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Vol. 4, No. 6 The HP Portable/Portable Plus/Portable Vectra Users Newsletter November / December 1989 (; ~) PortableTHE Paper Publisher's Message .................. 3 Always Select Backlight Powerdown . .. 14 Letters Generate a Bullet ..................... 14 The Mac Portable And The HP Portables ....... 4 More LS/12 and Vectra Products On The Horizon 15 More On "tjctrl" . .. 4 News From Personalized Software The Editor Makes PAM and Time Manager easier .. 4 What we're working on . .. 15 Short note of appreciation . .. 4 Upgrade 256K Portable Plus into a 512K Plus. .. 16 Getting The 110 and a PC to Read the Same Disks 4 1 Meg RAMjROM and 2 Meg RAM Drawers Need Scientific Word Processor ............. 5 Shipping Again For Portable Plus ........... 16 A few useful hints... ..................... 5 VI Editor For HP An IBM-Compatible Computers 16 Likes Empowerer ....................... 5 World's Smallest MNP Modem ............. 17 Using Squish Plus With The Plus And Vectra Together 5 Subscribers Disks Only Available With Subscription 17 Squish Plus Extends Life Of Portable Plus . .. 5 1986-1989 Index Soon Available ............ 17 Suggestions To Improve Time Manager ........ 5 First Issue Of The UltraLite Connection Ships . .. 17 Likes MS-Word over WordPerfect ............ 39 Profiles 110% Portable Computing With The Plus ......... 22 LS/12 Still On HP Price List ... But not for Long .. 6 Frustrations - And Resolutions . .. 24 The 1990 Subscribers Disk . .. 6 The Savvy User Attention HP3000 Users: MPE On HP Portables! .. 6 Time Manager Solution . .. 27 Infocom Games ........................ 6 Using 1JCTRL With Memomaker . .. 28 What is ASCII.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... 8 PAM Menu Overflows ................... 30 HPIL Switch Box ....................... 9 Webster's Pop Up Spelling Checker. .. 31 Portable Vectra Views PKZIP 1.01 .......................... 32 Get 738 MG out of 640 MG on the LS/12 . .. 12 Through the Looking Glass Weltec Serial Hard Drive Better Then What We Said 12 The Troubles With HPIL ................. 34 Another Portable Hard Disk For The Vectra CS . .. 12 MIX C ............................. 37 Power Management for the LS/12: PASSPORT . .. 14 Turbo Basic 2.0 ....... .. 37 Troubles With CS Screen . .. 14 Video Display Editor . .. 38 Personalized Software Products and Services in Brief: Peter Norton has authorized us to include an extra 3 1/2" disk (formerly only available on 5 1/4" disk). The disk includes The Norton FILE TRANSFER SYMBOLS: III!! = HP110 iii = Portable Plus IiIII = Portable Vectra Utilities, and instructions for running them on MADE EASY the Portables and the HP150. Version 4.0 and the advanced edition are noW available. [!!!1J [E] [![] rn:J I:n[] 0:0 I:!E] [!!!1J [E] [![] m:J I:n[] 1987-90 Subscribers Disks LapLink WORD PROCESSING RightWriter 1987 includes: (1) DlSKPACK, a disk-pack A software program for high speed transfer of Flags errors in grammar, style, usage and ing utility, commercial equivalent sells for $ 50 files between your Vectra CS or lS/12 and punctuation, inserting comments directly into (2) Time Manager calendar utility. (3) HP Cal IBM PC or compallble. Versatile (works with your document. Also, produces overall critique. culator program. (4) Game, Lotus templates parallel and serial ports), easy to use (simple [!!!1J [E] [![] m:J I:n[] manual or automatice file tagging. Works with most word processors. Also avail 1988 includes (1) Time Manger mail-merge The Editor II able: RightWords dictionary extension utility. (2) Great public domain software for Many features not in MemoMaker, including utility: it has 7 auxiliaty dictionaries (business, Vectra. (3) password protect program (4) IJI[J [E] [ill 1.00 search/replace, editing 2 files at once, em computers, engineering, etc.), and also lets you Xmodem program for P.Plus. (5) Lotus tem em bedded printer codes, up to 255 columns per add words of your own to RightWriter's built plates. (6) Games. (7) DOS Tools. (8) HP to Disk Conversion Service line and block centering and macros. Does in dictionary. Alternate mode toggler, (9) Lots more. We will convert your data to and from single word wrap, right justify. Easy to use. Uses less sided, double sided, high density 3 1/2 " and 5 1989 includes: (1) File manager utility that than 40 K. Versions for HPllO,Plus,HPI50 1/4 inch formats at a reasonable cost. Vectra and IBM PC all on master disk. [E] [J][] lets you tag files for mass copying and de em rn:J leting. (2) File compressor (3) New RAM-based Webster's Spelling Checker Time Manager with Week-at-a-glance screen. [E] [JY] rn:J IJI[J [E] rn:J [J][] Rated Editor's choice by PC magazine, Web (4) Compuserve Automation program. (5) A em ster's packs a 110,000 word dictionary into menu program easier to use than PAM (6) HPDuette VI 207K of disk memory. webster's shows you Fast file finder (7) Directory lister (8) More. A software program that lets you transfer files back and forth at high speed between your UNIX-style editor. incorrect spellings in context and suggests 1990 includes: (1) Best file compression I Portable Plus and an IBM PC or compatible corrections, lets you preview questionable archiver, (2) Wordstar work-alike editor, (3) words before you edit. Exceptionally easy to desktop computer- without the need for HP-ll [E] [![] [}]I] lS/12 DOS extender, (3) Quick unerase util, card. Comes with proper serial cable. rn:J use. Customized for the Plus and HP 150. (4) Space saving & DOS utils, (5) Great Rus Word Perfect 5.0 (and 4.2) sian game, (6) Text search util (7) Much more World's best-selling word processor, customized to P .Plus. Dozens of advanced features, inclu IJI[J [E] em [ill [J]Q] ding fonts, integrated text and graphics, style The Word Plus Manzana Disk Drive sheets, document compare, text in columns, An excellent spelling checker with a choice of PassPort These are high-quality drives for IBM Com footnotes, tables of contents, indexes, 115,000 pallbles system to access 3 1/2 " HP or IBM two dictionaries- 45,000 words and 35,000 Designed for lS/12 & Zenith SupetSport gives word speller, thesaurus, mail-merging, built-in formatted disks. words- plus the ability to input additional you instant pop-up control of CPU speed, math functions. P ,Plus version comes with words and abbreviations of your own. Also backlighting, cursor adjustment, battery, mo PlusPerfect, our own IBM PC emulator that does word counts. Customized to the HP Port dem, hard disk, alarm, palette, clock, display. allows WordPerfect to run on the Plus. Option ables. IJI[J [E] em [ill [J]Q] al ROM Backup saves 384K of RAM. [EJ em rn:J ReadHP PrintMaster This software program allows an IBM com patible computer with a 3 112" disk drive to Allows you to use your HP Portable and Think read and write to HP formatted disks. Jet to produce logos, invitatations, banners, and other graphics. Customized for Port. Plus. UTILITIES TO BOOST WORD PROCESSING YOUR PRODUCTMTY IJI[J [E] em [ill [J][] UTILITIES Private File Protects letters,documents, data files by scram SPREADSHEET bling your file. Your password unscrambles. ITO ENHANCERS [!!!1J [E] [![] rn:J I:n[] BacTooIs Disk The Formatter Contains a wide range of utilities to help you [E] Sophisticated text formatter for large reports, back up files from a 1 Megabyte or larger Shelp program documentation, etc, Multiline headers, Edisk onto floppy disks. Lets you back up From within aimost any program, Shelp gives CTIllJ ITO ~ I:!E] DID footers, page numbers,table of contents, glos selected files, automate the entire backup you immediate access to a notepad and cal 101 Macros for Lotus 1-2-3 sary capabilities, more. Works on MemoMaker, process, and more. culator and lets you define up to 26 keyboard Useful in themselves and as learning tools for The Editor flies. (Manual in draft form: no rnacros- that is, assign up to 31 character to novice and experts alike. Includes: recalculat technical support available.) a single keystroke. Written for Portable Plus. ing ranges, double spacing spreadsheet prior to IJI[J [E] em rn:J [J][] printout, hiding notes next to data cells, ad [E] I:n[] DOS Tools: Portable Utilities dressing form letters, and printing labels Disk, Vol 1 [E] [![] rn:J automatically. customized Lotus lA and 2.01. Format Plus Well over 50 excellent public domain programs Squish Plus An integrated word processing command center that enhance DOS, all tested en the Portables. Automatic file compression program that as for the Portable Plus. Let's you run your word Documentation has been -t'ewritten for clarity much as much as doubles available disk space. [!!!1J [E] [![] DE] !:lE1J processor, spelling checker, and other applica for ease of use, and includes examples. index, If you know how to save and retrieve files SideWinder tions from a single easy-t~-use program. Also and table of contents. from your application, you know how to use This program allows you to print your spread lets you do headers, footers, lines per page, Squish Plus. Available on ROM. sheets (or other text file) sideways on your automatic page numbering and more. Thinkjet. This means you can print your 60 [E] [![] rn:J [}]I] column by 53 row spreadsheet Portable as one long printout without cutting or pasting. IJI[J [E] [J][] FilePlus: File Management cm::J [E] [![] [:mJ HPrlnt Lists the files in two directories simultaneously. You can tag multiple files and perform actions Tiger Fox [E] Prints text (MemoMaker, ASCII) files and (such as copy, delete, move, etc.) on all the A great video game of changing mazes and prints them on an HP Printer. Comes with tagged files at once, without having to use double pursuit designed for the Portables.