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Upgrading to the HP 360LX ...... 10 A long-time LX user, who recently purchased a new Windows CE Handheld PC, describes his experience and first impressions. Comparing the 200LX, 360LX and 620LX .. 13 Our side by side comparison of all three models. HP 200LX Palmtop Runs ...... 14 Computer-Controlled Workshop Router Typically, the entry-level cost for a "Computer Numerically Controlled" router is over $20,000. But this palmtop user has developed an HP 200LX-controlled woodworking router that's available for much less. :::: Palmtop HP Palmtop Helps Create ...... 16 New Music CD This musician used his HP Palmtop to keep on schedule Database and within budget while recording his band's new CD. Using My Palmtop During Musical ...... 19 Practice Sessions Church musician utilizes Palmtop's database capabilities to keep up with musical colleagues despite limited practice time. A Karaoke and Performance ...... 21 KARAOKE Song Database Even if you're not a professional vocalist or musician, your from the Palmtop palmtop can make singing or performing easier and more enjoyable.
Running DOS Programs ...... 23 From System Manager Palmtop helps to Use Max DOS to run DOS programs without having to exit System Manager; then add HOM, which can handle up to 120 DOS programs. RECORD NEW MUSIC CD Programmer's Corner: ...... 26 LXBatch Programming, Part II Ed Keefe demonstrates some of the commands available in the LXBatch programming language and creates a program to enhance FILER on the HP 200LX.
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ow! When I first heard the wrumor of the latest devel opment in Japan, I didn't Volume 7/Issue 2 believe it. I thought 8 Megabytes MarchiApril 1998 was stretching the HP Palmtop Executive EditorlPublisher internal storage capability to the Hal Goldstein max. Wrong. Once again we have a Publications Director whole new HP Palmtop with even Richard Hall Managing Editor greater possibilities. For the last Ralph C. Turner few days I have been playing with Art Director a palmtop that has 2 Megabytes of AI Constantineau C drive storage and 32 Megabytes Technical Editor of internal F drive storage capaci Tom Gibson Department Editors ty! In the PC slot I have an EXP Ed Keefe fax/modem with 8 additional Wayne Kneeskern Contributing Writers Megabytes of flash memory. Check Chris Lott, Ted Hall Hal Goldstein out my User-to-User column for Tom Boyles, Ray Kump more details. Conrad Cox, Jorgen Wallgren Advertising Brian Teitzman As a fitting accompaniment to this news of larger storage capacity, Margaret Martin we have three articles about using the database application on the HP Tiffany Lisk Palmtop. As it happens, each article has to do with music, but each Marketing author's ideas apply to whatever information you want accessible. Peder Sweeney Circulation My guess is that substantial databases will be one of the most impor Sharon Lloyd, Marge Enright tant uses for the 32 Meg internal drive. The PC card slot can then be Executive Advisor used for a fax/ modem card or a printer /backup card. Alternatively, a Rita Goldstein 32 Megabyte palmtop user can employ a flash card to store additional Contact any of our editors at data or software, or as a data redundancy backup tool. [email protected] For orders or customer service Another use for 32 Megabytes would be to contain large DOS [email protected] applications; for example, DOS versions of Word or WordPerfect - The HP Palmtop Paper (ISSN 10656189) is pub lished by Thaddeus Computing Inc., at 110 spelling checker, thesaurus and all. The article on MaxDOS shows North Court Street, Fairfield, IA 52556. Periodical how such programs can be run without shutting down built-in appli postage paid at Fairfield, Iowa. Subscription rates payable in U.S. dollars, checks drawn on a cations such as Lotus 1-2-3, PhoneBook, or ApptBook. With more U.S. bank, or by credit card - one year: $39; two years: $69. Postage: U.S. and U.S. possessions data, users will want a more robust file manager than FILER. Ed free; Canada, Mexico add $6 per year; other Keefe provides a solution. He shows how to create a program that countries add $18 per year. Published bi-monthly plus two bonus issues, one in April and one in gives FILER users a choice as to whether to view, zip, modify, or exe November. Please allow four to six weeks for receipt of first issue. Executive, Editorial, cute a file. Circulation, Marketing and Advertising Offices: 110 North Court Street, Fairfield, IA 52556. Those of us who have stayed with our 200LX will be interested in Telephone: (515) 472-6330, FAX: (515) 472-1879. Chris Lott's experience moving to the Windows CE 2.0 HP 360LX. Copyright 1998, Thaddeus Computing, Inc., all rights reserved. No part of this publication (Hint: check out the punch line at the end of the article). Finally, you may be reproduced without written permission. Reasonable efforts are made to provide accurate will want to read about Ted Hall's ingenious woodworking solution and useful information, but the reader must using the palmtop to control a woodworking tool. make his or her own investigations and deci sions; the Publisher and Editorial Staff cannot assume any responsibility or liability for the use of information contained herein. POSTMASTER: Please send any address changes to The HP Palmtop Paper, Attn: Thaddeus Computing, Inc., 110 North Court Street, Fairfield, IA52556.
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ing shortsightedness have to pass. I for one and with Microsoft's from the latest business will not let it happen, involvement will NEVER school-educated man even if it means giving surpass the HP 200LX. agers. It's sad. up on HP. (I have been HPCalc, Solver, Lotus 1- using HP products since 2-3, the databases, hun Daniel Legendre 1978, including the HP22, dreds of useful DOS pro Enjoyed programming 100572 [email protected] 41,71, 75,48,100 & 200.). grams, and the special article My suggestion for PAL and EXM programs As an HP 200LX read palmtop preserv~tion are too much to give up Liked your article a er, I look forward to each centers around Thaddeus just to get a bigger, faster lot, Hal. I'm with you .. .it issue of The HP Palmtop - you must survive - as machine. Not even color definitely signals the end Paper. Unlike other orga well as some of your key can substitute for the of an era. The sad thing nizers I've owned, the advertisers. I hereby total functionality of the is, it's not just EduCALe. more I use the HP 200LX, make the following com palmtop. A lot of the fun and the the more I like it whereas mitment to you and your The Connectivity Pack "pioneer spirit" has left the more I used my advertisers: still offers the best PIM the computer industry in Casio, the more I found it 1. I will early renew package for me. I have general, and palmtops disappointing. my subscription to the tried converting my data were one of the last fron I really enjoyed Ed PTP for as long as you bases to Lotus Approach, tiers for this, if you ask Keefe's article on allow. Sidekick, and Outlook, me. Oh well...at least I LXBatch. Why not take 2. I will upgrade my but I haven't had much can say, "I was there this a little further and HP Palmtop Paper CD success. I have had great when it all started." have a programming col InfoBase and continue to success moving every umn every issue. Let Ed buy your upgrades. thing to my Windows 95 Richard Wolfe, Jr. 3. I will continue to desktop computer, but I show us some more [email protected] things he's written. Let purchase from your have met with only mod some share their C code advertisers and mention est and intermittent suc using the PAL library, the PTP when I do so" cess on my Dell notebook My commitment to 4. When I use share running OSR2 version of etc. I know you're always Thaddeus looking for ideas to fill ware provided in your Windows 95 (my IS per the magazine and I'd Your recent HP Palm articles I will register and son tells me that this ver vote for this one. I also top Paper (PTP) article on mention PTP. sion is even less DOS enjoy reading how differ the demise of EduCALC 5. I will contribute compatible). ent people use their saddened me greatly. I articles and programs for I have the windows Palmtops. have been purchasing the PTP. versions of the Appt from EduCALC since 6. I will shortly send Book, PhoneBook and Joel Berman 1980, but lost track of it in you my spare HP200 for HPCalc, but these do not [email protected] recent years partly for the upgrading (doublespeed compare to the real thing reasons set forth in your & memory) and when my (Connectivity Pack) and [EDITOR'S NOTE: see article and also because I HP200 4-mb machine do not support modified part two of Ed Keefe's was using some of the goes out of warranty, I PhoneBooks or the other LXBatch programming arti other advertisers in the will do likewise. databases. I am seriously cle in this issue.] PTP (ACE, Shier, Accu 7. When I need a new considering the purchase rite, etc.). I agree with HP 200LX, I will buy it of a Libretto 70 and Closing of EduCALC everything stated in the from you, not HP. would not hesitate if I article except your view As you have indicat could get the Connec The latest issue of The that the golden age of ed, the HP palmtop is tivity Pack running on it. HP Palmtop Paper is real palmtops is passing. This dying technology, but the While the size is not in ly great, even with the is entirely within our con successors are poor sub keeping with the palm- sad account of the end of trol and it DOES NOT stitutes at the present, an era, due to HP market- (Continued on page 12)
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TTDEMO.ZIP • ESCAN04.ZIP . - v. 0.4 TimeTracker / LX, by ESCAN.EXM, from Japan, is lIP Palmtop Software Kit Andreas Garzotto, was a scanner utility for the GT- UPDATES The recommended retail designed for the professional 6000/ES-300C scanner from price of the HP Palmtop who bills customers by time, Epson. It controls the scan Software Kit is 129,00 DM. or anyone who has a need to ner and saves the scanned (See our review of the kit track project time, or even image in BMP, ICN or PCX QVREM09.ZIP . - v.0.9 starting on page Ilof the for those of us who are con forma t on the HP QVRemote, from Japan, is a January/February 1998 stantly amazed about where 100/200LX. The scanner program to remotely control issue.) the time has disappeared. connects to the 200LX with a a Casio digital camera, the The program, which was serial cable. QV-I0/QV-I00, from the Contact: Yellow Computing, Compu built for the HP tersystem GmgH, Postfach 1136, D- HP 100/200LX. This pro 74173 Bad Friedrichshall, Germany. 100/200/700LX Palmtop, Type: Copyrighted freeware. gram is a 200LX adaptation Available on this issue's HP Palmtop Phone: +49 (0)7136/951143; Fax: -49 keeps track of the time it of QVplay, created by Ken (0)7136/951111. E-mail: info@yel takes to do work. The data Paper ON DISK, and also on the Web at: www.palmtop.netlsuper.html ichi Hayashi and itojun on low.de Web:http:/www.yellow.de about your work, such as the Unix platform. date, starting and ending JAM125SW.ZIP . - times, duration, activity Type: Copyrighted freeware. NTKP AC05.ZIP • - v. 1.25 type, client and projects, is Available on this issue's HP Palmtop v.0.5 stored in records, similar to JAM, by George A. Reznik Paper ON DISK, and also on the Web On page 3 of the the e,ntries you know from and others, is a real-time at: www.palmtop.netlsuper.html January/February 1998 the PhoneBook and the data compression utility that issue we gave an incorrect Database applications. There works well on the HP file name for the Newton are many ways to view the 100/200LX and is a good VDE185.ZIP • - v. 1.85 Keyboard Driver. The cor collected information. alternative to running VDE Editor, by Eric Meyer, rect file name should be A built-in reporting "lan Stacker. The program is a is a small, fast, powerful edi NTKPAC05.ZIP. Also, Mr. guage" is also included to transparent hard disk com tor/word processor that's Adachi is the author of the add sophistication to the pressor which enlarges your gotten great reviews. driver, not Toshiki Sasabe. presentation of reported disk space. Multiple files; windows; This freeware driver is avail data. On-the-fly summa auto format; macros; menus able on the January / tions and totals based on Type: Freeware for non-commercial or WordStar commands; February 1998 HP Palmtop projects, categories, and use, Shareware for any other use. block and column opera Available on this issue's HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK, and also on records are obtained at a tions; multiple file formats; Paper ON DISK, and also on the Web the Web at: www.palmtop. touch of two or three keys. many printing features; at: www.palmtop.netlsuper.html net/ super.html The demo version is limit , extensive customization; ed to 20 records. and much more. Ideal editor DISP.ZIP . -v. 1.0 to shell from applications, or Type: Commercial. DISP, by Laust Brock for writing on portable, even Price: $39.95 license fee for full version Nannestad, is a small utility palmtop, computers. Regis of the program. Contact: D&A for the HP 100/200LX that tered users get an integrated Software, Inc ., 22817 Ventura turns the display on and off. spelling checker. Boulevard, #320 , Woodland Hills, CA 91364-1202 USA; E-mail: info@da Turning off the display Version 1.85 has improve soft.com ; Web: www.dasoft.com gives a speed increase, as ments to macro commands, The demo version is available on this well as a slightly lower file browser, etc. issue's HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK, power consumption. This and also on CompuServe's HPHAND makes the program useful Type: Shareware. forum, Library 14. for compiling or other work Available on this issue's HP Palmtop which does not require user Paper ON DISK; on CompuServe's HPHAND forum, Library 7; interaction. Web: www.palmtop.netlsuper.html
THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1998 3 Do vou have aPalmtop vou no longer use;» We'll buy it •. even if it's broken! Thaddeus Computing (that's us) can always use extra palmtops for various Accessories: projects. If you want to mail in your Palmtop equipment and manuals to us, HP Connectivity Pack w/cable and manual: HP100/200LX: $15; HP95LX: $5 here is what we will pay. Uncompressed Flash and SRAM cards: $5 per megabyte (e.g., 40 Meg=$200) Palmtop in good working order and good shape:' Modem cards, cables, software, chargers, other items: we'll look things over, HP 95LX (with manuals): $ 55 SPECIAl! but we may not be able to offer much. We'll adjust price as appropriate if HP 100LX (with manuals): $75 We need HP 200LXs accessories come without manuals, or if other items are missing. HP 200LX (with manuals): $100 • badly. We 'll pay $150 Send equipment to: HP Palmtop Used Equipment, Thaddeus • Without manuals: HP 95LX subtract $5; HP 100LX or 200LX subtract $10. lor your 200LX in good Computing, 110 N. Court, Fairfield, IA 52556, USA. Include a note mention We'lI adjust the price ~ equipment wol1
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KOREA - Song, Taejin, M.D.; Tel: 82-11 -317-4288; E-mail: palmtops @starlink.com HP Palmtop Worldwide User Group News placebo @chollian. dacom.co.kr CA-los Angeles - David Shier; Tel: 605-371-9391 ; Fax: 605- Send material about User Group activities to Conrad Cox; E·mail: MEXICO - Francisco Bricio; Tel: (3) 684 1317; E-mail: 371-9391 ; E-mail: [email protected]; Web site: httpJIwww .shier.com 76164.467 @compuserve.com; Website: www.ccnet.coml-cdcox [email protected] ; Guadalajara: Juan Pablo De la CA-San Diego - Don Williams; Tel: 619-452-6267 or 619-546- ARGENTINA - Buenos Aires: Miguel Angel Misseri; E·mail: Monja; Tel: (523) 601-0358 (office); Fax: (523) 601-0865; E-mail: 8166; E-mail: [email protected] 73070.3665@compuserve .com. 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Hal discusses the new upgraded palmtops I rechargeable batteries I and whether DOS is still alive and well.
By Hal Goldstein
he big news this issue is the user to swap the C and F drive. In Original 2 or 4 meg palmtop users Tavailability of the "Thirty other words, running this software already with the 8 meg double Something-Meg" upgraded the C drive becomes the 32 Meg speed upgrade and serial numbers HP Palmtop. Once again, pioneer drive and the F drive, 1 or 2 Meg. starting with SG6 or greater can ing work took place in Japan. Mack reports that the upgrade is deduct $125 (5 or 6 meg palmtops Independently, U.S.-based Mack quite safe based on several months can be upgraded in all cases. Users Baggette of Times2 Tech took a dif of beta testing. I only received a unit can deduct $50). ferent approach and developed the a day before this article deadline so I Battery power and 32 Meg chip set and has written the can't yet give you a hands-on report. compatibility considerations required special software drivers. Upgrading 8 Meg users We, Thaddeus Computing, along According to Mack, the 32 Meg with two other trained retailers (see Users owning 2 or 4 meg palm upgrade makes about the same page 9 sidebar) will be performing tops with serial number SG6 or power demands as the 8 Meg upgrades. greater will be able to upgrade to 32 upgrade, maybe slightly more. These Meg right away. Mack is working memory upgrades make an addi The details on a solution for 1 meg palmtops tional 10-15% demand on the palm The 8 Meg upgrade requires and those palmtops with earlier ser top. The doublespeed upgrade takes removing the original C drive RAM ial numbers that have already been another 10-15% toll. In other words, chips. The 32 Meg upgrade is actu upgraded to 8 Meg; it should be users should expect about a 25 % ally added on to the original config ready by next issue. The solution reduction in battery life for a memo uration. So, an upgraded 1 Meg will most likely create a 2 Megabyte ry-upgraded doublespeed unit. 200LX still retains its 1 Meg C drive. C drive and a 32 Meg F drive. Mack recommends rechargeable In addition, the user gains a second batteries. He has found a pair of Cost new 32 Meg internal drive (usually 1350 MaH nickel metal hydride F). Similarly, a 2 Meg 200LX has a 2 The nice thing about this solu rechargeables that he strongly rec Meg C drive and a 32 Meg F drive. tion is that the cost per megabyte of ommends - significantly better on However, due to hardware reasons, the upgrade is roughly the same as the palmtop than others available. 4 Meg 200LX users also end up with the cost of a PC Flash Card with Initial charging takes 16 hours with a 2 Meg C drive and 32 Meg F drive. comparable memory. The advan the HP adapter. After that you can The new 32 Meg drive requires a tage, of course, of this internal charge the battery, as convenient, to device driver, and a line that gets memory upgrade is the PCMCIA top it off. In Mack's experience, placed in the CONFIG.SYS file. That slot remains open. normal/light use of a non-upgrad driver allows users to access the 32 See the sidebar for details on the ed unit lasts about 4-6 weeks; very Meg as a RAM (e.g., F) drive. pricing of various combinations. heavy use of an upgraded unit, 2-3 Further, Mack supplies another The 32 Megabyte upgrade with weeks. Mack tells me they hold piece of software that allows the double speed will be $499.95. charge much longer than alterna-
6 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1998 tives, even when not being used. Ethernet card is the only problem DOS and gave it back its original These batteries can be purchased we are aware of with the double name, Dr DOS. They are develop from Thaddeus Computing ($29 for speed upgrade, and Mack is look ing a DOS web browser, a beta of a 4-pack in North America, includes ing into that. which is available at www.cal shipping; $35 outside North dera.com/ dos/html/webspy.html. America). Possible uses and configurations (Unfortunately, according to their Mack also recommends the Freeing the PC Card slot, the 32 Web page, it requires a 486 to run). ABC/LX software program from Meg upgrade is enough storage The main point of the article was D&A Software ($34.95, available space for most users. The slot can be that DOS will be a popular embed now from Shier Systems) to moni used for a modem card, a wireless ded systems operating system. tor battery life. Besides the environ card, or the Trans Digital parallel Embedded systems refers to the ment and long-term cost, a chief port printer/backup card. Specia fact that many electronic devices advantage of rechargeables is that lized vertical databases such as ones have built-in computer intelligence. users won't have to depend on the for physicians or other professionals You've probably read about Bill backup battery system when chang can be stored internally. I'll be very Gates' high tech house - a proto ing batteries - in other words, data interested to hear of the uses as they type for the rest of us in the coming on internal drives are safer using evolve. I'm at hal_goldstein@thad years. Toasters, TVs, and car navi rechargeables. Batteries are charged deus.com . gation systems will all have a brain; in the HP Palmtop using the that is, a CPU computer chip. The DOS: alive and well? Palmtop's AC adapter (HP software operating system that will FI011A). I read with interest Nicholas allow us to take advantage of the We are often asked about com Petreley's Jan 19 InfoWorld column intelligence (CPU) in the appliance patibility. These upgrades have entitled, "Reasons you may be is called an embedded system. proven quite robust. There are no using DOS again soon and actually Microsoft is positioning Windows known problems with memory (gasp!) liking it." It seems that in CE as the embedded systems operat upgrades. The Silicom PCMCIA mid-1996 Caldera purchased Novell ing system of choice. In fact
Upgrade Pricing from Thaddeus Computing 8 Meg 32 Meg DoubleSpeed Upgrade DoubleSpeed Upgrade Upgrade from 1, 2 or 4 Meg 200LX ...... $299 ...... $499.95 Upgrade from 8 Meg DoubleSpeed 200LX* ...... N/A ...... $374.95 Upgrade from 5 or 6 Meg DoubleSpeed 200LX ...$249 ...... $449.95 Like-New (pre-owned) 200LX** ...... $575 ...... $785.95 Brand New 200LX ...... $795 ...... $999.95
Double speed only for 10bLX dr 200LX $75
1 year Thaddeus Computing Warranty on brand new 200LX. Additional $50 for two years. 90 day Thaddeus Computing Warranty on upgrades and like-new 200LX. $25 extends to one year, $75 to 2 years.
* At this time, unit must originally be a 2 or 4 meg palmtop with serial number equal to or greater than SG-6.
** 4 to 12 week wait possible
In The U.S.: Shipping $9.50. User will receive upgraded palmtop within 5 days after Thaddeus Computing receives it. In a hurry? One day turnaround service is available for $55 shipping (instead of $9.50 5-Day turnaround).
Outside The U.S.: Shipping $35. We cannot guarantee delivery time outside the U.S. Write "Used Equipment For Repair" on the outside of your shipping container.
Recommended rechargeable batteries (4-pack) $29 ($35 outside North America). Includes shipping.
HP AC Adapter (F1011A) $39.95 (U.S. only).
Used HP AC Adapter (F1 011 A) $24.95 (U.S. only).
THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1998 7 Thaddeus Knowledge Products
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Upgrading to the HP 360LX
This long-time LX user, who recently purchased a new Windows CE Handheld PC, describes his experience and first impressions.
By Chris Lott
have been using the HP 200LX the 360 model had been improved to When the unit arrived, I noticed I palmtop computer for a little the point that I would upgrade. its slightly larger size, as compared over three years now, preceded I checked our local sources here with my 200LX. I was expecting by a 95LX model. I have always in Huntsville and found that this, but it was still a shock to place been enamoured with the HP quali nobody sold the 360 yet, and that them side by side. I am also con ty in their calculators, and was they were all sold out of the 320 cerned with the wimpy rubber feet pleased that their approach translat models. I toyed with the thought of that are used on the 360LX. The ed so well into the palmtop series. buying a 320 and getting it upgrad 200LX had plenty small feet by my I recently decided to take the ed for free by HP, but decided not experience, but those on the 360 plunge and upgrade to the newly to. The information I could find on make them look huge. The key announced HP 360LX palmtop the upgrade didn't make it clear board is a pleasure to type on - WIN CE computer. whether the resulting unit would I' m typing this article right now, The upgrade to the 360LX have just Windows CE 2.0, or using standard touch typing and model, however, has been some would also include all the new fea just loving it. This is a big improve what disappointing, despite the tures of the 360LX, particularly ment on the 200LX, although I do many advances that this palmtop Power Point. miss the 200LX's number pad. The computer brings to the market. One I then called EduCALC, from touch screen takes some getting of the important advantages that I whom I have purchased palmtop used to, but isn't at all hard to use. was looking forward to was com accessories in the past, and found The installation process patibility with the ubiquitous that they were getting out of the Microsoft Office files that all my palmtop business. They recom I installed the accompanying colleagues are using. Currently, I mended another mail order compa software on my desktop. First was have to translate any Excel files to ny, PC Mall, where I ordered the the Windows CE installation, fol 1-2-3 format, or save Word files as unit and had it shipped overnight lowed by the HP-specific software. text in order to carry them on my for a reasonable $7 fee. My office computer runs NT 4.0 and 200LX palmtop. And I can forget about Power Point slide shows. The 360LX seemed like its time had come for me, and I was looking for ABOUT THE AUTHOR ward to the upgrade. Chris Lott spends his days designing electronics for Phase IV Systems, Inc., a small business in Huntsville, Finding and buying the 360LX Alabama. He is currently working on a novel, low-cost The first problem was locating the avionics system for a NASA research program. Chris has palmtop. I have been following the a wife and three children, and when they aren't keeping development of the 300 series in The him busy, he enjoys woodworking and ham radio. He HP Palmtop Paper and decided that can be reached at [email protected]
10 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH I APRIL 1998 I had some problems installing the standard 24x80 settings, and there menus, but couldn't find it any HP programs. I finally had to poke seemed to be no way to change to a where. All in all, however, I think around in a command shell and fig more readable font. You could the compromises made for these ure out which batch file was needed zoom to a readable font, but it was two programs are reasonable and to install the PIM translation soft so big that the 24x80 window need work well enough. ware. Even then, the batch file did ed scroll bars. This didn't work well n't run on my computer, and I had with the standard UNIX mail read Battery life to examine it and figure out what er programs and editors. This was The battery life on this model is .exe file I needed to run manually. my first disappointment of many. a real change. I would get two-plus Also, the Microsoft disk installa weeks out of my 200LX, but the tion process didn't match the print Word, Excel, and Power Point 360LX eats batteries at a phenome ed instructions, but the differences The Word, Excel and Power nal rate. While I have used the were minor and easy to figure out. I Point files all worked reasonably 360LX for less than a week, I have do wish some explanation was well. However, I was particularly gone through two sets of alkaline given for installing the optional fea disappointed with the Power Point batteries, and am working on a set of Lithium's, which seem to be tures - I'm still not sure what editing capabilities. During my trip, they're for and which ones would I had occasion to insert a couple of holding up better. I have kept the be good to install. charts. I couldn't figure out how backlight time to a minimum, but The 360LX also lacked a good this was done - the only capability wonder about other accessories that manual. Nothing like a traditional I could find for editing was to insert might consume power, such as the HP manual was included. I guess a title sheet, and to add digital serial and IR ports. I can't find a we're supposed to rely on the built "ink" to a slide, although it appears way to turn these on or off, in help screens, which I didn't find that this isn't saved with the file. although I've gotten an alert mes sage on several occasions that the very helpful the many times that I On the return flight I decided to batteries are low, and the serial port consulted them. begin inserting the "facing page will consume extra power. I finally got the Mobile Devices text" into my slide presentation. I explorer window running on my didn't think twice about this capa Like James Robertson in his arti cle (see Vol. 6 No.5 of The HP computer after tracking down the bility being absent, as it is just text service pack 3 disk, which is one of editing like Word. Well, I couldn't Palmtop Paper), I tried to use the Microsoft's periodic bug patches. figure out how to do this, either. flash disk from my 200LX. Even though it has Stacker on it, I expect The installation process warned me You can select a notes page view, ed to be able to view the uncom that I might need to re-install the but this must only be to examine service pack, and indeed I did. Once previously written notes, not insert pressed portion of the volume. this was done, I promptly translated any. I had great expectations for Alas, when I plugged in my card, I my appointment and phone book this version of Pocket Power Point, was prompted for the name of the files from my 200LX, and copied but have decided that it is basically driver to use - no default filename, over from my PC to the new 360LX worthless for my needs. no browse option. I don't know a few example files in Word, Excel The versions of Pocket Excel and how to proceed here. My flash card and Power Point to try out. I needed Word are quite impressive, in spite is the 30/60MB model sold by ACE (made by IBM). these documents on a business trip, of the fact that they omit certain fea and decided to take them along' tures, and the menus have been My modem, a 19200-baud PCM electronically in my palmtop. changed around a little bit. In Excel, CIA card made by Megahertz, on Finally before leaving, I set up I do miss the capability to get to the the other hand, worked like a the remote networking features and end or beginning of a column of charm. I didn't have to provide any confirmed that I could establish a contiguous values by using the information at all, and it was just plug and play. I have noticed that it PPP connection and terminal con END/UP-ARROW or END/ nection to my ISP. I could, but I DOWN-ARROW sequences. If usually causes the screen to go have yet to figure out how to set up equivalent keystrokes are available, blank or to have vertical stripes a script file so that I don't have to I haven't figured them out yet. every time it is initialized, but it manually login each time. Also, I can't figure out how to doesn't seem to be doing any harm. Terminal emulation turn off automatic re-calculation. I PIM software had a particularly large spread The PIM translation software The terminal application turns sheet, and it took several seconds to did a passable job for my files, con out to be basically useless for me - calculate it on the 360LX. I looked trary to Mr. Robertson's experi- the screen fonts are unreadable at through the help screens and
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ences. I noticed that the category recent trip, a Word file was sent to Addendum field wasn't transferred properly, me bye-mail. First, I had problems After trying the HP 360LX for and I had to enter them all in again getting the Inbox to properly about two weeks, I simply gave up to several hundred entries. Also, receive and download the file on it and returned it. It lacked too the 360LX phone book seems to attachment. But assuming that I many functions and connectivity automatically recognize phone solve that problem, there wasn't features, so I decided it wasn't numbers with their area codes. any way that I could read the file worth my trouble. For some reason, the translation without being at my desktop com I have resumed using my trusty program didn't handle my phone puter to translate it into the Pocket HP 200LX, and haven't regretted it numbers correctly. I discovered that Word format. for a moment. I could cut and paste a phone num Upon further reflection, I have ber, and the program would then decided that this isn't any better recognize it. I could tell this because than the process I used with the I had used a dash to separate the 200LX, when I would translate a area code from the phone number. Word file to ASCII text, or an Excel Cant. from p.2 After the cut and paste, the pro file to Lotus 1-2-3 format. I see an Letters gram would reformat them its own opportunity for someone to provide way, using parentheses around the an online file translation service - top, it may be the best compromise area code. Why the translation pro send a Word or Excel file bye-mail, for the future. gram didn't do this escapes me. and it is returned in the appropriate Another solution would be to Also, I couldn't figure out how to Pocket format. Until then, the develop a DOS emulator for the change the name of a category. attractiveness of Office compatibili WIN CE machines. I have seen dis There was an option to delete or ty is greatly diminished for me. cussion of this, but nothing con create one, but it appears that crete. Much of what I value could you're stuck with your original Missing functions be preserved with a DOS emulator. name, like it or not. Perhaps Thaddeus could support There were other basic functions such a project? It would hedge your File translation that I wished were included in the bet, just as you are doing with the unit. I was hoping for telnet and ftp Handheld PC Magazine (I subscribe I am also disappointed with the capabilities, but found that these ·to that as well). file format translation technique. As were only available as third-party Since Thaddeus is obviously mentioned earlier, one reason I products. It seems odd to support looking for new opportunities, why decided to tryout the 360LX was full graphical Web browsing, yet not take on the Libretto and WIN because so many of my colleagues not have provisions for these basic CE-DOS emulator projects? I would are using the Office products, such services. The calculator program purchase either of these products as Excel and Word. During my was functional, but I found it hard from you if you could get the to use. I have been using HP RPN Connectivity Pack or its equivalent Detect/Plot Radioactivity calculators for 20 years, and found fully operational on them. On Your HP 100/200LX the sudden transition to an algebra Thank you for all you've done Complete RM 60 System: $149.50 ic calculator tough. to support the palmtop. I find it I also miss the Quicken capabili very interesting that your three ty, but noticed that a "financial pro most recent editions of The HP gram" was included free with the Palmtop Paper have been among the HP CD-ROM. I haven't installed most helpful and informative. You this yet, but I presume this is a are still taking your commitment to replacement for Quicken. The the palmtop and your subscribers absence of the database engine, as most seriously! Only time will tell if noted by others, was a big problem. we can make the same commitment I have several databases, and don't to you. know what to do with them. Tb order orfor more h~form(/fioll call: (800) 729-5397 - 45 day $ hack. I just can't decide whether to Bill Quinlan keep my 360LX or not. There are 1422 Lincoln St. AWARE = certainly a number of improve Evanston, IL 60201 Electronics P.O. Box 4299, Wilmington DE 19H07 ments, but my disappointments 312-984-7568 Phone/Fax: (302) 655-3g00 have been many. Time will tell. [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Visit us at: http://www.aw-el.com
12 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1998 We Cotnpare ... The lIP 200LX, 360LX & 620LX Palmtop pes
HP 200LX HP 360LX HP 620LX
Size and weight is easy to read and looks nice, but drains the batteries quickly. The Hewlett-Packard 's new entries in the Windows CE handheld market 360LX has a monochrome screen and has a better battery life, but it is are the 360LX and 620LX Palmtop PCs. Both use the Windows CE 2.0 still considerably less than the battery life of a 200LX. operating system and both are larger and heavier than the 200LX. Although you can still fit the 620LX in a coat pocket, it's now a bit of a Palmtop PC Battery life (hours 01 continuous use) squeeze. 200LX 25-40 hrs (on a pair of high-capacity lithium batteries) 360LX 10-15 hrs (on a pair of NiMH rechargeable batteries) Palmtop PC Size Weight (with batteries) 620LX 5-7 hrs (on a fully charged Lithium-ion battery pack) 200LX 6.3 x 3.4 x 1 in 11 oz (16 x 8.64 x 2.54 cm) 312 g Operating system and software 360LX 7.2 x 3.67 x 1.1 in 15.60z The 360LX and 620LX both run v. 2.0 of the Windows CE operating (18.3 x 9.4 x 2.9 cm) 442 g system, and come with the standard Windows CE applications, includ ing Pocket Outlook (Calendar, Contacts and Tasks), Pocket Word, 620LX 7.8 x4.1 x 1.4 in 20.60z Pocket Excel, Pocket PowerPoint, World Clock, Calculator (basic), (17.8 x 10.4 x 3.6 cm) 86 g Pocket Internet Explorer, Pocket Windows Explorer, Inbo x, various CPU and Memory setup utilities, Solitare. The 200LX runs the MS-DOS 5.0 operating system and comes On paper, the newer Palmtop PCs look more powerful, with faster with an Application Manager and standard PIM applications, including processors and larger amounts of internal RAM. But they are running a Appointment Book and Phone Book. In addition, the 200LX has the fol more complex operating system and applications. These more powerful lo wing applications built-in : Memo, NoteTaker, Database, Pocket processors don 't necessarily mean faster operation . For example, the Quicken, Lotus 123, HP Calc , cc :Mail, Filer, World Time System 620LX is powered by a 75 MHz processor, while the 200LX's proces Macros DataComm, LapLink Remote, Stopwatch, and a setup utility. sor runs at about 8MHz. But many 200LX users who have compared the two say that they can access information faster on the 200LX. Synchronization The 360LX and 620LX come with a connectivity cable and Windows Palmtop PC CPU speed RAM Memory ROM Memory CE Services, a desktop PC program that lets you connect to and syn 200LX 8 MHz* 2-4MB** 3 MB chronize with Outlook and a desktop PC, as well as transfer files back 360LX 60 MHz 8 MB 10 MB and fourth and convert them. Third -party solutions are available to 620LX 75 MHz 16 MB 10 MB synchronize with other desktop PIM programs. The 200LX has an optional connectivity pack that includes a con • The CPU speed of the 200LX can be doubled via upgrade (see page 29) nectivity cable and software that lets you transfer files back and fourth •• The internal RAM memory of the 200LX can increased to as much as 32 MB (see page between your 200LX and desktop PC . Third-party synchronization 6 and 29). solutions are available for the 200LX.
Additional hardware features and battery life Price Both of the new Palmtop PCs have a standard PC Card slot, a HP 620LX Palmtop PC - $889 CompactFlash slot, and IrDA-compliant infrared port and a serial port. HP 360LX Palmtop PC - $599 The 200LX comes with a standard PC Card slot, an IrDA infrared port HP 200LX Palmtop PC (2MB RAM) - $495 and a serial port. The 620LX comes with a backlit color screen , which HP 200LX Palmtop PC (4 MB RAM) - $595
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HP 200LX Palmtop Runs Computer-Controlled Workshop Router Typically, the entry-level cost for aI/Computer Numerically Controlled" router is over $20,000. But this palmtop user has developed an HP 200LX-controlled woodworking router that's available for much less.
By Ted Hall
have been an HP 200LX nut for I several years now - it's just the perfect little computer for me. Since I've had my palmtop doing just about everything in my life, it only seemed natural to want it to be able to run the inexpensive CNC router that our new company has developed. Our CNC router (CNC stands for Computer Numerically Controlled) is a computer-con trolled woodworking tool. It is capable of moving a router (sort of a generic cutting and machining tool) in 3-Dimensions over a 4' by 8' by 6" work area with reasonable power, speed, and precision. It can thus cut, machine, or carve just about anything. You control! guide / direct / program the tool with a Pc. We call the tool a 'Shop Bot' , short for workshop ABOUT THE AUTHOR , •.. ~ robot. (See the sidebar at the end of _ vi Ted Hall is a research scientist who is also a plywood boat this article for pricing and contact building enthusiast. His interest in boat building led first to information.) his creation of a software package for designing plywood I run ShopBots on all sorts of ~< ,'- . boats (yes, it will run on the palmtop) and then to a need for PCs, but my favorite is the palmtop. ~ a CNC router to cut his boat projects, Being convinced that At the time we were creating the such tools were basically giant plotters and that it should be software for ShopBot our goal was :'~ I' : possible to make one for a lot less than the $20,000 entry J to have it run on as Iowa level PC level price of a conventional CNC router, he spent three as possible. But I confess that in the years puttering in his spare time to develop ShopBot. In the last two years back of my mind was always the about 150 ShopBots have been sold to customers in the North America, Europe, South America and Asia,
14 THE HP P ALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1998 idea of being able to run it with my router on and actually do some cut for our customer support database palmtop. For this reason, the soft ting - with all the action being and service management at ware that controls the tool and cuts controlled by punching commands ShopBot as well). We're looking for 'Parts' files (files with cutting into the palmtop. ward to setting more and more instructions for complex shapes or I like the impact of demonstrat woodworkers up with ShopBots parts) is DOS software that uses ing our tool with the palmtop. But that are controlled by palmtops as a text mode and CGA graphics only, there are a number of reasons that way to bring the creative possibili and is efficient enough that it will make the palmtop an excellent ties of computer-controlled tools to move the tool at a good clip using choice as a workshop computer for small shops and home workshops. an 8086 (XT) and up. It also requires an application such as this. First, it's only about 400K of memory to run. small and convenient in the shop, This all means tha t the software and you can move it around with runs fine on the palmtop. you as you work on the project. Commercial products Shop Bot is attached to comput Some of the high-end CN C tools mentioned in this article ers through a serial port, so it hooks actually offer the option of a 'train right up to the 200LX using the ing pendant,' which is a small key The ShopBot CNC Router· $2,795 (full cable and adapter from the board you can take over to the tool size unit; some assembly is required); Connectivity Pack. I also have to on a cable to allow you to control $2,495 (the smaller Table-Top unit, ready to go out of the box). CONTACT: Ted Hall, ShopBot Tools, Inc., 911-C East Trinity Avenue, I run ShopBots on all sorts of pes, but my favorite is the palmtop. Durham, NC 27704; Phone: 919-680- 4800; Fax: 919 680-4900; E-mail: [email protected] or INFO@ confess - as you might have the tool from up close. This is a ShopBotTools.com; WebPage: www. ShopBotTools.com guessed from my palmtop enthusi capability that is automatic and nat asm - that my 200LX has the speed ural with the palmtop. and memory upgrade (from Times2 Second, because the palmtop Tech). The speed upgrade is useful does not have a vulnerable disk Trans PC Card for ShopBot because it allows it to drive and is pretty well sealed, it is run at near full speed . The memory a lot less susceptible to problems Universal Parallel Port is not needed - though I love it. from sawdust and other debris in Those are the basics of running the shop - not to mention that you our tool with the palmtop. Now let can just close it up and put it away me give you a feel for why I get if things get really messy. such a kick out of this capability. I Finally, the way many of our frequently demo the ShopBot that is users work, they create a drawing in my workshop to potential cus of a part or project u sing a CAD tomers. As we walk out to my shop, system on their office or home com the question frequently comes up puter and then transfer this draw PC Card with Parallel Port and Instant File Transfer regarding how big a computer is ing to a 'Parts' file that they bring Trans PC Card adds the Parallet Port making you r Palmtop required to run ShopBot. I say "not out to the shop on a disk. With the 100% real PC, so now you can connect parallel devices like 100 MB Zip, etc. and fast print to standard parallel printers. very" with a twinkle in my eye. palmtop, I just download the 'Parts' Programs for Instant (no installation or setup) transfer · When we get into the shop and start file into the palmtop and I'm ready synchronization and management of files between PCs are having a look at the tool, rather to go (and in this regard, I do on the Card flash to save system memory. The Card (Type I, with very low power draw) upon insertion becomes drive A:. than hooking the ShopBot into a appreciate The HP Palmtop Paper's Programs on Card run under DOS 5.0 and Windows using desktop computer or the Pentium information on how to get CPACK familiar XCOPY syntax or point and shoot intertace. Incl uded cable (used also for co nnection to peripherals) allows fo r notebook that I usually have working in Win95). [ED ITOR'S transfer between the Card in Palmtop and PC standard around, I pull my palmtop out of NOTE: see "Using the HP parall el port at 30 KB /sec . 60X faster th an Puma's IntelliSync. my pocket and plug ShopBot's Connectivity Pack with a desktop cable into it and start running the PC running Windows 95" in the Trans PC Card with Trans Flex Cable, Manual, thing around. This invariably cap November/December 1995 issue of Quick Reference and backup disk is $179.00 tures attention. I usually start off The HP Palmtop Paper.] For more information and dealer nearest you please call: moving the tool through a couple of That's my story of our applica Trans Digital Corporation 3517 Marconi Ave, 5uite 203 ellipses and 'jogging' (fast move tion for palmtops (though I might Sacramento, CA 95821 mode) it around, then we turn the also mention that we use palmtops Tel: (9161482.5599' Fax: (916)482·5598 Email: [email protected]
THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH I APRIL 1998 15 OW TO USE YOUR PALM TOP USER PROFILE lIP Palmtop Helps Create NewMusicCD This musician used his HP Palmtop to keep on schedule and within budget while recording his band's new CD.
By Tom Boyles
hen I first started out as a got "ping-ponged," so I would cated all on their own. (No need to Wmusician and began know what sound and what instru ping-pong tracks anymore.) recording in a recording ment was recorded where, and A good engineer will keep some studio, I was 18 years old. That was what still needed to be recorded. sort of report or journal containing in 1985, and everything in the This notebook was usually a pain to all kinds of settings: what was recording studios was analog. I have around because it was large recorded, what will be recorded, don't think there was any recording and cumbersome, besides forcing and what effects are to be used on on digital, at least not in the studios me to thumb through all these each track - all organized - and that I could afford to record in at pages to find one single bit of infor all this usually in a version of the that time. mation needed to continue the actu old notebook I used to have. Good We recorded on 8-track, I-inch, al recording process. recording engineers also are adept reel-to-reel tape, and keeping track It wasn't out of the ordinary for at thumbing through their notes, of who recorded what on each track me to spend more time looking and they spend a lot less time in the was, at times, pretty difficult. I even through all my notes in that note notes than I ever did. went out and bought my own 4- book, instead of playing a guitar, For the past several months I track, reel-to-reel multi-track bass or keyboard track. Oh, what I have left the recording engineering recorder, with visions of having my would have done back then to have to someone else so I could concen own recording studio. something ... anything ... even close trate on being a musician. My band, Four-tracks would quickly to my HP Palmtop Pc. Corduroy Bloom, currently is become not enough tracks, and The digital age is now here, and recording its first full-length CO, what is called "ping-ponging" we're smack dab in the middle of and we have to stay very organized would be used. This means that very complex recordings far beyond to get this project done in the time recorded tracks from three tracks, 4-track and 8-track, let alone the frame we have projected for it. for example, would be mixed and mess that ping-ponging can make of Studio time and the recording recorded to the fourth track. Then the recording project. Studios today engineer's time is expensive, and the three original tracks could be have 16-track, 32-track, 64-track, usually bands can't afford to spend used again for more recording. and 128-track multi-tracker recor time in the studio or waste the engi Whether on the old 4-track multi ders that just get messy and compli- neer's time trying to organize tracker or the 8-track multi-tracker, when tracks got "ping-ponged" ABOUT THE AUTHOR around, the whole recording Tom Boyles is the bassist and guitarist in the San Jose, process could get to be a huge mess. California-based acoustic alternative band, Corduroy Bloom. He resides in San Jose, CA with his wife Laura. Tom is also a The spiral notebook Technical Support Engineer for SMART Modular I put together a spiral notebook Technologies! Apex Data in Fremont, CA. Corduroy Bloom with pages and pages of notes of has a web page at www.corduroybloom.com and Tom can what was recorded and how things be reached via email at:[email protected]
16 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1998 instead of working on the main I - I • St.udio Recording ~ - . ~ ~ objective, which is recording the Dat.e Tot.al ~ 6110/01/97 St.art. End Tot.al Hours tracks. 6110/11/97 4 12:0111 Pl'l 3:1110 Pl'l 3 611111/12/97 5 SOng: All I Al'I We also need to keep complete, 611111/13/97 3 ,. 611111/21/97 3 Producer: Corduroy Blool'l detailed notes of specific items so 611111/23/97 3 Engineer: Wade Baynhal'l that information can be added to 611111/25/97 5 Day: $ 165.111111 611111/28/97 3 Balance: $1595.1110 our CD album insert. The most !5'I'"~'N:t 6111/1114/97 3 Press F3 for NOTES ... important task is keeping the 6111/1116/97 3 recording process organized and I well-planned out so that the goals Screen 1. The fields in the author's custom database allow him to store notes about what's on for each session are accomplished, different tracks, as well as time spent in the studio each day. and that the least amount of time I.m.,.' ...... , ...... Dat.a It.el'l and money is spent. Recording Dat.abase Qat.e r fl/0I 7f9~? ~t.art. Til'le :12:00p., End Til'le r~:I!lI!l?"i .... Song Iit.le .; ~ : ~; ~ ::::: ~: :: ~ " ...... :::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::: .. , Using my 200LX Tot.al Hours Enter my HP 200LX Palmtop ~r oducer I f. :~ :i. :~:~:f. :~ :~ ::::::~ : t~ :~~ ::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::J Engi neer l:~:~:~:~ ::::::~ :~:~~~ :~~ ::::: ... : ...... :': ':"::::::::: Track-by-Track Pc. I might as well strap a guitar on Not.es :···l ······:::·······S·equenc·e ·i ·······················...... the little guy because he's in the : 2 - Scrat.ch Acoust.ic Guit.ar (Deb St.ephenson) : 3 - Scrat.ch Lead Vocal (Deb) studio with me 100% of the time. I :10 - Bass (Tol'l Boyles) can jot notes down during a session ! ~~ ::: ~I::i ::: I.:'~r:"'l!"''''~()n(~b.~~¥~~st. : the entire recording process each !l'Iix and t.he l'Iix wit.h vocals down 1 db. St.ay wit.h Wade's ! :first. l'Iix. (Wade also has a new l'Iix wit.h a few ot.her i day until the whole project is done. :l'Iinor adj ust.l'Ient.s. ) : Our estimated time for recording -mjjji,jijijjjiiiijiiQjliDiiiliiililDiilil.4iiiMii;miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiijiiiiijjjiil;j:i\iW our current project is four months. Screen 3. This special database helps the author keep organized during the mixing process. Our projected budget for the album is $9,500.00. As each recording session is CD Mix Dat.abase • ~~~ ! Song Tit.le ~~~~~~~~==~::::::::::::::::::; completed, I can look back through ",:M;'4i¥M' Done?: ../ COl'lplaining t.o Jal'les Believe It. the database and review the entire 61../ Everlast.ing ,. Holy Frust.rat.ion Mixed: 1111/27/98 process. I can easily assess whether Jonah Dubbed: 7:38 Pl'l we are staying on schedule, and if Lit.t.le Girl Version: Wa.de's Psall'l 99 we are staying within our projected Realit.y Makes It.'s M Albul'lOrder (1 - 12): NYD Sent.il'lent. budget. If I didn't use the database, We All Blool'l * Press F3 for det.ailed not.es .. I wouldn't be able to stay orga You Are The On .. (2/1.2) nized. And without organization, we could end up spending two or Screen 4. The DataCard has been edited to allow quick scanning of the database. three times as much money, and taking two years for the project, we close in on the end of January My studio database instead of four months. 1998 we are getting close to finishing My 200LX Palmtop PC does the In the database that I created this project. Even though spending job, and does it well. I have yet to (Screen 1), I first enter the date. This this amount of money on the project allow the group to get over budget, allows me to track the day we record is painful, it would be even more and we have easily stayed on sched ed. Next I enter the start time and the painful if we went over budget and ule. We started recording at the end time. so I can calculate the num spent even more than we expected. beginning of October 1997, and as ber of hours in the studio each day.
THEHPPALMTOPPAPER MARCH/ APRIL 1998 17 HOW TO USE: HP Palmtop Helps Create New Music CD
Next I enter the song title that most quality out of the time spent. we decide in what order the songs we worked on during that session. I Without my palmtop, I would be will appear on the album. The also have in this database a place for hauling around a big spiral notebook palmtop allows me to add to the the producer's and the engineer's and spending more time looking at database a place for that, and it can names. Throughout the album these notes than doing what needs to be easily be adjusted as we make that names likely don't change, but in done, and what is most fun - record decision. Finally, the Notes field case we have someone else come in ing the tracks of the album! provides a very important place for the studio for individual songs, this all the detailed notes I need for each change can be documented for easy Mixing the recording song as it is mixed. access to the needed information Mixing the completed recording With the DataCard displayed when we start developing the lay is the next and probably most (see Screen 4) , I can quickly scan out of the CD insert. important part of making your own the entire database to know what In a notes field I have track-by CD. My palmtop again plays the songs are done and which still need track notes. This is what makes the part of keeping the information 'Work. The DataCard also makes it palmtop so awesome. I have every organized. During mixing, the indi possible to take a "quick-glance" bit of information I need for staying vidual tracks are adjusted in vol and get the information I describe organized and also have all the ume, and different special effects above. notes I need, no matter where I am. are added to each track, as needed, The HP 200LX has been a huge The notes can be easily typed in to make the entire song sound great. and absolutely necessary part of the and there's no limit to how much is Only one song a day is mixed, so recording process of the CD project typed in, and everything can be cat with our album as an example, it my band is working on. egorized and organized so individ will take 12 days to mix, because we ual bits of information can be found have 12 songs. Each day that a song quickly and easily. is mixed, a lot of information is dis Then I enter the final day cost cussed about each song. (number of hours by amount per To prevent ourselves from for Corduroy hour) and then the balance, which getting which information goes is calculated by adding the previous along with each song, I created a recording session's amount to the special database for the mixing Bloom's current day recording session process (see Screen 3). This data amount. base keeps me organized and New Album allows me to access information at You will soon be able to hear My studio DataCard any time I need it. On the DataCard (see Screen 2), I For example, I need to know the our new release, Unbellding, in have organized this information so date the song was mixed, and what the comfort of your home, speed I can easily scroll through the time it was dubbed to a stereo cas ing down the freeway in your Porsche Boxster, or cruising the records and see specific items of sette. The database also tells me the superhighway with our CD in information to quickly determine order in which all the songs were your CDROM drive. what was done, who was involved, mixed when they are all finished. Corduroy Bloom is the band's and how much time and money has Additionally, I can tell if an individ name and I am the bass player. been spent. (Editor's note: see pages ual song was mixed during the day, You can find out about the group 31 and 32 of the January/February or in the evening. by visiting our web site at 1998 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper for a detailed discussion of how to Keeping track of mixes http://www.corduroybloom.co alter the display on the DataCard.) I will also need to know what m. Orders will be taken via our With my palmtop with me in the version of mix we decide on. Each web site starting around March 1st. You can also send e-mail to studio, I can easily review this infor song on our album is mixed three order the album to: tom@ mation and enter new data. My times. The first is a general mix, the corduroybloom.com. Order palmtop quickly shows me how second is mixed with the vocal tracking will be handled via much time and money is needed, tracks mixed 1 decibel lower from another database template on my and what has to be done during the the general mix, and the third is palmtop and any e-mail you next recording session. This provides mixed with the vocal tracks mixed 1 send to the above address is a well-organized plan for keeping decibel higher from the general received and answered by my each recording session running mix. Deciding which version to use palmtop. smoothly and spending the least is very important, of course. amount of money, but getting the Once the entire project is mixed,
18 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER MARCH/ APRIL 1998 OW TO USE YOUR PALMTOP USER PROFILE
Using My Palmtop During Musical Practice Sessions
By Ray Kump
play the bass guitar at Mass collection of the prior practices on For Christmas I got a Boss ME- I every Sunday. The music min tape to review. 8B Bass Multi-Effects pedal. This istry has acoustic guitars, an device contains almost all of the Different subsets electric guitar, saxophone, and effects I need to use with my bass. drums in addition to the choir. My I have two subsets for viewing This includes digital delay, com son Edmund plays the electric gui the song list. The normal view is by pression, reverb, flanger, synth tar. We practice on Thursday date and counter order. This is the effects, de-frettor, distortion, and evenings. easiest view when going over the many more. I am able to create dif After my first practice I realized upcoming Sunday's songs. The sec ferent patches of effects by selecting that taping and playing back the ond subset is by song title order. This which effects are included in a practice would be a big help, since comes in handy when you are look patch and the individual settings. just one practice session where we try ing for a song and need to find what I am able to create a sound by to learn five or six new songs every tape it is on and its counter position. choosing different effects and cus week would not be enough. I also When my son Edmund joined tomizing the settings and saving it realized that taping over the prior the group a few months ago, he was as a patch and recalling that patch practice would be a bad idea. able to review the tapes to help him at the press of a button. I have a lot Without any hesitation, I knew my step in without missing a beat. If of options and storage patches HP 200LX would keep track of which one of us misses a practice we are available to me. With all these songs would be on which tape. able to keep up by using the tapes. options comes the task of organiz When I review the tape for the Without the 200LX I would not ing the patches. first time I enter the song, date, tape know where the songs were on dif Boss was kind enough to include number and counter number into ferent tapes. Sure, I could keep track a blank template to notate the the database so that I can find the of it on paper, but that is cumber effects and setting used in each song later if needed (see Screen I, some. After a few weeks it would patch. I thought I had a handle on next page). The counter number become difficult to quickly find the the editing because I had the fore indicates at what spot on the tape songs I need from previous tapes. If sight to use a pencil with an eraser. the song starts. , the information is not easy to I quickly discovered that editing the I often need to review the tapes retrieve the whole process breaks template would be a hassle: moving in subsequent weeks because some down. Since my 200LX is always a patch from one column to another songs are repeated each Sunday with me, the information is always used a lot of eraser. and not always played at practice. available. Although everyone else already knows the material, I am still new to the group, so this review helps ABOUT THE AUTHOR keep the Thursday practices to a Raymond J. Kump, c.P.A., graduated from Hofstra University reasonable length. with a B.B.A. in public accounting and joined the firm of Coopers Last summer I played at the & Lybrand at their New York City office. In 1983 he started his church every Sunday, even though own practice, Kump Associates c.P.A., P.c., 111 Smithtown there was no practice scheduled Bypass, Suite 207, Hauppauge, NY 11788. He and his wife during the summer. I was able to Marianna and their two sons are all HP Palmtop users. You can practice the songs because I had a reach Ray at 516-360-3215 or on CompuServe at [71773,1274].
THEHPPALMTOPPAPER MARCH/ APRIL 1998 19 HOW TO USE: Using My Palmtop During Musical Practice Sessions
A Lotus template um.,'6t.-igui:liI;o;lib Dat.a I t..el"l .~'Nij:N:I:.'.""~G.'H' Song !t.'!~~~<.>.(<::'r.:"'-~~~<.>.~;~<.>.!!;! ~ ti"'-~ ~ ~~~!;~~"'-~; ::~ :~~§<.>.(~<.>.~r : I used Lotus 1-2-3 on my palm Tape !U ] Side !~ :] Count.er : ~$!? . top to recreate the template (see Dat.e ! ~? z. ?~z.~~~$ ] Screen 2). I then entered the data Not.e ,-.. -,,,, "01 Y ... '384 Christ. has died into the Lotus template and I could 392 Great. A... en 410 La... of God move entire columns easily if I wanted to change the location of the patches. By grouping the patch es logically, I am able to change .,iidijiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiW,mCiiiijjmWil!l:UiiljjjjiiiiiiiWiiiiii:mw m liiiiiiiijjjijjii;;;;l patches with little or no fuss when I Screen 1: This custom database keeps track of which songs are on which tape. play the bass. The more I use the ME-SB the more I change and cus tomize the settings, and my tem D21 : [W41 ,,- plate stays clean and easy to read. Printing a copy of the template is D • i -I- 2; ~, Para... et.er ----123------411--- 1------234------easy. While playing, I prefer to use Ov,,,r.:irive Type 1 ionDrive 1 the paper copy, rather than looking Treble 1 Bass 1 at the palmtop's screen. B . A... p Si ... 1 Level 1 When I least expect it, another D.Level 1 use for my 200LX pops up. ~------I ------1
Screen 2: The author's Lotus 1-2-3 template stores effects and settings used in each editing patch .
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A Karaoke and Performance Song Database
Even if you're not a professional vocalist or musician, your palmtop can make singing or performing easier and more enjoyable. by Conrad Cox
am not a professional musician, I can start things off without think and so on. The key and guitar tun I but I love to sing and play the ing too much about what songs I ing completes the song information. guitar with others. I don't do can sing or play. The middle of the screen con either often enough. tains the heart of the database' s The database fields When I do get the chance, I information. On the left are option don't want to waste time thinking People have asked me how I buttons indicating whether I can about what Beatles songs I can play, select songs to sing or play. As I sing or am learning to sing the or whether a particular song has to hear a song that interests me, I just song. I also rate how difficult the be sung at the extreme ends of my enter its name on the spot. This song is for me to sing. vocal range. works well, except when I am dri On the right side of the screen I The SONGS database that I creat ving. To cover those times when enter status on learning to play the ed helps me keep track of the songs I I'm in the car, I've started carrying song on my guitar. I've included a can sing and play. I also enter into a small voice recorder. Almost no field for the key and tuning (which the database songs that I think I idea falls through the cracks, be it a could be different from the original) might want to learn in the future. song or a business-related thought! and any capo position I might use. Screen 1 shows a typical data I recently added a check box and Why a database? base record. All data appear on a a text field to indicate if the song The idea for the database started single screen. Most fields are self requires or has opportunities to har during last summer's vacation. The explanatory. The TITLE, ARTIST monize or add other instruments. bar in the hotel where we stayed had and ALBUM fields define the song The NOTE field acts as a catch Karaoke. I had been spending t09 and its style. (Bonnie Raitt's version all for comments, notes and lyrics. I much time looking through loose of "Runaway" is quite different find it helpful to include lyrics for leaf binders of song titles trying to than Del Shannon's version.) songs I sing and perform. find songs I thought I could sing. Since the 200LX database allows Why wait, I thought, until I'm in only one CATEGORY field, I chose Putting it to use the bar to choose songs? With a it to describe the type of music: clas I rely heavily on the use of database I could view a list of songs sic rock, ballad, country, classical, Subsets to extract information. I knew, and see if the Karaoke oper ator had one of them. I carry an HP 200LX every ABOUT THE AUTHOR where, so having a database of When he's not visiting Karaoke bars, Conrad Cox leads a San Francisco songs in my pocket made sense. Now when I go to a Karaoke bar or based palmtop user's group called the Society for Palmtop someone's house for a sing-along, I Advancement Through Meetings. He contributes to The HP Palmtop open the database. In just a moment Paper and Mobilis Magazine. Contact him at [email protected]
THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1998 21 HOW TO USE: Using My Palmtop During Musical Practice Sessions l.me,.Rt.-1¥4i.)Ud4 Dat..a. I t..el"J Screen 2 shows just some of the Ii t.l e l:tmlRiii:rnwtmj!ll=.it!rnjjjl:mmi mmmmmmmmm.mmm . subsets I created. Whatever the situ Brt.ist. r~f~~I?~$.t;; .i.II~~ : N~~h ::; ~enre :CTassiCRoch :: ...... B ation, I can pull up a subset to ~D/A I bul'l : Crosby$.t;;i.!!~~i'ii~~h . .Hey/Tun i ng i~ Z. . 9.P."i~E Karioke? Difficult.y---- Perforl'lance?--~ __~ ======~ extract and view just the records I o Qon' t. Know@Qifficult. O NQ.HeY j;,;::E""",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,; need at the moment. o Learning 0 .t!oderat.e 0 Pract.icing Capo j : @ Know 0 Easy @ Yes Tuning I measure the success of the IZI !:iarl'lonies Accol'lpani.l'Ient. i$ "i~ ~~ ~ fi ;;;~~ ~r.: wT£h SEd [lining database in time savings. When I Hot.e know I will be going to Karaoke, I L. ... t;l ~~~~ 1DD'lII~~ 'rii!ii"ii'~ check the database. It reminds me Screen 1. This database helps the author keep track of the songs he sings and plays. what I can do, and it helps me to plan my practice sessions. I don't waste fifteen minutes trying to tpink of two songs I can sing. In my mind, the SONGS data base puts just that much more
OK information - and power - in my pocket. anna er or'M Cancel Easy Kerioke Hard Karioke I know Original 50ngs Beat.les Karioke I know What is Karaoke? [ Qefine ... 1 [Henal'le ... 1 [ .E.di t. ... I
Screen 2. The author's many subsets allow him to view just the records he needs at the Karaoke is a form of enter moment. tainment where people gather in a public place, like a bar or club, to sing popular songs Where there's a DoubleSlof ~ there's a way ... accompanied by pre-recorded To use 2 PC Cards at the same time - even copy files between Cards music. Karaoke has become a To run multiple PC Card products - SRAM, popular after-work activity in fax/modem, memory cards, etc. Japan, where it originated. To connect Type I, II and III Cards - even a Type II and III at the same time People can have a few drinks To externally power PCMCIA Cards - for and unwind. Karaoke is those power hungry PCMCIA peripherals becoming more popular in the To run ATA flash cards and hard drives like the notebooks can! rest of the world. DoubleSlot, PCMCIA Slot Expander - You don't need to be a reaching new heights of performance for your HP Palmtop. singer to participate in Add the Travel FloppyrM to your Palmtop ... Karaoke. When someone sings, the rest of the people World's smallest 3.5" floppy drive PCMCIA, type II compatible cIa p their hands and even For Palmtops or other DOS/Windows sing the chorus. computers You can learn more about Use it to transfer files, archive, or run Karaoke by logging on to the programs directly from disk Online Karaoke Entertain Portable like your Palmtop - goes anywhere Uses inexpensive 1.44 Mb or 720K diskettes ment Guide. Point your browser to www.navicom. A ~~"r:"'I ,.,~~® 48460 Lakeview Blvd, Fremont, CA 94538-6532 ~~-= • •• ,8r .... com/ -okeg/home.html .:E!!F' ~\.-r\.-rc.l'=U';"':;'; (510) 668-4900 FAX: (510) 668-4905 T E C H N 0 LOG I E SIN C. [email protected] http://www.accurite.com
22 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH I APRIL 1998 OW TO USE YOUR PALMTOP USER PROFILE
Running DOS Programs From System Manager Use MaxDOS to run DOS programs without having to exit System Manager; then add HDM, which can handle up to 120 DOS programs.
By /orgen Wallgren
he great thing about the HP available with English documenta a TSR. The -E25 tells MaxDOS the T Palmtop is that it's a DOS tion - thanks to Mr. Toshiki Sasabe number of pages of EMM • to use machine - and there is a lot of (Janbe) who has translated the orig (25 in this case). (EMM is a freeware DOS software still available. You inal Japanese documentation.) EMS driver for the HP 100/200LX should be able to run almost any 1. First do a backup of everything that assigns EMS memory to the C: DOS program on the Palmtop, pro on your Palmtop, just in case drive, and can speed up applica vided it does not use extended or something goes wrong. tions that can use EMS. The use of the EMM program is optional; in expanded memory and can display 2. Make a directory called other words, it's not necessary to in character or CGA graphic mode. C: \ TEMP and another called employ EMM in order to use Some DOS programs need so C:\BIN. much of the 640Kb of system RAM, MaxDOS to run DOS programs.) If 3. Copy all the Max DOS files into that you have to terminate System you only use option -E without the C:\BIN. Manager and run them from the number of pages specified, all your DOS prompt. Here is a tip on how 4. Modify A UTOEXEC. BAT to EMM pages will be used. If you use you can run many of these memory automatically load MaxDOS. Add EMM memory, you have to add hungry programs directly from the following line to the AUTO option -Ex. The -W is followed by your Application Manager using a EXEC.BAT file, before the line that the swap file's temporary directory. nifty utility called MaxDOS • . starts System Manager (i.e., the The -A is follow by the complete line that reads "200"). directory and name of a sound file. Get and install MaxDOS C:\BIN\MAXDOS -L -E25 -WC:\ Note: The option -A is not neces To do this magic, you need a, TEMP -AC:\BIN\ sary. But if you use it, your great Japanese freeware program ALERT.sND Appointment Book alarms will called Max DOS (written by MeW). The -L switch loads MaxDOS as even go off if you are in a Max DOS MaxDOS uses a special "swap" file session. to save the current System Manager session. It then unloads System r------, ABOUT THE AUTHOR Manager, leaving you the maxi Jorgen Wallgren works as Product Manager for HP Palmtop mum amount of system RAM avail PCs at Hewlett-Packard Far East Pte Ltd in Singapore. As a able to run your DOS program. Product Manager in the Marketing Department for Asia When you exit the DOS program, Pacific, he takes care of technical solutions, technical train MaxDOS automatically reloads the ing and is working closely with Independent Software System Manager session you saved. Vendors regarding corporate solutions for HP Palmtop PCs. (I would like thank my friend Fong, He graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology in from Thailand. Fong introduced me Stockholm with a M.sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering, to the program and showed me and moved to Singapore in early 1991. He can be reached how to install it. Max DOS is now via e-mail at:[email protected]
THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1998 23 HOW TO USE: Running DOS Programs From System Manager
You can remove Max DOS by Add an Appllcatlon 04/11/96 18:59 exiting System Manager, typing Name: : j;J.i='.$. :: I~ :::;
C:\BIN\MAXDOS -R at the DOS ~ a t h : [~ ::~:: :s :~ :p. :? : ~ : :s :~e. :: ;:: :~ :~ :~ :: ~:: ::: :"'" ...... :: .... :.:::.:.::::::::.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::] prompt and pressing (Enter). The swap file will take about Key Assignment: Ctrl+123 230KB of memory (without EMM ~omments : installed). You should put the swap -,-con: file on the C drive. If you use \Wx ~ ______zi:3 I!mIIDII~ MaxDOS with the swap file located on a flash card, the startup time for Screen 1. your program will be very long. You get the best performance if you are Add an Appllcation 04/11/96 19:02 using a "double speed" palmtop and Name: ~ ~:~ :~ :: ;::: ~ :: ~::::: :::: : ...... :.: .. :.: .. :... :.:.::'::::::~ have the swap file on the C drive. How to use MaxDOS Key Assignment: Ctrl+123 After you have successfully ~omments : installed MaxDOS, you can install -'-con : your favorite memory hog DOS pro ~ ______I!mIIDII~ gram in Application Manager and run it without any memory prob Screen 2. lems. Again, this is for programs that Edit an Appllcatlon 04/11/96 19:39 will normally run if you have termi nated System Manager, but won't run from Application Manager. As an example, we'll install Key Assignment: Ctrl+123
WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS on the HP ~omments : 200LX. 1. First install the program as -,-con: you would any other DOS pro ~ ______I!mIIDII~ gram. From the Application Manager screen, press (F2) to add a Screen 3. program and fill in the program More Appllcatlons 04/11/96 19:05 name and path statement (see [§]~~!HH! [§]!O"!~~~H! III 111 aaDa DaDalSD .. . i~. Screen 1.) Note the upside down ~ ..... ~ ~ iD ~ HDML Laynch! World Stop0 .appoint .Ehone Data DBCalc question mark in the Comments Iime l!!atch ments Book Qase field suppresses the "Press any key ":::. ,. to return" message after you exit .:...... : . ~~:::: ;; .::' ~ ~:.::; ~ m~~~ @::=: MAX- QDS Lotus Mgmo PE.!. WP Dict Spel IChk the DOS program.) [1iJQOS 123 Don't press (FlO) yet! Instead, 375K Free / 469K Total add "C:\bin\maxdos.com" to the path line in front of the ordinary Screen 4. path instruction (see Screen 2.) Now you can press (FlO) (OK). directly to DOS. Unfortunately, this From Application Manager, add You can now run WordPerfect 5.1 method of accessing the DOS a "new application" as shown in for DOS (or your favorite DOS pro prompt leaves System Manager Screen 3. gram) from the Application running. At best, you can only have Please note that there is the"&" Manager, even if it takes a lots of about 435 Kb of system RAM avail character in front of "005" on the memory. able for DOS programs. NAME line. This lets you open Fortunately, we can use Application Manager and press "0" Access a DOS prompt with lots of Max DOS to add another DOS icon to go to the new DOS prompt. memory to Application Manager. When we There will be two applications with You've probably noticed that access DOS using this icon, we'll "0" as their hotkey. The new Application Manager has a DOS have the maximum amount of free Max DOS icon and the original DOS prompt icon that lets you shell system RAM possible. prompt icon. Application Manager
24 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1998 will open the first application it finds, so make sure you place the E m He - !-!.P5 . 1 + !).ict Max DOS icon before the other. Tamer rc:ij Application Manager looks for m 4i! ~ applications line by line, left to !;.Show LXPicIII RebQ.ot sCAD right. To move an application icon, .' iA use the arrow keys to select it, press T~per
(F7), move it where you want it, ~~~I!Ii.UlBlIEIiIllDI~~1ImI!flIlI!I1lllIllll!!iI1lmiIllmI and press (Enter) (see Screen 4, pre Screen 5. vious page). "Slut-sam• Add a DOS program manager ~ Dave Dominoe~ Back= I have a lot of DOS programs I gammon . ... ~ ,. ir'1 ~.,. ~ like to run. Application Manager is ~.!IIt.!ll ~ 1i, H Tetris Sol i Piano GomoKu Golfb BlacK~ limited to the number of extra tare JacK application that can be added, so I o m ~ m lal ~ Bio Gold Load Lemm - Munch PacKman use HDM • by Harry Konstas. Rythm Mi ne runner ings guy HDM adds a program manager ~~~I!Ii.UlBlIEIiIllDI~~1ImI!flIlI!I1lllIllll!!iI1lmiIllmI for DOS programs. It can handle up Screen 6. to 200 programs and has the look and feel of the System Manager's
AppManager. Application ~ame From Application Manager, press (F2) and add HDM as an D i sp lay------, System------, application. Be sure and place D B/W (mono). D Enable Serial port . D Invert (negative). D Pause upon return. c: \ bin \maxdos.com before the D Qither ed shading. D Disable ~ight - sleep. application start up command in Press F9 to cancel. F10 to accept. the Path field. You should see the HDM icon in Screen 7. Application Manager. When you er" as "&Games". Then I filled in start HDM, you get a program the path + filename as "c: \hdm \ Shareware/Freeware menu similar to Application dm.bat" (I start HDM with a batch mentioned in this article Manager. Add your DOS applica file, instead of DM.EXE - there is tions to this menu. The screen HDM _ - V. 2.2, by Harry Konstas. A more about how to do this in the below shows some of the programs DOS menu program that allows you HDM.DOC file). Then I filled in the I've added to HDM (see Screen 5). to manage up to 200 DOS applica "Command tail," specifying You can go one step further and tions on your LX. Freeware. Available games.dat as the new data file. organize your DOS programs in on Th e HP Palmtop Paper's 1998 CD Then I opened my Games folder In/aba se , and also on the Web: "folders" (just like they do in and added my games. www:palmtop.net/ super.html Microsoft Windows). Screen 5 I hope you enjoy using these shows a games icon in HDM. Thip MaxDOS _ - V. 0.3.7, by MeW. This programs to organize your DOS is my Games folder. I select and program allows you to run any size programs and run them without "start" that folder and another DOS DOS program from System Manager having to exit System Manager. I've Application Manager screen by swapping the running session to used this system for a while and it's disk. Copyrighted freeware. Available appears, displaying my games (see worked fine. However, that's no on Th e HP Palmtop Paper's 1998 CD Screen 6). guarantee that you won't experi In/aba se, and also on the Web: What's really happening here is ence some problems. Please take www:palmtop.net/ super.html that HDM is starting itself up again, this as a disclaimer that you do this this time with a different data file EMM _ - v. 2.00 EMM is a freeware at your own risk and that I am not displaying only my games. EMS driver for the HP 100/ 200LX that responsible for any problems you assigns EMS memory to the C: drive, I did this by opening HDM, might experience. Please be sure to and can speed up applications that can pressing (F2) to add a program, and back up your 200LX before attempt use EMS. Copyrighted freeware. filling in add a program dialog box ing any of this. Available on Th e HP Palmtop Paper's as shown in Screen 7. 1998 CD In/abase, and also on the Web: I filled in the name of my "fold- www.palmtop.net!super.html
THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1998 25 OW TO USE YOUR PALMTOP USER PROFILE
Programmers Corner: LXBatch Programming, Part IT Ed demonstrates some of the commands available in the LXBatch program ming language and creates a program to enhance FILER on the HP 200LX. I by Ed Keefe
VolUMe o£ C: Uolu.. e ot A: = EDSDISK na previous installment of the C:'MENU .'III . Chg . Di... A : 'ZDIR GEMCAP Programmer's Corner, we start GEMINST I INSTALL ed to explore some of the com UNTSR mands built into the LXBatch lan guage from Rob Koenis. In this article, we'll delve into more of these commands and create a handy utility program that will breathe new life into an undocument ed feature of FILER on the HP 200LX. Screen 1: Stereo Shell works only in DOS. The Problem The undocumented feature on Buddy . users have grown an .SND file with an editor, viewer the HP 200LX is called "file associa accustomed to this association fea or another player program. tion." It relies upon a file called ture since the days of the HP 9SLX. On the other hand, the MS-DOS "FILER.INI" which you create and Windows users have a similar fea file manager, Stereo Shell . , gives save in the C:\_DAT directory. For ture on their desktop. However, the you a choice of things to do with example, suppose you create the association feature in FILER, as well any file. You can point at a file, following file in MEMO and save it as in Buddy and in Windows, has a press Enter and get a menu that will as C: \ _DAT\FILER.INI short-coming: you can hook files to let you either Run, View, or Edit a only one program. .BAT file. If the file is something [LAUNCHER] For example, you might associ other than a .BAT, .COM, or .EXE TXT=A:\WRD\PE.EXE % ate an .SND file with the PLAY file, Stereo Shell modifies the choic EX.EXE • program. This would let es so that you can Edit, View, or Now, when you go to FILER you highlight .SND files in FILER Launch a program that will use the and highlight a file with the exten and play them by pressing the data file. Unfortunately, Stereo sion .TXT and press Enter, the asso Enter key. It won't let you associate Shell only works in DOS (Screen 1). cia tion feature will "la unch" PalEdit . (A:\ WRD\PE.EXE) along with the highlighted .TXT file. The ABOUT THE AUTHOR " %" sign in the association state A long time contributor to Hewlett-Packard Handheld sup ment stands for the name of the port publications, Ed Keefe is an author, editor, program data file. Without the FILER.lNI mer, computer science instructor, and part-time consultant file, you'd get an error message: in the computer industry. He is also the editor of the book "Cannot run file: file extension PC In Your Pocket: Information When You Need It. Ed can be must be .BAT, .COM, or .EXE". reached at [email protected]
26 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1998 CHOICE.LXB CHOICE.LXB is a program you can create which will display a list of things you can do with any data file.
======/I run the LHA program on the ;CHOICE.LXB /I The semicolon is the LXB comment marker. /I given .LZH file (shown as @fqn@) /I and send the list to a file called screensetup /I LXB command to put the palmtop in graphics mode /I "filelist" using the DOS 1/0 /I redirection operator ( > ). upper 'ext %1/1 Gets command line arguments (%1 and %2) , if "@ext@"== "ZIP" fv @fqn@ >filelist upper 'fqn %2/1 converts them to uppercase and stores them in /I If the extension is .ZIP, use /I LXB global variables. /I Vernon Buerg's FV.COM program to goto @ext@ /I Jump to the section of the code that deals with /I send a list of files to the /I files that have the extension stored in @ext@ /I "filelist" file. :------...... •...... FileDisplay filelist /I "FileDisplay" is a LXB command ;Global subroutines:can be used by several types of files /I that displays any text file in /I an on screen window. del filelist /I Erase the filelist file when /I you're done with it. :WIN /lA label for a subroutine goto @ext@ /I Loop back to the start of the screensetup Choices for @fqn @/lShow the name of the file /I Menu routine. RETURN /lat the top of the screen. :TESTLZH /I Routines to test the integrity :1MNT :TESTZIP /I of a compressed file. winopen 280 80 360 110 One II"0ne Moment" message in a gosub 1MNT windisplay 10 1 2 Moment /Ismail two·line window if "@ext@" == "ZIP" goto ziptest RETURN /I If the extension is ZIP jump to the :SELECT /lPick a new file with the /I next section, otherwise set the /lextension given in @ext@ screenrestore /I screen to text mode Iha t @fqn@ /I Use the LHA program to test the Dirbrowse 'aFile '.@ext@ Choose a different '.@ext@ file /I .LZH file and show it on the screen. /lDirbrowse puts a directory pause /lbrowser on the screen. It lets screensetup /I Set graphics mode. /lyou select different drives, goto @ext@ /I Loop back to the menu. /ldirectories and only those files /lwith the extension in @ext@ . Once :ZIPTEST /lyou've picked a file, its name pkunzip·t @fqn@ > filelist /I Send the test results to /lwill be stored in the 'aFile /I "filelist" and /lvariable. FileDisplay filelist /I display the results. if "@ afile@" == .mgoto skip l{fest for the case when no file delfilelist /lwas selected otherwise goto :SKIP. goto @ext@ /I Loop back set 'fqn @aFile@ /lCopy the @aFile@ variable to the :VIEWLZH /I Routines to view a single file /I'fqn variable for further use. :VIEWZIP /I in a compressed file. :SKIP input 'vufile "Which file? " goto @ext@ /lReturn to sender ... /I "input" is a LXB command that /I asks for the name of a file and iCompressed files menu /I stores the name in a LXB variable , /II named 'vufile. :LZH :ZIP if "@ vufile@" == "" goto @ext@ /I Test for no input gosub win /I execute ":WIN" /I otherwise ... menu "&List all files" "&Test all files" "&View a text file" "&Extract a file" "&Pick a gosub 1MNT New File" &Quit if "@ext@ " == "LZH" Iha e In @fqn@ @vufile @ onerrorgoto end list@ext@ test@ext@view@ext @extract @ext@select end if "@ext@ " == "ZIP" pkunzip -e @fqn@ @vufile@ >nul /I "menu" is a LXB command. /I Extract the vufile from the /I If a menu item is more than one /I compressed file. /I word, enclose it in quotes. Filedisplay @vufile@ /I Display the file. /I Use "&" before any "hot key". del @vufile@ /I Erase the temporary file. /I "onerrorgoto" is a LXB command. set 'vufile "" /I Reset the 'vufile variable /I The first choice should be a way goto@ext@ /I to exit via the ESC key. The second :EXTRACTLZH /I File extraction routines /I option refers to the first item in : EXTRACTZIP /I the menu list; the third option input ' vufile "Which file? " /I refers to the second item in the if "@ vufile @" == ,," goto @ext@ /I list and so on. All items refer to gosub 1mnt /I the routines below except for if "@ ext @" == "LZH" Iha x In @fqn @ @vufile @ /I "Pick a New File" which refers to if "@ext@ " == "ZIP" pkunzip -e @fqn @ @vufile@ /I the ":SELECT" routine shown above. /I The extraction process will /I NOTE: you can concatenate an LXB /I clutter the display, so /I variable to another word as in screenrestore /I switch in and out of text mode /I "list@ext@" (Neat feature!) screensetup /I to refresh the screen. :LlSTLZH /I CHOICES to show a list of files goto@ext@ :LlSTZIP /I in a compressed file .... :END gosub 1MNT /I run the ":1MNT" subroutine screenrestore /lRestore the screen and stop if " @ext@ " == "LZH" Iha lIn @fqn@ >filelist stop /I i.e. if the extension is "LZH"
THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCH I APRIL 1998 27 HOW TO USE: LXBatch Programming, Part 1/
You can't use Stereo Shell within 1I.t.i'i4-••., ....:t.'MU:· ..... ; System Manager. 10 I st a I I f I I es The Solution lest all f i 1es ~iew a text file Here's the challenge: create a .sxtract a file program, called CHOICE.LXB . , e. i ck a New F i 1 e that will make FILER act like Stereo Quit Shell; namely, present a list of things you can do with any data file. We can omit the choices of -- copying, moving, or deleting files, Screen 2: This is what you'll see- after highlighting an .LZH or .ZIP file and pressing enter. since FILER itself performs these tasks well enough. you need to create a FILER.lNI file I I keep the LXB.EXE • (which is For the sake of expediency, we'll and save it in the C: \ _DAT directo the LXBatch program) and show how to create a part of this pro ry. The file should contain the fol CHOICE.LXB files in my A:\BAT gram for files that have the exten lowing lines. directory. You may have to change sions .ZIP or .LZH. A more complete version of CHOICE.LXB is available on this issue's The HP Palmtop Paper HOICE .LXB is a prime example of non-structured programming. ON DISK and from either www. CIt's full of GOTO statements which betrays its DOS batch-file thaddeus.com or from the HPHAND heritage. Yet it's somewhat like a Windows event-driven program. It forum on CompuServe. certainly is easier to use than hacking away for hours with a C CHOICE.LXB compiler and the PAL library functions. The listing of the CHOICE.LXB file that will accomplish this task "A: \ BAT" to reflect the drive and can be seen on the previous page. If [LAUNCHER] directory where you keep these files. you type this into your palmtop, LZH=A:\BAT\LXB.EXE LXBFILE If you already have a FILERINI don't type the" / /" or anything A:\BAT\CHOICE.LXB BEGIN LZH % file, you can add these new lines to after this on the line. The" / /" ZIP=A: \ BA T\ LXB .EXE LXBFILE the file and comment out any lines marker signifies a remark about the A:\BAT\CHOICE.LXB BEGIN ZIP % that start with LZH or ZIP by putting command. a ";" at the start of the old lines. To see if the program will work, (Don't ignore the "BEGIN" word in the above lines. It tells the LXB.EXE program where to start Thaddeus Computing offers... interpreting the CHOICE.LXB file.) Once the CHOICE.LXB program and the FILERINI file are in place, Vertical Market Upgrades go to FILER and highlight any file that ends with .LZH or .ZIP and press ENTER You should see the Is the 8 Meg or 32 Meg DoubleSpeeed screen that's displayed in Screen 2. Use the ESC key or press Q or HP 200LX Palmtop PC a cost-effective solution highlight the Quit option to exit the for clients or colleagues in your profession? program. Try highlighting a menu item and then press ENTER to acti vate the selection. Try the "Pick a New File" option by pressing the Volume Pricing Available "P" key to see if that works. If you made typing mistakes, or CONTACT: Wayne ([email protected]) something in your system interferes or Hal ([email protected]) with the CHOICE.LXB program, the program will unceremoniously terminate and dump you back in or call: 515-472-6330 Fax: 515-472-1879 FILER without letting you know
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Programming Considerations issue's HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK version of CHOICE.LXB "tweaked CHOICE.LXB is a prime exam or for down-loading from www. ,and tuned" for your system. This is ple of non-structured program thaddeus.com or the HPHAND definitely not a "plug and play" ming. It's full of GOTO statements forum on CompuServe. operation. which betrays its DOS batch-file The archive called CHOICE.ZIP Have fun with this one. I hope it heritage. Yet it's somewhat like a contains a much more elaborate proves to be a useful piece of pro Windows event-driven program. It version of a FILER.INI file with gramming. certainly is easier to use than hack associations for almost any type of ing away for hours with a C com file you could have in your palm piler and the PAL library functions. top. The CHOICE.LXB program in Rob Koenis has done a mar the archive shows how to use the Shareware/Freeware velous job of making it easy to cre LXB commands "stuffkey" to have mentioned in this article ate simple programs on the palm an LXBatch file run a built in appli CHOICE.LXB is available on this top. With just a little pain, you can cation such as the Database or issue's The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK gain results that work efficiently NoteTaker. It also demonstrates and from www.thaddeus.com. All and effectively. how to create a CHOICE.lNI con figuration file for CHOICE.LXB and other programs available on The HP ndore, ~ore, ~ore how to use that file as well. Palmtop Paper's 1998 CD InfoBase and As mentioned above, a more Be aware, however, that the from www.palmtop.net/super.html complete version of the CHOICE. added complexity of the larger ver BUDDY . - An add-in utility for the LXB program is available on this sion means that you'll have to palmtop that provides many features spend some time getting the bigger (smart capitalization, macro file han dling, flashing alarms; many, many more features. Shareware. New! Link-A-Printer II CHOICE.LXB • - An LXBatch pro Smaller size & Attached cable gram that makes FILER present you with a list of things you can do with Link-A-Printer II is a serial to parallel converter any data file. Freeware. that allows direct printing from your OmniGo LXB.EXE (LXB30.ZIP) • - LXBatch, 100 to any parallel printer. It also works with the HP 100/200LX. the powerful batch tool for the HP $79 lOO / 200LX. Postcardware. PalEdit • - A very good text editor Link-A-Printer II has a built-in connectivity cable that plugs into your OmniGo for the palmtop. Copyrighted free 100 Since it does not require batteries or extra cable Link-A-Printer II is simple ware. and easy to use. PLAYEX.EXE • - A program that enhances the sound function for Also Available Link-A-Printer I playback of alarm sound data. Copy Requires connectivity cable and optional battery Features auto righted freeware. on/off fixed 9600 baud. $59 Stereo Shell . (STS41O .ZIP) - A Greenwich Instruments LTD dual-windowed file manager appli Tel: 704-875-8490 European Distributor Fax: 704-875-2801 Tel: 011-44-181-302-4931 cation similar to FILER. Toll Free: 800-476-4070 Fax: 011-44-181-302-4933
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THEHPPALMTOPPAPER MARCH/APRIL 1998 31 the DataCard.} Description and Start Time fields. (See Even if you don't format your notes Screen 5.) Next, TAB down to the as I suggest, its a good idea to enter Leadtime field, or go there directly by LX200 Drives backed UP LO PC: your data in reverse order, so that the pressing (Alt+L). Then type in the length I Ii DaLe Ii Drives II LocaLion II last entry is at the top. Working this way of leadtime, either as minutes (for I, " ,I 1101/12/9711 A II C ii HOl'le PC II avoids always having to scroll to the example, 90) or as hours:minutes (for 1104/11/9711 A II C II H01"lB PC II bottom of a long note to add new data. example, 1:30). 1101/09/9711 A II C II HOl'le PC II 1103/08/9711 A II C II HOl'le PC II This also applies to the Note field of the The leadtime can be set anywhere from (2/34) other built-in applications. o minutes to 23 hours and 59 minutes. However , in order to use a leadtime, the - Screen 3: Even your DataCard can display MattHaigh alarm has to be enabled. Pressing the vertical and horizontal dividers in your e-mail [email protected] (Alt}+(B) toggles the alarm on or off. notes. The majority of my appointments are [email protected]
MeMO: FAXBLANR.TXT ~7/~2/97 0:28 ~~~ Using templates in Memo 1 234 I keep templates of documents in MEMO that I can quickly edit for my immediate purposes. For example, I have templates for business letters, per sonal letters and for faxes (see Screen 4). I've also recreated the standard busi ness forms I use regularly. I've used the [;l ~ __.:DIDI ummm~~1mI!ZlElII ~~ line graphics and special characters described previously to create borders, Screen 4: This MEMO document uses line graphics and special characters to create a good boxes, shading, and simple graphics looking FAX template. which I use time and time again.
If you try this, remember to save any Ctmil:nmM'.1 Appoi n~l"fent./Event. .~Ht4~I:N:I:_.'.G.gHi files that you edit under new file-names Descr.ipt. i on rpost:ba:il for ~r.:i;l;;;;i'>~ · · :] so that you don't corrupt the templates. s t. ar t. Ii... e i1'::i1.i!!li'>;;;; .. , s t. ar t. .!2 a t. e ! ? ,?'.i1.i~ ?'.~ !'!!'!E.l. ., .. ,.. "., .. In order to prevent myself from cor End Ti.... e No. Consecyt.ive Days i1' rupting the templates, I have used the LOQat.ion DOS ATTRIB command to set the attrib utes of the template files to read-only GZI Mont.h (see the tip above). This way, I get a Repeat. St.at.us: None 'Error writing file' message if I inadver tently attempt to overwrite the document. L...... J ~~~.:DIDIlDDlIIt!EIDlIiD_lmI!ZlElIIlI!f.mDII~
Matt Haigh Screen 5: An appointment with the leadtime set to 90 minutes.) e-mail [email protected]
reminders to call people, so I've set the default leadtime to 0 minutes. To choose a new default, press (MENU) Options, Appointment Defaults. When Using the Leadtime feature the defaults window appears, TAB The Leadtime field in an Appointment down to Leadtime and type in 0, or record lets you set the alarm to go off a whatever number of minutes you'd like. specific number of minutes before the (See Screen 6.) Start Time of the appointment. You can When I create a 12:00pm business thus choose how far in advance of the lunch appointment for some day in the appointment you'd like to be notified, future, I usually set the leadtime to three hours. That way, I'm reminded earlier Screen 6: By setting the leadtime default, allowing time to walk to a restaurant, you won't have to set individual leadtimes in take a taxi to the airport, etc. enough (9am) to allow time for any last each new record. The default leadtime is set to 5 min minute preparations I need to do, such utes, which means that if you create an as reading through an outline, or print appointment for 2:25pm, the alarm will ing out a report. actually go off at 2:20pm. To set the leadtime, open ApptBook, Ralph C. Tumer then press (F2) (Add) and fill in Managing Editor, The HP Palmtop Paper
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n II e II e II e Creating your own e e ., e u alarm sound files I~ G A B C D E F G G F E D II From time to time we print I in The HP Palmtop Paper Screen 1: Aefer to this staff to find out what the letter designations are for the notes in your favorite song. the contents of a customized sound file. Such a file, after it :;_'O/··i~" Words by D R MO Music by has been named ALARM. .."", OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN %nd 0 - e - 1 RICHARD RODGERS SND and placed in the C G7 C:\_DAT folder, will replace , .U.A: c the standard alarm sounds I I ) IJ, I J J ) J! (such as Beep, Trumpet, or 1 1 Do,,___ • deer, fe - nuale deer, Ray___ a drop of ,old - lin Chime) that get played • whenever one of your C D E c E a E. 1) e:FFED ApptBook alarms goes off. An ALARM.SND file con Screen 2: After referring to Screen 1, we've added the note designation (C, D, E, etc.) to the song Do-Ae-Me. sists of, in its simplest form, a string of letters that represent -iI4NIIMi·lj.3i·,:11 the different notes of a partic K~ O~ T~eS V~ L6C L~6D L6E L~6C LeE Lec ular song. For example, if L4E L6D L~6E L~6F L~6F L~6E L~6DL L2F L6E L~6F L6G L~6E LeG LeE L4u you open MEMO and type L6F L~6G L~6A L~6A L~6G L~6F L2A L6G CDE L~6C L~6D L~6E L~6F L~6G and then save the file as an L2A L6A L~6D L~6E L~6F+ L~6G L~6A L2B, L6B L~6E L~6F+ L~6G+ L~6A L~6B L302C ASCII file to C:\_ DAT\ L~60~B L~6B- LeA LeF, ALARM.SND, the next time LeB LeG L202C • one of your appointment Screen 3: This MEMO file will play the song Do-Ae-Me whenever an ApptBook alarm goes off. alarms goes off, the musical notes "c" then "D" then "E" will be played. (Actually, at reading a musical score, musician, or someone who This command allows you to there's one other thing you'll the easier it will be to create sings in a choir. terminate the alarm by have to do: press MENU in your own custom alarm file Screen 1 shows letter pressing any keystroke. "LO" ApptBook, then choose that contains one of your designations for each note would disable this feature. Options, Beep, Custom. favorite songs. However, on the staff. For instance, a The next thing to note is This will force ApptBook to even if you don't know very note that is positioned on the appearance of spaces, use your customized much about music, you may the top line of the staff is an and a few commas, through ALARM.SND file.) be able to create a simple F. Using the information in out the file. Neither spaces nor Anyone can create cus sound file. Here's what to do. Screen 1, you can assign commas have any effect on tomized sound in MEMO, or Firs'!, go to your local pub the letters A through G to the file. However, they can be in any other word processor lic library and find a book of the notes of a song you've used to make your commands or text editor. If you look up musical song scores. Look found in a music book. more readable. For instance, I "Alarms, programming" in through the book and find a For instance, in Screen 2, separate each note with a your HP 100LX or HP 200LX song that is in the key of C. which shows the first line of space, and each line of the User's Guide, you'll find a list Songs in the key of C will be the score of the well-known score with a comma. of commands for creating much easier to program than song, Do-Re-Me, from The "01" appears next. "0" your own song scripts. songs in another key. Sound of Music, I've written followed by a number from 0 In addition to including Songs in the key of C will the correct letters below to 7 sets the octave. Lower letters representing different have any musical sym each note (C, D, E, etc.). numbers represent lower notes, you can include not bols representing flats ( Now we're ready to create a instructions that set the b ) octaves. or sharps ( after the sound file. ''T'' followed by a number length, octave, tempo, vol # ) musical cleft at the begin Look at Screen 3 to see from 0 to 255 sets the ume, and other particulars of ning of the song. If you have what the completed file tempo. I experimented with whatever song you'd like to any doubts about whether a looks like (DO-RE-ME.SND different tempos, then finally have played. particular song is in the key . ). At the beginning of the settled on "T185." "V" fol The more adept you are of C, ask a friend who is a file the letters "K1" appear. lowed by a number from 0 to
THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MARCHI APRIL 1998 33 3 sets the volume. 3Gn -i4fh,··.'.ltEl.iS"i'.'. The "L6C" is the first note HTlR> of the song. "L" followed by
Ralph C. Tumer to use different field names Managing Editor ~~~~:c~: ,~lwork Edit Task:_ Use: 6% INS MainLine Rev 2.4 than the ones I use. To or ESC Jor Jan '98 ~I' Feb '98 Mar ' 99 The HP Palmtop Paper COMAan d Menu r~ j, -----r-1 -~ § ~!I: -~ § ~ insert fields into the Smart Date: 02-Jan -98 FMTWTFMTWTFMTWTFMTWTF TWTFMTWTFMTWT~MTWTF TWTF MTWTFMTWT~MTWT~MT [email protected] Clip, press the (F2) key. Blank 1 i:tart: When you finish th is, 2 . f~Sk: . . . : =~~=~======' name the Smart Clip some End thing appropriate, like *30
HTML-TABLE. Now back in 5 Creating rosters the main PhoneBook 6 in HTML screen, press MENU, Edit, Select All. Then press Clip I want to pass along a tip Screen 5: I developed for preparing (F5) and HTML-TABLE (or HTML group rosters using whatever name you chose.) my HP 200LX. I help main Now you have the HTML entries in the clipboard. Step 1 2 3 5 tain a number of Web L nch pages, and several of them one is complete. needed to have a roster list The final step is to create ing of members. It bothered a template file in MEMO. This file will be created only ______IIIila. ____ me to maintain a separate HP200LX sea l o. d e l /4 i.nc:h database of this information, once, and used repeatedly since I already kept these each time a new table is Screen 6: names in my palmtop's prepared (when someone PhoneBook application. moves or changes phone
After pondering the prob numbers, for instance). An St.at.i:5t.ic~ 88 901."'.5 ... on example of such a template e8 9'a",~s tied. lem for awhile, I figured out 81 9'a .... ~5 lost. a way to combine the Smart file is as follows: Interflu, di.t. Le vel Clip feature and MEMO to O YOU create the necessary HTML eco ... put.er file. Here's how.
First, you must have the