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1. SHIPPING AND HANDLING Portable Paper subscriptions Subscription prices include U S postage Non U S subscribers please add the following amounts for each subscription year Mexico and Canada 3 surface mail 6 air Other coun tries 6 surface 18 air All other products uu Add 3 surface mail 10 airmail We bill or Shipping and handling see box at right charge non U S orders for the actual postage TOTAL if it exceeds these amounts i I I I l l i PO Box 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 515 472 6330 Retail Subscriber i Product Price Price Qty Total RRR i I The Portable Paper 175 001 BENE CEDE EMEN 60 DAY Check one 139 001 a ee MONEY BACK l E N 9002 wa C Begin with Jan 1986 C Jan 1987 99 GUARANTEE E Carpe T OUrENt ISSUE 1 Year Subscription 55 00 NA i e Back Issues indicate numbers LL OK50 L MA TL a e aan 60 days you are amp Time Manager Pack HP Calculator LWE e eS ee ete 1o 25 1987 Subscriber Disk 115 00 950 reason you may return fr 1988 Subscriber Disk 115 00 9508 a full refund Should you i i 6490 29 95 D become dissatisfied with a l 10 unlabeled disks and case HP110 and Portable Plus p 45 64 90 subscription after the 60 day 1 10 unlabeled disks and case 1 44 meg high density P Vectra p 45 99 95 69 95 E MEME gu sl eu the i Condor 36 Plus HP150 only p 15 495 005 37 00 Spero NIU dee
2. everyone benefits HP IL Extension Cords Did you ever notice that the small end of an HP IL cord fits into the larger end In fact you can connect one or more HP IL cords to create longer cords and the longer cord will function properly PertPlotter For The Plus Peter Piper promised that Pertmaster s PertPlotter plotted from the Portable Plus Actually it was Janos Komaromi of GTE in Ft Lauderdale who told us that he got the IBM version to work We called PertMaster Corporation at 408 736 6800 There we were told that there was no Portable Plus version and that the IBM version would not work on the Plus If anyone has more information give us a call More On The ThinkJet Battery P By Thomas Page M REMOVING THE CELLS FROM THE BATTERY After acquiring the third battery for my ThinkJet printer I decided to perform an autopsy on my well beyond brain dead original battery Amazingly it comes apart just like it looks it would but it was not easy to open The insides are stuck to the top and bottom of the case with double faced foam tape that must be torn to get the battery open Inside I found a pack of battery cells and a small charging circuit The battery pack was removed and the local Radio Shack store identified the six cells in the pack as size Sub C rechargeables available in packs of two for 5 99 each Radio Shack Cat No 23 190 INSTALLING NEW CELLS IN THE HP BATTERY SHELL Installing a set of th
3. If you d like to obtain a set of more detailed instruc tions for creating half tones and a library of 8 different half tones ranging from lighter than our example to near ly black this will save you hours of tedious labor send 9 50 for the cost of the disk shipping and handling to Personalized Software Request the SKETCH half tone disk Well include all the diagrams in this article You will be able to access this library from the disk or your HP110 or Portable Plus Edisc To illustrate the potential of SKETCH I made use of half tones to create the following graphic and printed it with the ThinkJet WITTY ATIGITIST 108A 29 THE PORTABLE PAPER Shortcuts In MS DOS by Bill Hassle TIPS ON SUBDIRECTORY AND DIR COMMANDS Many portable users like to work from MS DOS rather than PAM because it is faster Here are a few tips on the cd and dir commands From within a subdirectory cd or chdir permits the user to specify the next higher directory by using 2 periods For instance with the directory set to NANBNC the following can be done To back up one level just type ed brings you to ANB and to back up two levels you can type cd N brings you to VA In both cases be sure to leave a space after cd Some other idiosyncrasies cd no space after cd will not back up but ed will back up just one level To jump back to the root directory just type ed space after cd is optional d
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5. How To Use Built In HPLink SKETCH Creating And Using Half Tones DOS Shortcuts In MS DOS gt a 9 8 9 9 9 5 9 5 5 o 9 8 Creating Personalized Help Files Configuring DOS The DOS Environment Through The Looking Glass Batch Files That Really Count MuMath And MuSimp PC VIEW ee ck Og ed op 3 POM E Bae dr dri ies 25 Grimmer s Portable Tales Wizardry WordPerfect 5 0 USCP GFOUDS ons ora heuer ES bibe hes 23 52 36 FOR YOUR PORTABLE PLUS The most powerful and unique feature of your Portable Plus is that it lets you store programs on ROM Read Only Memory chips for instant access Almost all other portable com puters require a disk drive in order to function A disk drive even a portable one is a bulky piece of equipment easily break able and slow in loading pro grams By contrast a ROM chip weighs next to nothing is virtually inde structible and lets you load pro grams instantly Programs on ROM chips don t take up any space on your Edisc All of which means that your 9 pound Portable Plus is the fast est most portable and most re liable computer you can own provided of course you take full advantage of its ROM technology YOUR SOFTWARE DRAWER WAS MEANT TO BE FULL The engineers at Hewlett Packard designed the Portable Pl
6. Vol 3 No THE Port Tbe HP Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra Users Newsletter July August 1988 Publisher s Message 3 Letters Re Configuring ThinkJet From DOS 3 DeskJet Printer Questions 4 Least Squares Note to Paul Grimmer 42 Communicating Between 110 s 44 110 HP To Sell Zenith 286 Laptop 7 On The Portable Plus Horizon 8 some Frequently Asked Questions 8 More On The ThinkJet Battery 40 Portable Vectra Views Disk Speed UP iu vuoi m o REESE ee 12 On The Portable Vectra Horizon 16 Deduct 10 Off The Subscriber Price 16 Retyping Last DOS Command 17 News From Personalized Software Congor 5 UDEIJEe 12 9 v Ree Potete ton den 17 Lotus 2 01 Symphony 2 0 In RAM 17 ThinkJet Control Update 18 ISCEPHHI 2c o daria to xoa E daft ctc ees 18 We Have A Fax Number 18 SoftWord Meg Cards European Ordering 18 Introducing Some Of Our Staff Lun Communication With The Portables Guide To Using Plus And Vectras Modems Portable Plus Serial Connections Office Phones And The Portable Plus Profiles Cruising With My Portable Taking My Friend To Market Foundations Using Subdirectories
7. and typos of all kinds spellling becomes spelling etc If you re not sure of a word you can even spell it the way sounds and chances are WEBSTER S will supply the correct spelling Fenomenon gets corrected to phenomenon for example In addition WEBSTER S will let you preview a list of all questionable words before displaying them in context this saves you time because it lets you eliminate words from the questionable list or add them to your auxiliary dictionary before you begin the editing pass John Dvorak writing in the San Fran cisco Examiner called WEBSTER S the PV users Please subtract 10 from subscriber price since we don t have to send you additional customized disks or extra documentation Be sure to indicate PORTABLE VECTRA on your order The Portable Paper Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield Iowa 52556 BULK RATE U S POSTAGE PAID FAIRFIELD IA PERMIT NO 218 best spell checker we ve seen in a long spell Henry Kisor of the Chicago Sun Times has called WEBSTER S the best proofreading software on the market We agree with them both and we think you will too Order your copy at no risk today Webster s Spelling Checker on 312 disk customized for the Portable Plus and HP150 ode bd eRe ee S 79 95 69 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Webster s is available on ROM backup l for an additional 179 See ROM ad in this issue for important detail
8. it to Personalized Software and we ll credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 HP150 users Be sure to indicate single sided disks on your order form if necessary send you two good ones FOLD HERE NO POSTAGE NECESSARY IF MAILED IN THE UNITED STATES IMPORTANT Check here if you require single sided 3 disk Method of payment Check MasterCard VISA Company purchase order CId lose ERIE Cardholder Signature I l l l I I I I I l l l I DEEE l eo BUSINESS REPLY MAIL E i FIRST CLASS PERMIT NO 1047 FAIRFIELD IA SE I eee REI i Postage will be paid by addressee Oe l E l e Personalized l Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 l l I hhbulihliblulibullulibulibulilullulluil l ae ee han pss lpn iat E E E EE eel EE Reais ts FOLD HERE l 1 Are you a Portable Paper subscriber I Yes L No i NAIG se What kind of computer do you use check all that apply i C HP110 Portable l Title E Portable Plus Company L Portable Vectra HP150 touchscreen i Address S O IBM PC or compatible l I City State Zip s Specify size of disk 0 3 05 Telephone I i I I l l l l i l I I l ORDER FORM zines Products that make HP Portables smarter
9. In my opinion the ability to recover lost files alone makes THE NORTON UTILITIES well worth the price But there s even more to the pachage THE NORTON UTILITIES RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Plus e Portable Vectra e e HP150 IBM PC and compat Get them back with The Norton Utilities Version 4 0 and Advanced Edition are also an excellent disk management sys tem Here are some examples of what you can do Let s say you want to sort directories and files physically on disk either by name ex tension size date time or by any combina tion of these Just use the ds disk sort com mand I use this one to sort my electronic disk files by size all the time Then when I display the directory the larger files come at the end of the list and I can see at a glance which ones to move elsewhere to free up any needed amount of disk space Or let s say you remember putting the Indispensible PC Magazine Don t compute without it The New York Times You ll bless this disk Peter McWilliams The Personal Computer Book Personalized Software is authorized to distribute THE NORTON UTILITIES on 312 disk customized for users of the HP110 Portable Portable Plus and HP150 phrase a penny saved is a penny earned into a text file on your electronic floppy or hard disk but you can t remember which file it was or even whi
10. clone side of the gender changer Office Phones And The Portable Plus by Bill Hassle The Portable Plus sometimes goes a little wacko when it is plugged into some office phone systems The most com mon complaint is that the Plus starts beeping continually when the phone line is plugged into the Portable This is usually caused by signals sent by the local phone system such as message waiting There is no fix for this The port able detects small changes in energy such as a ring in dicator and continues beeping as well as looking around for a copy of autoansr bat to schedule The solution is to use an external modem or eliminate the message waiting capability or get a dedicated line if possible CALL WAITING Do you have a call waiting feature on your phone Ever been on the modem when a call waiting signal beeps thru Blooey Off the air you go This is because the tone causes the modem to think it has lost the carrier signal so it naturally hangs up Well there is hope On most phone systems that have call waiting you can press 70 that s the star not the or pound key and you will hear a new dial tone Don t hang up dial the computer The phone system will disable call waiting for the duration of the current call only After the call is completed call waiting turns back on again This works for Pac Bell and most home phone systems When you are working with a non Bell phone system or possibly an office phone system thi
11. does not include the thesaurus or spelling dictionaries the thesaurus uses 362k and the speller 330k If you want everything it takes up about 4 0 megabytes If WordPerfect 5 0 can t find the files it needs it will ask you what drive contains the files This for example would allow you to insert a disk when you need to use the speller I was able to get WordPerfect 5 0 running on an HP150 by using the PC emulator that s in the public do main For some users this could extend the life of the HP150 for almost all of WordPerfect 5 0 runs fine on it Here are some of my observations concerning using Word Perfect on the HP150 You cannot use the DOS commands feature of Word Perfect This feature brings you into DOS When you are done you type exit to return to WordPerfect However when you type exit on the HP150 the screen goes crazy and you re pretty much hung e When you start up WordPerfect you must use the NC option This option tells WordPerfect not to do some hardware specific things with the keyboard e Highlighting is reversed Anything that is supposed to be bright is dim on the HP150 e You cannot use the Preview feature This feature uses graphics mode on the IBM PC and this is not compatible with the HP150 WordPerfect knows this so it won t even let you if you try e When in reveal codes the cursor is very difficult to find and follow due to highlighting differences e When editing graphics the graph is not shown
12. prehensive program available for the HP110 spreadsheet work in the second module then import the result back into the first module In addi tion each module presents you with different commands a differ ent environment and often a dif ferent feel Not so with T Master T Master doesn t have modules in the usual sense Instead almost everything is done using the word processor it s the heart of the system T Master s different func tions spreadsheet database etc are in effect aspects of the word processor that have special powers Instead of leaving the word pro cessor to create a spreadsheet that you then have to import you simp ly create a spreadsheet with all the computational power you need right where you are Same for a database Using vir tually the same commands as for typing ordinary text you can set up the structure of the database enter data sort search generate a report and insert that report into your document And that s why T Master is so comfortable You always interact with it in the same mode which is basically just to type And what you type is ordinary text or numbers or simple English like instructions With T Master you re always on familiar territory SPECIAL FEATURES Here are just a few of T Master s most special features The word processor includes over 100 different functions You ac tivate these either from menus or by means of simple typed comma
13. rem manycopy bat echo off cls loop if 1 goto end copy myfile doc prn shift goto loop end Before running the program be sure to edit the manycopy bat file and replace myfile doc with the name of your file To run the program issue the command manycopy 1 2 3 4 at the DOS prompt The number of characters after manycopy should be equal to the number of copies that you wish to print You can use any characters Just put a space between each The l in the if 1 goto end command is a variable The first character parameter following the manycopy batch command replaces the 1 each time THE PORTABLE PAPER through the loop Each time through the loop the shift command will remove the right most character until there are no more The program will end when it runs out of command line characters Now for some finesse Try the following batch file below It will do everything the above batch file does However this new file will display a count of the number of files printed You would run it the same way as you would the batch file above For those of you who are using the Vectra CS you will need to add the ansi sys file to your operating system Just make sure that the file called ansi sys is on the disk with which you start your Vectra CS Use your text editor and add the line device ansi sys to your config sys file Then restart the computer For those who are using the HP110 you will need to copy the f
14. you must add a line to your config sys file similar to the following device c NutilsN vdisk sys 200 The RAM disk program vdisk sys in this example is found in subdirectory utils The 200 here gives the RAM disk a size of 200K If you do not put in a number the RAM disk created will be 64K If you have EMS expanded memory on your serial adapter I believe you can add a E option I don t yet have expanded EMS memory to test the option The manual defines the E option for extended memory but the Port able Vectra has expanded memory There is no vdisk op tion listed for expanded memory If the E works your RAM disk gets created in expanded memory rather than in the base 640K system memory For other optional parameters for the vdisk sys driver see your MS DOS manual Any reader who knows for sure about how to use Portable Vectra expanded memory for the electronic disk please drop me a line or give me a call YT TTWV7 ATTAZ CYTC I 16 4OO 412 THE PORTABLE PAPER SPEEDING UP THE HARD DISK HPCACHE HP provides a disk cache program named hpcache sys with all of its Vectra hard disk systems Portable Vectra hard disk users will find the file on their Setup Disk Disk caching is a procedure to speed up the reading and writing of files to the hard disk How Does Disk Caching Work When disk caching is implemented the cache pro gram borrows some of the system RAM Data is temporari ly stored from the hard disk into cac
15. you re OK right Now about the Portable Plus Hooked at once I thought that the Portable Plus was going to become my sympathetic diplomatic mind reading friend I even dubbed her him Twinkle Wrong As hour after hour month after month of back breaking mind boggling work has gone on as I sincerely try to com municate with Twinkle I now begin to doubt just how much of a friend Twinkle really is She is not shaded and certainly is not a mind reader is not diplomatic and thinks strictly in a straight line Twinkle is B amp W My mind is so angled I can even persuade myself to believe that 2 x 2 5 upon occasion And black could very possibly be not only grey but white This is causing that customizes the program for HP150 users The disk includes a special utility that allows WordPerfect to run on the 150 If your HP150 requires single sided disks and also has a hard disk drive a version of WordPerfect is available that will run on your machine Specify single We ship Wordperfect with keyboard templates for the HP150 and Portable Plus RECOMMENDED FO R HP110 Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra 9 E TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 HP50 O IBM PC and compat C
16. 31 characters to a single keystroke Writ ten exclusively for the Portable Plus SeeP20 SideWinder This program allows you to print your spreadsheets or any other text file sideways on your ThinkJet This means you can print your 60 column by 53 row spreadsheet from your Portable as one long print out without cutting and pasting seeP 29 Sketch A graphics program for the HP Portables Lets you draw free form using cursor keys Also draw lines boxes circles by pressing a single key Five character sets can be displayed normally sideways or even upside down Entire screen can be printed on ThinkJet at virtually any enlarge ment Screens can be saved for future use Screens can also be imported into Sketch from Lotus and other programs Only uses 44K of memory Statistix A comprehensive statistical package that s easy to learn and use Runs on the HP110 Portable Plus HP150 and IBM PC compatibles Data can be entered from keyboard or imported from spreadsheet or database files Includes multiple regression most standard parametric and non parametric tests p values plots histograms and much much more SeP 18 lerm110 and TermPlus communications software Exceptionally easy to use alternatives to Terminal for the HP110 and PC2622 Reflection for the Portable Plus Both Term110 and TermPlus allow you to send and capture ASCII information Both offer fast XMODEM transfer of programs Lotus worksheets and archive files Bot
17. 6 ways to restart your Portable much more Vol 2 No 3 May June 1987 PERIPHER ALS Articles on 12 Portable peripherals including printers modems mouse padded cases rechargers Also backup routines critical bug if bypassing PAM much more Vol 2 No 4 July Aug 1987 1 and 2 meg abyte RAM cards for the Plus Brainstorm ing with the aid of your Portable graphics software for the Portables info on T Master a full featured integrated software pack age much more Vol 2 No 5 Sept Oct 1987 WORD PRO CESSING ADD ONS Review of spelling checkers grammar style checker text en hancers and formatters Also IBM com patibility new HP Portable Vectra an nounced much more Vol 2 No 6 Nov Dec 1987 More on Port able Vectra memory upgrade for HP110 HPDuette a fast serial transfer program for the Plus HP110 at North Pole much more Remember These are only highlights Each issue contains dozens of articles reviews tips and tutorials See our INDEX TO 1986 AND 1987 ISSUES for a detailed listing of topics 1988 Vol 3 No 1 Jan Feb 1988 Comparison of HP110 Portable Plus with the Portable Vectra what s on Portable Vectra horizon a hardware fix that speeds up the Portable Plus using the CompuServe HP Forum Lotus tips for the Portables much more Vol 3 No 2 Mar Apr 1988 Getting your computer organized dBXL dBase III work alike that runs on Portable Plus new HP DeskJet printer Direc L
18. 9138 is published bimonthly by Personalized Software at 57 East Broadway 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 18 air Please allow four to six weeks for receipt of first issue Executive Editorial Circulation and Advertising Offices P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Telephone 515 472 6330 Copyright 1988 Personal ized Software all rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission Reasonable efforts are made to provide accurate and useful information but the reader must make his or her own investiga tions and decisions the Publisher and Editorial Staff cannot assume any responsbility or liability for the use of information contained herein POSTMASTER Please send address changes to Personalized Software The Portable Paper P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 would I be able to use HPrint You can use HPrint with Memo Maker The Editor Edlin or any ASCII or WordStar type editor You can use HPrint with other word processors such as MS Word if you first save the file as an ASCII print file Hal _ 2400 baud portable modem for your HP Portable Weighs only 6 ounces If you do data comunications with an HP Port able or Portable Plus you ve probably found the internal 300 or 1200 baud modem to be too slow Until now
19. Condor Jr at our risk today Condor 3 cd ea Oe be BA SS 495 00 379 00 for Portable Paper subscribers Condor Jr oes 664 n 99 00 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Condor 3 MEMORY REQUIREMENTS Condor Jr Condor 3 requires only 128K of memory to run The entire program including the report writer fits in less than 360K Since each command is in its own file you can Save Memory space by deleting any commands you don t need Condor Jr is even more memory efficient the main program is only 25K and you add in dividual 10K programs for each function you wish to use PO BOX 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 The subscriber price is 69 95 CREATING A RAM DISK Those of you who migrated to the Portable Vectra from the Portable Plus know the value of a RAM disk A RAM disk li is an electronic simulation of a disk When you create a RAM disk it is as if you have a new disk drive The RAM disk is like a hard drive rather than a floppy disk since it cannot be removed The vdisk sys file on your system MS DOS disk allows a portion of the Portable Vectra s RAM to be used as a vir tual RAM disk drive This RAM disk can be used in the same manner as an actual disk drive with the exception of a few MS DOS commands such as diskcopy and format vdisk sys allows either RAM memory or extended memory to be used as a RAM disk You can install more than one RAM disk at a time The advantage of using a RAM d
20. Condor Junior HP110 Portable only p 15 99 95 8 95 Direc Link Complete Pack for Portable Vectra 134 90 115 00 d do 1 MS DOS Tools Portable Utilities Vol 1 p 13 49 95 3995 The Editor p 2 99 95 7995 Non U S Customers l The Editor The Formatter p 2 159 90 9995 Please make payment either by Master ard or OF DY an International i FloppyDRIVER Portable Vectra p 22 79 00 6 95 Maar Order or cheek drawnort 10S d GoldStar EGA Color Monitor 649 00 495 00 bank GoldStar Monochrome Monitor 129 00 19 00 HPDuette Portable Plus only p 41 99 95 8 95 l HP9114 Empowerer Power Supply p 41 99 95 8 95 B 7595 Link HP IL Connecting Software 80 00 75 95 HE ae Logitech Mouse System for Portable Plus mouse software cable p 36 219 00 179 95 p 101 Macros For Lotus 1 2 3 69 95 6295 M l Milestone 99 95 89 95 MEC a Includes free 1987 and 1988 Subscriber Disks et E ee ae ae ae i sag PM ca Norton Utilities Version 4 06 p 6 99 955 89 958 O subscribers may mail in a formatted disk and a 45 amp Norton Utilities Advanced Editions p 6 150 006 12900 NERONE d Power Cube ngcnarger iu alus HN MESE 4 Call 515 472 6330 to confirm current pricing 5 PrinterTalk FormatT10 89 90 99 99 EN ER 5 Lower price is without cable for connecting to HP e Project 8 9 10 99 95 89 95 pd LL Portables Circle price that applies i
21. EDLIN must interpret tbe ASCII Tab character differently Hal 14 The delete command in DOS sometimes doesn t prompt ARE YOU SURE Is this normal You receive the ARE YOU SURE prompt only if you issue the command del Hal 15 The LCD display is the most dif ficult aspect of my machine not because of resolution but because of the lack of back lighting I often use a 60 watt lamp placed about 10 inches above the keyboard Am I doing anything wrong Not tbat I know of We bope tbere will soon be a backlit version and upgrade for tbe Portable Plus See On the Plus Horizon in the 110 col umn Hal 16 When working in subdirectories I occasionally receive the message ER ROR READING DRIVE A when copying etc When I attempt to remove the sub directory I cannot because the system answers with DIRECTORY NOT EMPTY When I look inside the subdirectory it contains no files Have I done something wrong When you see the ERROR READ ING DRIVE A error message immedi ately back up your files and reformat Your A drive is somehow corrupted The problem may have occurred if you used the pack program and you have the ROM AAAAAA version of the Portable Plus See 110 Most Frequently Ask 42 TULY AUGUST 1988 ed Questions Hal 17 How can I control the clock in order to change its speed As far as I know you can t Hal 18 Is it possible to create a louder beep and c
22. GND is missing the only path to earth ground for voltage applied to the keyboard or display is through the innards of the portable It is therefore highly probable that should someone in rubber soled shoes walk across a nylon carpet on a low humidity day the next stop for the machine would be the microchip boneyard nd EE z2 H E THE PORTABLE PAPER SUCCESS CONNECTING HP110 PLUS AND IBM PC WITH HP92221P The survey results The printer cable can be used to direct ly transfer data between the HP110 or Portable Plus and all the honest to gosh IBM s and most of the clones It failed on ly on two assemble it yourself and save desktop machines Since IBM and most cloners use male connecters on their serial cards and the HP printer cable is also male a gender changer is needed When I used a customized gender changer in which the handshaking lines were omit ted even the two bashful desktops performed To sum up if you own an HP printer cable but not a modem cable it would be silly to buy one just for machine to machine data transfers If you own both use a null modem gender changer with a modem cable or a straight through gender changer with a printer cable In either case if it still doesn t work try a gender changer with the through connections of the handshaking lines omitted In the latter case it is considered good practice to strap pin 4 to pin 5 and pins 6 8 and 20 together on the IBM
23. Plus MemoMaker document files to ASCII and removes control codes COPYNEW COM Backs up files if no identical file on the destination disk Also backs up whole directory structure creating matching subdirectories CPU COM Displays computer s clock speed CVTBIN COM Converts files from ASCII to binary when downloaded with CompuServe READ command CYPHER COM Enciphers and deciphers a file to keep it confidential DIRALL COM Displays attributes and pathnames for ALL files on a disk DIRS COM Gives total disk space occupied by a set of files DUMP COM Dumps and edits a disk or file in hexadecimal and ASCII FDATE COM Changes the time date stamp on a file FDUMP COM Lists a file in hexadecimal and ASCII FF COM Sends a form feed to the printer FGREP COM Searches a group of files for a specified string HC COM Converts binary files to from hexadecimal ASCII files HP IBM COM Does a best fit translation from HP ROMAN 8 character set to IBM PC Line Draw character set IBM HP COM Does a best fit translation from IBM PC Line Draw character set to HP ROMAN 8 character set INSTALLP COM Automates installing an application program on RAM disk the HP Portable Portable Plus Install Utility Program LABEL COM Labels or changes the label name on a disk LC COM Counts lines in each file useful in determining amount of paper needed to print LF COM Sends a line feed to the printer LJET COM LaserJet pronter configuration progr
24. Portable programming language of choice outstrips others in price performance compatibility memory con sumption and programmer environment The WordStar type editor alone i worth the price Borland has authorized us to include an ex tra disk customizing the Turbo editor to the HP110 and Portable Plus s editing keys The Turbo Pascal Starter Kit includes Turbo Pascal Turbo Pascal Tutor 2 0 and Portable Pascal Programs a double sided disk with more than 50 program examples for the Portables SeP23 Typing Whiz Better than almost any typing tutor program on the market designed specifically for The Portables and the HP150 Immediate numeric and graphic feedback of your progress seP 19 Used HP Portable Equipment E The Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personalized Soft ware buys and sells used HP110s Portable Pluses HP9114s HP ROMs and RAM drawers for the Plus Because of HP quality used HP products are a great buy 30 day return policy on all used equipment plus one year guarantee parts and labor Volume Discounts W Corporate buyers users groups and HP dealers Order products and subscriptions from us in quantity and save Back cover Webster s Spelling Checker Rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine Webster s packs a 110 000 word dictionary into 207K of disk memory Webster s shows you incorrect spellings in context and suggests corrections lets you preview ques tionable words before y
25. ROM Backup for the Portable Plus executes commands exceptionally fast Even in the desktop market it is dif ficult to find a word processor with this many useful features at this low a price For the Portables THE EDITOR simply can t be beat See for yourself Order your copy risk free today THE EDITOR 99 95 79 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Special combined offer SAVE S30 THE EDITOR and THE FORMATTER together Only 99 95 total Portable Paper subscribers only Note The user manual itself is a challenge and no technical support is available We therefore recom mend THE FORMATTER for strong computer users or those already familiar with text formatters If you need any of the features listed above and if you re willing to spend the time it takes to learn the commands THE FORMATTER is for you Order your copy risk free today THE FORMATTER 59 95 49 95 for Portable Paper subscribers PV PV users Be sure to indicate PORTABLE VECTRA on your order so we can send you proper disk format See Software on ROM ad great text editing features and more Search and replace Just tell THE E
26. WordPerfect 04 495 299 for Portable Paper subscribers IMPORTANT Be sure to specify whether you want the Portable Plus version or the HP150 version 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details for other files on your electronic disk To fit everything on your A drive you ll need an addi tional 340K for the spelling checker and 360K for the thesaurus The speller and thesaurus can be run from your HP9114 if you wish Our version of WordPerfect includes an 8 page supplement to the manual that tells you how to run WordPerfect on the Portable Plus sided on your orders Taking My Friend To Market By Molly Glen After all these many years after much self analysis I have come to the conclusion that Iam more comfortable with my shaded friends meaning those who instinctively regard things three dimensionally I would say these are sensitive sympathetic diplomatic people so attuned to others that they can finish one s sentences verbally or men tally forget and forgive easily and above all never never bleep you as a dummy Delightful friendly people like this can see all sides of an issue figure all possible angles in a given situation and are shaded or angled or grey in nature not straight line straight ahead or black and white B amp W I came to the conclusion that it s really OK that I am that kind of multi faceted shaded type of person too I m OK
27. an autoexec bat file which is executed when the computer is booted On the HP Portables these variables are set in a file named pam env However they may be reset interactive ly at any time while in DOS Here is an example of a pam env file COMSPEC B BIN COMMAND COM PATH B BIN B A C PROMPT e s e amp aGOx0Y e amp dB t e 6D d e amp dQ e u p g EDCONFIG The first line is necessary and must be entered EXACT LY as shown The second line must have PATH B BIN B as a minimum for the HP110 otherwise you will not be able to run the built in programs The path shown above works well when the HP110 is connected to a disk drive The only disadvantage is if you misspell a command when the C drive is not connected then DOS looks for the command following the path to the nonexistent C disk You get the message Not ready error reading drive C Abort Retry Ignore Typing a for abort pulls you out The third line is purely optional The one shown is rather neat PROMPT p g is a good basic prompt which shows the default drive and current subdirectory There is only one major problem which is really a problem with DOS itself If you set the default drive to one which has no disk in it DOS will not be able to read the name of the current direc tory You will receive the Not ready error reading drive C message The only recovery is to either put a disk in the drive or reboot the computer Even with this problem
28. an enjoyable program to play with and provides a wealth of Pascal code to explore The PCVIEW user manual presents a good example of how to write technical ly correct and readable instructions PCVIEW is one of those programs that you may only use a few times However when you need to use it you ll be glad you had it PCVIEW is a substantial showpiece of Cliff Looyenga s expertise and is available for the bargain price of 24 95 plus 2 shipping and handling from Advanced Solutions PO Box 567 Veradale WA 99037 Until next time Happy Porting Ed Keefe is an autbor programmer and computer science instructor He is tbe president of tbe FastAid Com pany 314 SW Logan Ankeny IA 50021 Ed s CompuServe ID ts 73277 1064 components of our pop up is a File Manager which will enable us to copy rename delete and move files and direc tories and to view print and edit files We also want access to the time of day the date etc If we have access to DOS these can be done with normal Pascal and we won t have to resort to any machine language or assembly within the program It so happens that DOS is re entrant but the tech niques to determine when this occurs are not documented There are times when DOS is busy reading from the key board writing to disk etc and we do not want to inter rupt these processes to pop up until they are finished DOS maintains two status bytes that we can check once we have deduced their location
29. before we pop up These status bytes will indicate whether DOS is busy at that point In addition there is an undocumented function call 28h DOS uses this function call to tell other TSR s that it is idle such as at the normal DOS prompt and that it can be safely interrupted and re entered Without this feature a DOS utility such as print com would not be able to func tion properly At the DOS prompt DOS sits in a loop that checks for a keypress If a key has not been pressed it then calls interrupt 28h before re checking the keyboard Nor mally this interrupt 28h does nothing but we will inter cept this interrupt and set a flag in our program when it is called to indicate that DOS is idle and can be interrupted If DOS is busy executing a function call the details of DOS function calls are beyond the scope of this column but information can be found in the DOS Technical Ref erence Manual we must be careful Some of the function calls can be interrupted but others cannot we will cause a crash if we halt what is going on and later make another THE PORTABLE PAPER DOS call To account for this we will also intercept all DOS calls and set a flag that indicates that we cannot interrupt DOS and pop up until that particular call is finished The logic is as follows for our DOS interrupt bandler note that all DOS calls will go through our handler first since our in terrupt handler is installed after DOS is installed Check th
30. but has not yet appeared in any of the Portable pop ups to date including those I have written It is important that all interrupts are chained rather than totally taken over The two positive effects of this are that 1 all memory resident programs have access to everything in the machine at all times including when one or more TSR s are popped up and 2 all hardware inter rupts are cleared before we pop up This allows further in terrupts to occur normally The method of clearing the hardware interrupt is to call the old interrupt first and then proceed as we need to do Now we come to the hard part We really want to be able to access DOS during the time when we are popped up but DOS is supposedly non reentrant One of the key THE PORTABLE PAPER PCVIEW exceeded my expectations The Wiz included a set of routines that minimize the necessary code for pro grams that will work only on the HP110 Only an HP110 user would have thought of that nice touch I was hoping that PCVIEW would supply some win dow management routines for the HP Portables I also wished for some routines that would iet me design sliding menus like those in Lotus 1 2 3 I was disappointed PCVIEW supplies neither of these design tools However The Wiz must be commended for his hones ty in advertising he promised a FORMS system and that is exactly what he has produced Turbo Pascal program mers would do well to latch on to the PCVIEW program Its
31. file where you want the to be merged text to begin Now press f2 Block Keys and f3 Paste Block and you are done 40 JULY AUGUST 1988 If you can spare 40K on your Edisc or an extra ROM slot I strongly suggest you purchase The Editor from Per sonalized Software The Editor lets you keep two files at once in memory It makes transferring blocks of text or merging files a relatively simple process It is faster than MemoMaker with many more features including Search and Replace The Editor is 79 95 for subscribers 99 95 for non subscribers Keep Us All Informed Our information comes from you Currently our R amp D staff consists of me and Looking Glass columnist Ed Keefe PY who s taking a sabbatical from his computer science facul ty position and helping us out over the summer We get a good share of our information from you our readers Almost otir entire product line from Webster s Spelling Checker to SideWinder was either discovered or created by you Whether you are an HP engineer a cor porate professional or in business for yourself we ap preciate you sharing your knowledge and experience with us SO we can give it back to all of our other readers We at Personalized Software have been successful not because we invented things Rather thanks to you Per sonalized Software has become the clearing house of knowledge and information about HP Portables Please continue to keep us informed about your discoveries
32. greatest disagreement Twinkle and I have had to date It has almost ruined our budding friendship Either Twinkle has got to switch from B amp W to grey or I have to change I suspect it s going to be me TY TY X7 AYTA4 CYTC Y 1 100 1 THE PORTABLE PAPER Foundations By Hal Goldstein Tbe Foundations column contains material tbat we feel every Portable user sbould know We assume tbe reader is a novice computer user however readers novice through expert should find at least some of the material covered here useful If you would like to write articles for this column or want us cover some topic in this space please contact us Using Subdirectories WHY USE THEM Subdirectories are an important tool for organizing your files on disks Like most computer related subjects the idea of subdirectories is not difficult to learn and use once you master a little vocabulary and a few concepts HP110 Portable Plus and Portable Vectra users all have good reasons to learn about subdirectories Subdirectories enable portable users to organize and systematically store files on disks This need for organiza tion is critical for Portable Vectra users who may have hun dreds of files on their 1 44 Megabyte 1440K floppy disks and 20 Megabyte hard disks HP110 and Portable Plus users who back up files to 710K floppy disks will also find a disk organization scheme invaluable Portable Plus users whose electronic disks can now store se
33. in sub directory webster utils contains three subdirectories nor ton contains the Norton Utility programs sidewind contains the SideWinder files necessary for sideways prin ting dos contains DOS programs or other tools facilitating operating system activities CREATING A SUBDIRECTORY STRUCTURE Hewlett Packard Portable users can use PAM s File Manager to create and remove subdirectories Portable Vectra users should select File Manager as one of the PAM applications HP110 and Portable Plus users press f2 If you press function keys f2 f3 or f4 within File Manager you can delete create or choose move to a directory Just follow the instructions when you press the key If you prefer you may create delete or change the current directory from DOS Once you learn the com mands it is quicker and more convenient to work from DOS rather than PAM Besides if you ever work on a non HP MS DOS machine such as an IBM PC you will probably be forced to work in DOS directly From DOS let s create the subdirectory structure as it is shown in the diagram above First enter DOS from PAM At the A N prompt type md wordproc md stands for Make Directory Now do the same and from DOS type md spreadsh md utils and md webster Press Return after each md command Note that subdirectory names follow the same rules as file names you are allowed up to 8 characters in a name con taining no spaces If you choose you can add a period
34. is our Portable Mouse Software and a cable to connect the Plus risk free today Don t forget to order our PORTABLE MOUSE SOFTWARE and cable too you ll need them to run either mouse with your Portable Plus Portable Plus Mouse Systems Logitech Mouse Portable Mouse Software Cable 219 00 179 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Fot pricing of individual components and Microsoft Mouse see Additional Products opposite the order form in this issue 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date sign pO Personalized Softwar P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 Ij 472 6330 RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Vectra e Portable Pus sf HPISO IBM PC and compatibles C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software examples are beyond my mathematical talents My diffEQ is 20 years old The program is no speed demon It runs about as fast as a comparable BASIC program that would get the same results The program comes from MicroSoft and can be ordered from EduCALC 27953 Cabot Road Laguna Niguel CA 92677 for 229 95 714 582 2637 fr Recent Findings Of A Turbo Shopper m PCVIEW ON THE BOARDS PY Lately I have been haunting local computer bulletin boards looking for good public domain programs that will work on the HP Portables In particular I v
35. just lit tle O s YTTTNZ AYTA CYTTC I 1000 D THE PORTABLE PAPER Up to this point my efforts in getting WordPerfect 5 0 to run on a Portable Plus have been unsuccessful Since version 4 2 runs on the Portable Plus I suspect it would be possible to get 5 0 running with a simple patch to Word Perfect or by creating a memory resident PC program I ll continue to work on it and report any successes in the next issue Version 4 2 of WordPerfect is available from Per sonalized Software for the HP150 and Portable Plus Ver sion 5 0 for the Portable Vectra is available from us now and in August we will have the HP150 version The retail price for all versions except HP150 5 0 is 495 Subscribers may purchase either 4 2 or 5 0 for 299 Subscriber price for the HP150 5 0 version is 350 retail is 595 The Wizard Responds The following questions are from Michael Felsenstein San Francisco Q Is it possible to create the telephone symbols and on the 110 A Yes I believe so The letter E in the phone number field will dial a and the letter F will dial a Q Is it possible to create and print the special characters shown on the template included in the back of the manual A I think the characters to which you refer are the extend ed character set of the HP110 Since the ASCH character set uses only 128 of 255 possible values for a character HP designed other characters to fill up the last 127 You can ent
36. lent utilities that I am using now The mm com utility renders the Backspace key destructive makes my MemoMaker word processing much faster I have a problem that I hope you can solve Occasionally the paper in the ThinkJet printer jams and I have to reset it at the power switch Other times when printing a large proposal for editing I want a large part of the document to be printed by auto feed but not the entire document I shut off the printer to avoid wasting paper Because I print on expand ed compressed configuration for better readability I have to go back to PAM to re configure the printer I would like to know if one of your readers or your staff knows a way to re Pv 1 2 3 worksheet with a macro which prints one page and changes to expand ed compressed from my 3 cnf file Unfor tunately this wastes one sheet of paper I love my Portable Plus and I don t know how I would live without it Your company makes my equipment faster smarter and better Keep up the outstand ing service Richard Alvidrez MESA Director Cali fornia State University Los Angeles CA See News From Personalized Soft ware Paul Grimmer bas recently sent us an updated version of his pop up printer control program You can now control the ThinkJet change fonts mode and so on from the middle of any application by popping up his program It is free on the latest version of the 1988 Subscribers disk Hal New Format
37. line to my config sys file Note that in the example above both 440 and 44 seem to indicate the Portable Vectra 1 44 Meg floppy The actual FloppyDRIVER file is fd sys I store my fd sys in a subdirectory named utils 14 JULY AUGUST 1988 Controlling FloppyDRIVER If I had read or at least skimmed the manual I would have saved myself some time and annoyance and tempered a criticism of the program that I mentioned last issue It turns out that included on the FloppyDRIVER master is a program called fdctrl com that allows you to control the functioning of FloppyDRIVER My main criticism of the program last issue had not so much to do with the program as with the nature of the HP world of disk formats When FloppyDRIVER is installed the HP Portable Vectra can no longer read HP110 Portable Plus HP150 dual sided formatted disks What I had to do every time I wanted to read a disk formatted by my Port able Plus was to copy my config hp file to config sys and reboot the system holding down the Ctrl Alt keys and pressing Del The config hp file does not contain the Flop pyDRIVER device line When I finished my work I copied a file I named config fd to config sys and rebooted con fig d contains the FloppyDRIVER device line What a bother It turns out that all I had to do is type the command fdctrl off and FloppyDRIVER is disabled To reinstate FloppyDRIVER I type fdctrl on If I am really lazy and know that I want FloppyDRIVE
38. nue sejram speed and a slower uou want H SATURN speed in an instant The pen also has an eraser Just press E and when the cursor is down it will erase whatever it encounters DOZENS OF HANDY FEATURES But that s just the beginning SKETCH also lets you draw diagonals boxes circles and arcs each with a single key If you have a mouse you gain even more convenience Move the mouse in any way you want and the cursor follows instantly See ad on the Logitech Mouse for the Por table Plus in this issue SKETCH also lets you fill closed shapes with light or dark solid or even invert the entire screen light areas become dark and vice versa with a single keystroke With SKETCH you can create text in any of 5 different character sets and place the text any where in your drawing including sideways or even upside down SKETCH lets you save part or all of any drawing for future use or you can print directly from the screen onto your ThinkJet or QuietJet pages RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Available on ROM Backu for the Portable Plus o Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus for an additional 95 See Software on ROM ad in this issue ii 9HI2HMU THE ANSWER You can also import graphics screens into SKETCH from Lotus or any other graphics program SKETCH doesn t limit the size of your dreawing area to the size o
39. of the use of environment variables Suppose you have used the pam env file shown above and want to temporarily add another directory to the path You can use the following batch file named add path bat to add any directory to the path echo off rem ADDPATH lt path gt adds a new path to the end of an existing path rem prompt p g path PATH l echo the path is now PATH Note that these environment variables work only in batch files You cannot use them in an interactive mode IN CONCLUSION Most users of the HP Portables will not significantly im prove their machines performance by using a config sys file to set the number of buffers However anyone who regularly uses lengthy batch files should consider it The pam env file is a real benefit to anyone who regularly uses DOS commands You can have the path set automatically to find programs on the C disk The set parameter is useful for running The Editor Give it a try Edlin and press Ctrl vl This will produce the l symbol after the word echo The gt prn part of the command will send l to the printer which will respond by producing a form feed page eject If you are using the command copy con manycopy bat to enter the short batch file then you can generate l by simply pressing the Ctrl and 1 keys See Vol 1 No 1 p 6 MAKING DOS DO THE COUNTING If you know how many printed copies you need you can get DOS to do the counting for you How Just a
40. our ROM version is considered a backup copy of the disk version Unless you already own the disk version we cannot sell you the ROM Backup by itself Please note 1 If you purchased the disk version of a program from us we have that in our records If you purchased the disk version elsewhere you will need to show us proof of purchase before we can sell you just the ROM Backup 2 Prices for ROM Backups alone are as follows Best of DOS Tools 129 The Editor e cou De nene tUi 95 HPDuette 005 95 HPrint ost ERAS 95 SHBIB zc teats lot do os ne Oe os 55 SideWinder 55 Shelp SideWinder 95 Sketch ve lends at SuperROM TermPlus Turbo Pascal Typing Whiz Webster s Spelling Checker 179 3 It is important that you read and adhere to the licensing agreement that comes with the disk version of any soft ware you buy because the same agree ment applies to the corresponding ROM Backup In most cases this means you can use only one version of the software at a time on only one computer system at a time Remember the ROM is a backup copy of the software not an independent second copy HP ROMs The HP ROMs that we sell do not include or require the corresponding disk versions They are the same ROMs that HP sells except ours are used which turns out to be better than buying them new Here s why Unlike other
41. the Portable Plus On the other hand it states in your article that users of the HP110 Portable Plus and Portable Vectra can use the DeskJet with no difficulty Is there something I don t know which I should If so would you kindly advise me whether or not my equipment can be made compatible with the DeskJet Martin C Koenig M D Sun City AZ I have tbe answer but since I am not an MS Word user I am not sure of its implications You will have to create your own prd files or soft fonts for the DeskJet I understand that this is not dif ficult Perbaps a reader wbo bas done so can send us these files and we ll make them available to our readership at no or minimal charge Hal Comments And Questions From Portuguese Plus User I would like to offer congratulations on your fine publication and say thank you for all you have done for portable users Without you I would feel as if I was using my Portable Plus in darkness In my quest for products and information for use with my Portable Plus I have experienced nothing but frustration with HP s Portu guese dealers and sales representatives so it is quite a relief to deal with Personalized Software I hope you can answer the following questions 1 Could the graphics program SKETCH be called by another program as a macro for instance i e is it possible to link it with a Pascal C Fortran Basic or Cobol compiled program Only indirectly i e in the same way
42. the echo off message line from the screen M is an example of how to use the escape se quence codes found in the Portable Plus Technical Reference Manual These codes are recognized by the Port able Plus screen console driver when used with the echo command within a batch file You can use these escape se quences to move the cursor insert or delete lines to format the batch file s output screen change fonts create inverse video characters and do graphics utility is the subdirectory containing the document files used by help l is the replaceable parameter com mand name typed in with help Therefore typing help sdl would type the file sdl doc sdl doc contains a descrip tion of the DOS Tools sdl command for sorting direc tories Typing help from PAM or DOS puts the help doc on the screen Could this type of help utility be useful to others Am I the only one dumb enough to need it or are copyright laws keeping this type of software off the market Of course much work would have to be done to uncustomize it for general application References to my personal batch files have to be eliminated However help could be expanded to include all MS DOS commands Nor ton Utilities and all the utilities offered by your company including the DOS TOOLS disk ll Some Notes On Configuring DOS And L Setting The DOS Environment By Gary Goodman The HP Owner s Manual and the MS DOS manual say next to nothing about configuring
43. the elec tronic A drive of the slave as its own C drive The master can now run programs or transfer files to or from the slave s A drive the master s new C drive as easily as it runs programs or transfers files to and from the HP9114 disk drive LINKING AN IBM PC COMPATIBLE TO A PORTABLE Normally the IBM PC compatible knows nothing about HP Portables Therefore you must install or have your dealer install hardware called an HP IL interface card part 82973A into the IBM PC compatible You must also install software called a device driver that educates your PC about a device in this case the HP Portable The instruc tions and software that come with the HP IL interface card make this device driver installation relatively easy Just be sure the config sys file on the PC includes the line device hpil sys Also the file hpil sys must reside on the PC Once you have installed the hardware and software JULY AUGUST 1988 27 THE PORTABLE PAPER you are ready to use The Portable as a slave to the PC Connect the Portable and the PC using two HP IL cable wires Then run hplink on the Portable The PC compati ble becomes the master and the Portable the slave If the PC has a hard disk and hplink is run on the Portable the electronic disk of the Portable becomes the PC s D drive You can easily transfer files back and forth using the DOS copy command from the PC If you prefer you can substitute the HP9114 disk drive fo
44. the only solution was to buy a bulky external modem and lug it around wher ever you go A better solution is the Worldport 2400 It measures a trim 4 x2 x1 it s rugged it weighs only 6 ounces including the battery and it sends and receives at 300 1200 and 2400 baud A MYRIAD OF FEATURES The Worldport 2400 has a wealth of features you would expect to find in a desktop modem several times its size EXTRA BONUS FOR USERS OF THE IBM PC AND NEW HP PORTABLE VECTRA Included with the WorldPort 2400 at no charge is the acclaimed communications and remote control software package Carbon Copy PLUS retail value 195 The program also comes free with the World Port1200 WorldPort2400 Upgrade Kit Carbon Copy PLUS will not run on the HP110 or Portable Plus but both WorldPort modems will run with HP s communi cations software namely the Terminal program for the HP110 and TERM and Reflection for the Portable Plus 5 Does the 1 Meg RAM card from HP have sockets such as SoftWord s cards Is it a simple card or is it a drawer The HP I Meg RAM card bas no ROM sockets like tbe SoftWord RAM ROM card Unfortunately tbe language com monly used to describe extra memory for the Plus is inconsistent and ambiguous The HP 1 Meg RAM card and the Soft Word products are drawers Tbat is to use an HP 1 Meg RAM card you would remove your Old RAM drawer and substitute tbe HP 1 Meg card Hal 6 How does the monitor work
45. used products you can buy there are no moving parts on a ROM and nothing that can wear out Because of this our two year guarantee against defects applies to used HP ROMs as well as to our own ROM Backups Iwo years is twice the guarantee against defects that Hewlett Packard offers Our used HP ROMs are also covered by our unique 60 day guarantee of sat isfaction Best of all our used HP ROMs are priced as much as 5096 below retail Look at the chart at the right and com pare In the chart Retail price of HP ROMs is HP s price new Subscriber price is our price used SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON ROM For product details see individual ads elsewhere in this issue or in our catalog or refer to articles in past issues Note that in many cases you can save space in your software drawer by buying two or more programs on the same chip See last portion of chart Combined ROMs Product Notes WORD PROCESSORS The Editor Also available as part of our SuperROM chip see Combined ROMs below MemoMaker Comes on same chip as Time Manager see Combined ROMs below MS Word Multimate WORD PROCESSING UTILITIES Format 110 Comes as part of SuperROM see Combined ROMS below HPrint Mini PrinterTalk Comes as part of SuperROM see Combined ROMs below Webster s Spelling Checker SPREADSHEETS Lotus 1 2 3 Version 1A Lotus 1 2 3 Version 2 01 SPREADSHEET UTILITY SideWinder Also available on
46. versions We will make Kermit available to our readership in the following manner We supply all four versions on two disks a 3 1 2 inch disk and a 5 1 4 inch disk for 19 Personalized Software cannot offer technical support for the software We have had no complaints but if you get desperate you can probably give Gary Goodman a call We Have A Fax Number Many of you have requested a Fax number You may send your Fax correspondence to 515 472 8470 Be sure to in dicate Personalized Software somewhere in your transmission since we are sharing the Fax service with other companies in town SoftWord Meg Cards And European Ordering European customers will not be able to order Personalized Software products from SoftWord until late Summer or early Fall Instead they may order from Personalized Soft ROM backup of TermPlus includes IBM disk formatting 110 Pv USED HP PORTABLES AND PERIPHERALS We buy them No longer using your HP Portable or peripherals Turn them into cash through The Portable Equipment Exchange Prices fluctuate so call us for current figures ware directly If you want to order SoftWord 2 Meg RAM or 1 Meg RAM ROM Cards you may have to wait until Fall for delivery We may have some in stock so you are best off calling us Save Lotus Files We Hope I have long advocated that the Norton Utilities is the single most important product every Portable HP150 or IBM PC
47. versions of the new Zenith SuperSport 80286 based portable This portable is a state of the art lightweight battery or AC powered IBM compatible port able computer with backlit display According to HP this portable will meet the needs of most marketing sales and service MSS applications The customized HP versions of the product will have a few changes to make it fit better in the overall Vectra PC product line and MSS marketplace Most of the differences will be in the areas of its physical appearance and software configuration and the addition of HP systems integration and support All of the specifications including the dif ferences between the Zenith and HP systems will be defin ed by the 3rd quarter 1988 The products will be available through the HP direct sales force and third party distribution channels HP dealers and VAR s as part of the HP Vectra PC family No price information is available at this time However HP recognizes the need to provide a strong price performance position in the market with respect to Zenith The 20M Zenith version retails at 4999 and the 40M version retails for 5599 HP is planning to start shipping the unit in the 4th quarter 1988 HP made the announcement with such a long lead time to keep its accounts informed HP recog nizes that many of its accounts are engaging in pilot studies and testing of portable units THE ZENITH HP RELATIONSHIP HP s remarketing of a custom version of
48. with the video interface HP 82985A and my Portable Plus Is it linked with HP IL or with the 9 pin RS232 C It ts its own interface You remove the back of the Plus it s not difficult and substitute the video interface port This port ts on the back along with the serial and HP IL ports You connect the port to the video interface a box about one quarter the size of the Plus and then connect that to a monitor The monitor should accept a composite video signal from a phono jack connector Essentially any low cost monitor which can be used with an Apple II is acceptable The only such monitor currently sold by HP is the HP 82913A Further specifications in clude Signal 1 24 pp negative synchron ous into 75 ohms Scanning Frequency 15 7 KHz Compatibility RS 170 You For example the WorldPort 2400 has auto dial auto answer and both pulse and tone operation It comes with a standard modular phone plug for connecting with the telephone line It offers non volatile storage of up to 20 commands And it is fully compatible with the industry standard Hayes AT Command Set and with the HP110 s Terminal software and the Portable Plus s TERM and Reflection software Since a modular plug is not always available the WorldPort 2400 also has a built in interface for an acoustic coupler The coupler an optional extra runs at 300 and 1200 baud The unit is compatible with both the internationally ac cepted CCITT commu
49. 221P is ONLY for printers and plotters 92221M is for external modems Interested users should consult their owner s documentation HP110 appendix B and Portable Plus appendix D for serial cabling informa tion and diagrams THE PORTABLE SERIAL PORT The 9 pin D subminiature serial port connector on the HP110 and Portable Plus is mounted above a projecting lip of the Portable s casing Most commercially available cable connectors have plastic or metal hoods with wrap around lips to hold the cable connector body in the hood When such a cable connector is inserted in the Portable Plus con nector the hood lip hits the casing bottom preventing straight line full depth insertion At best the connection is unreliable at worst the connectors are damaged Most cables made for use with the Portable Plus by manufacturers other than HP use these offending connec tors and also omit one or more of the ten lines in the cable specified in the HP implementation of the RS 232 C V 24 standard as described in appendices B and D of the HP110 and Portable Plus owner s manual Such omissions result in either the failure of peripherals or file transfer utilities or require the use of special adapters to untwist the pretzel created by the use of an inappropriate cable LOGITECH MOUSE AND HPDUETTE Two cases in point are the Logitech C7 Mouse and HPDuette from Personalized Software both of which are 22 JULY AUGUST 1988 furnished with adapters made wi
50. AR WR Oe AA pe un Be BR BR Ea Dee us Se oe Um ap 3 gt em IE PP QE TE TE ES TS 22 HO GEO TP 1I TP TE P2 TE 75 IP E 18 22 BOGE 32 if iP ff te 1g If iz RE ES SE UE SE tE LE tg te SD tg SE LE E iz ii UE GE TE OUI CE EN 05 42 2 1G GE GB SE GB NG Sb UB SE Se TE Be a2 GSB Se ff sree ac cae BF 25 SE BE RD RE EE EZ ES SE Eo ME 72X g2 RIOT ROO ac Iz RE 2 12 22 2 Te pz P2 22 it 1t TI TS 32 i IS 12 22 TE Se te Te ie Te Tz 22 12 mcn ety alte Now you can print it sideways me wo _ u gt gt ae amp o gt P gt gt a gt V o gt O gt o y Q SideWinder is published by Southern Software OPTIONAL EXTRAS Southern Software of New Orleans creators of SideWinder have also created two companion utilities that work only on The HP Portables SideChar lets you create your own sideways characters E SEE E sana Ww E NM BEE 8L L BI LL LL te Nuit F te Print amp Xe Lead te Sov faleck te topple block It s called SideWinder and it s perfect for Lotus 1 2 3 print files MemoMaker files or any other text ASCII file that s too wide for a normal page Just type in the file name and SideWinder does the rest printing up to 53 rows sideways for as long as your paper supply lasts You ll never need to cut and paste again SideWinder s high quality graphics characters are indistinguishable from ordinary characters and Si
51. But that isn t what makes it so special You see T Master isn t just a very good program It is an entirely unique program It s one you simp ly must get your hands on before you can appreciate its incredible richness and elegance and the sheer thoughtfulness that went into its creation THE HEART OF THE SYSTEM As with most integrated pro grams T Master lets you share data between applications for example you can insert a spreadsheet into a report you re typing or can take in formation from a database and move it into a spreadsheet all without leaving the program However with most other in tegrated programs you have to exit the module you re in e g word pro cessor load another module e g PORTABLE PLUS USERS You ll need 296K of main memory to run T Master plus 135K Edisc space for the core system plus the following amounts for storage of the various parts word processor 53K speller 151K database and spreadsheet 135K data communications 35K chart making 52K misc utilities 60K You can if you wish run the various parts of T Master off your external disk drive HP110 USERS T Maker an earlier version of T Master runs on the HP110 Portable with an external disk drive The pro gram runs beautifully T Maker doesn t support data communications but it does include word processor spelling checker database spreadsheet scratchpad and simple bar charts It is easily the most com
52. Comments Circulation Questions I would like to compliment you on what I feel is the best edition yet of The Port able Paper the May June issue I found enabling me to pick out the articles per taining to the Portable Plus at a glance The article Iransferring TM Name And Address Files Into Lotus was a real eye opener I ve been trying to accom plish the same thing for a year and had given up Thank you Dr Alvidrez and Hal for your insight One question Once I ve done my editing in Lotus I would like to re load the data back into Time Man ager Is there a re convert utility avail able and is one even necessary I would be most interested in a util ities ROM for Time Manager Besides the utilities mentioned in the article page 22 and the re convert utility I would also like to see a switch batch file that per mits switching between three or more Name amp Address files The original file The Portable Paper Vol 2 No 1 p 9 on ly switches between two Time Manager Name amp Address Files I would like to add my voice to those who seek your service in upgrading the Portable Plus CPU I also feel that it would be worth a reasonable fee for a trained technician to do the upgrade and so that I wwrwr r d A Ww 4o rc Ma nA non m THE PORTABLE PAPER could continue my maintenance agree ment with HP I am also very interested in Sym phony for the Portable Plus but would prefe
53. DITOR what word or phrase to look for and it will find every place you ve used it At your option it will display each occurrence or replace the occurrences either selectively or globally Edit two files at once THE EDITOR will display two separate portions of text at the same time one above the other You can view and edit two parts of the same file or even two different files simultaneously Backspace delete You can erase the last character with a single keystroke No limit on file size If you re an HP110 Portable user you re no longer confined by MemoMaker s 819 Line limit You can have as large a file as internal memory allows File merge You can merge two or more files to gether with ease Compressed and expanded You re no longer restricted to bold and underline You can imbed control charac ters in your text to tell your printer to print all or part of your text compressed expanded bold underlined or whatever else your printer can handle Unlimited line length Your files are no longer limited to 80 characters per line This means for ex ample you can print 132 character lines on your ThinkJet printer in compressed mode Lines per page You can specify the number of lines per page using the control codes required by your printer Easy in easy out You can exit from THE EDITOR run another program then type a one word command and be back in THE EDITOR in a flash exactly where you
54. DOS and setting the DOS environment I guess HP assumes that buyers of lap top computers are all busy traveling executives without time to learn the more esoteric features of their computers Here are some features of which you may not have previ ously been aware THE CONFIG SYS FILE The config sys file allows you to specify certain parameters and names of device drivers which are activated when the computer is rebooted The most common parameters in this file are buffers and files buffers specifies the number of buffers to use for disk I O files specifies the number of files which may be open at any one time The default is 2 buffers and 8 files These values are ridiculously small for a full fledged PC XT or AT but are quite reasonable for the HP Portables You will find that lengthy batch files and long direc tory listings on an external disk will run significantly faster if you include the following line in a config sys file buffers 4 The buffers 4 setting will reserve an additional 2k of memory for buffers the config sys file will use 512 bytes on the Edisc This setting will not decrease the time it takes to copy type a file or load a program from an external disk on the HP Portables THE PAM ENV FILE The DOS environment is a small area of memory used by DOS to hold the values of user resettable parameters The path prompt and set commands set the values of these parameters On most PC s they are usually set in
55. GoldStar monitor and to an HP DeskJet printer I often work at home in the even ings and on weekends When I come home I bring my Portable Vectra and connect it to my battery powered cen tronix parallel ThinkJet printer and my GoldStar monochrome monitor I use my Portable Plus at work and when I travel away from Fairfield At work I use it for testing new products I also find that I use it for occasional spreadsheets and memos since it is so quick to load applications and store the results Also since most of our employees use the HP110 or Portable Plus transferring files between Portables using built in HPLink software couldn t be simpler I use the HPDuette software and serial cable to transfer data between my Plus and Portable Vectra I plan to use DeskLink from Traveling Software Bothell WA 206 483 8088 to connect my Portable Vectra to our other desktop Vectra hard disk system forty feet away The connection is made with serial cables on both com puters and a long telephone cord The desktop Vectra cur rently prints to an HP LaserJet 12 JULY AUGUST 1988 The desktop Vectra is shared company wide and is for use by any of our employees who need Laser printing or need to use a PC compatible I use a number of files which reside on that computer so DeskLink will allow me to ac cess those files from the Portable Vectra to the desktop Vec tra If I have a lot of printing to do I can print to the LaserJet rather than th
56. ING CHECKER came out on top for a number of good reasons First there s sheer size WEBSTER S contains over 110 000 words in its dictionary five times the number in Hayden s Speller 2 times as many as in The Word Plus yet WEBSTER S dic tionary and main program take up only 207K of disk memory Second WEBSTER S isn t just easy to use it s positively a pleasure It reads your files at high speed then displays every questionable word in context highlighted At the same time in a window off to the side it gives you a list of possible correct spellings A simple menu gives you the following options WE Accept the word as is B Replace the word with one of the sug gested spellings B Enter the correct spelling manually RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Vectra e Portable Plus e HPIbO IBM PC and compatibles amp e Bl Add the word to an auxiliary diction ary of frequently used words Bl Replace all other occurrences of the word Bl Look up the spelling of any other word at any time WEBSTER S also lets you mark in your text any spelling corrections that change length of a word this lets you quickly locate portions of text that may need refor matting WEBSTER S will automatically locate double repetitions like and and It can correct transpositions itme becomes jtem missing apostrophes dont becomes don t
57. JR Database management made easy AND COMPUTE TOT SALES TO DATE As a result it takes only one fifth the time to compute display sort search or report on your data using Condor as com pared with other database systems such as dBASE III Most users find they can create and begin to use their first database within minutes after opening the package Condor 3 but not Condor Jr is a fully relational DBMS That means you can use Condor 3 to compare select and combine data from two or more files Condor 3 also lets you create your own custom report formats Condor Jr in cludes a LIST com mand for limited re port writing You can transfer data back and forth Portable Vectra from Condor 3 to HP150 Lotus 1 2 3 print files IBM PC and compat RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Plus WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY If you want a database you can use immediately without even opening the manual Condor 3 is the DBMS to buy 4im Morgan Data Base Advisor a textbook example of what a database manage ment system should be James Perotti PC Magazine for a straight database I ll take Condor Jerry Pournelle InfoWorld and other files not created by Condor Over 150 000 Condor programs are cur rently in use We think the Condor peo ple have done a fabulous job of packing an enormous amount of database power into an incredibly easy to use system We urge you to try Condor 3 or
58. OMs and ROM Backup Packages see inside front cover Size of ROM Price Size of ROM Price Best of DOS Tools p 17 Two 64K ROMs 128K 129 Sidewinder p 29 3 asc oat e ep SH itg wate mae 5 92K ss 55 The Editob p 0 iu eutas duce et ep Rb end RR 64K 95 Sketch p 31 66 6 64K 95 esa ROM sestra deginti n s Ae Bek aa es I28K 6x4 149 HPCAICUlBUOE a 2v oar quete i ant da arb teda wed qr ades 64K 95 The Editor Mini PrinterTalk FormatllO Shelp and SideWinder HEDuetie D 22 4524 teure E EMEN ETE AE e 64K uui 95 TermPlus utilities 2 0 0 0 0 cece eee 64K 95 Va NI UMEN E TTE TO he Ate ee cots T ERE ee 64K 95 Turno Pascal Dc 2 das vu ex bn da Ed dotes 64K 95 bhelb D 9l saure bed AW E ee Saws MEER DAN dust 55 Typing Whiz ps 33 o LES EdpEC MENGE ded 64K 95 Shelp SideWinder 0 0 000000000 eee ee 64K 95 Webster s Spelling Checker Back cover Two 128K ROMs 256K 179 a This version of SideWinder does not P Mini PrinterTalk is the abbreviated version included on the PrinterTalk disk include any of the SideWinder utilities It is functionally equivalent to PrinterTalk for most applications Our Products and Services in Brief Cases for Portables and Peripherals Roomy rugged high quality highly padded cases to protect our Think Jet HP9114 and HP Portable when traveling CompuSetve Starter Kit E Gets you starte
59. P Vectra 232 00 209 00 T Maker Recommended for HP110 p 31 295 00 199 95 Tomato secsi ves Quite Ge Rack nace X I ee 39 95 35 95 TISer NOG uersu uro Les a sem ed Bee De OO Ears wid 29 95 Ane Formatter zerorren x teu aah Be wees 59 95 49 95 Turbo Pascal Programs for Portables p 9 49 95 44 95 Kermit Includes HP110 Plus 150 amp IBM PC 19 00 19 00 Turbo Tutor 3 0 or 4 0 p 9 n D0 95 ei Veteres 53 95 Mouse Logitech p 36 000 119 00 99 95 WorldPort 1200 modem p 5 199 00 179 00 Mouse Microsoft p 36 005 195 00 174 95 Acoustic coupler 300 1200 baud 68 95 64 95 Mouse Software p 36 0005 VOCUQD s Los cere 60 00 9 volt AC adapter for modem Gs PECES 7 95 Mouse Cable p 36 00 2005 90 00 ios died 20 00 Cable to connect Portable to Modem 30 00 20 00 _ Padded Case for Printer Disk Drive B0 05 coenae 31 95 WorldPort 1200 to WorldPort 2400 7 Padded Case for HP Portable Plus 99 895 cus 89 95 Upgrade Kit p 5 0 0 0 0005 199 00 179 00 Specify whether HP110 Portable Plus HP150 or IBM PC Price of Pertmaster Demo applicable to cost of Pertmaster SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON ROM BACKUP FOR THE PORTABLE PLUS For complete information on our HP R
60. R off for two minutes just to copy over a couple of files I can give the command fdctrl off 120 After 120 seconds FloppyDRIVER turns itself on There are also fdctrl options including changing the density of the disk you want formatted In the config sys examples above the second 44 after the colon stands for formatting 1 44 Megabyte disks You can format a 720K disk by typing fdctrl format a 720 The nice thing about this command is that FloppyDRIVER will let you run an application or do another DOS task while the disk is be ing formatted Memory Requirements FloppyDRIVER uses 40K of RAM to support the Port able Vectra 1 44 Meg drives Since FloppyDRIVER does its own buffering some of that memory can be saved on a dual floppy system by reducing the buffers statement to buffers 3 in the config sys file You can reduce the amount of RAM FloppyDRIVER uses but naturally you then reduce some of its effectiveness Conclusion FloppyDRIVER significantly reduces floppy disk ac cess time and increases battery life Dual floppy Portable Vectra owners will find it a necessity for normal daily func tioning Hard disk owners will find it most valuable when backing up the hard disk I think it is a must for every Port able Vectra ownet I can think of only a few reasons not to get Flop pyDRIVER Here they are 1 You have the patience of a saint 2 Your life is simple with plenty of time and you enjoy watching the green floppy disk lig
61. RTABLE VECTRA on your order C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER do test procedures at work write letters make labels for envelopes and disks keep files on my income and pro grams for my 15C calculator and more The loan payment program from the Portable Pascal Program Disk from Per sonalized Software has been very useful and timely because I am buying a house and the interest rates are changing Games such as the Memory game from the 1987 Subscribers Disk and TigerFox have been a source of amusement I have spent the rest of my time on the Plus learning DOS and writing batch files I have developed some intermediate skills at this and want to share one batch file with the readers I have many batch file utilities and use many MS DOS commands Norton Utilities and other programs such as move rendir diskpack etc It s become hard to keep track of them all I spend a lot of time searching manuals and disks for user information How nice it would be I thought if this information were on the computer So I promptly went to work on help bat help bat gives a short summary of what a batch file does and how to use a command by typing help and the batch or command name Here it is echo off M cd Nutility cls if exist l doc type l doc if not exist l doc type help doc cd echo off reduces the screen dialog in the optional M part of the command stands for the escape character and deletes
62. S 4 NEW lowa residents add 4 tax ORDERS OVER 200 Outside North America MERE I How to Order MM sio caa Important be sure to specify which kind of computer you use HP110 Portable Plus HP150 or Portable Vectra In addition please specify size of disk 3 5 or 5 25 and also i us whether you require single side 3 5 disk TO ORDER BY PHONE TO ORDER BY MAIL Call 515 472 6330 between l 1 Fill out your name etc on the reverse side of the 3 Fill in desired quantity of each item 9 00 am and 4 30 pm Central Time order form Please pay special attention to footnotes Monday through Friday or use CompuServe Be sure to indicate your disk requirements 4 Calculate shipping and handling costs see box EMAIL ID 72257 714 2 Locate desired items on order form near bottom of order form e Subscriptions are at the top e Shipping is FREE for U S orders over 200 TO ORDER BY FAX Products are next and are alphabetized 5 RUE ina oe eee The blank lines near the bottom labelled MISC are jf paying by check or money order Our Fax number is 515 472 8470 Be sure your for you to write in special instructions or to order e Make payable in U S funds to PERSONALIZED cover sheet says To Personalized Software miscellaneous products not listed on the form SOFTWARE Ss T Place check and order form in an envelope and mail If you d rather have us pay the postage Personalized Software Fold order form
63. The Editor The Formatter separate packages Pv The Editor Many features not in MemoMaker including search replace editing 2 files at once embedded printer codes up to 255 columns per line Also does word wrap right justify Easy to use Uses less than 40K Versions for HP110 Plus HP150 Vectra and IBM PC all on master disk The Formatter Sophisticated text formatter for large reports program documentation etc Multiline headers footers page numbers table of contents glossary capabilities and more Works with almost all print ers Note Manual is in draft form no technical support available SeP 41 HPDuette A software program that lets you transfer files back and forth at high speed between your Portable Plus and an IBM PC or compatible desktop computer without the need for an HP IL card Comes with proper serial cable eP4 HP9114 Empowerer i A hardware product that prevents the HP9114 disk drive from running out of juice in the middle of your work Plug Empowerer into your HP9114 and a normal wall outlet and you can run your HP9114 forever See P 22 FloppyDRIVER Pv A software program for the Portable Vectra that makes all floppy disk access operations loading and running programs accessing and copying files etc up to 10 times faster Flowcharting II This program creates professional looking flowcharts and organiza tional charts using 26 flowchart symbols in 95 sizes Wide variety of text fonts
64. The menu gives you 4 choices Calculator Notepad Key Macros and Off Choose Calculator and get a 4 function calculator that works just like a pocket calculator with memory You can Bl save results in ten Bi paste results at the different storage cursor location in registers and retrieve whatever application you them again with two were using when you quick keystrokes invoked Shelp Choose Notepad and a scratch pad pops up on your screen Type whatever you want into it exit to your appli cation and then recall the notepad whenever you want No more having to scribble notes on paper to remind you of phone numbers things to do or bright ideas Choose Key Macros and you can assign strips of up to 31 typewriter characters to any of the 26 letters in the alphabet This saves you having to type the same phrase over and over again Example lf you type United States a lot you could assign the entire phrase to the U key Just move the Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus See Software on ROM ad in this issue cursor to U in the Keyboard Macros menu and type United States To recall United States simply press Ctrl Extend char then U Presto United States appears at the cursor location in your application Choose Off and your Portable Plus turns off without having to return to PA M and without having to save your application file When you turn your computer
65. UARANTEE worksheets and archive files via the RECOMMENDED FOR S 8 See order form for details XMODEM protocol PuPii0 Ponabe e Log onto electronic bulletin boards Portable Plus o eee TO ORDER TT and remote computers automatically Portabie veca Sar send cheek or Credit Cant in tU ation HP150 O exp date signature to HP150 IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 utility ThinkJet control pop up and more send your 1988 Subscribers Disk or other double sided formatted disk with a self addressed stamped envelope Otherwise send us 9 50 for a new 1988 Subscribers Disk Offers only good for The Portable Paper sub scribers The program will be found on the TermPlus ROM along with the IBM format program from the 1988 Sub scribers disk Kermit Kermit is a public domain data communications program supported by Columbia University If two computers both ai run Kermit they can transfer files easily across phone lines Many mainframe computers as well as personal com puters can run Kermit Gary Goodman of Fredericksburg Virginia who has served as our HP110 communications expert these past few years has sent me versions of Kermit that will run on the HP110 Portable Plus HP150 Portable Vectra and IBM PC Gary has included documentation for the HP110 and Portable Plus
66. a ROM with Shelp and on our SuperROM chip see Combined ROMs below DATABASE PROGRAMS Executive Card Manager Lotus 1 2 3 can also be used as a database ECM manager COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE P2622 VT100 and HP Terminal emulator Reflection Minor upgrade of PC2622 TermPlus Also includes FormIBM Jetctrl and other great utilities PRODUCTIVITY BOOSTERS Best of DOS Tools Contains selected utilities from Portable Utilities Disk Vol 1 DOS Tools3 HP Calculator From our 1987 Subscriber Disk HP Duette Contains Portable Plus half of software Shelp Includes note extraction program Shelp is also available on a ROM with SideWinder and as part of our SuperROM chip see Combined ROMs below Comes on same ROM as MemoMaker see Combined ROMs below Time Manager lyping Whiz GRAPHICS Sketch Lotus 1 2 3 can also be used for graphics PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES MS BASIC This is not GWBASIC Turbo BASIC Includes RUN COM which can save you 10K of disk space from any program you compile with Turbo COMBINED ROMS MemoMaker Time Manager Shelp SideWinder Also includes SideWinder enhancement utility ouperROM Mini PrinterTalk is the abbreviated version 5 programs on one chip included on the PrinterTalk disk it is The Editor functionally equivalent to PrinterTalk for most Format 110 applications Shelp and SideWinder are the Mini PrinterTalk same versions as on the individual ROMs Shelp describe
67. aker Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus for an additional 95 in this issue If You won t believe all the word processing features this 99 95 program contains and it takes up less than 40K of memory only 79 95 for Portable Paper subscribers by Hal Goldstein Let s face it MemoMaker is an adequate word processor but it has its limits No search and replace No simple way to merge files No destructive backspace key To delete the last character you have to use the left arrow key and the deletion key s No compressed or expanded printing No but why go on If you use Memo Maker you probably have your own list of things you wish it could do Well we have good news Now there s an easy to use text editor that runs on the Por table and Portable Plus that will satisfy almost every item on your wish list And the program comes with a built in bonus It also runs on the HP 150 IBM PC and HP Vectra which means that now you can use the same program and files on your desk top that you use on your Portable The program is called THE EDITOR It does everything MemoMaker does plus a heck of a lot more And you don t have to go to the expense of buying WordStar for the Portable or MS Word for the Plus to go beyond MemoMaker s capabilities THE EDITOR s most valuable features are listed on the chart to the right It s quite a list isn t it To me THE EDITOR is a real ble
68. am for the HP Portable Makes selection LaserJet format easier MMTOP COM Causes Portable Plus MemoMaker to print without usual 5 line top margin MOVE COM Moves one file to another directory without copying MOVEALL COM Moves a set of files to another directory without copying Contents of Portable Utilities Disk Vol 1 DOS Tools we ve actually rewritten it A print ed 65 page user manual contain ing program documentation and plenty of examples are included with the disk The manual is conven iently indexed by subject so all you have to do is look up the name of the task you want done You don t have to remember the names of the programs And we ve even changed some of the programs them selves sothey work better and so their message displays are easier to under OFF COM Shuts off the HP Portable from DOS PACK COM Packs a disk Does not have subdirectories bug of earlier version PC EXE Allows some IBM programs to be run on HP150 PCBOSS COM File manager for IBM PC and compatibles only PRINTIT COM Print formatting program simple but effective PRNCONF COM Allows ThinkJet printer to function as Epson printer also sends escape se quences to the PRN device RAMDSK ARC Archived utility for HP150 only creates internal RAM disk RENDIR COM Renames subdirectories RNGNAME COM Displays and restores range names for Lotus worksheet ROMANS WKS Provides ability to enter any Romana character into Lotus work
69. ame amount of time to copy asa full disk Creating Personalized Help Files by Neil Henderson I have been an HP hardware repair technician for the li past seven years and bought the Portable Plus to use as a hobby I originally intended to use the Plus to program in Pascal I took BASIC and Pascal in school but my software skills have long ago vanished I have yet to do any pro gramming even though I have both BASIC and Turbo Pas cal but what I am doing may be of interest I am using the Plus essentially as a word processor I T Master it may be the only program you ll ever need And it may be the most comfortable program you ve ever used It may sound strange to call a com puter program comfortable but that s the best way we ve found to describe T Master And the other part is true also T Master may be the only program you ll ever need That s because T Master has with in it virtually every business appli cation you can think of including word processor spelling checker file manager spreadsheet database manager numerical scratchpad graph making data communica tions desktop publishing and even more There are of course other in tegrated programs on the market that combine a number of applica tions in one T Master however is the only integrated program that runs on an HP Portable In terms of capabilities T Master also happens to be one of the best
70. appy to form a users group either Spanish or English Apartado Postal 1587 Tegucigalpa Honduras England Trafalgar House Grenville Place Mill Hill London NW7 38A England Tim Cullis 01 959 4359 HP Computer Users Association The Twenty One Building 21 Pinner Road Harrow Middlesex England HAI 4LH 01 4275200 FAX 01 4278252 Netherlands Mr R M Franquiner Menthenbergseweg 13 NL 6816 PR Arnhem The Netherlands Spain Club de usarios HP 110 Pont Reyes S A A la atencion de D Enrique Serra Ronda Universidad 15 08007 Espana Sweden Stockholm first Thursday each month 6 30 p m call to confirm Jens Pettersson 08 713 1710 Telex 149 70 gentel S High Quality 32 BH a Disks at a Discount Personalized Software Why pay high prices for 10 disks in a Disks for HP110 Portable Plus and HP150 fancy shrink wrapped box with lots of 10 unlabelled disks plus case 2 64 90 Subscriber price 5 Now only 29 95 artwork We ll sell you quality name brand disks without the manufacturer s labels packaged in an ergonomically designed library case at no extra 1 44 megabyte high density disks for HP Portable Vectra 10 unlabelled disks plus case 000 99 95 charge 4 95 value Subscriber price 00eeeceee 69 95 Lifetime Warranty To order If a disk ever proves defective return Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or
71. as I was not in a permanent location long enough to make one worthwhile Our home is in Grenada where we live from October to May and during that time we cruise extensively among the islands During the other five months we normally cruise two months on the coast of British Columbia and Alaska two months on the northeast coast of the U S and travel visiting friends the remaining time The portable computer was obviously the answer to this situation considering that even in Grenada the power is not reliable as we have unexpected outages as well as scheduled cuts for four to eight hours per day 24 JULY AUGUST 1988 I use the MemoMaker for writing reports and letters and Lotus 1 2 3 for keeping track of a lot of statistical data Using the computer on the boat was initially difficult as it had to be set up each time that I wanted to use it I was finally able last summer to arrange my navigation station to mount the three units permanently so they could be ac cessed under all conditions The shelf holding the Portable Plus folds down against the wall when not in use The printer and disk drive are mounted vertically something that I have not checked out with HP So far they work well and the only problem I can foresee is ventilation I do not leave the printer or disk drive on for extended periods and so far there are no problems The spreadsheets that I have made up which are especially useful are 1 Maintenance log containing daily r
72. ascal Starter Kit will help you become an expert Order your copy of this dynamite programming package at no risk today ing your Turbo Pascal programs 10 30 faster and 15 5096 smaller Works with Turbo Pascal Version 3 0 Customized to the HP110 Portable Plus and HP150 Portable Paper Subscribers The Turbo Pascal Starter Kit saves you 50 off the price of the three products purchased separately Retail Subscriber price price Turbo Pascal Starter Kit 3 0 189 85 159 95 includes Turbo Pascal Turbo Tutor Turbo Pascal Programs for the Portables Turbo Pascal 3 0 or 4 0 99 95 89 95 Turbo Tutor 3 0 or 4 0 59 95 93 95 New Turbo Optimizer 125 00 119 00 Pascal Programs for the Portables 49 95 44 95 Turbo Pascal on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus 3 0 Lgs 95 00 95 00 ROM Backup version includes RUN COM a utility pro gram that can save 10K of disk space from any program you compile with Turbo Note You must own or order the disk version of Turbo in order to purchase the ROM Backup ver sion See ROM Backup ad in this issue for details TO ORDER See inside back cover Be sure to specify Version 3 0 or 4 0 PV users Be sure to indicate PORTABLE VECTRA on your order so we can send you proper disk format All Borland products are supported by Borland Technical Support 408 438 8400 Turbo Pascal and Turbo Tutor are registered
73. back on you ll be in the same place in the same application with no data lost All the capabilities of IBM PC programs like Borland s SideKick and SuperKey Certainly not but Shelp s the only such program for the Portable Plus It s a clean easy to use and highly useful helper you ll want at your fingertips always Shelp runs on the Portable Plus only It works with Time Manager MemoMaker Reflection 1 Lotus and any other non graphics program Shelp does not run with MS Word Shelp was written by Randy Salo the former HP engineer who authored MemoMaker on the original HP Portable Shelp 955 49 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 day no risk trial If after 60 days you are dissatisfied with this product for any reason you may return it for a full refund To order use the postage paid form at the back of this issue or send check or credit card number to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software increment function REM not very elegant but it works up to 10 loops if not errorlevel 1 goto loop end set cntr To run this batch file you would enter a command such as do loop 7 copy myfile doc prn The batch file will check to see if 7 is in the range Version 4 0 produces exe files which are much smaller than the corresponding com files If you have read this article about doing loops in batch files yo
74. batches one program at a time Some computer centers had a dedicated computer printer combination that used magtapes from the faster batch machines So the printer output was spooled to a reel of tape and shuffled off to the printer center SPOOLING ON THE PORTABLE Can the portable spool printer files Yes and it accom plishes this by doing two things at the same time some 30 JULY AUGUST 1988 thing that many big mainframes couldn t do in the early days of computing And talk about easy Just issue the print command from MS DOS The print command does not work from PAM print works on all the portables The syntax for the print command is print filename more filenames up to 10 total If you type print and nothing else the spooler will give you a status reading what s in the queue and what s currently being printed File names can contain masking characters just like the dir command For instance say you want to print all files ending with hlp You type print hlp and all the hlp files will be printed Which printer you ask Well the firsttime print runs it asks the name of the prn device The default is prn but you can change it to coml the serial printer or any other MS DOS device prn is the standard printer that you configure in the System Config menu in PAM Once print starts you will see the MS DOS prompt again Now you can continue doing other things while print continues to print the fil
75. ble Plus to other machines See Vol 2 No 6 p 10 You can also use KERMIT to transfer an ASCH or any other 8 bit file For 19 we sell KERMIT on disks which contain versions for the HPI1O Portable Plus IBM PC and HP150 These disks contain special documentation for the HP110 and Portable Plus contributed by reader Gary Goodman Hal 9 What functions does the resident The 4 x2 x1 WorldPort 2400 costs less than HP s internal modems is faster and can be used with more than one computer ui EUM WorldPort 2400 comes with a 2 year manufac turer s warranty covering defects in materials and workmanship The WorldPort 2400 offers portablility relia bility well designed features and ease of use Order yours risk free today Retail Subscriber Price Price WorldPort 2400 modem 359 00 319 00 with Carbon Copy PLUS software WorldPort 1200 modem 199 00 179 00 without software Cable to connect modem to HP Portables 30 00 20 00 Acoustic coupler 59 95 56 95 990 2200 bane FREE with modem 9 volt AC adapter 495 ADT Upgrade kit WorldPort 1200 WorldPort2400 199 00 179 00 includes Carbon Copy PLUS software HP110 Portable e Portable Vectra E Portable Plus HP150 IBM PC and compatibles BH WorldPort 2400 and WorldPort 1200 are trademarks of Touchbase Systems Inc Hayes is a trademark of Hayes Microc
76. ch directory How to find it No problem Just type ts for text search specify the phrase and the program will display every occurrence of the phrase iden tifying each occurrence by directory and file Or let s say you can t remember which sub directory you put a given file into Instead of hunting for the file manually just type ff find file and specify the name of the file and the directories to search through The program does the rest Other useful features include the fa com mand which lets you change file attributes for PV users Please subtract 10 from subscriber price since we don t have to send you additional customized disks or extra documentation Be sure to indicate PORTABLE VECTRA on your order THE NORTON UTILITIES are among the most helpful utilities I ve run across I use them myself every day and in my opinion they re a must Here s why By Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable Paper example to make erasable files unerasable or vice versa and the fs command which tells you the total file size of a group of files I often use it to find out the total disk space occupied by my Lotus worksheet WKS files or by all my text files from a given project Because of their great D a and ease of use THE NORTON gt gt pesas UTILITIES are already PC market Personal ized Software is author We recommend Version 4 0 a best seller in the IBM for HP110 users and HP150 u
77. ch more Vol 1 No 3 May June 1986 WORD PROCESSING ISSUE Reviews and info about wordprocessors printer enhancers and spelling checkers including MS Word MultiMate MemoMaker WordStar The Writer PrinterTalk Format110 The Spel ler and The Word Plus much more Vol 1 No 4 July Aug 1986 DATA COM MUNICATIONS ISSUE Hints and discus sion about Terminal TERM Reflection PC2622 and other communications soft ware Also ThinkJet hints building your own HP9114 power supply much more Vol 1 No 5 Sept Oct 1986 LOTUS IS SUE Lotus memory considerations print ing tricks macros sideways printing of spreadsheets Lotus templates Also HP110 and Portable Plus compared much more Vol 1 No 6 Nov Dec 1986 PROJECT MANAGER SOFTWARE Review of 3 Portable project managers Milestone Pert master Project 8 9 10 Also public bul letin boards more on ThinkJet Memo Maker hints info about free software on our 1987 Subscriber Disk much more 1987 Vol 2 No 1 Jan Feb 1987 PRODUCTS THAT WORK WITH THE PORTABLES Overview of all known products that work on HP Portables including those sold by HP plus new discoveries Also Speeding up disk copy info about Shelp the pop up productivity booster for the Portable Plus much more Vol 2 No 2 Mar Apr 1987 DATABASE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE Review of 6 database management programs for the Portables Also HP IL Link program Portable to Macintosh connection
78. ckup Widow Orphan protection Line draw and adjustable grey shaded boxes I have concluded that with this version of Word Perfect I can pretty much throw away my desktop publisher I can now create newsletters that had been previously created in desktop publishing in less time using WordPerfect 5 0 It compares well to other word pro cessors and if you want to integrate graphics and text WordPerfect 5 0 has no competition In my opinion WordPerfect 5 0 is the best the in dustry has to offer but it isn t perfect either It employs all levels of function keys shift alt and control and this can cause headaches if you use any memory resident pro grams Some of the features require more keystrokes to ac tivate than those of some other word processors although macros can help here The integration of text and graphics isn t supported on the ThinkJet My biggest complaint is that when I m using a smaller font a line becomes longer than my screen is wide and therefore forces WordPerfect to scroll horizontally This works fine except that I cannot look at my screen and read what I have written so far WordPerfect 5 0 requires 384k of memory to run and occupies a minimum of 600k disk space Actually since you can t display graphics on the Portable Plus and the HP150 you can get away with less memory about 256k This disk space is basically taken up by two files the exe file and another file which I assume is an overlay file This
79. commands were somewhat limited The program was more intended for users of the other two printers I wanted to include a more ThinkJet oriented version of Paul s program on the TermPlus ROM Paul agreed to spend a few hours and change the program Now the pro gram fully supports the ThinkJet To install the program simply type tjctrl Then you can enter any application for example Lotus In the mid dle of Lotus you can hold down the Extend char key and press the space bar Up will pop the ThinkJet control menu Suppose you want to print in compressed print Just toggle the Print Pitch choice until you get to compressed Move down to Line Spacing to change from 6 lines per inch to 8 or vice versa Paul even included in the program the capability to put the ThinkJet into Epson mode That means you no longer have to use the prnconf com program included with The Editor to change modes Once you use it I think you ll agree it is one of our best freebees To get the update 18 JULY AUGUST 1988 e Store and access directories of e Run other programs without severing the phone connection Term110 for HP110 or TermPlus for Portable Plus 99 95 Specify which program when you order prototype It runs on the Portable Plus Portable Paper subscriber price 79 95 Both programs allow you to e Send and capture ASCII information o 2 e Quickly send programs Lotus 60 DAY MONEY BACK G
80. cu ment using the D O D standard Flesch Kincaid formula Jim Pile Soft Sector RightWriter 95 00 89 00 for Portable Paper subscribers RightWords Dictionary Extension for RightWriter 29 95 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order torm for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Uncommon Word List lists misspelled slang and uncommon words RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Porabe PotabePus e Recommends never decides RightWriter is a writing aid The final decision is always left to you Portable Vectra Vectra HP150 IBM PC and compat RightWriter is a trademark of DecisionWare Inc WordStar is a trademark of MicroPro International Corporation MultiMate is a trademark of MultiMate International MS Word is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation WordPerfect is a trademark of WordPerfect Corporation PV users Please subtract 10 from subscriber price since we don t have to send you additional customized disks or extra documentation Be sure to indicate PORTABLE VECTRA on your order LINKING TWO PORTABLES For example connect two Portables together with two thin black HP IL cables Type hplink on one Portable the Slave The other Portable the master sees
81. d above SideWinder 1HP Used HP ROM PS Personalized Software ROM Backup Package Two of the three ROM chips for Lotus 2 01 are required The third contains the Help screens and can be omitted Type PS HP HP HP PS PS PS HP HP PS HP HP HP PS PS PS PS PS HP PS PS HP PS HP PS PS No of chips Retail Price 194 95 375 00 495 00 175 00 258 95 495 00 495 00 134 95 295 00 395 00 395 00 194 95 178 95 104 50 194 95 110 00 144 95 175 00 300 00 194 35 195 00 229 95 473 80 Special sale price 299 Subscriber Price 174 95 199 00 275 00 170 95 248 95 295 00 399 00 124 95 259 00 239 00 325 00 174 95 168 95 104 50 184 95 104 95 134 95 170 95 150 00 184 95 119 00 AN 90 a AATA 3 Utilities included in the Best of DOS Tools ROM Backup Package are as follows For program details see Portable Utilities ad in this issue PACK DUMP TY CYPHER RENDIR WHEREIS TEE CLEAN DIRALL ARCE MOVE OFF CHANGE ARC520 COPYNEW VDL TMA TJETA FCOPY ASK PRNCONF SDL MOVEALL WAIT FDATE TRIM FGREP LABEL BEEP XCOPY DIRS SQPC FDUMP TRANSLIT SM Note ARC520 is shareware the author normally requests a 35 contribution However you do not need to send any money We ve already paid your user fee The Editor It s way beyond MemoM
82. d card usage It lets you use DOS com mands such as type list rename and erase without having to exit the program And it transfers data faster than you can with an HP IL card HPDuette is easy to use too Simple menus and easy to understand help screens are available at all times For true convenience in file transfer to and from your Portable Plus order HPDuette today HPDuette with cable for Portable Plus 99 95 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers HPDuette is a registered trademark of Platte River Associates Inc and plug The Empowerer into the open slot and into your wall outlet It s that easy To run your HP9114 to your heart s content order your HP9114 Empowerer today HP9114 Empowerer 99 95 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 H Pdu f f C comes with a serial cable and two disks you load one disk into your Portable Plus and the other into the desktop HPDuette transfers data at 57 600 baud To use HPDuette you connect the 9 pin serial port on your Portable Plus to the serial port on your desktop com puter using the serial cable that comes with the program 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for detai
83. d on the Electronic Information Service CompuServe which includes the HP Forum Includes 25 worth of free time and CompuServe s monthly magazine Online Today seP 15 Condor 3 and Condor Jt Pv Database programs customized for the HP Portables Enter data sort search manage files and print address labels with ease Condor Jr runs on the HP110 and Portable Vectra It allows limited report writing and is highly memory efficient Condor 3 runs on the Plus Portable Vectra and HP150 It is a fully relational system allowing you to combine data from two or more files It includes advanced report generating capabilities data transfer to and from Lotus 1 2 3 and more dBXL E A dBase III work alike that runs on the Portable Plus Direc Link El A software program for high speed transfer of files between your Port able Vectra and IBM PC or compatible Versatile works with parallel and serial ports easy to use simple manual file tagging or automatic unattended file transfer and very affordable price Disk Conversion Service PY We will convert your data to and from single sided double sided high density 3 inch and 5 inch formats at a reasonable cost SeeP 13 DOS Tools Portable Utilities Disk Voll W Pv Well over 50 excellent public domain programs that enhance DOS all tested on The Portables Documentation has been rewritten for clarity and ease of use and includes examples index and table of contents
84. dd a shift command to your batch program and add some characters to the command line The batch file Batch Files That Really Count by Ed Keefe Many intermediate users of DOS have learned how to i create batch programs which loop and repeat commands might look like this You may enter this batch file with MemoMaker or The Editor or even the clumsy copy con manycopy bat command I will use the character to represent a blank space in the batch file Wherever you see Suppose you wanted to copy a text file to the printer several times A simple batch file would do the trick sloop copy myfilxe doc prn goto loop The loop statement is a label When DOS executes this file it remembers where the loop begins and cycles back to it when it reaches the goto loop statement Of course this simple batch file would produce an endless loop You would have to count the number of copies and stop the batch program when you had enough To stop a running batch file press the Ctrl c keys and then press the y key There are other problems with this method of prin ting multiple copies of a text file For instance if your text file is a short ten line memo you will wind up with five or six copies of the memo on one page To generate a form feed at the end of each copy just insert the following com mand before the goto loop command echo 1 gt prn To get 1 Ctrl L into the batch file you could use 4 just press the space bar
85. deWinder prints just as fast as your ThinkJet can In addition a built in mini text editor lets you get inside your print files and easily create double width characters and underlines SideWinder 969 95 59 95 for Portable Paper subscribers SideWinder 1 01 owners may upgrade to current version 2 01 which supports 8 chars inch by sending Personalized Software 7 50 or by mailing a self addressed 39 stamped envelope and the SideWinder master disk What follows is a condensed guide to many of the Portable Plus internal modem s features including the Hayes command set language This article ends with a sim ple example DATA AND COMMAND MODES The internal Portable Plus and Portable Vectra and all Hayes compatible modems feature a command and data mode While the modem is in command mode the user can type in commands directed to the modem In the data mode the modem passes data files between the two com puters The modem switches from command mode to data mode after a valid handshake recognition by both com puters that they are communicating in the same way The modem can be commanded to return to com mand mode from data mode by typing the stop action se 20 JULY AUGUST 1988 Cwrwer keys t seve annnnnnnnhisN Simply fill in a grid on your Portable to modify SideWinder s built in characters create italics Hebrew letters integral signs whatever sideways characters y
86. e place if the battery is being recharged Hal continued on page 42 YTYTYN ATTIMTICT 10000 E Erased your files It happens to the best of us One slip of a finger and a whole week s worth of text or data is past history But not if you have THE NORTON UTILITIES Just type qu for quick unerase give the first letter of the name of the file you erased and the file gets restored Miraculous as it sounds in many cases that s all there is to it How can a deleted file get unerased Simple The file isn t really deleted in the first place When you delete a file all that actually gets erased is part of the file s directory en try That s why it only takes an instant to delete an entire file Without a directory en try DOS can t find the file but THE NORTON UTILITIES can Now what about those cases where you can t possibly recover a file because you ve already partially overwritten it with other files Surely THE NORTON UTILITIES can t help you then Wrong they can THE NORTON UTILITIES wont recover the entire file of course but they can help you restore the portions of the file that still remain on the disk Its done with a powerful utility called nu that lets you display change and capture to a file any information on any disk In complex cases you may need to do some detective work but nu will help you find whatever remains on the disk thereby saving you from countless honve of retvping lost data
87. e Radio Shack batteries in the HP shell was a relatively easy task A replacement pack was made by connecting the cells in series with short jumper wires soldered between the positive and negative terminals of If you ve been frustrated trying to use your HP9114 external disk drive only to have the battery quit before you ve finished your work then you know the problem Now you need the solution THE PROBLEM The charge on your HP9114 battery doesn t last long enough for you to do all you d like to For that matter in some cases it doesn t last long enough to do half of what you d like to According to Hewlett Packard you get up to 40 minutes of continuous usage before the battery dies We ve never gotten more than 20 Just format ting disks transferring files or running disk intensive software and getting it to work can be a major triumph THE HP9114 EMPOWERER LS Plugging in the HP9114 doesn t help either That only recharges the battery it doesn t let you keep working WE HAVE THE SOLUTION The official HP suggestion is to buy another battery pack and keep both plugged in When one loses power replace it with the other This seems clumsy to us What if you want to do several hours of disk intensive work At Personalized Software we have a better solution the HP9114 Empowerer The Empowerer is special power supply that will allow your HP9114 disk drive to run forever Just re move the batt
88. e been looking for programs written in Turbo Pascal What got me started on this quest was the need for a particular kind of Turbo Pascal Program a screen generator SCREEN GENERATORS A screen generator program is a collection of routines that lets a programmer design elegant looking programs Help screens and menus pop up on the computer screen to give an illusion of speed multiple windows overlapping boxes of information create a professional appearance attractive input screens make database management programs more appealing and error messages which prevent the user from keying in alphabetic data when numeric input is required such as a phone number or social security number instill a sense of user confidence My guess is that 80 percent of such professional looking programs are created by programmers using so meone else s screen generator program Screen generators 36 JULY AUGUST 1988 manage all the nitty gritty work of displaying windows menus help screens and input error trapping Screen generators speed up the programming process and help create a good looking product If you re a programmer you ll eventually have need of such a tool I recently did I was in a hurry to get a prototype Pascal program ready for classroom use I found myself spending 90 percent of my time designing the input and output screens rather than developing and refining the logic of the program That s what got me started looking for a go
89. e decided we really did not want subdirec tory sidewind From the utils subdirectory we would type the command rd sidewind rd stands for Remove Directory ACCESSING FILES IN SUBDIRECTORIES Every file on a disk has a file name which consists of a disk drive a path the file name and the extension If you do not give the file a disk drive or path DOS assumes that you are referring to a file in the current directory on the cur rent disk Therefore if you save a MemoMaker file and give it the name kramer let DOS will automatically save it to the current directory Normally that is the root directory on the A drive for HP110 and Portable Plus users The full correct name of that file is actually a NKkramer let The stands for the root directory If you want to save kramer let to the letters subdirec tory in our subdirectory structure you would save it to a wordproc letters kramer let The separates each subdirectory level CONCLUSION If this is the first time you have read about subdirectories you probably will have a little more studying to do Read this over a couple of times Try the example Read over the subdirectory discussion in your DOS manual or go to the book store and pick up one of the many DOS tutorials in the computer section With a little effort you should be able to master the subject Once understood you will find subdirectories an invaluable method for organizing your work on the computer How To U
90. e files letters reports etc created within WordPerfect Lotus worksheets and several Norton Utilities all mixed together in the root direc 26 JULY AUGUST 1988 tory of the electronic disk Any directory may contain any number of subdirec tories A subdirectory is a directory Subdirectories may contain other subdirectories along with files A good way to understand subdirectories is to view a subdirectory structure graphically as an upside down tree diagram with the root directory on the top A gums us wordproc spreadsh utils webster eee Bx letters norton dos reports sidewind This diagram does not show the files that any of the directories may contain Note however that your sub directory disk organization schemes are cleanest when you put all the files in the outermost branches as opposed to storing files in a directory which also holds subdirectories In this structure subdirectory spreadsh will hold all of our Lotus spreadsheet files Subdirectory wordproc has two subdirectories letters will hold all memos and letters reports will hold all reports and other documentation These first two subdirectory structures contain data that is files created by a word processor and a spreadsheet program The other two main subdirectories utils and webster contain applications that is program files All program files dictionaries configuration files the actual program itself pertaining to webster will be found
91. e function call Is it one that can be interrupted Yes gt jump to the old DOS handler No gt set a flag to indicate DOS is not interruptable call the old DOS handler clear the DOS busy flag return to the caller DOS 2 11 interrupt 21h has 88 function calls only 32 of which are interruptable Now that we have a method of determining when DOS is interruptable and can allow re entry how do we reconcile that with a keyboard interrupt which can occur at any point in time What we really want to do is sense when our hot key has been pressed make it look like it was not pressed so it doesn t go to the underlying pro eram that is running and then wait until it is safe to pop up Since the keyboard interrupt can occur at any time just checking DOS for when the keypress occurs is not enough In fact we will never pop up when the keypress is detected in our TSR What we will do is set a flag i e set a variable in our program to a certain value that we can check later We will then chain into the DOS idle interrupt interrupt 28h discussed above and also the timer interrupt which will allow us to access 18 times per second In both the idle and timer interrupts we will check to see if the hot key has been pressed If it has we will then check the state of DOS If the hot key has been pressed and DOS is interruptable we will then begin to pop up This sounds cumbersome and complex and you might think that all of this checki
92. e latest developments on Portable Vectra products from Hewlett Packard Personalized Software and other third parties and include specific tips for tbe Portable Vectra Please feel free to contribute on disk or letter to Per sonalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 or call 515 472 6330 At tbe end of this column you will find a complete listing of products discussed My New System HP has been kind enough to lend Personalized Software a new Portable Vectra CS 20 megabyte hard disk system for review which I ve promptly appropriated for myself My dual floppy Portable Vectra has already found a great many uses around our office It is easy and convenient to pass the dual floppy system around to different Personalized Soft ware employees as they work on various projects My new Portable Vectra loaner has a 2400 baud modem and serial card HP will be sending me 1 Megabyte of EMS expanded memory soon I am really looking for ward to having the extra memory so that I can use a full arsenal of software pop up utilities and speedup disk utilities discussed in the article below The built in 640K Of system memory is just not enough any more to satisfy my growing appetite for productivity boosting software I plan to use the Portable Vectra as the center of my ac tivity and the hub of a mini network Here is what I use now and what I envision My base system at the office consists of my Portable Vectra hooked up to a color EGA
93. e slower DeskJet DeskLink can be ordered from Traveling Software or Personalized Software for 169 95 Subscribers can purchase it from us for 149 95 If I have to transfer files to other in house computers with 5 1 4 inch disks I use Direc Link discussed in Vol 3 No 2 p 18 of The Portable Paper We will report more about the development of this mini network in future issues of The Portable Paper 4 Disk Speed Up FloppyDRIVER RAM Disk Hard Disk Cache It is now possible to increase the Portable Vectra s relatively slow floppy disk and hard disk access time The Portable Vectra comes standard with two software remedies a disk cache program to speed up the hard disk and a DOS utility to create a temporary RAM disk A commercial product called FloppyDRIVER provides an excellent solution to speed up the Portable Vectra s floppy drive s FLOPPYDRIVER I confess that patience is not one of my virtues The 1 44 Megabyte memory capacity of the Portable Vectra floppy disk is wonderful to use However I do not like to wait when loading copying formatting or accessing the Port able Vectra floppy disk especially after being spoiled by the instant access of files from the HP110 and Portable Plus electronic disks In the last issue I wrote briefly of FloppyDRIVER rue to form I did not read the manual no patience wanted to get started Rather I read the page for quick in stallation for expert users However to de
94. eadings of engine time motor generator time fuel water and cooking gas consumption and any operating problems encountered This information is normally recorded in a written log and requires re copying to another book for analysis Having this information available on a well designed spreadsheet allows me to check averages to assist in identifying prob lems before they become serious and to help planning long trips or ocean passages 2 Part lists showing the type part number and sup plier of all spare parts as well as location of storage on the boat allows for control of routine maintenance 3 Navigation log containing course speed time and distance information on planned trips These figures can easily be altered in a spreadsheet as conditions change and the actual completed figures can be entered for com parison purposes All changes affect the overall plan and being able to enter this information under weigh makes it easier to make decisions Information is also available from the Loran C and Satnav equipment and can be coupled directly into the computer for record purposes 4 Master lists have been made up so that quantities of food and other basic supplies can be calculated by enter ing the number of people and number of days of the trip These lists can also be used to keep track of inventory 5 Schedules for coordination of guest visits and pick up and drop off information This is especially useful as it is a c
95. easy until you try Term110 or TermPlus for yourself We invite you to do so today at our risk In either case we have good news two of the easiest to use communications programs we ve ever seen Term110 was developed by Cliff Looyenga who writes the Wizardry column for The Portable Paper It runs on the HP110 TermPlus was developed by Portable Paper contributer David Hughes from an earlier phone numbers will include instructions as to how to run 1 2 3 or Sym phony from disk If you wish to purchase the drivers without the software the list price will be 69 95 59 95 for Tbe Portable Paper subscribers Fortunately Lotus Corp recently announced that they were removing the Lotus 1 2 3 copy protection scheme and would provide a program to remove copy protection from the current version That means you won t have dif ficulty installing Lotus 1 2 3 on the Plus If you wish to order Symphony or Lotus from us you may do so Availability dates are not known The follow ing prices include the driver Lotus 1 2 3 retail 565 subscriber 435 Lotus 1 2 3 With HAL retail 715 sub scriber 545 Give us a call if you want to trade in your Lotus ROM For Symphony retail 765 subscriber 595 ThinkJet Control Update On the 1988 Subscribers disk we included a memory resi dent pop up utility by Paul Grimmer that allowed you to configure your ThinkJet PaintJet or QuietJet printer Un fortunately the ThinkJet
96. ecision values of computations e g all 158 digits for 100 the factorial of 100 It also does symbolic math That is it will solve problems such as what is the derivative of x 5 3x 3 x The program answers 85x 4 9x 2 1 The MuMath program also does symbolic math at the level of algebra trigonometry and elementary differential equations Since the program is menu driven there is a slight problem The menus are designed for a 24 line screen so they get scrambled on the HP110 s 16 line display The rest of the program works fine however The program should work out of the box on the Portable Plus The MuSimp portion of the program is a computer language that will let you write programs in the language of MuMath It is fairly well documented but some of the WITTY ATIGITST 19088 A Top rated mouse adds convenience and fun for Portable Plus users Move a mouse around on your desk and the cursor moves around the screen It s easier than cramping your fingers on the arrow keys especially if you move the cursor around a lot with Lotus say or with your word processor For creating freeform graphics a mouse is a must The best mouse we know of is also one of the least expensive EDITOR S CHOICE It s the LOGITECH MOUSE model C7 from Logitech Inc and it runs beautifully on the Portable Plus when coupled with a PORT ABLE MOUSE SOFTWARE program devel oped exclusively for us by Bill Saltzs
97. eck polarity and output from the new battery pack Since each cell has an output of 1 25 volts the output from the fully charged battery pack should be about 7 5 volts 2 Be sure that soldered connections are well made The trick here is getting the solder hot The battery ter minals are fairly large pieces of metal that will absorb a lot of heat before becoming warm enough to melt solder The solder will melt on the tip of the soldering iron long before the battery terminal becomes sufficiently hot If the solder is not melted by the terminals the result will be a cold joint which is not electrically or mechanically sound Compare your joints to the HP soldered joints The smooth flat appearance of the HP joints indicates a good bond If your joint looks like a glob of chewing gum you probably have a cold joint 3 Use low temperature resin core solder from the electronics store not the stuff that you buy at the plumb ing warehouse NOTE Sub C cells are used in a number of cordless tools and household appliances If you don t have the nerve to tackle computer electronics practice by replac ing your Dust Buster s battery first letters continued from page 5 13 If I use TAB instead of the space bar in EDLIN the results when I read the file using the type command are dif ferent than when I use L inside EDLIN Those lines on which I used TABS end up on a different column Why I am not sure It sounds like DOS and
98. ed Software Mission unsuccessful I was in three different hotels one in Paris and two in the surrounding countryside none of the phones in the hotel rooms could be disassembled I could not easily use alligator clip connections Also the 110 phones themselves were shaped so as NOT to take an acoustic coupler I did go to CNES French Space Agency HQ in Paris but again my host s computer was intimately tied into a local area network and the Plus serial connector had nothing to connect with They had a digital phone system with phones which also could not easily be disassembled Another lesson At CDG Airport Paris there is NO table plus there are tight lateral side walls at the hand luggage X ray area Thus the computer had to pass very close inches to both the X ray and the metal scanner door Result all RAM zapped Fortunately I had RAM backed up Bob Kirk Greenbelt MD Can t Get Utility To Run With 9114B I have enjoyed learning about the soft ware I have purchased from you I have yet to master The Editor completely but The Formatter is brilliant I have a query about wearout com on the Portable Utilities Vol 1 DOS Tools disk I have an HP 9114B disk drive but this utility doesn t work on it All the other utilities from the DOS Tools disk seem to be functioning properly for me Another problem the ThinkJet printer produces a little splodge of ink every time I switch it on Even though it i
99. ed program on either an HP Portable an HP150 or an IBM PC compati ble computer For instance if you design an input form on your HP110 you can run your compiled program on any of these machines In this regard PCVIEW exceeded my ex pectations I thought I would have to recompile the pro gram with IBM PC Turbo Pascal to make the program run on my computer at work I didn t need to I also discovered that I could use PCVIEW to develop input screens on the IBM PC at work and have them run on my HP110 PCVIEW even addressed different screen sizes A form developed on a full sized screen will work on the 16 line display of the HP110 The bottom part of an in put form will pop up on the HP110 only when it is needed The PCVIEW program is very easy to learn especial ly for anyone familiar with Turbo Pascal The PCVIEW user manual is well written and even contains a program that produces mailing labels Of course like most forms systems PCVIEW brings a lot of code into your own program This can be a problem for owners of the HP110 since we like our 110 programs to be lean and mean and fit on our Edisc Here too 3RIMMERQ S Portable lales By Paul Grimmer The Creation Of A Safe Successful Plus Pop Up In this column we will cover a key cienci in designing a successful pop up knowing when it is safe to pop up The first step involves a conceptual design parameter which has become somewhat standard in the IBM PC world
100. er many of these into a file from the keyboard You may do this by typing copy con filename Now hold the Extend Char key down and press other keys on the keyboard These other characters will appear When you are done press a Control Z and return You will now have all the characters you typed in a file called filename Printing these characters is another story Since the values above ASCII 128 are not standardized it is up to the manufacturer of the printer to do whatever they want with those characters On the ThinkJet the characters above 128 are characters that support different languages and are different than the extended characters on the HP110 Therefore the only way to print the extended characters from your HP110 would be to do a graphics screen dump Shift Print with System Config set to graphics only with the characters on your screen Cliff Looyenga provides technical support for HP PC s and HP 30005 and in tbose circles be is known as Tbe Wizard He bas developed a number of HP110 Port able and Portable Plus utilities Cliff s CompuServe ID is 75106 2130 110 6 continued from page 10 to the start of the block that you intend to merge Press f2 Copy Block and move the cursor to the end of the block of text that you want to merge into a second file This block might be the entire file if memory permits Now go to f8 MEMOMAKR Main and press f5 Get Memo to retrieve the second file Position the cursor in the second
101. erent modes XO X1 and X2 All of the responses of the XO and X1 modes are available in the X2 mode all of the responses of the XO mode are available in the X1 mode Here is a table showing both terse VO and verbose V1 responses in each of the three modes per per c D THE PORTABLE PAPER Terse Verbose Modem Condition Response V0 Response Vf When Response Issued MODE xO 0 OK Modem responds normally after executing the command line 1 CONNECT The modem has successfully connected to the host system has switched to DATA mode and is ready to communicate at 300 baud 2 RING The modem has detected an incoming phone call 3 NO CARRIER The modem has lost or terminated the phone connection 4 ERROR The modem encountered an error executing a command Check the command specification MODE X1 5 CONNECT 1200 The modem has successfully connected to MODE X2 default the other system at 1200 baud and has switched to DATA mode 6 SET 1200 Modem speed set too slow change to 1200 bps 7 SET 300 Modem speed set too fast change to 300 bps 8 TONE An unrecognized tone has been detected on the telephone line 9 NO TONE The expected tone has not been received BUSY A busy signal has been detected VOICE Broadband frequencies i e voice have been detected on the telephone line lt RR The modem has detected a remote ringing on the called telephone The call is not being answered LINE The mode
102. ermines a marketing strategy for a product like our TSR We ll consider prices advertising etc as we get closer to bringing our product to market Without a doubt this is the most complex program ming task I have undertaken for the Portables I am pleas ed with the progress and I hope you will be pleasantly surprised at how much productivity this instant access will give you Watch out SHELP here we come Paul Grimmer president of Southern Software writes commercial and public domain software for the HP110 and Portable Plus His credits include SideWinder for sideways printing of spreadsheets to the ThinkJet printer Sketch for free form graphics on the Portables and ThinkJet HPrint for fully exploiting the text font and graphics capabilities of the ThinkJet and QuietJet printers and Link which enables the transfer of data be tween all HP IL devices On the side be works as an engineer for Conoco You can write Paul at 12501 Clippersbip Dr An chorage AK 99515 or send E mail on CompuServe to 713 70 1303 T RY Over the past couple of months I ve had the opportunity to test a pre release version of WordPerfect 5 0 In this col umn I d like to tell you a little about WordPerfect and my experiences in attempting to get it to run on the Portable Plus and the HP150 WordPerfect is made by the WordPerfect Corporation in Orem Utah As of WordPerfect release 4 2 they held ap proximately 30 6 of the world s word proce
103. ery pack RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable e Portable Plus e Portable Vectra NE HP150 IBM PC and compat ms How many times have you wished you had a second external disk drive The Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personalized Software is selling HP9114A units including power supply at a substantial discount See enclosed four page brochure for details HPduette_ It transfers files both ways between your Portable Plus and your desktop computer without an HP IL card An HP IL card inside your IBM PC or com patible computer lets you transfer files to and from your Portable Plus It s a good solution to the data transfer problem provided you only use one desktop computer But if you ever need to transfer data between your Portable Plus and some one else s desktop computer you re stuck or at least you were until now Because now there s a way to do it with software It s a program called HPDuette Together with a special serial connecting cable that it comes with HPDuette is all you need to transfer files at high speed both ways be tween your Portable Plus and any IBM PC compatible desktop RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Vectra Portable Plus e HP150 IBM PC and compatibles HPDuette performs complete error check ing during the transfer process to ensure data integrity It handles multiple file transfers subdirectory transfers and DOS wil
104. es PHYSICAL Size 12 2 inches W x 3 07 inches H x 12 2 inches D without battery 310mm x 78mm x 309mm 12 2 inches W x 3 07 inches H x 15 4 inches D with battery 310mm x 78mm x 382mm Weight 10 5 lbs without battery 4 9 kg 14 6 lbs with 48 Watt Hour NiCad Battery Pack 6 75 kg OPTIONS Carrying Case with pocket 48 Watt Hour NiCad battery pack External battery charger Automobile cigarette lighter adapter 1200 300 bps internal modem Hayes compati ble It will be possible to connect an external expansion chassis to the machine On The Portable Plus Horizon I don t normally like to write about rumors or products that I have not seen However there are a number of in teresting developments on the Portable Plus front most ly from third parties Nothing is fully realized yet but I thought you d like to hear what is happening Keep follow ing Tbe Portable Paper for more information I am pret ty sure we will have more to report by next issue on most of these items There has reportedly been some testing of a Portable 8 JULY AUGUST 1988 me E HE Plus with a backlit screen It can operate from 3 to 5 hours on the existing battery the Portable Plus with its current system can last 20 hours There is also a company working on an internal 2400 baud modem for the Plus Another company is testing a portable numeric keypad that connects to the Plus via the serial port for data entry Finally a Florida compan
105. es tricky To see this dual activity type in dir and notice that printing continues while MS DOS displays a file directory You may also run other programs such as MemoMaker or Reflection however there will tend to be small pauses while you run the program as the print program grabs control momen tarily See also the column Through the Looking Glass by Ed Keefe in The Portable Paper Vol 1 No 1 DISKCOPY The diskcopy program which is built into the Portables will copy one disk to another However because it image copies i e copies tracks rather than individual files it cannot copy the Edisc drive A to an external disk This track copy copies hidden files and file allocation tables directly diskcopy uses all available RAM memory not in cluding the Edisc to read as many tracks as possible into memory Then all the stored tracks are written to the destination disk This means it is possible to duplicate a disk with only one disk drive To copy a disk with only one drive type the following diskcopy c c The program will prompt you for the source and target destination disks several times depending upon the amount of memory available to the diskcopy program If two disk drives are available type diskcopy c d You must copy the disks in the same format double sided to double sided or single to single Since the copy function is not sensitive to the contents of the disks an empty disk requires the s
106. f daily ef It s a list of the more than 50 programs on Port able Utilities Disk Vol ume 1 DOS Tools Each program performs a spe cific task to make life with your Portable more enjoyable and productive The programs are all in the public domain which means that if you search ed long enough you could find them for free on var ious electronic bulletin boards in magazines and in the archives of local user groups But consider this Even if you had the time to track this many programs down what about evaluating them and making sense of the documentation It would be a formidable task but we have good news You don t have to do it we ve already done it for you That s right we ve combed through hundreds of public domain utility programs that run on the Portables and HP150 and have selected only the best ones for inclusion in Portable Utilities Disk Volume 1 DOS Tools We ve not only made sense of the document ation but in many cases ADDCOL COM Joins two files horizontally by appending corresponding lines ARC512 ARC Archived ARC file compression and library utility ARCE COM Extracts ARChive files from ARC 5 12 and previous versions ASK COM Adds interactive capability to batch files Prompts user with message and waits for yes no response BEEP COM Makes a beep sound CHANGE COM Changes or displays file attributes read only archive system hidden CLEAN COM Converts WordStar HP150 or Portable
107. f your screen The total drawing area is 7076 bigger than the screen on the Portable Plus and more than 150 bigger than the screen on the Portable s you move the cursor past your screen s borders SKETCH automatically shifts you into the areas that were off screen Now you might be expecting that all these great features come at a high price in terms of memory space But they don t The entire program takes up only 44K As I said Paul Grimmer of Southern Software has done it again USING IS BELIEVING No matter how fired up you might get by reading about SKETCH or looking at the few samples we ve shown of what it can do there is no substitute for actually getting your hands on this wonderful pro gram and trying it out for yourself Remember with our money back guarantee if you are not completely satisfied with SKETCH within 60 days you can return it for a full refund Why not order a copy today SKETCH graphics program 80 75 95 for Portable Paper subscribers STEP 1 STEP 2 TEP STEP 4 Defining The Half Tone Area Once we overlay a partial screen half tone file on an ex isting file we are going to have unwanted grey Step 3 above gives an example To delete the unwanted area we use one or more of the erase functions to erase dots lines Of areas C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software Conclusion You ll quickly discover as I did that the SKETCH program is easier to operate than to explain
108. followed by up to 3 more characters Now let s create the other subdirectories From DOS issue a cd wordproc command cd here stands for Change Directory We are now in subdirectory wordproc On the HP110 and Plus and on the Portable Vectra if the prompt is set up properly the DOS prompt will change and will indicate that you are in the subdirectory The prompt will be A N wordproc meaning that you are in the wordproc subdirectory Note that the A prompt indicated that you were in the root directory The backslash symbol represents the root directory Now that we are in subdirectory wordproc we can make its two subdirectories by issuing the md letters and md reports from DOS Let us complete the structure by going to subdirectory utils We can do so directly by typing ed utils Note that the is important since it tells DOS that subdirectory utils is a branch from the root directory Typing cd utils without the would have resulted in an error message since direc tory wordproc does not have a subdirectory utils To jump back to the top of the directory tree to the root directory type cd Now that we are in subdirectory Nutils we can create its three subdirectories We type md norton md dos and md sidewind If we wanted to create those same subdirec tories from the root directory or from anywhere else we would have had to type md utils norton md utils dos and md utils sidewind Suppose w
109. for creating labels Easy to add and delete lines without disturbing the rest of the flowchart Shrink Screen feature lets you view up to 14 x11 chart on 25 line screen Portable Plus only See P 2 HPrint Takes text ASCII files you ve created with MemoMaker The Editor or other word processors and prints them on an HP printer Comes with italic type font for ThinkJet Also allows bold underline compressed expanded subscripts superscripts headers footers page numbering double space and much more all of which you specify from a sim ple menu or by means of sensible control codes HPrint also does mail merging and it lets you create your own graphic characters LINK HP IL Connector Software W A software program that lets you transfer data from any HP IL device to any other HP IL device Now you can access your main computer HP Portable HP150 or IBM PC its unlimited storage capability and all its peripherals from your HP41 71 75 or series 80 hand held Seer 36 Logitech Mouse for the Portable Plus Pv A 3 button mouse for the Portable Plus bundled with our proprietary Portable Mouse Software and special connecting cable Using the mouse to move the screen cursor makes using your Plus easier and more fun The Logitech mouse was rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine 101 Macros for Lotus 1 2 3 Pv Useful in themselves and also as learning tools for novices and experts alike Includes recalculating ranges d
110. graphics programs such as SKETCH and 1 2 3 graphics The libraries that all of the applications will call for file functions screen windowing error handling etc are in place and functional By the time you read this development of the applications themselves will be well underway The list of applications continues to grow Here is its current status File Manager Time Planner possibly duplicate the Time Manager program PAM settings replacement time serial parameters etc Phonebook and dialer possibly with communica tions support Notepad as large as 40k file Off Keyboard macros any keys defined as other keys in cluding cursor and function keys Calculator undecided whether algebraic or RPN Cut and paste clipboard move data between pop up and underlying program Printer control set pitch perf skip Alt mode etc Outliner FINAL DESIGN My current thinking on the final design is to have this on a ROM in an overlay fashion When you use an overlay design not all of the program is in memory at one time certain amount is always resident but the majority of ap plications are swapped in and out of the same memory locations as needed In this fashion the amount of RAM us ed by the pop up is held to a minimum This is one area where the Edisc is extremely useful On a typical IBM compatible PC with floppies only and or a slow hard disk the use of overlays is of ques tionable worth it takes a relatively long t
111. h offer auto log on dialing directories on line help and the ability to run other programs without severing the phone connnection Tiger Fox A great video game of changing mazes and double pursuit First video game designed for the Portables Personalized Software INC Products that make HP Portables smarter Time Manager The highly acclaimed Portable Plus ROM based Time Manager pro gram in a 3 disk version for the HP110 Portable Does not run on Portable Plus Available to Portable Paper subscribers only seeP 31 T Master and T Maker Pv T Master is a fully integrated word processor speller relational database manager spreadsheet file manager and communications package Also includes graph making Runs on Portable Plus and Port able Vectra without modification and on HP150 with a PC emulator T Maker is an earlier version it runs on the HP110 Portable with an external disk drive and does not include the communications module Both programs are more integrated than any other package Our reviewer says there is no other application I know of that matches the power thoroughness and simple elegance of T Master SeP9 Turbo Optimizer Saves run time and storage space by making your Turbo Pascal programs 10 30 faster and 15 50 smaller Works with Turbo Pascal Version 3 0 Customized to HP110 Portable Plus and HP150 SeP9 Borland Turbo Pascal Customized For The Portables Pv Turbo Pascal the HP
112. hange its frequency like I do with my HP71B VoL 1 No 1 p 22 tells bow to do this on tbe HP110 Hal 19 Why does the 45419C Program mer s Tools contain some files which already exist in ROM inside the Plus The Tools were originally created for use on tbe HP110 and never updated for tbe Plus Tbose files were not built in to tbe HP110 Hal 20 Is it possible to re define the en tire keyboard or only the function keys At present it ts only possible to re configure the function keys but this may change Watch for future issues of The Portable Paper probably the November December 1988 issue Hal 21 What kind of connection is used with the 20 Megabyte 9133h 9134H hard disk Is it HP IL or RS232C You use the HP IL to HP IB interface card from HP Hal I would be very grateful for any answers which you or your readers could provide Thank you Eduardo Andrade Oeiras Portugal Least Squares And Plotting Graphing Note To Paul Grimmer Response to J B Hadler s letter Vol 2 No 6 p 43 Recently I have had similar problems in a business setting trying to make sense of a set of data points on a plot where there was a mathematical relation I have found a set of three software routines published by DYNACOMP Inc 1427 Monroe Avenue Rochester NY 14618 716 442 8960 442 8731 These are in Basic and run via HP s series 100 Basic on the HP Portables The three routines offer diffe
113. he Blackjack product sold by HP will work as long as the phone mouthpiece is round and about 2 1 4 in diameter PORTABLE PROFILES Let us profile your or your company s use of tbe Portable Tell us about your interesting or unusual application of Tbe Portable Or sbare a description of bow you use Tbe Portable let other readers benefit from your experience Give us a call ask for Hal or send us a draft on paper disk or via CompuServe Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52256 515 472 6330 Cruising With My Portable by David Hadley In past issues of The Portable Paper readers have con tributed some unusual applications for the HP Portables and I would like to offer another My Portable Plus along with my 9114 and ThinkJet is installed in the navigation station of my cruising sailboat an Amel 53 I use three of your Mobile Rechargers to charge the equipment from the boat s batteries They have worked very well although I wish they were available in a different package as they do not plug into a cigarette lighter socket but are directly wired into the navigation station circuit breaker board I did not open the plug in plastic packet as I was afraid of destroying the circuit I first became interested in portable computers in 1984 I had not used computers prior to my retirement in 1978 and until battery operated portables became available a fixed AC operated computer was of little value to me
114. he RAM memory in anticipation of future use That data can then be retrieved from cache memory more quickly than from slower hard disk drives It is much quicker to access data already residing in RAM cache memory than from the mechanical disk drive Most cache systems use the locality theory That is data once used is likely to be re used and data stored near recently accessed information is likely to be required next When accessing a hard disk an efficient cache program reads surrounding data with the data required and stores it in cache memory If an application requests data already residing in cache this is called a cache hit The more cache hits the better the overall response time If cache hits are extremely low the processing time to manage the cache can outweigh the benefits gained DOS versions 2 0 and higher offer a simple disk caching scheme Users are allowed to define in the con fig sys file how many buffers should be set aside for disk caching Most dedicated cache programs such as the hpcache sys program included on the setup disk should be more effective then the DOS caching scheme However for most Portable Vectra dual floppy or hard disk applica tions it is good to have the line buffers 20 in the con fig sys file especially if you do not use hpcache sys and you run disk intensive applications Disk Caching Vs RAM Disks As discussed in the article above Portable Vectra users can easily create a RAM dis
115. hides modem commands you ll find it useful to know about the language TermPlus for the Portable Plus also hides the basic dial command from the user TermPlus stores phone numbers that you may want to call and lets you dial automatically You can issue any modem command from the main blank screen using any of the Portable Plus communication packages Always start from column 1 These packages in clude the built in TERM program HP s PC2622 and Reflec tion and Personalized Software s TermPlus TIT TV ATTCLTICT 10RQ 10 No more cutting and pasting TTD Ny At last Sideways printing for the HP Portable Portable PLUS and Think Et And the HP150 Vectra IBM PC Now cs 2 A 27 a La O P 3088 vamos 9 9 c ee ROM Backup gy o oN BE BBE UU EEE EH HUHHH OX DIE CH IA Ne ee swan Ca ee aa oe eo ee ce ec eo a a2 oe oe for the Portable Plus ru ate so Ne A S2 DB RE EBORR PEOGE ER ERE BSE HE GE See Software on ROM ad EUUSSSSHEHNEUEYUEIS in nis Issue 3a Um wa unc Win map mu mm es lows mro Jmm We mas Sey NA i IS EI Lf BF JT RE RE RE ES BE DT RE CO EC RI DT RD tz 5 25 Je T3 SP 5 i12 TD 3f 32 SB Er P2 70 27 Fe RECOMMENDED FOR HPil0Porabe e Portable Vectra Available on ROM Backu for the Portable Plus c MS DOS computers and most HP graphics printers HBIEDGRHMEHHULZBHHIIEIEGENUNXMHTUM a mm ege ap o n ise A 3 gt C
116. ht 3 You don t back up your hard disk because your data is not important 4 Actual reason you have a hard disk system and you already have optimizing backup software or you have another means of backing up your system FloppyDRIVER comes from Concept Technologies 7151 W Hwy 98 Suite 402 Panama City Beach FL 32407 800 852 1177 The retail price is 79 You can order the product through us Personalized Software Inc PV users Please subtract 10 from subscriber price since we don t have to send you additional customized disks or extra documentation Be sure to indicate PORTABLE VECTRA on your order If you have customer files sales records inventory or lots of anything that you need to keep track of you need a database management system DBMS If you want a sophisticated DBMS that even a beginner can use try Condor 3 or Condor Jr Condor 3 runs on the Portable Plus Portable Vectra and HP150 Its smaller cousin Condor Jr runs on the HP110 and Portable Vectra only Both versions let you set up a database in a single step simply by typing a picture of the in put form right on your screen You enter and modify data or even revise the database structure simply by typing right on the same form Unlike other database systems you simply tell Condor what to do not how to do it and you tell it using simple English like statements such as LIST CUSTOMER BY NUMBER NAME STATE CONDOR
117. ime for the desired section of program code to load As you have undoubted ly noticed loading from either the A or B drives on the Portables is not instantaneous but close Another goal of the program is to make the overlay system sufficiently flexible to allow applications to be added later In general the main disadvantage of using ROM s or EPROM S is that a change or addition to the program re quires either a new chip or a reprogrammed EPROM I will keep you advised on the success of this I have made a non resident version of the pop up which uses the same library of routines that enables us to develop applications in a non resident mode This will speed development of individual applications since the tremendous complications of the pop up portion can be avoided until the code is de bugged I am not really sure that any large program is really ever totally de bugged ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR A NAME We are still in search of a name for the program The two best to date are Porta Poppy and HPop I will give a free copy of the program to the person whose idea we ultimately use If you have a suggestion leave me a note on CompusServe or mail it to me In the next article we will cover programming use of the screen and keyboard from various levels of complexity including DOS BIOS and hardware control Following that the program will be ready to test We will discuss how a small company such as ours det
118. ind exe file from your utility disk to the Edisc Here is the new batch file rem manycopy bat echo off cls loop if 1 goto end copy myfile doc prn gt gt count find c copied lt count echo esc a esc 4c copies printed shift goto loop end del count In this new file esc denotes the escape character asc 21 If you use Edlin just press and hold the Ctrl key while tapping the v and keys Be sure to release the Ctrl key before typing a and 4c To get manycopy to print a file 3 times you would enter the command manycopyabc The printer will start and the machine will display 1 copies printed 2 copies printed 3 copies printed A This batch file sends the usual DOS message file s copied to a file called count Then the find program counts the number of lines in count which contain the word copied and displays that number If you want to run the batch file again just press the F3 key If you want to keep a running total of the number of copies printed just delete the last line from the batch file Now suppose that you have two different files which you want to print The second file must follow the first in the copy sequence and the two files must be printed four times Here is a batch file that will get the job done REM MANYCOPY BAT echo off cls if 3 goto end SET first 1 SET second 2 shift shift loop if 1 goto end 34 JULY AUGUST 1988 FOR f in f
119. ind in sophisti cated stand alone communications programs Yet they re easy to use even if you ve never done data communications before Note our version of T Master has its data com munications portion customized to the Portable Plus T Master includes a DO com mand that lets you string other commands together and execute them sequentially in batch mode without intervention It is surprisingly simple for exam ple to set up a DO command that will perform the following func tions at the end of every month Compile data from selected data bases construct a bar graph insert the bar graph into a monthly report and address copies of the report to a selected list of recipients TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 When you realize that you can or chestrate all this by means of a single DO command entirely automatically you begin to see the incredible productivity and power that T Master offers At only 295 for the entire package or even less if you re a Portable Paper sub scriber T Master is easily the best software value available HOW COME I HAVEN T HEARD OF IT The T Maker Company developer of T Master chooses to remain small They do not advertise but prefer to let T Master be known by word of mouth This has worked wel
120. ing your Edisc In this instance The best way to save the file is by us ing the file xtract formulas command Choose the name of the file you were trying to save it to Define a range in the file that you want to save Alternatively exit without saving Then you ll have your previous version of the worksheet WHENEVER I GET INTO LOTUS ON MY HP110 I ALWAYS GET AN ERROR MESSAGE MISSING OR ILLEGAL CONFIGURATION FILE To get rid of the message save a default configuration file by issuing the command worksheet global default update I HAVE A DIFFICUIT TIME FINDING AND READING THE CURSOR The underscore cursor is more difficult to read and find than the box cursor In PAM f6 System Config change Cur sor Type from Underscore to Box Alternatively to change the cursor from underscore to box during almost any ap plication hold down the Extend char key and press fl If that does not work it means you are probably in alternate rather than HP mode so hold CTRL and press Select to get the box cursor I THINK THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY PORTABLE OR NEW 1 MEG MEMORY CARD I TRY TO SAVE A FILE TO THE ELECTRONIC DISK AND SOMETIMES I GET FILE CREATION ERROR ANDI CANNOT SAVE THE FILE You are only allowed 64 files in the root main directory If you have an abundance of files in your HP110 or Port able Plus save them to subdirectories SHOULD I KEEP MY BATTERY CHARGING WHEN NOT IN USE If you can keep the HP110 Portable Pl
121. ink best Portable Vectra file transfer program much more Vol 3 No 3 May June 1988 Tips and tricks on MemoMaker MS Word Time Manager Lotus 2 01 how to maximize screen readablity on the Portable Vectra easy to use communications software for the HP110 and Portable Plus much more RECOMMENDATIONS HP110 users You ll find our first year s issues 1986 to be especially rich in knowledge about the HP110 Por table We therefore recommend that you order all back issues starting with Vol 1 No l Portable Plus users A major share of all the infor mation we ve published applies to the Portable Plus To not to miss out on any of it we recom mend that you order all back is sues beginning with Vol 1 No 1 Portable Vectra users We began covering the Portable Vectra with the Jan Feb 1988 issue Although many of the ar ticles we published before then apply to the Portable Vectra you ll receive the most value if you order all back issues begin ning with Vol 3 No 1 TO ORDER Simply select the years or individual is sues you want then enter your order in the blank spaces on the order form in this issue BONUS A copy of our comprehensive IN DEX TO 1986 AND 1987 IS SUES absolutely free when you order one or more years THE PORTABLE PAPER By Hal Goldstein Vectra Views contains information which specifical ly pertains to the Portable Vectra In this column we note th
122. ir also has some abbreviations The two masking characters are and where means any one character will match in that position while is an indefinite match matches any number of characters zero or more For example to find all one character file names use dir and use dir to find all one and two character file names You can also imply by leaving it out of a file mask as in dir cnf space after dir which is the same as dir cnf To see all files with no extension just use the period dir With a space after dir Note that dir no space after dir is the same as dir with no mask at all The rules for dir abbreviations are unique to dir and do not work the same way for del or other commands so be careful I avoid using del with masks unless I am really sure of the names that will disappear ABOUT PRINT SPOOLING Did you know you can spool print files on the portable Who cares What s a spooler Well here s the interesting story of spooling The term spooling dates back to the early days of computing when programmers carried slide rules and boxes of cards don t ask what s a slide rule In the old days printers were state of the art if they rattled out 500 to 900 lines per minute yet even then computers could generally compute and prepare the printer data much faster What was needed was a way to run the com puter at full speed and run the printer off line After all most computers 30 years ago ran in
123. irst Ysecond do copy f prn gt nul echo gt gt count find c lt count echo ESC A ESC 4C copies printed shift goto loop end set first set second del count To run this batch file you would enter this command at the DOS prompt manycopy filel filez a b c d This batch file uses the set command to place the names of the files in the environment space The two shift commands remove the file names from the command line and move the counter characters a b c d to the right Notice that this batch file sends a simple to the count file This keeps the counter file small It also shows how to keep a count when a DOS command does not generate a message that can be counted At the end of this batch file we use the commands set first and set second to eliminate these variables from the environment space For those who are using the HP110 or Portable Plus you may get the message out of environment space If this happens try eliminating some of the variables such as prompt from your environment space To get really fancy and implement a for next type counter in DOS we would have to write a program that would increment and test a counter there is no such func tion in DOS With such a capability we could tell the com puter how many times we want to repeat a loop and let the computer figure out when to stop Here is such a batch file And here is the catch This batch file will wo
124. is a wonderful convenience but not necessary to run Condor 3 Condor 3 is a fine relational database system design ed by Condor Computing Corporation of Ann Arbor Michigan It is configured by Condor for the HP150 but runs on the Portable Plus and is easily installed with a customized disk supplied by Personalized Software The first version I used was 2 11 11 It worked well but the documentation was ancient new version 2 20 has just been released and it is superb The manual has been completely rewritten and expanded The program is easy to use either from the menu or the command line Help is always available The help screens complete with both syntax and examples are the best I have seen Although it runs perfectly from the Plus Edisc I chose to install the new version of Condor 3 on my Soft Word 2 Megabyte E drive drawer for my system drives C and D are HP9114 s To do this I copied the first and third files condor bat and instcdr bat from the Personalized Software customiz ed disk that came with version 2 11 11 I then simply add ed the 60 files that are on the HP150 version 2 20 single sided disks supplied by Condor If you purchase ver sion 2 20 from Personalized Software the additional Per sonalized Software disk contains the installation and 60 files Condor 3 runs very quickly when on an Edisc and there is plenty of room left over for the data files which store data most economically I am currentl
125. isk customized for automatic installation and execution on the Portable Plus Condor 3 is a fully relational database management system designed so that novice computer users can use the product easily The new release features dozens of enhancements including speed increases of 200 or greater improved subdirectory sup port and expanded indexing capabilities In addition it comes with a totally rewritten award winning user s manual and reference guide Owners of previous Condor 3 versions can upgrade to the new release for 95 For new purchasers the retail price is 495 379 for The Portable Paper subscribers You may upgrade directly through Condor Condor Computer Cor poration 1490 Eisenhower Place Ann Arbor MI 48108 313 971 8880 or through Personalized Software To upgrade send the original Condor master disk not THE PORTABLE PAPER the Personalized Software master Be sure to request the HP150 version If you upgrade through Personalized Soft ware you will get the additional Portable Plus disks If you purchased Condor after April 1 1988 follow the same procedure and you will get the upgrade at no charge In clude a copy of the invoice A USER S VIEW OF CONDOR 3 VERSION 2 20 By Paul Slawson M D UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital Id like to comment on my experience with Condor 3 and the new version of the program which I have installed on the 2 Megabyte SoftWord RAM drawer The 2 Megabyte SoftWord RAM drawer
126. isk is speed Disk operations on a RAM disk are significantly faster than on a hard disk and even more dramatic than on a floppy disk Disk intensive applications are ideal for a RAM disk Use the DOS copy or xcopy command to copy program files from your floppy or hard disk to the RAM disk Alter natively you can put the copy commands in a batch file or in the startup autoexec bat file to copy files from your mechanical disk to the electronic disk HP110 and Portable Plus users do not experience the disadvantage of using a RAM disk on the Portable Vectra The RAM disk on the HP110 and Portable Plus is non volatile That is a trickle charge keeps the HP110 Portable Plus RAM disk files alive even when the system is turned off The RAM disk on the Portable Vectra and most other IBM compatible computers dies when the Portable Vec tra is turned off The contents of the Portable Vectra RAM disk are lost when the system is rebooted or turned off It is therefore a risky practice to store data files that you are creating or modifying e g Lotus worksheets reports names and addresses on a RAM disk If you forget to save your work to the floppy or hard disk or the system locks up or your battery dies you have lost any changes you have made to the file since the last save To create a RAM disk is simple Use your word pro cessor to get or create the config sys file Like Flop pyDRIVER the RAM disk program is a device driver Therefore
127. itor and takes you to the place in your program where the error occured The external environment for Turbo is also excellent There are numerous books articles public domain programs and even a CompuServe forum devoted to helping people use Turbo to full ad vantage With all these advantages and more it s no wonder that Turbo Pascal is to day s best selling programming language for the IBM PC THREE PIECE STARTER KIT CUSTOMIZED FOR THE PORTABLES For Portable and Portable Plus users there s yet another enormous benefit Turbo Pascal takes up less than 40K of memory and that includes its powerful Compiling a program means getting it to meet the rules of syntax imposed by the programming language A program will not run until it can be compiled built in text editor We are now offering Turbo Pascal in a special 342 disk version for your Por table or Portable Plus ready to install from PAM Although you may purchase Turbo all by itself we recommend our Turbo Pas cal Starter Kit It s ideal for novice and intermediate programmers alike The Starter Kit inludes Turbo Pascal Borland s Turbo Tutor and our own special disk Turbo Pascal Programs for the Portables Here s a rundown on each Turbo Pascal Our ver sion of Turbo Pascal is customized to both the HP110 Portable and the Portable Plus at no extra charge The customization authorized by Bor land allows the Turbo editor t
128. izing especially if you are talking about pulling another ap plication into a window To me the term window does not have to mean two par tial screens next to each other simultan eously but can also mean a hot key that toggles between full screen displays in two applications e g a 1 2 3 file and an MS Word file With the availability of these fantastic ink jet graphic printers from HP we now need some integrating utility which will merge graphics e g SKETCH files with an MS Word file for printing an integrated document on a DeskJet or PaintJet for example The idea of implementing the Time Manager functions into a pop up is indeed welcome HP s TM is just too slow for the in and out of convenient use However could such a pop up have the same features that include a Things To Do sec tion alongside Appointments How would this mesh with the current Time Manager set up Other questions Is your short patch to increase the Portable Plus screen speed for use in Tur bo Pascal 3 programs only Or does it have ramifications for all applications via TP3 Finally are you or is anyone else in the Portable world working on a utility that enables the lateral positioning of the image on the paper of a screen dump Shift Print with the ThinkJet I like the compactness and ready access of using 1 2 3 graphs this way when working on a report I can now leave a blank space between blocks of text and then re insert
129. k using vdisk sys from the DOS disk If you know what files or data should be in RAM disk ahead of time and you have enough RAM space RAM disks are an excellent way to reduce hard disk access time However there are several disadvantages to the RAM disk approach First the user must anticipate which files are going to be used Second if a file is too large for the RAM disk there can be no performance benefit Finally updated files must be copied back to the mechanical disk at the end of the session otherwise updates will be lost By comparison disk caching does not require the user to anticipate file and program use It is not necessary to have a disk cache as large as the largest file as only por tions of files are kept cached at any one time Finally changes to the data are automatically written to disk without the danger of data loss Running The Cache Program To run the program simply type hpcache from PAM or DOS Doing so means that a cache in regular memory is set up and occupies 96K of system RAM If you have EMS ex panded memory on your serial card then you can type hpcache A The A parameter sets up 256K of cache space in expanded memory If you wish to use another memory size for cache or look at other options consult the HP Vec 16 JULY AUGUST 1988 tra Disk Cache section of the manual If you want to always run the cache program include the line hpcache with any options in the file named autoexec bat E
130. l 129 See Software on ROM ad in this issue C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER it takes to save the file from Lotus will be considerably faster with FloppyDRIVER installed FloppyDRIVER is of a special class of software called a device driver Normally DOS knows about devices such as the keyboard screen disk drives printer port serial ports and so on By adding one line in the file config sys beginning with device you can add new device drivers Installing FloppyDRIVER means adding such a line Once the line is added and the system reboots or is turned on DOS adds FloppyDRIVER as a device FloppyDRIVER is a device that takes over floppy drive activity What FloppyDRIVER Cannot Do Floppy driver cannot change the maximum data transfer rate of the Portable Vectra disk drive This is deter mined by the Portable Vectra controller The DOS format and diskcopy commands are already optimized by DOS Their speed is a function of the Portable Vectra disk drive and the data transfer rate FloppyDRIVER will not speed up these commands What FloppyDRIVER Can Do FloppyDRIVER will improve program loading by about 30 to 50 All other DOS and application file ac cess activities will improve even more dramatically DOS commands like copy and xcopy will show noticeable per formance gains Performance of some operations can in crease by 10 times You cannot help but notice
131. l because of the high level of user satisfaction According to a re cent survey 12 out of every 13 T Master users highly prefer the program over other integrated packages they re familiar with T Master is widely distributed in Europe and the Far East where it is bundled with IBM PC compatible computer systems NOT FOR EVERYONE T Master is not for everyone The T Maker Company has told us that their most satisfied users are computer oriented people for whom increased productivity is im portant as opposed to casual com puter users who might not appreciate the time and effort T Master can save them let alone its elegance If your computer is an important part of your work life and if you re willing to learn a new and much easier way of functioning then we urge you to try T Master for your self If within 60 days you feel T Master is not for you simply return it for a full refund But remember T Master must be experienced It has a unique way of doing things and a feel that s all its own Order T Master today It may change the way you use your computer T Master For Portable Plus Portable Vectra HP150 295 00 279 95 for Portable Paper subscribers T Maker HP110 Portable 295 00 199 95 for Portable Paper subscribers PV users Please subtract 10 from subscriber price since we dont have to send you additional customized disks or extra documentation Be sure to indicate PO
132. ld not represent a serious inconve nience for most users The battery charge level and PAM battery indicator can get out of synch for other reasons If you have the serial port open by choosing a serial printer or plotter in PAM s f6 System Config you will run the battery down more quickly than normal The PAM battery indicator does not know about the serial port Finally if you have a Port able Plus and remove and replace a RAM or ROM drawet the battery indicator will register 0 6 despite the actual battery charge To synchronize the battery indicator with the actual battery charge level charge the battery overnight WHEN I PRINT IN MEMOMAKER SOMETIMES ONLY THE END OF MY FILE GETS PRINTED WHY MemoMaker prints from the cursor position to the end of the file Put your cursor at the beginning of the file Extend char Left Arrow before printing the file I WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO USE MY MEMOMAKER FILES IN LOTUS SEND THEM ACROSS DATA COMMUNICATIONS LINES AS SIMPLE TEXT FILES AND IMPORT THEM INTO OTHER WORD PROCESSORS HOW When you save your memo in MemoMaker press f2 to Save Memo from File Keys Now press the f2 key again and Document File will change to ASCII File Now save the file as normal You can now import the MemoMaker file into almost any program since most programs have a facility to import ASCII files In Lotus save it with a prn extension Then use the file import text command You will be able to se
133. left off This includes exiting and returning from DOS which means you can delete copy and rename files while running THE EDITOR Right justification and automatic paragraph indent A simple command right justifies your text and at the same time automatically indents your paragraphs however many spaces you wish Undelete Erased something you want back No problem A simple command will un delete the last line or block of text deleted Upper lower case conversion Another simple command lets you change upper case to lower case and vice versa without having to retype anything In terms of useful features per dollar and in terms of the convenience and in creased productivity you gain I feel that THE EDITOR is a truly exceptional buy I urge you to try it Order yours today O Copyright 1987 Personalized Software PUBLISHER S MESSAGE There is much goodness in our world When we acknowledge that goodness in others the goodness in ourselves and in our world grows David Packard the co founder of the Hewlett Pack ard Corporation has made the world a better place He recently announced that he ll give 2 billion worth of HP stock that he has accumulated during the past 49 years to the David and Lucille Packard Foundation which bears the name of his late wife The foundation will fund fellowships and research and will support programs designed to alleviate problems relating to education familie
134. liver the more complete discussion of the program that I promised last issue I was forced to read the entire short 25 page well written manual It turns out that the program is even bet ter than I thought for Portable Vectra users Once installed FloppyDRIVER manages all floppy disk activity It improves floppy drive performance by us ing specialized file allocation and directory management techniques These special techniques improve perfor mance by helping DOS the operating system intelligent ly control movement of the disk drive read write heads The end result is a speed increase ranging from 2 to 20 times for most floppy disk accesses FloppyDRIVER also offers automatic disk formatting That means FloppyDRIVER automatically senses whether a disk needs formatting For example you can use PAM s File Manager DOS or any other application to save or copy a file to a floppy disk With FloppyDRIVER installed the Portable Vectra will format the disk and save the file at the same time Previously formatted disks will not be reformatted Once installed the operation of FloppyDRIVER is in visible to the user and is automatic If you get a disk full message when trying to save a Lotus file for example you can insert an unformatted disk and the Lotus file will be saved and the disk formatted If the disk isn t full the time More than Read this list It may look long and boring an incredible amount o
135. low Step 1 represents a cube drawing created with simple SKETCH line drawing and erasing functions A keystroke executing the SKETCH fill command creates the black side illustrated in Step 2 In Step 3 we use the SKETCH file manager to overlay rather than overwrite our half tone It is the current pen cursor position that determines where the retrieved par tial screen will be displayed In Step 4 we erase the unwanted grey area At last Graphi and Portable Plus for the Portable by Hal Goldstein President Personalized Software Paul Grimmer has done it again He s the author of two of our best selling pro grams SideWinder the sideways printng program for the HP Portables and LINK the program that lets you transfer data back and forth be tween HP hand helds and Portables printers and other peripherals Now he s developed SKETCH a fab ulous graphics program designed for both the HP110 Portable and Portable Plus CURSOR BECOMES DRAWING PEN Using SKETCH couldn t be simpler Put SKETCH in draw mode and your cursor becomes a pen The pen can either be up or down When it is down it draws wherever you move it When it is up you can move it around the screen without affecting the drawing You set the cursor up or down This shows that gend simply by pressing Se U or D You also P can set the cursor V speed and can tog o gle between a faster Morgoe4rp
136. ls TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 Copyright 1988 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER adjacent cells The replacement pack was folded to the configuration of the original pack and taped with plastic electrical tape The connecting wires de soldered from the old battery pack were soldered to the new battery pack the pack was positioned in the case and the top was snapped on The battery rattles a bit when shook but it appears to be at least as good as the last HP battery I bought REPLACING THE BATTERY PACK IN THE THINKJET Replacing the battery pack in an HP ThinkJet battery charger unit should not be difficult for the average hard ware hacker but there are a few precautions to observe 1 Watch polarity Be sure to note markings on the bat tery cells and note the colors of any wires connected to the battery pack Also note where each wire is connected Make a sketch Do this before disconnecting the old bat tery pack Battery cells should be connected together to If a cell is reversed the battery s power will be significantly impaired A DC voltmeter is a helpful but not required tool for this job If the old battery has any juice at all the voltmeter can be used to identify polarity of the terminals on the bat tery case as well as to ch
137. m has detected that the telephone line is not working or is no longer connected COMMON EXAMPLE The following is a simple example of a modem dialogue using TermPlus and the internal Portable Plus modem You could execute the same dialogue from TERM TermPlus Reflection or PC2622 In the dialogue below user commands are in bold print the response from the modem or connecting computer is in italic print and our comments are in regular print ATDT18164743770 Dialing Kansas City CompuServe Node LINE Forget to plug phone line to Plus ATDT18164743770 Dialing Kansas City CompuServe Node VOICE Modem thinks voice on phone line ATXI Invoke mode X1 to disable mode X2 VOICE ok Command accepted ATDT18164743770 Dialing Kansas City CompuServe Node BUSY Line busy ATDT18164743770 Dialing Kansas City CompuServe Node CONNECT 1200 Modem connected at 1200 Baud Now In Data mode Portable Plus Serial Connections by David Morris INTRODUCTION In this article we will discuss the HP110 and Portable Plus 9 pin serial port and appropriate cabling We will discuss both technical and practical information on modem print er mouse and computer to computer serial cabling There YY TY N7 ATTAZCY TC T 1N00 31 THE PORTABLE PAPER Portable Vectra users Make your floppy drives Work 10 times faster Save battery life too FloppyDRIVER speeds up your 375 disk drive s it saves you time loading copying and backing up file
138. main in command mode ready to initiate or respond to calls Interrogate modem Causes modem to describe its status 0 Originate Command This command places the modem into DATA mode To return to COMMAND mode enter The modem first tests for a good phone line and then goes off hook P Pulse command Sets the modem to dial pulse rather than tone output Q0 Enables responses default Q1 Disables responses Quiet Mode The Q or QO feature directs the modem to send responses to the user Q1 disables the modem from sending responses to the user T Tone mode Sets the modem to dial tone rather than pulse output VO Terse Mode V1 Verbose Mode default Verbosity Mode Select The VO mode directs the modem to send terse responses to the user The V1 mode directs the modem to send english like responses X0 Minimum Response Set X1 Extended Response Set X2 Full Response Set default Response Mode Select The X0 mode directs the modem to provide Hayes Smartmodem 300 compatibility X1 limits the modem to the extended response set providing Hayes Smartmodem 1200 compatibility The X2 command enables the full response set which includes tone direction call progression and baud rate compatibility responses X2 supports transmission at both 300 and 1200 baud Pause 2 seconds Used in a dialing string for example to allow the other computer to respond MODEM RESPONSES The modem responds to the user in three diff
139. mmand up to forty 40 additional characters and a car z E riage return If more than 43 characters are entered on the command line the modem returns an error message and does not execute the command The following chart defines the superset of the Hayes modem set as implemented by the Portable Plus internal modem Portable Vectra users and Plus users with an ex ternal modem will find almost all of this material valid This list does not include additional commands supported by the Portable Vectra internal 2400 Baud modem Command Action taken by the Modem A Auto answer mode This command is used to answer an incoming phone call When the call has been established and the communication has been validated the modem responds with CONNECT or CONNECT 1200 and enters DATA mode A Repeat command Executes previous command again D R Dial Command This command permits the user to dial a telephone number Note if you are dialing an originate only modem append R to the D command Following the DIR command enter the number parentheses and dashes are optional commas see below may be used to pause the dialing EO Echo Off E1 Echo On Echo Mode This feature determines whether or not the modem will display on the Portable Plus what it is transmitting to the host system HO Hang Up H1 Pick Up the phone Hook Mode The HO command directs the modem to hang up the phone The H1 command directs the modem to re
140. nal operation a success If you have any suggestions or complaints Larry will be glad to listen For good buys on used and new HP equipment see our 4 page brochure enclosed with this issue We sell them Buying used HP equipment makes sense You know HP quality Even used HP machines can serve you well for years Call for current prices We guarantee them Any used item you buy from us can be returned within 30 days for a full refund In addition 3 ONE YEAR GUARANTEE parts and labor on all used equipment EY 515 472 6330 The Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software Communication with the Portables Guide To Using The Portable Plus And Portable Vectra Internal Modem INTRODUCTION by David Hughes The internal Portable Plus and Portable Vectra modems as well as most external modems including the WorldPort modems understand a language known as the Hayes com mand set The industry has standardized on the language understood by Hayes modems You tell the modem what to do by giving it simple commands in this modem language You give the modem the commands from within the com munications software program that you are running The most sophisticated IBM PC programs such as CrossTalk issue these commands for you You just follow a menu or type in an English like script Even if your soft ware
141. nced features include crea tion of text in columns automatic footnote formatting and numbering mail merging and text sorting Now there are versions of WordPerfect for the HP Portable Plus and the HP150 touchscreen In either case it s the full blown Version 4 2 complete with compre hensive thesaurus and 115 000 word spell ing checker Not only can you use WordPerfect on your HP computer but if you already have Word Note to Portable Plus users As always you have to plan memory space in the Portable Plus You ll need 512K of RAM to allow space for the basic WordPerfect program and still leave room perfect Worl n asing SORA Version 4 Perfect for your PC you now can transfer files back and forth between your PC and your Portable Plus or HP150 The same Note to HP150 users By special arrangement with WordPerfect Corporation our version of WordPerfect includes the standard 544 disk plus our supplementary double sided 315 disk WordPerfect features and commands work on all three machines The function key layout is different on the HP machines but this is a simple matter for most PC users to adjust to WordPerfect s powerful yet easy to use features have made it a best seller It s per fect for the Portable Plus or the HP150 and it just may be perfect for you Order a copy today and use it at our risk If within 60 days you are dissatisfied for any reason simply return it for a full refund
142. nd ASCII files across phone lines with the Plus built in TERM program or the HP110 Terminal program HOW DO I MERGE FILES OR PARTS OF FILES USING MEMOMAKER Get the first file Press f2 Block Keys and move the cursor continued on page 40 Vae Knowledge at a Discount Back issues of The Portable Paper only 7 50 each 45 year Regular price 9 20 each 55 year Now s your chance to gain the valuable knowledge contained in those back issues of The Portable Paper you may have missed at nearly 20 below the regular subscription price The first two years of The Portable Paper contained over 500 pages 600 valuable tips on getting the most out of MemoMaker Time Manager Lotus 1 2 3 built in communications software DOS ThinkJet HP9114 and over 60 reviews and descriptions of disk and ROM based products We urge you not to miss out on even one back issue A single tip technique or new product that you learn about could mean a big boost to your productivity with your HP Portable Highlights of past issues of The Portable Paper 1986 Vol 1 No 1 Jan Feb 1986 All about Time Manager Turbo Pascal creating Memo maker destructive backspace CompuServe getting started HP110 tips much more Voll No 2 Mar Apr 1986 SPECIAL DOS ISSUE In depth tutorial including tricks for using DOS Improving the Port able s readability solutions for HP9114 battery problems using the Norton Utilities mu
143. nds On line help is available at all times Highly suitable for desktop publishing T Master s word pro cessor handlestext in columns and lets you view reduced size layouts of entire pages The spreadsheet is different from any other With most spreadsheets the T Master lt RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Plus a e E HP150 IBM PC and compat Maker columns are of a fixed predeter mined width and the formulas for calculating each cell can only be viewed one cell at a time With T Master you specify the column widths and locations and you type the formulas at the edges of the spreadsheet where you can No other application that I know of matches the power thoroughness and simple elegance of T Master David Hughes Contributing Editor The Portable Paper see them at all times Very helpful in getting your spreadsheets to work Also unlike other spreadsheets you can imbed explanatory text anywhere you like another bene fit of T Master s text oriented ap proach to program integration T Master s relational database manager competes with database only products like dBase III It s easy to select and combine data from two or more files set up cross tabula tions from data on disk and gener ate ad hoc reports T Master s data communica tions capabilities include many you would expect to f
144. ne or shade halfway between black and white or in other words grey In the following article I would like to show you how to create and use a half tone file With SKETCH commands we ll first create a transparent sheet covered with evenly spaced dots We ll then overlay this sheet on a working master drawing Then it will be a simple matter to cut out any area we want to be grey Why grey In this discussion we ll see that humble grey does two spectacular things First it helps to enhance and solidify a 3 D shape and second it will add an eye pleasing bit of texture So friends open up your trusty portables and hook up your printers and we ll outline the process of creating and using a half tone file 28 JULY AUGUST 1988 Making Half Tones In SKETCH I ll assume that you have some familiarity with SKETCH s basic tools and rules I have written step by step instruc tions for creating and using half tones along with half tone styles which you can obtain from Personalized Software for the cost of the disk details below What I ll do here is outline the steps in SKETCH which you need to follow to create and use half tones Creating A Transparent Half Tone Overlay I originally tried to create half tones by typing lines of evenly spaced dots This was very tedious and I soon found a more efficient approach To create a half tone overlay I started with an empty screen Then using SKETCH commands that generate line
145. ng will slow down your program In fact the machine is much faster than you may realize This code will positively not cause any noticeable slowdown in your other programs which run after the TSR is loaded The last thing we must check before popping up is to see if we are already popped up in which case we will not pop up over ourselves Provision for this would cause ex treme complications in our program and provides no benefits so we will prevent it from occurring If we are not already popped up we will set a flag in our program to in dicate that we are now popped up we will clear the flag when we pop back down Now that we have determined that our hot key has been pressed and that it is safe to pop up we must first save our current machine state This is so that when we return control to the underlying program when we pop back down the program that we popped up over is totally unaware that anything has been done since the last time it had control We must also restore access to our Turbo Pascal pro gram so that we can use the built in library and our own and so that we can get away from programming in assembly language Current State Of The Popup Program I am pleased to report that all of the above requirements for a safe TSR have been implemented and the pop up works It doesnt do much that is useful yet but it does pop up down over every program we have tested it against in 38 JULY AUGUST 1988 cluding
146. nications standards and the Bell communications standards recognized in the U S The WorldPort 2400 uses a standard 9 volt transistor radio battery it s included with the unit A fresh battery will keep the WorldPort humming for 8 10 hours You can extend battery life by operating the unit from a wall outlet whenever possible using the optional AC adapter The WorldPort 2400 draws no power from your Portable s battery DOUBLE GUARANTEE In addition to our standard 60 day mon ey back guarantee the RECOMMENDED FOR cannot use a television or RGB monitor We usually bave several used video inter faces and monitors in stock Hal 7 In order to communicate with a Portable Vectra or IBM PC do I need a card installed or a software program Once in stalled is it possible to change programs or just data You use botb software and an inter face card for tbe PC By the next issue there should be an HP IL card for the Portable Vectra You can transfer both programs and data However there is no guarantee that the programs will run on the Plus In this issue see the Foundations column for a discussion of transferring files and Vectra Views for information about an upcoming HP IL card Hal 8 Can I use KERMIT to transfer ASCII software from the Portable Plus to another machine What commands come with KERMIT Do you sell it You can use tbe built in TERM pro gram to transfer ASCII files from tbe Porta
147. ntrary the Portable Vectra cannot read all HP formatted DOS disks The Portable Vec tra can read any double sided disk formatted from an HP110 Portable Plus or HP150 However it cannot read a disk with the original HP150 single sided format Until we learned of this we always tried to ship our disks in single sided HP format since it was the one for mat all HP150 s the HP110 and the Portable Plus can read When you order software from us such as the Norton Utilities The Editor or RightWriter be sure to indicate if you have a Portable Vectra so we can send you the prod uct on a proper disk DOS Trick For Retyping Last DOS Command If you are using the Portabie Vectra and not the HP110 or Portable Plus here is a nice DOS trick You can use the right and left arrow keys to retype the last DOS com mand Move the right arrow key and the letter in its same position from the last DOS command appears on the screen Move the left arrow key and the letter disappears Personalized Software INC PO Box 869 Fairfield Iowa 52556 515 472 6330 D Tree er T TLIETT By Hal Goldstein Condor 3 Update NEW VERSION 2 20 At the end of 1987 Condor upgraded its IBM version of Condor 3 Condor has just announced an upgrade for the HP150 The HP150 version of the new release works fine in alternate mode on the Portable Plus When you pur chase Condor 3 version 2 20 Personalized Software in cludes an extra d
148. o use all the normal Portable editing keys Ex tend Char Delete Line etc This saves you from having to learn many of the commands particular to WordStar Turbo Tutor is a well written interactive tu torial that includes a manual and a disk The manual covers not just the funda mentals but many fine points of Pas cal programming as well it is of value even to advanced programmers The disk in cludes every example covered in the manual already keyed in and ready to use Note neither the IBM ver sion nor the HP150 version of Turbo Tutor will run on the Portables only our 315 disk version will RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable o Portable Vectra L Portable Plus HP150 IBM PC and compatibles H Turbo Pascal Pro grams for the Porta bles is a great supple ment to Turbo Tutor Based on the princi ple of learning by example the disk contains more than 50 sample Turbo Pascal pro grams and every one of them runs on the HP110 or the Portable Plus The programs range in length from ten lines of code to hundreds and from simple temperature conversion games arith metic to advanced input output graph ics and more Every program is included on the disk so you don t have to key in any of them they re ready to run or to be incorporated into your own larger Pascal programs If you re into or getting into the highly productive world of programm ing our Turbo P
149. ock and to set an appointment for installation That way we can install and test your new ROMs the day we receive your soft ware drawer then ship your drawer back that same evening Return shipping with in the Continental U S via UPS Second Day Air is free for all orders over 200 Please add 15 to your order if you want overnight return shipping In most cases if you set an appoint ment in advance and use overnight ship ping both ways you ll only be without your software drawer for less than two business days We ll ship the manuals and other materials in advance by sur face carrier so you ll have them by the time you receive back your software drawer HOW TO ORDER ROMS To order use the postage paid order form inside the back cover For even faster service or if you have questions about any of our ROMs give us a call We offer two kinds of ROM fine One kind we produce ourselves these are offered as part of our ROM Backup Packages see below The other kind are manufactured by Hewlett Packard we Call these simply HP ROMs ROM Backup Packages A ROM Backup Package includes both the disk version of a program and the ROM version plus the standard User s Manual and additional instructions for installing and using the ROM In the chart prices of products marked PS _ are for entire ROM Backup Package According to the agreements we have with the original software vendors
150. od screen generator program I found several and tried them all I discovered a couple of things First screen generators are fine for prototyping but they can take over your own program with their excessive code Second none of the commercial or public domain screen generators will work on the HP Portables This is because screen generator programs all employ a technique of put ting information directly in the screen s memory location in the computer This works fine for a PC compatible com puter however HP Portables use a different location in the computer for the screen s memory If you try to use such a program on your HP Portable you often wind up having to reset your computer You may even have to reformat your electronic disk to get your computer to work again ENTER THE WIZ Finally Iran across an offer from Cliff Looyenga The Wiz for a program that would work on the HP Portables In a past issue of The Portable Paper the Wiz men tioned that he had written a Turbo Pascal program called PCVIEW that would generate screens on both the HP Port mE woh c me ables and on PC compatible computers as well I sent for the program and tried it out PCVIEW can be described as a FORMS SYSTEM rather than a screen generator PCVIEW will let you create data input forms complete with error trapping and blinking and highlighted fields And if you follow the guidelines in the user manual you can use your finish
151. omputer Products Inc Carbon Copy PLUS is a trademark of Meridian Technology Inc 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card informatiun exp date signature m Personalized Softwar P O Box 869 Fairfield 1A 52556 515 472 6330 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software HP Link perform See this issues Foundations col umn Hal 10 Is it possible to buy 1 2 3 MemoMaker MS Word and other pro grams on 3 1 2 inch disks to run from the 9114 disk drive It ts now possible to buy 1 2 3 See this issues News From Personalized Software With the exception of MS BASIC it is not possible to buy other HP ROMware on disk You can buy any Per sonalized Software ROMware on disk only Hal 11 The percentage shown on my Portable Plus for battery level seems to be inaccurate Through an oversight I once allowed the level to drop to 0 but the machine kept running and I did not lose any data Why not See most frequently asked questions in 110 column Hal 12 Sometimes while Iam working I plug in the recharger but the system still reacts like nothing has happened i e it still executes the display time out Even if I return to the main menu enter System Config exit and go back to work it still shuts off Why I have not heard of this before The display time out normally does not tak
152. on my highly recommended list Dave Mark L A Scrug Notes newsletter C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software ing the length of time which a comma represents The default is 2 seconds and is found in register 8 of the inter nal modem To look at this value set Reflection to use com2 which is the internal modem and then type ats8 and the value 002 is returned To change the comma length type ats8 n where n is anything from 0 to 255 A good value is 3 to 6 Thus ats8 5 will make each comma wait for 5 seconds MORE ON OFFICE PHONES As more portables are being used in business offices there YTTY X7 AYTZ OYTOCTY Annan 7 7 THE PORTABLE PAPER are more chances for problems due to private phone systems The first is with digital telephone systems Often the cable in the back of a digital system phone either doesn t come off or it uses a much larger modular jack Here s a big caution even though a smaller modular plug will fit inexactly into the larger jack don t try it Many of the newer phone systems are digital and plugging the portable into these systems won t work in some cases the portable may damage the phone system So what to do Check to see if the phone looks like an ordinary hand set If the modular plug in the back is an RJ 11 plug usually has 2 or 4 gold contacts then the portable s modem is pro bably OK If not there are external modems that use acoustic coupling rather than wires Also t
153. onstant reminder of what you have said to people months earlier and allows changes to be made and infor mation to be disseminated as things change The above spreadsheets have been extremely useful in planning the trips this year from Scotland to France Spain the Canary Islands and Grenada In talking to other people who use their non portable PC s extensively I ve become aware that their orientation is quite different from mine Having made use of the port ability of the Portable Plus from the start I use it I think much more than the average Portability allows me to take a lot of personal information with me so that I can keep up to date during the extensive periods away from home In addition to using it when living on boats I find it an ex cellent air travelling companion as I can make use of the many waiting periods associated with air travel I have also used a number of your software pro grams I have found Webster s Spelling Checker and some of the Norton Utilities especially useful The information in The Portable Paper is also very helpful as I have had to learn to use the system totally on my own There are no other users or user groups on the island WordPerfect customized for the Portable Plus and HP150 WordPerfect It s the best selling word processor for the IBM PC According to many reviewers it s the best word processor on the market WordPerfect is a word processing power house Its adva
154. opyright 1987 Personalized Software the most traumatic problems with Twinkle who doesn t understand my mental bent at all Consider for example formatting an HP9114 disk in drive D from my Vectra desktop There is NO SPACE within hpilfor By the same token in DOS there IS a space in diskcopy a a there is NO space in c chkdsk there IS a space in dir com but why none in copy a b No rhyme or reason that I can see In my angled mind I would think Twinkle could figure out where spaces should or should not be or whether I ve typed al one or 1 little L Very small insignificant differences to me For years on a typewriter I have habitually used 1 little L for a 1 one especially in dates Anyone with half a brain knew that 1 little L was a1 one No one questioned it On a stock market application on CompuServe I tried to edit a file Unfortunately Twinkle and I were not on the same wave length at all in this endeavor Mike Pietruk HP CompuServe Forum donated extreme patience hours of work and sent day after day of EasyPlex messages to set me straight on this exacting operation in the dark The Plus didn t understand at all what I was trying to do hadn t the subtlety wit or even tact to know and make allowances for the fact that I didn t accept the cruciality of the difference between a 1 one and an 1 little L Twinkle was in short being a B amp W pain I ve got to tell you this has been the source of the
155. orado Colorado Springs Dan Ritt 303 528 8080 Denver Call Bob Pressey 303 777 0326 Georgia Atlanta Call Brian Walsh D 404 394 2500 E 404 399 6842 Hawaii Honolulu Rodney Y Fukuya if interested 808 945 3111 Indiana Indianapolis Bob Glass 317 638 2326 Iowa Mid Iowa Ed Keefe D 515 964 6644 E 515 964 7064 Soutbeast Iowa Hal Goldstein 515 472 6330 Minnesota Minneapolis St Paul john Ferman 612 822 1372 Maine Yarmoutb Every last Tue 6 30 US Route one Yarmouth ME 04096 846 5497 North Carolina Charlotte and surrounding area John Jacob 704 334 3468 Texas Houston Thomas R Page D 713 759 4259 E 713 528 7138 Utah Utah County Donna Hoover D 378 4421 E 375 4812 Washington Eastern Wasbington Nortbern Idabo Western Montana and possibly Western Washington Bob Sandberg 509 466 4999 Eastern Washington Stephen S Warner D 509 534 1588 E 509 535 3322 Western Washington Portable Plus 150 Vectra users meet first Thursday 7 9 p HP sales office Bellevue Pete Ross 206 342 8875 Portable 40 amp 50 series 7 9 p second Wed UWash computer center Seattle Bob Moore 206 543 7879 Washington D C Greater Washington D C Area 8 00 PM Third Monday of Each Month Ballston Tower 1 800 N Quincy St Room 519 Call to confirm and to say Hi William F Cross D 202 696 4112 E 703 845 9508 Australia 8 Avoca St S Yarra Victoria Australia Nigel S Ball 03 267 8344 Central America I would be h
156. orks and 5 1 4 inch disk drives As soon as I know I ll report it Deduct 10 Off The Subscriber Price Of Many Of Our Products We spent much of our first two years of operation listen ing to readers and experimenting with products to see if they could be made to run with the HP110 Portable Plus and HP150 Our ads for such products as the Norton Utilities RightWriter Webster Spelling Checker and Word Perfect reflect the extra work we have done for original HP Portable and HP150 users When we ship these products for those machines we add documentation and usually extra disks HP Portable Vectra users do not need the extra disks or documentation In fact when Vectra users receive the programs with extra documentation it can be confusing Therefore if you do not require the extra disks and documentation you may deduct 10 from the already discounted subscriber price These products include the four mentioned above Check our order form and ads as to which other products this additional discount applies li Battery Indicator Arrow The other day I thought I had my battery charger plugged in After my battery had almost completely discharged I found the mistake When I pushed the plug all the way in the up arrow appeared on the top of the indicator Always check that the up arrow is on when you think you are re charging the battery B Can t Read HP150 Single Sided Disks Despite HP literature to the co
157. osity of David Packard will not surprise HP employees HP employees not only enjoy liberal benefits and a profit sharing plan but are encouraged to share their own good fortune with educational institutions HP matches the donation any HP employee gives to an educational institu tion and lets employees donate equipment to universities at a greatly reduced price David Packard created a foundation served in gov ernment structured a model work environment and helped spawn an industry However the greatest contribu tion David Packard has made to society is the vast range of products his company has produced The first calcu lator advanced life saving medical equipment laser print ing thelist goes on and on You experience the legacy of David Packard every day when you use your HP110 Portable Plus or Portable Vectra to make you more prod uctive in your daily occupation David Packard is one man who has made a difference He has affected each of our lives in a positive way Through the company and foundation bearing the Packard name David Packard will continue to produce a positive in fluence for generations to come the format enhancements most beneficial Rod me E We NC RA configure the printer from DOS I use a Re Configuring ThinkJet From DOS I appreciate the excellent service that your company provides in helping to make our HP equipment better In particular the 1988 Subscribers Disk has many excel
158. ou edit Exceptionally easy to use Customized for the Plus and HP150 seep 25 WordPerfect 4 2 Disk based Portable Plus Portable Vectra and HP150 version of the best selling word processor Includes spelling checker and thesaurus The Word Plus IE An excellent spelling checker with a choice of two dictionaries 45 000 words and 35 000 words plus the ability to input additional words and abbreviations of your own Also does word counts Customized to the HP Portables SeP5 WorldPort Portable Modems Pv The WorldPort 2400 is a battery powered highly compact 4 x 2 x 1 lightweight 6 5 0z full featured external modem that transmits data at 300 1200 and 2400 baud Faster than HP s internal modems the WorldPort 2400 is fully compatible with the industry standard Hays AT Command Set and with both the CCITT and Bell communications standards The WorldPort 1200 modem transmits at 300 and 1200 baud Portable Plus users At last A great spelling checker available on ROM Webster s web stars n The spelling checker rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine Dec 24 1955 and now m Ju available from Personalized Software for the Portable Plus and HP150 Customized on 31 2 disk by special arrangement with Simon amp Schuster Inc PC Magazine rated eight leading spell ing checkers for ease of use flexibility speed overall program size thoroughness and accuracy WEBSTER S NEW WORLD SPELL
159. ou wish Sketch amp Print lets you make line drawings on your screen using the cursor and function keys It s a lot like those Etch Sketch toys you played with as a child Actually it s even better because you can draw not just horizontal and vertical lines but also diagonals with a single key Sketch amp Print also lets you print and save anything you draw on the screen _ 10 for both utilities when purchased with SideWinder For a complete graphics software program see ad for Sketch Order form and guarantee are on inside back cover or send check or credit card number to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 d107 3uauido o4a q Sno Jo Sxreuroper paasa are Z pue snjoT 105 rows for QuietJet Printer Copyright 1987 Personalized Software quence The modem will also return to command mode if it loses connection or if it has been reset by the user MODEM COMMANDS What follows is a list of modem commands You start from column 1 on the screen within your communications soft ware package You must press the Return key to enter the command The modem is capable of executing multiple com mands on the same command line IMPORTANT All commands must be UPPER CASE All commands must be in this format ATcommand Return where command is replaced by a command one to three characters from the list below The command line consists of the letters AT the co
160. ouble spacing spreadsheet prior to printout hiding notes next to data cells addressing form letters and printing labels automatically Customized for Lotus 1A and 2 01 Mobile Recharger E Lets you recharge your HP110 Portable Plus Portable Vectra Think Jet HP9114 HP hand held etc from your car s cigarette lighter Monitors for The Portable Vectra m Convert your Portable Vectra to a desktop computer and back to a portable in seconds Excellent values in monochrome and high resolution EGA color monitors from GoldStar The Norton Utilities Customized For The Portables PV Allow you to recover deleted Portable files and organize your electronic and external disks Peter Norton has authorized us to include an extra 3 disk formerly available only on 5 4 disk The disk includes The Norton Utilities and instructions for running them on the Portables and the HP150 Version 4 0 and Advanced Edition are now available 1987 Portable Paper Subscriber s Disk E Includes 1 DISKPACK a disk packing utility whose commercial equiv alent sells for 50 2 Time Manager s Calendar Utility 3 HP Calcu lator program 4 C Drive Copy Utility 5 Game and Lotus templates Clear instructions are included right on the disk 1988 Portable Paper Subscriber s Disk E Contains 1 New utilities for Time Manager including an expanded Calendar program and an automatic mail merge utility 2 Some of the best public domain softwa
161. p to a variety of printers sporting imaginative RS 232 C implementations with no pain or wasted time It would be possible of course if a suitable lipless plug could be found to construct a functionally equiv alent cable in the field but I doubt that much money would be saved Also the pleasing aesthetics of the HP product with its sleek lines and highly functional large knobbed thumbscrews would be hard to match TECHNICAL DETAILS CONNECTING THE HP110 PLUS TO A DESKTOP The HP printer cable HP9221P is a null modem cable in which certain of the handshaking lines are implemented so as to allow a printer to control the output of the com puter thus preventing printer buffer overflow These hand shaking lines are not needed for computer to computer connection but in most cases their presence does not create any problems The only lines needed for machine to machine communication are TxD pin 2 RxD pin 3 and SIGNAL GND pin 7 on both cable ends for both DB25 and HP DB9 They are NOT needed for IBM DB9 connectors pin 2 on each end to pin 3 on the opposite end pin 7 to pin 7 In addition to these signal lines FRAME GND the shell of both plugs the cable shield and the shield drain wire con nected to pin 1 of the DB25 plug should be maintained Proper grounding is not only necessary to meet FCC requirements for RF interference control but also to min imize data contamination by environmental electrical noise If FRAME
162. r Portable Plus You ll never have to carry a disk drive again We invite you to browse through the chart read the information at the right and then order one or more ROMs today You ll find them to be fast reliable and an incredible boost to your produc tivity Whatever your reason to free up valuable memory space to eliminate the need for an exter nal disk drive or just for the convenience of lightning fast pro gram loading fill your software drawer with ROMs and you ll turn your Portable Plus into the powerhouse its designers intend ed it to be With our exclusive Double Guarantee the risk is all ours Why not order right now P S If you have questions about any of the ROMS give us a call Brian or David will be happy to make some recommendations as to which ROMs might best meet your needs for word processing spreadsheets or whatever ap plications you re interested in AM NN EASY TO INSTALL We supply clear instructions ad diagrams with every ROM order If you prefer send us your software drawer and we will install your ROMs for you and test them at no charge To remove your software drawer first back up your A drive so you won t lose your data then use an ordinary screw driver to remove the two outside screws on the drawer You won t be able to use your Portable Plus without the software drawer so we recommend you call us first to make sure the ROMs you want are in st
163. r The Portable The disk drive when connected to the PC using HP IL wires becomes an additional PC disk drive No other hardware or software manipulation is required to use the HP9114 directly from the PC Sketch By Rick Finnell One of the nice things about buying and selling used HP Portables is that we at Personalized Software usually have HPI10 s and Portable Pluses for our staff to use Rick Finnell of our shipping department is responsible for making sure your orders are packaged and shipped cor rectly Rick also has a background in graphic art and he decided that SKETCH would be the first program he would learn on the Portable The diagrams printed in this article reproduced exactly from ThinkJet output il lustrate the success of Ricks s first endeavor SKETCH is a freeform graphics product from Paul Grimmer s Southern Software that retails for 80 Subscribers can obtain it from Personalized Software for 75 95 Hal What Is SKETCH SKETCH is a surprisingly sophisticated graphics program that comes in a rather humble looking package With SKETCH you can draw free form shapes With a single keystroke you can draw circles boxes and even arches SKETCH will also again with a single keystroke fill your shapes with solid black or solid white Unfortunate ly in SKETCH s binary world of black and white there are no half tones Half Tones What is a half tone For our purposes a half tone is simp ly a to
164. r if it could be offered on ROM After your review of the program in an upcom ing issue of The Portable Paper will make my decision Finally some small suggestions First I think it would be interesting to all of us subscribers if you could occasionally list your current circulation figures Second if your contributors letter writers could make themselves available to answer questions or share information either by phone or mail this would be a very help ful way to exchange ideas For example I would like to communicate directly with Dr Alvidrez as he has contributed some excellent ideas in the past Your Sub scribers Disks have been very useful also but I would be willing to pay more for bet ter documentation and some technical support Perhaps you could determine if it is cost effective for you to offer this Once again my sincerest admiration and thanks to all of you at The Portable Paper Ira Siegel Santa Monica CA If any reader wants us to publish bis address and phone number just tell us and we ll do so We ll also forward any mail you want sent to anotber customer We currenily bave approx imately 1700 paid subscribers This does not include tbe 300 or 400 promotional copies we send of each issue to those re questing a sample issue Also tbe survey we took at tbe end of last year indicates that The Portable Paper is passed around many corporate Portable Paper readers share their copies with co worker
165. r set auto repeat twelve user programmable func tion keys calculator keypad overlaid onto keyboard and numeric lock key plus port for use of separate numeric keypad LED indicators for CAPS LOCK NUM LOCK PAD LOCK and SCROLL LOCK modes Clock Real time clock and calendar YY TYXV7 ATTMITICT 1tNOO 7 THE PORTABLE PAPER I O PORTS Serial 9 pin male D connector asynchronous RS232C compati ble Configurable for COMI or COM2 Supports 12V peripherals such as mouse devices Parallel 25 pin female D connector IBM compatible Video 9 pin female D connector for RGB color Keypad Sub miniature 5 pin male DIN Connector Power Connector for AC adapter charger POWER AC 110 220 VAC 50 60 Hz auto sensing adapter charger Battery 48 Watt Hour NiCad battery pack adapter charger and bat tery included with system 12 hour recharge trickle charge while functioning red flashing low power LED in dicator overcharge and cycling protection The battery clips onto the back which leaves open the possibility of a multiple style battery No information was given on bat tery life Intelligent Power Management Power control of backlight mass storage internal modem expansion bus and processor speed Operational Range 41 95 Degrees F 5 35 degrees C 20 80 humidity non condensing Storage Range 4 to 110 Degrees F 20 to 60 Degrees C 2 20 80 humidity non condensing with 90 minute recovery from extrem
166. re and shareware for the Portable Vectra 3 A password program to protect usage of the HP110 4 TERM xmodem program for the Portable Plus 5 Lotus templates 6 Games 7 New DOS tools 8 A file to toggle HP and Alternate mode from DOS 9 Lots more Clear instructions included on the disk Power Cube Powers and recharges up to four HP devices HP Portable ThinkJet HP9114 HP hand held etc from a single wall outlet PrinterTalk and Format110 MemoMaker Enhancers PrinterTalk lets you change type styles in the middle of a document change number of copies and lines per page do automatic page numbering and much more Format110 lets you format headers footers and page numbers chain or merge documents compensate for widow and orphan lines and much more Private File PV Protects your letters documents and data files by scrambling your file so only you can understand it See P 6 NOTE Products run on the machines indicated by these symbols HP110 Portable W Portable Plus M Portable Vectra 3 Project Management Packages Ek All 3 work on the HP110 Plus Vectra HP150 and IBM PC Project 8 9 10 a Lotus template helps you manage small to medium projects Milestone is also for small to medium projects On HP110 you need to scroll to see entire Milestone screen Pertmaster is for medium to large projects specify which machine 2 Megabyte RAM card A giant leap in memory si
167. render either the Port able Plus or Portable Vectra obsolete Specifications Of The Zenith SuperSport What follows are the specifications for the Zenith SuperSport Differences between the Zenith portable and the HP portable will be fully defined by the third quarter 1988 CPU AND MEMORY Processor 80286 16 bit processor 12 6 MHz switchable 0 wait states socket for 80C287 numeric coprocessor CMOS coprocessor required Operating System MS DOS 3 21 Supports MS OS 2 Version 1 0 Memory 1 MB RAM standard 0 Wait states expandable to 2MB RAM EMS and extended memory addressable Meets LIM 4 0 specification Drives One 3 1 2 inch 20 MB or 40MB 28ms fixed disk drive and one 3 1 2 inch 1 4 MB floppy disk drive VIDEO Display Electro luminescent backlit LCD 25 line x 80 characters 10 1 2 inches diagonal viewing area with CRT aspect ratio Adjustable contrast and brightness 180 degree adjustable tilt Adjustable backlight time out feature Graphics 640 x 400 pixel resolution scan double CGA Attributes expanded 256 character ASCII set full descenders on lower case characters 8 grey levels embedded interna tional RAM fonts reverse video Video RGB with intensity video support standard with 9 pin D connector Color displays are represented by 8 cor responding grey levels Keyboard Full function keyboard 79 key logical layout QWERTY typewriter style with 4 cursor control keys full ASCII characte
168. rent ap proaches to a multiple regression prob lem these are MULTIREG REG I and REG II MULTIREG is a multiple regres sion model with an interpolation feature With REG I one can take a set of points on an X Y plot and do a least squares fit to one of several functions The program provides a crude graphic representation of the fitted curve along with a set of coor dinates which define that curve Further with input assumptions REG I also pro vides a set of coefficients enabling the user to write a formula for the curve Finally REG I is a routine similar to REG I except that it provides for user defini tion of the function for modeling the data If readers are interested in how I us ed this package in conjunction with Lotus 1 2 3 send me a note in care of The Port able Paper To Paul Grimmer As a user as opposed to program mer I salute your efforts to bring us what seems to be a set of integrated pop up utilities Having SHELP in my PLUS I have some appreciation for the potential s you proceed with this project please try to remember those of us who have MS Word or other graphic applica tions If your program won t work with these applications I am afraid that they may suffer the same fate as my SHELP that is reduced utility Also please consider minimizing the use of main memory What is most desirable is to have a pop up structure that has merely a menu resident in main pe
169. rk only on the Vectra CS or other com puter that can use MS DOS 3 0 or greater MS DOS 2 1 limits the number of items in a for i in do statement to three echo off cls REM USAGE INC n where n is less than or equal to 10 REM screen out unacceptable n for iin 12345 6 78 9 10 do if i 1 goto begin goto end begin REM initialize an environment variable set cntr 0 rem enter the loop loop rem perform the following command 2 3 4 rem test and increment the counter 2 3 4 REM Where 2 copy 3 myfile doc 4 prn incr cntr for fin 123456789 10 do if errorlevel f set cntr f echo cntr loops done REM The two above lines make up the test and Shelp Recommended by Hewlett Packard and used by more than 1 000 of their employees It s a program called Shelp shell help and it runs on the Portable Plus from within any non graphics pro gram Here s all you do Press Ctrl Shift Extend char and up pops the Shelp menu right in the middle of your application Lotus in this example Total SideKick and SuperKey are registered trademarks of Borland International Inc Instant Access Pop ups ne Portable Pius Calculator e notepad macros e and more A great easy to use productivity booster If there s one program every Portable Plus owner should have it s Shelp Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable Paper
170. rogram so someone should give me a call and bring our readership up to date Some Frequently Asked Questions The following are among the most common HP110 and Portable Plus related questions that we receive at Per sonalized Software As you will see the solutions to many of these questions may not be immediately apparent but should make sense when you read the accompanying ex planation I HAVE MEMORY LEFT ON MY ELECTRONIC DISK WHICH I WANT TO RECONFIGURE AS INTERNAL SYSTEM MEMORY HOWEVER WHEN I TRY TO CHANGE THE MAIN MEMORY EDISC RATIO USING PAM F6 SYSTEM CONFIG THE SYSTEM WON T LET ME HAVE MORE MAIN MEMORY WHY After files have been created and deleted on a disk the disk becomes fragmented That is parts of files are spread out all over the disk resulting in gaps of free space Even though there should be enough free Edisc memory to reconfigure as internal memory the Portable is unable to convert those gaps into internal memory The solution is to pack the disk and create one large gap of free space rather than many small gaps Port able Plus owners can simply type pack from PAM or DOS and in a second the packing is done Portable Plus users with ROM AAAAAA the letters appear in the upper left Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus for an additional 95 See Software on ROM ad in this issue Whether you want to learn programming or you re a seasoned programmer the best p
171. rogramming language for your HP Portable or Portable Plus is Turbo Pascal Version 3 0 is for the HP110 and Portable Plus It is available in limited quantity When we run out it will not be available again Please order now Version 4 0 is for the Portable Vectra and our Turbo Pascal Starter Kit is the best way to buy it Here s why The Pascal programming language was originally designed for use at the college level in teaching the fundamentals of computer programming Borland Inter national enhanced the language making it practical for actual programming use Their version is called Turbo Pascal Today Turbo Pascal is the programm ing language taught at most universities The reason is that its underlying struc ture fosters good programming habits It forces you to think in a modular way You create self contained well defined units and put them together to make a full working program GREAT WORKING ENVIRONMENT Turbo provides you with an exception ally good programmer s environment One aspect of this is Turbo s built in text editor It s a sophisticated WordStar work alike that in itself is worth the price of the program Another aspect is Turbo s compiler In addition to being uncommonly fast an amazing 80 100 lines per second it is also uncommonly helpful If the com piler encounters a mistake in a program it stops compiling gives you an error message returns you to the ed
172. s Frankly we have been fortunate not only to survive but to be able to continue to expand on such a relatively small cus tomer base Reader support in purchas ing our products and paying bills on time has been a great help So many of you contribute to the Paper and our company in so many ways it is like bav ing two or tbree extra staff I really think tbe main reason for our success is tbe quality and entbusiasm of our readership Brian Teitzman who han dles most of our used Portable equipment sales confirms my thinking Brian has held a number of sales positions in his career He tells me has never enjoyed work ing with a group of customers as much as with ours Brian tells me that you appre ciate our genuine desire to serve your Port able needs and that you are understand ing when we do make mistakes You are intelligent and pleasant to work with We feel that tbe greatest asset we have at Per sonalized Software is tbe quality of our customer base Hal DeskJet Printer Questions I read your excellent article on the new HP DeskJet printer and would like to ac quire one to use with my Portable Plus There seems to be a problem however 4 JULY AUGUST 1988 that causes me to hesitate The Software Reference Guide indicates that the new printer is compatible only with MS Word versions 3 X and 4 I have the MS Word version 1 10 So far as I know versions 3 X and 4 are not and will not be available for
173. s and it even formats your blank disks automatically Impatient with slow floppy disk access on your Portable Vectra FloppyDRIVER makes a big difference It s a software program that speeds up movement of the disk drive s read write heads allowing your programs to load 30 to 50 faster Other disk access operations copy save backup etc are as much as 10 times faster And since disk access is the biggest drain on your Portable Vectra s batteries FloppyDRIVER also extends battery life significantly Installing FloppyDRIVER is easy and once installed it works auto matically you don t have to do a thing Bonus feature Whenever you access a floppy disk FloppyDRIVER will format the disk automatically but ONLY if it isnt already format ted No need to type the DOS Format command ever again If you use a dual floppy Portable Vectra FloppyDRIVER will save time with almost every program you run If you use the hard disk system you ll be grateful for FloppyDRIVER whenever you back up your files Either way FloppyDRIVER is an absolute must for every Portable Vectra owner Order a copy at our risk today FIGBDVDRIVER asse aa4 E pxam RYE exces eases 79 00 Portable Paper subscriber price LLsuuuusuusseee 69 95 For ordering information see inside back cover C Copyright 1988 Personalized Software are two serial RS 232 cables that HP sells for the HP110 Portable Plus 92
174. s I filled the sheet with a dense grid of horizontal and vertical lines The denser the grid the darker the half tone Once I created several greys using different dot spac ing between lines I realized that I could use several SKETCH features to instantly create more greys For exam ple pressing the space bar makes all the black dots blank and converts the blank spaces into black dots In the diagram below you can see Greys 1 2 and 6 and the inverse of each Also you can create more greys using the screen height and width multiplier function For example the dot length of Grey 5 s height and width is multiplied by 2 to create Grey 4 Grey 4 seems like more of a checkerboard pattern with its checkers four dots 2x2 as opposed to the 1 dot pattern of Grey 5 Another way of creating greys from existing greys is to combine patterns superimposing one on another Grey 1 plus Grey 4 yielded Grey 6 I have saved each individual grey in the diagram below to a SKETCH partial screen file That way any grey of my choosing can easily be overlaid over another SKETCH You need to define only a memory point and the pen position to define the area of the drawing we want to save the mask Please note that the diagram below was printed using normal rather than high density print since the results looked better Placing The Overlay On A Working Drawing We are now ready to add half tones to our working SKETCH drawing In the diagram be
175. s and young people This act is the culmination and the fruit of many years of contribution to society At Stanford in the 1930 s David Packard and Bill Hewlett founded HP out of a garage Through the years Hewlett and Packard have attracted the brightest and most enthusiastic young engineers to share the joy of creating and distributing state of the art high quality products Hewlett and Packard created an internal work environment based on ethics mutual respect and personal freedom that has served as a model for many other companies throughout the world In fact HP could be said to be the father of silicon valley companies Hundreds of companies such as Apple Computer and Personalized Software have among their founders former HP engineers HP has never laid off an employee When times have been tough HP has moved employees offered them early Hal Goldstein FOR HANDY REFERENCE Items directly relevant to the three HP Portables are denoted in this issue as follows 110 Portable Zl Portable Plus Ell Portable Vectra When items are partly or indirectly relevant they are denoted as 110 Portable P Portable Plus Pv Portable Vectra retirement or shortened the work week HP is strongly committed to offering its employees security and a lifetime position In fact this philosophy even extends to HP alum ni who want to rejoin HP HP readily accepts former employees back into the fold In creating the Packard Foundation the gener
176. s mes WEBSTER S SPELLING CHECKER works with any file produced by the Editor WordStar and MemoMaker It also works with ASCII files produced by MS Word and Word Perfect Our version of WEBSTER S includes a custom ized 3 5 disk and simple instructions for run ning the program on the Portable Plus and HP150 A special utility allowing WEBSTER S to run on the HP150 is included on the disk 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330
177. s may not work Contact your office phone specialist for help in these particular cases CREDIT CARD CALLS When you set up the Portables to enter credit card numbers there may be a delay after dialing the number Pay phones seem to have more pops and bleeps than home phones and these will cause the portable to frequently ring its internal bell What I like to do is to monitor the line on another phone while the portable is dialing just to hear what is happening That makes it easy to determine the number of commas for pauses to the credit card number In some cases the number of commas telephone digits and credit card numbers may be too long for the screen In that case the comma count can be reduced by chang Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus for an additional 95 See ROM Backup ad in this issue RECOMMENDED FO R HP110 Portable Portable Plus e Portable Vectra e TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 HP150 IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus Typing Whiz is one of the better typing programs on the market and is priced competitively If you want to learn or improve your typing buy Typing Whiz Typing Whiz is
178. s nice to know it is working it does detract from the overall presentation I also have a problem with trying to un block the cartridge ports The paper clip and alcohol cleaning methods don t always succeed and it becomes too ex pensive to just throw the cartridge away each time Any further suggestions C J H Duncan Wellington New Zealand Wearout does not work on tbe HP9114B Maybe our readers can belp you witb tbe IbinkJet Hal Thanks to so many of you who are willing to help organize local users groups Users groups give an opportunity to share tips answer questions 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 contact 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 California Southern California We meet 2nd Thur 7 9 at HP sales office 5161 Lankershim Blvd North Hollywood Request PORTOVEC Notes Newsletter Dave Mark 818 794 4969 San Diego Stephen L Eyre 619 452 8530 Dan Butterfield 619 470 3551 San Mateo Santa Clara Counties San Francisco Bay Area BAYCHHU HP Laptops amp Handhelds meet 2nd Sat of the month Contact Jim Horn 707 523 4890 eve or Michael Felsenstein 415 564 8279 eve Col
179. se The Portables Built In HPLink Program You can use the hplink program as built into the HP110 and Portable Plus to easily transfer data from one Portable to another or from an IBM PC compatible to a Portable To run the program on a Portable simply type hplink from PAM or DOS The program turns your Portable into a disk drive that acts very much like the external HP9114 disk drive THE PORTABLE PAPER THE Intelligent Grammar and Style Checker RightWriter is a new tool to help you produce lean powerful BUSINESS WRITING RightWriter uses advanced artificial intelligence technology to flag errors in GRAMMAR STYLE USAGE and PUNCT CATION RightWriter is the first office auto cm m mation package aimed at S producing better writing not more writing e Messages are Inserted directly into text to point out possible errors and problem areas Easy to Use onlyone command to learn your word processor does the rest Works with Leading Word Processors including MemoMaker The Editor MS Word WordPerfect MultiMate and WordStar RightWriter is is long overdue an idea whose time m Phil Wiswell RightWriter is anex PC Magazine cellent low eye opening software package cost P Inside Word Man a Pd documentation js among th pom est I have seen g the Readability Index measures the reading grade level of the do
180. sers We recommend the Advanced Edition of THE NORTON UTILITIES for users who might need to retrieve blocks of text from disks that ized to distribute them have become corrupted on 3 1 2 disk for users Aeneadabie by DOS of the HP110 Portable Portable Plus and HP150 All it takes is a few keystrokes to customize THE NORTON UTILITIES to your machine just follow the simple customization instructions included on the disk Also included in our package are the standard 5 1 4 disk sold by Peter Norton for IBM PCs THE NORTON UTILITIES are a time saver for you and a life saver for your data Use them just once and you ll wonder how you ever did without them Order your copy at no risk today NORTON UTILITIES DATA RECOVERY DISK MANAGEMENT THE NORTON UTILITIES 4 0 99 95 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers THE NORTON UTILITIES ADVANCED EDITION includes version 4 0 150 129 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER HP To Sell Customized Zenith 286 Laptop THE ANNOUNCEMENT HP has announced that it will sell OEM under its HP label customized
181. sheet SDL COM Produces directory listings sorted by name size date or extension SEPARATE COM Breaks large text files into smaller files for MemoMaker SM COM SpaceMaker Converts EXE files to COM files and thus saves disk storage space and disk access time SQPC COM Squeezes files to make them take up less space Unsqueeze with TY TEE COM Causes a program or file to be output to both the screen and a file or printer TJETA COM Configures ThinkJet printer easily from the HP Portable TOWS COM Converts ASCII document files to WordStar and Portable Plus MemoMaker format for editing and reformatting TRANSLIT COM Converts one or more characters of one file to different character s and copies result to second file TREEDIR COM Displays names of all files in each directory along with date time and file size TRIM COM Extracts selected columns from a file TY COM Unsqueezes files squeezed by SQPC VDL COM Allows user to selectively delete files from a group of files Program lists files one by one and asks user whether to delete WAIT COM Delays execution of a batch file until specified time WD COM Saves and restores the working directory WHEAROUT COM Gives percent of wear on disk in HP 9114 disk drive WHEREIS COM Searches disk to find the specified file APPENDIX A Describes the contents of subdirectories HP110 SOURCE 123DEMO found on the DOS Tools disk UTILS DOC Reprints on disk The Portable Paper Vol 1 Iss
182. so panel addressed to Personal ized Software is on the outside Tape shut and drop in mail Please note If you need to ship something to us via UPS Federal Express or other non postal carrier please use this address Personalized Software 57 East Broadway Fairfield Iowa 52556 To order any of the following products or others described in The Portable Paper but not listed on the opposite page simply write the prod ADDITIONAL PRODUCTS uct name and price on one of the blank lines in the MISC section near the bottom of the order form Product Retail Price Subscriber Price Retail Price Subscriber Price CompuServe Starter Kit 99 95 hice hs 35 95 Perimidster 246525 robur ER A 695 00 499 00 CGE ace gee is orate CEPR 199 00 189 00 Pertmaster Demo 0 0000 50 00 224 banks 50 00 Dilec Link o stt Blew CERTA 59 9D E T 53 95 Pintea Mk x were n a E EAE AO O eak eei 44 95 Parallel cable 25 268 sik deb pereo eee RO 20 05 ves gnus 19 95 Private TNO 3 2 etn x ate oh ee Lee eae BO 89 I NERONE 34 95 Parallel cable adapter OOO ecc e 18 00 RightWords dictionary extension lt Direc Link Cable Pack 3 serial cables plus for RightWriter p 27 sss DODO gea dienen 29 95 parallel cable adapter TO 00 4 scisco Ps 42 00 SideWinder without utilities p 20 6995 2 2 ke vA 59 95 Flowcharting 11 Specify P Plus or
183. ssing I use it daily instead of Memo Maker and I ve silently given thanks to its author Ed Gilbert many many times Just afew minutes with THE EDITOR that s all it takes to be up and running and I think you ll be a fan of his too In addition to the many great features listed to the right there are five more I especially want to emphasize 1 THE EDITOR s Lotus like menus make it incredibly easy to use POTES The Formatter THE FORMATTER gives you advanced formatting capabilities that even THE EDITOR can t handle like multi line headers and footerseautomatic hyphena tion you can even add your own words to the built in dictionary euser specified page length and line lengtheautomatic page numberingetables and charts etable of contents generationeand more THE FORMATTER works by imbedding special for matting codes into your EDITOR MemoMaker or other ASCII text files You can customize THE FOR MATTER for almost any printer 2 THE EDITOR creates ASCII files which means you can send your files to and from almost any other program or computer without special formats or codes 3 THE EDITOR will automatically back up your files to protect you against mistakes When you save a file THE EDITOR saves not just the current version but the previous one as well 4 THE EDITOR takes MUSAA up less than 40K of Ie e memory 5 THEEDITOR loads ewe e and saves files and 1BMPC and compat Available on
184. ssing market they are the market leaders Now they have released ver sion 5 0 which has significant enhancements over release 4 2 WordPerfect 5 0 is a full featured word processor and more Some of the features of WordPerfect 5 0 e Integrated text and graphics WordPerfect 5 0 can integrate graphics from most graphics programs Limited graphics editing scaling mov ing rotating and inverting is also possible e Fonts Printing WordPerfect 5 0 uses inches centimeters or points for setting margins tabs etc Fonts may be freely mixed and changed without affecting margins tabs or column definitions It supports cartridges down loadable fonts and a large number of printers e Preview WordPerfect s preview feature allows display of an en tire page showing text including fonts and graphics It also includes an option which shows facing pages at the same time and can zoom in magnified up to 200 to get a close look e Columns by The Wizard Cliff Looyenga WordPerfect 5 0 THE PORTABLE PAPER WordPerfect 5 0 supports up to 24 side by side columns e Speller Thesaurus Contains 115 000 words Other features include Footnotes Endnotes Head ers Footers Dictionary based hyphenation Index gen eration Table of contents and table of authorities gen eration Kerning Macros Math calculations and math character support Mail merge functions Sorting e Outliner Styles Timed ba
185. tein The LOGITECH MOUSE was rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine January 27 1987 3 BUTTONS EASY TO CUSTOMIZE The LOGITECH MOUSE offers high resolu tion precision tracking and a convenient 3 button design The Microsoft mouse which See ad for Sketch the graphics program for the Portable Plus in this issue sells for 100 more only jos wo baon Y With our PORTABLE MOUSE SOFTWARE you can assign a different keystroke to each of the buttons You can also assign a different set of three keystrokes for each of your ap plications Our PORTABLE MOUSE SOFTWARE also lets you control the distance that the cursor will move for a given movement of the mouse TRY IT AT OUR RISK Not sure you ll like using a mouse with your Portable The only way to find out is to try one Remember you can order any product from us use it for 60 days and then return it for a full refund if you are not completely satisfied you want the IBM PC compatible graphics software it comes with Order a Logitech If you already own a serial Microsoft or Microsoft mouse mouse or would like to buy one there s for your Portable mouse to your Plus A WORD ABOUT THE MICROSOFT MOUSE The Microsoft mouse has only 2 buttons but costs 100 more than the 3 button Logitech mouse Nevertheless the Microsoft mouse may be your best bet if no need to buy the Logitech Mouse as well to use the Microsoft mouse with your Por table Plus all you need
186. th the offending connec tors In order to use my mouse I had to have somebody firmly hold the computer while pressing the connector in to place By using a genuine HP 92221M modem cable I was able to dispense with the special Portable Plus adapter By using only the mouse mouse software and the furnish ed Logitech 500066 9 pin to 25 pin adapter I was able to use the Mouse with SKETCH the Personalized Software graphics product In like fashion HPDuette can be made to work without the special Portable Plus adapter and the two 9 to 25 pin adapter cables furnished with Duette You ll need the HP 92221M modem cable connected to the Portable Plus as well as the cable furnished with Duette which has 25 pin connectors at each end Finally an IBM type null modem gender changer connected between the HP cable and an IBM PC or clone is also needed THE HP92221M MODEM CABLE TRICKS There are few if any accessories such as data line monitors breakout boxes and null modems available in 9 pin format while a bountiful harvest of such goodies in 25 pin format is on the market Using the HP modem cable opens the door to painless implementation of all sorts of useful tricks I use the modem cable plus a null modem configured like the HP 92221P printer cable to connect to HP style printers and several others such as the C Itoh LIPS 10 laser printer I am also able to use the modem cable plus a Datatracker gender changers as needed to hook u
187. that page to dump the screen from 1 2 3 HP110 HP110 44 JULY AUGUST 1988 mre im Being able to move the screen dump away from the left margin of the THINKJET would therefore be a welcome facility Paul I enjoy reading your contribu tions to The Portable Paper Frank Keresztes Fischer Brighton MI Communicating Between 110 s I have been trying for quite some time to use the telephone for communicating with another HP110 Both have the same built in modem so it should be possible to trade some files and other programs over the telephone The Terminal section of the HP110 Owner s Manual explains very carefully how to make connections to one of those commercial enterprises but it says almost nothing about how to receive calls with the HP110 Can you help August J Nechi Stone Mountain GA To use tbe Terminal program I strongly suggest reviewing Gary Good mans series of articles in tbe first two years of The Portable Paper see 1986 1987 index Otberwise you can purchase two copies of our new TIerml110 program one for each machine as discussed in last issue s News From Per sonalized Software Term110 is an ex tremely easy to use communications package The Term110 subscriber price is 79 95 Hal Frazzled In France The following happened to a friend traveling with a Portable Plus He had a WorldPort 2400 Modem Radio Shack acoustic coupler and a RAM ROM drawer from Personaliz
188. the current subdirectory prompt is so useful that many users accept the occasional inconvenience of having to re insert the disk The fourth line shows the use of the set command Some programs make use of the set variables The instruc tions for installing these programs tell you to put a certain set command in the autoexec bat file On the HP Portables THE PORTABLE PAPER you would put these same commands in the pam env file PAM has a serious shortcoming if you use a pam env file PAM allows only enough environment space as is needed by this file If you then try to create new set varia bles or add to the path the inconvenient error message Out of environment space will appear n easy way around this is to initially set a large prompt string such as the one in the pam env example file above Then if you need to enlarge one of the other environment strings you can first free up some space by typing PROMPT p g See the article Through the Looking Glass in The Portable Paper Vol 2 No 4 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES DOS saves the values of the environment settings in system variables whose set name is enclosed in percent signs The following batch file named display bat exam ple shows one way to use these variables echo off echo echo This is the path PATH echo This is the prompt PROMPT echo This is the set value of EDCONFIG EDCONFIG Through th Here is a practical example
189. the Zenith Data Systems new SuperSport 286 is an expansion of an ongo ing business alliance between HP and Zenith The agree ment follows a number of cooperative efforts in which HP has provided peripherals and support of Zenith contracts with major commercial accounts and government agen cies In particular Zenith and HP sold Zenith portables and HP battery powered Centronix ThinkJet printers to the U S Internal Revenue Service Bob Puette HP Personal Computer Group General Manager stated By integrating this new portable com puter with our other PC s and the HP3000 business com puter we are significantly strengthening our leadership in providing complete solutions for marketing sales and ser vice applications one of our strategic businesses Zenith s PC meets our strict standards for quality and reliability and complements our existing line of portable computers with higher performance and more features Zenith Systems president John P Frank said Our relationship with HP allows our companies to bring their respective strengths together in an increasingly com petitive market What was once a relationship based on 5 TO lt peripherals support has now strengthened and grown to a business alliance in systems integration THE PORTABLE PLUS AND PORTABLE VECTRA An HP spokesperson told me that HP feels that each of the three HP Portable offerings serves three different market needs There are no current plans to
190. the difference on a dual floppy system If you have the dual floppy Portable Vectra FloppyDRIVER is a must You ll save time when using al most any type of application If you have the 20 Megabyte Portable Vectra you ll save lots of time when copying files to floppies for data archiving using the copy xcopy backup or restore commands Whether you have a hard disk or dual floppy system you ll significantly save on battery time The battery dis charges most when doing disk intensive activities By re ducing disk access time you increase battery life Installing FloppyDRIVER If you are knowledgeable about the config sys file and understand DOS syntax definitions you will be able to in stall FloppyDRIVER without reading the manual just read Quick Start For Experts Actually you don t even have to read that Just add one of the following lines to your config sys file Dual floppy Portable Vectra device utils fd sys A 1 44 1 44 B 1 44 1 44 20 Megabyte Portable Vectra device c utils fd sys a 1440 1440 b none I entered the dual floppy Vectra line myself based upon the syntax given in the manual It turns out that run ning the FloppyDRIVER install program was even easier than figuring out the syntax myself I ran the install pro gram to set up my 20 Megabyte Portable Vectra I made a couple of selections as to the size of the disk drive by mov ing the cursor and FloppyDriver automatically added the correct device
191. tir Ce Ste A If you re a Hewlett Packard computer user and buyer ee ipn b A SNO b of HP related hardware software or peripherals f HP PROFESSIONAL the monthly magazine of Hewlett Packard commercial and technical com puting is for you It s really something But it costs you nothing 5 CSS a nterpro l P auon Commune iNDUSTRCWATCH HP s New Wave It s Informative It s Monthly It s Read by 30 000 professionals like you It s FREE Read HP PROFESSIONAL for information and insights on the latest hardware software trends and developments Start your free subscription today Send us the coupon below You ll receive a subscription application in the mail Fill out and mail the application and if you qualify we ll start your free subscription Profe S S O N SUBSCRIPTION APPLICATION REQUEST YES I d like a FREE subscription to HP PROFESSIONAL Send a subscription application to Dade e us ose LL o o c cur scc TIE Company Address o Ss E oc PREDA ZU Mail to HP PROFESSIONAL P O Box 445 Spring House PA 19477 0445 THE PORTABLE PAPER memory but that calls on application modules from ROM and stores user in puts to the A drive Edisc This approach seems worthwhile even if it means having to wait an extra second or two for the read and write processes You mentioned the term windows It sounds very tantal
192. trademarks of Borland International Inc WordStar is a TRPISEEEed trademark of Micropro International Corp C Copyright 1988 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER portion of the screen when you reboot by holding down CTRL Shift and then pressing Break have a buggy pack This pack will destroy files if there are subdirectories on the Plus The ROM BBBBBB pack is fine If you have an HP110 or a ROM AAAAAA Plus you can obtain the pack program from us at a minimal charge You can send us a formatted disk with a self addressed stamped envelope and we ll put the pack program on the disk Otherwise you can purchase the Pack and the HP110 Time Manager disk from us for 9 50 You ll also find pack on our DOS Tools disk and ROM Alternatively you can use the larger and more robust diskpack program found on the 1987 The Portable Paper Subscribers disk and on the Webster Spelling Checker ROM The most recent discussion of the two pack pro grams can be found in Vol 2 No 6 p 40 of Tbe Portable Paper I GET A MEMORY FULL ERROR READING IN LOTUS BUT THERE IS PLENTY OF ROOM ON MY ELECTRONIC DISK The memory full message means there is not enough in ternal memory for your spreadsheet Save what you can of your spreadsheet exit and enter PAM f6 System Config In crease the amount of Main Memory decreasing Edisc space If the system does not let you make the change see the answer to the last question about pack
193. ue 4 Utilities article Gives practical examples of many of the files on the DOSTools disk RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable e Portable Pus Portable Vectra IBM PC and compat e Available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 nl disk stand Given the state of the art in writing and test ing software there s no guarantee that every item of software works as doc umented without a hitch However most of the test ing and evaluating was done by Hal Goldstein publisher of The Portable Paper and by Gary Good man and Thomas Page Anyone who has read Gary s and Tom s articles in past issues of The Port able Paper already knows of their conscientiousness and thoroughness So look through the list If even one program proves useful DOS Tools could pay for itself immediately With more than 50 docu mented and tested pro grams to try out and use it sthe bargain of the cen tury Order yours today Portable Utilities Disk Volume 1 DOS Tools 49 95 39 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Now available on ROM Backup for the Portabie Plus for an additiona
194. ur brain is probably doing its own loop If so press CTRL BREAK and STOP You may obtain the batch files and a compiled version of the incr exe file by sending a blank formatted disk along with a self addressed stamped envelope or disk between 1 and 10 Then inside the loop it performs the command copy myfile doc prn i e 2 3 4 seven mailer or 9 50 to Personalized Software MuMath And MuSimp times It uses the incr exe file to increment a counter in the Within limitations this package works on the HP110 It should work fine on the Portable Plus and Portable Vectra environment space If you need more than 10 copies just add more digits i between the parentheses in the batch file The incr exe program is very simple It takes the value of the environment variable from the command line and increments it The line for f in puts the incremented value in the environment The source code for the incr pas program is as follows program increment env var var i j integer begin val paramstr 1 1 j if j lt gt 0 then halt 1 i succ i halt i HALTO will set DOS errorlevel to value in parens end If you use Turbo Pascal version 3 01a to compile this program you will get a file called incr com Turbo Pascal What does it do The MuMath portion of the program does two things that are of interest to mathematicians and number theoreticians It gives extended range and ex tended pr
195. us and HP9114 charging when not in use Do not charge the ThinkJet until 10 JULY AUGUST 1988 n M ERE e EHE the power light starts to flash See The Portable Paper Vol 2 No 4 p 5 and Vol 2 No 6 p 8 for further discussion THE BATTERY GAUGE ON THE PAM SCREEN SOMETIMES TELLS ME I HAVE PLENTY OF CHARGE BUT THE LOW BATTERY MESSAGE APPEARS AT THE BOTTOM OF MY SCREEN WHICH SHOULD I BELIEVE The battery indicator percentage figure on the PAM screen is only a guess computed by software It does not indicate the actual level of charge in the battery The Low Battery message is for real Back up your files and recharge your Portable when you see that message There are a number of ways to cause the PAM battery indicator and the actual level of charge to get out of synch A bad battery will certainly cause the Low Battery message The HP11Q and Portable Plus battery is supposed to be dealer installed and is not a part listed in the HP Direct catalog However installation is easy see Vol 1 No 4 p 22 of Tbe Portable Paper and most dealers will sell you a battery or you can order one through us at 515 472 6330 Unfortunately changing the battery is not always the solution to poor battery life I do not know why but on some Portables the battery indicator will never drop to less than 70 before needing a recharge However that still means four or five hours of continuous use before recharging so this shou
196. us soit could accommodate an optional software drawer con taining 12 ROM sockets Clearly their intention was that those sockets be filled with useful programs But if you re like most Portable Plus users you probably are using Easy to use lightning fast N ROM chips save valuable Portable Plus memory a NN and eliminate the need for a disk drive just a few of the sockets for ROM based programs like Lotus 1 2 3 or MemoMaker That s fine as far as it goes but if you aren t using all the ROM sockets or if you have to carry around an HP9114 disk drive wherever you go then you are not using your Portable Plus to full advantage To start using the full potential of your Portable Plus look over the chart at the far right It con tains more than 50 programs and utilities available on ROM chips from Personalized Software Taken together these ROMs cover every application you re likely to need from word pro cessing to spreadsheets to data OUR EXCLUSIVE DOUBLE GUARANTEE ON ROMS 60 DAY GUARANTEE OF SATISFACTION If within 60 days you are dissatisfied with a ROM product for any reason you may return it for a full refund 2 YEAR GUARANTEE AGAINST DEFECTS If a ROM proves defective at any time within 2 years we will replace it at no charge communications graphics pro gramming languages and more Which means once you install these ROMs you ll have every thing you need right inside you
197. user should have in his arsenal You have only to recover a lost file once to reap its value The one limitation in The Norton Utilities is that it includes no direct way of rescu ing a corrupted Lotus 1 2 3 file I brought this point up at a class I was giving our staff Michael Sugarman managing editor of The Portable Paper told me about a program called RESCUE from Spectrum Computer Services Inc Reading MA 617 664 0337 RESCUE apparently uncorrupts Lotus 1A and 2 01 files I am waiting to receive a copy of the product I ll report my results next issue If any reader has been successful using this or any similar product on the HP110 or Portable Plus be sure to give me a call or drop me a note Introducing Some Of Our Staff Those of you who have dealt with our company by phone will probably agree that we have an exceptionally cons cientious courteous and intelligent staff with a strong orientation to service Brian Teitzman and David Seagull are ready to take your orders or discuss your Portable needs on the phone Brian specializes in new and used HP equipment David is especially familiar with our product line and can usually help you out if you have problems with any of the software you purchased from us If there is some problem with your product order talk to James Needham For subscription questions or prob lems speak with Michael Sugarman Finally Larry Baldozier has been the driving force in making our overall inter
198. veral Megabytes must also be careful to have an orderly structure to their file creation and manipulation activities Users of the HP110 as well as those who have a Portable Plus with a smaller electronic disk will find value in creating a subdirectory structure Those HP110 and Portable Plus users not convinced of the value of good electronic disk organization may sud denly find subdirectories a necessity when they try to ex ceed the HP110 Portable Plus main root directory limit of 64 files When an HP110 or Portable Plus user attempts to exceed the limit an error message such as Unable to write file or File creation error appears Saving a new Lotus or MemoMaker file becomes an impossibility WHAT ARE SUBDIRECTORIES A directory contains zero or more files and subdirectories The initial or main directory is called the root directory If you do not inform the system otherwise all files created in your word processor spreadsheet or other application will be saved in this root or main directory Problems quickly arise when your root directory gets cluttered with all sorts of files Your word processing memos spreadsheets data communications files and data bases all get mixed together Further if you are running ap plications programs from that same disk the files con nected with running the program also get mixed up with each other So for example Portable Plus users might find the WordPerfect program files th
199. very command in the autoexec bat file gets executed each time you reboot restart your system Is HPCache Effective Tim Cullis of HP World a magazine for HP users published in Harrow Weald England did some ben chmark tests on the Vectra ES 12 a much faster system than the Portable Vectra He was surprised to find a 30 im provement using the default 96K cache size in base memory when running the disk intensive HP program Ex ecutive Card Manager Of course that test may not mirror your application in the Portable Vectra environment You ll have to experiment If you use mefnory resident programs like I do and don t have EMS memory the hpcache program is probably not worth installing On the other hand if you regularly run a disk intensive data base program and have EMS you will probably benefit from the disk cache program On The Portable Vectra Horizon Joe Wilhelm of Sejus Corp has promised to send me their new HP IL card for the Portable Vectra for review for the next issue of The Portable Paper Users can then use the Portable Vectra with HP IL devices such as the HP110 Port able Plus and HP9114 Most likely they will also be able to use the Portable Vectra with the HP 41 70 or 80 series of products using Paul Grimmer s Link software Another possible new product is a bus extender card for one of the Portable Vectra slots This will allow Port able Vectra users to connect to portable hard disks tape backup units netw
200. y involved in a research project which includes storing and manipulating a large number of clinical records on Con dor In the past using other databases I often had to struggle to obtain detailed complex information Now I can get it from Condor by simply asking the right ques tions in plain English MORE ON CONDOR NEXT ISSUE Rod Sharp of New Mexico another Condor fan has pro mised us more information next issue concerning Con dor s memory use The main program comes on two single sided disks about 500K and not all of the 500K of files have to be used Lotus 2 01 And Symphony 2 0 In RAM CompuServe Forum system operator Mark Horvatich has written software drivers that will allow Lotus 1 2 3 2 01 and Symphony to be run from the Edisc or HP9114 For Lotus 2 01 users that means you can use any Lotus add in including HAL We have not yet received the drivers from Mark so we cannot promise a shipping date The Lotus driver package TY TY X7 AY TZ Y TOI Ann r At last COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE for the HP110 and Portable Plus HP110 users Tired of struggling with the built in Terminal program Portable Plus users Is PC2622 or Reflection too complex for your needs Both programs have on line help and use around 25K of electronic disk space Most importantly both programs make efficient logical use of function keys and menus to make the job of transferring files and programs easy You won t appreciate how
201. y is involved in a fascinating project developing a special drawer for the Plus This drawer can replace either the RAM or ROM drawer Using the hardware in the drawer and the software being devel oped the Portable Plus will be able to monitor a heart Pacemaker The technology involved in designing the Pacemaker monitor can be used to open up the Portable Plus In talk ing with one of th engineers involved I was told that it would be a simple matter to create a bus extender card That way the Portable Plus could easily be connected toa hard disk or a faster more convenient floppy drive It might even be possible to design a drawer containing a hard disk We ll follow the development of this technology and comment on its usefulness for Plus users I also spoke to a Corvallis engineer who told me that Toshiba has just introduced a pin for pin compatible 1 Megabit 128K Byte EPROM that should work in the Port able Plus The part is TC57 1001D 20 Corvallis has not yet tested the chip However prospects are promising since Toshiba manufactured HP s ROM s as well as our Webster and Super ROM ss Finally we ve heard that some of the HP field automa tion engineers are using a week at a glance type time manager program that is supposed to be better than the ex isting Time Manager ROM I ve also heard of a good graphics program and some other utilities that are being used I do not have a good contact yet in the HP field automation p
202. you would execute any program us ing a programming language Hal 2 Is it possible to use the Logitech Mouse with GWBasic The Logitech mouse does not work well with non US keyboards You can use the mouse with any application includ ing GWBasic as follows You can roll the mouse to move the cursor instead of us ing the cursor keys not much value in GW Basic You can also assign any num ber of keystrokes such as a GWBASIC statement to each of the three mouse but tons Hal 3 What is the difference between the Logitech Mouse and the IBM Mouse What kind of IBM software could I use in my Portable Plus The Logitech Mouse and MicroSoft Mouse are the only mice that will work properly with the proprietary Portable Plus Mouse software that we sell All soft ware that works on the Plus will work with the mouse as I described in the last answer Hal 4 Because I don t have MemoMaker THE PORTABLE PAPER Volume three Number four July August 1988 Editor Publisher Hal Goldstein Managing Editor Michael A Sugarman Department Editors Paul Grimmer Ed Keefe Cliff Looyenga Contributing Editors Rick Finnell Molly Glen Gary Goodman David Hadley William Hassle David Hughes David Morris Paul Slawson Art Director George Foster Typography The Word Form Corporation Circulation Larry Baldozier Rick Finnell Glen Frank James Needham Executive Advisor Rita Goldstein The Portable Paper ISSN 0886
203. ze for the Portable Plus Simply remove your existing RAM drawer and replace it with this card Works with any Port able Plus with 512K of built in memory We will accept your old RAM drawer and any extra memory as a trade in towards purchase RAM ROM Card A megabyte of RAM plus four pairs of ROM slots Add the RAM ROM card to your Portable Plus and you have a megabyte of extra RAM in addition to space for Lotus Reflection Webster s Spelling Checker MemoMaker Time Manager and SuperROM 5 products on one ROM chip We will accept your old RAM or ROM drawer and any extra memory as a trade in towards purchase eP27 RightWriter ev Flags errors in grammar style usage and punctuation inserting com ments directly into your document Also produces overall critique Works with most word processors Also available RightWords dic tionary extension utility it has 7 auxiliary dictionaries business com puters engineering etc and also lets you add words of your own to Rg TAC s built in CICHOBADY Inside front cover Software on ROM P Many of our best selling programs are available on ROM chips via our e Plus only Saves valuable electronic disk ROM Backup service Portabl space minimizes need for disk drive Custom ROMs also available a sees Shelp B From within almost any program Shelp gives you immediate access to a notepad and calculator and lets you define up to 26 keyboard macros that is assign up to

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