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Q) E User to User ...... E :::J We move from paper to the web, HP is not what it o was; 4000 Palmtops for resale; backlighting can· > celled; keyboard options. Last Print Issue ... Publisher's Message ...... 2f We're Moving to Web Through the Looking Glass ...... 8 Future issues can be found at GD BWIN: a Windows·based program lets you view and edit Palmtop database, NoteTaker and PhoneBook files on www.PalmtopPaper.com most desktops and laptops.

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've lost track of the number of times I've said I "Here we go, again" in the context of changing jobs and careers.

It looks like I'll be changing jobs again. This time it's The HP Palmtop Paper a switch from editing the printed version of The HP Palmtop Paper to maintaining the Palmtop Paper on the Web. The change is happening sooner than I expected, but that's life in the fast­ paced world of the information age.

For the past two years I've served as the editor of The HP Palmtop Paper. It's Volume 9/Issue 3 been exciting-sort of like riding a bicycle down hill-without any brakes. It's May/June 2000 been a challenge dealing with the later stages of the HP Palmtop's product-life­ Executive EditorIPublisher cycle while trying to keep up with the new uses people keep finding for our ven­ Hal Goldstein ([email protected]) erable machine. Publications Director Richard Hall Over the past eight years, The HP Palmtop Paper has enhanced the Palmtop Managing Editor User's Guide with articles and tips for beginners and advanced users. We've Ed Keefe ([email protected]) documented the usefulness of the Palmtop with tales from users themselves. Art Director Joan Hinerichsen Department Editor Now, we'll be moving exclusively to the Web. This will allow us to be more Wayne Kneeskern timely with articles about how people are currently using the HP Palmtop. Look Contributing Writers for articles about ham radio, software for scripture scholars, GPS receivers and Nathalie Bugeaud, M.D. cellular telephones used with the Palmtop. There will still be the usual "Tips, Avi Meshar Circulation Traps and Techniques" ,letters and new product reviews. The advantages will Marge Enright be that we can insert live links to other places on the Web so you won't have Sharon Ash to type the URL's. Executive Advisor Rita Goldstein In this transitional issue we give you a taste of things to corne. Wayne For orders or customer service Kneeskern has two articles. His Gutenberg database will help you organize your [email protected] Palmtop as a virtual library when used with the 2000 CD InfoBase. His second article reveals that the Palmtop can do something no other Palmtop or PDA can: The HP Palmtop Paper (ISSN 10656189) is pub­ lished by Thaddeus Computing Inc., at 110 North sniff the air on board a space shuttle and the upcoming International Space Court Street, Fairfield, IA 52556. Periodical postage Station. Natalie Bugeaud, MD., offers a mind-expanding article on the future paid at Fairfield, Iowa. Subscription rates payable in U.S. dollars, checks drawn on a U.S. bank, or by of 'personal computing.' Hal Goldstein takes a first look at the latest offering credit card - one year: $39; two years: $69. Postage: from HP, the Jornada 545 Pocket PC.,ln my 'Through the Looking Glass' col­ U.s. and U.s. possessions free; Canada, Mexico add $6 per year; other countries add $18 per year. umn, I tell about a Windows program that makes using the Palmtop's database Published bi-monthly. Please allow four to six weeks applications even easier. The "Tips, Traps and Techniques" column is an eclec­ for receipt of first issue. Executive, Editorial, Circulation, Marketing and Advertising Offices: 110 tic mixture of suggestions for those who are pushing the Palmtop to do more. North Court Street, Fairfield, IA 52556. Telephone: (515) 472-6330, FAX: (515) 472-1879. See you, next time, on the Web at www.PalmtopPaper.com Copyright 2000, Thaddeus Computing, Inc., all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be repro­ duced without written permission. Reasonable efforts Here we go again! are made to provide accurate and useful information, but the reader must make his or her own investiga­ tions and decisions; the Publisher and Editorial Staff cannot assume any responsibility or liability for the use of information contained herein. POSTMASTER; Please send any address changes to 17" HP Palmtop Paper, Attn: Thaddeus Computing, Inc., 110 North Court Street, Fairfield, IA52556.

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The HP 200LX helps perform air quality monitoring aboard the space shuttle Discovery and aboard the International Space Station. by Wayne Kneeskern

ver the past couple of years ..JPL range of organic and inorganic mol­ O I've read all the MUPs (Most ecules down to the parts-per-million Unusual Place) that Palmtop level. The objective on Discovery's users have reported from (mountain mission STS-95 was to flight-test E­ tops, submarines, planes, etc). In the Nose and assess its ability to monitor first article on MUPs there was the changes in the Shuttle mid deck statement: "The Ultimate MUP does atmosphere. not exist!" In the close confines of a space­ I may not have discovered the craft, the air that crew members "Ultimate" MUP but I may have breathe is filtered and recycled found the Most "Universal" Place for The HP Palmlop sure doesn'llook like a nose, bul il is. throughout the mission. Since the air a Palmtop. An HP 200LX circled the supply is limited and very difficult to entire globe, 340 miles overhead, for Dan Karmon, Ph.D, from JPL, was replace, the buildup of atmospheric six days. kind enough to write up a short tech­ contaminants is a concern to crew On October 29, 1998 the space nical description of the E-Nose to use health. Such contaminants have been shuttle Discovery lifted off amidst a in The HP Palmtop Paper. As Project found in the shuttle crew cabin air. storm of controversy. On board the Manager, he also talks about the The accumulation of these potential­ flight was Senator John Glenn who, at miniature Quadrupole Mass ly harmful gases poses a more serious age 77, was the oldest person to jour­ Spectrometer Array (QMSA) which threat during long missions aboard a ney into space. With all the media they are developing. (See sidebar) space station or enroute to distant attention given to the "elder astro­ Thaddeus Computing is working bodies in the solar system. naut" you may have missed the news with the JPL to provide them with In addressing these concerns, about the "elder Palmtop" that was the circuit boards from the 200LX spacecraft designers must also deal on board. which they will be using to develop with the usual size and weight restric­ this portable tool (QMSA) that will be tions placed on all spacecraft com­ The lIP Palmtop Controls an used by astronauts on the ponents. The challenge of maintain­ Electronic Nose International Space Station (ISS). The ing air quality must be met with Along with the other payloads on first flight is slated for early 2001. small, lightweight efficient systems. board the Discovery Mission STS-95 The E-Nose is a new, miniature Hence the development by Jet was an Electronic Nose (E-Nose), a environmental monitoring instrument Propulsion Laboratory of a miniature device developed jointy by Jet that detects and identifies a wide air quality monitoring system, called Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the California Institute of Technology (CalTech). This device, used to mon­ ABOUT THE AUTHOR itor changes in atmospheric condi­ Wayne Kneeskern ([email protected]) is Copy Editor of The HP tions, was controlled by an HP 200LX Palmtop Paper and Controller at Thaddeus Computing. He lives in Richland, Iowa with his wife, Gert. They have two married children Palmtop. and 4 grandchildren who are the joy of their lives.

THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY I JVNE 2000 3 NEWS: The HP 200LX Powers an Electronic Nose in Space

record a marker, and enter the event on a mission elapsed time log sheet. "Off-the-Shelf" 200LX used by "Shade Tree Engineer" E-nose measurement baseline was reestablished every three hours. E­ I talked to Shannon Jackson from write fast code using a mix of MS C Nose data was stored internally for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory about the (version 5.1), Quick Basic (version postflight analysis. HP 200LX being used on the space shut­ 4.5) and the Lab Windows Libraries According to Dr. Karmon the E­ tle mission and asked him to explain (for RS232, graphics, analysis, etc). Nose experiment was successful. how he used the palmtop in his job as We also used source code and infor­ To read more about the Discovery Senior Engineer. He sent me this mation from the HP Handbook to OV103, Flight STS-95 shuttle mission, response: design a custom display and to con­ point your Web browser at To: Wayne trol things like the IR Port and HP http://www.ksc.nasa.gov. • From: Shannon P. Jackson, interrupts. Senior Engineer The one restriction we had to Information and deal with was that flight rules would Computing not allow us to use any batteries. Technologies Research We were able to fool the HP 200LX Section into thinking it was always booting II'vl Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the first time by connecting the positive main battery terminal to the MOVld Yes, they call me a "Senior backup battery terminal, through a Engineer Type", but I call myself a 1K resistor. This caused the 200LX to "Shade Tree Engineer." I'm always boot from the A drive where we kept to looking for "off-the-shelf" methods all our applications. to make my job easier. The HP We also were not allowed to www!PalmtU.Pa,.RGUm 200LX Palmtop is a good example. open the ENose box to download For the ENose, we needed a plat­ data. An additional connector was form with a good Micro Controller also a problem with safety and reg­ that could connect to many devices, ulations. So, while the wired COM e.g., analog to digital converters, Port was used to interface with the MUXes, Solenoids, an RTC, and an Micro Controller, the IR Port was air pump. We needed to control all used to upload and download data of these gadgets with one device. through a fire extinguisher hole in We also needed something that was the side of the ENose box. We used small and light weight. Above all the Palmtop's built-in Kermit pro­ else we wanted something that we tocol along with a Kermit program could program with fast high-level in the ENose to make the connection. code. Thank you for all of your help, The 200LX was perfect. With its DOS based system, we were able to Shannon Jackson c._ ... the Electronic Nose, because it oper­ sor array to identify ten toxic com­ • New lips and Tricks • ates in a manner similar to the human pounds. In addition to the sensors the • Reviews· olfactory sense in detecting air flight equipment included a valve changes. assembly to control airflow to the • HowTD's· The problems with current air sensor, a customized operator inter­ • User to User Colunm • quality monitoring equipment may face and the control "palmtop." An be solved by the extremely compact alcohol wipe kit was also provided as and unobtrusive design of E-Nose. a daily marker for the experiment. Mil l1l'i lit This comprehensive measurement of During the 6-day experiment a 8.5 van of TIrJ II'PtJlnttfJ -.SIIII'CIIIaB spacecraft air quality by a miniature, crew member would collect ambient, 11Ie UIIImate PHntop Store distributed device also has potential cabin air samples in a grab-sample _ate Ib'ary 01 down/OadS application for environmental moni­ container for post flight independent LiIks to other lIP puntop Web sites toring and control on earth. analysis. In addition, the alcohol wipe The monitoring device used a sen- was applied to the E-Nose daily to

4 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY/ JUNE 2000 ated by the Shuttle 28Vdc.) A2 MB sion will be for detection and quan­ The Electronic Nose and The HP 200LX was used along with a 6 tification of nitrogen, oxygen, ammo­ Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer Array MB flash card for safe data storage. nia, and hydrazines. It is slated for The operational software, pro­ first flight in early 2001. By: Dan Karmon, Ph.D grammed in Quick Basic 45 with Preliminary design indicated that Project Manager - QMSA additional C Libraries, was also we can leverage the experience SSET Avionics/ ATTI stored on the flash memory and gained on the E-Nose (See above) Avionics "moved" to RAM upon power-up. and apply the HP 200LX to the Lead Avionics Equipment This memory configuration would QMSA. In this case, however, using Section 344 have been sufficient for a IS-day the 200LX "as is" was not an option. Jet Propulsion Laboratory Space Shuttle mission. The 200LX Only the 200LX circuit board will controlled the experiment (pneu­ be utilized (See pictures). As in the The Electronic Nose (E-Nose) matic system, miniature pump, sole­ E-Nose, the 200LX Palmtop batteries was developed jointly by Jet noid valve, and sensor heaters) and are not used. Additionally, the Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and executed the normal health checks 200LX display signals were re-rout­ the California Institute of and safety monitoring. Additionally, ed to a space qualified display sys­ Technology (CalTech). In many since the E-Nose requires highly tem as required for astronaut use in ways it mimics the human nose accurate measurement of resistance space. Memory configuration was and is designed to monitor changes changes, it was placed in the mea­ the same as the E-Nose. The 200LX in an atmosphere to which it is surement and error nulling loop of was programmed in MS C 5.1 with exposed. It is based on the multi­ the sensor measurement electron­ some Lab Window libraries. sensing principle in which the dis­ ics. The 200LX controlled the inter­ tributed response of an array is rogation of the sensors at a known ..JPL used to identify the constituents of time interval, registered critical mea­ a gaseous environment. Individual surements, nulled outputs as need­ sensor films are not specific to any ed, calibrated as needed, registered one gas. It is in the use of an array results, registered the time, did some of different sensor films that gases of the calculations, and stored a and gas mixtures can be uniquely series of parameters. The final data analysis was done after the flight, identified by the pattern of mea­ QVlSA 1.1.:I;lronics i\sscmhl) sured electrical response. in the lab. The E-Nose was successfully ..JPL Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer Array (QMSA) Exploded View flown on STS-95 space shuttle mis­ showing HP 200LX motherboard xxx sion (October 1998). It monitored the middeck air continually for This instrument is more complex over six days and took data sam­ that the E-Nose. The TGA requires ples every 3 seconds. Following an operator interface (switches, dis­ analysis and comparison with other play, indicators, etc.), tool control, independent data, the experiment sensor control, and real time display of data. The 200LX handles all the was judged to be very successful. I TGA operations including safety It was clear from the beginning Quadrupole Mass Speclromeler Array (QMSA) that we would need a small com­ interlocks, power-up, and calibra­ puter to run and control the E-Nose tion. Based on operator's selection The Quadrupole Mass of menu driven mode of operation experiment. We chose the HP Spectrometer Array (QMSA): The 200LX palmtop as an available and the 200LX controls the sensor QMSA was developed at the Jet sequences, the data collection, the inexpensive solution. The HP Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It is to 200LX was used "as is" secured to calculations, and data handling. The be integrated into a portable tool 200LX will store the data and send the cover of the E-Nose box (See (TGA-Trace Gas Analyzer) for use by picture). We only needed one appropriate information to the new astronauts on the International Space display. • modification. We had to make the Station (ISS). The QMSA is a high­ Palmtop start up without any bat­ ly sensitive sensor and was designed teries. This made it easier to pass and tested to identify and quantify the stringent shuttle safety require­ constituents up to 150 amu. (atom­ ments. (The experiment was oper- ic mass units). Its primary ISS mis-

THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY / JUNE 2000 5 , NEW S NEW S NEW S NEW S N E' W S User to User

We move from paper to the Web, HP is not what it was; 4000 Palmtops for resale; backlighting cancelled; keyboard options. by Hal Goldstein

e began publishing The HP a product team. If the proposed prod­ Isite and our Ultimate Palmtop Store W Palmtop Paper almost nine uct actually got created, a small mar­ means we can continue for years to years ago and The Portable keting group tried to figure out how come. We'll continue The HP Palmtop Paper, our HP Portable Plus maga­ to package and sell it. HP was decen­ Paper online, and we will continue to zine, fifteen years ago. These publi­ tralized, each division had its own support Palmtop users with a number cations taught us that HP users were marketing, manufacturing, person­ of products and services. incredibly loyal and incredibly inter­ nel, accounting, and research and ested in exploiting the possibilities of development departments. The result 4000 Palmtops to Sell their mobile devices. was often high price products, dys­ I predict that we will be support­ Times have changed in 15 years. functional marketing, and some extra­ ing Palmtops for a number of years to The advent of Windows, of desktop ordinary products. The new HP CEO, come. I base this thinking on past computers everywhere, and of the Carly Fiorina, has tried to recapture experience. The HP Portable Plus Internet have turned computers from HP product brilliance (the new HP was discontinued in 1987 and yet we 'tools for power users' into com­ logo has "Invent" on it). However, maintained a business supporting modity items. With mass merchan­ she has a marketing background and these portables and the discontinued dizing, we have all become spoiled. comes from outside the company. HP 150 Touchscreen PC until 1994-­ We want the latest device today, Previously CEOs were engineers and almost seven years! cheap, and we usually get it. To con­ homegrown. Given the mass-market Our recent large purchase of Euro­ tinue its growth Hewlett-Packard environment, her background, and a English Palmtops from the Dutch joined this trend and sells as many much more centralized HP, I just Railway guarantees that we will be boxes as inexpensively as possible. don't think Ms. Fiorina can make HP supporting Palmtop users with prod­ The result: HP is not the HP we knew into what it once was. ucts and repairs for some time. The when we began our publications. The HP Palmtop side of Thaddeus good news is that most of the 4000 The joke used to be that HP stood Computing is now an anachronism of Palmtops we receive will be in good for "High Price" and that it could sorts. Our low volume model is based shape. Any damaged units will be market sushi as cold, dead fish and on customer loyalty and customer fixed, before we receive them, under still sell it to knowledgable gourmets. interest in these incredible palmtops. an HP service agreement. We can use Now HP can compete price and mar­ We offer service and high quality Palmtops in poor shape for parts for keting-wise with any company. products at a fair (but not a "cheap") repair, refurbishing, and warranty Unfortunately, as a by-product, the price. work. We expect to make future pur­ Corvallis, Oregon division that cre­ Unfortunately, it no longer makes chases from companies with large ated a long line of great calculators, sense to print The HP Palmtop Paper on numbers of Palmtops so even when the HP Portable Plus, and the HP paper because there are no longer we run out of these units, we should 200LX Palmtop PC no longer exists. enough paid subscribers. At the same have more Palmtops for resale. Also, excellent companies like time, customer attraction to our Web I like the Euro-English Palmtops EduCalc and ACE Technologies that supported HP products no longer ...------, ABOUT THE AUTHOR exist. Hal Goldstein ([email protected]) is Publisher and Executive Editor When I worked at HP in 1981, it of The. HP Palmto~ Paper and Pocket PC (formerly Handheld PC m~gazme) and preSIdent of Thaddeus Computing. He has published, was a well known fact that even a edIted: and wntten for five magazines on portable computing since bottom level engineer could come up foundmg Thaddeus Computing in 1985. He lives with his wife, Rita, with a product idea and lobby to form and sons, Thaddeus and Solomon, in Fairfield, fA.

6 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY / JUNE 2000 better than US Palmtops. The only believe we will eventually be able to 200LX upgrades, discovered and difference is the appearance of the offer a product. But please don't call wrote a driver for a product, literally keyboard. Euro-English Palmtops us for how close we are to a solution. a black box, called "Keymate". The show, for example, how the Fn key, in The latest information will be posted KeyMate adapter sits in the middle combination with another key, can at www.PalmtopPaper.com and on between a standard desktop PS/2 generate a tilde, a beta symbol, or an the HPLX-L discussion group where keyboard, and the 200LX. Mack has upside down question mark. Actually, you can actively monitor progress. If both the serial and IR connection there are more symbols that can be and when we have a product, we'll working! generated on the US and Euro­ send you notification. However, we English Palmtops that even the will no longer speculate on if and Here's how it works: European keyboard doesn't show. For when it will be available. 1. Install Mack's custom keyboard example, in Memo, Fn 9 produces software onto the 200LX. 3/4, Fn Quicken generates a copy­ More Good News: Cables and 2. Connect a standard desktop right symbol, and Fn HPCalc makes Keyboards PS/2 keyboard to the KeyMate box. a double less than sign bracket. One of our major concerns in pur­ 3. Connect the KeyMate box to the (Check out Appendix C in the HP chasing 4000 Palmtops was the poten­ Palmtop either with a serial or IR 200LX User's Guide to see the many tial unavailability of HP 200LX serial cable. Either cable plugs into the box. possibilities.) You'll see that holding connectivity cables. Fortunately, the Use the HP 200LX connectivity cable down Alt, then Menu and typing a good people at HP gave me permis­ with the KeyMate serial cable. number between 32 and 255 generates sion to purchase a large number of Alternatively, place KeyMate IR cable the full character set. There are two cables from their own manufacturer. with its IR embedded eye near the such character sets labeled DOS Code That means we will have plenty of HP 200LX IR port (to the right of the Page 437 and 850. These sets can be cables for HP 200LX users and for backup battery). The IR cable is itself toggled using F7 (Intl) in Setup. other products such as keyboards. both movable and stiff so that it eas­ These 4000 Palmtops also have a Now we will be able to attach the ily allows the user to line up the two white Dutch Railway logo on the top 200LX serial plug (rather than a 9-pin IR eyes. It sounds complicated but it of the case. You can eliminate the standard serial plug) to the HP isn't. white coloring easily with nail polish Jornada keyboard we sell. remover. However, a slight logo Unfortunately, for those who already Not goodbye embossment does remain if you look purchased the Jornada keyboard from I will continue writing this col­ closely. Fortunately, the logo is attrac­ us, due to the delicate nature of the umn on our Web site at www. tive and distinctive if you decide to connection we cannot reliably replace PalmtopPaper.com. So it's not good­ leave it alone. existing cables with the HP 200LX bye, we're just changing media. cable. Thank you for all your support and Everyone who has used the kind words these many years. • Jornada keyboard has agreed it has the best touch and responsiveness of any portable keyboard. As of this writing, the Jornada keyboard is only Come join us, available for Palm-size PCs, not the www.PalmtopPaper.com Pocket PC and its unique serial/USB HP Pa lmtop with Dutch Railway logo. port. Therefore, although we are hopeful, we do not know for sure Backlighting Cancelled - Sort Of how long the keyboard will be man­ We have officially cancelled the ufactured. Also, since the keyboard backlighting project for the HP 200LX. works with the Palm-size unit, which We judged that we could no longer is no longer sold, we will sell the key­ string customers along. There are board with just the HP 200LX cable problems with the physical installa­ attached, making the keyboard a Pa tion of the backlight that have not more compact usable product for the been solved. We haven't come up HP 200LX. with a reliable method to remove the palmtop's original reflective film and Use Your Desktop Keyboard with replace it with another film. We have the lIP 200LX. not given up and, deep down, I Mack Baggette, creater of the HP

THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY / JUNE 2000 7 REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW Through the Looking Glass

GDBWIN: a Windows-based program lets you view and edit Palmtop database, Note Taker and PhoneBook files on most desktops and laptops. by Ed Keefe

ver the years, I've created sev­ Memo file into a database file. The 'using CPack or GDBIO to convert O eral custom database and only problem with this was that the these text files to a database. That NoteTaker files for the HP copy and paste clipboard on the technique almost works, but large Palmtop. Those files that contain Palmtop was limited to, at most, 10K Note fields get truncated and have information useful to the Palmtop bytes at a time. But, even with insert­ to be finished by further copying or community have been released into ing, copying and pasting, data entry pasting. the public domain and made avail­ on the Palmtop was still a task for able on the 2000 CD InfoBase as well nimble fingers: not something I'm An External Keyboard Proves as on the S.U.P.E.R. site. (See the blessed with. Helpful Finding Support for Your 200LX arti­ The HP Connectivity Pack pro­ Wayne Kneeskern, in his "Project cle on page 17 where some of them vided some relief. It let me do almost Gutenberg" article, in this issue of are listed.) all the data entry on a desktop. The The HP Palmtop Paper, tells how he only drawback was that CPack does­ used an external keyboard to solve The Problem With Databases n't make it easy to copy and paste. the problem of data entry. Nothing The database engine on the HP One way to perform the operation is beats typing all the information into Palmtop makes it relatively easy to to load a text file into Memo and copy a database if you want first-hand create a database. The search and sub­ highlighted information to the clip­ knowledge of what's in the file. set features of the program make it board. Then close Memo, open the simple to sort, search for and retrieve database and paste it in the appro­ Stuck With Nowhere to Go information. However, the tiny key­ priate field. (Another way is to insert All of the above techniques work board of the Palmtop makes it frus­ text, up to 32K bytes, in an otherwise but, when information comes from trating to get information into the empty Notes field of a database. From the World Wide Web, Word or Word database. I have a hunch that the cre­ the Notes field you can highlight and Perfect documents, etc., there's the ation of many a database has been copy some of the information to the added chore of converting the infor­ thwarted by this limitation of the clipboard. Then you can select anoth­ mation to ASCII text format and then Palmtop. My hard disk is littered with er record and paste it into the Note inserting it into a DOS based data­ several such unfinished databases. field. This saves opening and closing base. The task is not difficult, just the Memo application.) To make time-consuming. An Evolving Solution things more difficult, CPack's clip­ I longed for a better solution: a During the past seven years, I've board is limited to about 4K bytes Window's version of the HP database used a variety of methods to stuff and there's no way to enlarge its engine that would let me copy infor­ data into the Palmtop's databases. capacity. mation from other Windows pro­ Like most beginners I started out by I've tried other data entry tech­ grams and paste it directly into the keying in the information on the niques such as creating Comma database. Ideally, the resulting data­ Palmtop itself. Separated Values (CSV) files and base file would work with both the Then I discovered that the Notes field in the database engine would let me insert text files of up to 32K ABOUT THE AUTHOR bytes. (Just press the F3 (Notes) and Ed Keefe is an author and editor of The HP Palmtop Paper and the F3 (Insert) keys and type in the name book PC In Your Pocket: Information When You Need It. Ed is also a former college instructor of logic and computer science and a consul­ of a text file.) I soon found that it was tant in the computer industry. Ed can be reached at [email protected] possible to copy and paste from a

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Windows and Palmtop's database you view and edit information in the proved futile. TORU states that he engine without the need to convert database files. It will let you add or will only accept email written in from one platform to the other. A delete category words and subsets. Japanese and mayor may not Windows version of the database However it will not let you create or respond. engine would also let me view a data­ modify a database. You must create base file on my desktop without hav­ custom databases on the Palmtop (or The Good Features ing to use the CPack program. in CPack) before they can be accessed Over the past three months with GOBWin. As a result the pro­ GOBWin has become the second Enter GnBWIN gram is of use only to owners of the most-frequently-used piece of soft­ About three months ago I noticed HP 100/200LX Palmtops. ware on my Win98 computer. First an email on the HPLX-L mailing list place goes to my email program. from Alan Striegel. The message men­ Getting Your Own Copy of GnBWin I've used GOBWin to access copies tioned a Windows program called Using your WWW browser go to of my current Palmtop database files GOBWIN by a Japanese programmer. www.PalmtopPaper.com and we will and have been using it to develop a The note included a hot link to down­ have instructions to guide you NoteTaker file of "miscellaneous load the file. through the necessary steps to down­ reflections" (MRNOB). Sad to say, the hot link didn't link, load your copy of GOBWin. The MRNOB file is currently at but I persisted. I did my own search SOOK bytes and growing. It contains of the World Wide Web and found A Brief ffistory of GnBWin the standard Title, Category and an English description of GOBWin The author of GOBWin, TORU Notes fields common to NoteTaker along with a way to get a copy of the MIYAMORI, apparently started files. I've been able to do all the data program. Here's my version of the working on the program in 1996 and entry on my Win98 machine and per­ description and the way to get your continued to develop it up to form such tasks as adding category own copy of GOBWin. November of 1999 when he posted words such as "analogies", "pensees", the most recent version of the pro­ "questions", "suggestions", etc. Using GnBWin (Ver 0.90) gram on the Web. The version num­ GOBWin I can even create subsets GOBWin is a program for ber (0.90) probably means that the and Smart clips on the fly. Windows (9x/NT /2000) that lets you program is not yet finished. However, If I get an idea or a question I'd access GOB, NOB, and POB files cre­ work on the program seems to have like to ponder, I click on a desktop ated on the HP 100/200LX.1t doesn't come to a standstill. The author's Web icon that is a shortcut to the MRNOB work with Appointment Book or site is still alive; however, repeated NoteTaker file. In less than a second, World Time files. The program will let attempts to contact the author have the list view of the file pops up on the screen. I can press the F2 (Add) key ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~:.' C~'~ I~W~Jt~'! '~'lm~mB~' ~· mrnP~~"~.!w-~n~lu~n~j,"~~"~""~_~!P~IXII ,-. _ IIfLl _ I£J _ IIVLJ _ IISLI _ 1"L1 _ 1111 and type in a Title for the new record. ~~::~ aATIEI"r IN RGIIf SHE lP IISI"I 3.16li>11i" 1.:J " I..!' I".I M ili If the Note is more than a few lines Catcg Issue TItle Note ..!. " The backup bet t er y pr ot eel s your det a 1ft he nal n lIJ 123 PTP07 SORTING A LOTUS LIST DATABASE lotus 1-2"3 16 long, I'll start TextPad, a Window's bat t er I cs dl C1 and Wlen Y1Iu change nal n bat t cr leu. 131 APPT PTPOl Local City feature In APPT THE 95LX IS J Hm.ever. you hove t 0 put I tin t he r I ghl v.ayt The back !I CALC PTP07 CUlTING AND PASTING NUMBERS I. You can use t text editor, and type the Note, up bat t er y I s local cd on I he , I ghl 81 de of YOUI 95LX bch : ::E=~ ~~~A~~A:!~~~~I~~VAREPEA. ~~:::::~:I!: spellcheck it, reformat it and cut and I nd ~ FILER PTPOB DISPlAYING filE CONTENTS IN FIL You can dlspl a r enovabl e cover. I!') PHONE PTP08 HOW TO SPliT A PHONE FILE The largest PI paste it into the NoteTaker Notes ~ SETUP PTP08 SETIING A PASSWORD ON THE 95X. You can paSS' There is a top/botton +/ ~ side to the 3- volt CFl2032 co " APPT PTP09 USE CALENDAR TO MOVE AROUND, When you are field. Likewise, If I find an answer to In I!!I CALC PTP09 USE HP CALC "AUTOMATIC CONSTA. USE HP CALC cell backup battery lavallable at Radio Shack: or otlter " CALC PTP09 USE HP CALC AS A HANDHELD CALC. As powerful a! a question on the WWW, I can high­ el ect r onl cs st or es). 'You need t 0 pi ace t he bat t er y pi u I!P DATA PTP09 CREATING A DATABASE IN PHONE Phone Book 0 . I!!') FILER PTP09 CREATING AND DELETING A DIRECT. The DOS oper light the text on the screen and copy ,+) sl de dOW! In t he pi ast I c tray. The J-F 950< User' s I!!I MEMO PTP09 CREATE A TEMPlATE SAVE TIME W Guide. page A~ JI. also sayil to turn the unit 011 before ~ PHONE PTP09 CUT AND PASTE ADDRESS INTO ME. Instead of typl and paste it directly into a Notes field r epl acl ng t he backup bat t er y. ~ SETUP PTP09 DON'T ACCIDENTALLY REFORMAT y, In SET UP. the IJ. Qlil!iMP'GIij_P"'UiiIMII¥tiQ:r.i ..i;W'V''''.iIfjMlMJj in GOBWin. ~ STOP\\' PTP09 STOPWATCH EASY TO USE Whether your e 123 PTP1 0 AUTOMATiCAlLY LOAD WORKSHEE. You hove one Compared to the ~OS-based, el 123 PTP1 0 CREATING AND VIEWING A GRAPH I, Lotus 1 ~Z - 3 Gr ~ APPT;C. PTP1 0 COPY NOTE TO APPT TODO LIST WI. The Smart CIII CPack program the whole operation ======::::;11::::;712::::;62::::;1======::::!J : ~~~ ::~~ ~~!~~C:i~~'::~:: ~~: ::t::a~~t using GOBWin is almost too slick. I!I FILER PTP10 TAGGING A FILE IN fiLER You may wanl ~ MEMO PTPl0 USING THE OUTLINE FEATURE OF M, Memo on the ' The ease of operation is probably why ~ t.tlSC PrP10 REVERSE SCREEN. CHANGE CONTR. In low light co ~ NOTE PTP10 USE NOTE TAKER TO TRACK AND 0, This built-In 11 the MRNOB file has grown to SOOK I!I SETUP PTPl0 EXTENDING BATTERY L1FE.REDUCt Probably the t !!I ll3 PTPll GETACOMPLETE LIST OFWORKSH. Youwanttou bytes in a couple of months. 31 APPT PTPll VIEWING AND ADDING APPOINTMEN, Both HP Palm ell CLIP PTP11 CUT AND PASTE WfTH THE CUPBOA. The dlpboard The GOBWin program has some !IDATA PTP11 CREATING A DATABASE ON THE HP. You caj defl~ other "nice" features. For one thing, .!!::'rJ ~~..!!!!!J~ ~~~~~ 17/2S2 there are no installation woes. Simply unpack the archive, put the files, Figure 1: GDBWin displays a list view with an optional data card view. Size and placement are configurable. GOBWIN.EXE and HPOBOLL.OLL,

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(approximately 400K bytes total) in a operations. The Not So Good Features separate directory. Start the GOB­ When I'm ready to port the file to The one, glaring limitation of WIN.EXE program and load a the Palmtop, I simply insert a PC card, GOBWin is that there is no English Palmtop GOB, NOB, or POB file. copy the MR.NOB file to it and put instruction file. That wouldn't be so Somehow, in the process of loading the PC card in the Palmtop. It's ready bad except that GOBWin's pull-down menus use the Japanese character set itml All Database Items - BliPS - GDBWin 1!19EJ and there are no Help screens other I lIFU _lEI _lIVU than the"About" help screen. _lIOU... Ctrl+O That limitation would ordinarily be enough to make the program __lISU worthless for non-Japanese users. Note lIAU··· However, if you're familiar with the Lotus 1-2-3 is _lICU ways in which most Windows pro­ THE 95LXIS /. liEU 'grams work, you may be able to fig­ You can use t ure out some of the capabilities of You can reall GOBWin. Otherwise, if you're famil­ .2 Batip.gdb TING A REPEA. It is easy to Sl iar with the way the function keys .3 C:\BIBLECD3\USER\minit.ndb NTENTS IN FIL. You can displ work in a Palmtop database applica­ ! Eqns.ndb NE FILE The largest Pt tion, you can also coax GOBWin into ~ Done.ndb D ON THE 95X. You can pass' being useful. § Appman.ndb OVE AROUND. When you are At the bottom of the GOBWin 1 World.ndb ATIC CONSTA. USE HP CALC .B Wintips. ndb window, there are buttons that emu­ ~ lpp.gdb NDHELD CALC. As powerful al late the function keys on the Palmtop. !I Thad47.gdb SE IN PHONE Phone Book 0 The Fl(Help) button is greyed out ------TING A DIRECT. The DOS oper but the F2 (Add) through the FlO _lIXU SAVE TIME W (Close) buttons are there and oper­ Figure 2: The GDBWin File Menu presents a hislory list. ate in much the same fashion as they do on the Palmtop. You can click the the file, the GOBWin program will to go on the road: no muss, no fuss. F3 button (or press the F3 function create the necessary file-associations. key) to display the Notes field, press From here on, you can point at any of Repairing Broken Database Files F5 to create or modify a Subset defi­ the database files in MS Explorer, dou­ No, GOBWin will not automati­ nition, etc. You can also press the ble click on them and they will auto­ cally repair database files. However, CTRL+O key to open or close a Data matically start the GOBWin program. it will attempt to load broken data­ Card view. The only function key that If you keep all such files in a particu­ bases and display the records, in list doesn't work is the F8 (Columns) key. lar directory, the program will also view up to the point where the file However, if you want to widen a col­ remember that directory. Would that starts to become corrupt. In the list umn, you can use the Windows tech­ all Windows' programs were this easy view, all records beyond that point nique of dragging the separator bar in to get started. will appear empty. Yet, if you move the top row of the list view. (See col­ Once the program is automatical­ the highlight bar to the first broken drag.gif.) ly configured, it's possible to open record and press Enter, the contents of several instances of the GOBWin pro­ the record may appear. Using x gram with different files in each. For Windows copy and paste techniques, II Illu In Il'e>

10 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY / JUNE 2000 A Little Help From a User A. Find (F4) between two different 'LX' options Since my computer does not dis­ B. Find Again (Shift F4) and a GDBWin option. I have tried play Japanese characters and I don't C. Reverse search (Shift F3) various choices but didn't notice any read Japanese, I've only been able to D. Search Next (Shift F2) difference. guess at all the features of the E. Previous (F6) (Available only GDBWin program. I've managed to in page view) VI. Help Menu figure out almost 75 % of what the E Next (F7) (Available only in A. Presents an "About" window program can do: I'm not sure about page view) with an automatic scrolling presen­ the other 25%. Some of the features tation about the GDBWin program may not be implemented or I just V. Options Menu most of which is blank. don't know what to do with dialog A. Smart Clip (F5) ??? B. The second item (a blank boxes and pull down menus that B. Configuration (Tabs) underline) presents an OK box. When show only a few letters and blank 1. Size of fields you click OK, another large window lines. a.The slider sets the opens. The only thing readable in this To help you get started with height of the fields in the window is the "Export Table" but­ GDBWIn, here is my understanding record view. ton. Clicking the button seems to do of what all the pull-down menus are b. The 'V' checkbox nothing. The window with three tab supposed to do. bevels the fields in the buttons, likewise, appears to be a stub I. File Menu record view for further development of the pro­ A. Open File (CTRL+O) c. The'F'checkbox gram. B. Save widens the fields in the C. ??? The third help option C. Save as ... record view to Full leads to a GDBDump dialog box. The D. Close file (prompt to save) width, independent of one or two readable things in the win­ E. Exit File (prompt to save) the width of the list view. dow seem to indicate that this option 2. Color ??? is for CSV dumps of the data. History list The'S' button opens a color However, there does not appear to selection box. be a way to make "dumps" happen E Exit the Program Most of the color buttons with­ within the program. II. Edit Menu in the slider box don't seem to have A. Display Record any function. Toward the bottom of Summing Up B. Insert (Add) F2 the list, the two Note options let you There are several options that C. Delete Record (Del) set the text and background colors remain a mystery. I've indicated these D. Undo (CTRL+Z) for the Notes full window display. with a triple question mark (???) in the E. Cut (CTRL+X) 3. Sets various fonts through­ text. If you figure out what these E Copy (CTRL+C) out the program. I have set my Notes options are supposed to do, please G. Paste (CTRL+V) field to use Trebuchet MS, 12, Normal let me know. H . Select All (CTRL+A) font style. The other options let you The GDBWin program, in spite of set the fonts for the list view and the its unfinished feel, is still one of my III. View Menu record view. favorite ways to use Win98. I have A. Subset (F6) 4. Select default folder for yet to see GDBWin crash the operat­ B. Sort (F7) extracting data with Smart cards, I ing system. It works well-well C. Column (F8) think. I have the '0', GOB ('M') and enough that I wish the author would The column button doesn't work. 'E' checkboxes set with C: \ temp \ as have completed this excellent piece of Instead, use the mouse to temporar­ the directory. The Note_ RichEdit_ programming and made it useful for ily widen a column in list view. There checkbox is unchecked. English usage. It truly makes viewing is no way to move whole columns to 5. iPex ??? and modifying the contents of data­ the left or right in list view. Never having tried iPex, I base files a lot easier than CPack or D. Notes (F3) don't know what this dialog box is even the LX itself. • E. Data Card (CTRL+D) supposed to do. The '0' button puts E??? a check in the checkbox and the 'B' G. Top Tool Bar (toggle on/off) button selects a default directory for H. Bottom Status Line graphics files, perhaps. (toggle on I off) 6. Sets the date and time for­ mats for use throughout the database. IV. Search Menu 7. The radio buttons choose

THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY / JUNE 2000 11 REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW lIP Pocket PC - Nice!

Battery, keyboard, self-sufficiency still makes the HP 200LX the winner. by Hal Goldstein

've been playing with the HP I Jornada 545 Pocket PC for the past week. I like it a lot. Not since the HP 200LX have I seen a pocketable product so rich with useful internal applications. Here's a summary of its features. The HP Pocket PC includes Pocket versions of Word, Excel, Outlook, Money, Internet Explorer, File Explorer plus an MP3 player and an electronic book reader with Microsoft's new ClearType™ tech­ nology. Pocket Outlook includes Email, Tasks, Contacts, Calendar, and Notes applications. The one, impor­ tant Pocket PC application missing is a database program. However, there are third-party solutions to fill this gap. HP also includes a calculator that The HP Jornada 545 Pocket PC mimics most of the 200LX's HPCalc functions (except for Solver and coolest applications, given free to reg­ Physically, the HP Pocket PC is List/Stat). More software is included istrants at Microsoft's site, is the orig­ smaller and fits more comfortably in on the HP CD. There are lots of addi­ inal version of Pac-Man, sound and my pocket then the HP 200LX. It is a tional Pocket PC freeware, shareware, all, converted for the Pocket Pc. little more than half the 200LX thick­ and commercial applications, games, The HP Pocket PC comes with a ness. When laying the Pocket PC on and utilities available - although synchronization cradle and software. top of the HP 200LX , it is about 1 nowhere near the number of DOS Users can exchange files or synchro­ inch shorter and only slightly less programs that run on the HP 200LX. nize email, contacts, tasks and wide. It sports a sturdy anodized Check out our www.PocketPCmag. appointments with desktop Outlook. metal case and resembles a Star Trek com Web site for more information on Data can be exchanged via a serial, IR, "communicator." The flip-up top pro­ devices and third-party products. or USB port. tects the screen, holds the stylus, and Included on a separate CD-ROM The HP 200LX and the Jornada can be removed. The unit has a nice from Microsoft is ActiveSync 3.1 for 545 Pocket PC weigh about the same. sleek look and feel, and seems solid­ data synchronization with Outlook The Jornada orientation is vertical ly built. Even so, if I were to drop on a desktop PC, MS Outlook 2000 for while the HP 200LX orientation is both of these units on the floor and bet the desktop PC, MS Reader sample horizontal. The actual screen of the on survival, I'd put my money on the books, Windows Media Manager for Jornada is 3 inches tall by 2 inches HP200LX. the desktop PC; MS Expedia Pocket wide which means the HP 200LX has The Pocket PC comes without a Streets; Transcriber; AOL Mail; and about 1/3 more screen real estate. keyboard and that is the main rea- MusicMatch Jukebox. One of the

12 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY I JVNE 2000 Pc. As with the HP 200LX those HP Jornada 545 - $499 Jornada 548 - $599 Spec Sheet megabytes are non-volatile RAM that Contact: www.hp.comOornada/ need to be divided between system HARDWARE CPU 133 MHz 32-bit Hitachi SH3 memory and storage. Expect to start Display 240x320 (3. 75" diagonal) 16-bit 65K color CSTN backlit seeing solutions similar to the EXP Memory (in Mb) Jornada 545: 16 RAM /16 ROM (upg) Jornada 548: 32 RAM /16 ROM (upg) card for the HP 200LX - both modem Input Pen entry with handwriting recognition; soft keyboard; 4 application launch buttons; scroll/action button; voice record/playback. and storage on a CompactFlash card. Communications NA If you have a modem, you will be External ports USB; Serial; IrDA Card slots CF Card (Type I) impressed with Pocket Internet Power Lithium Ion (8 hr per charge); Backup battery; Worldwide auto-voltage AC adapter Explorer. Explorer does a good job of Dimensions/weight 5.2 x 3.1 x 0.6 in. (13x 7.8x 1.6 em); 9.1 oz (260g) (with detachable flip cover) displaying Web pages in a way that Other features Speaker; microphone; stereo headphone jack; detachable metal flip cover; Alarm/charging LEDs. Accessories, standard USB docking cradle; serial cable; AC adapter; stereo earphones; manuals. avoids excessive horizontal scrolling. Options Replacement accessories; External keyboard; carrying cases Even if you don't have a modem, you SOFTWARE can transfer Web pages to the Pocket Operating System Microsoft Windows for Pocket PC (latest version of Windows CE) PC and read them in Pocket Internet Built-in MS apps. MS "Pocket" versions of Outlook, Internet Explorer, Word, Excel, Money, Streets, File Explorer; Explorer. Reader, and Windows Media Player. Includes Solitaire and various setup and configuration utilitie Built-in Mfg & 3rd party apps 3rd Party: LandWare OmniSolve financial calculator; Conduits Technologies PeaceMaker; OEM: One of my favorite Pocket PC HP utilities, including HP Settings, HP Backup, HP Home menu, HP task switcher, HP game buttons. applications is Microsoft ReaderTM . User-installable apps. (on CD) Microsoft ActiveSync 3.1; MS Outlook 2000; MS Reader sample books; Windows Media Manager for PC; MS Expedia Pocket Streets; Transcriber; AOL Mail; MusicMatch Jukebox; Sierra Imaging Microsoft has developed a special Image Expert CE; EMusic.com samples; AudiblePlayer; HPC Notes 3.03 Lite; HP JetSend; font technology that makes reading ZIO Interactive ZIOGolf. Available online; BVRP PhoneManager (Send and receive short messages on an LCD much easier on the eyes. on a GSM network); HP Connection Advisor (link your Pocket PC to your mobile phone). Comments: Sleek and slim. Slips easily into your pocket and easy to carry. Light but sturdy metal case. Microsoft and Barnes and Noble at Removable flip cover. www.bn.com are offering free ebooks for Pocket PC users including the new son why I still prefer my 200LX. With the Pocket PC will suggest alterna­ Michael Crichton bestseller, TimeLine, the advent of computers, I gave up tives to complete the word, Despite an Encarta dictionary, and Star Trek handwriting shortly after I gave up these Pocket PC input alternatives, it books. For more information on multiplying. I write illegibly and is easier and faster for me to use the Microsoft Reader, check out much slower than I type - and that's HP 200LX keyboard. http://www.microsoft.com/reader. on paper not on a small computer Lotus 1-2-3 is a stronger program You can also download audio books screen. than Pocket Excel. However, at www.audible.com. The Pocket PC In fairness, the Pocket PC offers a Microsoft did a nice job in its imple­ comes with a stereo head phone for number of creative and useful input mentation. It includes a complete set MP3 music and audio files. methods, starting with a voice of Excel functions and the zoom fea­ The HP Pocket PC screen is bright recorder. Press a button on the side of ture lets you see a surprisingly large and full color. However, Hewlett­ the Pocket PC and start talking. When number of (not very readable) cells if Packard is now offering refunds to you release the button you find your­ you want the big picture. You can all Jornada customers unhappy with self in the Notes program with a new read desktop Word and Excel files in the quality of the screen. It seems a file named "Recording I" which you the Pocket PC and you can do basic hardware mix-up causes the HP can rename. Tap it to play the record­ editing. That means you can take your Pocket PC to display only 4,000 colors ing. You can also draw or "type" a desktop data files on the road or you rather than the 65,000 colors the com­ note and annotate it with voice. can open Word and Excel files that pany had promised. In practice less Depending on how you configure come to you as email attachments. colors will have little effect on most things, the Multimedia Notes file can In order to receive email you have users except perhaps those who want be accessed on a desktop or on the to install a modem. HP 200LX users to explore digital photography. What Internet. are quite familiar with the Pocket PC I consider a more serious defect is The Pocket PC has several hand­ tradeoff concerning a modem. The that the backlit screen is hard to read writing recognition methods for HP Pocket PC comes with a single in direct sunlight. There are configu­ input. For example, you can open up CompactFlash slot. You can use the ration settings for out-of-doors. Still in Pocket Word, start writing (print or slot for flash memory storage or for an this regard, the HP 200LX is a clear cursive), and then have it "recognize" I/O card such as a network card, a winner. that writing. With a little practice it modem card, or a wireless card. If Besides the keyboard, one other will do a decent job. Alternatively you regularly plan on using the reason not to give up my HP 200LX you can point with the stylus to letters modem, get the 32 Meg version rather has to do with the paraphernalia on a virtual keyboard. As you type, than the standard 16 meg HP Pocket required. Off-the-shelf batteries won't

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2. Frees PC card slot - You can use the flash card slot for a modem, network card, parallel port card, or more data storage space. Or don't use the slot at all. Store all key software and data right on 200LX.

3. Switching between programs faster - Use Software Carousel or Super Software Carousel on the internal drive and switch quickly between DOS applications and built-in applications.

4. Eliminate "Out of Memory" errors - Use Software Carousel to set up several sessions of built-in applications. That way you can have, for example, HPCalc and memory hog 1-2-3 running in one session and Phone book in another.

5. Convenience and ease-of-use - It is much easier and more efficient to have frequently used software and data in one place, as if built-in to the palmtop. Backups are easy.

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16 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY I JUNE 2000 OW TO USE YOUR PALMTOP USER PROFILE

Finding Support for Your 200LX

The HP 200LX continues to receive life-support even though pronounced dead. by Hal Goldstein

mation, but see below for supple­ 6. HP Palmtop Paper e at Thaddeus Computing, mental guides). Jammed with ideas, tips, reviews Inc., receive a flood of W Availability: Comes with new HP and insights on how to make the most requests for support with 200LX: may be purchased at ofHP200LX. the HP 200LX as well as its predeces­ http://www.palmtoppaper.com . Archives available at sors, the HP 95LX and the HP 100LX. Available electronically on HP http://www.palmtoppaper.com Sometimes the questions are simple Palmtop Paper CD InfoBase. and electronically on HP Palmtop and we can answer them from our Paper CD InfoBase own experience. Other times the ques­ 3. HP 100/200LX Developer's Guide tions involve third party products, This package contains what you 7. Manuals and printed documentation some of which we sell and some that need to know to write software, that come with third-party software. we don't (e.g., cell phones, GPS track­ design hardware, and understand the Obvious as it seems, this source is ing devices, etc.) We'd like to be able inner workings of the Palmtop. often overlooked. to answer all these questions but, due Comes with a disk of HP and User to limited resources, we cannot. developed, C source code. Electronic on Electronic Media Fortunately, over the years, Hewlett­ Availability: Purchase at Packard, Thaddeus Computing, Inc. http://www.palmtoppaper.com . 8. HP Palmtop Paper 2000 CD InfoBase and independent experts have come Available electronically on HP One CD jammed full of knowl­ up with a set of documents and inter­ Palmtop Paper CD InfoBase. edge and software. The 2000 CD active services to support HP 200LX Infobase contains most of printed doc­ users. What follows is a listing and 4. PC in your Pocket: How the organiz­ umentation listed in points 1 through description of those documents and ing power of the Hewlett-Packard 7 above. It also contains over 1000 services. Palmtop PC will make you more effective! pieces of software and support files We have focused on the HP 200LX. Useful, practical, fun to read book (including most listed below). It con­ However, the documents and services full of palmtop user's ideas for how tains a complete guide to Lotus 1-2-3 also contain information that is rele­ to make the best use of the HP including tips, templates and tutori­ vant to the users of the HP 100LX and Palmtop. Availability: Purchase at als. A second CD is included and con­ HP95LX. http://www.palmtoppaper.com . tains over 1800 pieces of great litera­ Available electronically on HP ture and historical documents, each or Support in Print Palmtop Paper CD InfoBase. which can be read on the HP Palmtop. Availability: Purchase at 1. HP 200LX Quick Start Guide 5. MicroREF Quick Reference Lotus 1-2- http://www.palmtoppaper.com . Dive into all the built-in applica­ 3 and DOS 5 Guides tions. Definitely worth reading when The HP manuals do not supply 9. Online Help you first get a 200LX. Availability: complete documentation for either Be sure to use the help feature in Comes with new HP 200LX: may be Lotus 1-2-3 or DOS 5. These guides the HP 200LX built-in applications purchased separately at summarize all features in both pro­ and other software that works on the http://www.palmtoppaper.com grams. Availability: Purchase at palmtop. Quite often you will find http://www.palmtoppaper.com . the description of the function you 2. HP 200LX Users Guide Available electronically on HP are looking for. Online help is avail­ In depth reference of HP 200LX Palmtop Paper CD InfoBase. able by pressing the F1 function key hardware and built-in software. in all the built in applications. (Doesn't include DOS or 1-2-3 infor-

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database for any recognizable records you do contact us, please email us 10. Readme and other DOC, TXT, and and puts them into a new file. before calling us with your problem. HELP files Freeware. In most cases we can help you more For other software, be sure to g. TIPS and DOS HELP (417 KB) effectively via email. check the master disk or CD for doc­ Ed Keefe Email: [email protected]. umentation. Usually, README files Three GOB database files. BTIPS Phone: 515-472-1683 8:30 to 4:30 CST. are the first place to start. Also many and QTIPS contains all the Basic and of the DOS applications have built in Quick Tips from the pages of The HP 15. HP tech support help files. Palmtop Paper from 1993 through 1998. HP support is available for ques­ DOSHELP contains all the text from tions specifically about HP 200LX 11. Notetaker Tips file the missing DOSHELP for version 5.0 hardware, the built-in applications, There is a LOT of good informa­ of MS-DOS along with some help for and the HP connectivity kit. tion in a Notetaker file built into every version 6.22 commands and a lot of Phone: 970 6351000 7am and 7pm HP 200LX. Load 0 : \ _DAT\NOTES. other DOS stuff. Freeware. ior tech support. 800-443-1254 for gen­ NOB into Notetaker. eral information. Human 12. Help files on www.palmtop.net Web Site Support The following files can be found at 13. HP 200LX email list (Recommended) http://www.palmtop.net (or from Al Kind of University of 16. www.palmtoppaper.com http://www.palmtoppaper.com/free Connecticut hosts a great service for Features an HP 200LX store, 8.5 .htm) by searching on a key word. HP Palmtop users, an email list. Users years of searchable archives of The Almost all these files are also on The send questions, comments, and HP Palmtop Paper, technical support HP Palmtop Paper CD Infobase answers about the HP 200LX by reply­ documents and information (coming a. Lotus 1-2-3 Commands (5 KB) ing or sending email to HPLX­ in Fall 2000), direct access to palmtop by Stuart Pollack [email protected]. 200LX downloads, and an electronic version A handy, text reference of Lotus 1- users all over the world receive that of The HP Palmtop Paper (starting Fall 2-3 commands written by an expert. email. With so many active, interested 2000). If the search engine doesn't Enhances the online help in Lotus. users, most questions and problems seem to be working, try again later. It Free. are solved within a day if not a few means that the file server is busy rein­ b. 123hlp (61 KB) by Donald hours. The only problem is that the dexing the site, a process that can take Collins and Avi Meshar list is quite active which means you'll from 2 to 4 hours. Reindexing hap­ 123hlp is a collection of work­ find over 50 new emails in your inbox pens whenever the Webmaster makes sheets and a database to help HPLX each day if you don't set up things a change to the Web site. By the time Lotus 123 users with functions and properly. The trick is to use your email you read this, we should have a much macros. Freeware. program's capability to automatically improved search engine installed. c. Basic EXM (4 KB) by The send all email to a folder. That lets you The www.palmtoppaper.com Web Palmtop Network choose the best time to look at the HP site also has a page of links to other BASIC EXM is a little EXM with 200LX related emails and examine just 200LX related Web sites as well as included source code to help get you the subjects that interest you. For links to sites on the HP 200LX Web started with EXM programming. example, in Microsoft Outlook, start Ring. Freeware. Tools Rule wizard. If you don't want d. Check Integrity of Database files to receive regular email, archives are 17. www.palmtop.net (8 KB) by Curtis Cameron available for download. A huge library of downloadable The DBCHECK program finds Available: http://www.sp.uconn. software and support documents for corruption of your data files. It can be edu/ -mchem1 /HPLX.shtml Free. the HP 200LX. Fast search engine makes used in a DOS batch file to prevent finding what you want easy. Can be backing up a file with corruption, so 14. Thaddeus computing email and phone reached also from the "download" that your good backup isn't over­ support section of www.palmtoppaper.com. written with a corrupted file. Or you We are able to support only the can use it from the DOS command products we sell. We strongly recom­ 18. www.hplx.net line to inspect a file whenever you mend the email list above, since there Frequently Asked Questions, arti­ want. Freeware. are a much larger number of prob­ cles about the HP 200LX, around 20 e. Garlic (15 Kb) by Andy Gryc lem solvers (fellow users) with a lot affiliate HP 200LX web sites and GARLIC is a HP 100/200LX data­ more collective experience to help much more . • base reconstructor. It scans a corrupt you find the best possible solution. If

18 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY / JUNE 2000 W TO USE YOUR PALMTOP USER PROFILE Third Party Software Support D&A Software, publisher of Web browser WWWjLX continues to support the HP 200LX with products and solutions. By Avi Meshar

or quite a while I've had an idea you are forced to identify yourself Carbon Copy (BCC) feature in Pfor an ongoing column on "Tech and authenticate yourself to the POP3 Post/LX. BCC refers to the type­ Support." Originally the column protocol and the ISP's servers then writer-based practice of sending would be for our own products (D&A "know" who you are and provide copies of memos to several people Software) but eventually would you with a window to send out your without letting others know that such expand to other products as the need email through their SMTP server. a copy was sent. The CC ("carbon arose. copy") listed all the names of recipi­ This first column deals with some Post/LX Can Handle ents. items that keep repeating in our sup­ Authentication The BCC feature in Post/LX now port mailbox. I thought it would be To get our Post/ LX email program removes the list of names and email good to explain them here: it would to conform to the above identifica­ addresses from the header prior to save sending the same email response tion and authentication routine, here's uploading the message to the SMTP again and again. what you will need to do. server. In the past, we relied on SMTP After shutting down Post/LX, edit servers to remove the headers but The Problem: Identifying the POST.CFG mailbox specification. more and more of them do not. Spammers You can identify a mailbox in Internet Service Providers (ISPs) POST.CFG easily. There is one called Why BCC Is Important are plagued by SPAMMERS as much "Mail" and it begins with the header: The most obvious reason for BCC as we are. Spammers utilize the ISP's [Mail] is that you do not want to tell some­ servers, requiring increases in capac­ Just add the following line in the one that some message is also sent to ity, special filtering schemes, etc. beginning of that section. other individuals. A technique used by ISPs is to POPFirst=l Here is another excellent reason require that the user identify and Then save POST.CFG. for BCC - and you should spread the authenticate him/herself prior to This POPFirst line forces Post/LX word! using the SMTP server. (An SMTP to go to the POP3 server first, send the Did you ever receive chain letters, login, authenticate, and collect email or letters sent to a huge list of people? server is one that sends email from l you to the world! It means Simple waiting for you. Then Post/LX will go I have received a few with 5 sen­ Mail Transfer Protocol.) to the SMTP server to send email out. tences, and maybe 1000 lines full of Since the SMTP does not include addresses. What an annoying a mechanism for identification and Use Blind Carbon Copy in waste,especially when you're paying authentication (i.e., provide login and Post/LX for the connection time! a password), they use the mechanism We recently corrected the Blind This is where BCC comes in. The that is available in the POP3 protocol. POP3 is the protocol that receives mail from the world to you. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Many ISPs now require that you Avi Meshar is the CEO of D&A Software, a company that sells and supports HP login to the POP3 server first then to Palmtop related software. You can find a complete list of D&A products at the SMTP server. Normally, the http:// www.dasoft.com. and can contact them by email [email protected] sequence is send email out, then receive email. By reversing the order,

THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY / JUNE 2000 19 USER PROFILE: Third Party Software Support list of recipients is sent to the server /wv2.htm#news and download infor­ time" which counts the time the user first, separately from the body of the mation is available at http:/ / is active on the keyboard. message. It is also removed from the www.dasoft.com/ WWW/ wv2.htm1# VOLT /LX has fewer features, but actual body of the message before the download it is a useful program if you only body of the message is uploaded to Quick/ LX is now available at our require a constant visual status the SMTP Server. Website. This is a "word completer" reminder of the voltage or time on If the 1000 lines were in a BCC program with an unusual set of fea­ the battery. Unlike its "big cousin" header, they would not show in the tures such as macros and so on... ABC / LX, VOLT/LX does not inter­ message at all! A new ROBOT / LX program was vene with charging in any way. Another reason is that, by includ­ uploaded 15 May 2000. The program There are a limited number of ing the names in the BCC header, you is now version 1.3. This version adds printed User Guides, which were pro­ prevent the release of people's names speed to display routines, accepts vided to customers who purchased and email addresses to be "harvest­ VT1lO codes to position items on the this product in the past. If you are ed" by SPAMMERS. In other words, screen and includes some program­ interested in this one page, two-sided you provide some privacy protection ming conveniences etc. Stay tuned printed manual, please send an email to these people by not being the one on this product! to [email protected] for details. to release their names and emails to A new version of SMS was D&A is announcing that we are others. released on 15 May 2000. The pro­ preparing for the release of gram is designed to better support WWW /LX Version 3. We will release How To Implement Bee in phones where SMS messages may be a new version of WWW.EXE - the Post/LX stored on the SIM as well as in the TCP /IP Engine, a new version of In the addressing screen of phone memory. It also improves sup­ Post/LX and a new client for Post/LX, press F2 (Add), then port for phones that can store a large Newsgroups, to replace NEWS2.EXE. HEADER, and select BCe. In the BCC number of SMS messages. The set of features and the last details header, you can include the names are being finalized as of this writing. and email addresses of recipients. In VOLT /LX is a small TSR, less Please check our Webpage for the the TO: header I usually put my own than 2200 bytes announcement and all the details. email address, to get a copy of the On June 21, 2000, D&A Software If you have an interesting Tech message as others do. released VOLT/LX as copyrighted Support item, email it to me at If you do not have a BCC header freeware. It is available for down­ [email protected] . • you can easily add one on the fly. loading on D&A Software's Webpage Notice that when you press F2 (Add), at http://www.dasoft.com. then HEADER, one of the entries in VOLT /LX is a battery monitoring the pulldown menu is "". program for the HP 100/200/700 LX Highlight it and press Enter. In the computers. It displays the voltage of input box type "Bcc:" (omitting the the batteries in the area on the screen quotes). Press Enter and you are done. that normally would have the Fl key Now press F2 (Add) again in the label. The actual functionality of the Come join us, addressing screen, select the BCC Fl key is unchanged. Usually this key header and one will appear among is dedicated to raising Help screens. www.PalmtopPaper.com the headers in the top part of the VOLT /LX also accumulates the screen. "time-an-battery" and can display it as alternate information in the same Other Software Products at area on the screen. www.dasoft.com VOLT /LX has long been the "lit­ There was a lot of discussion late­ tle cousin" of ABC/LX, our program lyon the HPLX List about the use of which monitors the status of the bat­ the FIND utility program from DOS. teries, and turns on the charging There is a good alternative to FIND. process when the batteries fall below FINDLX is a freeware program from a user-selected voltage. ABC/ LX then Andreas Garzotto - see http://www. monitors the charging process until dasoft.com/FINDLX/findlx.html the batteries are fully charged, as Post/LX version 2.2g was released determined by other user-selected on 24 April 2000 - Details are available parameters. ABC/LX keeps track of at http://www.dasoft.com/WWW voltage, time-an-battery, and "user

20 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY I JVNE 2000 W TO USE YOUR PALMTOP USER PROFILE A Database for Project Gutenberg E-text Files Our company Controller takes control of the E-texts on the 2000 CD InfoBase. By Wayne Kneeskern

or the past five years, in addition to http://promo.net/ cgi-promo/ choose the letter of the title or author Fto my Controller duties at pg/cat.cgi you want to look for. By clicking on 0 Thaddeus Computing, I've in the author section you can scroll worked as the Copy Editor and proof­ Getting Organized down through the authors until you reader. Most of my proofreading has As an accountant, I like to have find 3 separate groupings of Charles focused on the printed issues of The things organized so I can find them Dickens' works. By clicking on a title HP Palmtop Paper and Pocket PC (for­ when I want them. I discovered that under his name you can bring up the merly Handheld PC Magazine). With all the CD InfoBase offered was a list text of that work to read. the Internet becoming such a big part of the PG files for each year. If you None of the above options pro­ of our business I have been putting didn't want to browse through the vided a simple method of identify­ more and more time and attention list of 1800 plus files you could use the ing a document. For me, the ideal on our Web sites and related elec­ "Find" feature of the CD InfoBase to solution to the problem would be tronic materials. This includes the CD search for the title or author's name of something as easy to use as the old, InfoBase that we have produced since a document. But if you were looking card files that the public library used 1996. for all the works of Charles Dickens, to have. Each year we have included, as a for example, you would end up back special bonus, E-text files from Project at the previously mentioned list with Project Project Gutenberg Gutenberg (PG). In 1998 we discov­ his last name highlighted 84 times. I decided it was time to take on a ered that there were more files than So you still had to browse through new project in my spare time. The we could fit on one CD, so we creat­ the list to find what you were looking CD InfoBase Project Gutenberg files ed a separate CD with just the PG for. Even after finding what you want­ needed to be organized for use on files. For the 2000 CD InfoBase there ed to read there is no way to hot-link the palmtop. The question was how? wasn't room to add the 1999 PG files to the work itself. You would have to I arbitrarily decided to limit my on the bonus CD so we put them on put in the Project Gutenberg CD, look solution to one of the HP 200LX's the primary, compact disk. for the directory the work was in, built-in applications. That meant I While copy editing and proof.., open it, and then find the file listing had four possible answers to choose reading the 2000 CD InfoBase I began and double click on it. Hopefully you from: Lotus 1-2-3, Database, to realize just how much information wrote down all the relevant informa­ NoteTaker and PhoneBook. is on these two CDs. Not only are tion while you were looking at the In my accounting duties I use there enough program files to keep list on the CD InfoBase. spreadsheets all the time. I especial­ me busy for the next several years, but For me, searching for a particular ly like the feature of a spreadsheet there's also all the past issues of The document on the Project Gutenberg that lets me sort items on different HP Palmtop Paper and PC In Your Web site wasn't that much better. The columns. By organizing the PG files Pocket. But the part that intrigued me PG Web site gives a page with a com­ into a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet I could the most was the wealth of reading plete list of all titles or authors but sort through all the works from material available from Project there are no links from the titles to the Project Gutenberg any way that Gutenberg. For those of you not famil­ document itself. The Web site also worked best for me. I also had some iar with Project Gutenberg you can lets you browse by title or author. In basic knowledge of how to set up a get more information at their Web this case you can take your choice custom database of my own. site http://www.gutenberg.net or go and then get a list of the alphabet and I decided try a Lifeline and use a

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"50-50." Now I was down to decid­ database, I decided that I wanted to database (so the database and CD ing between the Lotus 1-2-3 spread­ have a working knowledge of each of files would correspond) I changed sheet and a custom Database. the files in the Project Gutenberg the Directory name of those not found Again I felt I needed some help so section of the CD InfoBase. Hence, I on the CD. (Those not on the CD were decided to "Ask-the-audience" which didn't "copy and paste" from a com­ labeled in the Directory field with the in my case meant discussing it with puter generated list of files. Instead I year they were translated by Project our in house "experts." chose to enter all information into the Gutenberg and the number assigned Still not completely sure how to database the old fashioned way: type to the work; i.e., 99-1774.) Now when proceed I opted to "Phone-a-friend." it in word for word and character by I looked up a Title and saw that Tom Gibson was the Technical Editor character. Directory name I knew I wouldn't of The HP Palmtop Paper and also did I realized that this would be a lot find it on the CD but would have to a lot of the work in compiling the of typing; but one of our latest go to the PG Web site to read that PG files for the CD InfoBase. Palmtop products, an external key­ document. A custom Database was "my final board, proved to be most helpful. (see Another thing that may be unique answer." www.PalmtopPaper.com/cart/ shop I to my database is how I listed the kbd.htm). Let it be known that the titles of each of the documents. First, The Project Gutenberg Project: a keyboard is a great way to solve the I took out any"A", "An", and "The" Custom Database typing problems on the 200LX. It sure from the beginning of a title name. Creating a custom database on the made my job a lot easier and as a Second, when I found documents that HP Palmtop is relatively easy. The touch typist it was easy to adapt to the I felt should be grouped together I User's Manual contains enough infor­ size and spacing of the keys. would write the title in such a way mation to get you started. Several After hours and hours of data that they would be listed one after articles in The HP Palmtop Paper pick entry I finally had all the information the other when sorted by the first up where the User's Manual leaves entered into my database. Now the name of the title. For example, to keep off. The biggest problem is in getting editing and proofing started. This all the Tarzan books together I had to the database just right. Choosing the involved comparing the file name list the titles "Tarzan, Return of" and fields to include and getting them entries in the database to the file "Tarzan, The Untamed" to keep them lined up in a usable format can be tricky. names listed on the CD. I had made together with the main title "Tarzan of To make my custom database I some mistakes in my data entry work the Apes." Another example is the created the following fields for each and was able to correct those. But the numerous inaugural addresses of our document: Title, last name and first major problem I found was there various presidents. Instead of using name of the Author, File name, were file names listed in the database their names first I started each title Directory, Category, and Notes. Using that were not on the CD. For some with "Inaugural Address," and then these fields I would be able to sort unknown reason they either did not appended their name. and group the data anyway I wanted. get downloaded from the Project The great thing about a custom For example, I could have an alpha­ Project Gutenberg betical listing of all titles; I could I Title I Last Nal'le I First Nal'le I Read I 'group titles by author's last name, or 10~0~0 Dreal"ls int.erpret.. Miller Gust..avus HindMan 1492 (For Colul'Ibus Day, Johnston Mary find all the titles that were contained 1984/Did It COl'le True ( 1990 CIA World Factbook US CIA in a certain category. The category 1991 CIA World Factbook US CIA 1992 CIA World Factbook US CIA field was the hardest to define. I kept 1993 CIA World Factbook US CIA adding to the categories as I entered 1994 CIA World Factbook US CIA 1995 CIA World Factbook the data for each document. I ended 1997 CIA World Factbook up with categories for Historical 1998 CIA World Factbook

Documents, U.S. Government F:I. Fa F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 FIl F9 F:l.1l Documents, U.S. Historical Figure 1: Opening Screen of GUTEN.GOB file Documents, Reference, Religion, Music, Classics, GIF Images, Motion Pictures plus zz (a catch all I used for Gutenberg Web site or were over­ database is that anyone and every­ titles I didn't know how else to clas­ looked when files were copied to the one can modify it to his or her own sify at the time). CD. In any case I went through the liking. So now that the basic infor­ database one by one checking each mation is all organized, you can take Entering Data into the Database file against those actually found the this database and change it to your After deciding on a format for the CD. Rather than delete them from the liking. For example, Ed Keefe added continued on page 28

22 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY / JUNE 2000 OW TO USE YOUR PALMTOP USER PROFILE Where is Palmtopping Headed?

A doctor asks the question-will there be a sequel to the HP Palmtop called "Palmtopping: the Next Generation"? by Dr. Nathalie Bugeaud, MD

on't you love those days these early palmtops had a serious go through the typical grief reaction If when your Palmtop's bug. you ended a line of text with of denial, anger, depression and D a space rather than a carriage return, acceptance whenever the Palmtop Appointment Book greets you with the message, "No new or you'd lose all the information on the succumbs to Murphy's Laws. due items today?" When that hap­ line. You could even wipe out the What would happen if I lost or pens, it's time for me to get on my entire memory of the machine. damaged my machine? Like a lot of bicycle and go for a ride. Cycling is, Needless to say, I returned the Atari Palmtop users, I would probably get for me, a perfect time to think and and received a refund. I immediately a replacement unit. However, I real­ bought a Prolinear subnotebook com­ let my imagination go free-wheeling. ize that, eventually, the replacement I rarely see the "No new or due puter with 1MB RAM. The machine units will be gone. What will take the items today" message. I'm an cost me $1000 (a lot for a student). Palmtop's place then? The Prolinear, made in Taiwan, had Emergency Room Specialist at three terrible battery life, needed frequent hospitals in the Atlantic coastal region Looking Ahead to the Future reboots and had a tendency to lose of France. There are very few days I'm already looking for the any data that was not copied to a PC successOl~ when I am not faced with countless Palmtop's the next gener­ appointments and to-do tasks. I've card. The machine died a couple of ation of small, data storage and months after I got it. come to rely on my Palmtop to help retrieval devices. On the usenet, Palmtop forum, I me stay organized and on time. I've looked at the Palm Pilot and read about the HP Palmtop's relia­ For me, my trusty HP 200LX is a WinCE machines but I don't consid­ tool. It's a step in the right direction bility and DOS compatibility. I bought er them as "next generation" com­ and sometimes almost a necessary evil. an HP200LX 2MB and have never lost puting tools. For me they're a mar­ My HP Palmtop is a personal refer­ any data since. After several years of keting department's idea of what a ence tool: I no longer have to lug around use, the Palmtop still works just as computer could be. They may have several books when treating patients. well as the day I bought it. Like a lot prettier screens and fewer hassles fo r The size and battery life of the of Palmtop users, I think of the casual users but they're definitely not Palmtop as a "brain extender." Palmtop makes it a "step in the right' a power user's tool. direction." It's a "necessary evil" My brain extender carries my I expected Hewlett-Packard to be because, now that I've became accus­ books, diary, photo album, phone the leader in this area but HP, along tomed to using the Palmtop, it would book and GO game as well as other with a lot of other manufacturers, has be very difficult to be without it. "little" tools. All my system macros jumped on the WinCE bandwagon. are conservative. They're used to back Let's face it, WinCE machines are not A Little Background up my data to the PC Card. The HP the equivalent of an HP Palmtop. In Connectivity Pack and the Accurite my opinion the WinCE machines, with Like many of you, I have always been Travel Floppy make sure I don't suf­ built-in keyboards, are too heavy, have a firm believer in the phrase "smaller is better." I've searched far and wide for fer any data loss. I no longer have to minimal battery life and are too large ways to cram megabytes of information ABOUT THE AUTHOR into as compact a form as possible. Nathalie Bugeaud, M.D. is a member of the Poitiers University Faculty For example, during my residen­ ...'- ' of Medicine. She is a frequent contributor to the HPLX-L mailing list cy in the mid 1990's I bought an Atari 11/ where she occasionaly injects a colorful note into an otherwise mono­ palmtop. Some of you may recall that chrome, technical list. She may be reached at [email protected].

THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY IJUNE 2000 23 HOW TO USE: Where is Palmtopping Headed? to fit in my shirt pocket. My search for personal communication and and you'll see what I mean. continues. I know what I'm looking for information retrieval. and, judging from the pace of hard­ The next step, beyond wearable Sources: ware and software development, I devices, would be the brain-implant (1) Bill Joy: http: //www.wired may even find it in my lifetime. computer. Sound far-fetched? Not .com I wired I archive/ 8.04/ joy.html) really. The current, U.S. Air Force (2) US Air Force report: http:/ I It's All in Your Head research has already produced the www.fas.org/ spp I military I docops I If Bill Joy, cofounder and Chief microscopic brain chipllO and usaf 1 2025 I v3c2 I v3c2-1 .htm# Scientist of Sun Microsystems, has his researchers at Nagoya University in Contents way a future version of an Japan (amongst others) are testing (3) Brain and Mind magazine: Appointment Book may greet you computer Ibrain interfacing, input­ http://www.epub.org.br/cm/ with the message, "Today you will output chips and retinal implants. (4) Dave Peterson, Colorado State experience the following items and NASA's nano-technology research IU, References on Brain Implants: here are the ways to deal with these program in cell biology and neural http://www.cs.colostate.edu/ items." In other words, your comput­ research is another part of the puzzle. -petersodl implants.html er will make decisions for you (as well NASA's effort to produce smaller and (5) Nagoya University Bio as against you . ~ The messages won't smaller chips is part of their Search for Electronics Research Lab: http: I I appear on a Palmtop monitor. Instead Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SET!) www.bioele.nuee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/ they will appear in the portion of your program but it spills over into brain­ research I index-e.html brain that processes images. I know implant technology. (6) U of Southern California - this sounds like science fiction and The implanted, microscopic, brain Biomedical Simulations Resource: that's what I thought until I started to chipllO performs two functions. First, http://www.usc.edu/dept/ look into brain implant technology. it links the individual to satellites biomed/BMSRlindex.html • I became interested in brain implant thereby creating a seamless interface research - hands free "palmtopping" - between the user and the informa­ Software Mentioned in the Article if you will, because of my working with tion resources. In essence, the chip FRANCE.NDB (FRANCE.ZIP) is head trauma patients in the ER. I looked relays the processed information from available on the S.u.P.E.R. site. It is at my Palmtop and wondered if there a host computer directly to the per­ a free NoteTaker file containing was some way that computer technol­ son's brain. Second, the chip creates satirical supplements to the usual, ogy could be used to return brain dam­ a computer-generated, mental visu­ French, travel guides. aged patients to a functioning level. At alization based upon the user's the current time, the answer is 'no', but request. The visualization encom­ that didn't stop my curiosity. passes the individual and allows the In case you might be curious, Here are just a few of the items user to be placed in the selected space. here are a few of the files and that I've run across in my reading. The search for a smaller and smaller programs that I use on my It's always fun to speculate about computer is progressing at a rapid pace. Palmtop on an almost daily basis. what the future will bring, especially Where it will lead is anyone's guess. Will if the future is on the drawing boards we see "Palmtopping: the Next Databases: MEDICAL.NDB along with several of computer researchers today. Generation" in our lifetime? Who other medical databases and programs from Work currently being done at the knows? I hope so, if for no other reason the S.U.P.E.R. site. Text files: These are mostly in French. I use Massachusetts Institute of Technology than we won't have to contend with tiny QuickView along with short-cut keys (courtesy of and at IBM will probably take us to an keyboards and hard to read displays. MOREEXM) to quickly access them interim step in the evolution of com­ In the meantime I will continue Built-in Apps: ALL. puting. Such things as specially con­ contributing and receiving informa­ TSRs : Quick.com saves time writing French figured rooms, small helmets or eye­ tion and help on the HPLX-L mailing on a USA version of the 200LX, glasses that function as miniature list. If you want to learn more about LXPROMIN.COM to view the power status. LCD screens will allow users to con­ what could be the next step in com­ Editors: PalEdit and LE editor (LE.EXE) with a nect to overhead satellites that are, puting evolution, send me an email set of large fonts. in turn, linked to the Internet. via the mailing list. Be forewarned, I Utilities: LXPIC.COM for viewing graphics, QuickView, ZOOM.EXM to enlarge or shrink the Information can be processed and have earned the reputation of having information on the screen, TASKLlSIEXM to get retrieved from the nearest node on a naughty sense of humor. As a quick look at the programs currently running, the Internet. The widespread use of evidence of this I am about to DRKR.EXE for encryption/decryption, cellular telephone technology indi­ upload alternative travel guides for SHASS.EXE for keeping track of shopping lists. cates that the widest use for such France to the S.U.P.E.R. site at Games: My current favorites are HTA.EXE (a GO wearable computing devices will be www.palmtop.net. Download a copy game) and LlNES.EXE

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can find the shareware-prog. (FAB­ to see if they can release the full DOS FOUR2.EXE): version. I'll let you know if I get a Diabetes tracking software http://members.aol.com/sware­ positive response. The viewer Hi friends, south file (EN_VIEW.EXE) and I announced a few months ago that It runs very well on the HP, you get (EN_ VIEW.TXT) are available via FTP I planned to write a program to track a better view with CGAHLP.EXE (on at: ftp://ftp.endnote.com/pub/pc/utili­ down blood sugar and some related SUPER) ties/ values. AxelKlag I already wrote a program, but this klag@DWELL£DE James P. Grenert one only works in combination with [email protected] another (commercial) program 'Camit' Hinge Crack Repair by Boehringer Mannheim. I don't I found a good product that repairs know if it's only sold in Germany or the infamous hinge crack quite well: Europe or if it's also available over­ Loctite Plastix Advanced Plastics seas. Some options for connecting Bonder, Item No. 01-82565 bonds all Camit works with all Accutrend HPLX to the internet plastics, even polyethylene and blood glucose sensors that store data. Here's an interesting program for polypropylene. Two-part application You can attach the sensor to the ser­ sharing your desktop modem with - activator and adhesive, no mixing ial port and import the stored data another device connected to the desk­ required. For more information see: into Camit. My program 'simulates' a top. The program is called http://www.loctiteproducts.com/Loctite sensor. You can enter the blood glu­ PassThru32 and works under _Products!HouseholdAdhesive/Plastic cose and several other things (like Win95/98. I did a simple test and it Adhesives.cfm?plid=60 insuline, sports, meals etc.) and the worked fine with my HP200. The pro­ I used it several years ago on my program stores the information in a file gram is located at: http://kevin. 200LX and it has been fine since. that can be read by Cam it. millican.net/Home And it doesn't look too bad, either. So you can use this program I also came across a page that instead of taking the huge Accutrend Richard Smith documents how to connect a Psion OM sensor with you. You only need a [email protected] palmtop to the Internet through your small sensor and the 200LX. It's very desktop Internet connection. I have handy for me! not tried it with my HP200 but from the If anyone's interested, please let looks of it, I think it should work. The me know. But don't expect too much, process uses a null modem driver on since I wrote the program in C and I'm Good news about EndNote! your desktop along with some Proxy a total C beginner! I surely will con­ If any of you use EndNote on your software to act as a gateway to the tinue to develop the program, but right desktop, there is a free DOS program Internet. I know someone asked now, I'm getting ready for exams and which will let you read your library about doing this type of thing before I don't have much time for such things., files on the Palmtop. Here is a nice so I thought I would pass it along. Probably I'll NOT write a program story about how someone uses it: Check it out at: that does the entire data manage­ http://www.isiresearchsoft.com/en/App http://pda.tucows.com/5alive/Archives! ment since I don't need it. (I have _Note6.htm. If you don't know what Reviews!review_connecCpsion_to_ln Camit. That one does all the data EndNote is, go to: http://www.end ternet2.htm management I need). Sorry. Too much note.com. Basically, it's a bibliography Eric Thompson trouble for me. tool for research papers. It also lets [email protected] Daniel Hertrich you create libraries of references from dhertrich @GMXDE Web literature searches. It automat­ ically plugs into your word processor to insert references as needed. I Two tips Fab4·Game used it a lot on some scientific publi­ 1. After several meaningless For all who are interested in an cations as well as on my PhD thesis. searches with the AltaVista search amusing quiz-game concerning the I am currently talking with the lSI engine I mentioned it to a friend of Beatles, here is the URL where you Research people who make EndNote mine who advised me to try

THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY lJUNE 2000 25 www.alltheweb.cominstead of Alta to waypoint. more than 51,200 legally, per FCC Vista. I followed the advice and found I've also put a lot of work into bul­ rules. I had to use S37 value of 28 just that this search engine is smaller,only let-proofing LXPGS, so bad data won't for the handshaking to go right. about 5k is needed to downolad and cause a crash. There are also the The instructions also add a DT after it works not only great but also faster usual minor bug fixes and tweaks. the S37 specification. This alone with the LX than Alta Vista. Greg Renda means Dial Tone. This is usually part 2.The text of some HTML docu­ [email protected] of the dialing sequence ments become so small when viewing ATDT5553582. Adding it in the ini­ them with HV, it is not enjoyable for Save Bookmarks in Vertical tialization makes no difference but it the eyes to read them. Instead I copy Reader can confuse people. only HV and the homepage to a direc­ I use Software Carousel and keep The W2 means "report the actual tory of their own and open up the a permanent work area for VR modem-to-modem connection speed". HTML document in question from this (Vertical Reader). Whenever I have a With W1 you get the modem to ter­ HV location instead. This trick allows moment to spare, I flip to the book I'm minal (200 LX) speed, which could be the text to appear with normal size currently reading. A book might stay faster and it usually is the one in the and it's much easier to read. open for days, sometimes weeks, and S37 register. Lars Hedstroem then the HP would crash or lock up I suggest that you change the [email protected] because of something else I'd done. instruction sheet with the following: My place in the book would be lost, as 1. Take out the DT in the first ini­ PalmDoc to VR VR only records your position when tialisation string you mention. Since the LX and DOS have been you quit. Similarly, bookmarks are 2. Then you have a sentence "Note skipped in the EText march, I'm find­ only saved on exit. that most software .... " This is not real­ ing that there are a number of EText's If you open a new book VR saves ly correct. Almost all the programs I out there in "PalmDoc" compressed your place in the current. The open have seen, even going back to old, old formats. book dialog, invoked with / (forward DOS days, have one string for initial­ These can be read with DOCRE­ slash), starts with the cursor on the ization, and another for the dialing AD, but its display format is unbear­ current book. Open your current book number. able if you have see Vertical Reader. and VR will save your place/book­ The part that software requires the Yesterday, I found QEX at marks and re-open the same book at phone number immediately after ini­ http://visionary2000.com/qed/qex.htm the same place. It's almost instanta­ tialization is never true in any of the This windows based utility will con­ neous. software I have seen run on the vert Palm Doc Files to and from Ascii Tip: Press [/][Enter] when you stop Palmtop. text files that are VR ready. reading and you won't lose your place I'd state it like so: "If your software Beverly Howard in the book if a re-boot is needed. requires that the number be placed [email protected] with the initialization then use this Chris Randle ATW2S37 -29DT5553582." chris @AMLOG.DEMON.Co.UK AviMeshar LXGPS 1.6 now available hUp:llwww.dasoh.com LXGPS 1.6 is now available from • http://www.jps.netirendaigreg. This release dramatically improves the Revise the Instructions for the accuracy of your GPS receiver. If you New 56K PC Card Modem haven't heard, the government has The instructions for the initializa­ turned off Selective Availablility. That was the intentional fuzzing of the GPS tion of the new PC Card modem from Thaddeus Computing, Inc. uses signal that caused your position to ATS37=29. What this does is limit the be r~ported less accurately. . 'The major new feature in this . upstream rate to 56,700. I think this is very fast for the Palmtop, and proba­ release of LXGPS is the bly it is adjusted during negotiations addition of waypoint lists. When down to about 25,000. I believe that you use a waypoint list LXGPS will automatically switch from waypoint in the US, modems may not upload at

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