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have long thought that email is the I "killer app" that will bring every­ one to computers. Once a person, Volume 7/Issue 4 no matter how computer-phobic, really JulyI August 1998 understands the benefits, the ease, the Executive EditorIPublisher benefits, and the low cost of email, he Hal Goldstein Publications Director will want it. The email adoption pace Richard Hall will accelerate as more friends, busi­ Managing Editor Ed Keefe ness associates, and family have email Art Director addresses. Perhaps, in the not-to-dis- AI Constantineau Technical Editor Hal Goldstein tant future, you will be able to buy Tom Gibson .. email handhelds" as easily as you can Department Editors Wayne Kneeskem buy calculators or telephones today. The function of these voice Contributing Writers Gottfried Burckhardt, recognition machines would be to wirelessly send and receive Bill Childers, Conrad Cox email (and perhaps for $10 more you can get Internet surfing). Martin Paul, Allen Solof Advertising In the meantime HP LX users can manage email from the palm­ Brian Teitzman Margaret Martin top using built-in ccMAIL or commercial WWW /LX Plus. As you Tiffany Lisk will read, these solutions aren't elaborate kludges for the technical­ Marketing ly elite. Rather, they are fast, easy-to-use, flexible solutions that Peder Sweeney Circulation some users might find superior to desktop email management. Sharon Lloyd, Marge Enright Sandy Spees Impressive. Executive Advisor These developments affirm the point of my User to User article: Rita Goldstein there continues to be lots of 200LX software and web development. Contact any of our editors at [email protected] (Hopefully, by the time you read this our completely revised For orders or customer service www.thaddeus.com web site will be available). The stable platform [email protected] provided by this DOS palmtop continues to inspire not only new The HP Palmtop Paper (ISSN 10656189) is pub­ lished by Thaddeus Computing Inc., at 110 developments and new ways of using the palmtop. Ed Keefe in his North Court Street, Fairfield, IA 52556. Periodical postage paid at Fairfield, Iowa. Subscription profile describes innovative ways he used the palmtop to run the rates payable in U.s. dollars, checks drawn on a U.S. bank, or by credit card - one year: $39; two computer science department at a community college. German years: $69. Postage: U.S. and U.S. possessions free; Canada, Mexico add $6 per year; other auto engineer, Gottfried BurcJ.

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things up so that the cate­ at www.garlic.com/-chil Calculating Easter gory is the first sorting ders/ uktrip for more. Sunday parameter, patients auto­ Excerpt: Well... On land­ In the Christian Church, matically get organized by ing in Heathrow, we got the date Easter is celebrated the name of the hospital into the rental car and head­ varies, depending on when and the location in the hos­ ed off. After making several the first full moon is after pital. I can eaSily see who is circles around Dublin, we Patient database the Spring equinox. There is in a particular hospital and a stumbled upon John Mc­ jogs memory a formula for determining particular ward, or who is Gowan's pub. We stopped the date and it can be calcu­ I was inspired by Dr. Steve an outpatient. I use the Note in and introduced our..,elves. lated using the year as the Carder's excellent article field to add as much or as J oh.n was nice enough to only independent variable. describing his professional little detail about the patient show us the way to our This letter describes how the relationship with his 200LX as time allows. I always Lodge, the Addison Lodge. HP Palmtop Solver Appli­ (see page 17, May /June 98 stamp the date (Fn + ",") After a shower (we'd been cation can be used to deter­ issue). I am a Cardiologist in prior to a Note entry. This is in the same clothes more mine the date of Easter for a private practice in West­ addition to a paper chart. than 24 hours straight ... given year. chester, and use the 200LX to The database works in YUCK!!) we headed back to Easter Day is defined as track the records of hun­ conjunction with my memo­ McGowan's for some food. the first Sunday after the full dreds of patients in a simple, ry. When another physician And great food it was! I moon (the "paschal moon") custom database. It includes asks me, "How is John Doe don't know what was better, that occurs on, or next after, the patient's name, an doing," I take out my HP the Guinness or the steak. the vernal equinox (taken as attached note and a category. and re-familiarize myself At any rate, I knew that March 21st). If the paschal I found that there is a with some details of his his­ when we had finally made it occurs on a Sunday, Easter trade off between speed of tory (Le., the medications he to McGowan's we'd reached Day is the succeeding data entry and organization­ takes, what happened at our civilization again. We Sunday. The algorithm used al ability. In other words, if last encounter, etc.). This wound up heading to bed at is described in The Art of you have a database with a helps me remember a vast 1:30, Dublin time. Computer Programming, lot of sections for data entry, array of other details about Volume 1, Fundamental what you gain in sorting the patient. It's incredible Bill Childers Algorithms, by Donald E. ability and organization, the details you can remem­ [email protected] Knuth. The origins of the you lose in speed of data ber if you get just a few bits algorithm go back to 457 entry. The key for me was to of information about the pa­ A.D., and this version was sort by category, and then tient, and the palmtop helps. Haiku mistake described in the late 16th name. The categories are the It is almost as if the human I am a Japanese reader of century by Christopher hospital, ward in the hospi­ mind was designed to have The HP Palmtop Paper. I Clavius, a German Jesuit tal; and whether the patient a palmtop computer to help found a mistake in page 28 mathematician. is an inpatient or an outpa­ it work to its full capacity. of Vol. 7, Number 3,1998 My first thoughts were tient. For example, a record (the Computer HAIKU arti­ that a series of independent might have the following Daniel K. Levy, MD cle). The background picture equations would be re­ information in it: [email protected] of this page is a set of three quired, a cumbersome and Name: Doe, John Chinese Characters. They very inelegant approach. Category: General The use of the LET and GET A visit to John are upside down. It looks Hospital, 8 south functions, LC .. ) and GC .. ), to McGowan's pub strange for us. When I Note: OS / 22/98 looked at this page, I smiled. hide intermediate variables 45 year old male My wife and I made it to from the Solver list, was status post a GI Bleed. visit John McGowan's pub a Y oshihiro Kawabata important, but the most sig­ meds: Prilosec 20mg couple of weeks ago (see the Tokyo, Japan nificant feature of the equa­ QD, Atenolo150mg QD. Publican from Dublin arti­ tion list is that when a term Hx HTN. No Cardiac Risk cle, page 32, Nov / Dec 97 [Very sorry. We were try­ containing a LET function is Factors. Phone Number: issue). We had a great time, ing to be clever - guess it multiplied by zero, the 1-914-555-5555 and John certainly serves up showed we didn't succeed - resulting assignment is still When Mr. Doe is dis­ a great steak and a lovely Hal.] performed. There was the charged from the hospital, I pint 0' the dark stuff. An added advantage that each switch his category to "out­ excerpt is included below. patient." Since I've set See my web page of the trip (Continued on page 17)

2 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY/ AUGUST 1998 Th is section lists new products of 4. Mastered. PalDRAW 1.03 • VIEW File Reader . interest to users of the HP palmtop Mastery pulls the first PCs . New Products includes PalDRAW is a Draw/ CAD VIEW is a file viewing question from the Untried application specifically de­ utility that lets you view descriptions of hardware, software, box. If you answer it correct­ books, videos, training and service signed to work in HP 100/- and print files from your offerings. Prices listed in this sec­ ly, Mastery normally just 200LX palmtops. PalDRAW palmtop Pc. You can view tion are suggested retail. You may puts it in the Correct box. gives to the user an effective and print files in the follow­ be able to get the products for less if However, if you tell Mastery tool for drawing sketches (on ing formats: you shop around. that you have mastered the HP Palmtop Paper Staff the fly), schematics, and seri­ Wordperfect (5.0 to 7.0), question, Mastery will put it ous final designs in the HP Word for Windows (1.0 to in Box No. 4. If you miss the 100/200LX. 6.0, and 97), Word for DOS, question, Mastery puts it in PalDRAW supports DXF Ami Pro, Wordstar, SOFTWARE Box 3, the Incorrect box. and BMP file formats, and Windows Write, Windows Next, Mastery randomly Palmtop icons ICN. Notepad (which uses the picks a question from either This new version fixes ANSI character set), Ear Trainer Box 1, 2, or 3. minor bugs, contains lot of Microsoft Publisher, Rich A PC program designed to Most of the time Mastery Add-on's (a World map, a Text Format (RTF), ASCII help you improve your musi­ will go on to the next USA 50-states map, etc.) and files, ANSI files, UNIX files, cal ear. Runs on a HP 200LX Untried question, but nearly now it can be run on World Wide Web HTML or any desktop computer. as often she will pick a ques­ Desktop PCs. tagged files, ClarisWorks tion from the Incorrect box, (basic support only). Price: $9.95 (+$3 S/H) since those questions need Shareware U.S. $35. Contact: www.ilovemusic.com/ Web: wwW.geocities.com/-aroch VIEW lets you see a quick to be reviewed the most. preview of the first part of Once in a while Mastery will files. You can print or save LPAPROLOG pick a question from Box 2, StockChart • Professional all or part of the files the Correct box, since you New version (see last issue) viewed. You can print or LPA Prolog ("PROLOG- have not mastered it yet. makes it easier to manage a save to file only those lines 16") is an expressive and Mastery keeps asking ques­ list of stocks that you want containing or omitting spec­ powerful object-oriented tions until you have mas­ information on. It uses the HP ified text. programming system, tered all questions or until 200LX database to keep the VIEW allows you to which combines the best of you decide to quit studying. stock entries, a macro to gen­ search for text strings (both AI and OOPs. Based on the When you come back to the erate a list, and a processing case-sensiti ve and case­ 8-bit and 16-bit implementa­ lesson, you can continue program to generate the list insensitive), including tions of micro-PROLOG, where you left off. of URLs to access the data. across multiple files. You PROLOG-16 used a combi­ Shareware can also print or convert nation of incremental and Shareware Web: www.ilovemusic.com/ Web: www.leive.com/stkchart.zip files to ASCII, including in optimized compilation to provide interpreter-like flex­ ibility, but with the speed of compiled code. Now super­ seded by LPNs 32-bit NEW lIP 660LX Palmtop PC! HP's new 660LX Palmtop PC is their new, top-of-the-line Windows CE device. The 660LX is an improved Prologs, PROLOG-16 has 620Lx,. with a built-in 56.6Kbps modem, and 32MB of internal RAM memory (double the memory of most been released to the public color H/PCs). The 660LX is aimed at mobile professionals requiring faster access to their e-mail and the domain. It is ideal for HP Internet, and ample storage space for applications, data and images. Palmtops and other 16-bit To increase the usability and mobility of HP palmtop PCs, HP created the HP palmtop Asset Manager, DOS machines. and the mobile user's pack. The HP palmtop Asset Manager is a fully DMI-compliant software application that resides on the HP palmtop PC user's desktop or laptop. This program permits MIS managers to com­ Freeware plete such functions as upgrading software and taking asset inventory from a centralized location rather Web: www.lpa.co.uklindex.html than having to do so from each user's workstation. Additionally, for HP 620LX palmtop PC and HP 360LX palmtop PC users, HP offers a mobile user's pack, which includes a 33.6Kbps PC card/fax modem; HP's Mastery • exclusive VGA-out PC card; and software, including games and business programs. Helps you master any sub­ HP 660LX palmtop PC - $999 ject. It especially good for HP 620LX palmtop PC - $799 foreign language learning. HP Palmtop Asset Manager - freeware (available at HP Web site) You create your own study HP Mobile User's Pack - $199 questions. Mastery uses 4 HP palmtop PCs and the HP Mobile User's Pack are available through corporate resellers, including virtual filing boxes: 1. Un­ Ingram Micro and Merisel, as well as through such retail locations as CompUSA, Computer City and Office tried., 2. Correct, 3. Incorrect, Depot. For more information on where to buy HP palmtop PCs, click on "Where to Buy" at the HP hand­ held PC web site: www.hp.com/handheld.

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User to User: Websites, Software Updates - Lots of HP 200LX activity

By Hal Goldstein

shouldn't have been surprised. all of the software in Super Meg palmtops and less expensive I Putting together Super Software Software Carousel can be found on flash cards, Super Software Carousel meant visiting HP our 1998 CD InfoBase. However, to Carousel provides users the oppor­ Palmtop-related web sites and my surprise, much of it has been tunity to utilize this software pain­ keeping up with new and updated updated! In the Super Software lessly. palmtop software. My conclusion: Carousel discussion below, all the To this end, here are some high­ the HP 200LX continues to inspire software with Palmtop Paper ON lights of Super Software Carousel: DISK icons is new or has been incredible creativity, loyalty, and 1. Easy Installation updated since December, 1997! enthusiasm. We offer free installation of First of all, there is Mitch Super Software Carousel - Super Software Carousel, or you Hamm's S.U.P.E.R site located at is it necessary? can install it from the Super www.palmtop.net. Mitch tells us I saw this post on CompuServe Software Carousel CD. From the that hits to his site are actually up! CD you simply copy over a few This site is THE worldwide reposi­ by someone who had not examined Super Software Carousel: "you can directories (to your palmtop A tory of the latest Palmtop software. drive or C drive), run a batch file, New and updated software appears save some money by getting the normal version of Software and reboot. Super Software every few days. You'll also find Carousel is designed to fit "over" links and interesting articles and Carousel. The Super version seems to only add a bunch of shareware an existing installation. So in most tips such as those at www.palm­ cases, there will be little editing of top.netl -jorgenl tips.htm. and freeware programs, most of which you can download from here original system files even if you Your next stop should be David alread y use Software Carousel, Sargeant's HP200LX Site at http: / I or the Internet." Super Software Carousel is not EXM programs, or have another coyote.accessnv.coml davidsa/ hp I. sophisticated setup. Here you will find articles, reviews, just a bunch of downloads put editorials, and links concerning the together on a disk. It is a tightly 2. Easy to Learn HP Palmtop. It is an excellent site. integrated, self-sufficient package One of the greatest challenges One link brought me to Beverly, of the best that the palmtop com­ was to put together over 40 pieces of Howard's Kodak digital cameral munity has developed. independently written pieces of soft­ HP Palmtop page at http:/ lour Personally, I've used most of the ware, and have them easily access­ world.compuserve.com/home Super Software Carousel freeware able and intelligible without a steep pages Ibevhoward I BHTOP.HTM. and shareware before. However, I learning curve. We make this set up Another brought me to a site never had the time to really orga­ easy to learn and easy to use: with a utility that lets you call any nize it, integrate it, find the mini­ a) By creating two main Software DOS program or Software Carousel mum file space, and locate the latest Carousel sessions - Applications session with a hot key of your versions - and at the same time and Games each with an HOM . choice. See www.geocities.com/ make it all useable without resorting (MORE-like) menu with unique SiliconValley IPark/8287 I exmbat to storing tons of DOC files. icons for each app. CTRL 2 switches ch.html. I think most people, simply to applications, CTRL 3 to games. Mostly I kept coming back to don't have the time to get up to b) By asking Harry Konstas to www.palmtop.net trying to stay speed and use the tremendous modify his HOM program. When a current with updates of palmtop amount of quality palmtop soft­ program launches there is now software. Older versions of almost ware available. Now with 8 and 32 room for an optional 80-character

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;1";·A·-;;I.. maili§i'i(g;Mtl"'#l~~ programs to the HDM menus, or configure a new Software Carousel U J:f.?J ~ 'Hv r.-) HelP EILER DBVFast FiXDB UV View LHA session. We only include the neces­ Rea~ Me! Stereo Phonefik Garlic Webdocs Archive sary files for each program. [!; II Qj ~ ITA pc...... IOK!,!I1Z 110 PKZ ilO 51:I:0l'1f9 Sl:ltel1u~ IYIOil'l9 5. More And Complete Goodies Q.utLlne Archive Carousel Carousel Tut'or On CD ViQW Z~Q B~~~~T wtIx ~PI C!::2 The Super Software Carousel Docs 'friln5 fr HELP HELP 59'55 ion 51955 ion CD comes with quite a bit of addi­ 1ImIImI~~mmD!'IlIiImImImIill!iIiI!J~ilmIEimlim!m!lEll2miliDll tional software that you can easily Super Software Carousel Applications screen install into Super Software

: 1 i Carousel. Also, the CD contains the ...,. original archives for all software in !l.aCKII lboth ZIPPED and UNZIPPED for­ GAMESItO~ gamHllon JacK mat. In this format each program's 1~I.. "J rI1 (' $ ~ ~f a.. documentation is easily accessible. I I I:rlb- Domi ~ll:za Eree liO CO.s. 1"I0i

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6 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JULY/ AUGUST 1998 Dominoes . , Eliza (palmtop psy­ wanting Super Software Carousel Carousel 7 opening MORE whenev­ chotherapy), FreeCell . , Go, will need to do is upgrade since er it returns to any application in GoMoku, Golf . , Hearts, Klondike Software Carousel is included on System Manager_The problem with . , Mastermind, Mine100, 3 Music the Super Software Carousel CD the fix (as of this writing) is that medleys, 2 Tetris games, Qubic, and the upgrade also enables sever­ MORE (Application Manager) stays Reversi, Sokabin, 10 Solitaire al Super Software Carousel pro­ open (17K), it takes slightly longer games, Tiles, Worm, Yahtzee . , grams such as Chess to properly to switch, and the MORE screen DOS - DOS prompt, APPS - launch task switch. Some Software Carou­ flashes. Also, this newer version in 2nd applications session, MORE­ sel users may actually prefer their some cases reduces by 16K the max­ launch 2nd System manager session current version 6.8 through 6.92, imum size for a DOS session_ although I prefer the upgrade. (Included is a utility that "unfixes" c. Other goodies: Versions from 6.8 through 6.92 con­ the fix, saving the 17K)_ FILER.INI - lets 200LX users launch tain mostly relatively minor bug Software Carousel 7 comes with applications from associated files fixes. 7.0 does fix a potentially seri­ a completely rewritten manual by MOREEXM - Enables ZOOM and ous problem of data loss for users Palmtop Paper editor, Ed Keefe_ It allows extra EXM sessions that switch flash cards. contains a quick, get up and run­ ZOOM - Magnify-like product that The upgrade feature receiving ning tutorial, and a reference ses­ zooms built-in screens mixed reviews involves fixing what sion. Anyone who has worked with VCLOCK • - Large clock, timer we have called "Filer bug". Most the original should appreciate this_ CLIPVUE - Cut and paste between Software Carousel users have different Software Carousel sessions noticed that when switching to BUDDY - ready to install by remov­ FILER from another session, the Software Carousel- $79.95 ing a few REM statements screen gets garbled. The workaround Software Carousel Upgrades - $19.95. (Requires proof of purchase - photocopy of manual cover ANDREW3 • - more readable is to switch to another built-in appli­ or disk, or serial number from Software Carousel cation such as MORE or APPT and MENU program) 100/200LX fonts Super Software Carousel CD - (includes version 7.0 HDM • - DOS (MORE-like) menu come back to FILER. If you don't of Software CarouseL Cost: $79.95 if upgrading know about the problem or work­ from past version of Software Carousel, or $139.95. program Thaddeus Computing, 110 N . Court Software Carousel 7 around the bug can be disconcerting Fairfield, IA 52556 and eventually cause you to reboot. 515-472-6330; Fax: 515-472-1879 All Software Carousel users email: orders®thaddeus.com The fix involves Software www.thaddeus.com HP Polmto Those interested in participating in an HP Palmtop users group INDONESIA - CMs Wibisono: E-mail: [email protected] Oavid Hodges; E-mail: [email protected] should contact the following individuals. Send us contact informa· Dirk H. Eversbert, clo P.T. Austindo Mitralama, Mr. Elman Sunartio, JI. WEST INDIES - Ian Melville, c/o Frontline Marketing Agencies; Phone: 868· tion formatted as below ifyou wish to be added as a contact for a Gunung Sahari 2f6E, Jakarta 10610, INDONESIA. 642-5492; Fax:868-642·2021; E·mail: [email protected] users group in your area. Some of the individuals listed offer ITALY - Mr. Andrea Valdre; Tel: 39-6·87295.205; Fax: 39·6-87295·215; E­ Palmtop advice but may not be organizing an official users group. mail: [email protected];AlsoSelvatoreFiorenzo; Tel: 39-933-8120; Fax: United States 39-665-7295 AZ- Phoenix and Tuscon - Cory L. Cunis; Tel: 602-930-9661; Fax 602- HP Palmtop Worldwide User Group News JAPAN - Georg O. P. 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WWW/LX Plus: My Most-Used Application

This suite of four integrated applications turns the Palmtop PC into a communications pro!

By Conrad Cox

receive between 100 and 200 suite of four separate but integrated of the mail and news. Best of all, I email messages a day from applications that easily run on a 2 once downloaded, Newsgroups mailing lists, vendors, user megabyte 100LX or 200LX. Those and email messages can be read group members and friends. I also users with double-speed and / or without being tied to a phone line require the use of several large memory enhanced palmtops will or a desktop computer. address lists for user group mail­ retrieve local files a bit faster and NEWS/LX is tightly integrated ings. I manage it all using various store more messages. But whatever with POST /LX and works with folders, files, and mail filters in my the palmtop configuration, POST /LX to send and receive large, Windows 95 desktop-based WWW /LX Plus certainly fills the Newsgroup articles to any email client. I had a separate desk­ email bill for my needs. Newsgroup available on your host top application for reading and The main WWW /LX Plus com­ server or servers. I won't mention replying to Internet Newsgroups. ponents are: News/LX very much because it And while I did try a few email and WWW.EXE acts as a "TCP /IP operates in the background. But News clients on the palmtop, none layer" that manages the connection any work done to send or acquire satisfied me. to the ISP (Internet Service Pro­ Newsgroup articles is done by If I could manage mail on my vider) and the Internet. It comes NEWS/LX. palmtop, I could take the mail with with its own setup program and a HV.EXE is used in conjunction me. I resigned to the notion that no dozen scripts which makes config­ with WWW.EXE to view the World palmtop client would accomplish' uring WWW.EXE very easy. Cus­ Wide Web on the palmtop. It has what I need. I was wrong. tom scripts are easily fabricated. be.en upgraded to include HTML When D&A Software recently POST.EXE is the email "client" 3.0 specifications and supports FTP released version 2 of their email that sends and receives email. downloading. client WWW/LX Plus, I decided to POST.EXE is also responsible for Stefan Peichl's LXPIC is also try it. I'm happy I did because I the easy-to-use interface, which included with WWW /LX Plus. The replaced my Windows application offers multiple folders, filters and two programs work together like with something that runs very well much information about the status never before. More about this later. on my.palmtop. With it I can read and reply off-line to email and ABOUT THE AUTHOR Internet Newsgroups, and surf the World Wide Web to boot! Conrad Cox leads the San Francisco-based palmtop user's group called, The Society for Palmtop Advancement Through Meetings What is WWW/LX. Plus? (SPAM). He contributes to The HP Palmtop Paper and Mobilis Magazine. WWW / LX Plus is actually a You can contact him at [email protected].

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Test driving WWW/LX Plus j¥la"~·#fIiWj !i#i n .'.l.'I: .-I =t.Ii_ I downloaded the demonstration , Modem TYlJe I 0 1.'#/1M'6" @ PCMCIA O OmniGo I [Z] ~odem ~aud: . ~_~OO ·:::::::::: a version of WWW /LX Plus from D&A Software's World Wide Web [6~mtt':,n lcat ' ~~D ~~::~ ~~ ~ i~~~~ . ~~ 1 ~ ~~~~ : page (www.dasoft.com). The com­ bOg in : ! :¢:~ :¢:~ :~ :: ...... :::.:::::::::::::::::::::::::1 Pass~ord :1'.'.'*'.'.'• ...... , l.P : [g :: ;:::~r;:: :9 :: ;:: :Q ::::::: ·················:::::::::::::::::::::::::1 ...... pressed file contains three more DNS :[29".!::247 :247 :fiJ...! fil ter nate DNS :i?P.? :?9::?".!?:! 9 compressed files, one for each o la llng Scr llJ.1 : i ~fi ~ ~='?¢i"[j;i! -··-··----· a major component. (POST.EXE and NEWS.EXE share a compressed ~------. file.) I expanded the files onto my Screen 1: Configuring WWW.EXE involves providing IP and DNS information (available from your Internet Service Provider) and selecting a script. Palmtop's C: drive using PKUN­ ZIP.EXE as instructed in the accom­ panying Readme file. Mallbox/NewsgroulJ/Folder In New Head Out Send -'-tElectronlcMall ·· · ······ ··· · 16 ·· ·· 8D~ Using the fully functional demo HPLX Malllng Llst ········· ··· is a great way to see the program LJlndows CE Malllng Llst ·· · · ·· 171 ~ Ht ComlJ.sys.lJalmtolJs · ...... 631 ~ ~ .. alt.comlJ.sYs . lJalmtolJs.hlJ · ·· ······· · and read the documentation. The Ht ComlJ.sYs.Handhelds · ···· ···· · · ...... 259 ~ ~ -'-t ComlJ. os. Mag lc-CalJ ' ...... 9 -.J demo allows only 16kb of data trans­ LJ lndows CE · ...... LJeb Page Thlngs · ...... 3 fer before terminating the phone 1!;1!1,4HI§ii- 1 3 .. . UFltlng pro~e c t s ------...... - - 9 · - _. connection. I wish D&A would be a Auc t lons ' ...... Marketng ' ...... 16 . .. . little more generous in the amount of data transfer allowed. I realize D&A must protect its property and Screen 2: The PosVLX main screen: Everything the user needs to know about folders interest. However, many people like and mailbox can be found here. myself cannot fully appreciate the functionality until 200 messages hit my In Box. It wasn't until I regis­ may not correspond to your instal­ screen is divided into rows and tered the product that I could really lation. But don't edit the password. columns. One column describes the take it out for a test drive. That is encrypted to protect it from name of each mailbox, Newsgroup Registration is a simple matter of prying eyes. or folder. The other columns show providing D&A payment informa­ POST.EXE's setup file let me that mailbox's status. tion. In return, the user receives sim­ define my mail and news servers, Looking at Screen 2, you can see ple registration instructions. and the specific Newsgroups I like I've loaded several newsgroups and Since I wanted to test the email to visit. POST/LX version 1.0 users created several folders. The first row client first, I looked at POST.EXE may convert their message files to is my Electronic Mailbox. The first and WWW.EXE first. Each has its this newer version, a nice feature. column of that row has an up arrow own setup program (Screen 1). The setup program contains short and a down arrow. The up arrow Running the setup program but effective context-sensitive help indicates that the next time I go WWWSETUP.EXE let me add for most functions, making setup online Post/LX will send any email WWW /LX Plus to the Application fairly easy. I had to read the docu­ messages I've prepared to be sent. Manager (see Screen 1). The Setup mentation to make sense of the mail The down arrow indicates I want to program is pre-loaded with scripts filters. After some trial and error, all download any waiting messages on and network information for seven was well. (More about these filters the host mail server. Post/LX lets popular Internet Service Providers in a bit.) me decide for each mailbox or news group whether I will upload, down­ (ISP) including CompuServe, AT&T The POST/LX Application Network, IBM Network USA, and load, or do nothing. The Post/LX user main screen Telecom XTRA. There are sample I can also download message (see Screen 2) contains much infor­ setups for SLIP, PPP and direct seri­ headers. Notice that an "H" can be mation about the mailboxes, the alline connection. seen in two N ewsgroups. I find folders, and the messages they con­ My ISP supports PPP, so I high­ downloading only headers to be tain. It took me very little time to lighted that selection, pressed the + very handy when I want to review feel comfortable using the applica­ key, entered my ISP information a Newsgroup I haven't visited in a tion. The first things9 I noticed were and kept the default script. while. After headers are down­ several similarities to another off­ Information is saved in a WWW. loaded, I review them and mark line communications program I use CFG file. This file can be edited. which ones I want to download the for CompuServe - acCIS. The References to drives and directories next time I am online. Downloading

10 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY I AUGUST 1998 Subject sort is smart enough to ignore the "Re:" that appears in the subject line of most replies. This groups messages with the same subject together for easier contextu­ al reading. From the In or Out Box, press H ··J~n H~~~n~~el~ ~~~~~a~~~s:j~~:;:R:~ ~~~[~~~Oi;~o~l~; ~~S~Omer5 !!H -) Phi the ENTER key to view the high­ ~~~:lmI!EimIllIllli!lJl.:lmDl~IIiElI:.~~ lighted message. The message read­ Screen 3: The Post/LX In Box displays the email address. postmark date. and subject of er provides message information in each message in the In Box. The date can be toggled on and off. a status bar at the top of the mes­ sage. In Screen 4, the user is reading the In Box of the comp.os.magic-cap Zeformaf §r:t:.l'NI=~I~~1 ~'~""m~:;rs""M'ag i.e Cap (I nbox ) 100X/11 From : [email protected] (Ryan ALexander) Newsgroup. The reader window Subject: Construction Mode BLooper Date : Sun. 07 Jun 199B 14:21 :36 -0700 can be "zoomed" to small, medium, Just recentLy. I tried out consturction mode. but made a and large fonts to maximize read­ mistake. I accidentaLly made a button in the middle of the control panel screen. I have tried to remove the button. but ability in many lighting situations. failed. Anyone know how? RYan : A) One can just press the ENTER key to view a message. If the mes­ sage is longer than one screen, press the ENTER key again. At the mes­ Screen 4: The message reader lets the viewer see just what is needed. The user sage end, pressing ENTER moves defines what headers will be seen. the user to the next message. Navigation is easy and intuitive. Messages are by default auto­ headers saves time and disk space. tively. In addition to appearing on matically reformatted to fit the The right side of the screen the function keys, most functions palmtop screen. This makes reading shows me information about the can be activated by one or two key the messages easier using any font. number and types of messages in combination, and by the main If preferred, the formatting can be each area. Again referring to Screen menu which is activated by the turned off to view messages in their 2, I have 171 messages in the palmtop's menu key. "raw" state. Windows CE Mailing List folder, Message header information is 142 of which have not been read. The Ins and Outs of the In Box and Out Box suppressed by default; only the My Electronic Mail In Box contains From, Subject, and Date headers 16 messages, while my Out Box con­ The In Box and Out Box display, appear (see Screen 4). Entries in the tains a total of 80. The next time I go from left to right, the status, email POST.CFG file determine which online I will send 12 messages. D&A address, postmark date, and subject headers are displayed. If you want Software designed Post/LX with the of each message (see Screen 3). The all the headers, you can get 'em. I user in mind. Anytime there are date can be toggled on and off with prefer the sparse look. new messages to read or be sent, the a keystroke to create more room for Messages may be deleted from number is highlighted, telling thlj? the other columns. "Zooming" (Fn­ the screen individually by pressing user there is something to do. Space) from medium to small font the DELETE key. Deleted messages The program's most used func­ creates even more room. The status can be "undeleted" until the mes­ tions are placed on the function column tells the user a message is sage file is "packed" Packing keys. From anywhere, pressing F1 new (a small dot), is a header (H), removes any deleted messages from results in context sensitive help, and is to be downloaded (down a message file. By default, packing enough help to answer most ques­ arrow.) is done automatically whenever a tions. F2 composes a new message. I was surprised at the viewing file is closed. But automatic packing Rows can be relocated up or down option flexibility in the folders and can be turned off as a protective in the list by using F3 and F4. F5 in the In and Out Box. Pressing two measure against losing important activates WWW/LX and takes the keys displays a pop-up menu that information. One should occasion­ user online. F6 and F7 allow you to lets you sort the list by the TO: and ally pack the message files to con­ add or edit folders and news­ FROM: addresses, the date, or the serve disk space and increase file­ groups. And F9 and FlO open the subject. The message order can be handling efficiency. user's In Box and Out Box respec- reset to the original sort. The As one would expect, the user

THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY / AUGUST 1998 11 REVIEW: WWWILX Plus - My Most-Used Application may easily reply, forward, or edit ers looking for any possible the Subject: headers. Does this the viewed message. Message cre­ addresses. The addresses are dis­ mean I cannot send a blind copy or ation can be done in most any text played one by one so that the user courtesy copy? No! While address­ editor. For operating outside may verify whether to save the ing the message, I can press F2 to System Manager, I like PalEdit from address in the address list. If more add another header of my choice. I D&A Software. It is free for the than one address list exists, one can can also us F2 to add a stock block download and has a spelling check­ be selected before adding the of text, an attachment, or an addi­ er option. Inside the System Man­ addresses. I love this feature! tional signature. ager I use the built-in application When composing a message, the POST /LX's flexibility seems Memo. The documentation outlines address books may be opened and endless. the setup for both options. addresses selected. They are pasted into the header of your choice. The Going Online Multiple address lists address lists can also be used as a POST /LX and WWW /LX work Post/LX supports multiple ad­ mailing list, sending the same mes­ hand in hand to log onto your dress lists. This is one of the two sage to everyone in the address list. selected service provider. Once most important reasons I tried A few weeks ago I used this feature started, the online process is essen­ WWW /LX Plus. I had six mailing to send more than 200 messages to tially outside the hands of the user. lists made up of as many as 100 a list of members in our user group. Just sit back and relax. Should there names and email addresses each. The process worked perfectly. be any problem in retrieving or Because Post/LX's address lists are sending messages, Post/ LX's main pure text files, I easily converted my Templates save time screen will tell you there has been old mailing lists to pure text files. During the setup process I was an online error so you can correct They are now my address lists. able to create a template to be used the problem and start an online ses­ While viewing a message, the whenever I write a message. It con­ sion once more. user can type the letter A. POST /LX tains my default signature and the Each online session places a ses­ will scan the message and all head- To: (or Newsgroup), the From: and sion status message in the In Box

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12 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY I AUGUST 1998 for email and those Newsgroups The benefits are many. First and HTML file. I like having these visited. For email, the session notice foremost, using filters to remove options. Once you try HTML docu­ says how many messages were on mailing lists, marketing SP AM and mentation, you will not want to go the server, how many were down­ other identifiable messages reduces back to reading a simple text file. loaded, and how many could not be the number of personal email mes­ Do You Really Need a Web Browser downloaded. For Newsgroups, the sages. I can read and answer my message states the high message personal mail without having to sift on Your Palmtop? number, the number of news arti­ through other less important mail. It Well, do you? Before you cles on the server, and the number prioritizes my mail into organized answer, take a few minutes to con­ of articles downloaded. subjects and easy to handle bites. sider: The user can decide whether to • Most information on the World download binary files. Also, the Other Folders Wide Web is text. maximum size of binary and non­ POST /LX allows the user to cre­ • It takes a laptop computer min­ binary downloads are controlled by ate and name folders for storing mes­ utes to boot and longer to access the user via the Setup application. sages by subject. I created folders for the World Wide Web. By default, downloaded mail Windows eE, for the 200LX, for writ­ • Many say they would use the messages can be deleted from the ing projects, and more. When I web more as a resource if it were server. The user may elect to keep receive an email that I want to save easy to quickly get in and out. messages on the server by setting a for later, I can move it into one of Do those statements sound check box in the Setup application these folders for processing later. familiar? For myself, there have which will download messages but For example, I always seem to been times I'd like to quickly check keep them on the host server. run across interesting web address­ a URL mentioned in a magazine or es I'd like to explore. But reading email. But it takes too long to power Mail Filters mail on a commuter train doesn't up the Pentium. After my first message down­ allow me to start WWW /LX and My answer? Find a telephone, load, I had over 200 messages. surf the web. So I store mail con­ connect a cable from it to my palm­ Some mail was addressed to me taining those interesting URLs in a top, and go! This is the freedom I from people asking palmtop related folder called Web Stuff. The next have found using WWW/LX Plus's questions. Other messages were time I access the World Wide Web, I World Wide Web client, WWW/LX. from the Windows CE Mailing List open that folder and try those inter­ It lets me get into a site, get the infor­ ranting about battery life. These esting URLs. mation I need, and get back to work. represent an importance scale from Using folders saves time, saves Do I "surf" the web with "very" to "not at all." ideas, and helps me to manage my WWW /LX? Not often, although I Just like my Windows 95 mail electronic mail with "grace and ease." have in hotel rooms while traveling. client, POST /LX lets you create POST ILK Overall Impressions I also find it convenient to access what it calls "mail filters." my company's intranet when I need Essentially, mail filters can look at My first impression of the some corporate information. the header information of each WWW / LX Plus electronic mail and As with POST/LX, WWW /LX email. It looks for pre-defined key Newsgroups clients was surprising. relies on WWW.EXE for its connec­ words or phrases. If that phrase is How can my little DOS palmtop tion to the Internet. Once connect­ found, POST/LX routes that mes- accomplish all that it claims? After ed, the browser opens and informa­ sage to another folder. ' using POST/LX for over two tion gathering begins. Referring to Screen 2, you can months I am amazed. For me and The HTML viewer used in see I have a folder called" HPLX many other professionals, electronic WWW/LX is HV.EXE. It interprets Mailing List" And another called mail is the "killer app" that must and "paints" World Wide Web doc­ "Windows CE Mailing List." These work flawlessly day in and day out. uments on the Palmtop screen. The two lists have their own consistent It must be flexible and customiz­ program was first seen and signature. The HPLX mailing list able. POST/LX is all that, and it fits reviewed in The HP Palmtop Paper always has "hplx, in its headers, into my pocket! back in October, 1996. Since then the and the Windows CE list always The documentation for POST / program has been upgraded to sup­ has "windowsce." Using this infor­ LX is somewhat unusual. The help port HTML 3.0 specifications. GIF mation, I set up equations telling screens are the documentation. images can be viewed inline, sur­ POST /LX to move any messages Shipped with WWW /LX Plus is an rounded by text, while JPEG images with these signatures to their application that when run creates are supported via an external pro­ respective folders. either a traditional text file or an gram, LXPIC.

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After working with LXPIC very surprised at how quickly HV The Verdict author Stefan Peichl, D&A now downloads and displays most web WWW /LX Plus is the most used ships WWW/LX Plus with LXPIC. sites. Most sites can be viewed well. application on my palmtop. Period! Before this upgrade, I usually kept This is especially true if the sites are I especially like POST/LX. Because image viewing off to help speed text rich. of it, I have stopped using my desk­ downloads and viewing. Using HV.EXE places the most used top machine altogether for email. LXPIC with HV seems to have sped HV functions on the function keys. Now I can carry my correspon­ up the processing of GIF files, and I Help is always available by pressing dence with me. Whenever I have a now tend to leave images turned Fl. F2 will return the browser to the spare moment or two, I open the on. Image display may be toggled Home Page as designated in email client and do some work. on and off by the user. HV.CFG. Press F3 to edit the HTML D&A Software provides good HV supports FTP connections document currently on the screen. technical support through the directly. D&A offer other "helper" To find something in the current CompuServe HPHAND forum, via applications on their web site with­ HTML document, press F4. F5 email, and by telephone in emer­ out charge. I use their Telnet client opens the Hot List, essentially a list gencies. Their web site offers an to log on to my ISP shell account. of frequently visited sites, like often updated frequently asked WWW /LX also supports on line Netscape's Bookmarks. F6 is the questions (FAQ) file for review. forms. Back button, as is the escape key. F8 I strongly recommend WWW /­ HV is equipped with online help provides information about the cur­ LX Plus. It provides an excellent simply by pressing FI. rent document. F9 opens a new communication suite for the HP HTML document and FlO saves the IOOLX-200LX platform. HVSetup current document onto the palmtop. Before starting WWW.EXE, edit Although HV supports the the WWW.CFG file. In it there is viewing of frames, turning them on Commercial products reference to HV.EXE. Make sure the places table text into small cells. mentioned in this article drive and path of this entry match­ The cells must be selected individu­ WWW/LX Plus - available now for es your installation. If not, correct it. ally to be seen. But doing so hides purchase from D&A Software. Cost: Also run WWWSETUP.EXE to set the rest of the document. Not very US$ 89.00 ($30.00 to upgrade from a up your Internet provider informa­ helpful in my view. I like to keep previous version) Web: www.dasoft.com tion if you haven't already done so. the frames turned off. Next, edit the HV.CFG file. The I find myself using HV.EXE Also available directly from: Thaddeus Computing file is heavily annotated in D&A more than I ever thought I would. It 110 N. Court, Fairfield, IA 52556 style, meaning there are thorough is very handy to have while travel­ 515472 6330 fax: 515 472 1879 explanations for all entries. Of par­ ing and simple to set up and use. I email: [email protected] ticular importance is the entry for highly recommend it. www.thaddeus.com HV's "root" directory and the entry for the home page. The Root direc­ Memory Requirements tory should be the directory in for WWW/LX. Plus Projeet: Vision which HV resides. To load the entire WWW /LX The Home Page you select will Plus suite, plan on giving up about gives you be the page that is displayed when 500kb of storage space. Plan on using Planning In Your Palm for $99 HV first starts. Home Page can be a a bit more storage space for mail For HP 100/200 and O~S-based pes local file on the palmtop or a file on messages and folders. One megabyte the World Wide Web. I have creat­ users should consider loading mod­ Features Include: ed a local Home Page that acts as ules, as they are needed. Just • One Hour learning Curve • Uses 3001 with Max file size from 801 to 1 MEG my jumping off point. It contains WWW.EXE and POST.EXE require • logic Networks, Timelines, Resource Histograms many of my most frequented sites almost 200kb total, even less without • Critical Path, Milestones, Variable Zoom on the web. I can easily point to the the setup programs. • Mouse and keyboard operated for portability site I want to visit and press I have had good luck running • NEWI Export to lotus 1-2·3 WKS Files RETURN to move there. POST.EXE from within System Manager. I have a lot of TSRs Using HV.EXE Inmax Publishing Ltd. installed so I cannot successfully go 2673 Terrace Ave. North Vancouver Execute the WWW.EXE pro­ online. For me it is really no fuss to BC Canada V7R 1 B5 gram. After WWW.EXE makes a leave the System Manager to start connection, HV will start. I was Tel: 604·980·9991 the online process. Fax: 604·985·5597

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Email Just Got Easier (and FREE!) with palmtop.com

Use the built-in cc:Mail application to send and receive email - free of charge!

By Allen Solo! and Bill Childers

hanks to Martin Paul, the memory to store the messages that Interface: COM1 or COM2 T owner of palmtop. com, any­ you create and the ones you may (COM1 for external modem, one with an HP 100/200LX want to save. A 100LX/200LX with COM2 for PCMCIA) can send and receive email mes­ 1 MB of internal RAM can use this Flow Control: Hardware sages from the built-in cc:Mail system effectively. Modem File: d:\_dat\hayes.mdm application, free of charge. cc:Mail The HP 100/200LX User's Guide Modem Volume: Medium requires a special post office that explains clearly how to access the Phone Number: 1-408-541-1979 acts as a gateway for your email, features of cc:Mail, including an Dial Mode: Tone and this is the function of palm­ address book and sending/receiv­ Dial Timeout: 60 top.com. Recently Mr. Paul gener­ ing attachments. All you really Idle Timeout: 5 ously extended this service for free need to get started are the instruc­ Manual Dial: No to all HP palmtop PC users. (Also, tions to set up your account. These Max. Msg. Size: 0 there is an extended feature service are posted at the Espmail web page 3. Press Enter to Update the set­ available for a small one-time at www.palmtop.com. Espmail is tings. charge. See sidebar for details.) the company that offers the palm­ 4. Press F4 to Create a new mes­ There is one caveat: unless you top.com connection. sage and type the name POSTMAS­ live in the Sunnyvale, CA vicinity Setting up palmtop. com TER in the TO: field. In the SUB­ where 408 is a local call, you'll have JECT: field, type PALMTOP TRIAL. to bear a long distance charge to The setup instructions include a In the body of the message, include dial the number. The good news is screen of the 100 /200LX settings your name, company, mail address, that the total connect time is brief fields in cc:Mail and you'll see and telephone number. Also because downloading and upload­ exactly where to enter the necessary include your choice for your ing messages occurs automatically information. For those of you with­ Internet address in the following and immediately as soon as you out access to the Internet, follow format: [email protected] where connect, and the transfer speed is these instructions: alias is your choice with no spaces. fast (cc:Mail uses a binary format 1. Open cc:Mail (from MORE or Spaces can be replaced with a dot, compared to conventional email's ALT +1-2-3) and choose MENU I dash or underscore. ASCII format). Also the simplicity Connect I Settings and convenience this service affords 5. Press F-5 to store the message 2. Enter these parameters: for sending. may outweigh the few dollars per Host: palmtop. com month you'll spend on calls, espe­ Prefix: palmtop.com 6. Connect your modem and press cially for mobile users. Another Post Office: espmail F-10 (Connect), the palmtop. com advantage is the savings in disk User Name: your name host should be selected and press space. Since you are using a built-in Password: your password Alt+C to Connect. application you only need enough Baud: 9600 When you connect you will only

THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JULY / AUGUST 1998 15 HOW TO USE: palmtop. com

are already in the file. For the XJ3144 the new file would look like this with the added line shown first: Additional SETUP=AT &F&C1&D2&Sl&MWS95=0 SETUP=A TSO=OQOX4 palmtop. com services SETUP=ATS7=60S10=50 Save the file (in ASCII). Now By Martin Paul change the parameter in the Settings (Owner of palmtop.com) of cc:Mail (MENU I Connect I Settings I AL T + F) to the path and The palmtop. com service has been and will continue to be offered free name of your new file. Choose of charge. Those users who signed up for paid accounts have not been ALT+U to Update the Settings. charged since early 1997 because we had only a few dozen users and (Note: You can get a list of hundreds never set up a billing system. However, many users have expressed will­ of setup strings by modem make & ingness and even a desire to pay for the service, and recently there has model for cc:Mail at: ftp:/ /ftp.sup­ been a surge in new subscribers. port.1otus.com/ pub / comm/ ccmail We would like to offer enhancements to the service on a basis similar /modems/modems.zip.) to the shareware principle used by software vendors. You may continue • Using a calling card: You can to use the service free of charge, but you may also get additional support enter the calling card number and services if you contribute a one-time payment of $60 for a permanent sequence in the Phone Number set­ subscription. These additional services include POP3 access to your palm­ ting, typing commas (which tell the top.com mailbox, allowing you to use one of any popular POP3 programs modem to pause in its dialing on a PC, MAC, Windows CE or PalmPilot device from your local ISP's sequence) or other required sym­ connection. Other support options include domain name service, multiple bols, at the necessary places in your email addresses and multiple mailbox destinations. We will also offer dialing sequence. You may need to removal of oversized messages on request (we will automatically remove experiment to get the proper tim­ messages of 500k or more over 15 days old), and password change or ing. Also you may need to increase clear on request. the Dial Timeout setting to accom­ If you would like to contribute to palmtop. com and receive additional modate the longer dialing time. support and services, please send a check for $60 to: • Manual dialing a calling card: Martin Paul You can manually dial a calling c/o ESP Networks card sequence and then have the 536 Weddell Dr., Suite 1 100/200LX begin the email opera­ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 tions. You need to change the Phone: 408-744-9141 Manual Dial setting to Yes. When you are ready to place the call, press FlO (Connect) and the be able to send your message. The using may require a special setup 100/200LX will reset the modem next time you connect you will string to enable it to work properly and prepare for the connection. You receive an automated message from with cc:Mail. In such a case you will will then see a screen prompting Martin Paul welcoming you aboard. need to create a custom modem con­ you to dial the number. Dial all the This message also explains the for­ figuration file. For example, the necessary numbers in your se­ mat for addressing messages to oth­ Megahertz XJ3144 modem needs a quence and as soon as you hear the ers on the Internet. special setup string (this is men­ call ringing, press Enter on the tioned in the Megahertz manual). 100/200LX. If you wait until you palmtop.com tips The file 0: \ _DAT\Hayes.mdm is hear the carrier tone from the server • Increase speed: After your ini­ found on your HP 100/200LX. Open and then press Enter, the palmtop tial successful connection you can it in Memo or another text editor has trouble connecting. increase the baud rate, depending and immediately save it under on the speed of your modem. For another name (i.e., C: \ _DAT\ Users appreciate palmtop. com example, a Simple Technology 28.8 Xj3144.mdm). Then make the Many people are enjoying palm­ modem easily connected at 19200. changes to the copy by adding a top.com. One such person is Bill • Create custom configuration special SETUP string on the line Childers, who describes his experi­ file: The brand of modem you are preceding the two SETUP lines that ence with using palmtop.com to

16 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JULY / AUGUST 1998 Letters continued from p. 2 harness the potential of the cc:Mail a bounced email run back and forth from term could be developed normally, application. my mailbox to the sender. Good thing then when all is well, multiplied by "I use cc:Mail to read email as well I'm a backup system administrator for zero to inhibit the display of the vari­ as newsgroup messages on the road. I them! But since my system has been up ables used in that term. can do this by filtering and forwarding and running smoothly, I have enjoyed The output date format is M.DDYYYY with the calculator set to all my mail from my main POP email having the ability to read all my email FIX 6 mode. This format is suitable for account to palmtop.com, using UNIX and newsgroup messages in the palm of plotting Easter over, say, a 100-year commands, and then reading it in my hand, wherever I am. If any HP interval. Try XMIN = 1900, XMAX = cc:Mail on my HP 200LX. This is basi­ Palmtop Paper readers have a UNIX 2000, YMIN = 3.20 (20th of March), cally how it works: my main email shell account and would like to try this, YMAX = 4.30 (30th of April), and RES = address is a shell account (an account feel free to email me if you have any 100. The date of Easter Day varies from offered by many Internet Service questions. Also, there are excellent March 22nd to April 25th. The latter Providers that offers access through sources on the Web that explain date is also ANZAC Day, a public holi­ UNIX commands), childers@garlic. Procmail and other mail filtering tech­ day of remembrance in Australia and com. My cc:Mail address is childers@ niques." New Zealand, recognizing the sacrifice palmtop.com, with a "reply-to" address of soldiers at Gallipoli during the First World War. of [email protected]. So all my Another satisfied palmtop.com user is Tom Jones, who writes: The Solver equation (Easter.eqn • for incoming mail and newsgroup mes­ the date of Easter Day is: sages arrive at my main email account. "First oif, your service is a godsend. Automatically the UNIX mail process­ Using the built-in cc:Mail application Sunday = 0 * L(Y,IP(Year» + 0 * L(G,MOD(G(Y),19) ing utility called Procmail filters this for email is ideal in so many ways: 1. Setup is a breeze, especially com­ +1)+ 0 * L(C,IP(G(Y) / lOO) shell account at garlic.com and for­ +1)+ 0 * L(X,IP(3*G(C) / 4) wards all the messages I have specified pared to the various POP mail solu­ tions available for the 100/200LX. -12)+ 0 * L(Z,IP«8*G(C) to palmtop.com. Procmail can sort +5)/25)-5)+ 0 * L(D,IP(S 2. It doesn't eat up 500-1000 Kb of incoming mail according to sender, sub­ *G(Y) / 4)-G(X)-1 0)+ 0 ject line, length of message, keywords, disk space, always an important issue, * L(E,MOD(11 *G(G) etc. Please see the Procmail FAQ at even with 5 & 6 MB expanded palmtops. +20+G(Z)-G(X),30»+ 0 www.ling.helsinki·fi/-reriksso/proc 3. The interface of the cc:Mail is so * L(El,IF(G(E)

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Through the Looking Glass: Running a College Department on a Palmtop PC

In and out of the classroom, this professor keeps track of students, classes, and the rest of his life with the HP PalmtoplpC.

By Ed Keefe

It Seems Like Only Yesterday... to test programming projects. HP­ umn. It reminded me that every Actually, the year was 1983. It IL cards and cords let me transfer time I looked at the shiny screen of was the era of the HP-41 and HP-75 data between the HP 110 and one of the HP lID, it was like going handhelds. The IBM-PC was a year the computers in the lab. I even through a mirror into a different old. PC-DOS 2.0 had just been took the laptop into the classroom world. Little did I realize that released and the HP 110 portable and forced it to display text on a "TLG" would become one of the was one of the first laptops to hit 25" black and white TV monitor. I longest running columns in the the market. thought I was the only kid on the computer-publishing business. I For me, it was the end of one block with such a neat toy. It was had no idea that it was also the start career and the start of a new one. For fun but also kind of lonely. of a long-term friendship with Hal and Rita Goldstein, the publishers 12 years I had been a member of the Through the Looking Glass support staff and part-time math, ofTPP. In 1985, a letter from a new pub­ logic, and programming instructor A New Position and a Palmtop at the local community college in lishing company in Fairfield, Iowa Ankeny, Iowa, near Des Moines. convinced me I was not alone. The It seems like only yesterday that The college had just acquired 24 letter invited me to become a char­ the era of the HP 110 and the HP IBM-PCs and suddenly realized ter-subscriber to The HP Portable Portable Plus came to an end. they needed a full-time person to Paper, a newsletter for HP 110 Actually, it was 1991. It was the year develop and teach PC courses. I users. I replied "thanks, but no to end one career and start another. applied for the position and lugged thanks: I already know enough Perhaps because the Portable my 9-pound HP laptop to the job about the HP lID." Hal Goldstein, Plus made me appear more orga­ interview. During the two-hour the publisher, countered with an nized than I was, I was handed a interview the laptop got most of the invitation to write a column for the real challenge. One of the college's attention: I got the job. (It's hard to newsletter. I accepted and chose five campuses had just announced imagine, but only one of the five "Through the Looking Glass" as a an evening curriculum in Computer computer teachers who interviewed tongue-in-cheek title for the col- Science. My assignment was to me that day had ever seen an elec­ tronic spreadsheet.) ABOUT THE AUTHOR The rugged HP 110 became my A long time contributor to Hewlett-Packard Handheld sup­ main teaching tool. I developed port publications, Ed Keefe is an author, editor, program­ mer, computer science instructor, and part-time consultant course outlines with its built-in in the computer industry. He is also the editor of the book MemoWriter and tracked student PC In Your Pocket: Information When You Need It. In August, progress with Lotus 1-2-3. I he will take over as editor of The HP Palmtop Paper. Ed can be installed Turbo Pascal and BASIC reached at [email protected]

20 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JULY / AUGUST 1998 bring the campus up to speed and PC that could fit in a pocket. It used The Palmtops Met the Challenge ... get all the PC courses up and run­ MS-DOS 5.0 and could run almost For the first five years, I relied ning. The downside was that there any DOS program that worked on a solely on the HP 95LX, the HP was no money in the budget for an PC/XT. System Manager was a 100LX and the HP 200LX as my office computer: there never was for quantum leap beyond the version "office computer." Together we the first five years. in the HP 95LX. Solver was still on grew a department that went from About the same time, HP an­ board as was Lotus 1-2-3 and these 24 IBM PS/2 model 25s and one nounced the HP 95LX, a palmtop two number crunching programs instructor, to 120 Pentium PC's, a organizer with Lotus 1-2-3. Hal were tied together. The Phone Book Novell network, two full-time and Goldstein called and offered to lend and Appointment Book were better ten part-time instructors serving me one of these tiny machines to than anything I'd seen on a desk­ more than 300 students a semester. see if I'd continue writing the top. There was even a customizable So how did the Palmtops do all "Through the Looking Glass" col­ database program that soon became that? umn for The HP Palmtop Paper. I the repository for almost everything replied "thanks, but no thanks: I'd I knew about computing. It was Let Me Count the Ways ... go blind looking at a small screen great to have accurate information Appointments and ToDo's: The and probably suffer writer's cramp in the palm of my hand rather than Appointment Book has been the from typing on a tiny keyboard." to try keeping it all in my head. most frequently used application on Hal sent me the palmtop anyway. I The HP 100LX went with me my Palmtop. Every semester begins soon realized that the HP 95LX wherever I went. It was at my side with me entering repeating ap­ could do everything the HP when I debugged students' pro­ pointments for each of the five cours­ Portable did and more! I massaged grams. I could look at computer es that I teach. Every class has an my Lotus 1-2-3 grade book to fit the code that worked before I got lost in alarm that plays Reveille 15 minutes smaller screen of the HP 95LX, a maze of code that didn't work. before the class meets. It reminds me transferred my class notes from The Palmtop was on the table at to stop schmoozing with staff and MemoWriter to Memo, started department meetings where it students and get back to work. playing with System Manager served as a note-taker and time­ Like most users, I saw my macros, and got Turbo Pascal wok­ keeper. Whenever there was a ques­ Appointment Book and To Do list ing on this tiny platform, Then I tion about the date and time of a grow to alarming proportions along discovered HP Calc and Solver. I college event, the 100LX always had with an ever-increasing guilt-com­ was hooked. HP Calc helped with the last word. It could easily plex for not doing what I "should" budget analysis and Solver practi­ remember what mere mortals were have done. Those undone ToDo's cally made "lease vs. buy" deci­ prone to forget. kept nagging at me until I relegated sions for us. Within a month I began referring to the Palmtop as my "plastic brain." New! Link-A-Printer II In my spare time I used the HP 95LX to write articles for The HP Smaller size & Attached cable Palmtop Paper, create a Game Pack Link-A-Printer II is a serial to parallel converter and a utility program called Multi­ that allows direct printing from your OmniGo Macro Manager. The 95LX also 1 100 to any parallel printer. It also works with the served as the test platform for the HP 100/200LX. first few Subscribers Powerdisks. $79 A New Palmtop It seems like only yesterday Link-A-Printer II has a built-in connectivity cable that plugs into your OmniGo (actually it was 1993) that Hal 100 Since it does not require batteries or extra cable Link-A-Printer II is simple and easy to use. called again to tell me he was send­ ing me an HP 100LX palmtop to try out. My response was "thanks, but Also Available link-A-Printer I no thanks: 1'd definitely go blind Requires connectivity cable and optional battery Features auto from squinting at the small charac­ on/off fixed 9600 baud. $59 ters on the screen." Hal sent the ~reenwich Instruments LTD 100LX anyway and within a week I Tel: 704-875-8490 European Distributor GRIINWICH Fax: 704-875-2801 Tel: 011-44-181-302-4931 was hooked again. Here was a real INSTIIUMlNJS lISA Toll Free: 800-476-4070 Fax: 011-44-181-302-4933

THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JULY / AUGUST 1998 21 REVI!W: Through The Looking Glass them to a NoteTaker file that I called MORETODO.NDB. I guess some ToDo's really aren't worth Notes in Repeating Appointments doing. Some of the items in that file go back to 1993! When I occasional­ The Palmtop's Appointment Book is great at reminding us how to ly look at that NoteTaker file, I feel spend our time. It's also useful as a "diary" reminding us how we spent mild regret but no more guilt! I'm our time. After each appointment, it only takes a few moments to press also pleased that the Appointment the F3 (Note) key, type in a couple of lines about what happened and Book is a lot faster than it used to press the FlO (OK) key to return to the Appointments screen. However, be, even if I am not. with repeating appointments, be careful: the "Repeating Item Edit" box After each class, especially if I will let you post your note for "One occurrence" or for "All occurrences introduce something new, I use the in the Range". If you hit the "A" key by mistake and then press (OK). or Appointment Book's note field to Enter, you'll post your note all over the place. If the note s.ays something remind myself what went right and, like "this class was a disaster", it can be very disconcertmg to see that what "needs more work." (That's message every time you open the Not~ field. The fix is simple: just edit educationese for "what got messed the word "disaster" to "winner" and save the note to All occurrences. up.") This semester, the note fields The Palmtop As a Scheduling Tool are full of what needs more work: Inquiring minds might want to know how I used the Appo~tm~nt namely MS Visual C++ 5.0. With all Book and 1-2-3 to do room scheduling. If so, I refer you to the QUIck TIpS it's buttons, tool bars and menus, article in this issue. Therein you'll see how to use the Smart Clips feature the screen is way too "busy" for in the Appointment Book along with the Data Parsing a~d Data .S~rting beginners. I still prefer Borland C++ capabilities of 1-2-3 to manipulate dates, times and locations. ThIS IS the 2.0 on the Palmtop. Sure, BC2.0 tastiest thing to come out of an otherwise tasteless episode in my career. can't handle nor can it I'm trying hard to forget the "political side" of the battle over who got throw and catch exceptions, but which computer lab at what time. then neither can most novice pro­ grammers. However, I can see more BC++ 2.0 on a 32 Meg. Double Speed Palmtop computer code on the screen of my For me, one of the benefits of a double speed Palmtop with 32 Palmtop than I can in the editing Megabytes of RAM, is that I can now create programs u.sing the fU,1l window of Visual C++. Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that comes WIth Borland s When ToDo's get done, I check C++ version 2.0. The IDE has its own editor and allows me to open con­ them off. At the end of the year, I text-sensitive help at the touch of a key. It also let's me execute a pro­ retrieve them all and use Smart Clip gram one instruction at a time and set watches on a program's variab.les. to export them to a database where I tried using the IDE prior to the doublespeed upgrade but d.ecIded they get sorted, categorized and that it was an exercise in frustration. It was way too slow. WIth the printed just in time for my annual upgrade, the performance of the IDE is more than acceptable. As a test, I performance review. There's noth­ compiled and linked a project consisting of a dozen files of C++ code a~d ing like putting ten pages of "accom­ countless header files on an HP 100LX with 1 Megabyte of RAM. WIth plishments" in a personnel folder. the IDE and C++ files on a flash card, the process took over 7 minutes. No one will ever read those pages, On the upgraded 200LX, with the IDE and C++ files installed on the but the folder sure makes an impres­ faster C: \ drive, the whole process took two and a half minutes. sive thud when it hits the desk. I've compiled and linked a test program that simulates an elevator Lotus 1-2-3: Nowadays the system in an office building (12 files in all) in under a minute; all from world runs on Windows and the within the Integrated Development Environment of Borland C++ 2.0. I'd most popular spreadsheet is Excel. I tried doing this a couple of years ago, but the time it took for the IDE to still rely on the Palmtop's Lotus 1-2- get out of the way and for the compiler and linker. to run ,:"as excessive. I 3 to keep accurate, up-to-date learned to use MAKE along with the command lme verSIOns of BC and records of all my students. My LINK. Even there, compile and link times were nothing to rave about. automated gradebook has never Now with the double speed upgrade, the development times are as good failed me in more than seven years. as anything you might get on a 286 computer. I just wish that the If a student wants to know what his Palmtop could be upgraded to a 486 or Pentium. That would let me use or her current grade is, I can show BC 3.1 which is larger but faster and closer to the new ANSI standards. them a complete record of their progress in less than 15 seconds. Try beating that time using Excel on

22 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JULY/AUGUST 1998 a desktop computer! and the first week of Data 318, and than 40 years ago that IBM created Room scheduling: The five com­ we cover 00 Analysis and Design the first "high-Ievel" computer lan­ puter labs on campus are no longer in the third and following weeks of guage, Fortran. This "formula trans­ the private turf of the Computer Data 382. lating" language let scientists and Science department. Students and Memo, et al.: Every instructor engineers use a computer to get instructors in Accounting, Office knows that no course is complete accurate solutions to their math Management, English, Math, Nur­ without a dozen or more handouts. problems. Today HP Solver does the sing, and Biology also need to use And I'll admit that my extensive same thing but for a fraction of the them. handouts have decimated a forest cost and effort. For me, Solver has We could have had an even or two, but I blame it all on the vari­ served as a quick way to check if the worse turf-war if it weren't for ous editors and word processors I math parts of a C++ or COBOL pro­ Lotus 1-2-3. It did yeoman's duty as have in my Palmtop. It's just too gram are producing accurate a room scheduler. I used the darned easy to use Memo, VDE, results. I've often wished that Solver spreadsheet along with several Qedit, or PalEdit to key in a few could translate its code to C++. That Appointment Book files to resolve ideas that probably should have would have made some program­ conflicts and keep the quarreling been forgotten. Such "notes" tend ming tasks almost too easy, and def­ mob at bay. How my Palmtop and I to grow to full-fledged documents, initely a lot more fun. did this is truly a war story. I may migrate to a desktop computer for Programming: It comes as a sur­ write about it someday after the formatting and printing and from prise to some people that the HP battle wounds have healed. there wind their way to the publica­ Palmtop has seven built-in pro­ Phonebook: I often hear of peo­ tion center where they devour gramming languages: DOS batch ple whose Phonebooks have 500 or another tree. Eventually those notes language, Debug, System Macros, more entries. That always impress­ wind up in students' hands. Doskey macros, Lotus macros, es me! My Phonebook is puny by Sometimes they even get inside a Solver equations and the database comparison: only about 100 entries. student's head. subset language (SSL). However, There used to be more entries when HP Calc and Solver: It was more for a programming instructor that's I kept track of all the people who called looking for part-time work. The number of want-to-be instruc­ Where there's a DoubleSlof ~ there's away ... tors has dropped drastically in the To use 2 PC Cards at the same time - even copy files between Cards past year as the number of comput­ To run multiple PC Card products - SRAM, er-related jobs has dramatically fax/modem, memory cards, etc. increased. If you know of anyone To connect Type I, II and III Cards - even a looking for a part-time computer Type II and III at the same time science teaching job in Des Moines, lA, have them send me email. If To externally power PCMCIA Cards - for those power hungry PCMCIA peripherals nothing else, you'll help me get more use from my PhoneBook. To run ATA flash cards and hard drives - Database and NoteTaker: My like the notebooks can! primary use for the Palmtop's data­ DoubleSlot, PCMCIA Slot Expander - base has been a repository of infor­ reaching new heights of performance for your HP Palmtop. mation about such topics as DOS: Windows, C++, and Assembler. I . Add the Travel FloppyTM to your Palmtop ... also have Database and NoteTaker World's smallest 3.5" floppy drive files packed full of such things as PCMCIA, type II compatible course outlines, syllabi, course com­ For Palmtops or other DOS/Windows petencies, and all the esoteric com­ computers mands to access the college's main­ frame database. With this informa­ Use it to transfer files, archive, or run programs directly from disk tion at my fingertips, I can answer a question such as "When do you Portable like your Palmtop - goes anywhere teach object oriented technology?" Uses inexpensive 1.44 Mb or nOK diskettes quickly and correctly. Just in case you're wondering, we introduce -=-A r.r.l"'f7'I 'J'~~® 48460 Lakeview Blvd, Fremont, CA 94538-6532 - HI _= _: In: : 1'1 (510) 668-4900 FAX: (510) 668-4905 OOP in the tenth week of Data 310 T - E C ------H N 0 LOG 1 E SIN C. [email protected] http://www.accurite.com

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not enough. Over the years I've These are a few of my that the college's board of directors used the HP Palmtops to develop favorite things... made several of us "old-timers" an programs in Pascal, Assembler, Utility Programs: When I'm at offer of early retirement. The buy­ C/C++, Forth, BASIC, APL, home, the Palmtop is connected to out package was unequalled in the COBOL, Lisp, Logo, Scheme, TIPI, my HP desktop. I can tap a few keys field of higher education. All of us and LXBatch. It's the only computer on the desktop's keyboard and run are addicted to teaching and will that will let me crash and recover in HP Calc or call up a database on the probably suffer severe withdrawal under half a minute. I suspect that Palmtop. The program that lets me pains. Nonetheless we all took the the most frequently used keys on do this is Craig Payne's REMKEY. offer. My last college class will be on my Palmtop are Ctrl-Shift-On. The Eric Meyer's ZIP program han­ August 13, 1998. "school-of-hard-crashes" has taught dles all my file transfers and back­ My Palmtop's ToDo list now has me the value of backups. Yet, for ups and Software Carousel lets me a new entry. As of this writing it more than seven years and thou­ swap System Manager for one of looks like this: "15 +100 days left" sands of crashes, I've never had to three DOS sessions on the Palmtop. The "15" is in the priority field so use any of those backups to restore For example, when developing an that I can decrease it with each the Palmtop. LXBatch program, I can use one passing day. If I forget to highlight The Quest for a Presentation DOS session for writing the pro­ the priority field and press the Program: For the past 7 years, I've gram with PalEdit, another session minus key, I can use the Date appli­ searched far and wide for the perfect for testing the code, a third DOS ses­ cation in HP Calc to calculate the presentation program for the sion for looking at LXBatch's help exact number of days remaining. Palmtop. What I want is an outliner file, and the System Manager ses­ The Start of a New Career that can collapse and expand topics sion to check if the program will run at the touch of a key. The program under Filer and/ or App Manager. Just this past week Hal Gold­ must work as efficiently as Gilles Other utility programs that stein called again. He wanted to Kohl's Vertical Reader. It must be make computing easier include send me a double speed HP 200LX able to use fonts as LARGE as those Toddy . , a better version of the with 32 Megs of memory. My initial in the shareware "20-20" editor and it Doskey macro program, Jinifont . , response was "thanks, but no must run on the Palmtop. So far, the which makes the Palmtop a lot thanks: I won't need all that extra combination of Andreas Garzotto's more readable, and Stereo Shell . , a memory when I retire from teach­ Hypertext Viewer and PalEdit come fancier version of Filer that works ing." His reply was "oh yes you close. Hot-links to other parts of an well in DOS. will. I want you to edit The HP HTML document can emulate col­ Palmtop Paper." My immediate lapsing and expanding an outline, And In My Spare Time ... reply was "Sure!" (How could I but the fonts need to be larger than The Palmtop Paper: During the turn down 32 Megs of memory?). HV . can currently handle. past seven years, my time away So, on August 14, 1998, I'll come out from the classroom, has been busy of retirement and start a new career. Take A College Course on the Road with writing more than 40 articles I'm looking forward to the chal­ And, speaking of HV, here's and a book, PC In Your Pocket, for lenge. It will let me continue to another valuable use of the Palmtop: Thaddeus Computing. My sum­ share my enthusiasm for the HP take a college course on the road. mers have been filled with less of a Palmtop and all the neat things In the past couple of years, I've classload but more of a challenge, we've done and still can do with it. enrolled in a couple of courses collecting, testing and documenting Until next time, Happy Porting. offered on the World Wide Web. software for a half a dozen The great thing about such courses Subscribers Powerdisks. is that the texts are available in HTML format. As long as the texts A New Use for the ToDo List: Let me count the days! don't use Java scripts they can be read on the Palmtop. Better yet, The End of a Career they can go on vacation with you. If After seven years of working a meal spent talking business is four days a week, often from lOAM called a "power lunch", could a to lOPM, eating two meals a day vacation with a Palmtop be called a from brown paper bags, fighting "power trip"? seven ''budget battles", and winning two, I was beginning to show signs of wear and tear. It was at this point

24 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JULY / AUGUST 1998 OW TO USE YOUR PALMTOP USER PROFILE

Work Hard, Play Hard with My lIP Palmtop

Whether he's test driving sports cars, or roaring through a European Road Rally, this engineer stays in tune and in touch with his HP Palmtop.

By Gottfried Burckhardt

y computer life began while tant information, organizing ap­ not as useful as expected. Then I dis­ M being at the university in pointments and, most importantly, covered that EXP had just intro­ Stuttgart when I bought my helping me stay in touch with the duced their 8 MB modem/ memory first computer, a Sinclair ZX80. This world. My typical work day includes combo card. Some bucks later I Was was followed by the Sinclair routine work, meetings with cus­ online with my new card. What a Spectrum, then a short affair with tomers, test driving all kinds of cars, difference! Palmi was transformed the powerful but non-mobile ATARI maintenance work on the office com­ into a power machine. No more Sn040, and then the Toshiba nooo puters, writing reports, supervising memory problems and no more (the first affordable laptop comput­ the workshop, dealing with suppli­ need for that bulky external modem. er). I discovered very early on that ers, and more. I keep Palmi with me Unfortunately, the 8 MB of one of the things I needed most in a wherever I go, in my trouser pocket, memory on the EXP card did not computer was transportability. I ready to pull out when I need last long, and I was one of the first upgraded my laptops and notebooks answers fast. And if I have some in Germany to opt for the internalS very frequently. Every new system time free, I read my e-mail and tag MB and double-speed upgrade on was better than the system before, the messages I want to reply to. my Palmtop (more on this later). but there was always a big gap The extra memory didn't last long, Pumping up Palmi's performance between reality and my desires. and again, I upgraded to 8 MB of Then Hewlett-Packard intro­ When Palmi came into my life he internal memory and a 20 MB duced the 95LX, followed shortly was a standard 2 MB 200LX. It took SanDisk ATA Flash card. To this I by its 100LX. I was impressed with me about two weeks to realize that added an IODA T A 20 MB mo­ the latter, but still did not see the Palmi's usefulness was limited by dem/ memory combo card (normal­ advantage of such a small and high­ the bulky external modem I used ly available only in Japan) and a priced CGA computer. Fortunatel)!" and by the limited file storage space TransDigital parallel port card. a good friend of mine (Steffen on C: drive. I managed to run an old Finally I had a platform that ran all Demuth) took the time to show me version of CIM (a CompuServe the software I wanted to run, with­ the capabilities of his 100LX. I access program), but I needed more. out those countless card swaps. decided to wait until the HP 200LX I had almost decided that the What exactly did I run? was launched before I finally pur­ 200LX was a nice little gadget, but chased my first HP palmtop, a German-language version of the newly available 2MB HP 200LX - ABOUT THE AUTHOR my "Palmi". Gottfried Burckhardt was born in Stuttgart, the capital of the "Wild South" of Germany and well known as the home of A "brain assistant" Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. He works as engineer in the R&D center of a leading sports car manufacturer and is involved with Over the years Palmi has taken vehicle validation and testing. He is a regular participant at HP on the role of an assistant for my Palmtop user meetings around Germany and on CompuServe's brain by keeping records of impor- HPHAND forum.

THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY / AUGUST 1998 25 HOW TO USE: Work Hard, Play Hard - With My Palmtop

My most important "blue-key" f~6: ~) ['8~ereich Kopi e Uersetz Trans~er Output Gra~ik Daten ~ s ~ dPO~-1P1~u en Loschen S alte Radieren Titel Fenster ParaM N. Se1¥e ~~~N~~de The tasks I have to accomplish Kitten - Fahrtenbuch on a day-to-day basis require the Uct um krn t o t o k m n t~r VQ A 2t2°0~ ~ ~O$ t~n £:U$ oh:k. D urc h , !=t!n. ~ emer k un~en capabilities of one built-in applica­ 3093 431.49 7.12 31.12.97 199270 Q e k Q u ~t tion above all others - Lotus 1-2-3. 31.12.97 199460 190 16.45 26.80 1 5.95 8.66 03.01 .98 199798 338 21 .86 37.01 6.47 13.01 .98 200154 356 22.24 36.01 19.50 6.25 For example, frequently I have to 25.01 .98 200487 333 25.66 39.75 7.71 29.01 .98 200850 363 24.34 39.65 14.70 6.71 calculate the fuel consumption of a 04.02.98 201215 365 27.06 43.70 7.41 09.02.98 201 607 392 27.46 45 01 22.60 7.01 test car dependent on the wear on 13.02.98 201 995 388 26.85 6.92 17.02.98 202363 368 28.38 4 ~g 61 I 7.71 the tires. I've used Lotus to create a KITTEN.WKJ. spreadsheet containing all the for­ Screen 1: The IMPRESS add-on to Lotus 1-2-3, V 2.2 adds a number of useful features to mulas needed to do this. All I have Lotus. Note the very different look of the spreadsheet when using IMPRESS. to do is enter the data and the spreadsheet gives me the results Unfortunately, some of my 1,-2-3 version 2.4. I had enough automatically. Every time I enter a spreadsheets have grown so large memory in the DOS session to run new record into that spreadsheet I that the built-in version of Lotus, the full version of 1-2-3, but the have to set the corresponding date with its limitations on file size, WYSIWYG module that comes with for that entry. Fortunately, Lotus 1- could no longer load them. That version 2.4 doesn't work on the 2-3's macro capability lets me auto­ problem, and the fact that I some­ CGA screen of the Palmtop - bad mate that, also. (Take a look at the times missed the ability to print out news! I skipped using the full ver­ Lotus macro I use for this in the a graph from within a spreadsheet, sion of Lotus V2.4 and complained sidebar below.) prompted me to figure out a way to to anyone who would listen. expand Palmi's capabilities once Then I remembered the good old more. My solution was to run a full days when I used Lotus 1-2-3 ver­ Lotus macros copy of Lotus 1-2-3 version 2.2 on sion 2.2 with an add-on called my 200LX, along with a Lotus add­ IMPRESS. This outstanding piece of speed date and on named IMPRESS. I accom­ software added a number of useful plished this using another 200LX features to Lotus, including the data entry program called Software Carousel. ability to print graphs from within a spreadsheet, change complete cell To make the process of using Twelve Palmtops in one! ranges in one go, change the style of the spreadsheet that calculates Software Carousel is a task­ any cell separately, add a grid to fuel consumption, I have created switching program designed for your worksheet, alter the cell height the following Lotus macro, DOS-based computers and opti­ in a row, and change the size of the which enters the current date mized for the HP Palmtop. It lets characters within any cell. A couple every time the spreadsheet is you open up to twelve different of days and several system crashes started. "sessions" and quickly swap be­ later I was up and running with \0 tween them. For example, you could V2.2. (Note: Palmi crashed several {let b3;@today} have Appointment Book, Phone­ times, needing cold reboots as a loop (blank key)­ Book and Note Taker open in one result of some compatibility issues (get key)- session, a large DOS program open between IMPRESS V.1 and all Lotus {if key="(UP}"}(let b3;b3+1}­ in another, etc. You press a hotkey versions higher than V2.2, includ­ {if key="(DOWN}"}(let b3;b3-1}­ to switch between sessions. ing the cropped internal V2.4 .) (if key="(PGUP}"}(let b3;b3+7)­ Software Carousel is palmtop Note: IMPRESS (originally sold {if key=" (PGDN}"}(let b3;b3-7)­ aware, and will switch between ses­ by a company named Aleph2) is an (if key=" (RIGHT}"}(quit)­ sions automatically, if needed (i.e., if add-on for Lotus 1-2-3, up to version {branch loop} an Appointment Book alarm goes 2.2 (the last 1-2-3-release NOT sup­ off in another session). You can even porting EMS), It was so popular that Every time the spreadsheet is run multiple copies of the same pro­ Lotus bought the company and took started the macro writes the gram in different sessions (i.e., keep over the development of IMPRESS. actual date (according to the two different phonebooks or data­ Only version 1 of IMPRESS supports 200LX's system clock) into cell bases open at the same time). CGA displays like that of the b3. The rest of the macro routine I used Software Carousel to open Palmtop (see Screen 1). If you want adds the capability of altering a separate DOS session (with 563,000 to run a full version of 1-2-3 on your the date easily with a few more bytes available system RAM) and Palmtop, look for old copies of Lotus keystrokes. attempted to run a full copy of Lotus V. 2.2 and IMPRESS 1.

26 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY / AUGUST 1998 My interface with the world The computer that keeps me in touch with the world has to be ultra-mobile. "Here today, gone tomorrow" is part of my life. My Palmi, acCIS4 (a CompuServe access for the HP Palmtop) and my mobile phone are with me all the time and let me connect easily to CompuServe (and the world) wherever I am. True, my desktop and notebook computers have more computing power, bigger hard discs and nicer displays, but when it comes to portability and useful­ Screen 2: Palmi, Bernhard Pfiiltzer and I were part of the RAG Rallye in England. Bernhard was ness on the road, guess which the driver, I was the navigator and Palmi kept us in touch with the world. device I prefer?

Part of Palmi's ultra-mobility !¥fll ...... 1i *"1"'.':*41&151 comes from my Sagem R0435S 182X/17 • IoIFm HPHAND M InBox 8/185 I n: 402970 S13/HPHAND FLresLde [HPHAND Ml 27-Nov 1997 20:39:20 mobile phone (brand name is Sago). Sb: UPal.i's ulti.ate .up? Fm: LLnda loIorthLngton 74452.105 This is a GSM mobile phone with a To: Gott~ried Burckhardt 1a1525.3644 Oh GottfrLed. I am 50 sorry to hear about poor PaLmL! It LS built-in data card. (Other phones LLke LOSLng a frLend for us too ... and yOU must be Ln mOUrnLng! Has he been washed Ln dLstLLLed water? I hear that sometLmes with this feature have been that he Lps ... announced, but are not yet avail­ IoILth that crowd Ln the pond. Lt'S just fortunate no one was able.) The 200LX connects to the rea L Ly hurt! ! mobile phone via the serial port. PaLmeLLa sends her sLncere condoLence! ~:!iImIimlIIImmmIEmEimI!lDllmll~~IIiEIi3I~~ The only special thing you need to connect the phone to the palmtop is Screen 3: I use acGIS to quickly download my GompuServe email. I read it offline in acGIS and a suitable adapter to make the press F3 if I want to compose a reply. Next time I connect up to GompuServe, acGIS automati­ cally sends the message. phone's standard 9-pin serial con­ nector fit into the 10-pin serial port of the HP. The serial cable of the ed acCIS and hit F5 to start an acCIS easy. From Filer's Communications connectivity pack with the null macro. acCIS made all needed con­ menu I opened Remote Settings and modem adapter attached will do figuration adjustments (e.g., setting changed the Baud rate to 9600 and that job, but it's a bit bulky. I used a port speed, dialing the number of the Interface (port number) to handmade adapter given to me by the German 02 CIS node, a special COMl. For more information on Thomas Rundel. "cheap" CIS number provided for the R0435S mobile phone and its Back in November 1997 I compet­ users of the German "02-Netz") successor, the R0750S, including ed in the historic RAC Rallye, part of and a connection was established. A some pictures of it, go to Thomas the European Rally Championship little over three minutes later, after Rundel's home page (www.run for cars made before 1966 (see Screer! retrieving all email and messages, deld.com). Thomas was the second 2). This is a very competitive stage the connection was automatically person to use the RS435S with the rally through the forests and parks in terminated. Off line, I read the HP Palmtop, but without his help Great Britain. It's part of my job as a email and messages, and composed in getting the adapter welded, I navigator to partly drive the car on replies (see Screen 3). About 400 km wouldn't be the first. the way to the rally and back home, later, on board a ferry while enter­ I have to report some bad news so I drove half the time during the ing the port of Harrogate, GB, I for U.S. palmtop users. GSM mobile 800 km ride to England. reconnected and sent my replies. phones are used all over Europe, When I wasn't driving I had The fact that the mobile phone but not much on the other side of plenty of time to answer my email connects to the serial port and not the pond. The frequencies used are and read messages on the Compu­ through a PC card is important to incompatible with the American Serve forums. It worked this way. me. It means that I don't have to phone system. Just before passing the German bor­ swap out my memory card while [Note: There are a few areas in the der I connected my mobile phone to using the mobile phone. Setting up U.S. that have GSM capability, includ­ the serial port of my palmtop, start- the palmtop for the phone was ing the Washington D.C. area, and this

THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JULY / AUGUST 1998 27 HOW TO USE: Work Hard, Play Hard - With My Palmtop is increasing. Check with your cellular MlQDuliwu-_;etJi-jl#Ji" ;<:.5,..,: .... 5.,:' phone provider.] Jump to fiLe manager acCIS OffLinereader a Games II Fun g Editoren und Viewer e Other hardware and software Datenbanken ShiTt-F9 SYstem reLated fiLes Fn-S enhancements Directory Co, CtrL-C Directory F:' CtrL-F Earlier I mentioned double Directory A:, CtrL-F FiLe Manager FiLer speed and internal memory WHrterbuch 1 ~ Lotus 123 123 upgrades for the palmtop. I never handLe SoftwareCarouseL CtrL-S managed to measure the actual hp AppLication Manager AppMgr ~~~~~~~~~~ speed increase of the double speed LXPLORE: The little brother of Microsoft's Explorer ported to the palmtop: LXPLORE . , another very upgrade. The 70% speed increase handy tool to keep your programs and files organized. Combines Filer and Application Manager. claimed by the developer is proba­ bly a realistic estimate, but it feels j:t;j.:l;l.I.':.'M#I#I'#l~.iMKlllliI.I#li!.:I""3htn j2' ••I#AAt.i#I: like a Pentium compared to a 386 system. I now switch quickly between Software Carousel sessions and open large databases in sec­ Settlng UP new card . .. onds. And when I recalculate one of my huge spreadsheets, I no longer have the time to go for a coffee. Portions are Copyrlght of ... I also like the internal memory Rob Koenis [LXB30], The PAL Group and AdLersparre [DMC] upgrade. As I've mentioned, I have Software Carousel on my palmtop. Welcome screen for changing and automatically setting up newly swapped PC cards using my Swap.bat~------• . It uses a large, permanent swap file that must be on the C: drive. I also was the 8 MB EXP card. Today I use more. The palmtop doesn't have a have extended memory on my an IODATA combo card with 20 MB parallel port, but you can add one palmtop, which uses at least a 1/2 of memory. The EXP card is primari­ with a parallel port PC card MB swap file. In addition, online ly a modem and needs an additional adapter. As far as I know there are programs such as acCIS and driver installed on the palmtop to two cards on the market for the HP WWW/LX run faster. when they access the onboard memory. The 100/200LX. One is the Trans PC store incoming files and messages IODATA card is primarily a flash Card from TransDigital, the other is on the C: drive. Finally, I have a lot memory card with a modem the SPP100 from Quatech. I tried of software drivers that I need on the onboard. Plug it into your palmtop them both and found that they offer C: drive. With all this, I need 8 MB of and you can immediately access the similar capabilities. internal memory as a minimum. memory without an additional dri­ My main interest was in enhanc­ I store data files and other pro­ ver. However, you do need to install ing connectivity. I succeeded in grams on a PC memory card. You a driver to use the modem part of connecting my palmtop to my desk­ can also use a PC memory card as a the card. I automate the installation top PC via parallel port for fast file quick and easy way to backup your of this driver with a batch file. When transfer. I did a complete backup of C: drive (it takes about one minute I hit the send button in acCIS4 (FS), Palmi's C: drive (S.2 MB of files) to to back up an 8 MB C: drive). One it automatically loads the driver and my notebook (using the MS-DOS thing about computer memory - then removes it when I'm finished. INTERLNK/INTERSR utilities) in 3 however much you get, you quickly As a result my palmtop's batteries minutes, 42 seconds. That's a 29.9 find you need more. When you go last significantly longer. Normally I Kb transfer rate. I did the same shopping for a PC memory card, get two days use out of them backup to a battery powered exter­ buy the biggest one you can afford. (approximately 8 hours use includ­ nal hard disk (23.4 Kb) and a ZIP If you go online with your palm­ ing 4 or S online runs). I still have to drive (27.3 Kb). I achieved the top you'll need a PC modem card swap cards occasionally, but my fastest file transfer rate with my (or a portable external modem). The IODAT A combo card takes care of RAPCD (a CD ROM drive with a unfortunate thing about a modem my needs 9S% of the time. special RISC processor to get the card is that it uses the same slot as There are a lot of devices that most out of any parallel port con­ your memory card, requiring that connect to a computer via a parallel nection by measuring the transfer you swap cards. The solution to this port. A printer is the most obvious, rate and adjusting to the optimum problem is a modem/memory but you also have CD ROM drives, speed) at 92 Kb. combo card. My first combo card external hard disks, ZIP drives and Note: One important thing to

28 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY / AUGUST 1998 mention: There are some external drives available which need at least Connecting the Palmtop to an a 386 processor. These drives don't work on the HP. Be sure to explicit­ External File Storage Device ly ask about that before buying new It's easy... il you know how to do it! hardware. Many applications are now As I mentioned in the article, I connected a number of file storage devices to shipped on CD ROM, but as far as I my HP palmtop using a parallel port adapter card. How easy was it? Well, once I know almost none of them will run figured out how to do it, it was easy! But the figuring out took a little time. on the palmtop. Still, some very Below is a description of how to connect and configure a ZIP drive to the useful shareware/freeware libraries palmtop using the Trans PC parallel port card. are available on CD ROM. And 1. From the installation floppy of the ZIP drive copy GUEST.EXE, GUEST.INI, don't forget that The HP Palmtop NIBBLE.ILM and ASPIPPM1.SYS to your palmtop (all files should be copied into Paper CD InfoBase comes on CD a location which is in your path statement in AUTOEXEC.BAT). ROM. Unfortunately, it uses a desk­ 2. Edit GUEST.INI and delete everything but the following line. (Check the line top PC search engine to access its carefully to make sure it's exactly like the following line. Edit if necessary.) information, but you could use the ASPI=ASPIPPM1.SYS /INFO FILE=byte.ILM SPEED= 9. palmtop's Filer to explore the share­ 3. Connect the ZIP drive to your parallel port. ware and freeware on the InfoBase. 4. Run CIC program to activate the Trans PC parallel port. Maybe Hal Goldstein can be con­ 5. Run GUEST.EXE and voila, you should be able to access the ZIP drive's vinced to implement a DOS reader additional 100MB of file storage space from your palmtop. into the next issue of the famous The HP Palmtop Paper's CD InfoBase. If the ZIP drive doesn't appear in Filer, check the LASTDRIVE= line in your CONFIG.SYS drive. This line limits the number of drives that will appear in The death and Filer (i.e., "lastdrive=f" will only allow six drives to appear, drive A:, B:, C:, D:, E:, resurrection of Palmi and F:). Substitute a higher drive letter to allocate more drives. As I mentioned earlier, I took Palmi on the RAC road rally. "speak German." What I mean is Palmi retires in favor of Big Albert Bernhard Pfiiltzer was the driver, I that Palmi had a German keyboard I recently retired Palmi, in favor was the navigator, and Palmi was and I wanted to be able to access of "Big Albert" (my new 200LX my extended brain. At one point we the German characters that don't with 32 MB of internal RAM memo­ were in third place, desperately try­ appear in English. ry). All of my peripherals and PC ing to catch Adrian Kermode in sec­ Fortunately, the ROM of any HP Cards work flawlessly with my 32 ond. In a very fast and slippery l00/200LX has all you need in the MB palmtop. I'm still trying out Big downhill section Bernhard lost con­ form of a program called Keylist Albert's enhanced capabilities, but trol of our Porsche. We slid a few (KEY200.COM). I activated Keylist he can do some unbelievable things. hundred meters over a wet mead­ by adding the following command For example, I have this really ow and into the pond of Woburn to my AUTOEXEC.BAT file. big Phone Book file (16339 entries Abbey. The pond was also occupied D:\BIN\KEY200 KEY200.LST.05 with complete addresses). I've by Adrian's Porsche and a Ford Keylist uses a data file to tell it exported it to a comma delimited soon joined us. Fortunately, nobody what to do. I wrote a key list data text file and use a beta test program was hurt - except Palmi. file with the following content: named LXFF to search this file All of my other equipment, quickly for names and addresses. Fn a : u /\u /\ Fn a Fn 0 : u /\u including my SanDisk and IODA­ The exported Phone Book text file is /\Fn 0 Fn u : u /\u /\Fn u y: z /\z /\y T A cards and my mobile phone 4 MB and I carry a 5 MB dictionary z: y /\y /\z were back to life after carefully dry­ program with me. I could keep these ing them. But Palmi didn't recover. With these changes I had the files on a PC memory card, but they It seemed the end of a good friend­ German umlauts in the usual posi­ run much faster on the internal ship, but then another friend gave tion (e.g. pressing Fn-o displays the RAM memory. me the main internal board (with German umlaut) and the z and y No other handheld beats the CPU, RAM and ROM memory) of keys were swapped. I didn't imple­ memory / size factor of Big Albert. I an English language palmtop. ment all of the German keyboard love its instant on access to 32 MB of Palmi had been a German palmtop characters. I don't use them that data and the fast, low power consum­ and the only problem I faced was often and am too lazy to take the ing RAM. It gives me all the power getting the English main board to time to implement them in Keylist. you need -long live Big Albert!

THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JULY / AUGUST 1998 29 • •• BASIC TIPS •••By Ed Keefe

Open the Appointment Book and you can use it to create an output file press [F9] (Appt) to get to the that may be loaded into an editor such Appointments screen. as Memo or even into 1-2-3. Here's how A Warning About Using Smart Press [Menu] Options and select to do this. Clip In The Appointment Book Smart Clips ... to access the Smart Clip In the Appointment Book, press the In the Phone Book, Database, dialog box. [Menu] key and select File. Then select NoteTaker and WorldTime applications Press the [Tab] key to highlight the Print from the pull-down menu. you can access the Smart Clip feature Define ... button and press Enter (or In the Print dialog box, use the down simply by pressing the [F5] (Clip) key. press the [F2] or AL T +D keys) to open arrow key to select "These Items" and You can use the Smart Clip feature the Define Smart Clip screen. press the [Tab] key to highlight the selec­ in Appointment Book to create, for Press [F2] (Field) to select a field that tor field. Use the up or down arrow keys example, a text file with a list of your you want to "clip". until the word "Appointments" appears. appointments and notes. However, you A list of fields will appear. Use the Then press the [Tab] key and enter a don't access Smart Clip by pressing arrow keys to highlight the desired field. starting date and an ending date for [F5]. That is the Goto button in If you want to set the column width which you want to print the appointments. Appointment Book. From this applica­ for the clipped field , press the [Tab] key Press [Tab] to get to the Style group tion, access Smart Clip from the pull­ and type in the width, e.g. 10, and then box and use the arrow key to select down menu. press the [Tab] key and use the up and Custom. Press Tab again and use the The Smart Clip, in Appointment Book down arrow keys to justify the field as down arrow key to select the Smart Clip already contains two default Smart "Left", "Center", "Right". you defined, e.g., Room Sched. Clips: "All Fields, with Notes" and "All When you're finished defining the Press [Tab] to access the "Print to" fields, No Notes". field, press the [F10] (OK) key to lock it. group box and use the right arrow key The buttons at the bottom of the dia­ For example, if you highlight "Location" to select File. log box will let you Rename the default as the first field, and select a width of 10 Leave the Title empty and be sure Smart Clips, but there's really no reason spaces, you'll see the word >Location< the "Include today's date" is NOT to do this. The Delete button will tell you in the first row of the screen. checked. that you can't delete the default Smart You can modify this entry. Just press Press F10 (OK) and type in the name Clips. However the Edit button will let the left arrow key to highlight the field of the file, e.g., C:\Rm214.PRN (using you modify the definition of a default name and then press the [F4] (Edit) the .PRN extension will make it easier Smart Clip, and at worst the whole com­ key. If the field name is not highlighted, to import the file into Lotus 1-2-3). Be puter will lock up and require a hard you'll hear a beep. . careful: if you have another file by the reset with the CTRL+LeftShift +On keys If you want to have the output from same name, it will be overwritten with­ (answer No to the prompt). This is each appOintment appear as a single out any warning. known in the computer business as a line (as you would if you want to import Press the [OK] or Enter key and the "GOTCHA!" so be forewarned. the output to a Lotus spreadsheet) then file will be created. Upon reflection, this may be a press the [Tab] or Space keys to add You can now press the Filer key; "gotcha" on some Palmtops and not on spaces between the fields. Don't press point at the RM214.PRN file and press others. If you want to test this out on the Enter key or your output will appear [F8] (View) to see what you've created. your Palmtop, please create a dummy on more than one line. Since you now have a file on your Appointment Book file that can be wast­ Continue to select, and format, the disk, you can load this file into a DOS ed. Don't use your master Appointment fields you want. For example, to pre­ application, such as dBASE or Word­ Book as an experimental tool. pare output for my Room Scheduling Perfect 5.1. You can also import the file I doubt that HP will ever "fix" this spreadsheet, I chose >Location< into the built-in applications such as "bug". The best advice is don't try edit­ >Start Date< >Start Time< >End 1-2-3 and Memo. ing the default Smart Clips: define a Time< >Description< >Note< new one instead. All these field names appear in the Using Smart Clip To Cut And first row of the screen. Paste Between Appointment How To Create Appointment When the Smart Clip is defined, Book And Other Applications press F10 (OK) and type in an appropri­ Book Smart Clips The previous tip told you how to cre­ ate name for the Clip, e.g. , Room As mentioned, Appointment Book Sched and press Enter. ate a file containing several appoint­ comes with two default Smart Clips (All To use the Smart Clip that you ments. But suppose all you want to do Fields, with or without Notes). But you defined, see the next two tips. is copy one or two appointments from might want to create a text file with a list your current Appointment Book to of your appointments by date and time How To Use Smart Clips To Memo or Lotus 1-2-3. You don't have to go through all the hassle of creating a only. Since you can't modify the existing Print To A File Smart Clips, you need to create new file and saving the information on disk. ones from scratch. Here's how you do it. Once you have a Smart Clip defined, Here are two different techniques you

30 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY/AUGUST 1998 can use to get the job done. the note in the Description field of the When you've finished reviewing the Simply highlight the appointment (or ToDo record. Press [OK) to return to the contents, just press the ESC key a cou­ ToDo item) you want to copy and press ToDo List screen. ple of times to return the worksheet to the [Fn][=) (Copy) key. Then start the The second technique lets you copy its original status. Of course, to modify target application (e.g. Memo or 1-2-3) several NoteTaker records at once and the contents of any of the hidden cells, and press the [Fn][+) (Paste) key. This paste them in a ToDo note field. Just you'll need to use the [Menu) Work­ will put several lines of text in Memo or start NoteTaker; highlight the items you sheet Columns Unhide command. 1-2-3. You can then edit the lines to want to copy and press the Space Bar your liking. to ''tag'' the items. Then press [F5](Clip); If you have defined a Smart Clip for select a Smart Clip from the list and the Appointment Book, just highlight the press [OK) . Now switch to the target item you want to copy and then press application and press [Fn)[+](Paste). If Loans With Additional [Menu) 0 S, highlight the desired Smart you're going to paste the information Payments Clip, e.g. Room Sched, and press into a database, you'll have to paste Enter. Now switch to the target applica­ into the note field . Some lending agencies will let you tion and press [Fn][+) (Paste) and you'll Although I've referred to NoteTaker as make additional payments to a loan; oth­ see a copy of the information in the for­ the "source" application, the same tech­ ers seem to reject this practice. But sup­ mat defined within Smart Clip. nique will work equally well with any of pose your bank will let you "pay down" You may find that you prefer this the other database applications such as the balance of a loan during its life. approach to copying and pasting rather Phone Book, World Time, or Database. Imagine that you've borrowed than creating a file and importing it into $50,000 for 5 years at 15% APR and another application . The downside is Use Calendar To Move Around you've agreed to make monthly pay­ that you can paste the information only In Appointment ments. into the built-in applications. You can't In the 19th month you receive a When you are in Appointment Book's paste them into the VDE or Qedit edi­ windfall of $10,000 dollars. You decide Daily display, you can press PG UP tors for example. to pay down the balance of the loan by (Shift+UpArrow) and PG DN (Shift+ If you find yourself performing this $10,000 at the end of the 20th month. DownArrow) to move to the next or previ­ operation repeatedly, consider record­ You wonder how much money you'll ous day. If you have to go many days for­ ing a System Macro and assigning it to save in interest. wards or backwards, try this technique. a function key. You'll save countless One way to picture this is to imagine Press F6 to enter the Calendar dis­ keystrokes in the long run . that you have two loans: the first runs play. Use the Arrow Keys to position the for 20 periods and the second keeps cursor on the day you want to jump to Copy Note To Appt Todo List the same interest and payments but, and press Enter to switch back to the With "Smart Clip" since the principal value is less, the Daily display. number of periods would be fewer than The previous tips describe how to get if you had one loan. information from the Appointment Book To see how much you'd save, start to another application. But suppose you HP Calc and press Ctrl T (or use [menu) want to get information from another Application TVM) to start the Time application such as NoteTaker or Value of Money application. Phone Book and paste it into the Unhiding Columns Temporarily Set the following variables: AppOintment or ToDo application . For Suppose you've used the Lotus com­ N = 60.00 example, I have a NoteTaker file called mand [Menu) Worksheet Column Hide I%YR = 1.25 MORE2DO.NDB that contains informa­ to make one or more columns of a PV= 50,000.00 tion about projects that have been put spreadsheet disappear from the screen. PIYR = 1 on the "back burner". Occasionally I Now you want to "unhide" them tem­ BIE = END want to move one or more of these porarily. Solve for PMT = -1,189.50 items to my ToDo list. There are two Don't reach for the [Menu) key. Note that we use 1 Payment per ways to accomplish this. Instead position the cell cursor to a col­ Period rather than the usual 12 pay­ To copy a single record from umn adjacent to the hidden column(s) ments per year for this type of problem. NoteTaker to a ToDo record, open the and press the [+) key. A '+' sign will We also use 1.25% (i.e. 15%/12) since ApPOintment application and switch to appear on the commandldata entry line. we're dealing with the payments on a the ToDo view. Then press [F2](Add) Then use the right or left arrow keys month-by-month basis. and [F3)(Note) . Then switch to the until you see the information in the hid­ To compute the accumulated interest NoteTaker file; highlight the item you den column(s). and balance at the end of the 19th want to copy, press [Fn)[=)(Copy). There will be an asterisk next to the month, press the Amort [F2) key. Then Switch back to the ToDo Note and column letters indicating that the press the Go [F2) key 19 times until you press [Fn][+) (Paste). Press Ctrl+Fn+ columns are still hidden. see Group 19 in the upper left corner of LeftArrow (Home) to get to the top of You can now use the up and down the screen. Press BAL [F6) and press N the note and highlight the first line. arrow keys to move around the hidden (Store) 0 to see RegO(M) = 37,977.96. Press [Fn][=](Copy). Now press [OK) cells. Press the Accum key [F8) and then press and [Fnj[+)(Paste) to put the first line of

THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JULY/AUGUST 1998 31 N (Store) followed by 2. You should see Index of all Filer's features. The screen Reg2 = -10,578.46 on the screen. is almost entirely hypertext. Press the Now press [F2] repeatedly until you arrow keys to skip from one word or Create Headers And Footers see Group 60 in the upper left of the phrase to another. When you press the screen. Press [F8] and N 1 to store the Enter key, the text will change to help You can create simple headers and accumulated interest in Reg1 ( = - on a specific topic. footers in Memo documents. Open 21,369.63). The [F8] function key will return you Memo and press (Menu) Forma(t) Now press ESC to return to the TVM to the previous screen. Either the [F9] Header/Footer. You are presented with screen. Press M 0 to recall 37,977.96 function key or the [ESC] key will a dialogue box with the cursor resting and subtract 10,000 from this and press "Cancel" the Help function entirely. You on the Header line. F8 (PV) to enter this amount as the can use the [F6] and [F7] function keys, Type in your header and press [Tab] principal value for a new loan. Press N or the PageUp or PageDown keys, to to move to the Footer line. Type in your [F6] to compute N=28.03. But, since move through the help screens that are footer and press Enter to return to the you can't use a fractional period, longer than a single screen. main Memo screen. You will not see the change N to 28 and then press [F10] to Let's try this out. ~eaders or footers on the screen, but find that you'll have a balloon payment Go to Filer and press the [F1] func­ they will be there if you print the docu­ of -30.86 at the end of the new loan. tion key twice to open the Index screen. ment. Once again, press [F2] (Amort) to Press the [Tab] key repeatedly until Sad to say, there does not seem to switch to the amortization screen and the word "Filter" is highlighted. Then be a command to automatically print the press [F2] (Go) 28 times. Press [F8] press the [Enter] key. The "Displaying page number in either the header or (ACCUM) to see ACCUM=-5,358.81 Matching Files" screen will appear. It footer fields. and then press N 3 to store this in tells you that you can press [Menu] 0 F Reg3. (Options Filter) to open the "Show Only" Finally press ESC twice to leave the box where you can type in a ''filter'', e.g. TVM application. Use the calculator to *.wk1 and press the [F10] (OK) function compute the difference in accumulated key to "lock in" the filter. interest. Press the M 2 and M 3 keys to recall Reg2 and Reg3 and add the val­

ues to get -15,937.27. Use M 1 to recall , Reg1 and subtract this from the last result to get a difference of 5,432.36. Trans PC Card Subtract the balloon payment of 30.86 HP Calc And Trailing Zeros to get a final result of 5,401.50. Having used HP Calc for almost 7 Universal Parallel Port I At this point you wonder if you would years, I thought I knew all its built in have made more money by investing tricks. Then, one day I was working on a the $10,000 in a mutual fund for 40 problem that needed 15 zeros after the months, but that's a problem left for the decimal place. ([Menu] Option [Tab] 15). interested tipster. While looking at a display full of zeros, I accidentally pressed Fn+ SpaceBar (ZOOM). I was surprised that the words "Full Precision": appeared and that all the trailing zeroes disappeared. When I Using Help In Filer pressed [ESC], HP Calc reverted to the PC Card with Parallel Port and Instant File Transfer previous display format. Further explo­ Most people know that pressing the Trans PC Card adds the Parallel Port making your Palmtop ration of the "Full precision" feature 100% real PC, so now you can connect parallel devices like [F1] function key, in Filer, opens a Help demonstrated that the ZOOM feature 100 MB Zip, etc. and fast print to standard parallel printers. screen. Unlike "context-sensitive" help will expand a number with less preCision Programs for Instant (no installation or setup) transfer· screens, the HP Palmtops use a combi­ to the maximum precision allowed by synchronization and management of files between PCs are on the Card lIash to save system memory. The Card (Type I, nation of hypertext and function keys to HP Calc. This means that I can keep HP with very low power draw) upon insertion becomes drive A: . access the help you want. Calc in Fixed 2 format ([Menu] Option Programs on Card run under DOS 5.0 and Windows using On the Palmtops, hypertext appears Number Fixed 2) and press the familiar XCOPY syntax or point and shoot intertace. Included as words surrounded with boxed bor­ cable (used also for connection to peripherals) allows for [Fn]+Spacebar keys to display ALL the transfer between the Card in Palmtop and PC standard ders. When you press an arrow key or digits in a result, without any trailing parallel port at 30 KB lsec • 60X faster than Puma's the Tab or Shift+ Tab keys, a highlight zeros after the decimal point. IntelliSync. hops from one hypertext word to anoth­ A long-time user of HP Calc, Avi Trans PC Card with Trans Flex Cable, Manual, er. If you press the [Enter] key you'll get Meshar, reminded me that my "acciden­ Quick Reference and backup disk is $179.00 more help on the highlighted word. tal discovery" is described in the User's For more information and dealer nearest you please calf: You may also navigate through the Manual (see page 12-3.) Help screens with function keys. For Trans Digital Corporation 2865 Westwood Ln, Suite 5 example, in Filer, when you press the Carmichael, CA 95608 [F1] function key twice, you'll get an Tel: (916) 482·5599· Fax: (916) 482·5598 Email: [email protected]

32 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JULY/AUGUST 1998 ••• QUICK TIPS ••• ByfdKeefe

Rm 214 13-Apr-1998 8:00am 9:50am OFFC340 KATHY and, in cell A 1, enter the linking formula, +«DF. Rm 214 13-Apr-1998 10:00am 11 :55am COMS181 UB ED WK1 »A 11 (that's A 11 not Rm 214 13-Apr-1998 1:25pm 3:20pm COM181 UD BErn Using the Data Parse "A L L") and press Enter. Rm 214 13-Apr-1998 5:00pm 7:00pm DATA318 ED Command You should see the value Rm 214 14-Apr-1998 2:30pm 4:25pm ENGL218 MARTY 5500 appear in cell A 1. Assume that you have Rm 214 14-Apr-1998 5:00pm 7:30pm DATA310 ED used the Smart Clip function Now use the command [Menu] File Save and give in the Appointment Book to Screen 1 write the following data to a this worksheet the name LlNK.WK1 and then use the file called RM214.PRN. 11. Press the Period key Link Files with Assume also that you've command [Menu] File Re­ and then use the down Formulas trieve DF.WK1 to make the arranged the output so that arrow key to highlight the One of the little known DF.wK1 file active. all the columns are lined up series starting in cell A 1 and commands in Lotus 1-2-3 Change the value in cell neatly so that the data from ending in the last row of the lets you link a cell in one A 1 from 100 to 100000. one column doesn't spill series of labels. Press the spreadsheet to a cell in Save the DF worksheet and over into another column Enter key to lock this in. another spreadsheet. retrieve the LINK file. You (see Screen 1). 12. Press Output-Range You could use this feature should see 105400 in cell The challenge is to get and slide the cell cursor to a to create a Summary Report A 1. In other words the linked this data into 1-2-3 and row somewhere after the based on the data in other cell will automatically update make it usable as text, time last row of labels. Press worksheets. For example, if itself from the current value and date fields. Here's how Enter. you have monthly expense of the source cell in the to do this. 13. Now press Go and accounts stored in 12 work­ DF.wK1 file. 1. Start Lotus 1-2-3 on the Data Parsing menus will sheets you could use linking If you want to make the the Palmtop and use the disappear. to create a yearly expense procedure more sophisticat­ [Menu] Worksheet Erase 14. Slide the cell pOinter summary report. ed, you can use the [Menu] Yes command, if needed, to to the output range and The Palmtop's 1-2-3 Help Range Name Create com­ create an empty worksheet. observe that the strings file states that you can link mand to give cell A 11 in the 2. Use the [Menu] File have been broken into fields. data from one cell in a work­ DF.wK1 file a name such as Import Text command and 15. Use the [Menu] sheet that is stored in a disk­ DFSUM. Then you can specify the name of the file Range Format Date Time 2 file to a worksheet that is change the linking formula in to import. In this example it command and highlight the currently in use. the LlNK.WK1 to +«DF. would be RM214.PRN. columns containing time The generic command to WK1 »DFSUM. 3. When the data is numbers. imported, it will appear as a create the link is 16. If needed, use the Solving Simultaneous series of "labels" in column A. +«File Reference»Cell [Menu] Worksheet Column Equations in 1·2·3 4. If needed, put the cell Set-Width command to Reference pointer in cell A 1 and press widen the columns so that Perhaps a simple exam­ Remember those prob­ [Menu] Data Parse. they display all their data. ple will show how this works. lems in algebra that looked 5. Press [Menu] Format­ 17. Now you can use the Start Lotus 1-2-3 with an something like this? Line Create to create a "for­ [Men~] Data Sort command empty worksheet and use 3x 2y = mat line" in row 1. + 5 to sort the data by start or the command [Menu] Data 4x - 3y = 7 6. Press Format-Line Edit end times or by date or by Fill (A 1 .. A 1 O) and use a "Solve for x and y." to edit this line. any of the columns that con­ starting value of 100 and a 7. Slide the small cursor This sample problem con­ tain labels. step value of 100. In cell under the L and change it to sists of two simultaneous lin­ 18. For more help on A 11 enter the formula D (for Date). ear equations in two un­ Parsing Data, press the @SUM(A1 .. A10} and press 8. Note that 1-2-3 will knowns. The problems in my [Menu] Data Parse keys and Enter. You should see 5500 have sensed that the time old algebra book escalate to then immediately press [F1] as the result. fields are times and will the point where there are 5 (Help). Likewise press the Use the command [Menu] have indicated this with a T simultaneous equations in 5 Data Parse Format-Line Edit File Save and give the file in the appropriate columns. unknowns! I don't remember keys and press [F1] (Help) to the name DF.WK1 for 9. Other fields will have how to solve such a compli­ see all the "Symbols" you "DiskFile". been identified as L for cated problem anymore. can use to format fields. Note Use the command [Menu] Labels (Le., text). That's OK: my Palmtop's 1-2- there's even an "S" symbol to Worksheet Erase Yes to 10. Press Enter and then 3 application can do the task let you Skip a block of data. clear the current worksheet press Input-Column. with panache and finesse!

THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JULY / AUGUST 1998 33 Here's how to solve the algorithms. sample problem above. The On this issue's The HP IF(S(Swap):O*(L(R:ReaIX)+L(I:lmagX)) procedure for solving a set Palmtop Paper ON DISK, -L(ReaIX:ReaIY)+O*(L(lmagX:lmagY) of S or more simultaneous, we've include a Lotus 1-2-3 +L(ReaIY:G(R))+L(lmagY:G(I))) linear equations in S or more worksheet called ESOL VE. +Swap: unknowns is pretty much the WK1. When you load the IF(S(Mul) OR S(Div): same as the one described worksheet into 1-2-3 it will IF(S(Div): below. automatically display the O*(L(ReaIX:ReaIXlSQ(RADIUS(ReaIY:lmagY))) Start 1-2-3 and key in the first of several screens of +L(lmagX:lmagXlSQ(RADIUS(ReaIY:lmagY))) coefficients and the values Help. Scroll down to see the +L(R:ReaIX*ReaIY +lmagX*lmagY) on the right of the equal sign rest of the Help. Press +L(lmagX: ImagX*RealY -ReaIX*lmagY)) in the following format [Home] and then AL T + S to -L(ReaIX:G(R)) ABC start a 1-2-3 macro that will +Div:O*(L(R: RealX*RealY -lmagX*lmagY) 1 3 2 S prompt you for the number +L(lmagX:lmagX*ReaIY+ReaIX*lmagY)) 2 4 -3 7 of unknowns and then -L(ReaIX:G(~)) Now use the command prompt you for each of the +Mul): [Menu] Data Matrix Invert coefficients and values. IF(S(Add): and use the arrow keys to When you've entered all the Add-L(ReaIX:ReaIX+ReaIY) highlight cells A 1 .. B2 and data, the solution will appear +O*L(lmagX:lmagX+ ImagY): press Enter. automatically. You can then IF(S(Sub): Enter the output range as change the values in the Sub-L(ReaIX:ReaIX-ReaIY) A4 and press Enter. You'll input fields and press ALT + +O*L(lmagX:lmagX- ImagY): get the inverse of the R to find a new solution. IF(S(lnv): "square matrix". The ESOL VE worksheet L(ReaIX:ReaIXlL(R:SQ(RADIUS(ReaIX:lmagX)))) Now press [Menu] Data can be imported into Micro­ +O*L(lmagX:-lmagXlG(R)) Matrix Multiply and use the soft's Excel spreadsheet on -lnv:O*(L(LnX:LN(RADIUS(ReaIX:lmagX))) arrow keys to highlight the a desktop and, if you substi­ +L(lmagX:ANGLE(ReaIX:lmagX))) inverse matrix (A4 .. BS) and tute the CTRL key for -L(ReaIX:G(LnX))+ press Enter. Lotus's AL T key, you'll get IF(S(LnX): Enter the second range to the same results. Sad to say, LnX:LnX+O*L(R:ReaIX*ReaIY-lmagX*lmagY) multiply as C1 .. C2 (the val­ this file won't work in Excel +O*(L(lmagX: ImagX*RealY +ReaIX*lmagY) ues on the right of the equal Lite on Windows CE Palm­ +L(ReaIX:G(R)))-L(ReaIX:Exp(G(R)) sign) and press Enter. tops. If Excel Lite has matrix *COS(lmagX))+O*L(lmagX:SIN(lmagX) Select the output range invert and matrix multiply *Exp(G(R)) )+X2Y)))))) as C4 and press Enter. functions, you should be The answer is X=1.70S able to get similar results Screen 2 and Y= -O.OS. without using a macro. To check your results go to a blank cell on the work­ where you can view the wits and complex numbers sheet and enter the formula value of e to 2 million places. with the rest of the world. +A 1 *C4+B 1 *CS and press Of course, there's an ele­ Here's the Solver equa­ Enter. You should see S. Euler Was Right! gant, mathematical way to tion that you can key into the Likewise, in another blank Long ago, a mathemati­ prove that this is a valid Solver editor. It is given with­ cell, enter the formula cian named Leonhard Euler equation, but since the HP out comments. The version +A2*C4+B2*CS and you (1707-1783) proposed an Calc program has the values on The HP Palmtop Paper should see 7 when you elegant equation that com­ of pi and e built in, it should ON DISK comes with a com­ press Enter. bined the values of the tran­ be possible to demonstrate panion file COMPLEX. CMT The Lotus 1-2-3 method scendental numbers pi and the validity of the equation • that contains comments of solving these problems e (the base of exponential empirically. The only thing as well as further examples works most of the time. logarithms) and I, the imagi­ missing is imaginary num­ on how to use the equation Occasionally you may run nary number, also known as bers. Up until now, it has not once you have it up and run­ across a problem that won't the square root of -1. been possible to use com­ ning (see Screen 2). produce a result for the He stated: plex numbers on a business Once you have the equa­ inverse matrix. This means e"(pi*i)=-1 - that is e calculator. But thanks to a tion up and running, the that there is no solution, or raised to the power of pi Solver equation adapted screen will look like Screen at least no unique solution, times the imaginary number from the HP booklet, "Tech­ 3 below. for the problem. In that case I is equal to -1. nical Applications: Step-by­ If you press the [F10] you'll have to dig out your To learn more about Step Solutions for you HP- (More) key you'll get another algebra book and look up Euler, use the Yahoo search 27S or HP-19B Calculator" screen that will let you sub­ the section that talks about engine to find the Euler Ed 1, November 1987, you tract, find the inverse, the Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel home page on the WWW will soon be able to match natural logarithm and the

34 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER JULY/AUGUST 1998 M!iE'lAtlFI'·'M41"j"::C 11 ; AI')."'" l:aj'·'9=*I:--.15.14' 4.4 and was compiled "out of Complex: IF(S(Swap): O*(L(R:ReX)+L(I: ImX» L(ReX:ReV)+O*( .. the box" on the HP Palmtop using Borland's C++ 2.0. Swap = C).C)C) ReX = -14.21 I wish I had had such a ImX = 21 8.25 program (and a computer ReV = 31 .C)C) such as the HP Palmtop to ImV = 45.C)C) run it) 30 years ago. I could Mu = - • OIV = have done away with my Add = copies of the CRC Handbook ---- RPN ---- RAO and my dog-eared copy of Mul = -14.21 Stegun and Abramovitz's -;ljJliM __i!€'=-.jm:"~1mIII .jm;'itWMMc)'".;m __ .,ii£M w·tiGw_jl.,'w "Tables for Mathematical Screen 3 Physics". Come to think of it, there were very few main­ complex power of complex indeed, equal -1 .0000. (The BigCalc was originally frame computers back then numbers. value for ImagX may show designed for an 80X25 that could have performed Here's how to prove 2.38e-16, but that is close screen so viewing it on the such computations. Euler's equation empirically. enough to 0 for a "business Palmtop will test your eye­ Quit Solver and start the calculator"). sight or, if you switch to a 64 What Is XINE.COM? Math Application in HP Calc. The moral of the story is X 18 or 40 X 16 zoomed dis­ Key in 1 and then, if needed, that Euler was right: play, it will test your finger XINE.COM is a compres­ press the [F10] (More) key e"(pi*i)= -1. dexterity as you move sion/decompression program until you can press [F7] around the screen. located in the D:\BIN directo­ (E"X) to get 2.7183 in the The BigCalc calculator ry of the HP 200LX. The display. Press N (Store) 1 to uses the RPN style of data small program will compress save the value of e in regis­ entry and displays the famil­ a single file and, if it detects ter 1. Then press (More) and iar X, Y, Z, T stack on the that a file is already com­ BigCalc [F2] (PI) and store that in screen. You can roll the pressed, will decompress it. register 2 (N 2). stack up and down and XINE doesn't have any For those folks who can't built-in procedure to com­ Now restart Solver and swap the X register with any get enough of numbers or press multiple files into an load and run the Complex who are obsessive-compul­ other register. The program equation. Press [Menu] also shows the contents of archive. For that you'll need sive about the accuracy of PKZip or LHA. However if Options Modes Radians and their computations, we rec­ ten memory registers. All of [OK]. Press [Menu] Clear these allow you to perform you don't have either of ommend Judson McLen­ these compression pro­ Data to fill the variables with don's BigCalc • calculator register arithmetic. You can zeros. enter the value of Pi or 'e' at grams on your Palmtop you program. This shareware can still recover some disk First find the value of pi*L program produces computa­ the touch of the F9 or F10 In complex notation this function keys. space by using XINE.COM. tions with a precision of 50 For test purposes, I com­ would be (3.1416, 0) * (0 , 1) digits by default. The only thing missing where the number after the from the calculator is pro­ pressed a 97K byte text file If you use the command to one that was about 34K comma represents the imag­ BIGCALC 1075 and exer­ grammability. However, it inary part and the number does have built-in functions bytes. The time for compres­ cise a lot of patience you'll sion was slow even on a before the comma is the real get results with 1075 digits for the trig and logarithmic part of the complex number. functions and three help double speed LX. Decom­ of accuracy on a Palmtop. pressing the file was equally Press M 2 [ReaIX] to set However the accuracy screens to get you started RealX = 3.1416. Press 1 using the program. The last slow. com~s at the expense of The command to use [lmagY]. Since the other val­ time. For example, it took of the three help screens ues in the display are 0, you gives Judson McLendon's XINE is: XINE infile outfile BigCalc 40 seconds to com­ where "infile" is the name of have set up the two complex pute the value of e " pi to 50 address, phone number, numbers (3.1416, 0) and (0 , and Compuserve account the source file and "outfile" decimal places, Le., 2.7183 is the name of the destina­ 1). Press the [Mul] key to get raised to the power of number. (Note that one or the equivalent of (0, 3.1416). more of these may have tion file. 3.1416. If you're satisfied If the infile is compressed Now press M 1 [ReaIY) with 15 digits of accuracy, changed since the release and press 0 [lmagY] to get date of the program.) the outfile will be decom­ you can get the same result pressed. the equivalent of (2.7183, 0). in HP Calc almost instantly .. The C source code for the Press [Swap) to ex­ program is available at vari­ Be careful not to use the BigCalc is a DOS pro­ same name for both the change the values of the gram that can be run from ous Simtel sites on the complex X and Y numbers. Internet. Use Yahoo or Alta infile and outfile or you'll Filer. However to get be­ lose both of them. Press [More] and [X2Y) to yond the default 50 digit Vista to search for "Bcalc". It get the value X2Y = -1. 'precision', you'll have to get may still be available in the If you press [More), you'll to a DOS prompt. Compuserve BCPPDOS see that RealX does, forum. The current version is

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