repository of names - I add almost every contact I make. I don't, however, want to take all those FliOW HEWLETT Hp·200LX Palmtop PC names with me in my 100/200LX. To ~e. PACKARD export a subset of my Ecco phone G NEW with 200LX! Intuit Palmtop Quicken™ Carry with you your bank/check, credit card and cash account book, I set up a check mark field in batances. And do reconciliation l Ecco, check all those entries that I G PC Compatible tI runs your off the shetf DOS-based software. Your favorite software, want to export to my 100/200LX, and right in your pocket (Must be DOS based, CGA-Compatible) run a filter in Ecco. I then export G 1 MB/2MB RAM, DOS 5.0 and Expandable Memory Supports up to 32MB with optional plug-in memory cards. them to an ASCII delimited file and (one slot-PCMCIA Type II) use IntelliLink to translate the ASCII G cc:Mail Remote is Built-In You can attach a modem to access e-mail plus a wide range of delimited file to PhoneBook format. communication networks. G lotus 1-2-3™ reI 2.4 By including a mail merge header in The industry standard spreadsheet with database, graphics, and the ASCII file, field names are easier macros. G HP Financial Calculator to map to the 100/200LX's phone Business & scienlific fundtions including TVM, amortization, cash book database. flows, statistics, date arithmetic, unit/currency conversions, sum lis!. Also includes HP Solve, function graphing, and 1-2-3 BackSolve. Since Ecco allows you to save G Complete Organizer Software Both Available in 1MB or 2MB Manage your time, tasks and data, and retrieve information instantly export setups, subsequent exports to with a futly-integrated set of tools, inctuding appointment book, the 100/200LX are more routine. Ex phone book, database, memo editor with outliner, notetaker, Hp·200LX Call for stopwatch, and work time. porting your entire phone book to (pictured) Dealer/OEM G Express Exchange Coverage lor 1 year the 100/200LX from Ecco is much Pricing So if your 200LX fails you merely call for a replacement, which arrives next dayl Then just send back the otd unit (2 yr additionat easier than going through the hassle coverage optional). of selecting a subset. It may make the • SALES TO DEALERS ONLy-CALL FOR CONSULTATION ON ACCESSORY PRODUCTS • most sense to people with smaller phone books on their desktop Pc. CAU TOU FREE: 1-800-227-8292 I ~ II I OR FAX US AT: (415)494-1995 Going the other direction - from 760 SAN ANTONIO ROAD, PALO AL TO, CALIFORNIA 94303-4695 ~ _'1'T'$"'mI'1"'U _ the 100/200LX to Ecco - works quite MARCH I APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 37 Ecco PIM software for Windows, CaLANdar, Com start entering my appointments and mence, Packrat, dBase III and IV, To-Do's electronically, rather than by Seven Habits of Highly Effective 95LX Users Lotus Organizer, Microsoft Excel, pencil. Microsoft Word, Microsoft Sched Unfortunately, the 95LX has only Hal wrote an excellent article showing how he uses the 100LX to implement the '7 Habits" ule+, Paradox, Sidekick 2.0, ASCII a limited ability to handle some types Time Management philosophy described by and Windows accessories. IntelliLink of recurring events. For example, if Stephen Covey in his books, Seven Habits of version 3.2 also supports the Psi on 3 you have a staff meeting every other Highly Effective People and First Things First. (See page 40, May/June 94). I have imple and 3a (see product announcement, week, you have to enter each ap mented these principles on my Ecco/Palmtop/ Vol.3, No.5, Pg.9). pointment manually on the 95LX. ABKT 001 system as follows. Ecco lets you enter the meeting once In Ecco, I conduct a weekly planning and move or delete any exceptions session in which I identify goals for the week for each of the major roles in my life (Chris Using Ecco in later. Likewise, you have to enter tian, Husband, Father, Employee, etc). Each recurring To-Do's manually on the of these roles is a sub-item in an Ecco folder. Conjunction with 95LX, or enter it as a recurring ap Under each goal, I might have appointments, To-Do's, or just information. The appoint the HP 95LX pointment. Ecco lets you enter the ments and To-Do's are tagged with a "quad To-Do once and have it recur as often rant," according to Covey's system: 1 = impor as you like. tant and urgent (I Gotta do this task); 2 = By Steve Eckman important and not urgent (the key to success, according to Covey); 3 = not important but [About the author: Steve works in Pro 2. More powerful reporting capabilities - urgent; and 4 = not important and not urgent ject Management at Wyeth-Ayerst, a My boss wanted a nice-looking print (why am I doing this task?) I then "schedule out of my appointments for the cur my priorities," rather than prioritize my sched major pharmaceutical company, specializ ule, using the weekly view for the coming ing in Women's Health Care projects. He rent month - something my HP 95LX week. I then transfer the appointments and lives in Philadelphia with his wife and alone couldn't handle. I even re To-Do's to the Palmtop for later viewing. searched several report-writer options I highly recommend Covey's books, since son (and HP 95LX). His CompuServe I cannot do them justice in this space. Also, address is [75100,122J.J available on the CompuServe on the Arabesque section on CompuServe (go HPHAND forum. Ecco beats them WinapA), several Ecco users have uploaded Ecco is Arabesque Software's highly all, providing attractive monthly, templates to implement the Covey system, weekly, and daily calendar printouts and there is often a healthy discussion on the regarded Personal Information Man 7-Habits in that forum. ager (PIM) designed to run in a PC as well as handsome phone books. environment under Windows. An 3. Outlining feature-- extremely powerful program, Ecco age, such as Act!, or upgrading to the Ecco also provides a powerful out gives you great flexibility over how 100/200LX. lining feature that lets you do more you can organize and present your Ecco can help deal with extensive than just plan and organize your To information. Ecco is offered in two phonebook needs. It provides you Do's and appointments. The outlining forms: Ecco Pro (the package I use), with data translation and interchange feature helps you keep all the infor and Ecco Simplicity (a simpler to use through IntelliLink (IL) software. mation about a topic in one place. product with fewer features and with Arabesque provides IntelliLink free The handy "Shooter" feature lets you less ability to customize). to registered users who return the cut and paste information from any But, you might say, a traditional postcard packaged with Ecco. (This Windows application to Ecco, or PIM calendar and phonebook appli free software provides translation for from one Windows application to cation come built-in on the HP 95LX 95LX PIMs. The version for the HP another. and 100/200LX. So why use Ecco? 100/200LX must be ordered from Here is an HP 95LX user's attempt to IntelliLink for $69.95). IntelliLink al 4. A more powerful phone book - answer that question. lows you to move Phone Book infor I'm lucky that my needs for an elec mation easily from the HP Palmtop tronic phone book are modest. As a What's So Great to Ecco. (See next article for more project manager, I deal mainly with About Ecco? information on using IntelliLink.) 200 or so people, mostly inside my Ecco has many more data fields in company. But sales people and others 1. More powerful scheduling features - its phone book than in the 95LX's. with large contact lists must face the I never believed in electronic calen Because of this you need to enter limitations of the 95LX by either dars until I bought the HP 95LX. your information consistently in the splitting up the phone book into With it's portability and built-in PIM 95LX so that when IntelliLink trans smaller ones (maybe linked through software, it finally made sense to lates it, it can place it properly into 95Buddy), moving into another pack- 38 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 Ecco's phone book. For example, the phone book information. However, this frequency works for me. Obvi 95LX PHONE application has one the extra discipline pays off in the ously, your needs may dictate that Address field with eight lines where ability to transfer data smoothly you transfer data more frequently. users place street address, city, state, between the Palmtop and Ecco. In When I am away from my desk, I zip, and other information like con addition, an orderly phone book enter new appointment information tact date, products or information re makes it easier to find vital informa in Notepad Iii on the 95LX, and quested, follow up needed, etc. You tion. transfer it manually to Ecco when I can have IntelliLink map each of the get back to the office. Address field's eight lines, or specific Using Ecco portions of a specific line, to a sepa with my HP 95LX Why not enter new appointments and rate Ecco field. But you have to enter I keep my calendar in Ecco on my changes on the 95LX? the information in PHONE consis laptop because of Ecco's powerful I'm too cautious! I use Ecco for more tently (e.g. Address field line 1 al scheduling and reporting features than just appointments and To-Do's. ways gets the street address, the first and because I spend the majority of I might have some random notes 10 characters in line two always get my time at my desk. I avoid entering about a particular meeting or ap the city name, line 4 is always re appointments into my Palmtop, using pointment as well as follow-up items served for a fax number, etc.). Oth it instead as a portable calendar associated with it in Ecco. I am con erwise, important information can get viewer. I use the ABKTool Iii to cerned that if I modify appointments mapped to the wrong field when enhance my 95LX Phone Book dis or To-Do's on the Palmtop, the IntelliLink translates the file to Ecco play. One of the most useful features changes might not find their way format, requiring further work to of ABKTool is the "Only" key, allow back into the proper location in Ecco clean up the Ecco phone book after ing me to view only those appoint and the entire data structure might file translation and transfer. ments and To-Do's for a particular get fouled up. This approach forces you to be category, for example a specific Pro I haven't had the time to thor more consistent in the way you enter ject Team. oughly test IntelliLink's ability to properly reconcile new or changed AlSIC:.l"oo.l X t; ~'t ank. " abk. ..,"1..., ...... , ... appointments. I would like to try, but Tra.""ITe1F1oppy un..l!.JI! <'P''1- ;a 1.6':':::1:":= ~'" ~""'1!'>. since the current system meets my "]I...... ~ 'i'!!'i'''e' dlfhj ) ,.. YI .... ~~ '$OC'~eJ' c:t.s ', Q:t" cU.~.1tOV'IC:· ". p)... " PCMCIA Floppy Drive 9 .... 1..5 .... ' ...: '-'"h. _"",,-1..i.. .u ..· ... « PT> needs, I haven't gotten around to it. No less indispensable than your HP 1001200LX Ecco and IntelliLink I;)ult D .... 1-L.j 0 ,-.1'1 In!Ac~.. t s. .... "c H .... l I-" n .... 1 ro" I... F' ... <1 Nco ,~LI, a good combination Ecco works well for me and the addi Viewing Appointments for specific tion of IntelliLink lets me translate category in PHONE with ABKTool and transfer my Ecco calendar and phone book to my HP Palmtop. I also like the ABKTool-added ability However, even though IntelliLink to view all the appointments and To goes a long way towards bridging Do's for a day on the same page. the gap between the two, I recognize AUlc:roo J t: ~t: a.bk." abk. .., ..... l..b ...... ,1 that there will always be limitations Unparalleled performance from the Travel '1.J...... Scpo J.!::.. 1.!:J~"'" .l:"::!J..:L OlIoM Floppy'" makes file transfer and archiving 1')15_ 1'lI.=U:lI .. "]I4~a i.ea.'!;!:'. working with different PIMs on mul both simple and inexpensive. .. '=';;,"'.... I.~"':l t" ....rt:l.el.c '$OCr'"CCYl~ 1E)Op :l.I.S"", ...· _11 H-.:1 MARCH / APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 39 Getting the Most Out of System Macros System Macros is a powerful feature that saves you time by turning many keystrokes into few. This article explains how to create System Macros and how to get around the Palmtop's 10 Macro limit on the 100/200LX. By Mark Scardina Every time I ,pull out the HP Palmtop ~-F-key combination to execute a Let's say we want to always display in a group of people, the first words string of up to 255 commands or the directory that normally contains I hear are, "Can you really type on keystrokes. our data files instead of the directory that thing?" An article on page 40 of last used. For this example we'll use the Volume 3, Number 6 issue of The Creating new C:\DATA \, but you can substitute HP Palmtop Paper gave some good system macros one of your own. tips on improving your touch typing You can create a System Macro by We'll create a system macro to do speed on the diminutive keyboard. opening up the System Macro appli this. Since the Open File Function Another practical and immediate cation and keying in the macro code. Key is (F9), we'll assign our macro to solution is to use the HP Palmtops' However, the easiest way is simply [Fn]+[F9] to make it easier to remem built-in macro capability to reduce to record it as you are performing its repetitive keystrokes and speed up function. As an example, let's record ber. Follow these steps: your use of the built-in applications. one that can be used within most 1. Activate the key stroke recorder by In previous issues Ed Keefe has applications. pressing I 2. Press ~ to Open, ~-I < leftArrow> I HP Palmtop System Macros " '0' for Home, C:\DATA\ IENTERI to enter The System Macros application built Ij l!i Fi 1" to Qp"n .9 11:. I ~ QEJ 2 into the HP Palmtop provides a way 4 the path of data files, I 40 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 proper keystrokes. Once completed you can go back and edit the se quence in System Macros and delete the wrong keys. As long as you use the default MacLinkPlus/ extensions when saving files to a built-in application (i.e. .TXT for Memo, .PDB for Phone, etc.), this HP Palmtop [FN]+[F9] system macro will always open the File Open dialogue box, go to the C:\DATA directory and move the cursor to the Files window, ready .' for you to select a file. I. ~. ~ HP Palmtop . ~ ., Modifying System Macros a __ "'~ , Once you've created a macro, you can modify it using the built-in Sys Mac tem Macro application. This comes in handy if you want to change a com ... tlie Missing Link mand, or the spelling of a word in a text macro. Press ICTRLI-I!] to start Use PIIlmtop files on your the System Macro application and displays the following System Macro Mllcintosb - lind vice versll listing screen. (The contents of the Backup your palmtop on your Mac ... screen will vary, depending on the Backup your entire Palmtop on your Mac -with just a click of a mouse! MacLinkPlus will move all of your System Macro's you've already creat Palmtop fIles onto your Mac. The directory structure will remain the same on the Mac as it was on the HP. ed.) Don't retype all those names ... MacLinkPlus can translate your phone book fIles onto your HP. No need to retype all that information! And you Fn~ F l : can translate your HP Phonebook names back into your Mac phone book as well. Fn·F2: ·iGJI* Fn+F System Macro list, HP 100/200LX Manage your notes ... Take Memos from your Palmtop and convert them into Mac word processing documents (such as, Microsoft To modify a macro from this applica Word, ClairisWorks, etc.) Your formatting such as bold, underline, etc. will remain intact. You can also convert word processing fIles from your Mac into HP Memo fIles. tion, you highlight the macro you want to change, press ~ to Edit it. Don't leave your numbers behind ... You are presented with the following In addition to PIM and Memo translations, MacLinkPlus can also convert your Mac spreadsheets into Lotus 123 Edit Macro screen: format on your HP. Formatting and formulas all remain intact. Once you've made changes on your Palmtop, you can convert your HIe back into Mac format! Databases, too ... Use your HP databases in FileMaker Pro, Microsoft Works database, and other Mac database programs. All of II !f:: "" your data and its fOIDlatting, such as, date and time will be translated. Everything's included! Just connect the two computers with the included serial cable. MacLinkPlus/HP Palmtop will do the resti ~ ~ ___QC)_!1!!1111 ___~ ~.:m.~ ~I Cldl for more inj'ormlltion: Edit Macro screen, HP 100/200LX (800) 733-0030 You can key in a brief explanation of Supports DATAfIZ what the macro does in the Descrip HP 200LX tion field, or simply press I MARCH / APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 41 System Macros macro commands or characters are macro, which can run still another entered. This is where you modify system macro, and so on. A single the content of the macro. system macro is limited to 255 char By Simple Simon Software As the list display above indi acters or commands. Chaining lets The quickest and easiest way to send, re<..--eive, cates, you can create 10 different you expand this limit. view and even print faxes with any HP Palmtop. System Macros, one associated with More importantly for this article, , Complete package is only $19.9; each Function key. The current (ac chaining lets you run a system macro , Faxing on the HP 100LX and 200LX tive) set of 10 system macros is from another .MAC file. The act of , Menu version runs under System Administrator stored in the C:\_ DAT\SETUP.ENV the first macro calling up a second , Command line version runs under DOS file. They can also be saved to a file macro stored elsewhere automatically , Use External or PCMCIA modem cards with the extension .MAC (press loads the .MAC file in which the , Print to dot matrix or Iaser printer I MENU I file §ave). Look at the top left second macro is stored. This elimi , Under lOOK space or less depending on installation of the macro listing screen shown nates the need to start the System , Compatible with Class 1and Class 2 faxJmodems previously and you'll see the file Macro application and press I MENU I , Retommended by Megahertz and HP name for my current set of System file Qpen to load the other .MAC Macros is 2.MAC. file. We can use this feature to attach Simple Simon Software po. Box 926, Bedford,TX 76095 You can only have 10 system macros to an application. Tel: 817-283-6691 • Fax: 817-283-5871 macros saved in anyone .MAC file. However, you can use more than one Attaching a set of .MAC file to increase the number of system macros to a 2. Highlight Fn+F10 and press I ENTER I. system macros available. Groups of specific application (The system macro we associated 10 System Macros can be stored in Before we set up our example, it will with Fn+F10 will be the same one we individual .MAC files and loaded be useful to review the way we will use in each macro file to close the from the System Macro application structure the system macro files. application and load MAIN .MAC.) by pressing I MENU I file Qpen. You First we'll create individual .MAC 3. Enter Close Memo as your descrip can also create an individual system files that will have system macros tion and press I ENTER I to move to the macro to automatically load a differ associated with the particular appli Contents field. ent .MAC file, a technique we will cation (E.G., MEMO.MACii, DATA demonstrate later. 4. Key the system macro into the BASE.MACii, APPT.MACii, and Contents field. It should look like this NOTETAKR .MACii). Each of these Using multiple sets when it's finished: .MAC files will have one system of system macros macro that closes the application and {Menu}Q{ 42 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 "Chain to another macro ... " dialogue macros that open one of the built-in lowing system macro to MAIN.MAC: box, select Fn+l and press~ . Then applications and to load its system Fn+F7 move the cursor in between { and Fn macro file. Below is a listing of the {Database} { MARCH / APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 43 · ,,}!.. , , ..... : Database arithmetic Teach Your Database Application How to Do Arithmetic Ed shows how to add the missing arithmetic capabilities to the built-in 100/200LX Database using the built-in Lotus program. By Ed Keefe The HP 100/200LX Database applica number crunching. When you put the X, press ICTRLI-I£) to get rid of the tion is a fantastic tool for collecting, two applications back to back and card image.) You will then be at the storing, and manipulating all sorts of play their strengths off against each All Database Items screen of your information. For example, I have other, you'll see the synergistic prin new database. eight different databases that contain ciple in action. Now we need to set up the data everything from lecture notes and To see what I mean, take your base Sort. Press ~ and, if needed, course syllabi to a humongous collec 100/200LX in hand and follow along. type fruit in the 1st sort field. Press tion of programming tricks and tech We'll create a simple Database, move I THE WHOLE IS GREATER THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR The answer to this problem is al Ed Keefe is an author, programmer, computer science instructor, and long-time ready contained in the HP Palmtops. contributor to support publications for HP computers. He is the president of The Database application excels in the FastAid Company, 314 S. W. Logan, Ankeny, 1A 50021. Ed's CompuServe the area of data handling. On the 1D# is [75300,3667J. other hand, Lotus 1-2-3 excels in 44 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 You Get These FREE! with your HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK subscription. 57 p'owerful software tools, 275 useful All the best HP Palmtop tools are now on one disk set! Best Palmtop Tips on Disk contains tips on one 2.8 megabyte disk set the very best tips and tools from every issue of The HP Palmtop Paper. Software on the Best Palmtop Tips ON DISK Never before has so much Product Description UTlLmES HP Palmtop productivity been BESTTIPS Text of the Best Palmtop Tips 1995. BUDDY Adds 1OO's of useful features to l00/200LX. available on one disk set! APPLICATIONS: ADBIO Convert Appt file tolfrom comma- *Check order form for disk size preference. by itself. To order, check "Best Palmtop Tips on Disk" ** If you decide to use shareware, you will need to on the order form opposite page 49 and send $33 A SUPPLEMENT pay the author a fee, usually between $5 and $45, a (includes shipping, non U.S. add $4) NOTA SUBSTITUTE fraction of the cost of equivalent commercial programs. FOR THE PRINTED EDITION DataBase arithmetic information to Lotus 1-2-3 to do our arithmetic. First, press the I 46 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 numbers in these strings until you convert them to numeric "values". Lotus Subtotal Macro Here's the easiest way to perform the The following list in Lotus' row and column format shows what to type into each cell to create. the conversion. subtotal macro. Type the labels into column A. For example, put "TOP into cell A3. The double quote, ", tells Lotus to right justify the label. The rest of the cells are left justified, entered without the Press I MENU I Data Parse, which will double quotes. All the formulas are entered in column B. For instance, {windowsoff}{paneloff} bring up the Parse Settings dialog goes into cell 810. The section headers are in 81 and 88. Cell 830 is typed in as shown below, but box. Ignore the "Parse Settings" box it will display as {Let SUBT,@sum($C$56 .. $C$58)}. Column C only has two format labels in C5 that appears on the screen. You won't and CB. There are no entries in columns D or E. A BCD E need it. Press F or I ENTER I to activate 1 ------Variables------the Format-Line option. Press C or 2 "COMPAREA IENTERI to create a Format-Line. Then 3 "TOP 4 "BOnOM press I to start the Input-Column 5 "SUBT <-Format this cell as , 2 option and at the "Enter column of 6 "TOT <-Format this cell as , 2 7 labels to parse: AI" prompt, press O. 8 ------Procedures------Then, in succession, you press ~ 9 I < RightArrow > I (END), I < DownArrow > I, 10 "\I {windowsoffHpaneloff} 11 {GOTO}b50-/rncControICode-{BS}- I ENTER I to mark column A. Press Out 12 {if @cell("type",ControICode)="b"HBranch ERR} put-Range, type A2 as the output cell, 13 Idpfci{BS}.{ENDHD}-o-g 14 Iwdr-- and press I ENTER I. Finally press G (Go) 15 "\S {windowsoffHPaneloff} to complete the conversion. To get 16 "PREP {indicate "One moment please ... "} 17 {Goto}ControICode-{Let Subt,OHLet Tot,O} rid of the format-line, put the cursor 18 {Let COMPAREA,@cellpointer("contents")} on cell Al and press I MENU I Work 19 {RHLet TOP,@cellpointer("address")}-{L} 20 "LOOP sheet Delete Row IENTERI. Notice what {D} 21 {If @cellpointer("contents")<>COMPAREAHDiffCode} has happened. The "long labels" have 22 {If @cellpointer("type")<>"b"HBranch LOOP} been reduced to a column of labels 23 EOJ {SUBTOTHTOTAL} 24 {CalcHWindowsonHpanelon}{lndicateHQuit} and another column of numbers. 25 If you're new to Lotus 1-2-3, or 26 "DIFFCODE {SUBTOT}{RESET}{RETU RN} you've never used the Data Parse 27 28 "SUBTOT {U}{R}{Let BOnOM,@cellpointer("address")} command, we've included some 29 {Recalc FORM} more information in the sidebar on 30 "FORM +"{Let SUBT,@sum("&TOP&" .. "&BOnOM&")}" 31 {let TOT,TOT+SUBT}- page xx. (Note: the Data Parse com 32 {R}/cCOMPAREA-- mand is also available on the HP 33 {R}/rvSUBT -- 95LX.) 34 {L 3HD} 35 {RETURN} 36 Creating Grand Totals 37 "RESET {Let COMPAREA,@cellpointer("contents")} 38 {R}{Let TOP, @cellpointer("address")}-{L} At this point, if all you want is a 39 {let SUBT,O}- grand total of all the fruit, simply put 40 {return} the cursor in cell B10 and type in the 41 42 "TOTAL {R 2}**TOTAL**{R}/rvTOT- function @SUM(B1 .. B9). As soon as 43 {RETURN} you press Enter, the answer 6,600.00 44 45 "ERR Paste or import the text file will appear. It's that easy. 46 and press ALT-I again.- 47 Lotus Macro to Create Subtotals producing. A better solution would "as-is". It will work for the current In this example, it's a simple matter be to create a Lotus 1-2-3 macro that "fruit" example and any similar prob to inspect the spreadsheet, insert a will do this for you. lem. The restrictions are that the row after apples, oranges, and pears The sidebar on this page shows a category data must go in column B then use the @SUMO function to macro that will produce subtotals and the numeric data must go in create a subtotal for each. However, and a grand total for the "fruit" data column C in the spreadsheet. The inspecting long lists of data, inserting base. This solution is available as good news is that the solution works. rows and keying in the @SUMO func CBRK.WK1 in TLG20.ZIP iii on the The not-so-good news is that it pro tion is time-consuming and error- Palmtop Paper on Disk and is offered duces only a single level of subtotals. MARCH / APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 47 DataBase arithmetic Ideally, a report generating pro Press ALT-I again. The indicator, in LOOP procedure again. Otherwise it gram should be able to handle any the upper right corner will ask for will start the EOJ (End Of Job) rou number of "nested" subtotals. In "One moment, please ..." . Very soon tine. reality, the maximum level of subto the screen will change to the follow- The EOJ (End Of Job) routine calls tals that can be handled by a combi ing. the SUBTOT procedure to complete nation of the Database and Lotus the computations. Then it calls the B c D E 1-2-3 is three. The Database engine 50 apples 10 . 00 TOTAL procedure. It recalculates the imposes this limit since it can only 51 apples 100 . 00 entire worksheet; turns the screen 52 apples 1 , 000 . 00 apples 1 , llO sort three fields, which is one more 53 oranges 20 . 00 and panel on; and sets the indicator than Lotus 1-2-3 can do. The ultimate 54 oranges 200 . 00 to its default value. 55 oranges 2 , 000 . 00 oranges 2 , 220 solution should also allow for any 56 pears 30 . 00 The DiffCode procedure simply number of input fields, produce page 57 pears 300 . 00 runs two other procedures: SUBTOT and column headers, and do the 58 pears 3 , 000 . 00 pears 3 , 330 and RESET, and then returns to 59 * TOTAL * 6, 660 actual printing. Such a program is be where it left off. yond the scope of this article. How Here's How the The SUBTOT procedure begins by ever, watch for it on this year's Sub Subtotal Program Works moving the cell cursor to the right scribers Disk. and up. It sets the BOTTOM variable The cells A2 through B6 hold the to be the address of this cell. Then it names and contents of several vari recalculates the contents of cell B30 How to use ables used by the program. For ex (the FORM cell) which will, in turn, the Subtotal Macro ample, COMPAREA will keep track compute the subtotal for this range of To try the subtotal worksheet, start of the "apples" and "oranges". The numbers. It next adds this subtotal to 1-2-3 and either key in the code or TOP and BOTTOM variables will the grand total, copies the name of retrieve the CBRK.WKI file from keep track of the ranges for subtotals. the COMPAREA to the right of the TLG20.ZIP Ii on Palmtop Paper The program begins by turning current cell and copies the value of OnDisk. Issue the command I MENU I off the screen and panel. It goes to the subtotal to the right of this. The Worksheet Global Format, (comma) 2 cell B50 and names this cell last thing it does is return the cell IENTERI. Put the cursor in cell Al and "ControICode". It checks to see if the cursor to its former position. issue the command I MENU I Range cell is blank and if it is, issues the The RESET procedure "updates" Name Label Right and highlight the prompt to "Paste or Import". Other the COMPAREA variable to hold a range from Al to A45. Press IENTERI wise it parses the data string in the new "ControICode" and resets the to set the range names for all the rows below cell B50. (To enhance TOP variable to a new cell address. It variables and procedures. this, you might insert a row after row clears out the SUBT variable. (Clear Press IALTI-(!) and you should see 13 and add the command: ing this variable is not strictly need the following message in cell A50: ' / dpfe{BS} . {END}{D}-o-g ed, but old coding habits say "do it Paste or import the text file and press anyway".) ALT-I again. This would allow you to edit the format-line before proceeding with The TOTAL procedure comes at Assuming that you've developed the the program.) the end of the program. It puts the "fruit" database as described above, The PREP procedure sets the word "*TOTAL*" in the appropriate copy the data into the worksheet. indicator; puts zero in the SUBT and cell and puts the value TOT in the Either press ~-(!) to paste the clip TOT ranges; and stores the cell to the right of this. board or press I MENU I File Import Text ControlCode ("apples") in the This should give you some ideas to import the FRUIT.PRN file. The COMPAREA range. It then goes to of how to link the Palmtop'S built-in screen should look like this: the TOP of this range and gets the Database and Lotus to create reports B c D address. with totals and subtotals. With a little The LOOP procedure starts by experimenting you can adapt this 50 apples 10 solution to any number of situation. 51 apples 100 moving down one cell to B51. If the 52 apples 1000 contents of this cell are not the same Happy programming. 53 oranges 20 54 oranges 200 as the contents of COMPAREA, it 55 oranges 2000 will perform the procedure called ShareiFreeware Index: pg 56 56 pears 30 "DiffCode". If this same cell is not a 57 pears 300 II II 58 pears 3000 blank, the program will perform the 48 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 FREE BEST PALMTOP TIPS ON DISK 175 tips, 51 software tools on 2.5 megabytes with your HP Palmtop Paper on Disk subscription You've got the knowledge. Now get the tools. RENEW OR SUBSCRIBE TODAY FOR PEAK PALMTOP PERFORMANCE! THE HP Palmtop :::!:e~ NOTA SUBSTIWTE FOR THE PRINTED EDITION OR FAX: 515.472.1879 Thaddeus Computing, Inc. 57 E. Broadway, Fairfield, IA 52556 U.S.A. ---BASIC TIPS--- [Tips by Rich Hall unless otherwise noted. Many of have your Appointment Book set up to display the note. Whenever you want to read the note, highlight these tips are elaborations on tips found in the Appointments With Calendar or Appointments With the appointment and press I!!J. APPS.INI and NOTES. NOB files found in the HP Clock in order for the Next Appointment to be No other built-in applications on the HP 95LX 200LX.} displayed. Press IMENU, Qptions Customize let you attach notes to individual items. However, a ~pointment View to check your setup.} shareware program called 95Buddy iii will let you attach a Memo file to an appointment, todo, or ~Appt I 100/200LX I phone book item. Clock/Calendar views in APPT I 100/200LX I The HP 100/200LX Your HP 100/200LX Appointment Book displays a The Appointment Book, ToDo list, Phone Book, Plus/Minus keys adjust calendar by defau~ in the upper right of the main NoteTaker DataBase, and WorldTime functions will Start/End times and Appointments screen. You can customize your let you attach notes to individual items. Highlight an Todo priorities Appointment Book to display a clock instead of a appointment, ToDo, or individual item in any of You can quickly modify the Start and End times of calendar. From the main Appointments screen, those applications and press I!!I to add your full an existing appointment as follows. From the main press I MENU 1 Qptions Customize ~pointment screen note. You can add notes up to 32K long and Appointments screen highlight the appointment to View. Use the Up or Down arrow key to select review them by highlighting the item and pressing modify, and press I ENTER'. Tab to the Start Time Appointments With Clock, Appointments With I!!). When a note is attached to an appOintment, field. You can key in a new time, or press the Calendar, or Appointments (without either). following key combinations to increase or decrease ToDo, or DataBase item, a small icon appears next an existing time. to the record in the list view (+ on the 100LX, note 11 1,2 t icon on the 200LX). 1'.' '.2 Press these keys accomplish this ~ ' 3 If you want to create an independent docu ment, you can save it as a text file. From the Full ~ ...... increase 15 min Screen Note field, press ~ (Save As), give it a o ...... decrease 15 min name and press ~. Conversely, you can insert I 50 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 decide it should be negative, press I!) , which An example will help clarify this. Let's say you close parentheSis key (above the 0 key). reverses the number's sign, making a positive contact your clients via phone and keep notes On the HP 100/200LX it's at the extreme top number negative, and a negative number positive. about the conversations in MEMO. Open MEMO on left of the keyboard, next to the ESC key. This is true for all HP Palmtops. either Palmtop and key in the following sample sen tence: "Send estimate to John Smith on Aug 5 limEIi 100/200LX I I1d!!i 100/200LX I 1994." Now you might want to create an Aug 5 Which PhoneBook, Memo, appointment to remind you to send the estimate. List function adds data DataBase is Open? quickly; Statistical functions The left side of the titlebars at the top of an applica available on HP 1 00/200LX On the 95LX: Copy and Paste as follows tion usually contains application name and current The List function on all HP Palmtops lets you filename. This information is particularly useful if quickly add a list of numbers. 1. Move the cursor to the beginning of the sen you have more than one NoteTaker or Phone Book On the HP 95LX, go to HP Calc and press tence. file. I MENU' List. If necessary, press I MENU' Erase Data 2. Press ~ (Mark) and move the cursor to the to clear any existing data. Now start entering a list end of the sentence. of numbers you want added (shopping list, checks, N_" Bu~inRSS HoPio 3. Press !!II to Copy the sentence to the clip C o"pu~u~r \l lil BBB 84B 899B whatever). Every time you key in a number and Dolphi Notwork BBB 365 4636 8BB 695 480S • Earlh Postor 714 995 2266 board or I!!I to Cut the sentence out of the Easton Addross a phono 310 314 4278 318 314 oast press I ENTER I, it is added to the list and the Total .Educaliona l Toslin9 Sorvice 689?71 7338 existing document and copy it to the clipboard. Fodoral EKPrvss 88B 247 4147 at the bottom right of the display increases accord Folio Corp . 1 BBB 543 6546 4. Open Appointment Book, go to the desired day GTE Bus iness Offic" B88 223 8896 ingly. You can enter a negative number into the list ':r;s.,-;Viiiihi.. '(iN•• t4 ..,IDW"_".: I ~HP 95LX contract tech support 888 443 1254 ] by keying in the number, pressing the L (+/-) key and highlight the desired appointment slot. tHP Corva llis Service Ctr. 583 i59 3858 ~ tHP Dallas Service Center 214 699 2594 and hitting IENTER'. 5. Press I!!J to Paste the sentence into the IIlm!IIKlDIElIm...... I:'!IIi:!'DIIHlDlIiBJ!l:ll'JIIilI2::m_ appointment slot. 6. With the new appOintment highlighted you can Top left of titlebar at top of PhoneBook ItO" 1l 83 .88 2) 48 . 84 press I ENTER' to edit the appointment descrip All Items screen shows MY2.PDB open J) 19. 59 4) IS.7S tion, change the Date, Start time, or End time, 5) 52.58 .) 31.58 For example, I have three NoteTaker files that 7) 'LBB and enable or disable the Alarm function. Bl(- .1'1] .) 0.B8 I access regularly. When I press ~-~ to SUl'I: 231.89 ~ ______' - Var _...... ,....,..-[ On the 100/200LX: open NoteTaker, I immediately look in the upper left ~_II!ttIDI!ImD ______IUlIDI_ 0.00 J Copy and Paste as follows corner to see the NoteTaker file that is loaded. All HP Palmtops show the file loaded in the 1. Move the cursor to the beginning of the sen upper left hand corner of the display. List function display, HP 100LX tence. The List application on the HP 100/200LX also 2. Press and hold down I MARCH I APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 51 ...... QUI CK T IPS ...... reminds me of the hot key ments with someone at my all in a separate directory ~Adapter combo and saves having to office, reminders to make a and change to that directory 1ilD3I11oOLX I use the arrow keys to high phone call or check with from the DOS prompt before AC adapter light the icon to start the somebody on a project, etc. attempting to run a batch file. application. If I have a meeting outside Larry Alkoff makes some In the example above, the the office, I'll adjust the time CompuServe 10: [72117, 1254J programs run faster " indicates the CTRL key. upwards, depending on how When the AC adapter is You can indicate the AL T key long I think it will take me to plugged in it generally pre with a @ . get to the meeting. I'll set the vents the Palmtop from going Jorge M. Trevino leadtime up to 23:59 for lElI Memo into light sleep (battery con CompuServe 10: [70142, 1041J important meetings I have to serving mode). Some DOS prepare for, reports I have to 1100LX I programs will be slower on do, publishing deadlines I batteries because the way Outliner margins have to make. conflict with other they process information al ~Appt If I think I need more than applications lows the Palmtop to go into a one-day leadtime on an light sleep. Use the AC adap Frequent users of Memo's IilD3II 100/200LX I apPointment, I'll set another outliner feature may want to ter and they run faster. reminder apPointment 2 or How long do you set paste the resulting outline Fred Kaufman more days in advance of the your alarm lead time? into either a full screen note CompuServe 10: [72560,36J real appointment, with notes The HP Palmtops let you set or into the NoteTaker appli in the F3 field on what I have a lead time to your alarms so cation. Unfortunately, the to have at the meeting, re you'll be reminded about an outline formatting gets gar ports that have to be pre .. AppManager appointment before it hap bled when pasted into the pared, etc. Setting an addi pens. note field. tional appointment is a way In Appointment Book on This is because the outline I 100/200LX I to get around the 95LX's 30 the HP 95LX, press (!!) headers in Memo do not Label AppManager minute leadtime limit. (Insert) and fill out the "Enter wrap, and the margins in full icons with hot key Rich Hall the appoinment" screen as screen notes and NoteTaker When you install System Editor, HP Palmtop Paper desired. Use the DownArrow cannot be changed. You get Manager compliant programs key to move the the Alarm about 57 characters on a line in AppManager, you can enable/disable field and in note fields and in Note assign a "hot key" combina press I 52 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 reducing the head move test routines. Here are the ImI!3II 100/200LX I ply adding special characters ments and latency delays on steps common to all ma to a standard text file. These Display graphics the hard disk. These are not chines for all poems. special characters mark the on the HP Palmtop considerations with electronic First, close all open appli key phrases, boundaries of With the thousands of graph storage devices. cations and turn your ma different topics and links to ics files floating around in Stanley Dobrowski chine off. Depress and hold picture or external HyperX CypberSpace many Palmtop CompuServe 10: [71031,2162J IESq. Now push ~ and files. The highlighted key users have been searching release it while still holding phrases can then be used to for the perfect graphics view IESq. Release the ESC key. create selection indexes and You should see the self-test er. Here are some of the hypertext links in the body of mMisc. menu now. highlights on a few graphics programs that have been the text. successfully used on the HP To help save disk space I 100/200LX I Tc:;t all Dll:lplay HyperX includes a compres I~lrc !mrial port Palmtops for both displaying floltlf'ric!l Make your RAM ROM sion utility that compresses a IR nerl..... l port and creating standard graph memory card the TImer!'> HyperX file. The documenta Plug in RAM c olrcJ ics files, PIC, PCX, GIF, etc. "default" drive tion is itself a HyperX file and Initially, the HP 100/200LX • PICEM 1.9b Ii - a free a good example of how to looks for, and saves data Self test menu, 100LX ware graphics display pro structure a HyperX document files in the C:\_DAT directory. gram that occupies 45K and that includes selected PCX However, unlike the HP Cursor-down to Display, the displays standard PIC, PCX pictures for both the 95LX 95LX, you can change this. first item. The instructions and GIF files. You can scale and 100/200LX. On the HP 100/200LX, use below all continue from this the picture to the full screen FILER to move your existing point. (Press I ESq while in and scroll around large pic • GRAFI 1.1 Ii - a small data files (e . g . the the self-test menu to quit the tures. It has the ability to (13K) shareware ($5) graph PhoneBook .PDB and the self-test - your machine will display graphics files in a ics drawing/viewing program Appointment Book .ADB) to a reboot.) sequence. It can be set to designed specifically for the memory card in the A drive. different video modes for HP 95LX using its unique, Now go into a specific appli FIRST POEM: desktop PCs. Set it to CGA 4 built-in graphics mode. You cation (e.g. Phone Book) and HP 95/100/200LX color or CGA 2 color 640 X can sketch small pictures press I MENU I f.ile Qpen. Then Highlight Display and press 200 for the 100/200LX. and drawings and im enter the full name and path I ENTER I 14 times. Each time port/export PCX graphics in the file name box (e.g. • CompuShow Ii - a share you press I ENTER I you will see files. It will draw circles and a : \data\lopez . pdb) and ware program ($25) that will a different display test pat rectangles automatically, press ~ . (You could also tern. On the thirteenth time display, CompuServe GIF, allow single pixel drawing, tab to the Directories window you will see the poem (actu CompuServe RLE, PC Paint and create lines and fills to select your path, then tab ally a limerick) . Press IENTERI brush PCX, PC Paint PIC, shapes automatically. Only to the Files window, select two more times to get back ColoR IX, MacPaint, EFF/ 240 x 128 resolution, black the desired filename and to the test menu. Press IESq ILBMI HAM, Targa, Microsoft press ~) . to quit the test routine. Windows Paint BMP, Dr. and white PCX files are sup Check the file over to Halo, TIFF, and GEMNen ported. make sure you have the right SECOND POEM: tura IMG files. It supports • PIXER.ZIP Ii - a System one and then close the appli HP 100/200LX ONLY CGA color or can be set to -Manager compliant, share cation. The HP 100/200LX Again, highlight Display as CGA monochrome on the ware PCX file editor and "remembers" the last file described above. This time 100/200LX as well as a large viewer for the HP 95LX. name and path used. Next press ICTRLI-I ENTER I for the number of display modes for time you open the application first display test pattern. desktop PCs. it will automatically "default" • IMAGES.ZIP Ii - a set of Press I ENTER I 13 more times files used to create and view to this path and filename. • HyperX 2.2 Ii - allows and you will see a longer PCX images and TOP The HP stores this "default" you to view PCX graphics poem. Members of Compu CARD's for the HP 95LX. It information in a file with the Serve's HPHAND forum files, but it is really a true includes: SNATCH, to cap extension .ENV (environ may be able to identify some hypertext system that will let ture images from a paint ment) located on the C drive of the forum's regulars hid you link a highlighted phrase program; VIEWPCX, to view - that location can't be den in this poem. to a section of text, an exter changed. nal file or to a PCX file. By PCX images; and five sam Fred Kaufman [TeamHPJ THIRD POEM, selecting the highlighted ple PCX images. CompuServe 10: [72560,36J HP 200LX ONLY. phrase and pressing you • SKPD.ZIP Ii - SketchPad Once again, highlight Display jump to the appropriate text is a shareware drawing pack ImII3I 100/200LX I in the test menu and press or picture. HyperX 2.2 is age that lets you create, (CTRLi-(ENTER I. Then press System compliant and runs Hidden poems save, retrieve and view PCX I MARCH I APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 53 I 100/200LX I and Demote (F8) keys which paper? The truth of the mat are used to configure a pro allow you to automatically ter is that watching the key gram when it is loaded via Screen Capture setup a document in outline board is better on the HP AppManager. Also, you can Most screen capture utilities format. This is a perfect way Palmtops. Because the area have one DOS program have dropped support for to take notes since most your eyes have to cover on switchable with the built-in CGA graphics. So 100/200LX professors teach from this the Palmtop is much smaller software. users have come up with a same format. Remember, than on a full size keypad, it Both of these procedures number of ways to grab the are explained in the 1001 BUDDY replaces these keys doesn't slow you down. Also, screens. 200LX manuals in the "Man with Case and Repeat func looking at the screen makes aging Your Applications" tions. Buddy users should you feel compelled to fix PRINT SCREEN section. press (MENU) to change the each and every error as you EASY WAY OUT Robert Roney F7 and F8 keys back to Pro type. I simply did a print screen to Editor, The HP Palmtop Paper mote and Demote respective a LaserJet and then scanned ly. I hope this helps. With a the hard-copy into the PC! little bit of practice and plan Sometimes I forget there are 4. Don't worry about typos, ning, you CAN master the ~ NoteTaker simpler ways to do things, if you will be the only one who HP Palmtop keypad! you have the equipment, a sees them. They are usually Alex Arancia I 100/200LX I LaserJet and a scanner. obvious and you can fix them CampuServe ID: [73023,1546J Fred Roehm later. Besides, reading Tab doesn't work CompuServe ID: [75430,3671J through your notes a second in Note fields, time to scan for errors will IlD3I 100/200LX I or does it? I have printed screens from help you retain the informa HP 95LX System Open NoteTaker, highlight an my 100LX plugging it to a HP tion. compliant programs item, press IENTER I to go to DJ500C printer and pressing should run on the individual data card, and 5. Position your light source Tab to the Note field. You're PRT SC ~-~. properly and make sure there the 100/200LX ready to start entering notes Jorge M. Trevino is enough of it. If your main Most System Manager com on whatever. But watch out if CompuServe ID: [70142, 1041J source of light is to your pliant software that runs on you want to indent a line of sides, you will be forced to the 95LX will run on the text. If you press I < Tab > I you ImI!3I 100/200LX I hold your Palmtop at a less 100/200LX. So, for example, jump to the Category field. More typing tips than optimal angle, slowing the HP 95LX version of INFO You could just hit the for the HP Palmtops you down. Manager should work fine on Spacebar a couple of times the 100/200LX. System Man to indent a line, but there's a Here are some tips that may 6. Holding your HP Palmtop ager compliant software from better solution. When you help users improve their - some general advice: the 95LX is installed in App want to edit the Note field of speed and typing ease on a} Type with the Palmtop Manager on the 100/200LX. an item in NoteTaker, Phone the HP Palmtops. on a desk if possible, or put You can then assign a hot Book, DataBase, WorldTime 1. If you aren't using BUDDylii it down occasionally and rest key such as (ALT)-(MEMO} or AppointmentBook, high light the item in the main on your 95/100/200LX, you your hands and arms bet to start the application. You screen and press (Note). should be. I find that The ween typing. This will mini should be able to switch back ~ DoubleCaps feature lets me mize the cramping effects of and forth between programs press a letter twice quickly to typing on the little guy. Also, the same way you do on the get its capitalized version, or do some hand flexing every 95LX. press a keypad number, or so often. Some System-compliant blue key to get the punctua b} When holding the Palm programs are based on earli tion symbol associated with top (a desk is not available, er DOS versions of the same it. (See the BUDDY manual etc.) use your index and sec program. It may also be or Vo1.3, No. 2, 1994, page ond finger of your predomi possible to install the DOS Full screen view of 15, for more information.) nant hand, and just the version on the 100/200LX. the NoteTaker note field thumb of the other. Three The program must be able to 2. Use self created abbrevia You go to a full screen view fingers are better than two run on an XT class machine tions to reduce keystrokes, especially if the fingers aren't of the Note field. The Tab and be CGA compatible. You key will insert an indent in like; btw=between, ot=on top, on the same hand. This al install DOS programs in this view. fnd=found, -=not, 94=1994, lows for quick operation and AppManager on the 1001 Rich Hall otoh=on the other hand ... etc. access of shifting for charac 200LX using a slightly differ Editor, HP Palmtop Paper This abbrv. mst b somtg u cn ters on the left side of the ent procedure than you rcogniz so u r abl 2 rd it the keyboard. would use for System Man nxt day. c} Remember how your ager compliant software. You 3. Use the built-in organiza high school typing teacher may need to use a program Product Index: pg 55 used to yell at you for looking a ShareJFreeware: pg 56 tional tools in your Palmtop. like AppLoad Iii or AppMan at your fingers and not the MEMO has Promote (F7) to load it. These programs 54 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH / APRIL 1995 Product Index Contact information for products mentioned in articles. See Advertisers Index, next page, for additional product references. HP PRODUCTS ACT! for the HP Palmtop - $ 129 Expert Astronomer DOS - $n/a PC Study Bible ver. 1.0 - $69.95 Contacts: Authorized HP computer Contact management. (See page 35) (See page 21) (See page IS) dealers worldwide (i.e. the same place you Contact: Symantec, USA; Phone: Contact: May still be available in dis· Contact:Biblesoft; Phone: 206·824·8360 can purchase an HP LaserJet). To locate an 800·441·7234 or 408·253·9600; Fax: count bins of software stores. or 206·824·054 7; Fax: 206·824·1828. authorized dealer in the USA, call 800·443· 408·255·3344. 1254. You can also purchase the 95LX & ExpertHelp - reg. $129 Pe~id Databases - $Varies l001200LX and its accessories from ACE American Heritage Dictionary Special for PTP readers - $59 Medical reference. (See page 13) Technologies at 800·825·9977 or 408·734· and Thesaurus 3'.6 - $59.95 Hypertext software. (See page 13) Contact: Pepld; Phone: 8()()'329· 7872 (See page 21) Contact: SofSolutions: Phone: 800·325· ext. 73743 or 708·475·0778; Fax: 708-475· 0100; Fax: 408·734·3344; EduCALC at 8()()' 0779. 677·7001; Fax: 714·582·1445. Global Con Contact: Softkey Intemational; Phone: 6820 or 402·332·5611 , Fax: 402·332·5617, nections at 608·752·1537; Fax: 608·752· 800·227·5609; Fax: 404-427·1150. CIS: 72500,1452. Personal Food Analyst 9548. ACE DoubleCards and Federal Aviation Regulations - $99 Professional - $289 DoubleFlash+ cards - $varies (See page 21) Consumer - $149 HP 38G - $79.95 PCMCIA Flash memory cards. Contact: Summit Aviation; Phone: 800· Dietary reference. (See page 13) (See page 9, call SOO·443·1254) Contact: ACE Technologies, Inc., USA; 328·6280 or 303-425·5994; Fax: 303·425· Contact:Mirical Corp. ; Phone: 800·732· HP 200LX 2MB - $699 Phone: 800·825·9977 or 408·734·0100; Fax: 7138. 7707; Fax: 719·598·5790. (HP Fl061A) 408·734·3344. HP 200LX 1MB - $549 Flash RAM Cards - $Varies Pro-Cite - $395 (HP Fl060A) ACELink - $39 See page 9) Bibliographic reference. (See page 21) HP 1000CX Palmtop PC - $449 Connectivity software. Contact: Sundisk Corporation, USA; Contact: Pro-Cite Personal Bibliographic (HP FI203A) (See page 6, minimum pur· Contact: ACE Technologies, Inc., USA; Phone: 408·562.(J595; Fax: 408·562·3403. Software, USA; Phone: 313·996·1580. chase 48.) Phone: 800·825·9977 or 408·734·0100; Fax: HP OmniBook 600C PC 408· 734·3344. HP Palmtop PaJM)r, Back issues Pocket Quicken - $69.95 486DX2ISO 170MB HD· $varies Contact: Thaddeus Computing, USA; For l00LX users. (See page 4,33) 486DX4f75 260MB HD • $varies AppMan - $29 Phone: 800·373·6114; Fax: 515·472·1879. Contact: Intuit; Phone: 800·354-4023; App"Manager utility. (See page 54) Fax: 603·295·3015; International: 415·858· HP OmniBook 4000 PC Confact: ACE 'rechno/Ogies, Inc., USA; INFO Manager - na 6095. 486DX4/100 520MB HD - $varies Phone: 8()()'825·9977 or 408·734.(Jl00; Fax: (See page 54) 486DX2I50 260MB HD - $varies 408· 734·3344. Contact: No longer available. Quicken for Windows ver. 4 HP StarLink Service - $varies Regular - $29.95 Wireless messaging service, tor "one· Assistant series, French, German, Info Base Bible - DOS - $14 Deruxe - $49.95 stop communications solution." Contact: 800· Italian, Spanish - $79.95 ea. Info Base Bible - Windows - $19.95 Financial software. (See page 4) 917·LlNK. Learn language. (See page 13) (See page 20) Contact: Intuit, USA; Phone: 800·624· 5MB.12v Flash Card - $499 Contact: Globalink, USA; Phone: Contact: Oeseret Books; Phone: 800- 8742; Fax: 415·852·0155; International: 415· (HP Fl012A) with Stacker 3.0 data 800·255·5660 or 703·273·5600; Fax: 453·4532 or 801·534·1515. 858·6095. compression software (not for the 95LX). 703·273·3866. 10MBI12V Flash Card - $879 IntelliLink for Windows - $99.95 Quickverse 2.0 - $n/a (HP Fl013A) with Stacker 3.0 data Banner Blue Movie Guide - $44.99 Brief deSCription. (See page 36) Quickverse 3.0 - $69 compression software (not for the 95LX). (See page 13) Contact: IntelliLink, USA; Phone: 603·888·0666; Fax: 603·888·9817. Bible reference. (See page 20) DictionarylThesaurus Card-$149.95 Contact: Banner Blue Software, USA; Contact: Parsons Technology, USA; (HP F1005A) Phone: 510·794·6850; Fax: 510·794·9152. King James version of the Phone: 800·223·6925 or 319·395.(J115; Fax: AC/DC Adapter RHP F1011A}-$39.95 BATTman - $39 New Testament, E-Text - $Freeware 319·395·7449. USNCanada Opt. ABA) Battery monitor software. (See pa~e 34) (See page 20) SeedMaster - $30 shareware Europe (Opt. BB) Contact: ACE TechnologIes, USA; Contact: CompuServe HPHANO Forum, Australia (Opt. ABG) Other Bible software prices on Phone: 800·825·9977 or 408·734·0100; Fax: Library 13. A deposit of a Project Gutenberg request. (See page 20) United Kingdom (Opt. ABU) 408·734·3344. ASCII text. South Africa (Opt. ABO) Contact: White Harvest Software; Phone: PC Connectivity Cable - $24.95 Borland language products - $var Kodak Diconix 180si - $329 800·318-7333; Fax: 919·870.(J775. (HP Fl015A) Connect 95LX and 100/· ies Portable printer. (See page 24) SofSolutions BBS - $varies 200LX to DOS compatible PC. Programming la~Uages (C, C++, Pascal, Contact: Kodak Company, USA; Phone: (See Rage 27) MAC Connectivity Cable - $24.95 Turtlo Pascal, etc .. (See page 21) 800·235-6325 or 716·724·3592; Fax: Contact: SofSolutions: Phone: 800·325· (HP Fl016A) Connect 95LX and 1001· Contact: Bo and, USA; Phone: 800-331· 716·726·3108. 6820 or 402·332·5611, Fax: 402·332·5617, 200LX to Apple peS/MACs. 0877 or 408·438·8400; Fax: 408-439·9119. CIS: 72500,1452 95LX Connectivity Pack - $119.95 Langenscheidt's German/English (HP Fl001A) Brother's Keeper - $shareware Dictionary for DOS - DM 98 Stacker 4.0 - $99.95 100/2ooLX Genealogy software available on CompuServe (See page 2'1) File compression software. (See page IS) Genealogy Support Forum. (See Jl MARCH / APRIL 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 55 HOW TO CONTACT US Products advertised in this issue of The HP Palmtop Paper I There are a number of ways to get in Company Product [Phone/Fax numbers) Page number I touch with The HP Palmtop Paper staff. Accurite (Floppy drives for tOO/200LX) . . . [408-433-1980; Fax: 408-433-1716) .. 39 You can write; mail us a dIsk with ACE (ACE) ...... [800-825·9977 or 408·734-0100; Fax: 408-734-3344)'.28,29 your comments; send CompuServe (Palmtop/Omnibook Products Includes: ACT! for HP Palmtops; ACE <->FAX Fax mail; fax; or call. Our mailing address Software and Modem Bundles; ACE <->UNK File Transfer Software; BA TTman Battery and contact information is: Monitoring and Data Protection Software; Carrying Cases; Desktop Card Readers; Acoustic Modem Couplers; HP 200LX Palmtop Systems; HP Color OmniBook Software. NiMH Batteries; Printers and Accessories; X-JACK Megahertz Modem Bundles.) Thaddeus Computing, Inc., (ACE DoubleFlash+Plus FlashRAM to 80MB) ...... back cover P.O. Box 869 or 57 E. Broadway, Aware Electronics (Gieger Counter) . . . . [800-729-5397; Phone/Fax: 302-655-3800) ..27 Fairfield, IA 52556, U.S.A. Brownstone (Option Trading System) [800-642-7116; TeVFax: 908-654-7108) .. 20 Phone: 515-472-6330 or 801l-373-6114; CSS (Barcode system) ...... [800-733-5017 or 503-752-4419; Fax: 503-752-7037) .. 36 Fax #:515-472-1879; DataViz (MacLink Plus) . . . [800-733-0030 or 203-268-0030; Fax: 203-268-4345)..41 CIS 10: Hal Goldstein, (75300,2443] DesignWare (Palmtop circuit analysis software) . [617-923-4275 Fax: 800-536-7595) ..26 Internet: [email protected] E&B (Leather Cases) [800-896-2273; Inl'l: 916·344-5047; Fax: 916-782-9306) .. 19 EduCALC (Accessories Catalog) . . . . [800-713-6526 or 714-582-2637; Fax: 714-582-1445) .. 11 To advertise in The HP Palmtop Paper, EI Dorado (200LX & accessories) . . [800--227-8292 or 415-494-6600; Fax: 415-494-1995)'.37 contact Bnan Teitzman or Margaret Envoy Data (PCMCIA Products) ...... [602-892-0954; Fax: 602-892-0029) . .43 EXP Computer (ThinFax Modem)...... [800-EXP-6922 x 641; Fax: 714-453-1319) ..inside back Martin. Experience in Software (Project Kickstart) . . . . . [800-678-7008 or 510-644-0694; Fax: 510-644-3823) .. 17 To subscribe, change address, or clear Extended Systems (Desktop Infrared Interface) . .. . [800-235-7576 or 208-322-7575; Fax: 406-587-9170)..37 ~p any problem with subscrip (Jet Eye Infrared Printer Interface...... 24 YPll! Global Connections (Palmtops & accessories) ...... [608-752-1537; Fax: 608-752-9548.) .. 15 tion, contact our subscrIption depart Inmax (CGANGA Graphics Pack 'Vision' ...... [604-980-9991; Fax: 604-985-5597) .. 34 ment (Director Sharon Dilritore, IntelliLink (Windows Connectivity Pack) ...... [603-888-0666; Fax: 603-888-9817)..31 CompuServe ID: [76125,1773]). Intuit (Pocket Quicken) [800-781-5999 ex 810 204; Fax: 602-295-3015.) .. 7 MicroGram (Card Software Development System) . . . . . [Phone/Fax: 415-747-0811) .. 32 Technical Support Opus 63 (Liberator Shoulder Holster) . ... [800-588-0PUS or 718-706-6787; Fax:718-706-7034) ..33 Palm Computing (PalmConnect) ...... [800-881-7256 or 415-949-9560; Fax: 415-949-0147')'.5 HP Technical Support - HP offers Shier Systems (aeClS - CompuServe access program) . . . . .[805-371 -9391 ; Fax: 805-371-9454)..4 these options: Simple Simon Software (SS Faxer) ...... [817-283-6691; Fax: 817-283-5871) ..42 Smart Modular (Fax/Modem & Memory) . [800-536-1231 or 510-623-1231; Fax: 510-623-1434) .. inside front • FREE TECHNICAL SUPPORT- is Steele Creek Tech. (Card-link Drives) ...... [Phone & Fax: 704-588-1780) ..31 offered to all Palmtop users and is Thaddeus Computing (HP Palmtop Paper) ...... [800-373-6114; Fax: 515-472-1879) .. 8 available by caI1ing 503-757-2004. (HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK) 45,49 • FREE AUTOMATED SUPPORT- is offered 24 hours a day by calling 800- 443-1254. • REQUEST FAXED OR MAILED INFORMATION - 800-752-0900. On-Line Support - offered by these Shareware and Freeware Index (MarchlApril1995) bulletin board services. Software on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK or CompuServe • COMPUSERVE: GO HPHAND ~ ~ CIS forumllib~ ~ ~ FORUM - Call 800-848-8199 or 614- HYP100.ZIP Application: HyperX 2.2 hypertext system HPHAND/100LX Gen. 11 Share 53 457-0802: For FREE membership state HYP95.ZIP Application: HyperX 2.1d hypertext system HPHANDI95LX Gen, 7 Share 53 #231. . IMAGES21P Application: Graphics toots and flies for the HP 95LX. HPHAND195LX Gen, 7 Free 53 PIXERZIP Application: Graphic Editor and Vl8wer for the HP 95LX. HPHANDI95LX Gen, 7 Share 53 • AMERICA ON LINE: Keyword CLASSES21P Database: Conrad Cox's CLASSES.GOB from Reference. na Free 22 PALMTOP - Call 800-227-6364 or LlBDB.ZIP Database: Descriptions of files in CIS HP forums HPHANDl100LX Gen, 11 Free 21 703-.893-6288 for membership infor PRC20.ZIP Database: Files mentioned in Programme~s Corner. na Free 25,26,27 mation. programming and teaching databases, contains: nlPS.DOC, BATIP.GDB. SLVR_HLP.GDB, ANSIED.GDB, • INTERNET: comp.sys.palmtops; or 8088IS.GDB, KEYCODE.GDB, DOO_HLP.GDB, EONS.NDB eddie.mit.edu. nlPS.EXE. nlPS.TIP, IOSffiM.NDX, IOSTRM.DOC PTPDSK20.ZIP Database: PTP OnDisk Index in 951100LX formats na Free na How to submit an article SPANISH.lIP Database: Spanish language leaming toots In na Free 23,24 1001200LX detabase format CHARTS.GDB, NEW-Vas.GDB, The richness of The HP Palmt0l' Paper NEW-WDS.GDB, PHRASES.GDB, PRAC-VB.GDB, PRAC-WD.GDB. comes from the contributions of Palm SPANISH. GOB, TRAN-VB.GDB. TRAN-Wo.GoB, VERB-IRRGoB, top PC users. We and your fellow VERas.GDB users welcome your submissions. (We TlG20.ZIP Database & Lotus: Some files mentioned in Through na Free 47,48 do not offer payment for articles; your the Looking Glass. Contains: CBRK.GOB, CBRK.WK1 , reward is kriowing that you've helped FRUIT.PRN. others.) ABKTOOLZIP utility: Ver. 4.2 APPT viewer editor. HPHANDI95LX Gen,7 Share 39 1£ you have a good idea and want MACRDS.ZlP utility: Flies described in the System Macro article: na Free 41 MAlN.MAC, MEMO.MAC, DATABASE. MAC. APPT.MAC. 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