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1. 21 Insert mode on ESC Q 22 Insert line ESC L 23 Delete line ESC M 24 Delete EOLN ESC K 25 Delete rt word Ctrl T 26 Del char under ESC P 27 Del left char Ctrl H 28 Alternative Nothing gt press Return no change BLOCK COMMANDS 29 Mark Blk begin Ctrl K Ctrl B 30 Mark Blk end Ctrl K Ctrl K 31 Mark single word Ctrl K Ctrl T 32 Hide block Ctrl K Ctrl H 43 Copy block Ctrl K Ctrl C 34 Move block Ctrl K Ctrl V 35 Delete block Ctrl K Ctrl Y 36 Read block Ctrl K Ctrl R 37 Write block Ctrl K Ctrl W MISC EDITING COMMANDS 38 End edit Ctrl K Ctrl D 39 Tab Ctrl I 40 Auto Tab Ctrl K Ctrl I 41 Restore line Ctrl Q Ctrl L 42 Find Ctrl Q Ctrl F 43 Find amp replace Ctrl Q Ctrl A 44 Repeat last find Ctrl L 45 Ctrl char prefix Ctrl P C Once you have filled in the key redefinitions the program will double check your work If it finds any conflicting defini tions it will let you know and tell you the approximate loca tion of the conflict Make any corrections that need to be made From the main menu you can press C again to review your work V Save Your Changes A When the key definitions meet your satisfaction the pro gram will return you to the initial Installation Menu At this point press Q and then press any key to return to PAM B Issue the following commands from the PAM DOS com mand line with your newly formatted work disk in drive C COPY TURBO C and Return two files
2. 6 If you want to use MemoMaker just type in the word memomakr when the Day Time and A prompt returns to the screen Notice the missing E in memomakr it should be missing 7 The MemoMaker screen will appear in the display and you may proceed to type in new text or revise old text If you choose to revise a document that is supposed to be printed you may get the original rather than the revised version in your printout unless you hurry up and replace the document before the computer starts to print it Realize also that the HP110 is not truly a multi tasking computer It can do only one thing at a time Thus there will be times when you will not be able to type in text This usually happens when the computer has to get some more text from the disk drive The computer will return control to you shortly Spend the time thinking of what you want to type next You may even type in some text if you don t mind typing blind The HP110 has a small part of memory which will store your keystrokes until the com puter has a chance to process them The computer jargon for this feature is typeahead If you try to use Lotus 1 2 3 while doing this background printing the computer will stop the printing to let you run 1 2 3 and will resume only after you leave the worksheet To start Lotus 1 2 3 from DOS type 123 from the A prompt All of this information is hinted at in the USERS MANUAL MS DOS section page 37 If you want a
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4. The DOS Commands There are three special file extensions of which you should be aware bat com and exe If you type within DOS a file name that ends with a followed by one of those three extensions DOS considers it a command That means when the file name with or without the extension is typed at the DOS prompt or from the PAM screen s top DOS line something is likely to happen If the file ends with com or exe it is or should be a program file and that program will be executed For exam ple if the Time Manager program file tm com is on the A drive typing tm from the PAM line will cause Time Manager to start Similarly Lotus 1 2 3 which is contain ed in file 123 exe can be started by typing 123 A file ending with bat is a batch file and contains one or more DOS commands The file mm bat described in the MemoMaker section of this issue can be executed by typ ing mm We ll have more on batch files in future issues program and its attendant data files must be on the A drive in order to operate correctly This poses an immediate problem for an already overcrowded computer The con tinuous memory of the HP110 is a mixed blessing in this regard It s all too easy to develop your favorite spread sheets and programs Eventually these programs get used more and more and they tend to reside on the A drive per manently Now here comes another program that has to be yy HP110 RELATED PRODUCT x TIMELOG WKS A
5. JANUARY 1986 CREATE YOUR OWN MANUAL 1 If you have a ThinkJet or an HP printer which prints graphics from PAM press f6 System Config Move to Printer the third item down in the right column using the cursor arrow keys Press 3 Next Choice until you see HP Graphics only Press f8 Exit Config to return to PAM 2 Enter Time Manager Press Shift and the Print Enter key If you have a graphics printer you will get a duplicate of the calender screen on paper Without a graphics printer you will get a dump of all the characters from the screen as your printout Your purpose is still served 3 Press f7 Help Move the printer paper down several lines Then do a Shift Print again to dump the help screen to the printer 4 Repeat this process for each screen and help screen in Time Manager 5 Go back into System Config from PAM and reset Printer to HP Graphics Alpha Note that if you want the Help screens to be printed normal size rather than graphics size you need to have System Config Printer set to HP Graphics Alpha when you dump the help screens MISSING FROM YOUR MANUAL There are several points in the manual or that should be in the manual which you might not discover on your own 1 The date on the top line of the Time Management calendar screen is the system date and can only be chang ed using f3 Clock Config from the PAM screen 2 If you press any key other than an arrow or func tion key from the Time Manag
6. a small percentage of Portable users have even heard of The Port able Paper The tremendous 20 response to our initial mailings tells us you find our service valuable so let others also know And don t forget to send us your ideas for how we can make The Portable Paper even better Hal Goldstein P S Attention Advertisers we have a strong base of subscribers who are in terested in products which increase the value of their machine THE PORTABLE PAPER Volume one Number one January 1986 Editor Hal Goldstein Department Editors Ed Keefe Cliff Looyenga Contributing Editor Gary Goodman Editorial Consultant Edward Goldfinger Art Director George Foster Typography Word Form Corporation Circulation Director Rita Goldstein Advertising Manager Hal Goldstein THE PORTABLE PAPER is published bi monthly by Personalized Software at 906 W Briggs Avenue Fairfield IA 52556 Subscription rates one year U S and U S possessions 55 Canada Mexico add 3 surface mail 6 air other countries add 6 surface mail 24 air Please allow four to six weeks for receipt of first issue Executive Editorial Circula tion and Advertising Offices P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Telephone 515 472 6330 Copyright 1986 Personalized Software all rights reserved Application to mail at second class postage rates is pending at Fairfield IA 52556 Postmaster Please send address changes to Personalized Softwa
7. addresses these and other points The documentation makes one appreciate even more the hidden beauty of this program The author of this pro gram Steve Sakoman is a true master of his craft He has included a tremendous amount of information processing capability in one very easy to use package This programming artistry along with the incredible price performance ratio of the Time Manager program has afready made it one of my favorites I trust it will become one of yours too What Time Manager Does The main or Calendar screen of Time Manager shown here tells most of the story The appointment list and to do list for the highlighted date surround a month Ga Darin artist H Bunch with Peed Gp Racketbail S N 13 14 2 28 2 H 11NgS E EE ae keeping appointments and to do lists on the computer and getting a printout of each at the start of the day In the evening you may find yourself using the program to up date these lists and perhaps use the address list and phone dialer This less costly workaround involves loading the pro gram into the computer from the disk drive along with copying the data files onto the electronic disk When you have finished using the program you need to copy the up dated data files back to the disk drive Since all of this copying to and from the disk drive can be a nuisance I have created a BATCH FILE and a method for installing the batch file
8. does the things you wish MemoMaker could do PrinterTalk takes up about 50K of disk space A shorter version about 30K sufficient for most SINGLE KEY OPERATION Instead of a hard to use intricate series of control codes a single labelled function key sends commands to your printer Simple help screens in plain English tell you what to do and all commands are summarized on a single sheet of paper for ready reference The user manual is clear and concise and includes easy to follow examples of all commands Use you printer s full potential Order PrinterTalk Version 1 2 today 49 95 including manual 10 discount for Portable Paper subscribers If you already have an earlier version of PrinterTalk send it to us with just 7 50 payable to Personalized Software and we ll send you Version 1 2 by return mail To order send this coupon or a photocopy to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 O YES Send me PrinterTalk the MemoMaker enhancer at 49 95 per copy 44 95 for Portable Paper subscribers If I am not satisfied for any reason I can return PrinterTalk within 15 days for a full refund Specify size of disk LJ 3 LI 5 NOTE If you re ordering products from more than one Personalized Software ad in this issue just write your name and address on one of the coupons staple the coupons together and make a single payment for the total Name Title Company A
9. drive and for matting it using the Format command contained in PAM C Remove the disk from the drive when it has been format ted and insert the Borland disk II Copy Turbo Pascal To Your A Drive A Assure yourself that you have about 96 000 bytes free on your A disk the electronic disk B Type in the command on the PAM DOS command line COPY C TURBO A and press the Return key Two files will be copied to the elec tronic disk C Type in the command COPY C TINST A and press the Return key Three files will be copied D Remove the Borland disk from the drive and put it ina secure place Insert your formatted disk in the drive IHI Start Installation Procedure Configure HP110 Screen A Now type in the command TINST and press the Return key You should see the opening message of the Installation Pro gram B Begin by pressing the S key to modify the screen or terminal definition You will see a list of 30 or more possible terminals that may be installed directly C When the program asks Which terminal key in 11 to THE PORTABLE PAPER choose the closest computer to the HP110 the HP 150 D Do you want to modify this definition YES Press the Y key E Terminal type HP 150 Change to HP110 F Now comes the first tricky part Send an initialization string YES you do want to The current string is ESC amp slAESC amp jS In this article ESC stands for ASCII 27 the escape character You want to change t
10. file you created with 32 CTRL D s and modify the line to create this macro 3 Execute the macro starting with the first line con taining a file name You know you have reached the last line when the computer obnoxiously continuously beeps at you Terminal 4 Save your results in a new prn file by doing a Print File pf Be sure to indicate the proper range before ex ecuting Go 5 Clear the current workspace and do a File Import _ y Numbers of your new prn file 6 Use the DATE function to convert the date now in three columns to one column Before converting the date number to a normal date format write a little macro containing edit calc down Use this so that the value of the DATE function is saved and is not dependent on the three numbers used to create the value You can then delete the three columns containing month day and year Now convert the number format to date format 7 Save your new file as a worksheet You can now sort according to any of the fields 8 If the directory contains subdirectories you will need to create another macro to modify the subdirectory rows You can recognize a subdirectory because the gt of lt DIR gt has been captured by the original conversion macro This entire procedure can be automated If you decide to do so send us your solution and we will publish the best Getting Started on CompuServe INTRODUCTION A lot of space in the Terminal column in our f
11. in ROM MemoMaker the third prompt command resets the DOS prompt Fri 14 06 A back to normal The two added lines to the PAM MNU file cause the second MemoMaker box to appear on the PAM screen Note the explanation in this issues 110 s column under Changing The Application Order On PAM Our thanks to Ken Allen s CompuServe article and to Michael Rhodes 7 UP USA Layton Utah for tips leading to this article Next month we will discuss in detail the HP110 prompt command Also we will explain batch files such as MM BAT which contain a sequence of DOS commands Tab It Many MemoMaker users are in the habit of using the right or left arrow key exclusively to move back and forth on a line Pressing the Tab key or holding down Shift with the Tab is a quicker way of moving right and left while in_ no way affecting the line x HP110 RELATED PRODUCT x ACCULINK Micro 16 Classy Communications For Your 110 Portable ACCULINK asynchronous communications soft ware gives your Portable the power it needs to transfer files emulate a VT102 VT100 VT52 Televideo 950 ADM 3A or IBM 3101 C terminal drive several models of autodial modems in cluding the built in 110 modem and manipulate 25 line screens through the 16 line display Acculink is flexible to use From menu driven for the novice to macro programmable for the ex pert Acculink offers toggled screen capture and printer echo capabilities otherwise unavailab
12. in the application screen of PAM If you can type in the batch file and if you are willing to wait about 15 seconds for the program to load from disk then you may find this workaround acceptable In the next issue I will take you through a step by step procedure for creating such a batch file A FINAL NOTE I had been using the Time Manager program for approximately two weeks before I received a copy of the program s documentation The combined documentation user s guide is approx imately 35 pages long It can be read in one sitting especially if you have been using the Time Manager pro gram already Most of the documentation is a replication of the Help Screens contained in the program The new in sights to be gained from the manual are in the section which describes how to connect the HP 110 computer to your telephone so that you can use the program s auto 8 JANUARY 1986 ale ES ea eel es October 28 1985 Ree Day 33S Week 43 Oct ber 1983 23 wimes 26 Things To bo nanag SUMMIT done cor User pee In Eai i citi viet fag gartickes Eh ly calendar On top and bottom of these three boxes is a hidden DOS command line and function keys THE DOS COMMAND LINE Just as in PAM you can issue a DOS command from Time Manager When you type anything but an arrow or function key the top inverse video line containing today s date disappears and the DOS A prompt takes it
13. take up memory and take time and patience to enter if you want them in one cell you might get discouraged However there is a trick which takes advan tage of the copy con discussion in this issue s DOS column From DOS or the PAM DOS line you can type the following then press Return copy con d prn Proceed to type CTRL D hold down the CTRL key and press d 32 times 32 D s will appear on the screen Press Return then CTRL Z and Return again Go back into Lotus and import the text file d prn What does all this do for you It turns out that the 1 2 3 macro interpreter understands CTRL D ASCII 4 to be right In fact we JANUARY 1986 3 THE PORTABLE PAPER B Drive have developed a table that we ll publish in a future issue mapping almost all the macro symbols to ASCII codes A MACRO TO FACILITATE SORTING For the rest of the article we continue to assume you are a knowledgeable 1 2 3 user and understand macros We will outline the steps to create a Lotus worksheet file from the directory such that each column contains a field of the directory 1 Perform a File Import Text fit of the file created from the dir command 2 Create the following macro Here D stands for D which is the code for right edit home D DDDDDDDD D DDDDD DDDDDDD DDDD del DD del DDDD end down xg r Name the macro cell r Because of the copy con step you performed earlier you can File Import Text the
14. the program should display the following message WAIT SORTING DEFINITIONS OOCOCOI O ERROR 99 PC XXXX hex number varies PROGRAM ABORTED Press any key to return to PAM So far only the TINST DTA file has been updated The TURBO COM file has not been altered If you try to edit a file with Turbo at this point you will only get a screen full of garbage T Press any key to get back to PAM and type in TINST again and press Return to get back into the installation program Select the S option again and choose terminal H this time it is the HP110 When the prompt asks if you want to modify this defini tion respond by typing N and pressing Return This time the program will run to completion and TURBO COM will be modified for the HP110 You should see the installation menu appear on the screen IV Defining The HP110 Keyboard 14 A This time choose the C option to redefine the keyboard for the Turbo editor If you are satisfied with using WordStar com mands exclusively you can skip the next series of instructions and move to V below B What follows is a list of alternate key definitions required so that you can use the HP110 cursor arrow keys and the Ex tend char like Prev and Char I will just show the finished product In the finished product you will sometimes see Control characters such as Ctrl A In order to produce such key redefinition hold down the CTRL key and press the called for letter Think of the CTR
15. using the editor that comes with the Turbo PASCAL package with little or no difficul ty The editor is a WordStar work alike and incorporates many of the same control commands as that venerable word processor The Pascal compiler is one of the first single pass compilers for microcomputers This means that a correctly 12 JANUARY 1986 written program will be translated from its text version source code into its machine language equivalent object code in one very fast compilation an average of 100 lines per second That means that development time for writing a Pascal program is in the same time frame as writing a pro gram in BASIC In both cases you are not forced to wait 15 minutes to a half hour for the program to be compiled If the compiler encounters a mistake in your program it will stop compiling give you an error message on the screen and let you move directly to the text version of your pro gram at the spot where the error occurred Correcting mistakes is done more easily in Turbo Pascal than it is in BASIC I was also pleasantly surprised when I called Borland International and discovered that Turbo Pascal was available for the HP 150 and HP110 If you decide to order this program be sure to specify that you want the MS DOS version on a 3 5 inch disk What you will get for the relatively small expense of 70 is the generic version of the Turbo Pascal programm ing environment a 38K byte program that contains both th
16. wonu s2995 s2695 C rovas woouten s295 s2625 C emren s995 sass C anwe sope Ship Hand 5 console 3 disk outside U S 10 console 6 disk for Portable Paper subscribers only NOTE If you re ordering products from more than one Personalized Software ad in this issue just write your name and ad dress on one of the coupons staple the coupons to gether and make a single payment for the total Subtotal lowa residents add 4 tax TOTAL AMOUNT DUE PP8601 THE PORTABLE PAPER directly to the UART overriding the previous configuration sent to it by PAM Q Second the Terminal Emulator User s Manual 1 18 men tions that it s possible to leave the Terminal Emulator pro gram without breaking your connection to the host computer However every time I press exit to main from the Terminal main menu the modem hangs up the phone What is the correct technique A This is a known bug in the Terminal Emulator Even if you go from connected to the main menu the Terminal program will hang up the phone There is no workaround for this Note however that this applies only to the built in modem and not for a modem connected to the HP110 via the RS232 port Q And third how do I use the Terminal Emulator s im plementation of the modem 7 protocol to transfer files with another computer such as an IBM PC using Smart com or Crosstalk or with a
17. 2 3 They can be sim ple models or complex menu driven macro controlled multifile systems Steve reports that Mr John Clements has put together a collection of templates for 1 2 3 cover ing statistics very well The company Professional Ap plications Development 12 Sandy Way Weymouth MA 02191 617 331 4062 the price 65 We talked with Mr Clements who said he was willing to send a 3 1 2 loaner disk with the normal 5 1 4 disk and 93 page manual After making a copy he asks that the 3 1 2 disk be sent back Steve Cochran also reports that a personal accounting Lotus template Personal Accounting System works fine If you are a Lotus Magazine subscriber the program is briefly reviewed in the July issue page 93 The author of the program Steve Cooper told us that his two other Lotus templates FedTax 85 for what if tax analysis and Per sonal Mailing System for mailing labels also work with no problem on the HP110 He did mention that the smaller screen size of the HP110 makes the templates not as visual ly pleasing as on his IBM PC version The programs cost 35 each 30 each if more than one is ordered and come only on 5 1 4 disk Order from Easy As 36 S Charles St Suite 402 Baltimore MD 21201 301 539 5540 JANUARY 1986 21 THE PORTABLE PAPER 110 WIZ Controlling the 110 Beeper Have you ever wondered if you could play music on the HP110 or at least change the frequency of the b
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19. 50 and the IBM PC The quotes are from literature sent with the products From Emerging Technology we received EDIX a sophisticated word processing software package for the serious writer Write 4760 Walnut Street Boulder CO 80301 303 447 9495 IE SYSTEMS INC 112 Main Street Newmarket NH 03857 603 659 5891 sent us ACCULINK a communications package you can use instead of Terminal It is flexible menu driven for the novice to macro program mable for the expert Finally we received MoneyCalc and Tax Plan ner from Money Tree 760 SW Madison Corvallis OR 97333 503 757 1178 These Lotus templates are for financial and tax planning JANUARY 1986 13 THE PORTABLE PAPER A Drive L If the Erase to End of Line is ESC K press Return otherwise key in 27 75 and press Return M The next two prompts for Starting and Ending Highlighting are best left as they are for aesthetic reasons Just press the Return key in response to both prompts N In response to the Number of lines prompt key in 16 and press Return O In response to the Number of columns prompt key in 80 and press Return P Press Return for the last three prompts in the series Q When the program asks you if the definition is correct res pond with Y and Return R When asked for the operating frequency of your microprocessor use the single number 5 and press Return Don t panic when you see the error message S At this point
20. ABSTRACT This is an article extolling the benefits of us ing the Turbo Pascal programming environment on the HP110 computer The author shows how to configure the Turbo Pascal compiler editor so that it will operate cor rectly on a 16 line display Turbo Pascal is a registered trademark of Borland Analytica INTRODUCTION I am well aware from talking with other owners of the HP110 Computer that most owners and users of this por table computer do not use it to write computer programs Of those who do use the computer to write their own programs the majority use some form of the BASIC language either MicroSoft BASIC or GW BASIC Perhaps the second most popular language that people use on the HP110 is the dBASE II command language All of these options have their merits but the one greatest drawback in my estimation is that programs written in these languages are interpreted rather than compiled and hence can only run when the BASIC or dBASE program is resident in the computer This takes up computer memory and slows down the execution of the program HP does sell the MicroSoft BASIC compiler I had been using the Turbo Pascal programming envi ronment on the IBM PC for several months I teach Pascal programming at the local community college I was already sold on the power of Pascal as a better instruc tional tool and was very much satisfied with the speed and ease of use of Turbo Pascal I could write my programs
21. CHARACTERS for MemoMaker 2 Screen size is now 16 LINES 3 Form feeds are SIMULATED 4 Horizontal Tabs are REAL 5 Terminal supports UPPER LOWER 6 Caps Lock is OFF 7 Line Feeds are SENT 8 Parity is EVEN 9 Blank Lines are SENT You may modify the Terminal Type and Terminal Parameters by typing go default at any CompuServe prompt In general at any prompt except when you are asked to push Return lt CR gt you can type a go or any other command If you ever don t know how to exit a menu screen type t for top to go back to the previous menu To enter the HP 100 Series Users Forum sponsored by HP type go hp To enter INTEREX the international HP users group type go interex DOWNLOADING KEY FILES We will now enter the HP Forum in order for you to download some key files When you download you are transferring files from the host CompuServe computer to your HP110 In the HP Forum there is a data library of files available for downloading Data library 6 contains instruc tions for making the most of the HP Forum There are three files that would be good to download to get you started The procedure is the same for each so we will just describe how to download file gtstrt hlp which gives you an Overview of the HP Forum Assuming that you are logged on to CompuServe type go hp In general press Return whenever instructed to do so In order to enter data library 6 at the first available non lt CR gt prompt within th
22. Changing The Application Order On PAM There is no direct way to change the order of the ap plications on your PAM screen However if you don t mind a bit of redundancy there is a little trick Let s say most of the time you will be using 1 2 3 You would like 1 2 3 to be listed first on the PAM screen so all you have to do is press Return when you turn on your HP110 To do this first go into MemoMaker Create file PAM MNU with the following two lines Lotus 1 2 3 123 If you already have a PAM MNU file add those two lines as the first two lines of the file The order of the programs listed in your PAM MNU file will be the order of the pro grams as they appear on your PAM screen This solution puts two Lotus 1 2 3 boxes on the PAM screen This makes your screen more crowded but it also makes life a little easier Can The Portable Be Upgraded With the introduction of the Portable Plus a number of readers have asked us if it would be possible to upgrade their Portable Most of us would love a 25 line screen and more RAM Unfortunately HP says no and there is no upgrade program in the works Sorry Unpublicized Recalls Things HP Will Fix For Free Hewlett Packard is fairly good about fixing problems when the company is at fault However for understand able reasons they do not advertise these problems If you are having problems with your HP110 make sure your authorized HP service representative checks through his service n
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24. HP150 version to get 3 1 2 disks or the MSDOS version to get 5 1 4 disks The IBM PC version of Turbo Pascal will not run on the HP110 Personalized Software has made arrangements with Borland International to distribute their products We of fer Portable Paper subscribers a 5 discount on any Borland product In addition we will send a supplemen tary HP110 installed Turbo Pascal disk to any Portable Paper subscriber who orders Turbo Pascal from us TURBOPASCAL Retail Portable Paper subscribers Turbo Pascal 69 95 65 95 Turbo Tutor 34 95 32 95 Turbo Toolbox 54 95 51 95 Holiday Pack All 3 125 00 119 00 Iowa residents add 4 tax Shipping and handling 3 00 item 5 00 Holiday Pack Non US orders add 6 00 If ordered from Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fair field Iowa 52556 515 472 6330 allow 1 to 3 weeks for delivery MasterCard or VISA accepted Specify disk size All Borland products are supported by Borland Technical Support 408 438 8400 The HP 110 Portable Power to Go by Dale Flanagan Reviewed By Gary Goodman The HPIO is a marvel of technical engineering However the documentation supplied by Hewlett Packard for this marvel is mediocre and often too skimpy for the serious user to obtain the full benefit of the computer or its built in software i Dale Flanagan s book on the ll0 is a welcome addi tion and has the potential to pick up where HP left off Mr Flanagan is a good
25. L like the Shift key you hold it down with a letter Now pressing the Caps key to insure that you are in uppercase mode Wherever you see an escape sequence a sequence of characters beginning with the escape ESC character know that this redefinition is accomplished by pressing the ESC key once and then pressing the appropriate letter The ESC key is NOT like the Shift or CTRL key It is like any other keyboard character It just should be pressed once alone by itself Wherever you see two consecutive control characters these have been effected by pressing and holding the CTRL key while pressing the two appropriate letters one at a time CURSOR MOVEMENTS if only MemoMaker had some of these Character left ESC D gt press Return no change Alternative Nothing gt press Return no change Character right ESC C gt press Return no change Word left Ctrl A Word right Ctrl F Line up ESC A gt press Return no change Line down ESC B gt press Return no change SEQ RR N m JANUARY 1986 8 Scroll down ESC T 9 Scroll up ESC 10 Page up ESC V 11 Page down ESC U 12 To left of line Ctrl Q Ctrl S 13 To right of line Ctrl Q Ctrl D 14 To top of page Ctrl Q Ctrl E 15 To bott of page Ctrl Q Ctrl X 16 To top of file ESC h note lower case 17 To end of file ESC F 18 To beg of block Ctrl Q Ctrl B 19 To end of block Ctrl Q Ctrl K 20 To last cursor Ctrl Q Ctrl P INSERT amp DELETE
26. Manager is easy to use and supplies built in help screens if you get stuck Time Manager can be invoked by either installing it into PAM or by typing TM on the top DOS line of the PAM screen assuming file TM COM is on the A drive Once you use Time Manager a bit you won t need the file TM HLP which contains all the context sensitive help messages Deleting TM HLP saves you 6528 bytes on your A drive You can easily create a mini manual for reference as follows This Year s Themes Issues two through five of The Portable Paper will each have a theme based on B drive built in software Send in your contributions according to upcoming themes The entire readership welcomes your knowledge ISSUE 2 DOS commands and Utilities Mail in your DOS tricks and information or utility programs that are useful on the HP110 ISSUE 3 MemoMaker and Word Pro cessors on the HP110 Tell us of your experience with word pro cessors on the HP110 Give u your MemoMaker tips and tricks ISSUE 4 Terminal and Electronic Bulletin Boards Mail in your experience using Terminal Give us configurations autologon sequences tips and opinions of on line information services Tell us about good public domain bulletin boards for information and software relevant to the HP110 ISSUE 5 Lotus and Lotus products Send us your Lotus tips and macros especially if they relate to the HP110 Tell us of products or free software that run with HP110 Lotus 10
27. Volume 1 Number 1 The HP110 Users Newsletter January 1986 Portable Paper Publisher s Message inside cover If you don t have a manual 10 Lettes ios a Haier aban ease inside cover A discussion with the author of Time Manager 11 a T E E 1 How to get Time Manager for free M1 B DRIVE Turbo Pascal MemoMaker Turbo Charging the HP110 12 Creating a backspace erase key 2 Book Review WADE teases ees ese A AE Nd te Ca 2 The HP110 Portable Power toGo 16 meee Through the Looking Glass Wandering around 0 0 0 0 0 00 ce ee 3 oug 9 8 Cataloging your files 00 0000 eee 3 The DOS print command examined 17 Terminal The Connection Getting started on CompuServe 4 Running IBM software on the HP110 21 izardr The COPY CON command 5 6 2 2 DOS commands 00000 eee 7 Controlling the 110 beeper 22 A DRIVE Undocumented escape sequence 22 The Wizard responds 22 Time Manager Received for review 13 BOVC Wr OL LME MeDAR CE PIOSAN ais ier piia are teint 7 PrinterTalk winners 6 What Time Manager does 8 HP110 local user groups 24 PUBLISHER S MESSAGE I m excited An idea onl
28. WE WILL CONVERT your 5 1 4 disks to 3 1 2 or vice versa Send us your disk and 9 50 We ll mail your disk and a copy back If we can copy your public domain software tell us and you pay only 5 Personalized Soft ware PO BOX 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 WE LL SELL YOUR SOFTWARE We ll manufacture market and dis tribute your high _ N quality HP110 software including Lotus templates Hal __ Goldstein Personalized Software POB 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 A fully interactive SCRABBLE game you can hold in your hand The perfect gift great fun for the entire family DOES THE IMPOSSIBLE In December 1981 Byte magazine ran an article saying that the popular Scrabble brand word game was im possible to implement on a personal computer Unbeknownst to Byte however some friends of ours at a company called Ritam Corporation had already done the impossible Their state of the art computer game MONTY PLAYS SCRABBLE ran on several popular home computers Not content with doing the impossi ble once our friends at Ritam later took their personal computer version of MONTY and compressed the whole thing another order of magnitude smaller The result was the incredible portable console version of MONTY that you see pictured here MONTY was the hit of the 1983 Con Manufactured by Ritam Corporation under license from Selchow amp Righter Company owner of the registered trademark Scrabble sumer
29. ack to PAM with 8 From PAM point the arrow to Terminal and press Return Press Return again when prompted for a Con figuration File Name Press f5 Terminal Config For the comment line type something indicating it is the Compu Serve configuration file Now tab twice to Phone Number Next issue we will tell you how to set up your Logon String so you do not have to type in your ID and password each time Here type in the phone number you must dial to log into CompuServe The TymeNet or CompuServe number you require is available in your starter kit or can be obtained by calling the CompuServe support line 800 848 8990 Page 1 14 of the Terminal section of the HP110 Owner s Manual describes the optional symbols you can use in the phone number At Personalized Soft ware we call Des Moines and put 1 270 1581 in the Phone Number field The rest of the settings are fine Press f2 Store File to save this configuration We call our file cs ter Now press f8 Exit Config To anticipate downloading ASCII text files files that we can edit in MemoMaker press f4 Download Config Tab to Remote Invocation Type R which is the Compu Serve read file command Tab to Protocols and type f3 Next Choice so that Protocols is off Now press 2 Store File You can call the file cstext dow Now press f8 a cou ple of times to exit the Terminal program LOGGING ON Now you re ready to go Transfer your phone jack from your phone to t
30. al worksheet file fs before quitting qy If you would like to be able to sort your directory by date by file size or by any of the fields in your listing things get more complicated Somehow each field e g date time file name must occupy its own column To ac complish this feat you must make changes to the original files prn file Then the File Import Numbers fin com mand can be used The fin command puts any quoted string or number in its own column Therefore the file names must be surrounded by quotes For example two entries that look like this TM COM 34944 8 24 85 10 55a TM HLP 6528 8 24 85 10 58a must be converted to look like this TM COM 34944 82485 10 55a TM HLP 6528 82485 10 58a Once converted every field including day month and year will have its own column when it is imported into 1 2 3 using the fin command To edit each line of each directory by hand is out of the question Fortunately the Lotus macro facility allows you to automate the task We assume here that you know how to use the macro facility Future issues of The Por table Paper will contain articles adopting a more tutorial approach to macros A MACRO TRICK A macro to modify files prn requires the symbol right which stands for move the cursor to the right to be written 32 times If you were to edit a line by hand you would press the right arrow key 32 times Because 32 right s
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33. arning how to use the current generation of microcomputers Hewlett Packard has gone a long way in making the Portable computer more orderly to use with its Personal Applications Manager PAM will keep most users out of the clutches of the Microsoft Operating System MS DOS Yet once you want to do something different something not described in the USERS MANUAL you will find that the only thing to do is delve into DOS and experience the chaos For example did you know that your HP110 will let you do two things at once You may or may not have realized that your computer can print out the first part of i lengthy report while you are working on the last part of the report Here s how to turn the HP110 into a double duty working wonder reading computer manuals I encourage Mr Flanagan and Que Corporation to continue working on a new edition to strengthen it technically and to cover some of the topics in more depth so that it will be of value to more experienc ed users as well Ed I agree with Gary s assessment of the book However although there are many technical inaccuracies which Que Corporation should correct I would still recommend the book to those non technical users who are beginning to explore the HP110 s various capabilities and prefer an easy to read prose style At Personalized Soft ware we give Power to Go to our non technically oriented employees rather than handing them a manual Ordering inf
34. ater challenge you can insert one or both of MONTY s optional 16 000 word Advanced Vocabulary Modules ROM chips Advanced Module I adds words that are somewhat less common than those in the basic console Module II adds words that are less common still words like xi and qaid Using both modules gives MONTY a hefty 44 000 word vocabulary _ and comes with its _ struction booklet 1 _ play are the same a _ able console versio GUARANTEED MONTY comes with a 90 day factory warranty plus our own 15 day no risk trial offer If within 15 days you are dissatisfied with either version of MONTY PLAYS SCRABBLE you may return it to us for a full refund Order MONTY PLAYS SCRABBLE today Original price was 149 95 Now only 99 95 39 95 for IBM PC version 10 discount for Portable Paper subscribers Orders received by December 16 will be shipped in time to reach you by Christmas To order send this coupon or a photocopy to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 1985 Personalized Software Discount 10 is E Name Title Company Address City State Zip Card Cardholder signature Telephone L O Method of payment L Check J MasterCard O VISA Expires L YES Send me MONTY PLAYS SCRABBLE If I am not satisfied for any reason I can return the product s within 15 days for a full refund Quantity Item Konv ronne consoue s0995 sss C ovamo
35. better treatment of the material I would recommend A Comp rehensive Guide To The IBM PC by George Markowsky Prentice Hall 1985 If you have any suggestions for topics you would like to see in this column address all correspondence to the author care of The FastAid Co 314 S W Logan Ankeny IA 50021 515 964 7064 110 continued Back Up Your A Disk P No matter how experienced a computer user you are it won t hurt to hear these words once again BACK UP YOUR WORK I know of no regular computer user no matter how friendly the software who has not managed to lose work Whether in Lotus Memomaker or DOS you can easily erase old files by copying new files to the old file names There are countless other ways to lose hours or months of work And for seemingly no reason at all your HP110 can give you that stomach knotting message that goes something to the effect of Data Error Reading Disc A Press Return To Reformat The A Disk The easiest way to back up your files on your elec tronic A disk to a formatted disk in the C drive is to press f2 File Manager from PAM From there press f6 Copy File Typing and Return on the prompt line will indicate you want to copy all files on the A drive Simply type C for the 20 JANUARY 1986 destination file prompt Then check that you have a for matted disk in C with the proper connection and press fl Start Copy You format the disk in the C drive by pressing f5 fr
36. con command is copy con file ext where con stands for console and file ext stands for a file name of your choosing The command means copy whatever is about to be typed until CTRL z and Return are pressed to the file you name Note if a file already exists lt with that name you will destroy that file PUTTING AN ESCAPE CHARACTER IN A FILE You can embed an escape character into your file by pressing the DEL ESC key followed by the amp key When THE PORTABLE PAPER B Drive those two keys are hit in succession a appears on the screen denoting the escape character Once an escape _ character is captured in a file you can do a DOS print to send the characters in the file to the printer or DOS type to send the characters in the file to the screen Advanced Lotus users Note that you can file import text fit prn files containing escape sequences and con trol characters If you think you can now fool MemoMaker into accepting escape sequences forget it MemoMaker wipes out any escape or control character when it reads in a file An example of embedding an escape character with the command copy con condense prn you can create file condense prn containing five characters amp k2S amp gets typed twice once to help create the escape character and again to create itself After you issue the command print condense pm your ThinkJet printer until told other wise will print in condensed print Yo
37. copied COPY TINST C and Return three files copied DEL TINST and Return Your HP110 is now TURBO CHARGED with Turbo Pascal HAMA es EEN M emomaker users Now you can take advan tage of all your printer s features not just bold and underline PrinterTalk Version 1 2 an easy to use soft ware package from Personalized Software prints your MemoMaker files allowing you to e Change attributes type styles anywhere within the files you print Bold underline italic compressed EX panded whatever your printer supports e Control numerous print functions including number of copies lines per inch lines per page spacing including double triple quadruple automatic page numbering Avoid paper waste by preventing annoying form feeds Use your HP110 as an electronic typewriter PrinterTalk connects your keyboard directly to your printer Great for labels envelopes short notes any small typing task e Perform advanced features supported by your printer such as superscripting and subscripting CUSTOMIZED FOR YOUR PRINTER PrinterTalk stores the escape sequences command codes that tell your HP printer how to perform attri butes and print functions Escape sequences are already built into PrinterTalk for ThinkJet LaserJet and car tridges and other HP printers and you can easily customize PrinterTalk for any other printer as well PrinterTalk The MemoMaker Enhancer It
38. ddress City State Zip Telephone Method of payment No Cost Total cost E ehe copies per copy L MasterCard L VISA Iowa residents add 4 tax Shipping and handling add 3 disk 7 non U S Total amount due Card Expires Cardholder signature THE PORTABLE PAPER A Drive Finish the task by installing the program in the PAM menu of applications To do this use your MemoMaker program and type in the lines TURBO PASCAL TURBOCOM and save this with the filename PAM MNU Alternatively if you already have a PAM MNU file GET that file and add the two lines above to it and then restore it to the electronic disk Now you are ready to work with Turbo Pascal on the HP110 in the way it was meant to work If any reader is still gun shy of performing this in stallation procedure the author will provide a correct ly installed version for no charge Send some kind of proof of purchase eg a receipt a master disk and a for matted disk along with a self addressed stamped envelope to Ed Keefe c o FastAid Co 314 S W Logan Ankeny IA 50021 Ed In CompuServe HP User s Forum Steve Broshears put up another version of the installation procedure for the HP110 for those used to the HP1000 editor Download files TCMDS MSG TCMDS TXT and TINST DAT Ordering Information Turbo Pascal Turbo products can be ordered from Borland Interna tional 4585 Scotts Valley Dr Scotts Valley CA 95066 800 255 8008 Order the
39. e HP Forum type dl6 and Return xa6 also works After pressing Return as in structed type bro gtstrt hlp but do not press Return yet The command means browse or look at file gtstrt hlp On your keyboard if the function key labels are not up press the User System key Now press 4 Download Config Press JANUARY 1986 5 THE PORTABLE PAPER B Drive fl to Load File cstext dow Tab to To Local File and type in the HP110 file name for the file to be downloaded The simplest thing is to keep the same name so type gtstrt hlp Note that when browsing files From Remote File remains empty Press f8 to Exit Config and you are ready to download the file Press fl From Host Until you tell the HP110 dif ferently from now on what ever gets typed to the screen will be captured in file gtstrt hlp Press Return if nothing is happening An abstract of file gtstrt hlp gets printed to your screen When prompted type rea to read the whole file You know the file has been sent when you are asked fora lt CR gt Press f8 Exit to end the transfer Now give CompuServe the command t to go back to the top of the menu Repeat the procedure for files more hlp and dnill0 hlp both in data library 6 Start with bro more hlp more hlp contains the file names and descriptions of the Data Library 6 instruction files dnll10 hlp is an absolutely essen tial instruction file which describes how to download text and program files Many Portabl
40. e Paper subscribers have asked us how to download program files dnl110 hlp con tains the answer In the next issues we will elaborate onthe procedures If CONNECTED ever appears at the bottom of your screen just press Return In fact if nothing seems to be happening pressing Return one or more times is the first thing you should try You might also try CTRL C If all else fails hold down CTRL and Shift and press the Break Stop key This is not the ideal way to exit Terminal but it will get you logged off CompuServe and back to PAM To exit CompuServe correctly at any prompt type bye In the near future Personalized Software will be sell ing at a nominal fee many of the public domain software and articles found on the CompuServe board and elsewhere Because of legalities outlined in Data Library 6 file policy hlp please note that the files we will distribute are not obtained from CompuServe The COPY CON Command HOW IT WORKS The DOS copy command performs many useful func tions for the HP110 user You can for example create a file using copy without going into MemoMaker Furthermore as Gary Goodman tells us you can use copy to place an escape sequence or some of the control codes within a file This feat is impossible using HP110 MemoMaker An escape sequence is a sequence of characters beginning with the ESC escape character ASCII 27 In the HP world escape sequences are used to tell the printer to do th
41. e compiler and editor On the same disk there is a 1200 line Pascal program called Calc This program produces a single screen electronic spreadsheet However this pro gram will not work properly on the HP110 since it is designed for a screen with 24 lines rather than 16 lines This is no great loss since we all have Lotus 1 2 3 to play with What you will not get are the added routines that come with the IBM PC version of the Turbo Pascal pro gram window creating capabilities sound and turtlegraphic primitives and color commands If you have been toying with the decision of purchas ing this program perhaps now is the best time of year to take the plunge Borland International is sponsoring a Christmas sale For 125 you get the Turbo Pascal program along with Turbo Tutor a great learning package and the Turbo Toolbox a series of data base management pro grams which may save you the cost of buying dBASE II or A Drive PFS File The Toolbox and Tutor have recently become available along with Turbo Pascal on 3 1 2 disk for the HP150 and HP110 INSTALLING THE TURBO PASCAL COMPILER EDITOR One of the first tasks you will have to accomplish when you get Turbo Pascal is to install the program on the HP110 You see the program comes in an off the rack fashion It is up to you to make some alterations to the program so that it will fit the HP110 like a tailor made suit Oddly enough Bo
42. e problems The last two chapters in the book Connecting the Portable to Other Computers and Programming the Por table s Features are quite valuable especially since the topics are hardly covered in the HP manuals I would have preferred for the book to go a little further in explaining some of the terminal escape sequences which the HP manual doesn t explain at all In conclusion I cannot recommend this book as long as sO many technical errors remain Assuming that the er rors were corrected then I would give this book a good recommendation for people who were not adept at Through the Looking by Ed Keefe Through the Looking Glass is the title of a famous s Lewis Carroll book The phrase Through the Looking Glass also represents to me the HP110 Once you get beyond the looking glass display you enter a world of the mind that is as chaotic as anything that Alice would have found on her trips This column will attempt to do two things bring order to those who think the HP110 computer is a thing of chaos and bring a little more chaos to those who think the HP Portable is very orderly The author of this column is a fellow user like yourself He has had over twenty years experience work ing with computers but like yourself he has had to go through the chaos order cycle with the Hewlett Packard Portable That chaos order learning cycle is the only way to go in le
43. eeper Well you can do the latter Changing the beeper frequen cy can easily be done in Turbo Pascal with the following procedure fA SSE ARE OA ert pas O On ee ee ae the beeper in the HP110 finest tr art eters eas poe EE Mats va wera pee N ye procedure to change the frequency of l Procedure newfrequency tone byte procedure to send a command to the ppu procedure sendppu command byte var status byte Begin repeat wait for ppu to be ready status port A2 and 40 until status 0 port 60 command end Begin main of newfrequency inline FA disable interrupts sendppu 61 write enable sendppu 12 address within ppu sendppu tone write new frequency sendppu 7EF end of command inline FB enable interrupts end When calling this procedure specify a value between 1 and 255 where 1 is the highest tone that the HP110 can generate and 255 is the lowest Once this call is complete any time a beep is done example printing an ascii 7 it will beep at the new frequency This will stay in effect until you get back into PAM PAM nicely resets everything If you think this newsletter is valuable help us spread the word Despite the tremendous reponse from people like you at most only 10 of HP110 owners have heard of us Mail us the names of HP110 users and we will send them our literature Meanwhile give them The Port tahle Tobe o order f
44. er calendar screen you will produce the DOS prompt A gt on the top line If you ac cidentally hit a key press Backspace to delete the character then press Return If you type from the calendar screen 123 terminal or command you will find yourself in Lotus 1 2 3 the Terminal program or DOS respectively Press ing f3 Notes puts you in MemoMaker 3 Pressing the Enter key lower left of keyboard moves the date on the calendar to today s date 4 Extend char left arrow and Extend char right arrow take you to the first and last day of the month on the calendar 5 In general the Extend char keys work as they do in MemoMaker when typing in data for any of the lists In particular Extend lt char gt char takes you in and out of insert mode Shift Tab and Tab move you back and forth through fields when entering data 6 If you wish to edit or back up your lists then know that a TM TDO contains the to do list b TM NAM contains Name and Address list c NOT contains the various note files stands for dates So 10 24 85 NOT contains Oct 24 1985 notes d PAM ALM contains the Appointments list You cannot edit the TM NAM file from MemoMaker since lines may be too long The format for PAM ALM files is described in the Users Manual under alarms 2 26 Those lines in PAM ALM beginning with have no alarm set a Neves THE PORTABLE PAPER A Drive 7 You may store no more than 200 items in eithe
45. fill that need The Terminal Emulator program is a good example This is a program of major importance major because of the capabilities it provides However Power To Go does not go into the detail needed to make more than casual dumb terminal use of the program The techniques of downloading uploading and file capture and transfer using the Modem7 protocol are very important HP s documentation is quite thin here and this book ignores the topic completely There is a real need for good written material covering this topic The lack of explanation on why and how to transfer files using the Terminal Emulator program is a major shortcoming in this book one which I hope the author will correct in a future edition There are many areas in the HP110 manuals where im portant information is obscure or missing altogether A good example is that no mention is made in the Terminal Emulator User s Manual that when using the built in modem the automatic logon string works only when first entering the Terminal program It does not work when THE PORTABLE PAPER dialing with the Dial function key Many users find it necessary to call HP to find out why their logon sequence gt doesn t work The value of this book would be greatly in creased if it capitalized on HP s weakness in this and other areas by including them in the text I m sure HP would gladly help Mr Flanagan in compiling a list of areas in which users frequently hav
46. g this built in print spooler For those of you who knew this already you probably also JANUARY 1986 17 Maze Number dah Score Specifi fy si NOTE if m re e ordering produc aa Uh oh The tiger s right behind me Better stay calm Just follow the fox s trail gobble up those dots and don t panic LOOK OUT here comes a wall Turn left No not that way left Why didn t Oh yeah the keys aren t left and right they re clockwise and counterclockwise I want clockwise Quick now Boy that was close But yikes Now the tiger is gaining on me He ll catch me before I catch the fox Looks like I m sunk Wait there s hope If only I can make it to that Maze Changer in time Here goes careful now Turn clockwise Clockwise Y again Almost there Whew I MADE IT Now where am I There s the fox and there s his trail And the tiger Pretty close but I can always escape out that gate And this maze has three Maze Changers All right Tiger I m ready for you this time SuperGroup Association Today and Get 3 FREE ISSUES Become a part of the world s largest association of HP 3000 users You ll receive twelve issues a year with articles by the experts user experience stories product announcements and vendor profiles send in the membership application today to receive a one year s subscription and enjoy three additional magazines FREE MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION N
47. he back of the HP110 Put the PAM cursor on Terminal and Return Type in es ter or whatever you named your terminal configuration file On the bot tom of your screen you will see a message like Dialing gt 1 270 1581 and then Waiting for Carrier and then if all goes well CONNECTED As soon as you see CON NECTED type CTRL C hold down the CTRL key and type c don t press Return You will be asked for your ID We type in 72257 714 When prompted type in your password Your password will not be echoed back to you on the screen so type carefully The first time you sign on CompuServe will ask you all sorts of questions like what is your credit card number You will be asked questions about your com _ puter Gary Goodman of Fredericksburg VA writes that the following settings work well for the HP110 and allow captured data to be easily edited and printed from MemoMaker Select OTHER as the Terminal Type and the following as Terminal Parameters x HP110 RELATED PRODUCT x Format 110 Extend the usefulness of MemoMaker With this 24K byte printing program Features 50 faster printing than MemoMaker Auto Page Numbering Headers Footers Driven by function keys or dot commands Unattended printing of multiple documents a nt aetna en ne me Send check or m o for 39 95 to FastAid Co 314 S W Logan Ankeny IA 50021 TERMINAL TYPE OTHER Baud Rate 300 TERMINAL PARAMETERS 1 Terminal width 79
48. he j to a semicolon Here is how to do this when the program prompts you with Change to type in the following sequence of numbers 21 38 115 49 65 27 38 59 83 Be sure to press the space bar between each number The numbers are the ASCII equivalents of the initialization string When you have double checked the numbers press the Return key If you find a mistake you may use the backspace key to back up to the mistake and retype as much of the line as needed G The procedure for reset string is very similar to the above In this case you want to change the j to also The string of numbers is 21 38 115 48 65 27 38 59 82 H For all the prompts beginning with CURSOR LEAD IN and ending with CLEAR SCREEN command simply press the Return key I count 9 prompts I At the prompt Does CLEAR SCREEN also HOME cursor respond with N for NO and when the next prompt HOME command appears respond by making sure that the HOME command is ESC H Do this by typing in the ASCII equivalent numbers 27 72 and pressing the Return key J If the Delete Line command is ESC M press Return other wise key in the numbers 27 77 and press Return K If the Insert Line command is ESC L press the Return key otherwise key in the numbers 27 76 and press the Return key Received for Review Personalized Software has received the follow ing three software packages for potential review in future issues of The Portable Paper All three run on the HP110 HP1
49. ings like print condensed or to tell the screen to do things like redefine a function key We will discuss the k g Printerlalk Winners Personalized Software is pleased to announce that ten Portable Paper subscribers from our two contests have won Printerlalk The MemoMaker Enhancer a 49 95 value The winners are Linda Rizzoto Jackson IN D Peckenpaugia Costa Mesa CA John Keiluhy Cherry Hill NJ D Eisenhofer Bristol PA Donald Hinman Lansing MI Bill Baird Port Jervis NY D B Vidricks Worthington OH Sid McDonald Arab AL Stephen Spehn Mcas Tustin CA R Greene New York NY 6 JANUARY 1986 copy command and escape sequences in detail in future issues For now suppose you want to install the Time Manager program into PAM that is create a new box on the PAM screen called Time Manager Assuming the Time Manager program tm com is on the A drive you need to create a two line file called pam mnu To do this using the copy command from the PAM s screen s top DOS line type copy con pam mnu When you press the Return key you find yourself at the beginning of the next line At this point type in the follow ing two lines Time Manager tm When you have typed in your file hold down the CTRL key and press z and then Return pam mnu has now been created and upon returning to PAM a Time Manager box will appear in front of the MemoMaker Lotus Terminal and DOS boxes The general form of the copy
50. irst issues will be devoted to CompuServe the electronic bulletin board service This is because there are two ex cellent electronic forums available on CompuServe for the HP series 100 user Included in these forums are articles discussions and programs relevant to the HP110 Also most of the techniques discussed here for making best use of these CompuServe services will be applicable no mat ter how you use the Terminal program amp s Reviewers Wanted Would you like to review HP110 products for The Portable Paper or write other HP110 arti cles of general interest Are you fair objective knowledgeable literate and have at least a minor love affair with computers We may be able to trade products or services Share your interest and enthusiasm with other HP110 users Contact Hal Goldstein Box 869 Fair field IA 52556 515 472 6330 4 JANUARY 1986 As with most electronic bulletin board services you pay CompuServe for the time you are connected access ing their computer as well as a phone bill if like us you are not ina major metropolitan city There are a myriad of services offered on CompuServe as well as on other bulletin boards such as The Source On CompuServe you can do your Christmas shopping access the latest stock quotes play computer games learn a football score carry on conversations with people with similar interests find the least expensive airline flight and much more You can send electronic
51. kJet and HP9114 Productiv ity boosting tips and tricks Reviews of products that enhance the HP110 Shared knowledge from other Portable users Listings of local HP110 users groups Plus free software for subscribers APIO Users Now theres a newsletter just for you The P ortable P aper i from Personalized Software Order now with NO RISK Full refund if not satisfied with first issue Refund of unused portion if dis satisfied with subsequent issues for just 55 Iowa residents add 4 tax Canada Mexico add 3 surface mail 6 air Other countries 6 surface 24 air O Please send me more information Begin my subscription with issue 1 L YES ONO Name Title Company S Address Send coupon and payment to Personalized Software 906 W Briggs Fairfield LA 52556 Or call 515 472 6330 won a per F 6 bi monthly issues only 55 City State Zip Phone O Check O MasterCard O VISA Card Expires Cardholder signature SI Oregon Salem Call to verify time amp place amp say hello CompuServe ID 75066 1744 for elec tronic mail Tom Cropper 503 390 1431 Texas Dallas Ft Worth Metroplex 2nd Thursday each month Schedule and location can change to accomodate members Optic Electronic Corp 11545 Pagemill Rd Dallas TX 75243 D E Pen nington D 214 349 0190 E 214 331 4402 Houston Houston area users please call
52. le on the 110 and 150 Call or write IE SYSTEMS INC 112 Main Street Newmarket NH 03857 603 659 5891 THE PORTABLE PAPER B Drive Wandering Around Do you ever want to roam about in your spreadsheet yet stay anchored at your current cell The simplest way to wander is to type then use any of the normal cursor movement keys When your wanderlust is satisfied hit the ESC key twice You ll be back where you started ready for your next activity Cataloging Your Files READ LISTING OF FILES INTO LOTUS Here is a great technique to keep track of your current A disk or backup disk files Advanced Lotus users although we start simply you ll find some valuable infor mation towards the end of this article Both Lotus and DOS are used here to create an anno tated catalog of disk files In this example disk file names on the A drive will be cataloged First from the PAM screen type the DOS command dir gt files prn and Return _ f you had typed only dir a listing of your files would have appeared on the screen Instead by adding gt files prn that same directory listing gets copied into a file called files prn Any file name can be selected as long as it has a prn extension The prn extension is required when you use Lotus Now after returning to PAM enter Lotus You are about to import ASCII file files prn From Lotus type fit Put the cursor on FILES and press Return You will get the error message Pa
53. les o In B DRIVE we ll feature DOS commands in cluding batch files and the prompt command plus tips for using Lotus MemoMaker and Terminal e Regular Departments 110 Wizardry Ed Keefe s Looking Glass 110 and The Connection Readers Contributions JANUARY 1986 11 THE PORTABLE PAPER A Drive 3 1 2 or 5 1 4 disk and a stamped self addressed envelope Write Please hand cancel prominently on both envelopes We have found that standard 10 business envelopes with 39 postage work fine for 3 1 2 disks If you prefer you can mail us a check for 7 50 with specification of disk size and we will mail you a disk Send to TM Disk c o Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fair field IA 52556 At no charge we will also include on your disk a useful pack utility PACK COM PACK COM eliminates disk fragmentation which means when pack is run on the Turbo PASC HP110 A drive changing the boundary between the elec tronic disk and memory will no longer be a potential problem Hewlett Packard has made Time Manager and Pack available on Compuserve download PACK COM TM COM TM HLP and TM DOC from the HP Series 100 Forum Alternatively if you send 10 to TIME MANAGER Hewlett Packard Portable Computer Division 1000 N E Circle Boulevard Corvallis Oregon 97330 HP will send you a Time Manager disk and manual but not PACK COM TURBO CHARGING THE HP110 by Ed Keefe
54. ls Dunwoody CA THE PORTABLE PAPER Other HP110 Publications The only book that we are aware of on the Portable is The HP110 Portable The Power To Go published by Que and reviewed in this issue Zhe Portable Paper is the only periodical which deals exclusively with the HP110 However there are sources which deal with both the HP150 and HP110 series of computers The emphasis is usually on the HP150 although they all have good infor mation about the HP110 The HP Series 100 Communicator is an HP publica tion and does a good job documenting bugs and answer ing questions about the HP110 and HP software running on the HP110 It can be ordered by calling 800 538 8787 The cost is 24 and it comes out six times a year We are aware of two other publications on the series 100 computers by very knowledgeable editors One is HP110 Users Group edited by Tim Cullis It s published by a European organization The HP100 Users Group They also have U S subscribers If you are in the Los Angeles area Dave Mark publishes LA SCRUG Notes See Local _ Users Groups for more information about these two organizations Interex The International Association of Hewlett Packard Company Users has a Series 100 users group Typ ing go interex on CompuServe gets you into a forum with support discussion and files available for downloading Write 2570 El Camino Real West Mountain View CA 94040 Finally The Chronicle does an excellen
55. mail to other subscribers including Per sonalized Software Hal Goldstein ID 72257 714 by typ ing go email from any prompt You can also get free support for your HP110 in the HP Series 100 Forum Bill Crow and his colleagues do an excellent job in manning the support line You type in questions and they do their best to answer promptly Also available are files you can download transfer from the CompuServe computer to the HP110 which contain the most frequently asked questions about the HP110 To subscribe to CompuServe call 1 800 848 8199 or go to your local computer store and purchase a Compu Serve starter kit for 30 to 40 The starter kit includes a manual and some free CompuServe time that almost pays for the kit itself CompuServe bills you by the baud rate and time of call Fees range from 6 00 to 24 00 an hour There is no monthly minimum When you use the THE PORTABLE PAPER B Drive HP110 built in 300 baud modem during non work hours you get the least expensive rate PREPARATION You will probably find that learning to use Compu Serve like learning most other major pieces of software takes some time However we ll give you a start that should save hours of frustration and CompuServe charges Here are the steps First prepare to dial into CompuServe Assuming you are using the built in modem from PAM press f5 Datacom Config Press fS again Default Values Exit p
56. n an AT amp T 6300 Readers report that it works in the Zenith 150 and the Compaq Portable Be careful if you have an IBM AT with a hard disk of over 10 megabytes If the Portable is the master and you try to copy to the AT s hard disk you do bad things to the AT s disk directory Any other combination using the AT and the Portable seems to work all right If you know of other compatibles which use or can t use the IBM HP IL card tell us and we will publish an updated list The card part 82973A costs 150 and can be ordered from your HP dealer or from HP at 800 538 8787 THE PORTABLE PAPER Anyone Know How To Address Envelopes Thomas Bogyo of Florence Italy wants to know is there any way to use the ThinkJet printer to address envelopes I had two thoughts 1 Envelopes with open windows could be used 2 You could print out addresses on ThinkJet paper and copy them onto Avery 5354 self adhesive address labels in a copy machine Anyone have any better ideas Look For HP110 Price Reductions With the new Portable Plus HP has an excess inven tory of the original Portable HP is offering HP110s at a special low price to its employees Word has it that HP is discounting the HP110 to its dealers so expect good deals on The Portable soon The 110 Percent column features general tips answers to questions and information about how to make the most of your HP110 Please send your contributions for the colum
57. n to 110 Percent c o Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 2A THE CONNECTION Running IBM Software on the HP110 In this column we list reader s successes running IBM PC software on the HP110 Please send your successes or non sucesses to The Connection c o Personalized Soft ware PO Box 869 Fairfield A 52256 Feel free to add a brief assessment of the product Unless otherwise men tioned well assume each program is available only in 5 1 4 IBM disk format requiring an IBM PC or some of the compatibles and the HP IL Interface Card for the IBM PC part number HP 82973A See this issues 110 fora discussion of the HP IL Interface Card and see the classified ads for a conversion service Ed Keefe of FastAid Ankeny IA reports that MicroSoft EDLIN and DEBUG work on the HP110 Both programs come with the IBM PC operating system and are available at any computer store selling IBM PCs or com patibles EDLIN is a rudimentary editor It is line oriented which means you edit one line at a time as opposed to a screen oriented editor like MemoMaker which allows you to create and modify text using the whole screen _ DEBUG is for computer sophisticates who need to ex amine various memory locations to debug their programs or recover lost data Steve Cochran of Lynchburg VA writes of two Lotus templates that work fine on the HP110 Lotus templates are spreadsheets that are retrieved into 1
58. nother HP110 These programs all seem to need operator action on each end The Ter minal Emulator program cannot command these programs to start transmitting or receiving files Gary Goodman Fredericksburg VA A It is true that the HP110 cannot initiate any transfer of files without operator action I ve even tried redirecting the input to the Terminal program from a file but that didn t work either You can transfer files with another California HP110 over the phone but an operator will have to be pre sent on both machines Once the configuration is set the sender presses to host and the receiver presses from host i The exact steps of how to use the built in XMODEM are described in the manual starting on page 1 20 Q In the HP User s Guide Appendix C page C 6 there is a section entitled Keyboard Reassignment I couldn t do anything of what s said there If you know how to do it please tell me Denis Asselin Maharishi International University Fair field Iowa A I m glad you asked that I remember reading about that myself but never had the time to try it out The manual you refer to is the Series 100 Users Guide that comes with the Programmers Tool Kit I tried it from Turbo Pascal and it didn t work Upon further investigation I found out that the escape codes to reassign the keyboard were never actually implemented and there is no work around Cliff Looyenga provides technical suppo
59. o do and calendar right in front of you Hal Our reviewer s only complaint about the program was the requirement that all Time Management s data files must be located on the A drive Steve It was a conscious design decision We originally had a version without that requirement but we felt the slowness of that version was antithetical to its being an ef ficient easy to use productivity tool and an alternative to PAM and DOS Hal I talked to a Portable Plus user recently who com plained about the 100 names and address limitation Can anything be done Steve Given memory constraints of The Portable it is not practical to change that limitation However HP could easily change the code for the Portable Plus version since more RAM can be added to its electronic disk Hal I look forward to talking with you about how the HP110 was created Iam sure our readers will appreciate it Steve It will be a pleasure Give me a call any time Hal I will How To Get Time Manager Free Subscribers to The Portable Paper can receive Time Manager absolutely free All you do is mail us a formatted Next Month e Ed Keefe tells how to modify your HP110 s screen at low cost so as to prevent blindness gt A close look at the hardware and software differences between The Portable and The Portable Plus e In A DRIVE we ll feature the Norton Utilities which allow you to ressurect deleted files fromt the dead and perform other mirac
60. om within file manager We will be discussing more sophisticated procedures for backing up and restoring your A drive in future issues Sharing Your Data With Your PC Lynn Roundtree of Baton Rouge asks us Is it possi ble to equip the Portable with a 5 1 4 drive so that my desktop PC and my Portable can share the same data Lynn assuming you have an IBM or close compatible there is a wonderful solution to your dilemma the HP IL a Interface Card For The IBM PC Anyone who owns an IBM PC or XT and a Portable should not be with out the HP IL interface card The half card fits in one of the PC s slots You connect the PC and Portable using HP IL cables just aN like the cables you use for the ThinkJet or HP9114 Once installed either the PC or the Portable can be the master Jand the other the slave If the Portable is the master it can access the PC s disk drives as if they were extra Portable disk drives The Portable can also print to the PC s printer or screen If the PC is the master it can access the Porta ble s electronic disk drive the HP9114 or ThinkjJet and the small sturdy 3 1 2 disk with twice the storage capability of a5 1 4 disk makes a great backup medium for an IBM XT It is not difficult to install the HP IL Interface card or you can have your dealer do it Be sure the card is in tight The card works with some compatibles It works with my Compaq Deskpro and I have installed one i
61. orm E om 22 JANUARY 1986 RY by The Wizard Cliff Looyenga FS Unfortunately there is no way to control the duration of the beep which is why you can t play music on the Port able The duration isn t real time either it s based on the number of cycles What this means is that a low frequency beep will beep for a much longer time than a high fre quency beep An Undocumented Escape Sequence You can change the cursor from a line cursor to a box and vice versa Just use the following escape sequence Line cursor lt ESC gt dL Box cursor lt ESC gt dK The Wizard Responds Q I have three questions about the Terminal program First the HP Owner s Manual is not clear about the rela tionship of the settings in the PAM datacom configuration menu and the equivalent settings in the Terminal con figuration menu It appears that the Terminal Emulator does not use the settings in the Datacom Configuration menu when the Terminal Configuration menu is set to Modem A You re right The Terminal program sets up the con figuration according to what is set in the Terminal con figuration menu and not what the PAM datacom configuration is set to It sends configuration commands EDITOR PC A GREAT line oriented text editor for your 110 150 amp IBM PC s Only 35 plus 1 00 s h Call or write for info Ph D PO Box 5009 Los Alamitos Ca 90721 5009 Call 213 430 5855 WE CONVERT DISKS
62. ormation Que Corporation 7999 Knew Road Indianapolis IN 46250 800 428 5331 16 95 Lon j A at Ae O OS Pe ae ere Ain ao f em f Aya ni AA n g i f i ae 4 Ba fs tay i aii Geen hae fa wt ANHE e a AS i i EAT i i nlik RENTE i n 1 i i i eG ait k dilh 1 Ay i AW i FHH Hitmen 8 Ti Eii an H n 9 i a TAA pene Cay ak dh h yr j 1 h A i i r i H 1 f i i A URLI i j Pad A A 4 y Patan WA uth l 7 i ij RTE au IPPs fi i Rael 1 Uti J hey a H uj i Fal oe AA Wiame a Se ES aa ap Tr Q mra ee wwe gt n LOST 1 Start with the computer in PAM Move the pointer to the DOS window and press Return This will take you into the realm of MS DOS We must go there since the command that we will use cannot be issued from the PAM command line a real oddity curiouser and curiouser The message EXIT to return to PAM will appear on the screen along with the prompt containing the day time and default drive A 2 On the same line as the prompt for date and default drive type the word print and follow this with the name s of the file s that you wish to print If the files are on an ex ternal disk drive be sure to precede the name of the file s with the C designator For example print c chapl prn c chap2 prn chap3 prn Leave a space between the names of each file You can print up to ten 10 files usin
63. otes Often he can charge the repairs to the HP division responsible for the difficulty These service notes usually have an expiration date but sometimes HP is wil ling to make the repairs beyond that date For example my fully charged HP110 would turn itself off from low battery when the battery indicator was in the high 70 s A service note covered the replacement of the battery pack all I had to do was give serial number of my unit 110 continued on page 20 JANUARY 1986 1 THE PORTABLE PAPER B Creating A Backspace Erase Key There s a joke among computer engineers that the definition of a good marketing person is one who can make an engineer s bugs look like features In this exam ple a MemoMaker bug becomes a useful feature by allow ing you to convert the MemoMaker f7 Help key to a destructive backspace key a backspace key that deletes the last character As you probably are well aware the actual MemoMaker backspace key works identically to the left arrow key performing no deletion Most MemoMaker users will find a destructive backspace key useful it saves having to hold down the Ex tend char key and the Char key to delete a character On the other hand few MemoMaker users ever press f7 Help Only those who write programs or use the DOS prompt command to redefine function keys will be in terested in the bug itself the rest of you can safely skip this paragraph If MemoMaker is called direc
64. pened inside the computer can only be the work of a Mad Hatter Think of it like this the com puter sets aside some of its internal memory somewhat like a large tea dispenser The PRINT program then sloshes as much of your text into this dispenser as it can and as fast as it can Once the dispenser is full the PRINT program then opens and shuts the spigot at the bottom of the dispenser and doles out your text to the printer in cup size allotments When the printer has finished one cup of your text it signals that it is ready for another It will keep com ing back for more until the dispenser is almost empty at which time the program will refill the dispenser and start doling out small amounts of your text all over again 4 Since the opening and closing of the spigot takes so little computing time you can take advantage of the time between each cup of text to do some more work on the computer You can use any of the other MS DOS commands at this time Just realize that any commands that have to do with the disk drive will slow down or momentarily halt the printing There will be a noticeable delay if you hap pen to catch the computer when it is trying to refill the print spooling dispenser 5 Whatever you do do not type in EXIT during the time that the computer is printing out your text or you will reset the entire computer system including the disk drive and the printer and you will have to start all over
65. personal computer e How to receive a file from the host e How to access DOS commands while on line e How to print a file You can have hands on training right at your fingertips without videotape workbook training courses Get affordable up to date training when you want it Wilson Videos puts an expert on your shelf Available now USING EXECUTIVE MEMOMAKER FOR THE HP 150 and USING REFLECTION SERIES FOR THE HP 2622 AND 2392 COMMUNICATIONS Wilson Videos A division of Wilson Publications Inc P O Box 10998 450 Austin Texas 78766 512 250 5518 THE PORTABLE PAPER A Drive SEARCH f5 allows you to easily search through your appointments to do list notes and addresses for any word or phrase For example using this search feature you can easily find a name in your electronic address book ARCHIVE With f6 you can simply save past appoint ments or things to do on an external disk freeing up memory yet keeping a record of appointments and ac complishments HELP At almost any juncture there is a help key which clearly and concisely explains each of your choices This means you can easily use the program without a manual If You Don t Have A Manual If you received your free copy of Time Manager from us Personalized Software or downloaded it from Com puServe you do not have a manual But as you ve no doubt discovered you probably don t need one Time
66. r phone uses or for special dialing features you may include these in your phone number 9 When you decide to save your appointments or to do list the Archive function stores all entries prior to the date you specify in your choice of file name It then deletes those entries from the master list PAM ALM or TM TDO 10 Time Manager may display certain error messages Most of them have to do with system limits not enough room on your disk or too many items in a list Other er ror messages tell you that you entered a date or time incor rectly A Discussion With The Author of Time Manager Steve Sakoman was the project leader for the team which developed the original HP110 portable computer He also is the software author of Time Manager He left HP and is now working for Apple where he is in charge of all new developments for the Macintosh We will be publishing interviews with Steve from time to time Here are excerpts from a phone conversation I recently had with Steve Hal Goldstein Hal Who was Time Manager designed for Steve I designed Time Manager for people on the go for people who wanted an efficient tool to manage their day without having to spend time studying or referring to manuals Time Manger was to serve as an alternative to PAM as a DOS SHELL I wanted Time Manager to be high performance taking advantage of the electronic disk You start the machine and you have your appointments things t
67. r the Appointments or to do lists and no more than 100 names and addresses You will receive a warning message 25 items before the limit on any list 8 You can dial a phone number from Time Manager either using the HP built in modem or a Hayes compatible external modem To use this capability you need a duplex jack and an extra phone cable both of which can be pur chased from an electronics or telephone supply store Here s how it works a Plug the duplex jack into the telephone b Connect one cable to your HP110 modem jack and to one of the plug ins on the duplex jack c Connect the cable coming from the wall jack to the other plug in on the duplex jack d With the built in modem from the PAM f5 Datacom Config press f5 Default Values With an external modem connected to the serial port from PAM Datacom Config change Serial port to RS 232 Set the correct baud rate The default settings are correct for the rest of the fields on the screen e From Time Manager s Names amp Addresses menu move the cursor key to the name of the person you want to dial and press f5 Dial f After selecting which of the person s two numbers to dial pick up the phone only after a message on the screen tells you to do so You have made the con nection g When you originally type in the phone numbers on the address list you can use any of the codes for pause that the owner s manual Terminal section describes If you
68. re Sub scription Dept P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Errors In Preview Article Your directions in the Preview Ar ticle Hidden Portable Features for relabeling the function key fl has a small typographical error in it The final dollar sign should be followed by an underscore Also the DOS f7 Toggle Insert works fine Suppose you want to copy a file from drive C to drive A but you forget the c and type copy sales wks oldsales wks and Return Retyping everything is OK but the function keys can be used Try lt copy up gt s lt insert gt c lt copy All gt In terms of function keys this is f2 s f Z c 3 and Return You got a good start keep rolling Gary Good man Fredricksburg VA Ed Thanks to all the readers who wrote in about the prompt typo Many of the newer articles we sent out have been corrected The com mand to make fl key print dir a is prompt e amp f0alk6d8Ldir a dir a __ The second prompt command in mm bat 77 this issue s MemoMaker column will reset the DOS prompt More on this next issue Copyright 1986 Personalized Software all rights reserved LETTERS Tell Us Each Step The largest problem with most computers is the documentation for use of the computer not the com puter as it is The documentation must be without error as the com puter will accept only one correct command at a time Without this the user loses confidence in the use of the machine Mos
69. rland International never expected that anyone would use Turbo Pascal on an HP110 so they do not include instructions for tailoring the program for this machine However the HP110 is close enough to the HP 150 in operation that most of the procedures for this desktop machine apply to the HP110 What follows is a set of instructions that I have found by trial and error and a couple of calls to Borland Interna tional will do the installation procedure very nicely One of the side benefits of these instructions is that when the installation procedure is done you will find that the Tur bo editor behaves almost like the MemoMaker editor You won t have to learn all the esoteric Wordstar commands in order to edit your programs But just in case you like WordStar you will still be able to use the control com mands you have grown so accustomed to You can have it both ways The installation procedure is not altogether straightforward so I will try to be as specific as possible For those of you who are reading this article just to see what the punch line is expect to be bored For those of you who are reading to install Turbo Pascal expect to be somewhat frustrated Here goes I Prepare Turbo Pascal Work Disk A Take your distribution disk from Borland and make it write protected by opening the little square hole in the lower left corner You don t want to write anything to this disk B Prepare another disk by inserting it in the disk
70. rt for HP PCs and HP3000 s and in those circles be is known as The Wizard He owns an HP110 that he uses to develop utilities many of which are available on the CompuServe HP Series 100 User s Forum The Wizard will be happy to respond to your technical questions Write to The Wizard c o Personal ized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Colorado Thanks to so many of you who are willing to help organize local users groups Users groups give an op portunity to share tips answer ques tions discuss other products trade free software and Lotus templates and meet other professionals As you will notice some areas have more than one contact person and some major areas have none If you are in a missing area and would like to organize a group con tact us If your groups combine also tell us We will publish this column each issue keeping it up to date Write Local Users Groups Box 869 Fairfield IA 515 472 6330 24 JANUARY 1986 Southern California Beginning 1 86 meetings at HP s new North Hollywood Sales Office 2nd or 3rd Thur Call for time date and request LA Scrug Notes Newsletter Dave Mark 818 794 4969 Los Angeles County Southern California Interested in forming HP110 local users group Call during day Blue Chip Com puter System 9701 West Pico Blvd Los Angeles Elmar M Gomez 213 553 3393 San Diego Please contact me if interested in forming users group Stephen L Eyre 45
71. rt of file is missing but ignore it and press Return again ANNOTATE FILE NAMES The entire directory has now been read into column A Now widen the A column to 40 characters the length of each directory line Use the Worksheet Column Width command wes40 and Return In column B for each file name of column A you can put a comment about the content Now when you store your files to the C drive include this annotated directory Six months from now by referring to this Lotus modified directory you should have a good idea of what each file contains SORT FILE NAMES There is more we can do with this technique Suppose we want the files listed in alphabetic order We use 1 2 3 s sort capability Type dsd Now indicate the range you _ want sorted Do so by moving the cursor down four cells so that it rests on the first file name Type a period to an chor the start of the range The Select end key followed by the home key Extend char Left Arrow takes you to the end of the file Move up one row so as to only include rows containing file names A block containing all the file names and comments should now be highlighted in inverse video Press Return Now type p to tell 1 2 3 which column you wish to sort by The cursor should be in column A so press Return You want to sort alphabetically so sort order should be A Ascending Now type g and your file names are sorted almost instantaneously Be sure to save your file as a norm
72. s place This means from Time Manager you can easily call Lotus Terminal or any pro gram your HP110 can access THE CALENDAR By moving the cursor arrow keys you can easily highlight different days or change months APPOINTMENTS Pressing fl allows you to type in change erase repeat or print appointments You can tell the computer to beep at you at appointment time THINGS TO DO f2 allows you to create or print a prioritized to do list It lets you mark items completed or partially completed Uncompleted items automatically appear on the next day s to do list NOTES f3 places you in MemoMaker It automatical ly puts you in a file named after the highlighted date but you can edit or create any file you wish NAME amp ADDRESS You can create modify or print a name and address list of up to 100 names using f4 You can add two phone numbers and a comment to each en try You can automatically dial any number on the list if your phone is properly connected to the internal or an ex ternal modem oie h A 4 PUT AN EXPERT ON YOUR SHELF USING EXECUTIVE MEMOMAKER will teach you such functions as e How to use the keyboard and the screens e How to create save add a picture edit check spelling and print USING REFLECTION SERIES will teach you how to use the PC 2622 or REFLECTION to communicate between a personal computer and the HP 3000 e How to send a file to the host from a
73. t job in cover ing all the HP computers including the HP110 However their emphasis is more on HP minicomputers rather than microcomputers Their address Wilson Publications PO Box 10998 450 Austin TX 78766 512 250 5518 In future issues we will discuss other publications that can help you make the most of Lotus Dos and Terminal For Techies Only Highly recommended by the HP support folks in Cor vallis the home of The Portable is the Portable Plus Technical Reference Manual I have not seen a copy but ap parently it contains deep system software information and hardware specs both for the Portable and Portable Plus that previously has been unavailable There is section which ex plains how to run The Portable off your car battery You can order only from your local HP sales office To find out where that is call 800 367 4772 The manual costs 100 Turn On Have you noticed that sometimes you have to hit a key several times to turn on your HP110 In general software which intercepts your key stroke and tells the Portable hardware what to do When the HP110 is off Portable software looks about every 1 2 second to see if a key has been hit so it may miss your first shot However there is one exception to all this the contrast key lower right The contrast key is directly wired to the hardware with no software intermediary This means pressing the contrast key once will always turn on your HP110
74. t of the time it is not enough to give us just the command we have to have each step put in front of us so we can get to the end result For example you published the com mand with the Utilities disk in the C drive A gt C FORMAT C Z 14 This command typed from PAM or DOS results in BAD COMMAND Jack H Sparks Downey CA 90242 Ed I plead not guilty at least in part I tried the command from DOS and PAM and it works fine The command formats a disk on the C drive giving 10 more disk space dont use the command if you want to use the disk from an IBM PC Perhaps the problem and this is your point was that you included the DOS prompt A gt when you typed the command I am well aware that most of us were not born understanding com puter lingo My challenge as the editor of this newsletter is to strike a balance between spelling out each step and possibly boring experi enced users and giving more general instructions in order to cover more material and possibly losing our less experienced readers Ed Keefe as you will notice in his ar ticles is a master at taking one step ata time Reader feedback is the on ly way we will know if we are strik ing the correct balance Thank You Thank You Keep up the good work I like what I see Steve Cochran Lynchburg VA You have already earned your 55 by advising me about HP s Time Management program at only 10 with manual Thanks Don Nicho
75. tly from DOS after redefining function keys at first all looks well However for example f5 Get Memo may not get your memo In stead the previous definition of the key remains intact so pressing f may only result in a few characters getting printed out on the MemoMaker screen In other words MemoMaker uses the previous function key definitions even though it properly labels the function keys The following procedure turns that bug into an advan tage if you would prefer to have your f1 Help key function as a destructive backspace key Go into MemoMaker and create a file with the follow ing lines prompt e amp f0a7k0d4L eD eP memomakr prompt h t h h h h h h p Save the file as MM BAT Then while still in MemoMaker create or recall file PAM MNU Add the following two lines to the file MemoMaker mm When you exit MemoMaker two MemoMaker boxes will appear on your PAM screen If you press Return at the first MemoMaker box MemoMaker A you will find that the f7 Help key has turned into a destructive backspace key If you are using Time Manager type MM to get into MemoMaker to retain the new backspace key Here is a brief explanation of what the two files do In MM BAT the first prompt command sends the screen driver the proper escape sequence to define f7 as the destructive backspace key The second line issues the DOS command to start MemoMaker After MemoMaker is exited 2 JANUARY 1986 B Drive Built in Software
76. ur printer manual contains the codes your printer accepts Appendix D pages 6 8 of Using HP110 of the HP110 Owners Manual contain the escape sequences required to manipulate the screen and function keys Review of Time Manager Program by Ed Keefe When I first received my copy of the Time Manager program I was thoroughly amazed at its capabilities Be sure to use it if for no other reason than that it came from HP relatively FREE My copy of the Time Manager program came without any documentation but this posed no real problem You ll find that using the program is very intuitive almost as easy as painting by numbers For those parts of the pro gram which are not self explanatory the context sensitive help screens do much to make the program more under standable In terms of functionality and ease of use the Time Manager program seems to be HP s answer to such pro grams as SideKick from Borland or PolyWindow s DeskPlus although unlike these programs Time Manager is not memory resident It s the next best thing to a RAM resident program The operation of the program is fast and efficient It is driven by function keys and in that respect it is faster to operate than a menu driven program like DeskPlus When the Time Manager program resides on the electronic disk along with its bevy of to do appoint ment and help files it operates in its optimum fashion There is one serious drawback to Time Manager
77. utomated menu driven template for Lotus 1 2 3 Keeps track of computer usage Produce itemized billings or show time spent using the HP 110 19 95 CrossReference COM Utility program thot prints a line by line index of any ASCII file 19 95 Send check or m o 34 95 for both to FastAid Co 314 S W Logan Ankeny IA 50021 JANUARY 1986 7 THE PORTABLE PAPER A Drive on the A drive electronic disk in order to operate The Time Manager program along with its help file and its data files can easily consume 45K bytes of memory And more memory is used whenever you add items to the to do appointment address or notes lists This excessive consumption of precious memory may prevent some peo ple from using the program There are a couple of ways around this dilemma The first solution is costly upgrade to the HP Portable Plus computer and get the MemoMaker ROM Time Manager is included on tltis ROM so that using it means that you on ly need room on your electronic disk for the data files The other workaround is less costly provided you have the 9114 disk drive at your disposal and are satisfied with using the Time Manager program only once or twice a day With such limited use you will probably find yourself dialing feature The drawings and text illustrate clearly how to make the electrical connections and how to use the auto dialer The article in this below If You Don t Have A Manual
78. writer He supplies interesting historical perspectives and has a subtle sense of humor The book is well organized and is easy to read and comprehend I said has the potential because the first edition of Power To Go is filled with errors A few are vague or imprecise statements or omissions of needed detail But others are just plain errors that a competent technical editor familiar with the HPILO should have caught Mr Flanagan s book seems directed mainly to those users who would have a difficult time jumping into the manuals provided by Hewlett Packard and also need a prose style book to start them off in the right direction In helping these users he does a good job Without ever open ing the Lotus manual for example I was able to get a work 16 JANUARY 1986 ing knowledge of Lotus s basic capabilities right from Mr Flanigan s book This may be in part due to Lotus s being an excellent program but the book got me started and kept me pointed in the right direction On top of that it was very easy to understand However the book is weak when it comes to technical detail Those areas which are well covered in HP s own documentation are also well covered in this book Those areas which HP muddled or left to the imagination were for the most part not well addressed here either This is a shame because these are just the areas where supple mental information is really needed and a book like this can and should
79. y a few months old has taken form Here is the first issue of The Portable Paper In speaking with many of you I am struck by your enthusiasm for your machine Of course we all know value of being able to type a letter work up some figures and transfer that information back to the office while on the go Still I suspect that for most of us our HP110 brings us the excitement and fascina tion of childhood as we play with this engrossing and multifaceted tool Our goal with The Portable Paper not only is to make you more productive using The Portable but also by expanding your knowledge and experience to help you enjoy your machine more As The Portable Paper took form enthusiasts like yourself starting con tributing Ed Keefe Cliff Looyenga Gary Goodman Michael Rhodes and even Steve Sakoman the leader of the team that designed The Portable have all add ed their excitement and expertise to The Portable Paper We look forward to more of their contributions and to yours We have had many requests to include information on The Portable Plus in our newsletter Portable Plus owners will already find many of the current articles relevant to their machine and we plan to gradually add features which directly relate to the Plus We are interested in your feedback on this If you like this newsletter and the idea of a company Personalized Software that specializes in providing products and services for The Portable tell others about us Only

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