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HP Palmtop Resources aper Found on the Internet. ..•.••.••.•.•... 10 Everything from A to Z can be found on the Internet, including support for your HP Palmtop PC. Read this article to find Internet locations that will give youPalmtop news, advice on using the Palmtop on the Intemet, -.----~ World Wide Web pages for the Palmtop, sources of - - Palmtop related software and more. User to User: Everything Under the Sun Found at COMDEX ...... ••••.•. 15 Hal visits the massive annual computer show in Las Vegas and tests out SkyTel's new 2-Way Pager and a method of converting Casio Digital camera pictures to Palmtop topcards. He also reports on San Disk's new FREQUENTLY AS CompactFlash storage cards. Palmtop QUESTIONS?????????? _ - FREQUENTLY ASKED­ ????????QUESTIONS: FREQUENTLY ASKED­ Goodies QUESTIONS???????: FREQUENTLY ASKED­ User Profile: ?????????QUESTIONS: Staying Organized, FREQUENTLY ASKED­ Motivated and Informed .•.••...... 19 on the In the world of real estate, success is measured in QUESTIONS??????????: square feet leased and contracts signed. This user stays FREQUENTLY ASKED- organized, motivated and informed with his HP Palmtop. _ ????????QUESTIONS: FREQUENTLY ASKED­ Frequently Asked Questions ...... 27 QUESTIONS???????: Can you use the Palmtop to dial phone numbers? FREQUENTLY ASKED­ Can you customize your Phone Book to suit your needs? For the answer to these and over 35 other frequently QUESTIONS????????? : asked Palmtop questions, read this article. FREQUENTLY ASKED­ QUESTIONS??????????: The 1·2·3 Column: FREQUENTLY ASKED­ USing Formulas in ????????QUESTIONS: a Lotus Spreadsheet .•.•.••. •...... 34 - FREQUENTLY ASKED: Learn how to use formulas and @functions in a QUESTIONS???????­ Lotus spreadsheet to calculate loan payments and set FREQUENTLY ASKED­ up a loan payment analysis table. ?????????QUESTIONS: FREQUENTLY ASKED: Programmer's Corner: QUESTIONS?????????? ­ Create an Interactive FREQUENTLY ASKED: Batch File Using ECHO ...... ••. •.. 41 Ed Keefe shows how to use the MS-DOS ECHO ????????QUESTIONS­ command to tum a batch file into a program that will FREQUENTLY ASKED: accept input. QUESTIONS???????- - Basic Tips ....•.•. •.•.•...... •.• 54-55 Quick Tips ••.•.•.••.•.•.•.••••.•. 56·58 02 Product Index •.•.•...... •• . . ...•.. 59 Advertiser's Index ...•...... •.••. • 60 Files on JanJFeb. 96 ON DISK •.•..•. •. 60 o 7447083112 9 The Only HP Palmtop Upgrade That Has It All. To get the most from your HP 100/200LX palmtop, you need 3 advanced upgrades on 1 convenient PCMCIA card. First, you need to send and receive both faxes and data at an exceptional 14, 400 bps speed. Second, you need faxlmodem software that operates easily with the same HP function keys and commands you already use ... without the hassle of downloading software and without consuming precious hard disk space. Third, you need Flash memory for fast, easy access to all your software applications and for effiCiently storing data. Plus you need to fax from and receive faxes into your Flash memory for extra convenience. And, most of all, you need the flexibility to use all your upgrade features together or independently, without inserting and remOving separate fax/modem and memory cards. Now you can have it all with ThinFax 1414LXM. AU THE ADVANCED UPGRADE FEATURES YOU NEED ... ON 1 CONVENIENT PCMCIA CARD. EXP's award-winning MiniFax™ software. High-speed fax/modem. 2 or 4 MB Flash memory. They're all built into the ThinFax 1414LXM card. That's why ThinFax 1414LXM is the Qill: upgrade that's a must for your HP palmtop. So call the toll-free number today for complete ThinFax 1414LXM specifications and the name of an EXP dealer near you.

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Year five of The HP Palmtop Paper begins! Handheld computing, wire­ less computing, and online Volume five I Issue one computing were in their infan­ January/February 1996 cy when we began publishing Executive EditorlPublisher Hal Goldstein in the Fall of 1991. We look at Managing Editor these topics this issue and it is Richard Hall a little surprising we haven't Associate Editor come further technologically. Paul Merrill It's 1996, and everyone isn't Technical Editor Tom Gibson carrying Palmtops, PDA's, or Department Editors organizers. Few of us use wire­ Ed Keefe less services. The Internet has Carl Merkle Contributing Writers taken the world by storm but Conrad Cox still a very small percentage of Alexander S. Arando the world's population, and Administrative Assistant Colleen Rodibaugh Hal Goldstein maybe not even a majority of Advertising/Marketing our readership, are online. Brian 1eitzman Margaret Martin Maybe I'm expecting too much and five years isn't long Diane Wimett enough. Everybody knows or at least pays lip service to the Tiffany Lisk popular theories about why these technologies haven't been Circulation Sharon Ash (Supervisor) more universally adopted -- end users want "user friendly" Sharon Dilmore tools they can use right way, they don't want to have to become Theresa Handy Executive Advisor computer experts. However, computers aren't toasters, they Rita Goldstein have many functions and are by nature complex. Windows and The HP Palmtop Paper (ISSN 10656189) is pub­ the Geoworks operating system for the new HP OmniGo 100 lished by Thaddeus Computing Inc., at 57 East are examples of attempts to simplify things for the end user. Broadway Avenue, Fairfield, fA 52556. Second­ class postage paid at Fairfield, Iowa. Subscription However, user friendliness requires more complex software and rates payable in V.S. dollars, checks drawn on a U.S. bank, or by credit card - one year: $39; two support and the usual result is less flexibility for the end user. years: $69. Postage: V,S. and V.S. possessions free; It is fun from our vantage point as Palmtop visionaries to Canada, Mexico add $6 per year; other countries add $18 per year. Published bi-monthly plus two see the industry take shape. As Palmtop users we enjoy a com­ bonus issues, one in April and one in November. petitive advantage- take a look at our profile of Alex Arancio, a Please allow four to six weeks for receipt of first issue. Executive, Editorial, Circulation, Marketing real estate professional, as an example. For those who want to and Advertising Offices: P.O. Box 869, Fairfield, IA 52556. Telephone: (515) 472-6330, FAX: (515) 472- get up to speed with 1-2-3 check out Carl Merkle's latest Lotus 1879. Copyright 1996, Thaddeus Computing, Inc., tutorial installment and for technical types frustrated by batch aU rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission. file limitations, see Ed Keefe's ECHO article. Reasonable efforts are made to prOVide accurate This issue is crammed with bite-sized chunks of useable and useful information, but the reader must make his or her own investigations and decisions; the information. Take a look at Letters, Frequently Asked Publisher and Editorial Staff cannot assume any responsibility or liability for the use of information Questions, Quick Tips, Best Tips, and Palmtop Wisdom to see contained herein. what I mean. POSTMASTER: Please send any address changes to The HP Palmtop Paper, Attn: Thaddeus Have a great 1996! Computing, Inc., P.O. Box 869, Fairfield, fA 52556.

THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JANYARY / FEBRUARY 1996 1 The editors of The HP Palmtop Paper welcome you to Other uses for Time and Date stamps Palmtop Wisdom. Palmtop Wisdom takes current thinking You can use the Time and Date about leadership, human relations, time management, stamp feature to track billing time for your clients, keep a diary, record finance, self-development, travel, and entertainment business dealings or medication and shows the concrete application of these concepts using times and their results. HP's100j200LX Palmtop pes. We welcome your feedback, ideas, and contributions. Self Improvement A Quote a Day A quote can be a kernel of knowl­ By Paul Merrill, Rich Hall, Barry the date to it by pressing ~ [) edge that illuminates and uplifts. A Miller and Tom Gibson. (Date). Enter a description of the great way to take advantage of the task you are starting, for example, wisdom contained in the words of "Calling about financial software." great (or ordinary) people is by Finance Then press ~ 0 (Time). The time is starting each day of the year with a entered next to your task. wonderful new quote. Take stock of your day [Note: to change the format of The first thing you have to do is to see where the time goes the time or date display, press I!J come up with the quotes. The I!I (Setup) IMENU! Options Date/­ library is full of "great quotes" It's a common experience at the end Time and choose the formats you books. In addition, you run into of the day to wonder where the time want. Then press I ENTER I (OK) IMENU! good quotes daily, as you read went. To give us this information, (£) (Quit).] books and listen to people. Keep we can track every minute of an When you finish the task you are track of them in a Memo file, or cre­ "average" day and record where we working on, are interrupted, or just ate a custom database to track them. are being unproductive. This can be need to change to another task, make a note of it in your Memo file ON THE PALMTOP extremely useful to anyone who (e.g. "Stopped research on financial Once you have your quotes, create a feels there is not enough time in the software. Started: sales meeting."), new Appointment Book file and day, allowing them to know exactly and press ~ 0 (Time) to enter the enter them into it, on a day. Later how much time they are spending new time. you'll merge this file with your cur­ "on the job." At the end of the day, you should rent Appointment Book file. have a minute by minute account that ON THE PALMTOP you can use to help you monitor your 1. In Appointment Book, press In Memo, press IMENU! .Eile New. time more efficiently in the future. I MENU! .Eile New. At the Create New Write the day of the week and attach File screen, name your file "quotes," and press iF10! (OK). r! Wil4tt.Wmi':Jf','j.MIfII t.N:I.'.~I .•jgi 2. Enter your quotes as appointments I. or events, one a day for the entire If Wednesda~ 12/06/95 year. Events are associated with a II ~ornin9 mee~in9: 8:30 am day, but not a time. Appointments are S~ar~ Nelson Job: 9:18 am associated with both day and time, I:PiCk UP Fed-X: 10:49 am Back ~o Nelson: 11:22 am and can have an alarm notify you I when they come due. Lunch: 12:46 pm ," Go to January 1 and start by typ­ !i s~ar~ed reconcilia~ions: 1: 33 pm " ing the word "Quote." The word is il 1IllUlII.mD!III!Im!DDID:IDI 1D!IlD'il1llimDl!l1:llllm!m1llImlJ!l 1mZDI~ automatically entered in the t_. ._ . _____ .__ - "=. - Description field of the Appoint­ ment/Event screen. You'll put the Memo file tracking the day's activities using DatelTime stamp actual quote in the Notes field.

2 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 Tab to Start TIme and enter a time more subtlely. It also allows us to Other uses for this technique (or press IDELI if you want the quote to appreciate the depth of expression You can also use this technique to appear as an event). If you set the in works of literature and, in some learn foreign language vocabulary, quote up as an appointment, set the cases, may even influence a promo­ to memorize people's names or start time (without alarm) for before tion at work. answers to test questions. you wake up. The appointment will have come due and will be the first ON THE PALMTOP thing you see when you start your Set up a NoteTaker file to track new Human Relations day. If you set the quote up as an vocabulary words Event, it will be displayed at the top of Rather than Say No, the screen all day. 1. In NoteTaker, press IMENUI Eile Put It on Your "List" New. At the Create New File screen, 3. Set the Repeat option if you want type "words" and press I ENTER I. Instead of saying no to a request the quote to appear in future years. 2. Press ~ (Add) and enter your (from our boss, our employees, our If you choose to repeat the quote, new word in the Title field, then spouse or our children), we can cre­ press I!!I (Repeat), select the Yearly press ~ (Note) and enter the defin­ ate a "wish list" and add the request option and fill in Frequency, ition. If you have difficulty remem­ to the list. When appropriate, we Duration, and Yearly Repeat Type bering a word's pronounciation, (See "appointments, repeat options" can sit down with the people write the pronounciation, after the in the index of the User's Guide if involved, review the list and the word (e.g. aplomb (uh-plom)). you need help with this.) resources at hand, and let them help in the decision making process. 3. To aid yourself in learning the 4. Enter.the quote in the Notes field. words, hide all columns except the Press ~ (Note) and key in your Title column. To do this, press I!!I ON THE PALMTOP quote. When you are done, press (Columns), use the ArrowKeys to We can use NoteTaker to set up our ~ (OK) ~ (Done). select the column you want to hide "wish list." In NoteTaker, press and press ~ (Delete). If your Title I MENU I Eile New and enter the name Merging Appointment Book files field is not displayed, press ~ of the file you want. (We'll use Once you have created your (Add), Arrow to the Title field and TYLER.NDB for our mythical son QUOTES.ADB file, merge it with press ~ (OK). When you are fin­ "Tyler.") Press IF10 1 (OK). your everyday Appointment file. ished, press ~ (Done). Now each time Tyler asks for a 1. First open your regular Appoint­ new this or that, rather than say no, 4. Sort your "Words" file by the we can put it on the wish list for his ment Book file by pressing I MENU I Note field so that the words appear next birthday or Christmas. To do Eile Open, tab to the Files field, on the screen randomly, not in this, press ~ (Add) and enter the highlight the file your .ADB file and alphabetical order. This makes it title of the request in the Title field press ~ (OK). harder to memorize the order of the words you're learning (i.e., cheat). (e.g. "Screaming Batman Power 2. Next, merge the files. Press I MENU I To sort on the Note field, press Unicycle and Rocket Launcher"). Eile Merge, tab to the Files section Next, press ~ (Note) and enter the and highlight your QUOTES.ADB I!?J (Sort), and use the ArrowKeys to select "Note" in the 1st Sort Field. price, store or catalog where it can file. Press ~ (OK). Use the ISpacebar I to select the be found, and any other information Since merging one file into another Ascending check box to the right of you will need in the future. does not erase either file, you can the field, and press ~ (OK). When his birthday or Christmas return to your QUOTES.ADB file at New words that you have rolls around, get out Tyler's "wish any time to make corrections or entered but are not yet defined will list," and review the possibilities additions. You can also give copies show up at the top of the list with him. Talk over the resources at of it to friends with Palmtops. because there is no information in hand, and let Tyler make the deci­ the Note field to sort on. sion. Items not purchased this time Other uses for this technique can be left on the list for future You can use this same technique to Bringing up a definition opportunities rather than discarded. create and merge a list of birthdays When you want to review your list of and anniversaries, legal holidays, words, read down the list until you Other uses for NoteTaker wish lists holidays from around the world, or come to a word you are not sure of. You can use NoteTaker wish lists for other events and celebrations. Guess the meaning of the word, then requests from your boss (resources press ~ (Note) and read the definition. available can also be time), your (On the 200LX, you can also press ICTRLI Expanding Your Vocabulary employees (purchases for the 1£).) Next, try every way possible to use Can be Fun and Easy department, days off, etc.), your the word in the next conversation you spouse and even yourself. A large vocabulary allows us to have. (You may find yourself getting communicate more clearly and with very creative in your conversations.)

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broken 200LX, connected night, alternately throwing So please add "Puppy­ it to a laptop, and even it around the room and proof" to the growing list of though I wasn't able to chewing on it for extended the 200LX's qualities. read the screen, I was periods of time. The case Sally Dobbs able to recover the latest was a mass of sharp puppy Eufaula, OK data updates! Today I'm teeth-marks. Fearing the sending it back to HP for worst, I opened the Palmtop Run your Palmtop from The rough life repair. What absolutely great and turned it on. Wonder of a desktop keyboard of an HP Palmtop products! wonders! It was still work­ I have recently acquired an My history with HP Palm­ My first HP 95LX fell off the ing perfectly in spite of its HP 200LX which is perform­ top of a moving car and I tops has been a testimony to battered condition. The ing well. The keyboard, how­ didn't get it back for two their durability. I wouldn't Flash RAM card was intact ever, is not designed for weeks, but it was fine other think of operating my busi­ albeit a trifle warped look­ extensive text entry. Given than the missing battery ness without the Palmtops ing. The most damage was your publication and knowl­ cover which HP graciously being a major part of our to the serial port adjacent to edge about the 200LX, are you replaced. I then submersed computing architecture. the backup battery. I did aware of any external key­ board which can be used in it in a large cup of coffee in Robert W. Harbison have a little trouble insert­ CompuServe ID: [71341,1070] ing a serial cable for the first conjunction with the machine the center console of my car or any interfacing tool which and had to send it back to time after it was damaged, MORE ROUGH LIFE. .. but even that is no longer a enables a standard keyboard HP for repair. (I no longer to be attached to the HP A month ago, I awoke to problem. The only negative set it in the center console Paltmop? when I drive.) find that our six month old is that if I want the case Ian Richardson Later I bought a new HP golden retriever puppy had replaced, I will have to pay Surrey, UK knocked my Palmtop off the the minimum service charge 200LX which I proceeded to [On page 44 of Vol.3, No.1 table, and had spent the of $295 to send it in to HP. dowse with wine. I disas­ (Jan/Feb 94), Ed Keefe described sembled it, rinsed it, blew it out with canned air and then placed it in a toaster oven at 150 degrees for a couple of hours, and it worked fine. Well, recently someone stole a valise out of my car and the 200LX was among TheVerbatim company, which is now owned by the contents. A kindly and Mitsubishi, has elected to exit the S-RAM business. California Digital has purchased honorable woman called the Verbatim's remaining inventory of memory cards. next day to tell me she had These HP-compatible type-one cards are available I ~"'~""i!~- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!iI!I!~~ found the valise and contents in three memory capacities: a:: strewn across a 5afeway 512 Kilobytes $39 • 1 Megabyte $79 • 2 Megabytes $169 parking lot in Menlo Park. IBM Brand Flash cards. 5 MB stacks to 10 MB $119 When I retrieved it, I gave the lady a good sized reward HP 100/200 Compatible 10 MB stacks to 20 MB $259 and later checked out the Fuiitsu 1c~~xperiencingdiffiCUltieS touch typing on small 'J' and-held computer? SO IS everyone else. Palmtop. It had been run Palmto!' ~ FujiL~U Corporation manufactured the Poqet, a over by a car, the screen bro­ .,., t1 hand-held that you can actually touch typed on. ken, and the ACE Double­ California Digital has purchased 1,000 units of the Poqet Classic. This is an IBM com­ Flash+ (20/40MB) was bent patible (8OCRR) one-pound palmtop engineered for the on-the-go professional. Conve­ niently stores in your briefcase or suit jacket. Ideal computer for word processing, spreadsheet applications, appoinnnent and crushed at the outer end. organizer or any DOS based program where portability is essential. My thinking, of course, was "!be Poqet provides two slots for type-one PCMCIA memory cards. Users can store up to two megabytes of data in each that it was replacement time. removable card. PCMCIA cards may be transferred to HP and other hand-held computers with data intact. Computer displays full 80 column by 25 lines on a brilliant LCD super twist screen. Keyboard 77-key QWERTY style layout I had a spare 200LX that I has alternative numeric-cluster num-lock feature. includes: MSIDOS 3.3 and GW-Basic. Over all size 8.8" by 4.3" by 1.0". had just purchased for one of Visit California Digital's Web Site· http://www.cadigital.com my new consultants, and /",-y(il,,,,rt;,-y rVnl",-yI" 17700 Figueroa Street when I plugged in the card, '-'-'lflvlllI..., 1./1::;,11'-'1 Gardena, California 90248 it worked perfectly! That's a Corporate· (310) 217-0500 Order Toll Free· (800) 421-5041 tough product! 8 AM to 5 PM Pacific Facsimile· (310) 217-1951 I put new batteries in the • Specialists in international shipments • Friendly and courteous service since 1973 • Purchase orders invited from educational and

4 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 the use of a program called and review them. This pro­ promised a followup but seri­ So ... consider yourself warned. "REMKEYil". This program gram itself is enough to ous HP concerns and general As for increasing 1MB of lets you run your Palmtop from make me happy. I look for­ unavailability caused me to RAM to 4MB, that voids HP's your desktop's keyboard - ward to working with the delay saying anything else. warranty also. The process is Rich.] rest of the programs on the Doubling the clock speed of available only in Japan and is PowerDisk. the 100LX or 200LX definitely quite expensive. Thanks again, speeds up CPU intensive oper­ For more information on the WWWbrowser A. G. OZI5IK ations. It requires installing a subject of clock speed, see the a great find TURKEY software device driver after tak­ article "Internet Resources for Internet: [email protected] ing the Palmtop apart and sol­ Palmtops," page 14 of this Thank you very much for dering a new custom oscillator issue - Hal.] the great efforts you put into crystal. Naturally, doing so the 95-96 PowerDisk. I was Doubling clock speed voids the HP warranty. HP has decompressing and running - pros and cons expressed additional concerns Palmtop solves the files one by one. Up to since there is a significantly LAN problem HV100.EXE, the WWW With regard to the article higher than average failure rate browser, the flavor of the "Go East Young Man" (Pg.7, on double speed units. The HP I recently found another, PowerDisk was like the pre­ Vol.3, No.6, 94), can you tell lab has thoroughly tested these unexpected use for the HP vious ones, full of fun and me how I can increase the units and they do not pass 100LX. Our firm was called helpful. But when I came to operating speed of my HP HP's internal specifications. upon to assist a client who HV100, I had found what I 200LX? Also, how can I My experience is both posi­ had experienced a data com­ had been looking for for increase my 1MB RAM to tive and negative. On the plus munications failure between months. I became very excit­ 4MB or more? side my unit definitely ran their main office and a ed. With my current Internet Donald T. Dolin faster with less wait in my branch office about 35 miles provider (and my Palmtop) Naperville,IL Phone Book and Database away. They have a central­ I can only E-mail and trans­ searches. On the negative side I ized LAN Oocal-area-net­ fer files. Therefore, the Web [We have had numerous calls had to send my unit in for work) connected to a remote documents were all mean­ and letters asking for more repair. I was charged nearly office via multiplexers and a ingless up to me. Now, I information about the clock $300 and lost my double speed dedicated telephone line. understand that I will be double speed upgrade I wrote upgrade. HP also could have able to transfer most of the about in Vol.4, No.6 when refused repairing it when they (Letters continued on page 51.) Web files to my Palmtop describing my trip to Japan. I saw the double speed upgrade.

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THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 5 This section lists new products of different format of another expressions involving over interest to users of the HP SCANNER / FAX application on a PC or PDA. 600 different units of mea­ Palmtop PCs. New Products IntelliLink version 3.4 adds surement used in science includes descriptions of hard­ support for Day-Timer and engineering. Units ware, software, books, videos, Pocket·sizeS~anner/ 2.0,Microsoft Schedule+ for Calculator can add, subtract, training, and service offerings. Fax Ma~hine Windows 95, Now Up-to­ Prices listed in this section are Date for Windows 1.0, multiply, divide, exponenti­ suggested retail. You may be Use this pocket-size fax Polaris Advantage, Polaris ate, take logs and powers, able to get the products for less if machine to send faxes from PackRat 5.0, SideKick 1.0 and sines and cosines, convert you shop around. any domestic phone. With 2.0 for Windows, SideKick We invite vendors and sub­ units, and simplify and com­ scribers to send us information the optional Bansai Acoustic 95. Casio models CSF-7950, pare values that you give it. NX-4000, NX-6000, and about HP Palmtop-related hard­ Coupler, send faxes from It recognizes standard math­ Sharp Wizard 5500. ware and software products and pay phones and phones in ematical symbols and con­ foreign countries. IntelliLink 3.4 also adds services they discover. We rely ventions. Enter a unit's on information we receive from This fax machine can be support for custom lOO/200LX the manufacturer and cannot test used as a scanner with an PhoneBook and Database files, name followed by a ques­ every piece of hardware or soft­ HP 100/ 200LX or any com­ adopting your custom field tion mark, and Units ware. We welcome any user puter with fax/modem names. The "calls" category Calculator tells you what feedback on product suitability. receive capability. Simply (used by some desktop pro­ the unit measures. Uses Paul Merrill grams), can now be merged to fax the document to the 180K of memory. When Associate Editor the Palmtop's ToDo's list or to computer's modem and use another Appointmflt Book file. ordering, state you will be Delrinas DOSfax software to IntelliLink 3.4 also sup­ using it on an HP Palmtop. HARDWARE scan, copy, and archive both ports ACT! for Windows 1.1 documents and line art. and 2.0, ASCII (CSV) Files, Availability ...... Now Tested on the 100/200LX CaLANdar 2.55, Commence Pricing ...... $99 with a Thinfax fax / modem 2.x, dBASE III/IV, ECCO, Excel CONTACT: Applied Biomathematics, MEMORY CARDS card. Weight: 20 oz. Dimen­ 5.0, Lotus Organizer 1.x/2.0, 100 North Country Road, Setauket, NY sions: 11.2" x 2.5" x 1.4". Microsoft Schedule Plus, Speed: 9600 / 7200 / 4800 / PackRat 4.1, Paradox, SideKick 11133-1345, USA; Phone: 800-135- Type I Flash Cards 4350 or 516-151-4350; Fax: 516-151- for the 95/l OO/200LX 2400 bps. 2.0 for DOS, Windows Cardfile 3435. nODI Prete~ and Calendar, WordPerfect for Availability ...... Now Windows 6.0, Word for "Speedy Flash" is a Type I Price Windows 6.0, Casio B.O.S.S., PC Flash card that comes Bansai MicroFax ...... $299 Casio Z-7OOO, Franklin Organiz­ SERVICES with its own 3K device dri­ Car adapter ...... $19 .95 It Digital Book System, HP ver and 12K card formatter Leather carrying case ...... $29 .95 95/100/200LX, HP OmniBook, on the card. This 5volt card Psion Series 3/3A, Sharp Intemational AC-Adapter ... .$34 .95 PROGRAMMING comes in 1, 2, 4 and 8 MB Acoustic Coupler ...... $119 Wizard, Sharp Zaurus, Tandy uncompressed sizes. CONTACT: Bansai, P.O. Box 5182, Z-PDA. Pretec's Flash AT A PC Novato, CA, 94948, USA; Phone: 800- Card is a Type I PC Flash card Availability ...... Now CustODl PaIUltop that uses NAND-Flash tech­ 566-6832 or 114-153-8810; Fax: 114- Medium ...... •...... Floppy disk PrograDlDling for nology. The card requires no 153-8812,' E-mail.·[email protected]; Pricing ...... •...... $99.95 Business 4; Industry drivers and is fully compati­ World Wide Web: hUp:llwww.bansai.com Upgrade ...... $39.95 ble with ATA PC Card stan­ CONTACT: IntelliLink, 1 Tara Blvd, Nash Medini, a micro­ dards. The card comes in 4, 8, Suite 210, Nashua, NH, 03062, USA; processor and micro con­ 12, 16 and 20 MB uncom­ SOFTWARE Phone: 603-888-0666; Fax: 603-888- troller programming compa­ pressed sizes. 9811. ny, provides custom pro­ Both PC Cards can be gramming services for the used in your 95, 100 or COMMUNICATION 100/200LX and other mobile 200LX, and neither card MATHEMATICS computing devices. Nash requires a battery to run. Medini can develop user­ Card prices vary, contact New IntelliLink friendly applications for vendor for information. Version Adds CustoDl I 1OO /200LX J PhoneBook and your specific commercial Availability ...... • ...... Now Database Support and industrial needs and Cal~u1ation and Pricing ...... Varies integrate mobile computing Conversion CONTACT: Pretec Electronics Corp., Use IntelliLink for Windows devices into your existing 48521 Warm Springs Blvd. #314, version 3.4 to exchange data Use "Units Calculator" to systems. They provide cus­ Fremont, CA 94539, USA; Phone: 510- between your Palmtop's evaluate mathematical tom applications in the areas 440-0535; Fax: 510-440-0534. built-in applications and the of maintenance, inspection,

6 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 market research, patient will update the data file as program for the Palmtop. care, customer service and needed to reflect new pro­ Using a simple batch file on more. Applications include grams that are available. a Pc, ZIP can back up an drop down menus and pop­ entire Palmtop in a few min­ Available ...... Now up windows, and allow you List of COinDler~ial utes. Comes with an icon for Pricing ...... Freeware to access information, Medi~al Software Application Manager. acquire data for updating, for the PalDltop Location ...... CompuServe and modify and check data HP Handhelds Forum, Library xx. Available ...... Now for quality and accuracy at HPMEDCOM.ZIP iii con­ Type ...... Freeware your point of collection. tains a list of commercial , I Location ...... CompuServe medical software available FILE TRANSFER HP Handhelds Forum , Library 7 Availability ...... Now for the HP Palmtops in both Pricing ...... Varies text (.TXT) and Database CONTACT: Nash Medin~ 1402 Corinth format. To view the text file File Transfer SI., #233 LB 134, Da//as, Texas 75215, simply open it up in Memo for the PalDltop Share/Freeware Index: USA; Phone: 214-428-7623; Fax: 214- or in any other text editor or see page 60 565-5851. word processor. The author ZIP 2.02 iii is an upgrade of an easy and fast file transfer SHAREWARE FREEWARE H P PALMTOP USER GROUPS

Those interested in participating in an HP Palmtop users group should contact the MEXICO - Palmtop users in Mexico should contact: Jose Palino, Ave. Trasvina y following individuals. Send us contact information formatted as below if you wish to Re/es #2103, Chihuahua, Chih. CP 31240, Mexico; Phone: (14) 26-50-43; Fax: be added as a contact for a users group in your area. (14) 81-01-15; In/emel' [email protected]:dg-smtp OR.. Francisco Bricio; Phone: (3) 684-1317; CompuServe 10:/14114, 1442} GRAPHICS HP Palmtop Worldwide User Group News - send material about User Group activities to Ahme/ G. Ozisik a/the Turkish User Group (see contact information New Jersey/New York (USA) - 95LX1100/200LX users in the New Jersey/New below). York area. Contact: Stanley Dobrowski, 169 Spring/ield Avenue, Rutherford, NJ, 01010-1642,' CIS 10:/11031,2162},' Phone: 201-801-5851 (work). Arlington, VA / Washington, DC (USA) - 95LX1100/2001.X users in the Mngton. Vedor-based Design VA / Washington, DC area contact: Rick Shaddock, alo Computer Instruc/ors Oklahoma City, OK (USA) - 95/100I200LX users in the Oklahoma City area. Corpotalion, 2320 South Eads, Arlington, VA, 22202,' Phone 1O:MlJ6-2222. Contact: Richard 8 Meek, 1804 Huntington, Oklahoma City, OK 13116, USA; and Drawing Tool Residential Phone: 405-842-1267. AUSTRIA - 95LX1100/200LX users in Austria should contact: Ulli Hoesch, A· 1111 Vienna, PO Box 50, HP-C/ub, AUSTRIA. Fax:+4JII/5443324. PANAMA / LATIN AMERICA - HP Palmtop users in Panama or Latin America Use DRAFT Choice (DC21- should contact: Aviran Yanir, P.O. Box 31002 Colon Free Zone, REPUBLIC OF HP.ZIPiiI ), a vector-based Cleveland, OH (USA) - 95LX1100/2001.X users in the Cleveland area should con­ PANAMA; Phone: 507-4410442; Fax: 507-4410473. tact: Craig de Fasselle, rio MEM, Inc., 4702 East 355th St, Willoughby, OH 44094. design and drawing tool, to PORTUGAL - 95LX1100/2ooLX users .. Contact: PPTUG, Rua da SFUAP, A-B, Boston, MA (USA) - 95LX11001200LX users in the Boston area should contact: 2810 Laranjeiro, PORTUGAL; Phone/Fax: 351-1-2597216; Internet: sulplano@indi­ create simple or complex Bryan Krauthame,,· Phone: 611-314-9600 x 191 (work); Fax: 611-314-9620; vidual.puug.pt. CompuServe 10: f10444,4fj drawings wIllie you are out in Richmond, VA (USA) - 95LXl100/200LX users in the Central Virginia area. the field. Line, Box, Circle, BRAZIL - 9511001200LX users in Brazil should contact: Marcos L. Pedroza, Rua Contact: John Haskel/, 1/02 Three Chopt Road, Richmond, VA 23226-3615. CIS Trairi 641 Ap 104-8, 59020-150 Nata/, RN-BRAZIL; Phone: 55 84 211-6162. 10: /10150, 1243) or Phone: 804-289-6013 (work). Are, Polygon, Ellipses, Bezier Denver, CO (USA) - 95LX1100/200LX users in the Denver area should contact: San FranCiSCO, CA (USA) - S.PAM (SOCiety lor Palmtop Advancement through curves, Complex Polylines, Bill Hoeltgen, 5944 S. Kipling, Suite 300, Litt/eton, CO 80121 Phone: 303· Meetings). For HP Palmtop users in the Bay Area, Northern California. Contact: Spline, Tape and Freehand 933·0023; Fax: 303-91/-0347. Group meets quarterly. Dennis Dodd, CompuServe 10: /13301,3214},' Phone: 415-592-3910. curves can be drawn with a DetroH, MI (USA) - 95LX1100/200LX users in the Detroit area should contact: Seattle, WA (USA) - HP Palmtop and Handheld users in the Puget Sound area. Jeff Zom, 29311 Ara-ne/, Fannington Hills, MI48334-2815; Phone: 313-489-1855 Contact: Ken/ Peterson, 360 N. W. Dogwood, A-20I, Issaquah, WA 98021. CIS 10' single command. Copy, (EST) or Louis Peeples, SI Clair Shores M148080; Phone: 313-111-9390. /12310,2174},' Intemel'[email protected]; Phone:206-392-3123.

Move, Rotate Scale, Mirror or GERMANY - HP PairntopiOmnibook users in Germany should contact: Eclrari Prinz, SRI LANKA - HP Palmtop users in Sri Lanka should contact: Francois Smith, Array (Linear, Circular, ObereM[j!J/Str. 568,64291 Dannstad/, GERMANY;PhoneIFax:+496151376065. Colombo Rd. 71411, Seeduwa, SRI LANKA; Phone/Fax: 94.1.453447. Volume) editing commands GERMANY / LUXEMBOURG - Not an official user group but this individual is willing SOUTH AFRICA - HP PalmtopiOmnibook users in South Africa should contact: to help HP Palmtop users with questions or technical problems; contact: Gilles Kohl,' James Dean. CIS 10: /10714,613},' Intemel address: [email protected]; are ready to help you modify CompuServe 10: /100114,3146},' Phone: +49-721-69-36-55 (after 6 p.m. Central Phone: (Oil) 806-1382 (O/H); Fax: (Oil) 806-1353. European bineJ or correct your design. Simple SPAIN - HP Palmtop users in Spain should contact: Delfin Arzua Mouronte, GREECE - HP Palmtop users in Greece should contact: Stavros O. Zacharakos, Avda. Republica Argentina N 7 5 Isda., 34002 PalenCia, ESPANA. key combinations allow you So/oclBOus 33, Athens 15126, GREECE; Phone: (+3-01) 8050041; Mobile Phone: to double or half the magnifi­ (+3) 093-254-11724hrs.; Fax: (+3-01) 8050041.. SWEDEN - HP Palmtop users in Sweden should contact: Kent Riemann, &iGIJerIgsga/an 124, 11430SIodrIJoIm, SWEDEN; Phone: (INT}86114885; Mobile PfKX1e: 010-7155566; cation level, zoom into a small HOLLANDIBELGtUM - HP 95LX1100/200LX users in the low countries should CorrpuServe 10: {100715,2021},' Intemel' [email protected] Dr. .. contact: PROMPT HP-GC, Mister G. Dongs, Postbus 1081, 1500 AB Zaandam, Kenneth Matz, StUlvevagen 8 B, 133 38 SaItsjobaden, Sweden; Phone: (INT) 8 717 79 91; portion of the drawing for HOLLAND; Phone: +3115704205. Internet [email protected] detailed work, or resize the INDONESIA - HP Handheld users (HP 75C, 110,48,12, 100/200LX) in SWITZERLAND - Not an official user group but this individual is willing to help HP drawing to fill the screen. Indonesia should contact Dirk H Eversberi, alo P T. Austindo Mitratama, Mr. Elman Palmtop users with questions or technical problems; contact: Alexander Gulfeldt, SunarlilJ, JI. Gunung Sahari 2I6E, Jakarta 10610, INDONESIA. Landollstrasse 28, CH-3001, Bem, SWITZERLAND Phone: (work) ++41-31-631- Un compresses with PKUN­ 33-99, CompuServe 10: {100521,2461},' [email protected] I ITALY - 95/1001200LX users in Italy should contact: Stefano Gigli, Via £ Toti, (German, English, French spoken) ZIP. I 13-60123 Ancona, ITAL Y,' Phone: 011-36845 or 071-200916,' Fax: 01/-200916,' Intemet 10: [email protected],'Fido-NetID:2:332/316.4. TURKEY - HP Palmtop users in Turkey should contact: Ahmet G. Ozisik, Soyak Availability ...... Now Binasi 8uyukdere Cad. 38, Mecidiyekoy, Istanbul8029lJ, TURKEY; Phone: (212) I I Kansas (USA) - 951100/200LX users in Kansas should contact: Marietha Wilson, 2150910 (m. 309),'Fax: (212)2115161;E-mail'[email protected] I Pricing ...... Shareware PO Box 1151, Manhallan, KS 66502-0012, USA; Phone: 913-532-9115. UKRAINE - HP Palmtop users in the Ukraine, Odessa, Kiev, Crimea regions. Location ...... CompuServe Los Angeles, CA (USA) - 95LX1100/2001.X users in the LA area should contact: Contact: Line/skvy V. Oleg, I, Varvarovsky Spusk, Nikolaev, 327015, UKRAINE; Dave Shier at lK!5-311-9391,' Fax: lK!5-311-9391; CIS/15lXJO,3314}for more informalion. Phone: (051) 36-13-51 36-13-13; Fax: (051)24-41-25. HP HAND Forum, Library 11. I

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Everything from A to Z can be found on the Internet, including support for your HP Palmtop PC.

By Conrad Cox

The Internet is really not an imposing favorite Web browser. While read­ groups. Some post questions for place. Sure, it's big. In fact, it's vast. ing, select a hyperlink to take you others to answer. The news groups And it continues to experience to the site being described. To are a wonderful place to get infor­ tremendous growth. CompuServe, return to the article, use your Web mation. America Online and other on-line browser's BACK button or key. Most Windows and Macintosh services offer their subscribers access Alternately, load the INTERNET Web browsers feature a way for to Internet and the ability to create . TXT file to read the article in users to read the Net News. their own World Wide Web (WWW, MEMO or another text viewer. Palmtop users need to acquire a or Web) pages. With this growth, If you don't have these files, separate news reader, like the one how can you find what you need on the best way to read this article in in the Minuet suite of software Internet? Is there anything on the net The HP Palmtop Paper is to sit in available on the Internet. Whole for Palmtop users? front of your computer and use books have been written about the The Internet contains software your browser to explore each Net News and how it works, so I'll for and information about the Internet resource as we discuss it. leave that for your own research. 95/100/200LX. But where can you Following your browser's instruc­ One recommendation: before find this information? Let's take a tions, type in the resource's URL posting your first message, read the small tour of the Internet and the address to see the resource. If you news group for a week. Get a feel WWW, concentrating on the places like a site and wish to return to it, for the kinds of questions asked and Palmtoppers might visit. set a bookmark in your browser. the general demeanor of the group We will visit different parts of - friendly, focused, frenzied. Try to the net. First we will look at a few make your posting fit the observed news groups of interest to Palmtop Palmtop Related News Groups profile. If there is a Frequently users. Then we will stop at sites Think of a news group (or Net Asked Questions file about the news where we can view or download spe­ News as it is sometimes called) as group posted, read it. cific information. Next we'll visit a big bulletin board with hundreds Locations: few Web pages to see how they can of different subject areas. Most peo­ help accessing Internet Palmtop ple just sit and read the hundreds news:comp.sys.palmtops resources more easily. Finally we of articles posted to the news news:comp.sys.handhelds will talk about several popular sites where you can download software via ftp (file transfer protocol - a method of transferring files between ABOUT THE AUTHOR computers over the Internet). By day, Conrad Cox is Training Manager for a major communications How to read this article company in California. The rest of his time is spent with his family, surfing the Internet, maintaining a user group web site, and watching Subscribers to The HP Palmtop his daughter play softball. You can reach him at [email protected], at Paper ON DISK can load the file http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/conrad_cox, or INTERNET.HTM iii into your http://www.ccnet.coml-cdcox!.

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http://netmar.com/users/ doc/local! inet200.txt Tom Nicastri offers a document describing how to connect the Palmtop to a UNIX shell account, read and reply to news groups using an off-line news reader, and • Easy to use: simply place in line of sight surf the WWW. In addition to pro­ to connect viding sources on the net for Web • Remote access to Palmtop files from PC related software, Tom describes using text editor, Lotus 123®, cc:Mail® or Quicken® many of the necessary UNIX codes • Backup using DOS or Windows commands used to download files via FTP. • Small overhead: only 10k bytes on PC ! . Fast: 115200 bps! Location: (Note that the address is a sin­ • Compatible with HP 100/200LX gle line, wrapped here to fit the column.) • mm under DOS, Wmdows 3.1 and Window~ q5 Connectivity Pack"', PalmConnect''' • • comes complete with Litelink infrared adapter and drive mapping ~ oftware LapLink Remote Access"" ftp://minuet.micro.umn.edu/pub/ • Introductory offer: $79.00 only! Call (800) 677-700 I minuet/ EduCAlC. 21m Cabot Road. laguna Niguel. CA 91617. Tel: (714) 582·26J7 Fax: (714) 582·1445. 5tock #3251 (Utelink.3.5") ~, PARALLAX Those with a SLIP account will ASIA/FAR EAST: Call (1800) 278-9981 ,.., RESEARCH Transmarco Data Systems (S) Pte ltd. 2 Alexandra Road. #03·0 IC want to review the Minuet suite of Delta House. Singapore 159919. Tel: (65) 278·8988 Fax: (65) 273·1156 software. Minuet stands for the Ute/ink and the Parallax Research logo are registered trademarks of Parallax Research Pte Ltd. All other registered trademarks and trademarks ore property of their respective companies. Minnesota INternet Users Essential Tool and contains modules for E­ The comp.sys.palmtops news Asked Questions (F AQ) file. Every mail, Usenet news, Telnet, Gopher, group contains information about 100LX and 200LX owner should FTP and the WWW. The University all palmtop computers. It also con­ know about and read the "Usenet of Minnesota ftp site has the latest tains the most information about comp.sys.palmtops HP 100/200LX version of Minuet. the Hewlett Packard line of palm­ Frequently Asked Questions" file. top products. Until recently, the In it can be found hundreds of ques­ comp.sys.handhelds news group Electronic Books tions with corresponding answers contained less Palmtop and more calculator related traffic. A recent organized into almost 20 categories. Location: (Note that the address is a sin­ scan of subject titles contains as Read about everything from the bat­ gle line, wrapped here to fit the column.) many 95/100/200LX postings as tery life you can expect in your any of the other palmtop brands. Palmtop to instructions on how to http://jg.cso. uiuc.edu/PG/ Both groups are worth monitoring. fix a loose hinge. Editor Richard welcome.html Cochran publishes this "work in [Note that the Web address (URL) HP Palmtop Frequently progress" around the middle of above has the capital letters "PG" in Asked Question List each month, updating it with new it. They have to be entered in caps questions and answers. (See page 27 Locations: because they are in the subdirectory of this issue to read some of the con­ (Note that address 1 is a single line, section of the address. Case sensitivi­ tents of this FAQ file.) wrapped here to fit the column.) ty is only true in the subdirectory sec­ A HTML hypertext version can 1. http://www.cis.ohio-state. tion of a URL] edu /hypertext/faq/usenet/hp/ be found at the Ohio State site, When I first downloaded and palmtops-faq/faq.html while the most recent full text ver­ tried Gilles Kohl's Vertical Reader 2. comp.sys.palmtops news group sion appears in the comp.sys.palm­ (VRIOO.ZIP ij) program, I thought tops UseNet news group. The text the program would be most useful A file consisting of frequently asked for reading shareware documenta­ questions and corresponding file also shows up on many Palm­ tion on my Palmtop. Then I discov­ answers is called a Frequently top Web pages. ered Project Gutenberg. Michael

12 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 Hart started Project Gutenberg in Anatomy of a lOOLX invites a few fellow Palmtop users to a 1971 when he keyed the Declaration gathering. With interest, commitment, of Independence into a computer and Location: (Note that the address is a sin­ and a little luck, a user group is bom. gle line, wrapped here to fit the column.) made it available for downloading. That, at least, is how a San Francisco based Palmtop user group called the Since then, with the use of volun­ http://www.st.rim.or.jp/-kaduhi/ index.html Society for Palmtop Advancement teers, Hart has electronically pub­ Through Meetings was started. lished "E-text" - text files readable The text in this section is mostly in S.P.A.M. focuses on the 95/ via almost all computers. To date, Japanese, but the pictures are good. 100/200LX Palmtops, and its site pro­ more than 370 titles are available in vides pictures and links to other the areas of computer science, the Locate Palmtop user groups Palmtop resources. S.P.A.M. also col­ Internet, mathematics, literature, and lects and posts information about Location: (Note that the address is a sin­ Palmtop user groups. Over time reference material. Go to the home gle line, wrapped here to fit the column.) S.P.A.M. hopes to catalog as many page (above) and find out more http://www.ccnet.com/-cdcoxl Palmtop user groups as possible, about Project Gutenberg and how to regardless of platform. If you are a part obtain reading and reference material Palmtop user groups usually start of a user group, you should know you can read on your Palmtop. when someone begins looking for one. about this Web page. If none is found, an industrious person

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JANUARY (FEBRUARY 1996 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 13 REVIEWS: Internet resources for Palmtops World Wide Web Sources of Palmtop­ Lord Jonln's lOOLX Flies Palmtop Pages related software Location: (Note that the address is a sin­ gle line, wrapped here to fit the column.) When accessing the Web, look for a The World Wide Web accesses ftp://ftp.best.com/pub/joninl few good pages that contain the more than hypertext pages. Many hp-palmtop links to areas that most interest browsers allow you to download you. The Web sites listed below software & other information. Jonin set up this ftp site to share his personal lOOLX Palmtop files and contain links to the majority of Below are a few sites. When visit­ ing ftp sites, you are presented with programs. resources mentioned in this article. a listing of the files in the d,irectory you are in. Look for an INDEX or OAK Software Repository The TECH. NET lOO/200LX Page README file for a short description CD-ROM. COM of the files in the directory. Location: Locations: (Note that the 2 addresses http://www.tech.netitechnotes/hplx/ Massachusetts Institute below have been wrapped here to fit the col­ umn.) Albert Nurick must have been of Technology "eddie" thinking "one stop shopping" ftp://oakoakland.edu/SimTel/ Locations: (Note that the 3 addresses msdos/ when he created his Web page. He below are wrapped here to fit the column.) has links to the FAQ pages, soft­ ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtel/ ware sites for FTP downloading, ftp://eddie.mit.edu/pub/ msdos hp9Slx/NEW/ and even a list of Palmtop dealers. The SimTel mirror sites at Oakland ftp://eddie.mit.edu/pub/ University in Rochester, Michigan Doc's HP 200LX Page hp9Slx/hp100Ix/ and the Walnut Creek (California) Location: (Note that the address is a sin­ ftp://eddie.mit.edu/pub/hp9Slxl CD-ROM archive hold perhaps the gle line, wrapped here to fit the column.) largest collection of software I have "Eddie" contains a good selection of ever seen. While it doesn't have a http://www.webcom.com/ shareware and freeware for the entire specific section for Palmtop software, -docline/hp200Ix.shtml LX line. You will find the newest thousand of MS-DOS files are catego­ software in the NEW directory. rized for easy selection. Like a well Doc's page offers the same all-in­ stocked software superstore, one can one Web page service with links to Monash University np Site spend much time browsing. all major Palmtop sites. The page even has a photo of the 200LX. Location: (Note that the address is a sin­ gle line, wrapped here to fit the column.) Some final advice HP lOO/200LX speed upgrades ftp://ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/ When presented with a choice of sites, Location: palmtop/ always try the site that is closest to you. If that one is busy, try the other. You http://www.bhm.tis.net/-mack! Located in Melbourne, Australia, this archive has software that I may experience difficulty reaching Want more information on how to haven't seen on other ftp sites. these sites during peek usage times. increase the clock speed of your Connecting to a server on the other As our tour of Palmtop resources Palmtop. Visit this Web site for an side of the world really says some­ on the Internet and the World Wide Web comes to a close, I hope you have explanation of an available kit and a thing about the shrinking size of discovered a few new places to find the description of the Palmtop surgery the planet - and the power of the World Wide Web! answers to your Palmtop questions. involved. (See Hal's warning on this Remember that the Web is constantly procedure, letter page xx.) Hewlett-Packard's growing, constantly changing. Sites close or move daily, generating error Electronic Information Server Yahoo PDA Resource Page messages when attempting to access Location: is them. New sites attach themselves to Location: (Note that the address is a sin­ (Note that the address a sin­ gle line, wrapped here to fit the column.) the Web every day. As the Web gets gle line, wrapped here to fit the column.) bigger, it may get slower. Don't let http://www.yahoo.com/ http://hpcvbbs.external.hp.com:80/ these minor frustrations get in the way Computers/Hardware/POAs/ software_archives/ftp/hp200lx/ of exploring the Web and the Internet. HewletCPackard_100/ While this site contains few software Have fun! titles, it has a patch file for 200LX's Yahoo is a repository for WWW pages Pocket Quicken sync problem. Other and resources. It is hierarchical and files of this type could be offered in easy to use. Check this address to see if the future, afthough HP does not Share/Freeware Index: page 60 new Palmtop sites become available. make that guarantee.

14 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1996 REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW

User to User: Everything Under the Sun at COMDEX

Hal visits the massive annual computer show L.....-______-----I SkyTel2-Way Pager connected via cable to in Las Vegas and tests out SkyTel's new 2-Way the HP200LX Palmtop PC Pager and a method of converting Casio Digital camera pictures to Palmtop Topcards. He also reports on SanDisk's new CompactFlash storage cards.

By Hal Goldstein

Once again last November I made and examined and poked at units, SkyTel2-Way Pager my way through busy Las Vegas asking questions all the while. The streets and worked through the HP OmniGo side was mobbed. On the first day of the show Sky tel crowded aisles at COMDEX - the People three and four levels deep representatives gave our advertis­ gigantic yearly exposition for those in tried to get their hands on working ing director, Brian Teitzman, and the computer industry. In past years I units and attempted to get their me 2-way wireless (Motorola) used to take pride in the fact that I questions answered. People liked pagers. We were given access to the would walk the entire COMDEX what they saw in the OmniGo Sky tel wireless network and show. That's no longer the case. organizer. installed Sky tel software on our COMDEX has grown tremendously As time goes on, I too am more Palmtops. This let Brian and I com- (200,000 people and 3000 computer­ impressed with the HP OmniGo related exhibits), but that didn't dis­ organizer. It isn't an HP 1001 courage me. The problem is that its 200LX: missing is full PC Card sup­ emphasis has changed. Windows has port, communications, DOS com­ completely overtaken DOS as the patibility, a full spreadsheet, development environment and only macros, and in-depth PIMs a small percentage of the COMDEX (Personal Information Manage­ exhibitors have products directly rel­ ment software). However, there is evant to HP Palmtop users. an awful lot packed into the Although I spend some time OmniGo organizer -- a strong sub­ tramping through the isles, I spent set of the HP 200LX PIMS, HP Calc, most of my time helping out at the a 64-by-64 spreadsheet, and the HP HP Palmtop/HP OmniGo area of 12C business calculator. But what the Hewlett Packard booth. At the really distinguishes the OmniGo HP booth "the world" seemed to organizer is that you can use its come to me. I met many HP keyboard or take advantage of its Palmtop Paper subscribers and pen interface and Grafitti hand­ advertisers, plus a number of the writing recognition capability. The HP marketing, engineering, sup­ bottom line: the OmniGo organizer port, and administrative staff. is really fun to use. It is great for The HP Handheld area was short, fast notetaking and comes SkyTel2-Way Pager interfaces with the very crowded. Many of the visitors with a host of organizer and finan­ HP 100/200LX Palmtop PC or can be had still not heard of the HP 200LX cial tools. used as a stand-alone pager.

JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 15 REVIEWS: COMDEX Report municate with each other within the respond to at the push of a button. equipment in the exhibit hall. gigantic Convention Center or So I could send Brian: "I'm caught There were transmission problems across town. With these pagers we in traffic and will be late for 10:30 in one of the main halls. The Pager were able to keep each other updat­ meeting" by typing the message itself was unobtrusive, clipping on ed about meetings, important con­ into the Palmtop connected to the to my belt covered by my suit jack­ tacts, delays, any time, any place. Pager. Similarly, I could send a et. I had the cable in my jacket The unit itself is quite small, message that read, "will you be at pocket, ready when I needed to weighing just 5.5 ounces. It's pow­ the HP booth at 2:00? - Yes, No, connect to my Palmtop. ered by an AAA battery lasting Not sure, Will be late". When Brian Unfortunately, we do not have two weeks. It can receive up to a 90 received the message, he wouldn't Skytel service in rural, central Iowa character message and display text have had to connect to his Palmtop; where our company is located. on its 4-line 20 character LCD dis­ he would just press the appropriate Since I am constantly on the move play but only has the ability to function-key-like button on the within our building, the Skytel sys­ send pre-programmed push-of-the­ Pager to answer with one of the tem would have been of use at our button acknowledgments. four choices I give him. office. I would have given one unit What makes this pager system I also received news, sports, to my administrative assistant and of interest to HP 100LX and 200LX and business news via the Pager. one to my wife who often has prob­ users is its Palmtop interface. The Any information received by the lems reaching me or doesn't want Palmtop connects to the pager via a Pager can be read on it's small LCD to interrupt a meeting. custom serial cable. screen. But when possible, I con­ System-Manager compliant nected the Pager to the Palmtop Displaying digital photos on the Sky tel software on the Palmtop and read the incoming messages Palmtop; Japanese shareware (activated by pressing a hotkey) on the Palmtop's larger screen. lets the user compose and send The system worked pretty While at the HP booth, Kazuhisu messages or questions requiring well, in spite of the interference Terasaki came up to me and said, short answers that the recipient can generated by all the electronic "Remember me - you published Your PRlmlop PC Is AlreRiy • IntelliLink~ndo~JII...... " II Transfer and translate data in one stell An IntmJel Direct, one·step transfer and translation between your lIP Palmtop and supporteif software applications. II Reconcile data conflicts InteIlilink reads and cOf!1Jlares data at tile field level, identifying conflicts. You then specify the action to be MRilbox! taken: Add, Ignore, NotiJy, Replace, Update. Items can even be modified directly on the screen during transfer. II Specify exactly where your data will go Use the built-in cc:Mail applica­ Create your own field maps or use defaults. You can specify exactly where your data should be sent in tion for dial-up access to global the target system. Very useful if you've customized your PC application or your lIP Palmtop. internet e-mail. II Filter out data you don't need to transfer Transfer a subset of your data by ap-~lying ruters to a merge. You'll be able to ignore data you don't need cc:Mail<->Internet to update and deal oruy with what s unportant to you. • Choose your own e-mail address Supported Appliclltions • Only $9/mo flat, unlimited usage ACf! for Windows 1.1/2.x Commence 2.x Excei5,0/7,0 PackRat 4.1/5,0 Windows • Handles binary me attachments Advantage 1.0 Day-Timer Organizer 2,x lotus Organizer 1.xJ2,x Paradox 3.5/4.0/5.0 Cardfile/Caiendar ASCII dBASE III/IV Schedule+ 1.0/7,0 SidekicHO for DOS Word for Wmdows 6,0/7.0 CaIANdar 2.55 ECCO 1.x!2.x!3,x Now Up-to·Date Sidekick for Windows 1.0/2,0/95 Wordperfect for Windows 6.0 Call or E-mailfor Free Trial: IntelliLinkfor Windows for HP 95LX, 100LX or 200LX - $99.95 "llltelliLillk is the oilly solUtion/or keeping network-based scheduling and contact Call to order today! in/ormation synchronized with YOllr PDA. " PCWeek , April 17, 1995 palmtop. com '7bis is tntly excel/ell! software - vital if ),011 wall! to lise apocket complltel: .. velY lise/III if ),ollileed to move data betweell/ormats, evell just softu'are /ormats. " Compllter Shopper (UK), APlil1994 fh--Q. [email protected] '111lelliLink sUlpasses other desktop-to-palmtop links in its ease a/lise, its smart way a/han­ Intelli Link·Corp. dling 0/ data files, and its mor correctioll/eatures during IIploads and downloads. " One Tara Blvd. , Suite 210 Windows Sources, june 1993 Nashua. NH 03062 Tel: (60~) 888-0666 IntelliLink w/HP serilll cllble - $124.95 408·4;0·,467 Fax: (60~) 888-9817

16 THE HPPALMTOP PAPER JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 Digital photo from Casio QV-1 0 Digital camera converted to PCX format and displayed as a topcard on the HP Palmtop. (From left: Kheng Joo Khaw, Hal Goldstein, Kazuhisu Terasaki.) worked on the Palmtop keyboard for a few minutes. The photo dis­ played above emerged as my top­ card in a PCX file. Unfortunately Casio QV-10 digital camera with built-in LCD screen to view pictures. Connects to PC or the resolution is not that good with Mac computers for up- and downloading images, Connects to any TV or VCR for this conversion. display. Camera stores up to 96 images in memory. The software Kazuhisu used for converting the Casio digital the photo of us together at a users Kazuhisu. We got subscriber Ron image into a PCX file for the group meeting when you visited Roseburg to take the snapshot using Palmtop was written in Japan and Tokyo last year" (Vo1.3, No.6, Pg.7). Kazuhisu's Casio QV-IO Digital has a Japanese character interface "1 am now studying English in Palo camera. Kazuhisu then asked to and documentation. For those of Alto." Just then Mr. Kheng Joo borrow my Palmtop. He connected you who remember my article fea­ Khaw the head of the HP Handheld the Casio and my Palmtop serially turing Kazuhisu's photo, you'll division walked by to say hello. with the HP cable and several gen­ recall that I discussed a number of "Let's take a picture" , said der changers and adapters. He then interesting, fun, and useful pieces Increase Productivity with your Palmtop Palmtop Printing Windows PALM Multi-Functional Connectivity ~CITIZEN ~ Now all your Windows data can go right in your pocket. Back up and synchronize your HP 1001200 with your Windows PC in a user­ ~I~You will have ' • friendly format. Palm Connect's single-button total communica- back-up, click-and-drag file transfer, and 1- tion ability com- . button access to PIM files provide a conven­ bined with the yI' ient connectivity solution. Now you can use convenience of . the latest version of any Lotus or Quicken file Flash memory tech- P /1 Now you'll be able to print anywhere your on both your palmtop and your Pc. nology. EXP's Thin- U palmtop goes. This plain paper printer has Requires 386 PC running Windows 3.1 (or Fax 144LXM Modem has great resolution (360 dpi) and allows you to better), 4 MB RAM 4 MB on hard disk and a 14.4 bps send/receive flash memory. Faxes print last minute, life-saving charts and serial port. Comes on 3.5" disks with serial you receive can be stored in memory right graphs in color. Small (10" x 2" x 1.85") and cable, 9-pin to 25-pin adapter and User's on the card, so you get both functions in light (1.1 lb), the Citizen PN60 prints 2 Guide. your one PCMCIA slot. pages per minute on cut sheets, letterhead Stock #3307 (Palm Connect) . . . $119.95 Stock #3057 (No memory) . . $229 and transparencies. Prints approximately 30 Stock #3058 (2MB version) . .$279 text pages on a black cartridge or 3-5 pages EduCALC is your place Stock #3059 (4MB version) . .$359 with a color cartridge. Don't sacrifice office to find the newest, hottest printer performance while working on the road. Versatile, portable, and perfect for to­ products available for your day's palmtop user. Hewlett-Packard palmtop! f §MARl Stock #PN60 (PN60 Printer) . . $349.95 Call Today Smart Modular lets you fax larger files Stock #3289 (NiCad Battery) .. $79 with your palmtop, using the minimum ' Stock #3290 (Car Adapter) . $44.95 amount of power. It provides you with a Stock #3061 (100/200 Cable) . $34.95 (800)713-6526 9600/4800 send receive fax/modem with Stock #3292 (2 black carts) . . $8.95 either 4 or 6 MB memory. Save batteries! Payments accepted by VISA, MasterCard, AMEX, Discover. Stock #3293 (~color carts) . $13.95 ched<, money order, and wire transfer. Purchase orders are Stock #3252 (4MB version). . . . . $309 accepted from schools and business within the U.S.A. Stock #3054 (6MB version). . . . . $339

JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 17 REVIEWS: COMDEX Report of software from Japan. In fact we nizers. The CompactFlash can be included several contributions used to store digital video, audio, from Japan on this year's Sub­ and text data in future consumer scriber Disk: TYPER ij, a Palmtop electronic products. A committee typing tutor; CGAHLP ij, a utility of 12 companies, including HP, for easily viewing DOS CGA pro­ have formed The CompactFlash grams on the Palmtop; and TREE Association to create standards for ij, which lets you watch trees grow these new devices. That means on the palmtop screen. However, future palmtops might be devel­ there is lots more "good stuff" we oped with a CompactFlash slot and haven't yet seen in the West. I a normal PC Card slot. Such a know it is a lot of work, but it palmtop would have room for both would be great to see more a storage card and a full-sized PC Japanese software translated. We I/O Card such as a fax/modem or might even run a regular column 2-way pager. The CompactFlash describing some of this translated cards are compatible with current software and describing the latest technology, and can be used in an developments in the Japanese HP 100/200LX using an adapter Palmtop community. Perhaps, a that fits in the Palmtop's card slot. CompactFlash cartridge can be slipped in a PC Card adapter and used systems that accept PC bilingual person would volunteer If someone could create a Cards, including the HP 100/200LX. to write the column or at least send modem and the electronics, per­ us an update article on occasion. I haps it would be possible to have that required more intensive typ­ know there was a group in Japan both a compact fax/ modem and ing. The new IRDA infrared key­ who were working on translations, CompactFlash in one PC Card slot. boards might offer that possibility but I don't know the current status The problem still is price. As if some enterprising vendor was of the translations. Palmtop users know, flash memory willing to write the Palmtop soft­ is still a relatively expensive stor­ ware drivers. age medium. The costs of high-end All in all I came away from CompactFlash storage cards 85 MB Flash Card ($2000) and 15 COMDEX optimistic about the MB CompactFlash ($650) are pro­ future of the palmtop and wireless I also met with the major flash card hibitive. A 10 MB flash card ($500) markets. However, I do think it's manufacturer, SanDisk. They were and 2 MB CompactFlash ($150) are still 2-4 years before small hand­ excited about their new Compact­ more reasonable but still high. The held devices become pervasive and Flash storage card. good news is as more Flash prod­ wireless computing devices This matchbook-sized flash ucts become available in the con­ become commonplace. There are card (36 mm by 43 mm by 3.3 mm) sumer market place, prices should strong handheld and wireless will work in such devices as digital continue to drop. seeds found throughout the com­ cameras, pagers, and audio orga- I did spend some time walking puter industry, but those seeds still through the show, and I ,------, need to germinate a little more. It is always made it a point to like early Spring when we know it talk with keyboard vendors. is only a matter of time before we Travelers and those who use see significant sprouting in the the Palmtop as their primary handheld marketplace. Technol­ PC would welcome a full­ ogies have advanced and are a bit sized yet compact keyboard easier to use. Consumers are begin­ for the HP Palmtop. On the ning to be aware of possibilities. road it would be nice to We Palmtop users are still ahead of work on articles and do E­ ~ ~.' the curve and have the vantage mail from my hotel room point of watching this whole new using a keyboard attached to industry develop. j . 29 my Palmtop. During the day I would just carry my Product Index: page 59 '--S-an-O-is-k-C-o-rp-or-at-io-n-'s-C-o-m-pa-c-tF-la-sh- d-is-k-(-up-p-er-Ie-fj-)-ne-x-t-' Palmtop in my pocket, but in Share/Freeware Index: page 60 to U.S. postage stamps for size comparison. CompactFlash the evenings I could do work comes in 2, 4, 10 and 15MB capacities.

18 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1996 W TO USE YOUR PALMTOP USER PROFILE

Staying Organized, Motivated and Informed In the world of real estate, success is measured in square feet leased and contracts signed. This user stays organized, motivated and informed with his HP Palmtop.

By Alexander S. Arancia

pptBook : RICH ToDo List 12/11/95 1 : 43 PM As the Director of Leasing for a Week 50 Tuesday Decel'lber 12, 1995 346/19 Dece ..ber 1995 A0 *****BUSINESS***** Ho T" We Th Fr Sa Su small privately held real estate A1 Send Lease agreel'lent to V. Willis 1 2 3 A1 Call A. Miller re : Lease agreel'lent 4" 6 7 8 9 10 investor / developer, I travel exten­ A1 Fax R Sweeney re: proposal (11 13 14 15 16 17 A2 Call R.Hall re:Article 18 20 21 22 23 24 sively, and perform tasks daily that A2 Meet J . Sil'lone re: lease l'Iodification 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 require a little more organization A3 Call S.Butita re: new center A4 Fax W.Gibbons re : appraisal Next Appoint ..ent and planning than my brain alone B0 *****PERSONAL*** ** .. ~ .l!(~ .~ ...... ~ ..: . .~ .~ .~..... l,I .'! . ~.. I .~"..... ~.. !! ."'. B1 Reschedule dentist's appt AppointMents can handle. A typical week in my B1 Storl'l windows uP • I give you MY word, c B2 Xl'Ias presents for Fal'lilv • and JOY Hi ll return t business life can involve; negotiat­ B4 1,.:W,ma;;&t¥n.i.' • • ~10:80a THANKS TO AUT ing a lease, evaluating a new acqui­ • ~ ~;ggP ~YN~reADbggnN sition, attending a convention, ~1IlmW.-amwlEmil'tEI!mIilllil!mlill~""'_ writing status reports, meeting ToDo list displaying Business and Personal priorities and section headers with contractors, showing a vacan­ cy to a retailer, cold calling for prospects, and several administra­ Organization Business item priorities begin with tive tasks. an "A" and are followed by a num­ I believe that any job can be Every job requires organization ber which designates its importance broken down into three aspects: and the HP 200 LX provides sever­ in relation to other Business items Organization, Information and al tools to organize your life. Here (i.e., Al - Most important; A5 -least Motivation. Over the years I have is how it organizes mine. important). Personal items begin used just about every system imag­ with a "B" and have the same num­ inable to deal with these business TODOLIST ber system. Two repeating ToDos basics. Unfortunately, each method This is my main "user interface," put headings in the appointment fell short of my expectations and I the compass that points me in the book for each section. (The headings inevitably moved on to another right direction - for the day, are listed with AO and BO priorities, system. That all changed when I week, month, and year. respectively, so that they always discover HP's "computer in your I split my ToDo list into two remain at the top of the correspond­ pocket." groups; Business and Personal. ing section. See above.) Below I describe how I use the HP Palmtop in the real estate leas­ ing industry to organize, inform and motivate. Be advised that my ABOUT THE AUTHOR use of the Palmtop is still a work in Alex is the Director of Leasing and Acquisitions for Lamar Companies, a progress. I continue to discover commercial real estate developer based in Morristown, New Jersey. He new and unique ways to handle resides in Crofton, Maryland with his wife, Sheila, and a baby on the different situations each day, way. Alex also operates a consulting practice, Applied Logistics EXperts, thanks to the flexibility and adapt­ to assist real estate professionals in getting the most out of the ability of the HP Palmtop. This is Information Superhighway. Alex's CompuServe ID is [73023,1546]. it's most valuable attribute.

JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1996 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 19 HOW TO USE Real Estate user profile I have a macro set up to create new ToDo items (most of which are phone calls). It automatically enteres the ToDo with "AI" priori­ ty. Each evening (or morning dur­ This bimonthly technical journal provides in-depth technical information about ing breakfast) I'll go through my developing software for OmniGo, HP LX-series, Newton, Psion, and Magic Cap ToDo list and change priorities as devices. Each issue includes news and announcements, programming tips and tech­ necessary. If need be, I'll manually niques, product reviews and previews, and programs with detailed descriptions and change the priority, but only after sample code sample. Source code disk also available. For all technical levels. careful consideration of all other items; personal as well as business. Call, fax, or e-mail us for a complementary copy I use other system macros to CREATIVE DIGITAL INC., 293 CORBETT AvE., SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94 774 automate my Appointment Book 475.621.4252.475.627.4922 (FAX) • CDI @CDIGITAL.COM • HTTP.//WWW.SLlP.NET/-CDI and make it possible to share infor­ mation between the Appointment, Phone and Memo applications to tool that effectively allows you to applicaiton and pressing IMENUI Eile produce a highly effective system organize and manage it. The HP Modify to modify the structure of of follow-up and organization. (See Palmtop Phone Book application is the PhoneBook. the sidebar on page 24 for a more such a tool. Almost every contact I have is complete description of my The default format of the associated with a piece of property macros.) Phone Book found on the HP we own, are buying or are selling. Palmtop is adequate for most If not, then the contact relates to a PHONE BOOK users. However, a salesperson vendor or personal contact. I added In commercial real estate, who you needs to keep more detailed infor­ fields for property/project, name know is sometimes much more maiton about contacts. One of the of secretary for each contact, important than what you know. first things I did was to modify square footage/ area the prospect is However, a large network of con­ PhoneBook's .PDB data file by interested in, and how the contact tacts is only valuable if you have a opening it in the built-in DataBase was obtained. I also have data fields to keep personal information on each contact (Le., spouse, kids, hobbys, etc.). This allows me to Ht.le !birgcf"or· Of[gasIng ·· .... m.mi Business i4fiiFs44=ilijfiif· know the client or retailer better COl'll!any i~.f.lMAR. COM.F'fl.f.II. .~ . :ES ...... , !iol'le i410 451-2526 and build a better relationship with Address.! !9f4~:Fblrr£chI ·g · Ffrghwa:y Ce II!!I ar i410 274 9779 them. Address~ i Fa2!; i410 793-0150 !;.i t.y iPasadena 61 t.ernat.e i800 .. 526 0762 ...... , I have created a number of St.ate i.r.:!!>. .. ! .. Z.ip i.?!.. ! .?? Pager i~~~:::::~:~~:.~?I~ :::::::::::; macros to help organize the infor­ mation in PhoneBook and provide a more effective way to build rela­ tionships and interface with these contacts (see Macros sidebar, page 24). Modified Real Estate PhoneBook, page one data entry screen MEMO I use Memo in conjunction with my ToDo list to automate the process of mailing information to prospects. I have four separate macros set up to create ToDo items for sending something to a prospect; a follow up letter, a draft lease, a letter of intent, or a brochure, respectively. Each macro not only creates the ToDo, it makes an entry in a Memo file called LIST.DOC (using SmartClips from within Phone). Each entry in Modified Real Estate PhoneBook, page two data entry screen LIST. DOC shows name, address,

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JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 THE HPPALMTOP PAPER 21 HOW TO USE Real Estate user profile you to get reimbursed quicker because the report is finished at the end of the trip. Just print it out, sta­ 1. T iBIn ple your receipts, and submit it to T is:::::::) .aREA :~~~~~ .m . ..' LEASE EORM QISPOSITION------, accounting. j MIN.BENT !I?:ipSF @ Bay 0 BTS o Negotiating .::] II's ! ? :~~~!il.~ :] 0 Land lease o Signed L.a. I. Now that I'm organized, the Ow/Lessee next step is to stay motivated. You Ow/Alex 0 w/Marc ! :!~ :~:::::l ~~~~T~:$~~ :~~::::l 0 PA~ ;l:roker? Ow/Julie 0 w/Cory can have all the organization in the @ Executed 0 Dead !I i ~ECURITY $ : ~~~~ ... ::::j 0 TRW world, but if you're not motivated to NOTE .. do your job, your not doing your job.

My real estate database main entry screen has fields for all Motivation basic information about a particular deal. DATABASE square feet), Type of Deal (land In the field of commercial leasing, I use the built-in Database applica­ lease, unit lease, land sale or BTS or any commission-based job, moti­ tion to produce a clear picture of each which means the landlord Builds vation means money! The more and every deal I'm working on. The To Suit a space for the tenant and motivated you are, the more deals main entry screen has data fields for charges them rent for the land and you close, and the more money you all the basic information about a par­ an amount for the new building) make. However the commission is ticular deal (see top of this page). Lease Term, Minimum Rent, calculated, working for commis­ My real estate Deals database Renewal Options, TI's (which are sions is not a road easily traveled. has fields for: Lessee (tenant) name, Tenant Improvement money the Because of this, I have put my Center (pre-listed with all of my landlord pays), Free Rent, Per­ Palmtop to work helping me stay centers) name, Contact, Use, Lease centage Rent (which is additional focused and motivated. type, Terms: Unit and Area (in rent paid based on the level of sales achieved), Security Deposit amount and if received, Financial Info on file, and the Broker bring­ ing the deal to me. The database also includes the following motivation fields: Disposition - shows the status of a deal and is changed as the deal progresses from Negotiating to Executed. As the negotiation pro­ And you may never plug in ceeds, a lease file changes hands between myself, the secretary, the again. Try ZAP-it ... and share property manager, and the asset E-mail with anyone on the manager. This field also lets me Internet. Fax letters and keep track of who has the file. I more. Send messages to also indicate here if the deal is Dead. pagers and phones. All from your portable computer. Probability - is my own instinc­ Go wireless and try ZAP-it tive estimation of the chances of the deal actually closing (25%, 33%, for 30 days. 75 %,100%); Megahertz Wireless Modem for Mob/tex Commission - is the total amount I will make on the deal less any Call for more details. amount to be paid to a broker. '1-800-2'1S-257S ext. 107 Lastly, I use the note field to keep a Internet: [email protected] complete chronology of every step along the way. Each time a phone ZAP-It Is a trademark of DTS Wireless. The Megahertz Wireless Modem for Mobltex Is a product of Megahertz Corp.

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The last field "Paid" is not checked until I actually receive Fn·F1 - Archives all appointments for the month which is two months prior to the current month. the commission check. I want my appointment book to always show the current and prior month's appointments. I My columns view is not only a archive all appointments prior to that for future reference , and to keep my main APPT.ADB file at great motivator, showing me a manageable size. which deals are going to close and Fn·F2 - Backs up drive C to the A:\BACKUP directory - just incase. summarizing my accomplishments Fn·F3 through Fn·F5 - Schedules a new ToDo in my Appointment Book. The different macros year-to-date, but it's also a good designate the specific assistant or secretary to who that task has been delegated. accounting tool, keeping track of Fn·F6 - Marks a To Do as "Attempted," specifying the date and time of the attempt in the note my receivables. At the end of the field (relates mainly to phone calls) . This macro also moves the To Do to the following day. year, any deal marked as Executed Fn·F7 - Marks a ToDo as "Completed," specifying the date and time of completion in the Note field. Fn·F8 - Enters an appointment indicating that someone attempted to call me. This helps in the gets archived to a separate file. inevitable game of phone tag. The power of this approach is Fn·F9 - Moves a ToDo to the following week for those items that did not get done by Friday of two fold. First, it gives me a com­ the current week. This is more of a maintenance macro so I don't have an item like, "Fiscal year­ plete chronology of events that end budgets due today" on a Saturday or Sunday. occur from the first contact Fn·F10 - Closes all applications and returns to the Top Card. This allows me to get away from between myself and the prospect, my "user interface" when I want to playa game or run a non-system manager application. For as well as giving a clear snapshot the example you give, it would be better to return to the Application Manager. of the basic deal parameters. Secondly, by structuring the The Phone Book Macros columns view and sorting by the "Probability" of a deal executing Fn·F1 - Brings up page two of my modified Phone Book individual record , which shows spouse and "Commissions" to be paid, I name, anniversary date, birthday, kids names, hobbies, and other notes. This is an indispens­ have a quick way to keep my focus able resource for any salesperson who wishes to be more than just a salesperson. and motivate myself to accomplish Fn·F2 - Backs up drive C to the A drive. This macro is standard within all applications to ensure it is executed no matter where I leave the Palmtop screen when turned off. the most important and most likely Fn·F3 - This is a relatively new macro learned from Gilles Kohl, again on the HPHAND Forum projects at hand for both myself of CompuServe. It will clip the business number from a phone record, invoke the DATACOMM and the company. This in effect app, and dial the number. This obviously only works when the PC Card modem is installed and plugged into the phone. I use this on days that I am tied to my desk with a lot of calls to make (at least once a week). Fn·F4 - This macro invokes the Database app and brings up the Abstract DB I referred to earli­ er. It will turn a prospect entry in the phone book to a deal entry in the Abstract DB preparing the Project: Vision file for further input during a meeting. Fn·F5 through Fn·F8 - These macros work in conjunction with Memo and Appt. to facilitate my follow up and advertising. Each macro enters a To Do item for sending something to a prospect; Gives You a follow up letter, a draft lease, a letter of intent, or a brochure, respectively. They also make an Planning In Your Palm For $99 entry in a Memo file called LIST. DOC. Each entry shows name, address, property interested in, For HP 100/200 and DOS based PC's and type of business. The LlST.DOC file is printed at the end of the day and handed to my sec­ Features Include: Free Demo Pc lJi retary. • One Hour Learning Curve sk Finally, each macro skips a week from the current day and enters a follow up To Do to • Uses 300K with Max file size from SOK to lMEG. remind me keep in touch with the prospect. LIST.DOC is then merged into SENT.DOC so that it • Logic Networks, Timelines, Resource Histograms is empty for the next day and SENT.DOC archives every mailing I've done for the month. • Critical Path, Milestones, Variable Zoom Fn·F9 - Schedules a meeting with the highlighted phone entry. • Mouse and keyboard Fn·F10 - Schedules a To Do to call the highlighted entry. Both F9 and F10 use a Smart Clip 'NEW! toMS from the Phone book called "Regarding" which copies company name, property and use fields to the Note field of the Meeting or To Do entry. This allows me quick access to who a person is before I call or meet them.

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JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1996 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 25 HOW TO USE Real Estate user profile uniform series (NUS). In real macros for each built-in applica­ In the end, time Is money estate, a cash flow can signify the tion. flow of money between the tenant acCIS - Without the ability to I just returned from a two day trip to (rent) and landlord (TI's). By speci­ communicate, the Palmtop would evaluate a new acquisition near fying these flows and the amount be nothing more than a nifty per­ Atlantic City, New Jersey. I type my of interest that impacts them, it is sonal organizer. acCIS is a program evaluation of the property in Memo easy to determine the overall value that automates communication and then pop open Phone Book to of a potential investment. You can with the CompuServe Information look up some contacts of store own­ plug in different values, playing Service, providing an easy and ers in the center. Then I run my "what-if" scenarios, until you reach seamless way to send and receive CALL macro to schedule phone calls an acceptable return, and then E-mail and facsimiles. to three people I need to contact. make counter offers based on your CompuServe Information Flipping open my cellular phone, I calculations. Service - CompuServe lets me call each person. I get through to Finally, HP Calc's Solver appli­ transfer binary files as well as E­ two of them, I press my "Com­ cation is a wonderful little utility mail. This lets me send and receive pleted" macro for each, and type that lets you write your own equa­ documents created by a word comments into the note field of each. tions to simplify many calculations. processor or spreadsheet program, I don't get through to the third per­ I have a Solver formula to calculate making it easier to transfer files son, so I press the" Attempted" commissions on a specific deal, and that need to be shared between macro, which sets up a ToDo to another to determine the purchase offices (i.e., leases, rent rolls, bud­ remind me to call them tomorrow. price of a new acquisition. They are gets, etc.). Next I do some quick cutting simple formulas that are very spe­ CompuServe also lets me fax and pasting of notes into Memo, cific to my company, and of little documents without a fax machine. and I'm ready to fax a report to my use to the typical user. I create the message to be faxed in boss via CompuServe, (the old man Memo and save it. I use acCIS to doesn't have E-mail yet). I pop out DATABASE connect to CompuServe and E-mail my Flash card, pop in my Motorola I have created another database to the message. CompuServe pro­ fax/modem card, send the fax, and collect information on potential vides a cover page and sends the then download waiting forum mes­ new shopping centers for acquisi­ message to the fax number I pro­ sages and E-mail, along with tion (NEWACQ.DB). This database vide. This service has been very weather and stock quotes. I check allows me to keep a complete useful for me when traveling and my voice mail and get some record of the center name, loca­ in need of a print-out of something updates on deals that are pending tion, owner/agent, anchor tenants, from my Palmtop. I'll send the doc­ and type them into my Abstract market conditions, accessability, ument via CompuServe E-mail to database, then pop open HP Calc design of the center and more. the fax of the hotel that I'm staying to recalculate commissions for the at, and then pick up the document year. Then it hits me! I just com­ at the front desk! Its a lot easier pleted an enormous amount of Other essential tools than carrying around a printer. work in a very organized manner Internet - I'm also a subscriber and in a very short period of time. I Each of the above tools help me to the "commercial-realestate" list­ can't wait until the next day, the fulfill my organization, motivation serve on the Internet. I generally get next deal, the next chance to really and information needs. On top of between 20 and 40 messages per put my Palmtop to use. that, I received help from some day. Some are properties for sale, In the field of commercial real excellent third-party products and some are companies looking for estate investing, the value of infor­ I services. properties to buy, some are brokers mation is inversely proportionate Buddy ij - An essential tool looking for space or landlords look­ to the time that it is available. Time for Palmtop users is the shareware ing for retailers. All are sent immedi­ is money - and the HP 200 LX program called Buddy. This pro­ ately upon posting of the message. I makes the gathering of important gram adds dozens of functions and have all of my Internet E-mail for­ information easier and faster! shortcuts to the HP Palmtop, warded to my CompuServe account, including multiple macro capabili­ which lets me use acCIS and my HP ty. Normally, you are limited to a Palmtop to process Internet E-mail Product Index: page 59 set of 10 macros. Buddy lets you wherever I am. Share/Freeware Index: page 60 easily set up a set of 10 different

26 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 W TO USE YOUR PALMTOP

Frequently Asked Questions

I Can you use the Paltmop to dial phone numbers? Can you customize data fields in Phone Book? For the answer to these, and other frequently asked Palmtop questions, read on!

[Note: The source of this article is 10 macros in sequence. Pushkeys is nighttime areas shaded (also regis­ PALMTOP.FAQ, a Question and not documented, and may be mis­ tered users only), and lots of other Answers file posted on Internet. sing from some non U.S.-English ver­ shortcuts and tricks. Thanks goes to Richard Cochran sions of the 100/200LX. It does ([email protected]) for maintain­ appear in the European-English ing this file. Additional thanks to those 100LX, however. International users Q: What is Vertical Reader? who contributed to this file. We have who don't have it built-in can find a A: Vertical Reader (VRlOO.ZIP ij) edited out some of the more basic mate­ copy of it on the Marl Apr 1994 HP is a shareware program for reading rial and re-arranged the order of some Palmtop Paper ON DISK. ASCII text files while holding the of the sections. The complete, unedited 100/200LX with the hinge vertical, version of PALMTOP.FAQ ij file can Q: What is HEXCALC? like a book. VR has several attrac­ be found on the Internet and on this A: This programmer's calculator tive fonts available, and allows month's issue of The HP Palmtop supports hex, octal, binary, and seaxching for regular expressions. Paper ON DISK - Rich.] decimal. It's System-Manager com­ This shareware may be registered pliant, and included in the 200LX by merely sending a postcard to ROM (in D:\BIN). It is not auto­ the author, or by donating $10.00 to Undocumented software matically included in the System Project Gutenberg, an organization built into the HP Palmtop Manager menu. which makes public-domain docu­ ments and literature freely avail­ Q: What is XINE? Q: What is ICN200LX,COM? able in ASCII text form. A: It is a built-in file compression A: It's a simple icon editor in the Q: What is REMCOM? program (D:\BIN\XINE.COM). To 200LXROM. use the program type "XINE infile A: The shareware program REM­ outfile." If "infile" isn't already COM ij , originally developed for compressed, xine will compress it Add-on software makes the the HP 95LX, works on the If to "outfile." "infile" is com­ Palmtop more useful 100/200LX and turns it into a uni­ pressed, xine will expand it to versal learning remote control, "outfile." CAUTION: Don't specify Q: What is Buddy? using the infrared port. infile and outfile as the same name, Unfortunately, the 100/200LX or you'll lose your data. Xine is not A: Buddy ij is a shareware pro­ has a fairly weak IR transmitter documented, although it appears gram which lets you do lots of neat (weaker than the 95LX), so the in all versions of the HP 100/200LX tricks, including make Filer auto­ range may be only a meter or two, (including non-English versions). matically start an application based less than the typical distance from on a file's extension (e.g. click a couch to TV. Q: What is PUSHKEYS? .wk1 file to start 1-2-3), get a shift­ A: PUSHKEYS.COM is a program to ed value of a character by simply Q: Can I use the 1001200LX run keyboard macros from a DOS double-clicking the character, get as a phone dialer? batch file. It's in D: \ BIN, but it has its battery voltage displayed in a sta­ A: The HP 95LX had a D I A converter hidden file bit set, so you must use tus bar in the filer screen, repro­ that could drive the speaker and pro­ "dir la:h" to see it. Run it once with gram the blue application keys, duce touch tones fairly easily; sadly, the Ii argument, and it installs itself add password protection to the this feature was dropped in the as a TSR. Run it again with the name 100LX (registered users only), dis­ 100/200LX. That converter is instead of a .MAC macro file, and it run the play the world-time map with used to monitor battery charging.

JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1996 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 27 HOW TO USE: Frequently Asked Questions However, there is a program, able filer" trick may give you more Using programming languages called A TOT (A TOTO 1. ZIP ii ), RAM and allow you to squeeze on the HP lOO/200LX which uses some fancy tricks to get even the latest Quicken in under touch tones out of a standard PC­ the System Manager. Q: What programming AT. It does work on the Some kind of extra storage languages work on the 100/200LX, and it's available on (Flash or SRAM card) will HPPalmtop? eddie.mit.edu in the hp9Slx/ undoubtedly be necessary for unknown directory. It is not inte­ recent versions of Quicken, espe­ A: Anything that'll run on a PC-XT, grated with the Phone Book appli­ cially for the 1MB 100/200LX. including various flavors of C, cation, it requires the video mode Of course, Pocket Quicken is C++, Pascal, Basic, etc., may run on be set up different from standard built into the 200LX, and it's avail­ the Palmtop. QBASIC.EXE is not (see the README file in ATDT01), able separately from Intuit for the included in the subset of DOS pro­ and, depending on the phone you 100LX. It's System-Manager com­ grams found on the Palmtop's 0 use it with, the 100/200LX speaker pliant, but some users still may drive. But it will run if ies copied may not produce sufficient volume prefer the full feature set of DOS from a MS-DOS 5.0 machine. to reliably dial. Quicken. There are several ways to write There is also a program called "programs" with software already TT ii available, with source code, Q: Can the Palmtop run built into the 100/200LX ROM. on eddie.mit.edu. TT comes ready­ MS Windows? You have the keyboard macro to-use, but if you have a C compil­ application, Lotus 1-2-3, HP Calc's er and know how to use it, you can A: Windows 3.0 is barely possible, Solver application (finds roots of modify TT and integrate it into but the 100/200LX doesn't really equations, among other things), other programs. Like ATDT, TT have the speed, processor architec­ DEBUG.EXE (from DOS), and the suffers from the limitations of the ture, display, or memory to make it DOS batch file interpreter. HP volume output from the 100/ a very practical Windows machine. Calc's Solver application can be 200LX speaker, and your success Both Windows 3.1 (which used with Lotus to "backsolve", with it depends on your patience, requires a 286 or better processor) that is, adjust the value of one inde­ the sensitivity of your telephone's and Windows 95 cannot be run on pendent cell of a spreadsheet to microphone, and the placement of the Palmtop. produce a desired result in another, the 100/200LX speaker near the calculated, cell. microphone. Q: Do file transfer programs like Intersvr, Lap Link, Q: How can I get information Q: Is there an EMS driver? Procomm, etc. work on the on programming the internals Palmtop? oftheHP? A: Yes, EMM200 ii, available on A: The HP Palmtop Developer's eddie. It uses a paging file on C: A: They do work, but the System Guide is being distributed by and supports EMS 4.0 almost com­ Manager slows down the serial Thaddeus Computing (see ad, page pletely. port and can interfere with console 35). Price is $79.00 US, plus $5.00 I/O. If you're having trouble run­ shipping inside US, $12.00 ship­ Q: Can I run other DOS ping outside US. It contains full Software on the Palmtop? ning something under the System Manager, try exiting completely documentation on the internals of the HP Palmtops, plus software for A: The 100/200LX will run just (from AppManager press IMenul developing system-manager com­ about anything that will run on an Application Terminate all) and run pliant applications. You'll need to IBM PC-XTwith a CGA monitor. the program from DOS. supply your own compiler and/or If the program runs under raw assembler (MSC 6.00AX and/or Q: Can I run Quicken for DOS, you can probably get it to run MASM 5.1 are recommended). DOS on the Palmtop? under the System Manager by Order from Thaddeus Computing, putting an inverted exclamation 57 E. Broadway, Fairfield, IA 52556 A: Yes, users have reported success point (press ~-IFILERI) into the (800) 809-5603, (515) 472-1875, with DOS-based Quicken through comments field of the Application [email protected] version 8. Recent versions may Manager. This effectively disables For those who don't want to require more memory than is avail­ purchase the full developer's kit, able under the System Manager, the System Manager and prevents there is a library called PAL ii but it's easy enough to exit System switching to another application (Palmtop Application Library) Manager and run Quicken directly while the current application is which is a collection of C language from the DOS prompt. The "dis- running.

28 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 CONNECTIVITY STORAGE Transfer files effortlessly • Keep more data, between your HP 100LX or run additional programs 200LX and any DOS based PC wherever you go by using HP Flash Disk Cards. • Run on your PC HP 100/200LX • Back up your vital phone, appointment, 1-2-3, Phone, Appointment, Database, Quicken, database and other palmtop files. N oteTaker, and HP Calc software • Plug your HP PCMCIA flash card into the • Synchronize and merge Quicken®, Palmtop and it works just like a hard disk. phone, appointment, and • Double the storage space of your HP Flash database files between your Disk Card - Stacker automatic compression Palmtop and PC software comes preloaded! us L· t P . e . / ~ ~ • Export and import HPI00/200LX HP F1024A 1.8·MB Flash DIsk Card ....;Vew. .... $199 phone, appointment, database, and HP F1012B 5·MB Flash Disk Card ...... $375 notetaker data to and from other PC IN·• .::.: HP F1013B 10·MB Flash Disk Card ...... $600 Serial connectors for applications (using comma delimited PC, modem, or printer HP F1014B 20·MB Flash Disk Card ...... $999 format) HP F1211A 40·MB Flash Disk Card ....yf'¢ .. $1599

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See your local HP Palmtop dealer, or contact one of the HP Palmtop advertisers in this issue. (In the U.S., obtain rli~ HEWLETT® a dealer list by calling 800-443-1254.) ~~ PACKARD

' Requires DOS-based PC with EGA or higher display, available serial port, 3-MB available of local hard disk space , 286 or higher CPU , 450K available conventional memory, 1.44 MB 3.5 inch flexible disk drive. Quicken is a registered trademark of Intuit, Inc. PALMTOP ACCESSORIES ~~::'-'';_'''\;.~.h~ti!:r~~..;..J~~~~d~/'''~~~ ACE+-)FAX HP IOO/200LX Send/Receive Fax Software

./ Send, Receive, View and Print Faxes on your HP Palmtop ./ Full installation in less than 200k of disk space ./ Requires as little as 30KB on C: drive for modem card users ./ Auto installation program included 200LX Systems with ACE++FAX Megahertz )(JACK System DoubleFlosh EB Plus Available only from ACE. this complete package contains everything t/ HP 100/200LX compatible that you will need to start enjoying the full benefits of the HP 200LX! t/ Pop-out telephone connection t/ No externol phone adapters t/ ACE+-+ LINK file transfer software with HP-PC serial cable t/ Eosiest way to send foxes t/ DoubleFlash$Plus hi-performance storage card t/ BATTman 2.0 + Two 1100mAH high capacity NiMH batteries t/ AppMAN! gives you complete control of DOS applications t/ HP world-wide universal AC adapter

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./ Pop-Up magnification from lX to 4X ./ Hotkey activation in any Built-in Application ./ Auto alignment with lines and columns in Phone Book ACE Technologies, Inc . ./ Remembers and returns to last position in each application ./ Move Lens with Quick Keys and Arrow Keys 592 Weddell Drive, #6, Sunnyvale CA 94089 U. S.A. rei (408) 734·0100 Fox (408) 734·3344 Magnify! (C1240) for HP 100/200LX ...... $19 Our Internet Website: http://www.ace-tech.com HOW TO USE: Frequently Asked Questions functions that provide DOS pro­ Modems II Telecommunications While a pocket modem typical­ grams with the look & feel of HP ly draws power from a battery or 100/200LX built-in applications. It Q: What's modems work with from an AC power supply, a PC provides graphics functions, sup­ the 1001200LX? Card modem draws all power from port for windows, menus, dialog the Palmtop. Most PC Card boxes, etc. It is free, and available A: Just about any pocket modem or modems are designed to work on on the HPHAND Forum on PCMCIA modem. A full-sized larger machines with plenty of bat­ CompuServe, as well as ftp external modem will work fine too, tery power. There are stories of PC . monash.edu.au, eddie.mit.edu, but of course it's not as portable . Card modems draining Palmtop and butler.sidewinder.com. Specific features such as size, mod­ batteries very quickly. This drain Many of the HP's interrupts ulations and protocols supported, can occur whether the modem is in are documented in the interrupt cellular phone support, power use or not. One way around this is list, maintained by Ralf Brown, drain, and others vary consider­ to use an AC adapter on the available at ftp://oak.oakland ably. Palmtop while your PC Card .edulsimtel/msdos/info/inter48x.zip modem is inserted. (there are four files, replace the "x" in Q: Should I get a PC Card the address above with an "a", ''b'', modem or an external one? Q: PC Card modems leave no "c" or "d"). A: PC Card modems have a cleaner room for a Flash memory card. Of course, if you only want to cable setup, uses same power supply Is there a way around this? program the HP as a DOS machine, as HP 100/200, and are smaller than A: There are two companies which without accessing any of the external modems. External modems make combination modem/Flash Palmtop's unique features, there let you run a modem and have a cards, which combine a modem are plenty of widely available memory card in the Palmtop at the and a Flash memory into a single books on DOS programming. same time. This leaves you more PC Card. The vendors are Apex If you need the file formats for room to store incoming messages. It Data (formerly Smart Modular the built-in applications, GDBIO ij also doesn't drain HP 100/200LX Technologies, phone: 800-841-2729 (on eddie) has C source code which batteries, as PC Card modems do. or 510 416-0909), and EXP Com- should be a good starting point.

'IYPing aid for the HP Palmtop Your Palmtop Access to the World™ QUICK/LX learns the words you type most often, then • Send Faxes and Postal Mail suggests them after you type just a few characters. The • Send 'd.? Receive Electronic Mail suggestions are displayed in a box on the screen. You can ignore the suggestion and keep on typing, or accept • Read the latest News it with the press of a single key, and QUICK/LX will 'd.? Stock Quotes finish the word. QUICK/LX can also be used to correct your most common typos! QUICK/LX works in programs under the System Manager and in text-mode DOS applications. QUICK/LX can even be used to enter Macros that work in both the System Manager and DOS Now you can have the world of electronic communications in the palm (unlike the built-in System Macros.) QUICK/LX also comes with a DOS version for your desktop computer. of your hand with acCIS TW and Compuserve"'. acCIS automatically uploads and downloads messages quickly. You can read and write messages off line, saving on connect charges and phone bills. acCIS This is an 9)(aJltple of t.he use of QUICK/LX. To accept the suggested word. press t.hs "curs or- right." key, is the only CompuServe access program that is designed specifically for your HP Palmtop computer. By using acCIS to join the HPHAND rl~:)Cl~: ~~:r~~r~~s o;o;~"fsrr~~iJa the sugge~lion when forum on CompuServe you can correspond directly with Palmtop 'Suggestion made by QUICK/LX experts and programmers from around the world and easily download software directly to your Palmtop. In addition to the Palmtop version, you __I!IllII!ImIlDlllllIilmllDIDIDIiIID!IlliID ____ receive a copy of acCIS for your desktop or laptop PC at no extra cost. Example e! using QUICK/LX in MEMO SHIER Systems & Software, Inc. C:::==. QUICK/LX: Only $39 plus shipping. r 920 Hampshire Road, Suite A-29 ~ Also available from SHIER Systems & Software: 'c:::==~ Westlake Village, CA 91361 VIS( , Phone: 805-371-9391 Custom cables to connect your HP Palmtop Computer to a wide variety of serial peripherals. Examples include: -..;:;:=~ Fax: 805-371-9454 rr-i ~ Pocket modems, serial printers (including the Citizen PN60 , CIS: [74777,2477] ::J)- .~ and Pentax PocketJet.) Prices start at $35 - call for details.

32 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1996 puters (800 EXP-6922). The cards contains a small toolkit for sending a package of various adapters for are specifically designed for the HP and receiving faxes. Can send faxes different serial connections, and Palmtop computers. Both cards are from PCX, TIF, TXT formats. But software for the Pc. The PC soft­ reviewed in the Jan/Feb 1995 and fax viewer software only supports ware includes versions of the PIM PC Card Review 1995 issues of The VGA, hence viewer won't run on software (but no Lotus 1-2-3, HP Palmtop Paper. the Palmtop. This package is actu­ sorry). The FILER applications let ally a demo of their Pascal/C++ you transfer files back and forth, Q: What cable do I use for an communications toolkit. Available and the 100LX redirector program external modem? at you use one machine's disk drive A: The HP cable will work, but from the other machine. It also you'll have to use a gender chang­ 4. ACE FAX is a fax program that incl udes software to integrate er/null modem adapter that comes ACE Software sells bundles with Pocket Quicken with Quicken for with the HP Connect/Adapter kit their PC Card modems and also DOS or Windows, (HP F1011A, $39.95). sells separately. Q: Is there an alternative to Q: Why do some users complain buying the HP Connectivity about their modem being slow? Connecting to desktop Pack? computers and other devices A: The System Manager slows A: You can connect the HP down the serial port. The Data­ Q: How do I connect the Palmtop and desktop with a serial Comm application is even slower, 1001200LX to a desktop PC to cable (F1015A, available separately at least on the 100LX. Together transfer files? through EduCALC and other ven­ they are really slow. The solution is dors) and use your choice of DOS A. HP sells a Connectivity Pack for connectivity software. to not use either, although using both the 100LX and 200LX (F1021B, any other communications soft­ w /English docs, F1021C with mul­ ware under the System Manager is tilingual docs, price $119.95). This (Continued on page 47.) better than using DataComm. MS­ package comes with a serial cable, Kermit ij (various version from 60KB to 300KB), Procomm, and others are reported to work. See the minimal-software-list for Introducing the Personal Dietician details. Interestingly enough, the built­ That Fits in the Palm of Your Hand in DataComm application seems to be reasonably fast when doing file The Personal Food Analyst is a Powerful, Compact Nutritional transfer, it's only when used as a Software Program That: terminal that it becomes painfully • Builds an individualized weight managment slow. program around your personal profile and health goals Q: What's a good fax program? • Contains a built-in database of over 5000 foods, each broken down into 29 nutrients (Professional Version) A: There are several good fax pro­ • Displays a calendar of daily goals for grams available that will run on calories, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, MS-DOS with CGA. Your modem cholesterol and 24 other nutrients • Tracks multiple diets at the same time Professional Version $289 may have come with one. Users • Works on all HP Palmtop LX's have reported success with the fol­ Easy to Use Consumer Version· $149 lowing, but there are probably • Includes full credit for upgrade to Professional Version more. • 20 minutes to learn and set up • Records and analyzes daily food intake • Displays remaining calorie and nutrient 1. SSFAXER ij : Shareware on counts daily eddie.mit.edu. Must register in • Comes on a PC card (Consumer Version) or order to receive faxes. 3.5" floppy (Pro Version) Recommended 2. BGFAX ij: Available at University of Arizona Medical Schools to assist in nutritional studies 800-732-7707 3. There's a free demo package • Recommended by TakeCare,lnc., one Fax: 719-598-5790 www.mirical.com from TurboPower software that of the largest HMO's in the country

JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 33 l ow TO USE YOUR PALMTOP THE 1-2-3 COLUMN

Using Formulas 123 in a Lotus Spreadsheet I

Carl shows how to use formulas and @functions in a Lotus spreadsheet to calculate loan payments and set up a loan payment analysis table.

By Carl Merkle

One of the most powerful aspects choice between a higher interest Clear any old data by pressing of any spreadsheet program is its rate and lower loan origination IMENUI ~lear Data. Calculate the ability to use formulas to turn raw costs or a lower rate and higher loan balance by multiplying data into useful information. loan origination costs. You also $185,000 by 80% (0.8). Enter the Understanding a spreadsheet often have a choice between different result of 148,000 in TVM by press­ means understanding the formulas mortgage amortization lives. You ing ~ (PV). Enter an annual inter­ used in it. want the best economic deal over est rate of 8.0% by pressing 8 E). This article demonstrates the the life of the loan but are con­ Enter the number of months for a use of formulas and @functions (At cerned about the amount of the IS-year loan by pressing 180 ~. Functions) using an example that monthly and annual payments. Calculate the monthly principal calculates loan payments for pur­ What loan option do you choose? and interest payment for this loan chasing a home. It also demon­ You can solve this question by pressing ~ . I strates some aspects of spreadsheet using the Time Value of Money Your screen should look like navigation, the use of 1-2-3's copy module in the HP Calc program. this: and formatting commands, and the But the number of loan choices is N = 180.00 obscure but powerful data table fairly extensive and 1-2-3 works I%YR = 8.00 command. better with these multiple scenario PV = 148,000.00 We'll start with an example evaluations. PMT = -1,414.37 that integrates HP Calc and 1-2-3, FV = 0.00 teaching some commonly used This says your monthly payment will spreadsheet concepts in the Quick answer using HP Calc be $1,414.37 to fully amortize a process. As a first step, let's use HP Calc to $148,000 loan over 15 years at an get a quick answer to our loan pay­ 8.00% fixed interest rate. In order to ment question. Go to HP Calc and determine the total interest to be paid Calculating loan payments press Icmq-I!) to bring up the Time over the life of the loan, you'll have to for a new home Value of Money ("TVM") screen. run an "amortization table." Let's say you're shopping for a new home, and find a home that you and your spouse really like costing $185,000. You have the cash ABOUT THE AUTHOR for the 20 % down payment and Carl Merkle is a senior manager with E&Y Kenneth closing costs. However, you check Leventhal Real Estate Group, a business unit of Ernst & with lenders and discover that a Young, LLP. He specializes in accounting, auditing and con­ variety of financing options are sulting regarding real estate and financial institutions. He available. You settled on a fixed­ lives in Irvine, California with his wife and three children. rate program, but now have a The HP Palmtop is a regular part of their daily activity.

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36 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 mand does not create a repeating yet). This is the first part of the for­ 4. Again use your up arrow key to Label prefix. mula. It tells Lotus what you want move the cursor to C1. Notice that Now that we've made a subto­ to do (sum or add up something). as you do, the entire column is tals line and learned how to use It doesn't tell Lotus the range of highlighted and the second line label prefixes, we'll move on to the data you want to do it to. That's now reads @sum(C18 .. C1. primary subject of this tutorial, what you do next. @functions and formulas. 5. Complete the formula by press­ 2. Press your up-arrow key once. ing) (close parentheses) and IENTER!. Notice that line two of the control Adding, multiplying, and more panel has automatically added CI8 Cell CI9 now displays 148,002 and using 1-2-J @functlons to what you typed. It now says the first line of the control panel @sum(C18. reads C19: @SUM(C18 .. Cl). Storing a bunch of data in a 1-2-3 Like most electronic spread­ spreadsheet is only the first step. 3. With the cellpointer still resting sheets, 1-2-3 includes a number of For financial data to be useful, you on cell CI8 press O. This is called built-in functions, sometimes have to make some calculations. "anchoring." The formula dis­ referred to as "at functions" This is where the @functions corne played in the second line of the because they always start with an in to play. control panel now contains the fol­ @ sign. These functions are simply Using the arrow keys, move lowing: @sum(C18 .. C18. abbreviations for long or complex the cellpointer to cell C19. We'll In essence, the formula now mathematical formulas. These for­ enter a formula here to add up all says, "add up all the numbers mulas allow you to analyze and the numbers in cells C3 through beginning with the number in cell manipulate numerical, textual and CI7. (The formula will actually add CI8 and ending with the number in cell CI8." Of course, this doesn't date and time data. up all numbers from cells CI We've added up one column. through CI8. It ignores the text make much sense. You want to add up the entire column of numbers. Lets add up the other columns. labels it finds in CI and CI8.) Fortunately, we don't have to re-do You want the final cell reference in the previous steps. We can simply 1. Type in @sum( (don't hit IENTER! this formula to read CI.

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JANUARY /FEBRUARY 1996 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 37 HOW TO USE: Spreadsheet formulas copy the formula from cell C19 to Deleting unwanted rows The 1-2-3 screen should now other cells. Lotus will automatical­ appear blank. ly adjust the formula for us. Here's Let's say you don't like the empty how it's done. row 2 at the top of your spread­ sheet. Move you cell pointer (i.e., Using the END key to cursor) to cell 02 (use either the navigate in worksheets Eliminate extra work and arrow keys or FS (GOTO) method). mistakes by copying formulas Press IMENU] Worksheet Delete Where did our amortization table Row. 1-2-3 now prompts Enter go? Find it quickly by pressing We'll copy both the separator line range of rows to delete: D2 .. D2. END (~-IRightArrowl), a little END and the formula below it. Press IENTER I. sign should appear at the lower Now move the cellpointer to right hand corner of the screen. 1. Using your arrow keys, go to cell cell 018 and look at the first line Then press the DownArrow once. C18. Make sure 1-2-3 is in READY which should now read: 018: Your cursor should now be at cell mode. @SUM(DI7.. Dl). Because of "rela­ A42. tive addressing," 1-2-3 automatical­ Press ~-I RightArrow 1 and then 2. Press IMENUI ~opy. The second ly adjusted the formula you had IDownArrow 1again. You should now be line says Copy what? CI8 .. CI8, previously created. at cell AS7. and 1-2-3 switches from MENU mode to POINT mode. Center column titles to Improve Creating and entering some 3. Press the down arrow key once. the look of your spreadsheet loan analysis formulas The second line now says Copy what? CI8.. CI9, and C18 and C19 Press HOME (1.!S)-ILeftArrowl) to go to A spreadsheet formula tells Lotus are highlighted. cell Al and notice that all the labels what you want done (i.e., @sum), are left aligned. They would look and the range of data you want to 4. Press I ENTERI. The second line better if they were center aligned. do it to (CI8 .. Cl). You can specify now has a new prompt saying: To Press IMENU 1Range Label ~enter. 1- the range of data using the where? C18. 1-2-3 is still in POINT 2-3 now prompts Enter range of "anchoring" method described ear­ mode. labels: A1..Al. Notice 1-2-3's lier in the article. You can also just POINT mode. Use your right type in the range, in the format 5. Using the right arrow key move arrow key to highlight cells Al (Cell# .. Cell#) (two cell references the cellpointer to cell 018 and through HI and then press IENTERI. inside parentheses, separated by press I ENTER I. The labels are now all center two periods). aligned. In order for a formula to be The cell pointer should now be back recognized as a formula and not a where we started in cell C18, but label, the formula must begin with cell 018 has dashed lines and 019 Inserting rows one of the following 17 characters: has a column total displaying 106,585. Remember when we started that 0123456789.+-(@#$ Move your cellpointer to cell we wanted to use 1-2-3 for some 019. With your cellpointer on 019 what-if analysis? Let's say we want The @sum formula used earlier the first line will read: 019: that loan analysis work to appear began with an @. Go to cell AI. @SUM(DI8 .. Dl). Notice that 1-2-3 at the top of the spreadsheet and (Remember the HOME shortcut?) automatically adjusted the column the amortization table further Then, we'll begin to fill in some of address by one (changing from col­ down. the data and formulas needed to umn C to D) as a formula is copied With your cell pointer on cell analyze this loan. over by a single cell. Al press I MENU 1 Worksheet Insert One tremendous value associ­ Row. At this time, 1-2-3 switches 1. First type in the following labels ated with copying formulas is from MENU to POINT mode and in column A at the cell reference accuracy. 1-2-3 adjusts formulas so prompts you to Enter the row indicated: that their cell references are in the insert range: Al..Al. How far same location relative to the origi­ down do you want to bump the Cell Label nal formulas. This is called "rela­ amortization table? For now, let's ---- tive addressing" and it is one of the just page down a couple of screens A1: Sales_Pr most important spreadsheeting and get it out of the way. (We can A2: Down_Pmt concepts. I deal with this concept adjust this later if it's too far A3: Loan more in this and subsequent down.) Press PG ON (1.!S)-IDownArrowl) A4: Term_yrs columns. two times and then press IENTERI. A5: Rate

38 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 A6: Mo_pmt Range format fercent ~ IENTERI A cell or range given a name can be A7: Annl_pymt IENTERI. Cell B8 should now read used in a formula either by the A8: PmCConst 11.468%. name you have given it, or by the A9: TotaL$pd cell address. Range names can be A10: TtUntPd Cell B9 - Total payments of the created as we did above from a loan. Type in +B7*B4. Cell B9 label in an adjoining cell on the Enter into these cells, the following should read 254,586. right, left, up or down. formulas or constants: The above spreadsheet lets us Cell BI0 - Total interest paid over vary the sales price, term of the Cell Bl - Enter 185000, the sales the life of the loan. Type in +B9-B3. loan in years, and interest rate and price. Cell BI0 should read 106,586. conduct simple "what if" analyses. For example: What if the interest Cell B2 - Down payment. In B2 By now you should be getting an rate changed to 8.25%? What if we type CD, IUpArrow I, key in *.2 and idea of how creating formulas decided to get a 30-year mortgage? press IENTER I. Cell B2 should display work. One of the problems work­ We'd simply plug in the changes 37,000 and the first line of the con­ ing with formulas is that it's hard and see how it affects the other trol panel should say B2: +Bl*0.2. to remember what the variables are variables. referring to. Take a look at the for­ Cell B3 - Actual amount of the mula in cell B6 above: @PMT loan. In B3, type CD, then press (B3,B5/12,B4*12). It's hard to look Setting up a monthly loan IUpArrow I IUpArrow I to go to cell B 1. at this formula and figure out payment analysis table Type 0 press IUpArrowl to go to B2. what's going on. Fortunately, Lotus Finally, hit IENTERI. Cell B3 should provides a way to assign "Range Let's set up a loan analysis table to display 148,000 and the first line Names," which make a formula a display monthly payments as we should say B3: +BI-B2. little easier to understand. vary the interest rates and length of a loan. We'll create a "data table" Cell B4 - Type in the number of with the different interest rates dis­ years of the loan. Key in 15 and hit Introduction to Range played across a top row and differ­ IENTER I. Names in formulas ent loan lives down the left col­ umn. Cell B5 - Type in the interest rate In the example we've been work­ First, let's set up the interest of the loan (8%). Type in .08 and hit ing on, go to cell Al and press rate row: IENTERI. Notice that B5 is not format­ IMENUI Range Names Labels Right. ted to display this properly. Press 1-2-3 will switch to POINT mode 1. Move the cell pointer to cell B12 IMENUI Range Eormat fercent ~ and prompt you to Enter label and enter 7.25% as the first interest I ENTER I I ENTER I. Cell B5 should now range: ALAI. Using the down rate. To do this, type in .0725 and display 8.000%. arrow key, highlight Al through press (ENTER). AI0, and then press IENTER I. Cell B6 - Monthly loan payment. N ow move your cursor to B2 2. Adjust the formatting so this and Type in: @PMT(B3,B5/12,B4*12). and look at the first line of the con­ other interest rates you enter dis­ The syntax is @PMT(principal, trol panel. Notice that the first line playas percentages. Press IMENUI interest, term). The interest rate says B2: +SALES_PR*0.2 instead of Range format fercent ;2 IENTERI . At (B5) needs to be adjusted to a B2:+B1 *0.2. The Bl in the formula the prompt saying: Enter range to monthly amount, and B4, the loan is now displayed as the Range format, highlight cells B12 through life in years, needs to be multiplied Name SALES_PR. H12 and then press IENTERI. by 12 to give the loan life in Here's what happened. When So far, we've entered the first months. Cell B6 should now be dis­ we used the Range Names Labels interest rate and formatted the cells playing 1,414. Right command above, the names to display interest properly. We or Labels in column A were associ­ could manually enter interest rates Cell B7 - Total annual payments. ated with the Cells to the right in in cells C12, 012, and so on. But Type in +B6*12. Cell B7 should column B. So Bl now had the name there's a quicker way using the now read 16,972. Sales_Pr, B2 now had the name copy command. We want the inter­ Down_Pmt, and so on. Now, est rate to increase 1/4 a percent­ Cell B8 - "Payment constant" whenever we enter a cell reference age point each time. Follow these (expressed as a percentage of the in a formula, it is displayed as the steps: original loan amount). Type in name we have associated with it. +B7/B3. Using this trick can obviously 3. In cell C12 type .0025+ and press Cell B8 is not formatted to dis­ be very useful for constructing for­ (IeITAfrOW) [ENTERI. (The first line pIa y this properly. Press I MENU I mulas with built-in documentation. should now read C12: (P3)

JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 39 HOW TO USE: Spreadsheet formulas I 0.0025+B12). This tells 1-2-3 to add Range and press IENTER 1 IENTER I. By .0025 to the number in B12. now, you should be getting a feel for the usefulness of range names, 4. Now copy this formula to cells how copying data and 1-2-3's 012 through H12. With the cursor prompts work. on C12 press IMENUI ~opy I ENTER I . . Move the cursor to 012 and press Updating a previously I ENTER I. Repea t this procedure, Lotus 1-2-3 Table of monthly loan payments defined data table changing 012 to E12, F12, G12, and H12. Interest rates of 7.250%, Let's modify the original table to 7.500%, 7.750%, 8.000%, 8.250%, reality they are quite easy to set up. They are very useful when you calculate the total interest pay­ 8.500% and 8.750% should appear ments over the life of the loan. in cells B12 through H12. want a bottom line analysis of a Next, enter the different loan complex calculation dependent on 1. Move your cell pointer to cell lives down column A beginning at one or more variables. We will A12, key in +BlO and press IENTERI. cell A13. modify this data table a little later The first line now says A12: in the article, after we save the +TTL_INTPD. 5. Move the cellpointer to A13 and results of this initial analysis. enter 15 in that cell. 2. Press ~ (Table). 1-2-3 then updates the table, but this time 6. Move to cell A14 and type in More uses for Range Names with the various scenarios reflect­ B. Then move to cell A13, type in ing total interest paid over the life +5 and hit I ENTER I. Earlier we used the Range Name of the loan. feature to associate an understand­ 7. Copy cell A14 to A15 and A16 able name with a formula in a sin­ You now have a useful (see point 4 above). The years of 15, gle cell. We can also assign a name model - play with it! to a range of cells. This saves key­ 20, 25, and 30 should now be dis­ You now have the core structure of played in cells A13 through A16. strokes later on by allowing us to refer to an entire range of cells by a a useful model for loan payment Now let's calculate 1-2-3 "data evaluations. You might want to table" of the monthly loan pay­ simple name. Let's name our table with a compare the difference between ments. The "data table" feature lets the total payments and interest short name like "T" for Table or you specify variables and quickly savings over the life of the loan. create tables. We'll talk more about Temporary. For example, I found out that on an the feature in later articles. For Move your cursor to cell A12 8% loan, with a monthly payment now, just follow these steps care­ and press I MENU] Range Name of $328, a 15-year loan would save fully: ~reate. At the Enter name: prompt me $136,324 over a 30-year loan. press (!) and then IENTERI. Then at Think of how many toys (I mean 8. Move the cellpointer to cell A12, the Enter range: prompt use your tools) you could buy with that. type in +B6 and press IENTER I. arrow keys to highlight the entire table from A12 to H16 and then 9. Define the dimensions of the press IENTER I. data table. Press I MENU 1Data Iable 2. Now we'll create a data table When 1-2-3 prompts you to Enter that will calculate the total interest CARD BASIC has essential table range: A12, press 0, high­ payments over the life of the loan. tools for rapid development light the range A12 through H16, Instead of typing in everything of PC CARD APPS. Now and press IENTER I. again, we'll make a copy of the pre­ vious table and then modify the includes connectivity tools. original to show the total interest 10. 1-2-3 will prompt you to Enter TEL. ORDERS (415) 747-0811 I input cell 1: A12. Using the arrow payments over the life of the loan. I keys move the cellpointer to cell B4 With your cellpointer still in cell Send CARD BASIC on 3 ~ " disk I o Enclosed is $95.00 (Ck. or MO) I (Term_yrs) and press I ENTER I. Then 1- A12, press ~ IOownArrowl. Then use Please send FREE Information Kit. I 2-3 will prompt you to Enter input the up arrow key, go to cell A21 and o cell 2: A12. Using the arrow keys type in: Table of monthly payments. Name ...... I move the cellpointer to cell B5 (Rate) Complete the entry by pressing Address ...... I and press I ENTER I. 1-2-3 then seems to I DownArrow I. Press I OownArrow 1once more City ...... State ...... I magically create the following table to place the cellpointer in A23. Zip ...... Tel...... I To make a copy of the table, Overseas add $5 for shipping charge. I of monthly loan payments: Check box for your computer. Data tables are normally taught as press IMENU 1~opy and we are asked o HPIOOLX 0 HP200LX 0 I'C Compatible I Copy what? Enter I , the name of Send to: MICROGRAM SYSTEMS- (415)747-0811 I an advanced feature of 1-2-3, but in L ______~ P.O. Box 252. La Honda CA 94020-0252 I

40 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1996 OW TO USE YOUR PALMTOP

Create an Interactive Batch File Using . . . . • • @(£ilJ(j) @CSW(J) Ed shows how to use the MS-DOS @(£!JJ® ECHO command to turn a batch file @(£[}](]) into a program that will accept input. @i:$W® iJiC!:!]) V 3$nJ) By Ed Keefe

[Note: This article begins by let­ you. For most users, the ability to REM Get the response. If only Ctrl-Z REM is run a series of DOS commands is pressed, then no YN file will ting you stick your toe in the shallows REM be created. of programming, but ends by asking all they want out of batch files. COPY CON yn > nul you to swim in some deep, uncharted However, some users want to be REM If the YN file exists, branch able to do more with batch files. REM to Yes otherwise branch to No waters. If you find yourself getting in IF EXIST yn GOTO yes over your head, jump out, dry off and Specifically, they want to make GOTOno lay down in the sun. The program­ batch files interactive. They want :yes batch files to be able to ask ques­ ECHO You chose Yes. ming technique revealed herein has GOTOend never before been seen in print, as far tions of a user, accept his or her :no as I know. If nothing else, it will make answers, and respond accordingly. ECHO You chose No. :end this issue of The HP Palmtop Paper a Here's a simple example batch file that shows how a batch file can REM Erase YN file, if it exists. collector's item.] IF EXIST YN del YN be used to simulate a Yes/No inter­ Once you've saved the file as action. Open Memo, type in the A batch file is a keystroke saver - lines exactly as shown below and C:\ YESNO.BAT, exit to the DOS an unformatted file that lets you save the Memo file as C: \ prompt, type yesno and press run a series of DOS commands. For YESNO.BAT. (All batch, script and IENTER I to run the program. example, open a blank Memo .COM files referenced in this article This batch file gives you the screen and type in these three lines: are archived in ECHO. ZIP ii.) option of choosing Yes or No. If d: ECHO OFF you choose Yes, a message is dis­ cd\DOS CLS played telling you you chose Yes. If dir REM YesNo.BAT REM Delete any file named YN you choose No, you get the oppo­ Save this batch file as C:\LIST.BAT IF EXIST YN DEL YN REM Prompt the user site message. and exit to the DOS C: \ prompt by ECHO If you want the Yes branch, The awkwardness of the tech­ pressing I!J Dos. Type list and ECHO press Any Key followed by ECHO Ctrl-Z and Enter. If you nique shown in the above example, press IENTERI to run the batch file. ECHO want the No branch, press using the COPY CON command, The first line of the batch file ECHO only Ctrl-Z and Enter. inspired others to create small, exe- changes to the D drive, the second line changes to the DOS directory, and the third line executes the DOS dir command, listing the files in ABOUT THE AUTHOR that directory. A normal ba tch file like the Ed Keefe is an author, programmer, computer science one described above runs a series instructor, and long-time contributor to support publica­ of DOS commands. Once you start tions for HP computers. He is also the president of the the batch file, it executes the com­ FastAid Company, 314 S.W. Logan, Ankeny, IA 50021, mands one after the other, without U.S.A. Ed's CompuServe ID is [75300,3667]. accepting any further input from

JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1996 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 41 HOW TO USE: ECHO cutable files to accomplish the (binary computer code) to a .COM same thing. The batch file would file. This technique lets you use the Using Debug to run the executable file. The exe­ ECHO command to create exe­ create .COM programs cutable file accepts your input and cutable files. When used in a batch form .SCR files file, the batch file can create .COM then runs the rest of the batch file. The article mentions a number of script files files on the fly. This can be useful, Eventually, Microsoft included its (.SCR files) used with Debug to create as you will see. own "input" program, CHOICE .COM files. The process of creating these The process involves: 1. Using files is as follows: .COM, in version 6.0 of MS-DOS. the built-in Debug program to YESN02.BAT, listed below, is a 1. Open up Memo and key in the files exactly assemble a small .COM program; 2. as they are shown in the article, with one version of the YesNo batch file, using Embedding the binary code from exception. The text that comes after the semi· the MS-DOS CHOICE command. the .COM program into an ECHO colon on each line of a script file is simply a @echooff statement in a batch file; and 3. remark describing what the line does. You may omit typing the semicolon and text that REM CHOOSE.BAT Removing the assembler code and follows when you key in the script file. Any line CHOICE IN Press Y or N : the .COM file from your disk. with only a semicolon and text should be com· REM N is the second of two choices, so ... if errorlevel 2 goto NO pletely omitted. CREATING THE .COM PROGRAM Be aware also that each script file list­ echo You chose YES The process of creating .COM pro­ ing will have two blank lines only: one goto end grams involves the creation of between the INT 21 and RCX statements, :NO "script" files and turning the script and one after the final Q command. echo You chose NO :end files into executable .COM files 2. After you have keyed in the lines, dou­ using the built-in Debug program. ble-check your typing and then save the file This batch file is simpler, but you'll Script files are nothing more than with its given Filename (Le., in example 1, have to have a copy of CHOICE text files containing lines of com­ the file would be saved as YN.SCR). .COM, found in the C:\DOS direc­ puter code. You use the built-in 3. Assemble the script file by going to the tory of a PC running DOS 6.0 or Memo program to create the script DOS prompt and entering the command: greater. file (or any word processor capable debug < filename.scr where FileName Unfortunately, CHOICE.COM of saving a file in plain ASCII for­ stands for the name of the script file. is not found on the HP Palmtop. mat). 4. (Optional) Triple-check your work, from But read on and you'll see how to The process of using Debug to the DOS prompt use the command: debug create an interactive batch file assemble the script files into .COM filename.com and, at DEBUG's "." prompt, without using CHOICE.COM. programs is described in the side­ press .Y" and then IENTER! , to unassemble bar on this page. As mentioned ear­ the code. Compare the unassembled listing lier, these programs, as well as the on the screen with the one given here. If needed, correct any typing mistakes and try Creating a stand-alone, .BAT files described in this issue, again. Interactive batch file using are available on the Jan/Feb 96 issue of The Palmtop Paper On Disk, the ECHO command to embed Creating batch files programming code into a archived in ECHO. ZIP ID. batch file Most batch files described in this article can be created in Memo (or any word processor The typical use for the ECHO com­ Example 1: A simple capable of saving a file in ASCII format) . Open Memo and key in the batch files mand is to display a message on the "Yes/No" program screen. You can also "redirect" the as shown below. Then save the file under the name given. It's that simple. message to a file. For example, go to CREATING A .COM PROGRAM the DOS prompt, type echo George Inserting binary code into a batch file, One of the simplest but most as described in this article, cannot be done and press ~TER'. The word important thing an interactive in Memo. You'll need a text editor capable "George" is displayed on the screen. batch file must do is be able to ask of displaying binary code. QEDIT iii is one For another example showing the a "Yes, No" question. Save the such text editor. There are others. redirect capability, go to the DOS Debug script file shown below as prompt, type echo George > line.txt YN.SCR and use Debug to turn and press [ENTER'. This command YN.SCR into the executable pro­ redirects "George" to a file called gram YN.COM as described in the ; MOV AH,O to avoid getting any ; 00 hex opcodes in .COM file.) LINE.TXT (The ">" symbol causes sidebar. the LINE.TXT file to be created.) INT 16; Call interrupt 16h, with AH=O, to get ; a key and return the scancode and A more unusual use for the N YN.COM ; Give output a file name ; ASCII value in AX. We only need ECHO command is to have it redi­ A 100 ; Begin assembling at offset 100hex ; the high byte, so ... rect machine-readable characters XOR AH,AH ; Set AH=O (Use this rather than

42 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1996 CMP AH, 15 ; compare AH with 15 hex (Y) ; Ctrl-Y, Alt-Y, Shift-Y will also ; yield 15hex. So we don't have to Detect · Plot Radiation On Your HP '1 00/200 LX ; check for uppercase, etc. OJ!en a door to the fascinating world of nuclear science with the RM·60 Micro Roentgen Radiation Monitor. This ~alm.sized unit detects JZ 0110 ; If it's a Y, jump to 110 Alpha, Beta, Gamma & X·Ravs. Displavs 1000 times the resolution of CMP AH,31 ; else compare AH with 31 (N) sun'e)' geiger counters. Track' Radon gas. Find sources. Check food, water, ceramic coffee mugs for contamination (eve opening). Plot JZ 0110 ; If iI's an N jump to 110, else Muon showers. Eas)' to setup and run. . JMP 0100 ; jump back to start and try again Learn about radioactivity. Exciting computer application. Demonstrate alpha emission from smoke detector, beta and gamma emission from ; 0110 is on the next line lantern mantle, other common items. Plot background cosmic ra"s, rocks, MOV AL,AH ; Copy AH to AL where it will 'liliiiiiiiiiniiii;U:======;;:=; bricks, plane ride. Wipe tissue on T.V. screen then generate a 'beautiful • decay ~Iot of the collected Radium B (Radon daughter, half life: 27 mins.) ; become known as the errorlevel Check TVs, CRTs for X·Rays (U.S. Dept. H.E.W. 21 CFR 1029.10 ). MOV AH,4C ; Put 4c in AH Rugged and accurate digital circuitr)'. needs no adjustments. Draws a INT 21 ; Call DOS interrupt 21 to exit minuscule amoullt of power from HP's serial port. Cable extendible with telephone wire. Should last a lifetime. ; End at offset 0116 hex Superb user friendly software including TSR program (run other RCX programs simultaneously). Makes exce ll ent dosimetn svste m, with alarm, real time graph, data logging and TSR. Medical personnel, slip in 16 ; i.e. 0116hex - 0100hex = 16hex pocket when making rounds. Add strobe· siren to meet OSHA's reg. bytes ~===:===~==::::====~=; 19CFR 1910.96 & 1910.97. Used by medical waste facilities, cancer r treatment centers, water & sewer plants, universities (lessons available), W ; Write 22 bytes to YN.COM Also available: LCJ)-60 Digital readollt for lise nuclear facilities, high schools, sCl'ap handlers, hobbvists. Works with aliI' lVithollt COlI/plIter, RM-70 & RM-SO pallcake PC: Thousands sold for over live l'ears. Call or write for PC Mae. & Bvte Q ; Quit IlllitS. as well as other types of sellsors. re,llews. When assembled the YN.COM pro­ VISAIMC/EURO 45 day S back. Complete RM 60 System: S 149.50 gram will be 22 bytes long. To order or for more information call: (800) 729-5397 AWARE When YN.COM is run, it waits Electronics= for the next single keystroke to be P.O. Box 4299. Wilmington DE 19807 Phone/Fax: (302) 655-3800 entered (Y or N, and no others) and stores the ASCII keycode value in batch file are not displayed on the the message "Quitting the testyn the DOS "errorlevel variable" screen as they are executed. Then it program" is displayed and the buffer. (This is simply a memory displays the question "Do you batch file ends. location reserved by DOS to store a want to quit? [yi n]" and calls the Since the "if errorlevel" state­ certain type of information.) This YN.COM program. YN.COM ment checks for values that are makes it possible to set up a batch stores the ASCII code for the next greater than or equal to a given file that runs YN.COM, stores the keystroke you type in, in the DOS value, the TESTYN.BAT file is ASCII keycode entered by a user, errorlevel variable buffer (49 for N, designed to test for the higher uses "if" statements to test for a 21 for Y). YN.COM is designed to value before testing for the lower specific errorlevel variable, and only accept a Y or N. It will sit value. executes different commands based there doing nothing until you enter on the input. one of those two characters. EMBEDDING YN.COM BINARY The TESTYN.BAT batch file "Errorlevel" is really a misnomer, CODE IN THE BATCH FILE shown below shows how this since we're not expecting any We are doing this so we can create .COM program works and lets you errors. We'll use the errorlevel a stand-alone batch file that doesn't test the YN.COM program. See the memory buffer as a way to store depend on another program file to sidebar on page 42 for instructions the input from YN.COM and pass work. Once you're satisfied that on creating batch files. it on to TESTYN.BAT. In this case, YN.COM behaves properly, it's the errorlevel number can only be time to embed its binary code in @echo off 49 or 21 depending on whether you the TESTYN.BAT file. To do this, :again pressed the N or the Y key. you'll need to use a text editor that echo Do you want to quit? [yin 1 YN The batch file then tests the displays binary data. Memo, on the if errorlevel49 goto again errorlevel values with a couple of HP Palmtops, does not display if errorlevel21 goto end "if errorlevel" statements. The first, binary data, so you'll have to use a :end if errorlevel 49 goto again checks text editor like QEDIT ii . The echo Quitting the testyn program to see if you answered N for no. If instructions below assume you are you did, the "if" command sends using QEDIT. But before running this batch file, the batch file back to ":again" (line Load the TESTYN.BAT into please back up everything on your 2) and you start over again with QEDIT, go to the 4th line that con­ disk. If you're working on the HP the "Do you want to quit?" mes­ tains "YN" and insert a blank line l00/200LX, be sure to close all sage. If you enter Y for yes, you above and below it. On the line applications. skip by the first "if errorlevel" line above YN, type echo (put a space The batch file begins by turn­ and "if errorlevel 21 goto end" after ECHO.) Use the editor's ing ECHO off so commands in the sends you to ":end." From there, "block read" command to load the

JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1996 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 43 HOW TO USE: ECHO YN.COM file onto the same line as w ; write the ETCesc.com file insert the word echo (make sure its ECHO. Then go to the end of the q ; quit followed by a blank space) on a line and append the characters> new line before line 3 (the one con­ yn.com. Then use the command: debug < taining ETCesc). Append the On the line below YN, add the etcesc.scr to generate the ETCESC ETCESC.COM file to that ECHO characters del yn.com and save the .COM program. command as described in the pre­ file. This executable .COM file vious example. Then add >etcesc When you run the TESTYN accepts a keystroke for one of the .com to the end of the line. Put the .BAT program, the "super" ECHO characters: "E", "T", "C" or ESC, command del etcesc.com on a statement you just created will use and then stores the ASCII value of blank line after ETCESC and save 1/ 0 redirection to recreate the that key in the errorlevel variable the batch file. MENU.BAT is now a YN.COM file. The YN command buffer. stand-alone interactive file. Let's will run it and the next command The MENU.BAT file, shown turn it into a real menuing system. will delete it. below lets you check out the per­ Pat yourself on the back. formance of ETCESC.COM, and You've just created a simple stand­ begins to set up the menu system. Example 3: "Stuffing" alone interactive batch file that con­ the keyboard tains binary code. It creates its own @echo off executable .COM file, runs it, and echo Programming Options : [E]dit [C]ompile Suppose you wanted to set up the then cleans up after itself by delet­ [TJest [ESC] MENU. BAT file described above so ing it. Call it a stupid DOS trick, ECTesc that one of the programs in the but it turns out to be very useful, as if errorlevel 46 goto compile menu was Borland's C Compiler you'll see below. if errorlevel 20 goto test (BCC). One of the simplest things if errorlevel 18 goto edit to do would be to enter a com­ if errorlevel 1 goto quit mand line in MENU.BAT contain­ Example 2: Create a simple :compile ing the program name followed by menu system for your Palmtop echo Pretending to run compiler the file you wanted to compile (for goto end the C Compiler example you Here's a way to use the trick we :test would replace "echo Pretending to just learned to create a simple echo Pretending to test the program run compiler" with bcc filename batch file menu system. Key the goto end .cpp). Unfortunately, this would following script file into a text edi­ :edit cause the batch file to remain in tor and save it with the file name echo Pretending to edit the file memory while the Borland C ETCESC.SCR (don't forget the goto end Compiler program is running. The blank line at the very end). :quit batch program won't quit until it echo Pretending to quit the batch file can jump to the end of its code. N ETCesc.com :end The third script file, PUTCR A 100 .sCR, can be used to create the XOR AH,AH ; Use int 16h, function #0 The first thing the batch file does PUTCR.COM program. Key in the ; to get a keystroke. is to turn ECHO off and display the script file below and create INT 16 message: Programming Options : PUTCR.COM using Debug as CMP AH,12 ; If this key is an 'E' [E]dit [C]ompile [T]est [ESC]. described earlier. JZ 11 a ; then jump to exit Depending on which key is pressed CMP AH,2E ; else if it's a 'c' (E,T,C, or ESC), the batch file will dis­ N PUTCR.COM ; Name the output file. JZ 11 a ; then jump to exit play one of the following messages: A 100 CMP AH,14 ; else if it's a 'T' XOR BH,BH ; Put 0081 in BX. Use two JZ 11 a ; then jump to exit Pretending to run compiler ; instructions to avoid having CMP AH ,1 ; else if it's an 'ESC' Pretending to test the program MOV BL,81 ; 00 in the binary code JZ 11 a ; then jump to exit Pretending to edit the file MOV CL,[BX] ; Copy whatever's pointed to JMP 0100 ; else jump to the start Pretending to quit the batch file ; by BX into CL ;<011 A> exit MOV AL,OC ; Set AL = OD hex. Use two MOV AL,AH ; put the ASCII code in AL We haven't yet set the batch file up ; instructions to avoid having MOV AH,4C ; put 4c in AH to run any programs, so we're just INC AL ;OD hex in the binary code. INT 21 ; return to DOS pretending at this point. CMP CL,AL ; Compare CL and AL ;<0120> end When you're convinced that JZ 0125 ; If CL=AL then jump to 0125 the batch file and ETCESC.COM INC BX ; else add 1 to BX RCX file are working properly, load the MOV CL,[BX] ; and get the next character 20 ; 0120h - 01 OOh = 20h bytes MENU. BAT file into QEDIT and ; from the PSP

44 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1996 MOV AL,OC ; Look for 00 hex again. ate a .COM file has its limitations. INC AL It. works fine as long as the string of Tra."V'"elF1oPP'Y CMP CL,AL ; Find 00 hex, jump to 0125 bmary code does not contain any of PCMCIA Floppy Drive JZ 0125 ; Otherwise use INT 16, the characters: MOV AH,05 ; function #5 to stuff the No less indispensable than your HP 1001200LX XOR AL,AL ; character into the keyboard Nul - Ascii 00 hex XOR CH,CH ; buffer. Tab - Ascii 09 hex INT 16 NewLine - Ascii OA hex) JMP OlOE ; repeat the loop again Enter­ Ascii OD hex xor aX,ax >­ Ascii3C hex ;<0125> exit ; Just before quitting, stuff 00 <- Ascii 3E hex I- mov ah,05 ; hex into the keyboard buffer. Ascii 7C hex xor al,al xor ch,ch The ECHO command will "inter­ mov cl,Oc ; Let C=OC hex and then add pret" these codes rather than dis­ ; 1 to CL : all to avoid getting play them. Unparalleled performance from the Travel if FlopptM makes file transfer and archiving inc cI ; 00 hex in the binary code. For example, ECHO encoun­ ters "<" , it will try to read from a both Simple and Inexpensive. int 16 • Includes 3.5" 1.44 Mb floppy drive file rather than display "<". And XOR AL,AL • PCMCIA Type II compatible MOV AH,4C when it fails, it will respond with • Small and portable - take or use it INT 21 "File not found." anywhere ;<0137> END Likewise, the Nul byte (ASCII • Versatile - plugs into the PCMCIA slot 0) will be interpreted as a space of a variety of subnotebook, notebook and other portable DOS-based RCX (ASCII 32) and the Tab character may be interpreted as 8 spaces, systems, including the HP 100/200LX 37 • Uses the convenient, economical, W depending on how your editor universally accepted floppy diskette deals with the Tab character. q Li 6~:~TTD r"T':;'® One way to check for the pres­ ~ ~,-,~;..,.·~U':'''''' TEe H N 0 LOG J E SIN C. This program takes the charac­ ence of these "off-limit" characters ter or command string on the com­ in a .COM file is to load the COM 231 Charcot Avenue, San Jose, CA 95131 mand line and "stuffs" it into the file into Debug and use the U com­ TEL: (408) 433-1980 FAX: (408) 433-1716 mand to unassemble the program. keyboard buffer along with the XOR AH,AH, produces a different code for the ENTER (carriage The listing will look something like this. pair of opcodes. They have the return) key. If you use PUTCR same effect, namely setting the AH .COM in a batch file, you can exe­ variable to zero. cute a DOS command after the xxxx:0100 30E4 XORAH,AH xxxx:0102 C016 INT 16 The PUTCRSCR file shown on batch file ends. page 44 has some other work­ This strategy can help us xxxx:010480FC15 CMPAH,15 xxxx:01077407 JZ 0110 arounds. This file uses three com­ launch a program from the menu mands "XOR CH,CH", "MOY system after the batch file has xxxx:0109 80FC31 CMPAH,31 xxxx:010C 7402 JZ 0110 CL,OC", "INC CL", to do the same ended. Replace "echo Pretending thing as the single command to run compiler" with puter bee xxxx:010E EBFO JMP 0100 xxxx:0110 88EO MOVAL,AH "MOY CX,OOOD" . This "bit twid­ filename.epp (instead of "bcc file­ dling" is needed, if you want to use name.cpp"). This stuffs "bcc file­ xxxx:0112 B44C MOVAH,4C xxxx:0114 C021 INT 21 the binary code in the ECHO com­ name.cpp" into the keyboard mand. To put this another way: if buffer, the batch file then jumps to you don't eliminate these opcodes the end of its code. As soon as the The column to the left of the assem­ bler instructions contains "opcodes" from the final COM file, you risk batch file ends, the characters in hanging the computer or, getting the keystroke buffer are executed. for the instructions. The opcodes will reveal if Debug generated any of the error messages that say "File not The batch file will be out of the found", etc. way and won't take up any memo­ off-limit codes: 00, 09, OA, OD, 3C, 3E, ry. or 7C. If you find any of these opcodes, you'll need to rewrite the instruction to eliminate them. Example 4: A DOS READLN Command Traps and workarounds For example, in the above list­ ing, the first line could have been MOY AH,O. However that would One of the commands found in "OFF-LIMIT" CHARACTERS many programming languages, but Using the ECHO statement to cre- have produced an opcode of 00. Using the equivalent instruction, missing from the DOS batch lan-

JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1996 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 45 HOW TO USE: ECHO guage, is READLN (read a line). SUB AX,4040 the READLN program. The This command "reads" input from INT 21 ; Clear buffer and do a buffered READLN command must contain the keyboard and appends a "new read the name of a batch file on its com­ line" character at the end of the INC SI ; Point to the number of characters mand line. Failure to name an out­ input. With a slight modification, read put file will cause READLN to READLN can read its input from a LODSB send its output to the COM port, or disk file rather than from the key­ AND AL,AL ; If AL is 0 then no characters to some other place in your com­ board. For example, in the Pascal JZ 0168 ; Jump to exit routine puter, and may lock up your sys­ programming language, the com­ XOR CH,CH; tem and require you to reboot your mand READLN (name) activates MOV CL,AL; Put string length in CX machine. When READLN runs, it the keyboard and lets you type in a INC CX ; to include an ending CR puts a ">" prompt on the screen. string of characters. When you ADD SI,CX From this prompt you may enter press IENTER" the string of characters MOV BYTE PTR [81],08 any DOS command, such as DIR is stored in a variable called INC BYTE PTR [81] /W, and press IENTERI. Another ">" "name." The MS-DOS batch lan­ INC BYTE PTR [SI] ; Add OAh , a line feed prompt will appear. Key in pause guage doesn't have any such com­ INC CX and press IENTER I. At the next ">" mand. MOV AH,40 ; Write to file function prompt type chkdsk c: and press Most often, the "COPY CON MOV BX,DI ; Put file handle in BX IENTER I. Finally, at the ">" prompt, filename" command is used as a MOV DL,84 just press IENTERI and the three com­ work-around. The only problem I INT 21 ; Write the string mands will be executed via the have with COPY CON is that I DEC 81 ; 81 now pOints at terminating CALL $ command. The $.BAT file always forget to press Icrnq-I!) to CR,LF will be deleted and the TESTRDLN end the input. MOV AH,40 ; Write to file handle .BAT file will end. The script file shown immedi­ SUB BH,BH A second batch file, TEST­ ately below will generate READLN MOV BL,01 ; 8et file handle to stdout SET. BAT, shows how you might .COM. This program adds READ­ XOR CH,CH use READLN .COM, along with LN capability. Like the other script MOV CL,02 ; Number of bytes to write the ECHONL.COM program, from files in this package, READLN.5CR MOV DX,81 ; String to output a previous issue of The HP has been optimized to eliminate INT 21 ; Write CR,LF Palmtop Paper, to get a user's any off-limit opcodes. JMP 0118 ; Jump to top of inpuVoutput loop name and store it in a DOS envi­ MOV AH,4C; Exit routine ronment variable for use by the N READLN.COM ;Name the output file XOR AL,AL TESTSET program. A 100 ; Begin assembling at offset 100 hex INT 21 ; D08 terminate program @echo off MOV AL,80 ;Put 80 hex in AL ;<016E> END echo Enter your name and press Enter twice. MOV SI,AX ;Put AX (0080h) in SI LODSB ;Load a string (Le. point at the output RCX echonl set name=>$1.bat readln $2.bat ADD SI,AX ;file name. 6e ; Write 110 bytes to READLN .COM copy $1.bat+$2.bat $.bat >nul MOV [SI],AH ;Put nul byte at end of filename W call $ MOV AX,3B02 ;Put 3b02h in AX, and q ; Quit DEBUG del $*.* INC AH; increment 3b to avoid 3C as opcode echo Hello, %name% XOR CX,CX ;Set normal file attribute This version of READLN.COM is set name= XOR DH,DH mostly the work of Dave Vickers, MOV DL,82 ; Point at start of the filename who wrote the file input/ output pause INT 21 ; Create the file parts of the code. It will work either at the DOS prompt or when As before, you can use your MOV DI,AX ; Save the file handle text editor to embed the binary MOV AX,203D ;Put 203Dh in AX. Incr AL so run from FILER. The TESTRDLN.BAT file code for READLN.COM in an INC AL ; to avoid an opcode of 3E ECHO statement and redirect the XOR BX,BX; Point at location 82h in PSP shown below shows how to use the READLN.COM program. output to a file, $READLN.COM. MOV BL,82 ; Use the command $READLN MOV [BX],AX ;Put "> " in the PSP @echo off $.BAT and you can delete both the MOV BL,02 ;Set output to stderr echo Enter commands. Use Enter alone to quit. COM and BAT files with a single MOV CL,01 ;Write one character readln $.bat command, DEL $*.*. MOV DL,82 ;from PSP location 82h call $ Hope this gives you some food MOV AH,40 del $.bat for thought. Until next time: INT 21 ; Happy Programming! MOV SI,DX ; Put 82h in SI After shutting off ECHO, the batch MOV BYTE PTR [SI],72 ;The max length of file displays the following prompt: ; input is 114 bytes "Enter commands. Use Enter alone Share/Freeware Index: page 60 MOV AX,4C4A ; Put OCOA in AX to quit." Then the batch file calls

46 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 comes with the serial cable and a set of adapters. HP sells the serial cable and the adapters separately The INTER-LNK/INTERSVR pro­ seconds you should hear beeps (PC Connectivity Cable, F1015A, grams that come with DOS 6 work from both the PC and Palmtop price: $24.95; Connector I Adapter fine. Transfer INTERSVR.EXE to indicating that a connection has Kit, HP F1023A, price: $24.95). The the Palmtop. Then install been made. HP serial cable ends in a female DE INTERLNK on the desktop accord­ 9-pin connection, ready to plug 7. On the PC, type "LLRA 1M" to ing to the DOS documentation, and directly into the standard male DE display the drive mapping. run INTERSVR on the Palmtop. 9-pin serial connector found on You should be able to access the 8. To Unload LapLink from the PC, most desktop PC's. The adapter kit Palmtop's drives from the desktop. type "LLRA IU". contains four adapters: HP 200LX users with a spare 1. A male DB 9-pin to male DB 25- serial cable can take advantage of Q: INTERSVR complains about pin (to connect to a serial printer) the built-in Lap Link Remote soft­ the E: drive when I start it. ware in the HP's ROM. A brief What can I do? 2. A male DB 9-pin to male DB 25- sketch of how to do this is: pin (to connect to a modem or A: This is a ST ACKER/INTER­ other devices) LINK incompatibility. You could 1. Add the following line to your stop using Stacker, but a less dras­ 3. A male DB 9-pin to female DB Palmtop's AUTOEXEC.BAT before tic solution is to get a copy of 25-pin (to connect to a PC with System Manager is started. SUBST.EXE from a PC with MS­ DB25 serial port) CALL D:\BIN\LLRAS.BAT DOS 5.0 and include the statement 4. A male DB 9-pin to DB 9-pin (to "SUBST E: A: \somedir" in your Then reboot your Palmtop. connect to a modem or anything AUTOEXEC.BAT. The "somedir" else you'd plug into your desktop's 2. Copy the following files from refers to any existing directory on DE9 port). D: \ BIN on the 200LX to a directory your A: drive. Don't use built-in on the PC (use the built-in ASSIGN with Stacker. Try the serial printer adapter to Datacomm application and a termi­ connect to a Sun workstation's nal emulator, or any other method Q: Where do I get an adapter to DB25 port. Some other unix work­ you choose). use HP's serial cable with a stations are reported to use modem, serial printer, Sun MacIntosh-style serial ports, and LLRA.BAT, LLRA1.EXE, workstation, etc.? the HP Mac Connectivity Cable LLRA2.EXE, LLRA3.EXE, (HP F1016A, Price: $24.95) will LLRA4.EXE, TSI.INI A : The HP Connectivity Pack work with these. Similar adapters 3. Edit the TSI.INI file in a text edi­ tor on your PC as follows: o Using your HP Palmtop ... In [General], change computer­ Name= to something else (e.g., Just got a whole lot easierl "Desktop") With the New Acrylic GeoClipTM In [Redirector], change Enabled= to The GeoCliplM takes palmtop Yes. portability a step further, it gives 4. Edit the LLRA.BAT file on your you a desk! Use your HP Palmtop in places you never imagined! PC, changing all file paths from D: \ BIN to the PC directory you copied them to in step 2. Call for details. 5. With the PC and Palmtop con­ Three colors nected via serial cable, enter the Other features Include: to choose from • Protect your investment from shock and dirt. AppMgr on the Palmtop and start • Low profile and lightweight. Fits into your briefcase. the Lap Link Remote Access pro­ • Optional access to the communication port and power. gram. GeoPro Development, Inc. SALES: 910.045-9797 Only $39.95 TECH: 909-864-2174 Plus S&H P.O. Box 38603 FAX: 910-545-9783 6. On the PC, change to the directo­ 30 Day Money Back Guarantee Greensboro, NC 27438 CIS: 76570,3455 ry where you copied the LapLink VISA - MasterCard -.&HEX files, and type "LLRA". In a few GeoCllp'" is a trademark of GeoPro Development, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. G:J © 1995 GeoPro Development, Inc. All rights reserved.

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1996 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER 47 HOW TO USE: Frequently Asked Questions pin connector into a 4- ed to work on the 100/200LX, and pin 95LX or HP 48 cal­ allow easy file transfer. -But see HEWLETT culator. One clever use above for a customized HP version of this adapter is use it that supports the HP applications. PACKARD as a mold to make a "bump" on Digi-Key 10-pin connector using PC Memory Cards 5-minute epoxy. This "bump" is not essential, Q: Can I use a Newton Flash but may help prevent card in a 1001200LX? you from inserting the connector upside-down. A: Some users have reported vary­ ing degrees of success with them. PALMTOP Q: How can I They require that you obtain MS­ DIVISION connect the 1001 FLASH.5YS for normal use, and 200LX to an Apple MEMCARD.EXE is required to for­ M acIntosh? mat the card. These files are NOT A: HP sells a serial cable public domain, and not available at to connect the 100/ any Internet ftp site. Some people 200LX directly to a Mac have reportedly copied them over (part #FI016A, price: from an Omnibook (probably ille­ $24.95). This handles the gal). physical link. At least one user has reported Da ta Viz (1-800- that there is some incompatibility 733-0030) is a compa­ between the Palmtop's System should be available at any well ny which makes a Manager (or at least the database equipped computer/electronics product called MacLink Plus/HP applications) and MS-FLASH.5YS, Palmtop, which handles file trans­ store, or you can build your own. such that the Flash card could only fers, and converts the HP be used in raw DOS mode outside Q: Are there other compatible 100/200LX a pplica tion' s files serial cables available? (Memo, DataBase, PhoneBook, etc.) of the System Manager. Other to popular Mac formats (Excel, users have reported that continual­ A: EduCALC sells a cable with the MacWrite, Word, etc.). One cur­ ly writing and moving files around appropriate connector at one end rent shortcoming is that the on the card slowly consumes small and bare wires at the other. For "Notes" section of the 100/200LX amounts of disk space, which can those who want to make a cable Database/PhoneBook programs is only be recovered by backing the from scratch a contact and part not supported in the Filemaker card up, reformatting, and restor­ numbers follow. translation. But this is reportedly ing. Digi-Key Corporation, 701 Brooks being worked on. Note that this entire discussion Ave. South, P.O. Box 677, Thief River MacLink Plus works with all is about Newton Flash cards, not the HP Palmtops (95/100/200LX). Falls, MN 56701-0677; Phone: 800- Newton SRAM cards. Several 344-4539, 800-DIGI-KEY, 218-681 - It includes the serial cable. posters have been able to use 6674; Fax: 218-681-3380. $25.00 min­ The best answers to generic Newton SRAM cards without diffi­ imum order or $5.00 handling charge PC/Mac connectivity are probably found outside this newsgroup culty. part# H2004-ND Hirose Electric (anyone know where?), but here's a Co., A3B series 10-pin dual-row, shot at some alternatives: Q: How can I use a PC Card 2mm connector (HP 100/200LX) Most any terminal program on ethernet adapter? part# H9999-ND Hirose Electric the 100/200LX (including the built-in A: Most ethernet adapters draw Co., socket terminals, quantity 100 DataComm) will handle simple file more power than the Palmtop can transfers via Kermit IH Xmodem, etc. part# H2013-ND Hirose Electric provide. An exception is the MacLink Plus/PC is a com­ Ethernet adapter card made by Co., A4B series 4-pin, single-row, mercial package made by DataViz 2mm connector (HP-48, HP-95LX) Silicom Connectivity Solutions (800 for communication between a PC 474-5426 or 206 882-7995) which If you already have the HP cable, it and MAC. It is intended for use on was designed with the Palmtops in comes with an adapter to plug the 10- any IBM-Compatible and is report- mind.

48 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 Batteries, Battery life, like regular alkalines. However, to when they're already charged. The AC adapters, etc. charge the alkalines you must take 100/200LX has two charge rates: them out of the 100/200LX and put for the first 6 hours after the Q: What batteries does the them in a charger specially adapter is plugged in, the batteries Palmtop use and how long do designed for rechargeable alka­ charge at a high rate (100mA), then they last? lines. Although the Palmtop's charging switches to a low-current built-in recharging circuitry is "trickle charge" (45mA). Each time A: The 100/200LX uses 2 standard designed for NiCds, users have you plug in the adapter the cycle AA cells, either Alkaline or NiCd. reported success recharging NiMH repeats. If you plug the machine in It also uses a miniature lithium batteries in the Palmtop. Some each day at work, and again when "button" battery for memory back­ users recommend charging NiMH you get home, you can kill the bat­ up when the main batteries fail. batteries twice (charge for 6 hours, teries fairly quickly. Battery life varies a lot, based on disconnect the adapter and recon­ Simple way to avoid trouble: if how much you use the machine, nect it to restart the recharging your NiCds have a full charge or what kind of PC Card you use, cycle, and charge the batteries for close to it, and you want to use the how much you use the serial and another 6 hours). Others report that AC adapter, then disable charging. IR ports, how good your batteries a once-a-week overnight charge is A slightly less conservative are, etc. As a rough guess, several all that's needed. approach is to use 100Buddy or the users have reported needing to shareware batset program to limit recharge their NiCd's approximate­ Q: Why won't my NiCd batter­ the fast charge time to one minute, ly once a week, when running it a ies hold a charge anymore? since trickle charging isn't likely to few hours a day with a Flash card. A : You probably keep your damage the batteries as quickly. Users have reported in excess of a Palmtop connected to the AC Q: What kind of AC adapter month of regular usage from fresh adapter most of the time, and have does the 1001200LX use? high-capacity lithium AA cells, NiCd charging enabled in Set Up. down to an hour or less with a You can damage NiCd batteries by A: The 100/200LX does not include power-sucking PC Card modem repeatedly overcharging them and NiCds. The HP manual claims that "for typical use without the AC adapter, fresh Alkaline batter­ ies should last from 2 to 8 weeks. Rechargeable batteries .. . will get less life ..." (see page A-2 of The HP lOOLX User's Guide). AclionTec••••• • Although the manual only rec­ Technology In Motion ommends alkaline or NiCds, users have reported success with lithium AA cells. Lithium cells have a YOUR #1 SOURCE FOR PCMCIA! much longer shelf life and running life than alkalines. Setting the machine up for alkalines works for lithiums. Others have cautioned We that inserting lithium cells back­ Manufacture: wards can permanently damage the machine, and the discharge curve for lithiums is very steep, SRAM leaving little time between the first Flash "low battery" warning and com­ pletely dead batteries. Card Readers The 100/200LX can charge installed NiCds by simply plug­ ging in an AC adapter and select­ Also Available: ATA, Hard Drives, & Mask ROM! ing the option from the setup application. No separate charger is OEM & PRIVATE LABEL ACCOUNTS WELCOME needed. National Sales Office (714) 851·8242 Rechargeable alkaline or 17702 Mitchell North, Irvine, CA 92714 Fax: (714) 851·8249 NiMH batteries can be used, just

JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1996 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 49 HOW TO USE: Frequently Asked Questions an adapter in the box. An optional the extension ".ZIP" it is automati­ the upside down question mark adapter is available from HP (part cally unzipped (assuming PKUN­ and the inverted exclamation # HP Fl011A, price: $39.95). The ZIP lives on A: \ BIN). point do when used in the 100/200LX uses 12VDC, negative Comments field? Q: How do I prevent the tip, up to 750mA, approx 5.5mm A: An inverted question mark OD barrel-type connector. The HP 1001200LX from powering (press ~- [!) inhibits the "Press adapter is about the size of a deck down while on batteries? any key to exit from DOS ... ff mes­ of playing cards, and comes with sage after finishing the application. A: There are several utility pro­ fold-away AC prongs. It will take An inverted exclamation point grams to do this, but the following any input voltage from 100 to 240 (press ~-IFILERI) disables the procedure will create a short Volts, at 50/60 Hz, an advantage System Manager and prevents assembler program that should do for world travellers. switching to another application the trick. Warning: back up your A Radio Shack AC adapter while the current application is machine before running this, as a (Cat.# 273-1652B) is less expensive running, giving the application typing error might wreak all sorts total control of the console and ser­ and seems to work with the of havoc. Palmtop. It's only rated at 500mA, ial port. This is needed to make cer­ so there may be problems when The computer says: You type: tain DOS programs (intersvr, ter­ using with high-current PC Cards A : \JUNK> debug minal emulators, etc.) work proper­ (i.e., modem cards). It appears to a 100 ly. 1970:0100 movah,46 Neither special character is work well while charging NiCd's, 1970:0102 mov bx,OOOO and current measurements indicate 1970 : 0105 int 15 documented in early versions of that the 100/200LX draws much 1970:0107 int 20 the 100LX manual, though both 1970 : 0109 appear in the 200LX manual and in less than 500mA with this adapter r ex even when writing to a flash card, ex 0000 later editions of the 100LX manual 9 (they work the same on both charging NiCds, and using the seri­ n timeout . eom machines). al port simultaneously. w Other compatible adapters are Writing 00009 bytes quit Q: How can I customize the certainly available from various A : \JUNK> fields in thePhoneBook? (e.g. sources. add an E-mail address field). You've just created a short pro­ gram, called TIMEOUT. COM ii, A: Close the Phone Book and open Obscure undocumented that you can run to inhibit the the Database manager. Press IMENUI tips, tricks, and trivia automatic time-out feature. Re­ :Eile Open and open the PHONE booting will restore the default .PDB file (the file formats are the Q: How can I get the Filer to timeout limit, or you can create a same for the DataBase manager run a program based on a file's corresponding "timein.com" pro­ and Phone Book, only the file exten­ type? gram, by following the above pro­ sion is changed). Now press IMENUI ced ure except change the second HIe Modify Database to add/sub­ A: On the 100LX or 200LX you can mov statement to "mov bX,Oc9a", tract/move fields to your heart's use Buddy ii. On the 200LX, you and change the n statement to "n content. Quit DataBase, start can create the file C: \ _DAT\ timein.com". The number after the PhoneBook and open PHONE.PDB FILER.INI, containing file exten­ "mov bx," is a hexadecimal integer if necessary. sions and commands to run, as equal to 18 times the number of Be aware that other software shown in this example: seconds desired for automatic reads PhoneBook .PDB files (e.g., power-down. 0433 corresponds to [Launcher] the Xlate/Merge feature of the 1 minute, Oc9a means 3 minutes, Connectivity Pack software). Some ICN=D:\BIN\ICN200.EXE % 14££ means 5 minutes, 3efd means ZIP=A: \ BIN \ PKUNZIP.EXE % of these programs expect to see an 15 minutes, etc. un-modified .PDB file. If you plan When you select a file and press Again, back up your machine to use the Xlate/Merge feature, I ENTER I, if the selected file has the before running either of these pro­ don't use the above trick to modify extension ".ICN" the icon editor on grams, until you're confident the your PhoneBook - it won't work drive D: is started and the file programs work correctly. properly. If you use other software name (the '%' is replaced by the programs with your .PDB file, test name of the selected file) is given Q: In setting up a program in out the modified version to see if as argument. If the selected file has Applications Manager, what do the program works properly.

50 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 Troubleshooting and solving have a problem with something in awhile, and reinstall fresh AA bat­ common problems your CONFIG.SYS and/or teries BEFORE replacing the back­ AUTOEXEC.BAT startup files. up battery. In addition to erasing Q: I can't turn my Palmtop off Boot from the D drive (press (ALT) your C drive this will reset the while it's charging the batter­ during boot for menu) and use the clock, and in general make the ies! What can I do? Memo editor to remove the offend­ 100/200LX forget everything you ing line(s) from the startup files. ever taught it. Data on a PC memo­ A: This is not a problem. The ry card should survive this process, Palmtop needs to be awake to 2. Press ICTRq-ISHIFTI-~. This asks if unless you have a SRAM card with monitor and regulate the charging you want to reformat your C drive a dead battery. rate. Battery life doesn't suffer AND LOSE ALL FILES! - answer (you're not using them, you're No to this. It will also reset battery 5. If none of this works, your charging them). LCD screens don't settings to the defaults. If you use machine may need service. Try suffer "burn-in" from continuous rechargeable NiCds, you'll have to running diagnostics by pressing use (think about LCD watches). It's go back into Setup and reset it for IESq-~, and following the menu if really nothing to worry about. this. one comes up. Follow the instruc­ tions in the manual for obtaining 3. Replace your AA batteries with Q: Help! My machine is stuck! service. fresh ones and try again. Replacing What do I do? Any time any MS-DOS machine batteries while the machine is hung crashes hard enough to require a up may destroy the data on your C A: The manual's "Getting Started" reboot, it's a good idea to run CHKD­ drive. chapter contains some suggestions. SK on all drives, to clean up the file Try the following, listed in order 4. Remove PC Card and all batter­ systems and recover any clusters that from least likely to destroy data to ies, including backup battery, from may have been lost. most likely. the 100/200LX (not the battery in a SRAM card). This will destroy all 1. Reboot with ICTRq-I!!!J-IDEq. If the data on the C drive! Let the Product Index: page 59 machine starts to boot, but freezes Share/Freeware Index: page 60 machine sit without power for up during the boot process, you

At first we were unable to via Memo. Then I changed five to six years continually in Franklin has an exclusive diagnose the problem because adapters and printed the doc­ my medical practice. I do not right to these books, but these we were unfamiliar with the umentation out for our client think there is anything that need to be produced for the multiplexers and communica­ on their laser printer. compares with it for conve­ HP Palmtop computers also. tions setup. However, the I have to admit, I have been nience and utility, however, if Marshall Lynch Leary, Jr., MD documentation indicated we using the HP lOOLX for over a these computers are to be Monroe, LA could connect to the multi­ year now and it's the first used in the medical practice, plexer via an RS-232 com­ portable / la ptop I notebook there needs to be someone, [The books you mention may mand port. I had my lOOLX that I have stayed with for either HP or programmers, not be on the Palmtop yet, but and assorted cables so I con­ over 6 months since I got into that address in detail the med­ when I searched our HP Palmtop nected it up. the computer business fifteen ical profession. The machine is Paper CD ROM, I found more Using a terminal emulation years ago. I guess it's the size adequate, but the software is medical references for the program I was able to run and functionality that attracts marginal. Palmtop than I have time or diagnostics on both units and me. It simply does everything Franklin has already come space to include. Here are a few found the problem. When a I need. out with a unit that does not of them - Paul.] replacement multiplexer Morrie Verner have anywhere near the capa­ (The CD to be formally an­ arrived I configured it with CompuServe ID: [102335,15641 bilities of the HP machine, nounced Spring of 1996 - the lOOLX attached to it, and and yet they have cards that please don't call yet as it is still had our client up and running reproduce some of the most in development. Thanks!)] (although not as quickly as we Palmtop useful medical literature might have liked). needs to address imaginable, such as the Wash­ P*M*R: Physician's Medical I found the HP lOOLX to be medical profession ington Manual, medical dic­ Reference excellent for the purpose. tionaries, etc., and they are Drug Information Handbook Before I left, I captured the I am a physician who has being marketed heavily in 5 Minute Clinical Consult diagnostic sessions to a file used the HP 200LX and its medical and university book­ (PC Card Review 95) and added editing comments predecessors over the past stores. I do not know whether

JANUARY / FEBRUARY 1996 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 51 PEPID: Palmtop Emergency age you are sending back. speech. So what makes the Palm­ Physician Information Data­ Jose Patino top any different? The HP base. Covers: Pharmacology, • Ask for an RMA Chihuahua, MEXICO 200LX is great because it General E.R ., Orthopedics, (Return Merchandise Internet ID: can capably meet the aver­ Pediatrics, Toxicology, and Authorization) before jose-JXltindii)dgc.ceo.dg.com age user's needs in an Trauma . (PC Card Review 95) returning the unit. incredibly small and afford­ Ernst W. Abresch able package. This really hit Personal Food Analyst: CompuServe ID: [100031,7511 Palmtop better me while preparing a pro­ Consumer and Professional than a notebook ject paper for a graduate versions. (PC Card Review Having owned a 200LX for course. I used the 200LX to 95) Palmtop helps nearly two weeks now, I collect ideas as they came to in speech making me and composed the Pocket RD II: Nutrition Soft­ already appreciate the rough draft wherever I was. ware. (PC Card Review 95) As director of the statewide beauty of this small gem of I could comfortably carry Materials Committee, I am a computer! For the longest the 200LX in my jacket Harvard Medical School's use occasionally invited to give time I couldn't justify the pocket without bulking it of the Palmtop by a team of talks to different groups. A need for one. As a software out. Furthermore, if my 400 medical students. (Pg.12, few days ago, I had the engineer in the Uninter­ NiCd batteries gave out, Vol.4, No.5 (Sept/Oct), 95) opportunity to deliver a ruptible Power Supply alkaline batteries were speech at an event orga­ (UPS) business, most of my The Palm Vue System (Critical readily available. nized by the Association of time is devoted to writing patient data made wireless). As a developer, the HP Maquiladoras and Export­ Systems software on high­ (Pg .6, Vol.4, No .3 (May/­ Palmtop is possibly the last ers. This event was to be end desktop Windows­ June),95) stronghold of sanity. You attended by approximately based PCs. can even write software for CompuServe's Medical Forum 280 people plus the state During the past few years this little marvel if you're so for HP Palmtops . (Pg .12, governor and city mayor. I've travelled with both lap­ inclined. Instead of the Vol.4, No .2 (March /April), I prepared the speech in top and notebook PCs. memory "bloat" associated 95) the following manner. First, Alas, carrying a notebook with Windows applica­ I typed the ideas on the PC has made my left arm tions, most of the software HPMEDCOM.ZIPil - A list Palmtop's Memo editor, six inches longer than my engineered for the 200LX is of Commercial Medical Soft­ then elaborated and edited right. I've cursed my note­ designed to take full advan­ ware for the Palmtop. (Pg.7 until I had an acceptable book PC every time I trav­ tage of limited resources. this issue) write up. Then I read it eled with it, because I could You're almost guaranteed aloud to myself from the never use it in a public screen of the Palmtop and place without being to get your biggest bang for the byte with a Palmtop. Practical tips made the obvious changes noticed. The last thing you Considering that the DOS about mail order to have a more polished want is to be noticed by found on the 200LX is also product. After this, I prac­ strangers, working on an Even though most mail multi-programmed, you ticed the speech, reading it expensive PC in a strange order vendors are as honest can create some remarkably again from the screen using place, especially in a for­ as anybody else, it is always powerful solutions - right the correct intonation and eign country. a good idea to use caution in the palm of your hand. pacing, paging down when Besides the problems of when making purchases. If It's true the display is necessary. As I read, I being noticed, trying to find you can't see the item you small and the keyboard is recorded my voice on a dic­ an AC outlet in an airport are buying and you have cramped, but the power to tation recorder. I would when your low battery nothing in writing, differ­ weight ratio offsets this dis­ then listen to the recorder alarm comes on, is not fun. ences of opinion can occur. advantage. We learn how to and make further changes It is particularly stressful, Here are a few basic rules: adapt to what has been pro­ to the text. and changes your notebook vided. Like anything else, it I did this several times PC into a six-pound brick, • Never blindly trust the has a personality, and in until I had a speech that I ie., not very useful except person on the phone. Ask my opinion, this one is felt comfortable with in as a door stop. Carrying a for a printed, faxed or E­ worth knowing! terms of quality and poten­ set of batteries for a note­ mailed confirmation of David Hughes tial impact. I then printed book is out of the question. what has been agreed to. Middletown, NY, U.S.A. the file. While these marvels of • If you need to return a While delivering the engineering with their CUI defective unit, make sure speech at the event, I real­ operating systems and you return it in it's original ized that I had almost mem­ beautiful-looking software package, i.e., never return a orized it without intending are great for certain types of Product Index: page 59 PC Card in a floppy mailer. to. I was happy with the applications, their useful­ ShareJFreeware Index: page 60 way the Palmtop had help­ ness for the average travel­ • Always insure the pack- ed me, and people liked the er is slight.

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IAppointment Book I Get the right year entered up as a repeating appointment and 10 in your appointments and behold, the boss changes next Friday's meeting to 9:30 a.m. (he's got to Print out hardcopy of your If you enter the month and day only in catch a plane flight). Fortunately you can any date field, the Palmtop automatical­ ToDo's and Appointments edit a single occurrance of a repeating ly fills in the year for you . This can save You can get a printed listing of your appointment. you time, if the Palmtop puts in the cor­ appointments and todos for backup pur­ Highlight next Friday's meeting rect year. Here are the rules the Palmtop poses. Follow these steps: appointment and press I ENTER' to edit it. follows, as far as I can figure them out: Tab to the Start Time field, change the 1. Start AppointmentBook and press time and press I!!£). A dialog box will ask o If the mm/dd is the current date or IMENU' Eile .erint to get to the Print Dialog you if you want to edit One Occurrence or greater, through the end of the year All Occurrences. Select One Occurrence 2. Press (!E!l-./:f. to to select "These Items:' (12/31), then the Palmtop fills in the cur­ and press I!!£) to change that day only. Press ITAB' once and use the Up/ Down­ rent year You could also select All Occur­ Arrow keys to select the items you want to rences and change the data range to print (Appointments, Events, Appoint­ o If the mm/dd is less than the current modify as many appointments as you ments& Events, ToDos, Completed ToDos, date, but greater than the beginning of desire. But be aware that when you or Uncompleted ToDos). the year (1/1), then the Palmtop fills in modify a repeating appointment, you are the next year. 3. Tab to the date range and enter the creating a new appointment that is no starting and ending date of the appoint­ longer associated with the original If you manually enter a year, pressing ments you want printed. o repeating appointment. If you have to 80 through 99 will enter the years 1980 make a global change to your repeating 4. Tab to the Style section and select the through 1999 respectively. information you want printed out (a sim­ appointment (i.e., the time changes per­ manently from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.) make ple List, a calendar of the Month, or a o If you manually enter a year, entering sure you go to an instance of the original Custom option that will let you print out a number less than 80 will give you year appointment to make the changes. Don't all the data fields, with or without the dates in the 2000s (i.e., 2079, 2078, go to that Friday you modifyed because Notes field. etc. it's no longer part of the repeating 5. If you want the appointment book appointment. To enter a year before 1980 you must printed to a file readable in Memo, tab to o 10m Gibson the Print to box and check File. use the four digit year. HP Palmtop Paper When you print out the appointments [email protected] or todos with the List option, you get simple Ron Vieceli CompuServe ID:(73310,3663} lists that look something like this: IBatteries I Appointments 12/13/95 Edit repeating appointments Listen to battery warning 10:00a - 11 :OOa Begin layout + 1:OOa - 1:30a Go over book One certainty of life today is that nothing Everyone hates to lose data, especially on 3:00p - 4:00p Meet re Book is for certain. Everyone has to change a machine that is used as much as a 4:30p - 5:00p Market report appointments, even ones that aren't Palmtop. One of the causes of data corrup­ supposed to change. Let's say you have tion could be low batteries. You should real­ To Do list a Friday, 10:00 a.m. meeting that hap­ ly trust the message about low batteries 12/13/1995 pens as regular as clockwork. You set it +1 Review Words for Harv 1 Prepare Notebook rpt pplBook:RICH + 2 Research garage cost.

Note the plus symbol in front of three of the entries. This indicates that there is o BII Occurr9nc9s in lh9 Rang9 information in the Note fields of these : I??~~?!~~~] lo :~ ??I~??""" , entries. Note also that the priority of each ToDo is listed. 01< This is a good way to backup your

...... ~ appointments and todos, or make a hard copy of your yearly activities. You may be suprised what you did. Colin Bosch CompuServe ID:(73043,241} When you attempt to change a repeating appointment, a dialog box asks it you want to change "One Occurrence" or "All Occurrences."

54 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1996 which the HP produces. The file destruction including more than one possible entry 1. Move the cursor to the beginning of comes from letting voltage go too low, so in a field (see below). For example, if you the text you want to copy.. write operations are interrupted in the mid­ wanted to create a PhoneBook subset of 2. Press and hold down I I and dle by too low voltage. business contacts in the 415 phone area move the cursor to the end of the There are a number of programs code (San Francisco area) you could text you want copied. that expand the Palmtop's battery moni­ Press ~ Qefine, tab to the Business 3. Press ~ I::J to copy the text to the toring capabilities. There is a great pro­ Pone field of the Define Subset screen clipboard or ~ 0 to Cut the text gram called BCC ij in the CompuServe and enter 415. Then Tab to the Category out of the existing document and libraries. You can also use the ACE prod­ field and select Business (assuming you copy it to the clipboard. ucts BATIman, which works on both the have predefined "Business" as a catego­ 4. Move the cursor to the place to which 100LX and 200LX. ry).Press I!!£) , give the subset a name Avi Meshar (AWMA} and press I!!£) again. To select a subset, you want to copy the text. CompuServe 10:(75561,633} open Phone Book, press ~, select the 5. Press ~ C!l to Paste the text back subset you just created and press I!!£). into the document. Lithium batteries Only the desired entries are displayed. cannot be recharged! Subsets is particulary important for Alternate Cut, Copy, and Paste key com­ those with large databases and Phone­ binations familiar to Windows users are Some people may try to extend the life of Books. It reduces the field of possible available. Highlight the desired text as lithium and other types of non-rechargable entries and makes searches faster. described above and press ICTRLI-I!) to batteries by enabling recharging in the As mentioned above, you can spec­ Cut, ICTRLI-IEI to Copy. When you're Palmtop and connecting it to an AC ify more than one possible match for a ready to Paste, press ICTRLI-I~). adapter while using non-rechargeables. given field by separating the possibilities You can Cut and Paste between any This is a very foolish thing to do. The only with a comma. In the example above, we built-in application. Use the Cut or Copy types of AA rechargable batteries that work could create a subset to select phone function if you want to Paste something in the Palmtops are NIMH and NiCad. numbers in the San Francisco and Palo elsewhere - do not use the DEL key! If Other types of batteries are not designed to Alto are by entering 415,408 in the you highlight a block of text and press be recharged. In fact, with Lithiums, There Business phone filed of the Subset it is not saved in a memory buffer is a very real danger of explosion. Define screen. IDELI, Recharging any type of battery that is not Entries preceded by a hyphen will be and cannot be pasted to another loca­ designed to be recharged will also eventu­ excluded from the subset. If you want to tion. ally create a leakage problem that will put Rich Hall specify a range of numbers they can be HP Palmtop Paper your computer (very expensive) at risk to preceded by <, >, =, <=, >=, or <> (good for save batteries (cheap). selecting Zip Code ranges). If you want to Beverly Howard specify a criterion that could appear in any IStopwatch I CompuServe 10:(75533, 1712 field, then precede it with an asterisk. lOm Gibson Stopwatch also a countdown HP Palmtop Paper timer and alarm clock IDataBase I [email protected] Press ICTRLi-1 APPTI to access the Define a subset with Palmtop's built-in Stopwatch and time multiple criteria your son's 100 yard dash. Press (F2 to The Subset option lets you look a small Using the Clipboard to reset the stopwatch and (F4) to toggle part of any database application Copy, Cut, and Paste between start and stop. (PhoneBook, DataBase, NoteTaker, You can also use the Stopwatch WorldTime). (Press ~ Qefine and cre­ The built-in Clipboard "remembers" the function as a countdown timer (i.e., to ate your selection criteria.) last item you Cut or Copied and lets you beep you in 10 minutes to let you know You can make a subset definition as Paste it into another location or applica­ that you have to leave to catch a train). complex as you need. This is done by fill­ tion. Let's say you're in MEMO with a Tab to the Timer field and enter the num­ ing out more than one field and/or document open. ber of minutes and seconds (0:05 for five minutes, 1:5 for one hour and 50 min­ 0::..------utes). Press ~ to reset the countdown I - - - ! Naae i timer to the specified timer. Press (F8) to il Phone: !!usiness i(415) i H.Ql'Ie ! start and stop the countdown timer. AIt.ernat.e i i Fali i Finally, you can use Stopwatch as '! Tit.Ie i i Cat.egory iBusiness H i an alarm clock. Tab to the Alarm field ,Col'lE.any i and enter the time you want the alarm to Address1 i go off at (i.e., 2:47pm, 6:30am, etc.). iAddress2 i ··pat.e i Press I!!£) to make sure the Alarm On ~it.y ! i St.at.e i ! Zip i box is checked. INot.e I Rich Hall I HP Palmtop Paper I l _ __ ,~. _~_~ ~ - ...... =. - -- Y PhoneBook Define Subset dialog box. Subset defined to select entries with a Business phone Share/Freeware Index: page 60 area code (415) and a Category of Business.

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Lotus 123 A2: @SUM(A3 .. A4) Press ~-C to clear the I 1 A3: \- "tape" and start over. IAppointment Book 1 81: 'Enter [-]Number, Press ALT-A The tape is upside down, Turn Lotus 1-2-3 into 82: '<-TOTAL and you have to press I!£!]-A Set up a re-occuring an adding machine 02: 'ALT-C=Clear instead of [!] or S. But, hey, To-Do as a repeating F1: '{Paneloff){Windowsoff} the price is right. It's free and event Desk adding macines are F2: '{HOME){O 3}/wir- in the public domain (See very handy. Particularly the F3: '{HOME}/m-a4- TAPE.wK1 iJ). Some ToDo's repeat many ones with a tape print out that H1: '/rea4 .. a8192- EdKeefe times (Le., buy a birthday or lets you check the numbers H2: '{Goto}A2-@sum(A3.M)-{home} CompuServe /0:[15300,3667] anniversary presant, prepare you entered. Palmtop users a monthly report, etc.). There can use HP Calcs List func­ 3. Press IMENU! Bange Name is no way to set up a To Do tion to add a series of num­ Create \A, press IENTER!, type IAppManager 1 that repeats, so such ToDos bers. You can also create a 1- F1..F1 and press IENTER! to are better entered as a 2-3 worksheet with a Lotus create the range. Use same icon for repeating appointment or macro that lets you have a list different applications event from the appointment of up to 8100+ numbers on 4. Press IMENU! Bange Name in AppManager screen. Enter the item as you an "electronictape." Follow Create \C, press IENTER!, type would a normal appointment along an it will become clear. H1 .. H1 and press IENTER! to Use the same icon for differ­ or event, press ~ and select The value of this elec­ create the range. ent applications in Appli­ the desired repeat option. For tronic adding maching is that cation Manager if you want to a birthday, you would select as you read over the "elec­ 5. Press the Home key i!!!l­ organize your applications by Yearly, for a monthly meeting tronic tape," you can make LeftArrow to put the cursor in class. For example, you might you would select Monthly, etc. corrections and the total will cell A1. give all your games the same You might want to set birth­ be updated. In addition, you icon, so they are recogniz­ days up a week in advance of can save the "tape" at any 6. Press IMENU ! Worksheet able at a glance. the actualy day, to give you point and retrieve it from disk Column S.etwidth 18 IENTER!. As an example, let's say time to buy a present. for future work. Here's how to you have a game installed in Timothy Leung set it up: 7. Press IMENU! Worksheet AppManager with an icon you CompuServe 10: [100426,516} .Global format fixed 2 and want to use over again. You 1. Start with a clear work­ press IENTER!. decide to install some more sheet. Press Work­ IMENU! games and use that icon with Set appointment in sheet .Erase yes if needed. 8. Press IMENU! file s'ave, type them. The easiest way to do future to automatically adder and press IENTER!. this is to open AppManager, charge your batteries 2. Enter the following into your press ~ to add an applica­ spreadsheet. The "A2" through 9. Place the cursor in cell A 1. tion. Then begin to reinstall The HP Palmtop recharging "H 1" references indicate the cell and key in a number (precede the first game again, entering circuit was designed to it goes into, the right indicates it with a minus sign if you the path and filename of the recharge NiCd batteries. the formulas to enter. Key in the want to subtract.) and press program in the Path state­ However, there is another code on the left exactly as I!£!]-A to add the number. ment. Tab down to the Icon shown. (Use French braces {} type of rechargeable battery selection field and select the rather than parentheses, called the Nickel Metal­ If you forget and press IENTER! , desired game icon. Then go except in the @sumO function.) Hydride (NiMH) battery. It can press I!£!]-A at that point. back the Path field and put in hold more of a charge than the path of the real applica­ the NiCd (providing about 10 tion. Put the correct game hours of continuous use) and name in the Name field and does not suffer for the so press ~.The new game will called "memory effect" that be in AppManager with the old game's icon. Repeat this pro­ has been associated with the cedure for the other games. NiCd. Once you have fininished Although HP does not installing the icons, the images recommend charging NiMH are stored in APPMGR.DAT. batteries in the Palmtop, it is You can then erase the .ICN file possible to do so. To be fully sand save a few bytes charged, they need 2 charg­ Fred Kaufman [7eamHP} ing cycles in the Palmtop. Lotus adding machine worksheet CompuServe 10:[12560,36} Here are two system

56 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1996 macros I've developed that Idlm";" ·m ••;; Go quickly to a --.20 directory, make it will give you a double charge. .00 CUSt.OM Keys The first macro extends .00 a drive Fl ~ F6IB.i(ii '-= ~] .00 the charging by turning the .00 F2 tr.Y:M====:J F7 IM:!====:=:J OK Changing directories and charge cycle off and then on F3 IC:Hp~:S=] FB IM':::::====:=I .00 loading files sometimes F 4 I!lEiLa-===:J F9 Illt[ --:::J .1.2 again (set up as Fn-F10). Cancel .79 requires typing in long path F5 lr;:iingJ;}_D FiI1l ISllJ=0?f::l statements. You can shorten I-­ {Setup} {Menu}obe{Tab} .79 the process by assigning a drive letter to commonly used {Enter} {Menu} obe {Tab} directories. Then, when you {Enter} {Menu}Q HP Calc's Custom application Set Custom Keys screen want to access the directory, lets you program what the Function keys do. just enter the drive letter. The next macro sets an To do this, you'll need a copy of the MS-DOS UTILITY appointment to run Fn-F10 press ~ . Now, every time you IHPCalcl SUBST.EXE. six hours from now. start HP Calc the Custom screen comes up displaying Put your most used 1. First copy SUBST .EXE {Appt} {Menu}AAI 110 your F-key selections from a MS-DOS Version 5.0 HP Calc applications Rich Hall {Tab} {Time} {Alt+B} diskette to your Palmtop. (It on function keys HP Palmtop Paper does not come with the {Alt+L}18 : 00 {Alt+D} Palmtop's subset of DOS 5.0 {Date}+{F10} Open HP Calc to the Arithmetic utilities.) application and take a look at IMS-DOS I Go into the Battery Settings the labels at the bottom of the 2. Then edit your CON FIG .SYS file by opening Memo screen of the Palmtop Setup screen and you'll see a feature Run a DOS program that goes unnoticed by some. and typing IMENU! file Qpen, application and make sure that automatically when Some of HP Calc's more useful key in a:\config.sys and the Battery Type is set to Nickel closing System functions are associated with Manager. press IENTER!. Cadmium and that the Enable the F-keys. For example, if you 3. Find the line that says "Iast­ recharging box is selected. want to go to the Solver appli­ If you always run the same drive=" and edit it to say last­ To recharge a pair of NiMH cation, all you have to do is DOS program when you termi­ drive=M, you can replace M batteries in your Palmtop, plug press~. nate System Manager, you can with any letter up to Z. in the AC Adapter to automati­ Another feature that goes set things up so that it automat­ unnoticed by many is HP cally start the first 6-hour charg­ ically runs when you exit to 4. Save the file by pressing Calc's Custom application. ing cycle. Then open Appoint­ DOS, and you automatically IMENU! file .save IENTER! and This lets you decide which ment Book and run the second return to the System Manager answer yes when it asks to HP Calc applications are when you quit the DOS appli­ macro to set an appointment replace the file. associated with what F-key. cation. Follow these steps: six hours later to restart the Here's how it works. 5. Edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT by cycle. .Open HP Calc and 1. Open Memo, and load your pressing IMENU ! file Qpen , What's special about the press IMENU! Qptions ~ustom AUTOEXEC.BAT file in Memo. type in a:\autoexec.bat and second macro is that it adds Application. You will see the press IENTER!. Insert the follow­ an appointment regardless set custom application keys 2. Replace the last line of your ing line after your path state­ of whether Appointment Book setup screen. AUTOEXEC.BAT file r 100' or ment subst h: a: \ garnes Tab between the function was open or not. It also '200') to the following using keys and when you get to one dosmenu as an example of a Now, instead of typing the full avoids another problem with path, you can reach this you would like to change, DOS program you might want Appointment Book. If you try directory by typing the letter press the Up- and Down­ to load automatically. to increment the start time by Arrows to cycle through the of the virtual drive you have just created, followed by a pressing the plus key, you different applications and :Loop colon. For the above exam­ can only go up to 11 :59 p.m. mathmematics functions, or 100 dosmenu ple, you would type in H: You can't get past it into the type the first letter of the goto Loop instead of A:\GAMES. next day. application name. Stan Dobrowski [TeamHP/ Press IMENU! file .save, press The second macro above After you have made all CompuServe 10: [71031,2162/ the changes you want press ~ and then reboot. goes to the same time next day ~ for OK. Whenever you and sets an appointment with a With this modification, the 'dos­ Get a complete listing open the HP Calc Custom lead time of 18 hours. This menu' program is launched of your files, including application, the F-key chan­ hidden files causes the appointment to be whenever you terminate ges you just made are listed System Manager by pressing run six hours from when you at the bottom display I!J IMENU! Application Iermin­ The DOS Dir command lets start the initial charge cycle. You can also set HP Calc ate All. When you leave dos­ you list the files in a directory The result is clean and neat. up to display this Custom appli­ menu, System Manager is along with their file size, cre­ ation date and time. At the No-brainer to use. cation screen every time you loaded again. start HP Calc. Press I MENU! Thomas Rundel end of the listing, it gives you IdorGemst the number of bytes used by Qptions .startup Application, CompuServe 10:[100023,2477} CompuServe 10:[75300,2370/ the files. If you have ever select Custom from the list and

JANUARY /FEBRUARY 1996 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 57 the new subset. C: \attrib H C \13HN4 . OP2 View GIF picture files Now modify the column A C \CBACK .BAT A C \CHKDSK . EXE on the Palmtop display of your new subset. A C \GRAB . COM A C \PICl .SCR Press IMENUI Y..iew Arrange R C \PAUL .EQN Graphics and pictures can be Columns to access the saved in a number of different Arrange Columns screen. graphics formats and can be Use the ArrowKeys to select converted to different formats. the the country column. Then One such format that is used press ~ to move it to the first for weather an nautical maps is column. The city column MS-DOS file listing with attributes displayed. The attributes GIF. I have recently down­ should move to the second codes are as follows: R = Read-only file; A = Archive file; loaded a utility for viewing GIF column. Now press ~ and S = System file; H = Hidden file. Your directory will be different pictures on my HP Palmtop. select the filowing fields to be and may not have any hidden files on it. The file name is GREY.EXE ij added as columns: Int'l and it's only 28,268 bytes. I'm Access and City Prefix. You added up the bytes listed for attrib c:\_dat\*.* > c:\_dat\ using it to view weather maps can adjust the width of the the files and compared it to attrib .doc . Then start System from CompuServe. The file can columns from the Arrange the total bytes used, you may Manager, go to Memo and load be downloaded from the Columns screen by highlight­ have noticed that there can the file C:\_DAT\ ATTRIB CompuServe Graphsup Forum, ing the desired column and be a fairly large descrepency. .DOC). This file has a listing of library 3 under the name of pressing ~ to decrease and This may be caused by the all the files in the c:'-dat sub ~ to increase the width. fact that there are hidden files GREY.ARC or from the Internet directory with the file attributes. When we have the columns on the disk. under the name GREY15.ZIP Tom Gibson set properly, press ~. Next, DOS has files that are (using archie to locate it). HP Palmtop Paper press 1MENU I Y..iew .sort and use needed for the computer to Dr. Barry Zalsman D.M.O Up- and DownArrow keys to function properly, and if they CompuServe IO:[f00274,2654j select Country in the 1st sort weren't hidden, they may be field. Press ~ 2. to go to the deleted by accident. In addi­ Worldlime second sort field and select City . tion, some other programs I I Press ~ when you're finished. Speed up file transfer may also create hidden files Now when you want to by having less files for a similar purpose. Use a subset of World look up a International Access in a directory DOS hides files by Time to quickly find code and City code, simply International phone attaching to them a "hidden I recently cleaned up a directo­ open World Time, Choose the access codes and city attribute." This keeps a file ry on my 20MB flashcard and country subset and start typing codes the name of the country you from being listed in a file list­ moved a series of text files con­ need. You will see the country ing. In addition, you are not taining hints, phone numbers Now that the world has gotten name and all of the cities able to delete the file when and application-specific discus­ smaller, many of us have to included in the database for you use bulk erase com­ sions to one directory. make more international calls, mands (i.e., del *.* in DOS). that country sorted in ascend­ The directory had about and it is hard to remember all ing order. Next to that will be There is an easy way to get 150 files in it. Anytime I the different access and city the International access code a complete listing of ALL files on moved to that directory, the codes. Fortunately, we can cus­ and city code, and you will also your disk, along with a report on HOURGLASS would make its tomize the World Time applica­ know what time it is there! their status as hidden files. tion to help us with this. appearance in Filer. I thought Tom Gibson things had slowed apprecia­ First, switch to the World 1. First exit to the DOS Thaddeus Computing bly in that directory. Time and create a new subset prompt and change to the [email protected] After a day or two it began by pressing (!!,J, then (!£!)-­ directory you want to check. to bug me as it slowed down qefine.. Do not enter anything in the fields, just confirm by 2. Now type attrib and press everything that occurred in that Product Index: page 59 pressing 1!1£). Name your new IENlCRI. DOS will list all the directory. Finally, I decided to ShareiFreeware Index: page 60 subset Countries and press files in the directory along check around and found small­ I!1£) and then IENTERI.to select with each file's attributes. If er directories responded to you see an H next to a file, Filer much faster. that means that file is a hid­ I did a bunch of sorting • ••• I COUNTRIES Ii. II Local Cily : den file. and file moving and reduced ~ C~h7ic~a~g~o,~IL'-----'U~S~A------~0~1~1--'1~3~12~~7~:1~0~p=. the number of files to about If you are like me, you have half. The speedup was quite ICOUNTRIES •.m .. " h$lIu6l4 {jl~k_"". ..n_ many files in each directory and Abadan Iran 00 98 631 + 4:40 a" significant. It also sped up Abidjan Ivory Coasl. R. of 00, 225 + 1 : 10 a" can't see all the files at one one or two other applications Abu Dhabi Uniled Arab E"irale 00 971 2 + 5 : 10 a" Acapulco Mexico 98 52 748 7 : 10 P" time. Type attrib > followed by that resided in that directory. Accra Ghana 0191 233 + 1 : 10 a" Addis Ababa Elhiopia 251 1 + 4 : 10 a" the path and filename, to print It is clear that the more Adelaide Auslralia 0011 61 8 +11:40 a" the listing of the files to an filename entries in a directo­ Aden Ye"en A. R. 967 + 4 : 10 a ... L.JIll!U!II~~~.BII!IUm_m;mwI!J!lfllllJ!lI!DI!IDUIiIIlll ___ I:i ASCII file so you can view them ry, the slower that Filer deals in MEMO. For example to view with that directory. WorldTime subset lets you quickly find international phone access the attributes of all the files in Fred Kaufman [7eamHPj codes and city codes. List sorted alphabetically by country and city. the C:'-DAT directory, exit to CompuServe IO:[256O,36j the DOS prompt and type

58 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 Product Index Contact information for products mentioned in articles. See Advertisers Index, next page, for additional product references. HP PRODUCTS Connect/Adapter Kit - $24.95 Contact: Casio, USA; Phone: 800- Phone: 800-426-9400, Canada: 800-563- Contact: Authorized HP computer dealers (HP Fl023A) 4 adapters for connecting the 962-2746 or 201-361-5400; Fax: 201-361- 9048 or Internationa/."206·936·8661; Fax: worldwide (Le. the same place you can pur- 100/200LX to modems, printers, and PCs. 3819. 206·635-6100. chase an HP LaserJet). To locate an autho- HP LaserJet 4 Printer - $650 rized dealer in the USA, call 800-443-1254. (HP C2001A) CompactFlash Card - $Varies Newton Memory Cards - $Varies You can also purchase the 95LX & Service Agreements Compact PC memory storage cards (1.8MB - Memory cards for MAC handheld computers. 100/200LX and its accessories from ACE For U.S. HP Palmtop users. Units must be 85MB). 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(HP F1313A) ACE DoubleCards and Support magazine for users of the HP Optional PC Connectivity Cable -$24.95 DoubleFlash+ cards - $Varies OmniGo 100 Organizer. ProComm Plus for DOS - $85 ACCESSORY PENS - $9.99 PC Flash memory cards. (See page 4) HP Palmtop Paper, Back Issues Communications software. (See page 33) (HP F1314A) Includes three pens. Contact: ACE Technologies, Inc., USA; Contact: Thaddeus Computing, USA; Contact: Oatastorm Technologies, Inc., HP 200LX 2MB - $699 Phone: 800-825-9977 or 408-734-0100; Fax: Phone: 800-373-6114 or 515-412-6330.' Fax: USA; Phone: 800-315-3282 or 314-443-3282; (HP Fl061A) 408-734-3344. 515-472-1879; E-maIZ' Internet' orders@thad- Fax: 314-875-0595. HP 200LX 1MB - $549 deus.com (HP Fl060A) AceFax-$29 Radio Shack AC Adapter - $10.99 HP 1000CX Palmtop PC - $449 Faxing software. (See page 33) HP Palmtop Developer's Guide AC adapter, Catalog #273-1652-8. 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Contact: 800-917- File transfer and conversion software. (See Contact: SkyTel, USA; Phone: 800-456- 5/0-623-1434. LINK. page 48) 3333; Fax: 601-944-3900. Contact: OataViz, Inc., USA; Phone: 1.8MB/12v Flash Card - $199 BA TTman 2.0 - $39 (HP Fl024A)) 800-733-0030 or 203-268-0030.' Fax: 203 .. Stacker 4.0 - $99.95 Battery monitoring software. (See page 55) 268-4345. File Compression software. (See page 47) 5MB/12v Flash Card - $375 Contact: ACE Technologies, Inc., USA; Contact: Stac ElectroniCS, USA; Phone: (HP Fl012A) with Stacker 3.0 data com- Phone: 800-825-9977 or 408-734-0100; Fax: MASM 5.1- N/A 800-522-7822 or 619-431-7474; Fax: pression software (not for the 95LX). 408-734-3344. 10MB/12V Flash Card - $600 Microsoft Macro Assembly Language (See 619-431-0880. (HP Fl013A) with Stacker 3.0 data com- Batteries - $Varies page 28) pression software (not for the 95LX). 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ABQ) Borland Language Products Motorola Lifestyle Fax/Modem (See page 7) PC Connectivity Cable - $24.95 -$Varies Programming languages (C, C++, Pascal, Card-$209 (HP Fl015A) Connect 95LX and 100/200LX Turbo Pascal, etc.). (See page 28, 33) 14,400 bps PC fax/modem card. (See Windows 95 - $209 to DOS compatible PC. Contact: Borland International, USA; page 26) Operating system. (See page 28) MAC Connectivity Cable - $24.95 Phone: 800-331-0877 or 408-438-8400; Fax: Contact: Motorola, Inc., USA; Phone: Contact: Microsoft Corporation, USA; (HP Fl016A) Connect 95LX and 100/200LX 408-439-9119. 800-566-3266 or 205-430-8000; Fax: Phone: 800-426-9400, Canada: 800-563- to Apple PCs/MACs. 205-83(J..5657; E-mail.' wireless @motcom 9048 or International.·206-936-8661; Fax: 100/200LX Connectivity Pack Casio QV-10 Digital camera 206-635-6100. -$119.95 -$749.95 MS-DOS Ver. 6.22 - $55 (HP Fl021B) Digital camera, produces pictures in graphic Operating system. (See page 33) (HP Fl 021 C) International format. (See page 17) Contact: Microsoft Corporation, USA;

THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 59 HOW TO CONTACT US Products advertised in this issue of The HP Palmtop Paper There are a number of ways to get in touch with The HP Palmtop Paper staff. You can write, mail us a disk with your COMPANY (PRODUCT) •..•...... •....•..•..•.••...... [PHONEIFAX NUMBERSj .. PAGE NUMBER comments, send CompuServe mail, fax, or Accurite (Floppy Drives for l001200LX)...... [408·433·1980; Fax: 408-433·1716) .. 45 call. Our mailing address and contact ACE (ACE)...... [800-825-9977 or 408-734-0100; Fax: 408-734-3344) .. centertold information is: (PalmtoplOmnibook Products includes: ACT! for HP Palmtops; ACE<->FAX Fax Software and Modem Bundles; ACE <->L1NK File Transfer Software; BATTman Battery MonitOring and Data Protection Software; Carrying Cases; Thaddeus Computin~ Inc., Desktop Card Readers; Acoustic Modem Couplers; HP 200LX Palmtop Systems; HP Color OmniBook Software; NiMH Batteries; Printers and Accessories; X-JACK Megahertz Modem Bundles, SkyTel2-Way Paging.) P.O. Box 869 or 57 E. Broadway (DoubleFlash Plus PC Memory Cards)...... back cover Fairfield, IA 52556, U.S.A. Apex Data (Fax/Modem Memory Cards - formerly Smart Modular) ... [800-841-2729; Fax: 51 0-416-0909) .. inside back Phone: 515-472-6330 or 800-373-6114 ASF (Palmtop Computer Light) ...... [800-771-3800 or 800-936-3636; Fax: 516-868-6897] .. 37 Fax #:515-472-1879 Aware Electronics (Gieger Counter) ...... [800-729-5397; PhonelFax: 302-655-3600) .. 47 CIS ID: Hal Goldstein, [75300,2443] Califomia Digital (PC Cards, PDA) . . . .. •...... •...... [800-421-5041 or 310-217-0500; Fax: 310-217-1951) .. 4 Creative Dig~al (PDA Developers Conference) ...... • ...... [415-621-4252; Fax: 415-021-4922) .. 20 Internet: [email protected] DataViz (MacLink Plus) ...... [800-406-0504 or 203-268-0030; Fax: 203-268-4345) .. 13 DTS Wireless Messaging (Wireless Messaging Service) ... [800-967-0943 or 908-602-1144; Fax: 908-602-0990) .. 22 TO ADVERTISE in The HP Palmtop E&B (Leather Cases)...... •.•....•.....[800-896-2273; Inti: 916-344-5047; Fax: 916-782-9306) .. 23 Paper contact Brian Teitzman or Margaret EduCALC (Accessories Catalog) .. [800-713-6526 or 714-582-2637; Fax: 714-582-1445) .. 17 Martin. Envoy Data (PC Cards, PC Card Products) . . . . . [800-368-6971 or 602-892-0954; Fax: 602-892-0029) .. 25 EXP Computer (ThinFax Modem) .. . . [8oo-EXP-6922 ext. 641 or 714-453-1020; Fax: 714-453-1319) ..inside front TO SUBSCRIBE, change address, or clear GeoPro Development (Palmtop Clipboard)...... [910-545-9797; Fax: 910-545-9783) .. 47 up any problem with your subscription, Hewlett·Packard (Connectivity, Flashcards, AC-DC Adapter) ...... [800-443-1254 or contact nearest HP dealer) .. 29 contact our subscription department Inmax (CGA VGA Graphics Pack Vision) ...... [604-980-9991; Fax: 604-985-5597] .. 24 (Colleen Rodibaugh, CompuServe ID: IntelliLink (Windows Connectivity Pack) ...... [603-888-0666; Fax: 603-888-9817] .. 16 [76125,1773)). Intuit (Quicken Connect)...... •... ..•..... [415-944-6000; Fax: 415-462-2955) .. 21 Microgram Systems (Card Basic Programming Language) .... [Phone/Fax: 415-747-(811) ..40 Mirical Corp. (Personal Food Analyst) ...... [800-732-7707; Fax: 719-598-5790) .. 33 Technical Support Notebook Supply Warehouse (Mobile Computing Products).. . [800-566-6832 or 714-753-6810; Fax: 714-753-sB12) .. 5 Opus 63 (Liberator Sholder Holster) ...... [800-588-0PUS or 718-706-6787; Fax: 718-706-7034) .. 36 HP Technical Support - HP offers these palmtop.com (E-Mail Subscriptions) ...... [408-450-3467; Frx: 408-321-3803) .. 16 Parallax (Litelink Infrared Connectivity Pack) ...... 800-077-7001 or 714-582-2637; Fax: 714-582-1445) .. 12 options: PMC (PC Cards and PC Card Drives) ...... [714-851-8242; Fax: 714-851-8249)..49 • FREE TECHNICAL SUPPORT is offered RadioMail (Personal Wireless Service) ...... [800-597-6245 dept. R34) .. 11 to all Palmtop users and is available by Shier Systems (acCIS - CompuServe Access Program & QuicklLX) ...... [805-371-9391; Fax: 805-371-9454) .. 32 Steele Creek Technologies (CardLink Drives) ...... [PhoneIFax: 704-588-1780) .. 37 calling 541-757-2004. Sunshine Software (Software Carousel.Task Switching Software)...... [800-553-0400 or 305-581-2200; Fax: 305-581-5902) .. 9 • FREE AUTOMATED SUPPORT is Thaddeus Computing (HP Palmtop Paper) ...... [800-373-0114 or 515-472-6330; Fax: 515-472-1879) .. 8 offered 24 hours a day by calling 800-443- (HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK)...... 53 (HP Palmtop Tech Reference Manual, Lotus 1-2-3, DOS 5.0 Reference Books) ...... ,' ...,' ...... 35 1254. Thus, Inc. (LXloo, LX2oo, 41 Senes) ...... [610-588-2600, Fax. 610-588-1727] .. 24 • REQUEST FAXED OR MAILED INFOR­ MATION - 800-752-0900.

On-Line Support- offered by these bul­ letin board services. Shareware and Freeware Index (January/February 1996) • COMPUSERVE: GO HPHAND Software on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK or CompuServe FORUM - Call 800-848-8199 or 614-457- PRODUCT FUNCTION CIS FORUM / LIBRARY TYPE PAGE 0802: For FREE membership state #231. ADVERT.ZIP Text: Descrfctions & products advertised this issue. NA NA NA • AMERICA ON LINE: Keyword PALM­ ATDT01.ZIP Utility: Use 00/2001x to be used as a phone dialer. HPHAND,8 Free 28 TOP - Call 800-227-6364 or 703-893-6288 BCC.ZIP Utility: Battery Monitoring program. HPHAND,11 Free 55 for membership information. BGFAX.ZIP Application: Faxing software for the 100/200LX. HPHAND,9 Free 33 • INTERNET: comp.sys.palmtops; or DC21HP.ZIP Application: Vector based design and drawing tool. HPHAND,11 Share 7 eddie.mit.edu. ECHO.ZIP Utility: Interactive capability for DOS command set. HPHAND,11 Free 41 EMM200.ZIP Utility:: load some programs in expanded memory. HPHAND,11 Free 28 How to Submit an Article GREY.ARC Utility:: GIF graphics file viewer for Palmtop. GRAPHSUP,3 Share 58 HPMEDCOM.ZIP Text&GDB: List of LX commercial medical software. MEDSIG,21 Free 7 The richness of The HP Palmtop Paper INTERNET.HTM Browser file: Text wnh HyperLinks from Intemet article. HPHAND,11 Free 10 comes from the contributions of Palmtop PAlMTOP.FAQ Text:: Questions and answers. Intemet: http://www.smartpages.comlfaqs/ Free 27 PC users. 'We and your fellow users wel­ PTP25.ZIP Text: The HP Palmtop Paper, Jan/Feb 1996. NA NA NA come your submissions. (We do not offer PTPDSK25.ZIP Database: PTP OnDisk Index in 100lX formats. NA NA NA payment for articles, your reward is know­ README.ZIP Text: Cover letter for HP Palmtop Paper OnDisk. NA NA NA ing that you've helped others.) REAlESTA.lIP Various: Files from real estate article. HPHAND,11 Free 24 If you have a good idea and want to "go ADDERWK1 lotus file: Turns lotus into an adding machine. HPHAND,11 Free 56 for it," send it in via CompuServe E-Mail n.ZIP Utility: Tums 100/200LX into phone dialer .. Internet: eddie.mit.edu Free 28 [75300,2443)' Internet: hal_goldstein@thad­ UNZIP.EXE Utility: Utility to decompress .ZIP files. HPHAND,1 Free NA deus.com, or send disk or hard copy to Hal Software mentioned and included in past issues ofThe HP Palmtop Paper Goldstein or Rich Hall at the above address. Alternatively you can send an ON DISK, The Subscriber's PowerDisks or CompuServe's HPHAND Forum outline of your idea. We will try to guide BUDDY.ZIP, (Bestnps 95) Utility: Adds features to 100/200LX. (HPHAND, 11) Shareware, 26-27. CGAHlP.ZIP, (SepVOct 95) you as to when and whether we would use Utility: Changes colors of CGA screen (HPHAND, 11) Free, 18. GDBIO.ZIP, (BestTips 95) Utility: ImporVexport .GDB & .PDB files. the article and contact you if we need clari­ (HPHAND, 11) Free, 32. HV.ZIP, (July/Aug 95) Application: Hypertext viewer (HPHAND, 11) Free, 5. KERMIT.ZIP, (BestTips 95) fication or have any suggestions. We may Application: Macintosh Comm software (MACCOM, 4) Free, 32. PAL.ZIP, (July/Aug 95) Application: Programming App library (HPHAND, 15) Free, 28. QEDIT.ZIP, (BestTips 95) Application: Word Processor (ZENITH, 6) Shareware, 42. REMCOM.lIP, want to use an article but for a variety of (BestTips 95) Utility: Remote control for TV/ VCR (HPHAND, 6) Shareware, 27. REMKEY.ZIP, (BestTips 94) Utility: Run Palmtop reasons you may not see it for many from cit keyboard (HPHAND, 11) Free, 4. SSFAX5.ZIP, (BestTips 95) Application: Faxing software (HPHAND, 9) Share, 33. TIME­ months. Please understand that we cannot OUT.ZIP, (BestTips 95) Utility: Stops automatic timeout feature (HPHAND, 6) Free, 50. TREE.ZIP, (JuVAug 95) Game: Displays promise to run any particular article. pattems of trees (HPHAND, 11) Free, 18. TYPER.ZIP (BestTips 95) Game: Typing exerciser (HPHAND, 11) Free, 18. VR100.ZIP, (BestTips 95) Application: Vertical text reader (HPHAND, 11) Share, 27. ZIP.ZIP, (BestTips 95) Utility: ZIP.COM file transfer pro­ If you can, especially if you write a gram (HPHAND, 5) Freeware, 7. Palmtop Profile, send us a black and white photo of yourself. TO ORDER the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK, see order card page 53

60 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 1996 YOUR HP PALMTOP JUST TOOK A UANTUM LEAP.

With just one smart move, your Hewlett-Packard memory; 14,400 send/9,600 receive fax; 2400 bps PDA can jump from a portable organizer to a mobile modem; MNP 5, V.42/V.22 bis error correction; HP communications center. The Data/Fax Modem and LaserJet compatibility; multiple-destination fax capa­ Memory card from Apex Data enables this transfor­ bility; and auto-dial and answer functionality. You mation by combining industry-standard fax / modem also get EZ Installation software to literally get you capabilities with powerful, on-board flash memory­ up and running in seconds, sleep and standby modes all on the same streamlined PCMCIA Type II-com­ for prolonged battery life and our comprehensive patible card. By coupling fax, modem and memory five-year warranty. functions in a single card, you can easily send and All told, the Data/Fax Modem and Memory card receive the data-intensive communications that, from Apex Data is a Calaveras County­ before now, were like leap forward for palmtop beyond the reach computing and serious of palmtop computing. Hewlett- Packard 95LX, 100LX In keeping with our reputation for PCMCIA and 200LX users like you. For innovation-and as a leading OEM provider- more information call this powerful card has all the performance Apex Data at 1-800-841-APEX features you need: 2 MB, 4 MB or 6 MB flash 5104165656

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