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Portable Paper Subscription [EJ [!£J [J[] M!!] Use Vol. 5, No. 1 The HP Portable/Portable Plus/Portable Vectra Users Newsletter January / February 1990 PortableTHE Paper [Q:t~i:t.t ••· •••.•··Tf!!P¢:·········Baek1tt.p·:CUflif.i ..·for< . LS/12 .... ·a1l4·· .eortilbl~'- ':;,,: ".', '''''" '" ,,",,- ,;"",, '" _,:>,_" ' ..;/_ ':< -".>:·'.'i-'.: ... .- '.<,',;"i,,\,'V~ctrFl ,_:\-:c~,,"-"c' _: __ ",", ,:,';1.;-:" :.\,:",_ ,'>-~-, ',,' ,':::':, .... Publisher's Message .................. 3 110% Letters Hewlett Packard LaserJet IIP . .. 14 Needs MS-Word Printer Driver for DeskJet . .. 3 Things You've Wanted To Do With SKETCH... 15 Thanks for Invaluable Service . .. 3 Getting Lotus Print Graph to Work with ThinkJet 17 Dust Clogging Plus's Keyboard . .. 4 WHEREXY Mimics DOS WHEREX and WHEREY . 18 Can Portable Vectra Handle Lotus 123 '3.0 ..... 4 Traveling the World with Your Portable . .. 19 Proper Cable for HP Duette on Plus . .. 4 Portable Vectra Views Wants to Run Quicken on the 150 and the Plus ., 4 We Like the VALITEK Tape Backup System. .. 24 Running Wordstar PRCHANGE on HP 150 ...... 4 Thank's Norton, Gazelle Systems, & MagicSoft .. 26 Needs Help Finding Missing 123 File . .. 5 Portable Vectra CS COM Conflict ........... 28 Needs Battery for the HP 110 . .. 5 HPCache Can Lock Up Your Vectra . .. 28 PSION Computer . .. 5 Battery Watch II Monitoring . .. 29 Needs Turbo Upgrade. .. 5 Laptop Modem with MNP5 & TPO for LS/l2 . .. 29 Using Diconix 150 Plus Printer with Portable Plus .. 5 Zenith Data Systems Sold to French Company .. 30 Artificial Intelligence Program for the HP-110 .... 43 News From Personalized Software Problems with DlSKPACK ................. 43 Major Purchase of HP Portable Inventory . .. 30 Special Feature: COMDEX Report . .. 6 Mobile Recharger Shipping Again ........... 30 The HP Booth . .. 6 Power Cube Shipping Again . .. 30 Market Research. .. 6 New HP150 Catalog .................... 30 The Poqet PC ......................... 8 Personalized Software Product Status Report 31 The Psion ........................... 10 May Discontinue Some Low-Volume Products . .. 31 The Toshiba Tl000SE .. .. 11 The Savvy User The Portable Cellular Workstation . .. 11 Lotus 123 Tricks . .. 32 CyberSpace 286cx Specifications . .. 11 Norton Utilities ....................... 34 HP Portables Compared to the New Portables .. 11 BATCOM (BATch file COMpiler) .... .. 37 My Soapbox ........................ 27·· Personalized Software Products and Services in Brief: Utilities, and instructions for running them on the Portables and the HP150. Version 4.0 and the advanced edition are now available. FILE TRANSFER SYMBOLS: DIll = HPll0 III = Portable Plus II = Portable Vectra MADE EASY IT![] [EJ rn':l [J[] m!!J 1987-90 Subscribers Disks 1987 includes: (1) D1SKPACK, a disk.pack· rn':l rn:J IT![] [J[] ing utility, commercial equivalent sells for $ 50 [EJ rn':l m!!J (2) Time Manager calendar utility. (3) HP Cal· LapLink RightWriter culator program. (4) Game, Lotus templates A software program for high speed transfer of WORD PROCESSING files between your Vectra CS or 1S/12 and Flags errors in grammar, style, usage and includes (1) Time Manger mail·merge 1988 IBM PC or companDle. Versatile (works with punctuation, inserting comments directly into utility. (2) Great public domain software for your document. Also, produces overall critique. parallel and serial ports), easy to use (simple IT![] [EJ rn':l [J[] m!!J Vectra. (3) password protect program (4) manual or automatice file tagging. Works with most word processors. Also avail­ Xmodem program for P.Plus. (5) Lotus tern· The Editor II able: RightWords dictionary extension plates. (6) Games. (7) DOS Toofs. (8) HP to Many features not in MemoMaker, including utility: it has 7 auxiliary dictionaries (business, Alternate mode toggler, (9) Lots more. search/replace, editing 2 files at once, em­ IJ1[] [EJ I2!J cmJ ill[] computers, engineering, etc.), and also lets you 1989 includes: (1) File manager utility that bedded printer codes, up to 255 columns per Disk Conversion Service add words of your own to RightWriter's built lets you tag files for mass copying and de· line and block centering and macros. Does in dictionary. We will convert your data to and from single word wrap, right justify. Easy to use. Uses less leting. (2) File compressor (3) New RAM-based sided, double sided, high density 3 J/2 " and 5 than 40 K. Versions for HPllO,Plus,HP150 Time Manager with Week-at-a-glance screen. 1/4 inch formats at a reasonable cost. Vectra and IBM PC aU on master disk. (4) Compuserve Automation program. (5) A [EJ I2!J c:mJ m2J menu program easier to use than PAM (6) Webster's Spelling Checker Fast file finder (7) Directory lister (8) More. Rated Editor's choice by PC magazine, Web· [EJ I2!J cmJ IJ1[] [EJ I2!J cmJ []][] 1990 includes: (1) Best me compression / HPDuette ster's packs a 110,000 word dictionary into archiver, (2) Wordstar work· alike editor, (3) VI 207K of disk memory. webster's shows you A software program that lets you transfer files UNIX·style editor. incorrect spellings in context and suggests 1S/12 DOS extender, (3) Quick unerase util, back and forth at high speed between your (4) Space saving & DOS utils, (5) Great Rus· corrections, lets you preview questionable Portable Plus and an IBM PC or compatible sian game, (6) Text search util (7) Much more desktop computer. without the need for Hp·ll words before you edit. ExceptionaUy easy to Available onIywith Portable Paper subscription [EJ [!£J [J[] m!!] use. Customized for the Plus and HP150. card. Comes with proper serial cable. Word Perfect 5.0 (and 4.2) World's best-selling word processor, customized to P.Plus. Dozens of advanced features, inclu­ IT![] IJ1[] [EJ I2!J cmJ ill[] ding fonts, integrated text and graphics, style The Word Plus PassPort ReadHP Designed for 1S/12 & Zenith SuperSport gives sheets, document compare, text in columns, Excellent spelling checker with a choice of two This software program allows an IBM com­ footnotes, tables of contents, indexes, 115,000 you instant pop·up control of CPU speed, patible computer with a 3 1/2" disk drive to dictionaries· 45,000 words and 35,000 words . backlighting, cursor adjustment, battery, mo­ word speller, thesaurus, mail-merging, built-in plus ability to input additional words of your read and write to HP formatted disks. math functions. P .Plus version comes with own. Also does word counts. Great for HP110. dem, hard disk, alarm, palette, clock, display. PlusPerfect, our own IBM PC emulator that [EJ [!£J [J[] allows WordPerfect to run on the Plus. Option· al ROM Backup saves 384K of RAM. PrintMaster COMMUNICATIONS Allows you to use your HP Portable and Think· Jet to produce logos, invitatations, banners, and other graphics. Customized for Port. Plus. UTILITIES TO BOOST IJ1[] [EJ I2!J cmJ ill[] YOUR PRODUCTIVITY IT![] [EJ rn':l [J[] m!!J CompuServe Starter Kit WORD PROCESSING Starts you on Electronic Information Service, Private File CompuServe (which includes the HP Forum). UTILITIES Protects letters,documents, data files by scram­ Includes $25 worth of free time and Com· [EJ bling your file. Your password unscrambles. puServe's monthly magazine, Online Today. BacTools Disk [EJ IT![] [EJ [!£J [J[] m!!J Contains a wide range of utilities to help you [E] back up files from a 1 Megabyte or larger Shelp Relay Gold 2.0 The Formatter Edisk onto floppy disks. Lets you back up From within almost any program, Shelp gives Sophisticated text formatter for large reports, Only P.Plus RAM·based communications pack· selected files, automate the entire backup you immediate access to a notepad and cal­ age that handles both file transfer and terminal program documentation, etc. Multiline headers, process, and more. culator and lets you define up to 26 keyboard footers, page numbers,table of contents, glos­ emulation. This popular IBM PC program, macros- that is, assign up to 31 character to modified for the P.Plus. is easier, more pow­ sary capabilities, more. Works on MemoMaker, a single keystroke. Written for Portable Plus. erful than Reflection. Lets you access electronic The Editor files. (Manual in draft form: no IJ:I[] [E] [J]![) CFlJ rn:J builetin boards, aUows for unattended file technical support avaUable.) DOS Tools: Portable Utilities transfer, supports distnbuted processing, more. Disk, Vol 1 [EJ I2!J cmJ Beginners find it easy to learn, yet can handle Well over 50 excellent public domain programs Squish Plus the most sophisticated data transfer tasks. [EJ m!!J that enhance DOS, aU tested on the Portables. Automatic file compression program that as Format Plus Documentation has been rewritten for clarity much as much as doubles available disk space. An integrated word processing command center for ease of use, and includes examples, index, If you know how to save and retrieve files IT![] [EJ for the Portable Plus. Let's you run your word and table of contents. from your application, you know how to use Termll0, TermPlus processor, spelling checker, and other applica­ Squish Plus. Available on ROM. tions from a single easy·to·use program. Also ExceptionaUy easy·to·use alternatives to HPJ 10 Terminal and P.Plus PC26221Refiection. Both lets you do headers, footers, lines per page, [EJ em cmJ []][] Term110 and TermPlus allow you to send and automatic page numbering and more. FilePlus: File Management capture ASCII information. Both offer fast Lists the files in two directories simultaneously. IJ1[] [EJ I2!J c:mJ XMODEM transfer of programs, Lotus work· IJ1[] [EJ []][] You can tag multiple files and perform actions Tiger Fox sheets, and archive files. Both offer auto-logon, (such as copy, delete, move, etc.) on all the A great video game of changing mazes and dialing directories, on·line help, ability to run HPrint tagged files at once, without having to use double pursuit designed for the Portables. other programs while phone still connected. Prints text (MemoMaker, ASCII) files and P.A.M.
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