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Volume 2, Number 2 The HP Portable/Portable Plus Users Newsletter March / April, 1987 PortableTHE Paper Special Feature: Database Software Management Publisher's Message ...................... I Special Feature: Database Management Letters Software Charge Portable Off Car Lighter .............. 2 Introduction ............................ 16 Portable To Macintosh ..................... 4 Database Management Product Summary ...... 16 110% Lotus As A Database Manager . 18 New HP Portable? ......................... '; Executive Card Manager ................... 18 Updates on Personalized Software Products ..... 5 dBASE II ............................... 22 Buying Disks ............................ 6 Turbo Pascal Toolbox ..................... 2-} X-rays And The Portable .................... 6 PC File III .............................. 24 More Info On Backlighting ................. 33 T/Master ............................... 25 HP-IL Link Program ........ .............. 33 Condor Junior .......................... 25 Foundations Conclusion ............................. 25 Built-in Self-Test .......................... 8 PLUS Notes Six Ways To Restart Your Portable ............. 8 Lotus 2.01 and HAL ...................... 25 Getting Program To Run . ..... 8 B Drive RAM Cards With Greater Capacity ........... 26 EPROM Update .......................... 26 DOS AID Software Drawer & SPC ................ 27 Bypassing PAM ............................ 11 1erminal Through The Looking Glass ............ 27 CompuServe Autologon, Uploading Revisited ..... 11 Wizardry ............................ 27 Reflection ............................ ' .. 13 HP Portable User Groups .............. 35 Lotus .................................. 34 Classifieds ........................... 52 Ultimate Utilities Read this list. It may look long and OOrltlg. bll~itcan sQ,ve 10U an incredible amount of time'andeffott~ ... .... ...... It's a list of the more stand. (Given the state of than 50 programs on Fbrt Contents of Portable Utilities Disk Vol. 1: DOS Tools the art in writing and test able Utilities Disk, Vol ADDCOL.COM Joins two files horizontally by OFF.COM Shuts off the HP Portable from DOS. ing software, there's no appending corresponding lines. ume 1: DOS Thols. Each PACK.COM Packs a disk. Does not have ARC512.ARC Archived ARC file compression subdirectories bug of earlier version. guarantee that everyttell1 and library utility. program performs a spe PC.EXE Allows some IBM programs to be run ARCE.COM Extracts ARChive files from ARC on HP150. of software works as doc 5.12 and previous versions. cific task to make life PCBOSS.COM File manager for IBM PC and ASK.COM Adds interactive capability to batch compatibles only. umented without a hitch. with your Portable more files. Prompts user with message and waits for yes/no response. PRINTIT.COM Print formatting program, However, most of the test simple but effective. erijoyable and productive. BEEP.COM Makes a beep sound. PRNCONF.COM Allows ThinkJet printer to ing and evaluating was The programs are all in CHANGE.COM Changes or displays file function as Epson printer; also sends escape se attributes (read-only, archive, system, hidden). quences to the PRN device. done by Hal Goldstein, the public domain, which CLEAN.COM Converts WordStar HP150 or RAMDSK.ARC Archived utility for HP150 only; Portable Plus MemoMaker document files to creates internal RAM disk. publisher of The Portable ASCII and removes control codes. means that if you search RENDIR.COM Renames subdirectories. COPVNEW.COM Backs up files if no identical Paper, and by Gary Good ed long enough you could file on the destination disk. Also backs up whole RNGNAME.COM Displays and restores range directory structure creating matching names for Lotus worksheet. man and Thomas Page. find them for free on var subdirectories. ROMAN8.WKS Provides ability to enter any CPU.COM Displays computer's clock speed. RomanS character into Lotus worksheet. Anyone who has read ious electronic bulletin CVTBIN.COM Converts files from ASCII to SDL.COM Produces directory listings sorted by binary when downloaded with CompuServe name, size, date, or extension. Gary's and Thm's articles boards, in magazines, and READ command. SEPARATE.COM Breaks large text files into in past issues of The Port in the archives of local CYPHER.COM Enciphers and deciphers a file smaller files for MemoMaker. to keep it confidential. SM.COM SpaceMaker. Converts. EXE files to able Paper already knows user groups. But consider DIRALL.COM Displays attributes and .COM files and thus saves disk storage space path names for ALL files on a disk. and disk access time. of their conscientiousness this: Even if you had the DIRS.COM Gives total disk space occupied by SQPC.COM Squeezes files to make them take a set of files. up less space. Unsqueeze with TV. and thoroughness.) time to track this many DUMP.COM Dumps and edits a disk or file in TEE.COM Causes a program or file to be hexadecimal and ASCII. output to both the screen and a file or printer. So look through the list) programs down, what FDATE.COM Changes the time·date stamp on T JETA.COM Configures ThinkJet printer easily If even one program proves,·~.· about evaluating them a file. from the HP Portable. FDUMP.COM Lists a file in hexadecimal and TOWS.COM Converts ASCII document files to useful, DOS Thols could and making sense of the ASCII. WordStar and Portable Plus MemoMaker format FF.COM Sends a form feed to the printer. for editing and reformatting. pay for itself immediately. documentation? It would FGREP.COM Searches a group of files for a TRANSLIT.COM Converts one or more specified string. characters of one file to different character(s) and With more than 50 docu be a formidable task, but HC.COM Converts binary files to/from copies result to second file. hexadecimal ASCII files. TREEDIR.COM Displays names of all files in mented and tested pro we have good news: You HP IBM.COM Does a "best fit" translation each directory along with date, time and file size. from HP ROMAN B character set to IBM PC Line TRIM.COM Extracts selected columns from a grams to tryout and use, don't have to do it-we've Draw character set. file. IBM HP.COM Does a "best fit" translation from TV.COM Unsqueezes files squeezed by SQPC. it's the bargain of the cen already done it for you! IBM PC Line Draw character set to HP ROMAN B VDL.COM Allows user to selectively delete character set. tury. Order yours today. That's right-we've files from a group of files. Program lists files one INSTALLP.COM Automates installing an by one and asks user whether to delete. combed through hundreds application program on RAM disk-the HP Portable/Portable Plus Install Utility Program. WAIT.COM Delays execution of a batch file Portable Utilities Disk, until specified time. of public domain utility LABEL.COM Labels or changes the label name on a disk. WD.COM Saves and restores the working Volume 1: directory. programs that run on the LC.COM Counts lines in each file; useful in determining amount of paper needed to print. WHEAROUT.COM Gives percent of wear on DOS Tools .... $49.95 disk in HP 9114 disk drive. Portables and HP150, and LF.COM Sends a line feed to the printer. WHEREIS.COM Searches disk to find the ($39.95 for Portable have selected only the LJET.COM LaserJet pronter configuration specified file. program for the HP Partible. Makes selection Paper subscribers) LaserJet format eas~. APPENDIX A Describes the contents of best ones for inclusion in subdirectories/HPll0,/SOURCEJ123DEMO found MMTOP.COM Causes Portable Plus MemoMaker to print without usual 5-line top on the DOS Tools disk. Portable Utilities Disk, margin. UTILS.DOC Reprints on disk The Portable Volume 1: DOS. Thols. MOVE.COM Moves one file to another directory Paper Vall, Issue 4, utilities. Gives practical without copying. examples of many of the files on the DOSToois disk. We've not only made MOVEALL.COM Moves a set of files to sense of the document another directory without copying. ation, but in many cases we've actually rewritten it. (A remember the names of the programs.) printed, 65-page user manual con 60·DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE And we've even changed some of See order form for details. taining program documentation the programs them 1:11111...... and plenty of examples in included TO ORDER selves so they work HP Portable with the disk. The manual is conve • Use postage-paid order form inside back.cover Portable Plus or send check or credit card information niently indexed by subject, so all you better and so their • (N, expo date, signature) to: message displays HP150 Personalized Software have to do is look up the name of the • P.O. Box 869, Fairfield, IA 52556 515/472-6330 task you want done. You don't have to are easier to under- IBM PC 1HP Vectra • PUBLISHER'S MESSAGE We have readers that use The a file on disk, an audio cassette, or give me a call, so we can Portables at sea, in the profile you. Alaska wilderness, and for I will publish profiles of interest or practical value to anthropological studies. our readership. Many other readers take Also in this issue we take a look at a number of data their Portable in their travels base systems that run on The Portable. For those unfamiliar for sales presentations, to with database concepts, read the introduction to the sec communicate with their of tion and the subsequent article on Lotus as a database fice, and to write memos. Another group of readers manager. use The Portable as their Next issue we will look at peripherals that run with personal computer to write your Portable. We will discuss printers, modems, disk letters and keep track of drives, and plotters. Write to us with your experiences their investments. or questioQs'on any such peripheral, particularly letter Hal Goldstein In this issue we have an quality printers. expanded letters column, which gives a flavor of the varied use of The Portables. However, we want to start our Portable Profiles column.