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1. pLaststep We Sign the Lease _Event Project et a Realtor F a TN Date 12 15 95 81 12 95 03 22 95 84 22 95 05 22 95 Goals database individual item screen HP 100 200LX check the Entered in Calendar box F Tab to Length of Time and select one of the choices The Length of Time is the amount of time from now until you will accomplish the goal This section will allow you to keep track of groups of goals that you write as you do this exercise Repeat steps A F and enter all your goals into the database We ll fill in the LastStep and Project fields later 2 Transfer all appointments and todos to the HP Palmtop For this system to work as described everything has to be on the Palmtop Make sure that all your appointments are in Appointment Book and not on PostIts somewhere You ll need to do the same thing with with your todo lists One nice thing about the HP 100 200LX is that it lets you prior itize ToDos From APPT press ToDo Add and enter a de scription of the ToDo Start Date and Due Date pteecictien fete Start Bale FTES Bue Date Priority Repeal Slalus fore eke i i ToDo item entry screen 100 200LX Tab to the Priority field and enter any two alphanumeric characters A 36 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 1 Al B2 etc The items in the ToDo List display are ordered by priorities numbered priorities fir
2. An independent publication for Jsers of HP Palmtop Computers U S 7 95 P Palmtop per Breakthrough Products for Palmtop Travellers YYVY Two New Volume 4 Number 1 1995 Fax Modem Flash Memory Cards and Two New Lightweight Serial oe Printers Reviewed D 74470 83112 NEWS Publisher s Message sssscese seeded Letters to the Editor csccccssessesssene HP Palmtop NewS ss ssssnnsounnnnnasnnnsnoeneses O Connectivity pack software update corrects Pocket Quicken synchronize merge feature HP Palmtop OmniBook repair and exchange in Canada New full featured fast color HP OmniBooks Revised PC Card standard HP reduces desktop and server prices New Products and Services PEP 9 Portable Printers and Fax Modem Flash Memory combo cards Lighten the Travelers Load cecsssennersaeee 13 Smaller is better when you re on the road New light weight portable printers and fax modem amp flash memory combo cards will help you lighten your load Let the Games Begin c0ccsesssees 20 In the mood for some serious fun Here s a rundown on some of the best games available for the HP Palmtops JetEye PC Provides HP Palmtop Users with Infrared Link to Their Desktop PCS sicaseccsseadcivcossncsasvabueaarenisnsce 26 Extended Systems JetEye PC interface lets you set your HP Palmtop or OmniBook down next to your PC and transfe
3. blank go to the the appropriate label below Set environment variable Put the prompt on the screen echo Rjun V jiew Eldit Echonl 0 FN gt if not 2 set Fn t1 echo Options for tFnit Put CHOICE and Filename in the 5 file copy 5 con bat gt nul Append input to 5S and create 5 amp BAT 5 Run BAT file V View commands VU SFn goto end E Edit commands teda Fn goto end R Run command Fn 0 End When you run this batch file you be asked to press Run View or Edit Be sure to press and after mak ing your selection The VU command in the VU WFN line refers two VU COM H a file viewer on the last two Subscriber PowerDisks You can substitute an other file viewer or just use the com mand TYPE 3FnS d place of VU Fn The ted3 command in ted3 Fn refers to TED3 COM fi a text editor You can substitute another text editor such as VDE EXE amp or Qedit EXE Save the above batch file as C CHOICE BAT E ados more mn MODIFY FILER INI Use MEMO to add the following line to FILER INI bat d dos command com c choice Save the FILER INI file and return to Filer Point at TEST BAT and press ENTER You ll see the message bat amp Choices for test bat Riun Viiew Eldit Press V F6 ENTER to view con tents of TEST BAT Press E F ENTER to open TEST BAT in the text editor you set up in CHOICE
4. nectivity Kit to transfer files between the desktop PC and HP 200LX Translate Phone Database from the 95LX One of the first tasks I had was trans ferring my 95LX Phone Book into the 200LX format I copied the 95LX PBK file over to the 200LX opened the 200LX Phone Book application pressed file Open and selected the PBK file I pressed ENTER gave the file a new name and pressed F10 The 200LX automatically trans lated the 95LX file into the 100 200 LX format The import feature places infor mation from the old Name field in the new Name field data from the old Number field in the new Busi ness number field and information from the old Address field in the new Note field The names in the Name field were fine but the phone numbers in the Business field were mostly home phone numbers and everything from the Address field was dumped in the Notes field I d have to transfer this information to the appropriate fields on the 200LX prepared several system macros to assist with this process System macros can be recorded as you enter the keystrokes or created using the System Macro application For more on this see System Macros in your HP 100 200LX User s Guide My first macro moved the phone number from the business field to the home number field It looks like this AlGeH Cut AED Paste I ran this macro when I was in the desired Phone Item screen Alt B highlights the data in the Busine
5. Another good source of games are the library sections of various on line information services such as America On Line CompuServe Prodigy the Internet and various local bulletin boards For example the HP Hand held forum on CompuServe has at least 15 games available that are already tested for the HP Palmtops Some of these are shareware requir ing registration and payment of a fee but some are freeware and can be used with out any cost Also the IBM user forum on CompuServe has more than 250 games in their libraries categorized into meaningful sections such as card games word games sports simula tions and the like Many of these games won t work on the HP Palm tops because they are too large need VGA graphics or have some other features that are incompatible How ever even if only 10 of the games work that is still a pretty rich source of entertainment There are also a number of games available from companies that spe cialize in products for the Hewlett ABOUT THE AUTHOR Packard handhelds such as Edu CALC and Ace Technologies In addition many shareware and free ware games are offered on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK and The HP Palmtop Paper Subscriber s PowerDisk Some of these games are available in PCMCIA card format and plug di rectly into the HP s PCMCIA slot most are available on disk Installing games Many of the games found on line or on shareware disks are distributed in compressed f
6. Others are computer versions of old favorite games like Boggle Concen tration ial Yahtzee i Old Maid There are also eductional games such as ones designed to help with math skills reading skills and the like Travel Floppy PCMCIA Floppy Drive No less indispensable than your HP 100 200LX Unparalleled performance from the Travel Floppy makes file transfer and archiving both simple and inexpensive Includes 3 5 1 44 Mb floppy drive PCMCIA Type I compatible small and portable take or use it anywhere Versatile plugs into the PCMCIA slot of a variety of subnotebook notebook and other portable DOS based systems including the HP 100 200LX Uses the convenient economical universally accepted floppy diskette ACCiBpiTET FALLU IS TECHNOLOGIES INCE Pol Charco t Avenue San Jose GA 95131 TEL 408 433 1980 FAX 408 433 1716 Summary and conclusions To those of us who travel a great deal by airplane a good game can be very relaxing after a tough business trip The HP 100 200LX computers were not designed as game machines but in fact do creditable jobs for many different kinds of games They are particularly good for playing card games and playing classic board games such as chess and checkers that don t require fast keyboard re sponses The HP Palmtops are less effective on games that require very fast keyboard actions such as sport simulations However an 11 ounce computer that can play stand
7. TIPI writing sample programs and creating a small integrated environ ment for programming which I called The TIPI Programmer s Workbench I uploaded TIPI to several forums on Compuserve including the Palmtop Forum and the IBM Programmer s Forum I also uploaded it to the HP Handhelds forum because I knew that HP had a little DOS palmtop My timing coincided exactly with the virtual death of the Atari Portfo lio The Portfolio which had been one of the first DOS palmtops had been basically abandoned by Atari In the meantime Sharp Zeos HP and others had come out with more pow erful palmtops I vowed I would stick with the Portfolio if even one Portfo lio user registered TIPI Not one did Meanwhile the HP folks really seemed to like TIPI Its RPN syntax wasn t strange to anyone who grew up with HP calculators A lot of folks downloaded TIPI from the HP forum and I got some complimentary E mail and some intelligent questions When I got my first registration from an HP owner of course I raided the family savings account and bought myself a brand new HP 100LX TIPI worked fine on my new toy but the more I played with the HP the more I wanted to do with TIPI A lot could be added by using TIPI s built in DEFINE instruction but some of what I wanted to accomplish would require some low level coding changes HP Palmtop spurs further development From HP s forum on Compuserve I got the form that would let
8. The speed is fine for smaller to medium arrangements but on some larger MIDI files the timing is not quite right The 100LX is great to PLAY MIDI files on but wouldn t want to use it to EDIT MIDI files Brian McCarty CompuServe ID 75121 2130 NoteTaker 200LX NoteTaker displays tips When you first start up the 200LX s NoteTaker press CTRL MEMO you will see a handy little tips database Most users will quickly start their own NoteTaker file and forget about this tips file You can find it again by opening the file d _dat notes ndb using the NoteTaker application This file has many impor tant tips like how to change the icons INSIDE the Phone and Database applications Yes you can change the little phone icon in the Phone application for one of your own You can create an icon using the 200LX D BIN ICN200LX EXE or ICN100 EXE Mi You can also do the same for any database file Just include an icon having the same name as your database but with the ICN extension in the same directory as the data base file Your icon will be displayed instead of the built in icons of the 200LX Harry Konstas CompuServe ID 72540 620 100LX Minor NoteTaker Bug There is a minor NoteTaker bug in some HP 100LX s ROM versions 1 02 and 1 04 A at least In NoteTaker highlight an item in the All Notes list and press to view the individual Note card as shown below Note that the cursor
9. day School was the follow ing note iopet ALS phone mall I Miner TE We 7o1 nF Om I showed the note to the guys The guy behind me was impressed and said I think I ve heard of that stuff The clerk said I ll see if I can get it in Letters continued page 48 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 5 By Palmtop Paper staff Pocket Quicken Synchronize Merge option update A problem has been discovered with the Pocket Quicken Synchro nize Merge option available with the HP 200LX Connectivity Pack that may result in incorrect data in Quick en data files The problem is isolated to the Connectivity Pack s Synchro nize Merge function for Pocket Quic ken The Synchronize Merge for other applications is not affected Users should not perform the Synchronize merge function for Pocket Quicken until the updated code is available anticipated for February 1995 However you may continue to use Pocket Quicken and Quicken as usual Making a backup copy of all important files including Pocket Quicken and desktop Quicken data files is always prudent The corrected code can be re ceived free of charge by any one of the following methods m Call 800 443 1254 Follow the prompts through the Palmtop selec tion and leave your name and ad dress a The updated software will also be posted on CompuServe in the HP Hand forum Every effort is being made by Hew lett Packard Company
10. HP 200LX Appt 18 4 100 200LX Set alarm to check appointment book todos Get and stay in the habit of checking your appoint ment book and todo list every morning It doesn t matter how well the HP Palmtop organizes your appointments if you don t look to see what s coming you ll miss it Occasionally l Il backslide on this I ll be in the habit of checking APPT for months and then slip right out of the habit When this starts happening set an alarm to play at the time usually arrive at the office The appointment says Check your appointments and todos Once this didn t work so set five appointments for the same time five days in a row It was annoying but re established the habit of checking APPT if have a really important appointment coming up or one that have to prepare for set more than one appointment for it For example if have to prepare a report for a meeting l Il set an appoint ment for three days before the meeting stating Prepare report for 10 25 meeting If want to make sure leave a meeting on time I ll set an appointment for the time want to leave The alarm rings check my appointment book and say Sorry l ve got to go Database Sa 100 200LX Find searches in HP Palmtop Databases You can use the F4 Find key on your HP 100 200LX to locate difficult to find Phone or Database entries For example let s say you re looking for the name and phone num
11. be easier you simply plug it into the serial port on your desktop PC a 9 to 25 adapter is included JetEye PC connects to serial port on the back of your desktop PC ABOUT THE AUTHOR Al Harrington works as a Test Engineer for Hewlett Pack ard s Roseville Networks Division Al works with JetDirect products which provide newtork printing solutions He has been using HP Palmtops since the 95LX first came out Al sings in an A Cappella Group called Wild Pitch Al s CompuServe ID is 73323 1600 26 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 There is no specialized software ne eded for the JetEye PC It simply redirects data through the serial port You will need the HP 100 200LX Connectivity Pack software loaded on your desktop PC to communicate with the Palmtop Refer to the Connectivity Pack User s Guide for the HP 200LX and the HP 100LX for information on installing the Con nectivity Pack software Using The JetEye PC with the HP 200LX The JetEye PC is very easy and con venient to use Think of it as connect ing the Palmtop and desktop PC with an invisible cable and then running the appropriate communications software You can communicate and transfer files using the Connnectivity Pack s version of Filer or LapLink running on the desktop PC Make sure JetEye PC and the HP Connec tivity Pack software are installed as described above Then follow these steps USING FILER 1 Set the Palmtop s I
12. brilliant color display The HP OmniBook 4000 series fea tures a range of processors up to 100MHz DX4 with RAM expand ability up to 32MB and hard drives up to 520MB The 4000 provides enhanced presentation quality with built in Sound Blaster Pro compatible stereo sound and a brilliant 10 3 inch DSTN or 10 4 inch TFT color display For extended trips away from a power source the HP OmniBook 4000 PC s battery life can be doubled by substituting an optional second battery for the floppy drive resulting in a battery life of five to seven hours The 4000 PC also comes with a wrist rest and centered trackball for additional comfort It connects to the outside world via infrared port seri al parallel SVGA out and audio and keyboard mouse ports It has as an option the enhanced port replicator described in the OmniBook 600 de scription above Both HP notebook computers have user upgradeable flash BIOS allowing them to easily upgrade to Microsoft Windows 95 when it be comes available They are preloaded with MS DOS 6 2 Windows for Workgroups 3 11 LapLink Remote Access and HP s Windows based HP Palmtop compatible PIM soft ware The HP OmniBook 4000 PCs are expected to start at an estimated street price of 3 299 for systems Easy File Transfer Between Your Palmtop and Desktop Add the SCT CL680 Card Link to your desktop PC gt Fast 80 000 Bytes sec gt Fasy to use works just like a floppy disk drive gt C
13. changing programs such as FCL i and HELV200 i Buddy s features include Highlight data file in FIL ER and press twice to start the appropriate applica tion and load the file a Double click a letter or keypad key to obtain its shift ed value SmartCaps automatically and appropriately produces upper case letters as you type text Now capitalizes um lauts and accented characters and is no longer confused by abbreviations Additional features in the latest version include a Adds user password logic that lets you specify that password be required when ever the power is turned on or only if the machine has been off for longer than a specified period of time m Set up separate macro files for each application and auto matically changes macro files when application started Lets you run a specific macro 12 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 automatically at startup Provides visual warnings in Filer when battery usage timer or voltage sensor reach specified values AutoCalc automatically starts HP Calc if you enter a number immediately after turning the power on WorldTime map overlay displays the day night termi nator plus any great circle route on the WorldTime map registered copies only Automatic indent feature in Memo Registered users of 100Buddy version 1 may upgrade at no additional charge except 5 for a diskette if it is needed Unregistered versions
14. fax cards it was not possible for me to choose a single printer that is right for everyone Instead I once again found that the selection between these two contend ers greatly depends on your needs Since its operating cost is about your fingertips The Main Compartment is designed to hold most palmtop brands Ii can also hold most cellular phones walkmans and items of similar scale It s angled design allows easy access nore available than in your briefease and safer than your jacket Flaps with Velcro fasteners secure the items from accidental droppage The standard PLH hamess pivol lype assembly provides 100 Mexiblity and m ee i oe Opus 63 Design Lab Inc woice 718 706 6787 Pocket Liberator Palm ths Holster The PL PTH is a palm top carrying system designed to allow 100 mobility to keep your information safely securely and at mobility and os secured to a belt loop whieh pivots and unsnaps for gasy ham ess remuval Flexible Velcro adjustments allow the PL PTH to conform to fit your body The Secondary Compartment is piggy backed to the Main Compartment to house pocket beepers Mashcards batteries business cards etc The fronts of the PL PTH is made of 100 fine leather 43 49 10th Street 3rd Fi L 0 C N Y 11101 fax 716 706 7034 half that of the Citizen the Pentax is well suited for field service represen tatives and other mobile users that need ready
15. 2 4 The industry standard spreadsheet with database graphics and macros HP Financial Calculator Business amp scientific tundtions including TVM amortization cash llows statistics date arithmetic unit currency conversions sum list Also includes HP Solve function graphing and 1 2 3 BackSolve Complete Organizer Software Manage your time tasks and data and retrieve information instantly with a fully integrated set of tools including appointment Dook phone book database memo editor with outliner notetaker stopwatch and work time Express Exchange Coverage for 1 year So it your 200LX fails you merely cal for a replacement which arrives next day Then just send back the old unit 2 yr additional coverage optional e SALES TO DEALERS ONLY CALL FOR CONSULTATION ON ACCESSORY PRODUCTS CALL TOLL FREE 1 800 227 8292 OR FAX US AT 415 494 1995 760 SAN ANTONIO ROAD PALO ALTO CALIFORNIA 94303 4695 El Dorado Trading Group 14 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 5MB Flash w Stacker Card 10MB Flash w Stacker Card 1 0 Cards 14 4K Fax Modem Card 140 Lan Combo T 2 Card sssssssssssss 140 Fax Modem for LX 0000000 149 IC Card Drives Internal Flash HD Drive 99 External Printer Port Drive 189 External Serial Port Drive 249 Internal Dual ISA Drive CORPORATION 95
16. 3251 2MB Version c0sssessesresseea 209 Stock 3252 4MB Versin sccceeeerseee hd 79 Stock 3254 6MB version 429 cali Edu CALC today for our latest catalog containing 100 s of accessories for your HP Palmtop or calculator 800 713 6522 714 582 2637 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 Stock F1028A Card Wireless Communications 4 HEWLETT 2B PACKARD StarLink wireless PCMCIA receiver card _ You ll have Instant access to news and sports stocks and company reports m messages from anyone with a telephone anytime anywhere e mail for anyone with a modem your updated appointment book This PCMCIA receiver card con tains StarLink software Subscription allows you to simply choose the covy erage that matches your needs at a nominal monthly charge THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 31 HOW TO USE Engineer on the road title BankAccounts and entered all my bank account numbers in the Notes field I entered the rest of these numbers by the groups listed above I now have instant access to them by pressing CTRU MEMO I also created several NoteTaker entries for keeping track of miscella neous on the job stuff One contains the phone numbers of people I am working with while at White Sands Another contains a list of things I need to have shipped from our Huntsville office and another con tains a list of parts I need to order Connecting to the Office Network Our office computers ar
17. 700 4 Stra gue Seepage 24 olf simulator See Scrabble 39 99 Word board game See page 21 Contact Virgin Interactive Entertain ment Phone 800 874 4607 or 714 833 8710 porn et an SIMUIator 00 g page 2 2425 Fax P e Aii Go Many Faces of 39 95 Variations of Go Moku See rane Contact Ishi Press Intemational Phone 408 944 9900 Fax 408 944 911 JetFighter Il 19 95 Flight simulator combat See page 5 Contact Velocity in it Phone 415 492 3263 Fax 415 982 3299 OTHER PRODUCTS continued HP Fanon Pap Paper Back issues Conta us Computing USA Phone 300 273 611 ti Fac 515 472 1879 INTERNET Service Providers Contact Cybergate Phone 305 428 GATE Fax 8 797701 hi Phone 800 695 4005 Modem 800 365 636 Internet e mail INFO aelphi com JetEye PC Interface 99 Provides IR transfer Pe Sen 100 200LK and OmniBook to desktop ers 26 JetEye Printer interface Privides R transfer from Fit and OmniBook to iit See page 26 Contact Extended ems Phone wee or 208 5227 5 Fan 208 377 Key MS124 Midiator Pocket MIDI Box 179 95 MIDI interface One MIDI in 4 MIDI out See page 54 Contact Key Electronics Phone 800 533 6434 Fax 817 560 9745 Caan bond mites and sore ds 5 8 rices a ee Contact yee ee sens Phone 300 444 5566 Fax 201 586 MegaHertz 14 4 Fax Modem ca PCMCIA stilt Bae works in the 100 200LX See page 30 Contact ration Phone 8
18. 95 100 200LX Palmtop Circuit seto iir Pear er re e ia DesignWare Inc 17 Main Street Watertown MA 02172 pen before 5 22 95 If you finish an intermediate step later than you planned you may have to adjust the dates by which subsequent steps must be accomplished D Finally make the individual steps into concrete action items by cutting and pasting them into the Appoint ment Book application as appoint ments or todo items Repeat the above steps for each of the important goals you have written Be sure to fill in the LastStep field and enter intermediate steps and accomplishment dates in the Project example Review your results regularly You might want to review your goals and projects quarterly to see how on time and on budget you are If you are consistently underestimating or overestimating the amount of time Order Toll Free Tel 617 923 4275 Fax S00 536 7595 needed you may want to make a note of that and adjust your thinking accordingly The same thing goes for budget estimates My rule of thumb is that if you re within 10 of your predictions then you can celebrate That means that if you thought it would take you 20 days to complete a project and it takes you 22 you re doing fine Or if your goal was to achieve 100 000 in sales and you hit 90 000 pat your self on the back The system I described above works whether it is automated on a Palmtop or entered by hand
19. C drive Secondly Citizen and Pentax have introduced the first portable printers well suited for the HP Palmtops When I show off my Palmtop the most common question I hear is Can you print from it Because of size easy cable connection and capabilities these are the first printers I would take in my travels as an HP Palmtop companion But what about fun when you are on the move you may ask Turns out that there are lots of game possibilities for the HP Palmtop as you will read in Capers Jones article One game that didn t get mentioned is the ancient Chinese Japanese game of Go This is an elegant game with simple rules where two players take turns placing stones on a 19 x 19 board The object is to surround the other without getting surrounded yourself Philosophies of life and even popular novels have been written about this game of complexities and intricacies greater than chess I recently discovered a version that works quite nicely on the HP Palmtop Many Faces of Go by Ishi Press see Product Index page 55 The program lets you play on different sized boards and has tutorials and commented games for both beginners and experienced players I have spent hours in airports locked in battle with the computer totally absorbed l Il let you page through this issue to discover the rest of the goodies Hint 200LX users check out Ed Keefe s Looking Glass column where a useful undocument ed HP 200LX feature is revealed and ext
20. CARD EXP s award winning MiniFax software High speed fax modem 2 or 4 MB Flash memory They re all built into the ThinFax 1414LXM card That s why ThinFax 1414LXM is the one upgrade that s a must for your HP palmtop So call the toll free number today for complete ThinFax 1414LXM specifications and the name of an EXP dealer near you EZP h Mosie computing EXPERTISE IS BUILT INTO OUR NAME THE NEXT GENERATION OF SOLID STATE STORAGE FOR YOUR PALMTOP DoubleFlashePlus ACE Technologies Leaders in Portable Computing does it again with the next generation in PCMCIA FlashRAM storage featuring faster data access larger capacity and lower prices per megabyte New 32K buffer for 50 to 400 faster data access than ordinary ATA FlashRAM cards No batteries required ever No moving parts solid state laser welded ina durable stainless steel case DoubleFlash is available from 6MB to 80MB with patented LZS built in Stacker data compression Pre loaded with ACE s exclusive BATTman 2 0 software your Palmtop s data integrity is maintained even under low battery conditions DoubleFlashe improves battery life on the new HP OmniBooks Works on PC s too a RAK 22 gt SS ei EE EEE ee DoubleFlash SOLID STATE STORAGE ACE Vv j vY Rugged No Moving Parts vY No Batteries Required v Plug amp Play Installation Built in Data Compression vY Built in B
21. Challenger Corp 5530 Summer Ave Memphis TN 36134 800 676 0822 Ext 123 901 385 1840 Ext 123 amp an RA Works on the 100LX JetEye PC is targeted for the Omni Book and 200LX and is officially not supported for the 100LX by the man ufacturer However it will work with the 100LX You can use the Filer transfer option as is IR is already supported on the 100LX If you want to use LapLink on the 100LX you ll have to transfer it over from the HP 100 200LX Connectivity Pack soft ware See LapLink Remote installing on the HP JOOLX in the index of the Connectivity Pack users guide Then follow the USING LAPLINK in structions above I tested both the Filer and Lap Link connection on the HP 100LX JetEye PC worked as well as it did with my HP 200LX The JetEye PC is a great product for Palmtop to Desktop connectivity Cables are a hassle the JetEye PC lets you get away from them JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 27 ACEFAX HP 100 200LX Send Receive Fax Software ACESFAZ For The HP Palatop vort a Fil ou a FAL aie E Print a FAX a F Pathe y k Beit ACESE Highlight Selection Pross Enter Send Receive View and Print Faxes on your HP Palmtop v Full installation less than 200k Requires as lile as 30KB on C drive for modem card users v Auto installation program included ACEOFAX for HP 1OO 2OOLX cccccccscieaesnenseeeersettenstteeeeseenneeeen ACE FAX Me
22. Network The card comes with ODI NDIS and Packet software drivers to support all major Network Operating Systems including Netware Novel DOS 7 Microsoft Networks Banyan VINES Artisoft LANtastic TCP IP and oth ers Availability 22 Now Medium PCMCIA card Pricing of Ethernet adapters 10Base T adapter 229 CONTACT Silicom Ltd Connectivity Solutions 15311 N E 90th St Red mond WA 98052 USA Phone 206 882 7995 Fax 206 882 4775 Silicom Ltd International Head quarters 13 Hasadna St P O Box 2448 Ra anana 43100 ISRAEL Phone 972 9 916 953 Fax 972 9 917 192 100 200LX Silicom PCMCIA EtherFlash Card This Ethernet adapter card comes with 1MB or 2MB of Flash memory built in and ships with its own PCMCIA Support Driver software for the HP 100 200LX Palmtop PCs Install the software on the Palmtop slip the card in the Palmtop s PC Card slot and connect up to your Ethernet LAN Provides both LAN adapter and Flash mem ory in one card slot Availability First quarter 95 Medium PCMCIA card Pricing 10Base T with 1M Flash 349 10Base T with 2M Flash 419 CONTACT Silicom Lic Connectivity Solutions 15311 N E 90th St Red mond WA 98052 USA Phone 206 892 7995 Fax 206 882 4775 Silicom Ltd International Head quarters 13 Hasadna St P O Box 2448 Ra anana 43100 ISRAEL Phone 972 9 916 953 Fax 972 9 917 192 Memory
23. Tracecol Getnum Ree Traceoff Getport Rots Traceon Getvyol Swap Tracerow l Gets Swaps Tracevar InkeyS ra ee a a e N zs E te Inport String Instructions Defining Instructions Tsinput aE SSS SSS SSS STE Isoutput Asc Defarray Key Chrs Define Enddef OF Dates Defstr Locate l Instr befstrarray Mouse Lcases Deftable Endtable Open Letts Defvar Opencom Len po ae M M Outport Btrims DOS Instructions Peek Mids T el I Ppke Parses l carl Print Replaces Chdir BPrintchr Rights Commands Printer Rerims Envs Prints SETS Firstfile Nextfile Putbyte Times Getdir Pubport Ucases Kall Row Wal Makedir Setyol it ae Remdir Sound I 45 Rename Varptr 5 pe OO MNO 44 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 Sample TIPI code No self respecting developer article would be complete without sample code so I ve included a brief listing here to show you a bit more what TIPI is all about This simple application will display the character for any key you press along with its keycode in decimal and hex If you subscribe to the disk version of this publica tion you will find a ZIP file containing the full shareware release of TIP 2 0 amp which includes many more programs and a full TIP reference manual Alternat
24. access to a printer but do not need plain paper copies or output that can be permanently saved The low cost per page should also make this printer attractive to those that need to print a large number of pag es while traveling The Pentax is also smaller The Citizen PN60 is well suited for low volume high quality printing on standard letterhead transparen cies or plain paper that s readily available The mobile executive or sales professional who needs to pro duce documents on company letter head or high quality cut sheet paper and possibly color will find that the Citizen PN60 is up to the task Sii z 1 800 588 0PUS JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 19 Let the Games Begin If youre ready for some serious fun out of the hundreds of games you can y play on the HP Palmtop here s the run down on some of best Editor s Note Contact information for the commercial software mentioned in this article is found on page 55 Informa tion for the shareware freeware is found on page 22 By Capers Jones The Hewlett Packard HP 100 200LX Palmtop computers were not desig ned as game machines but they do an acceptable job in this role There are probably over 100 games avail able that will work on the HP 100 200LX computers including adven ture games board games card games sports simulations and games developed for the computer environ ment only like Tetris i Space In vaders I and
25. and Format and operates independently of the PC BIOS Available in internal mounts in a 3 5 drive bay or external configurations the AT A X can be added to your system even if it s technically full and the need for complicated Card and Socket services is eliminated ray 7 Pod F Dg yi 7 t 4 cs Prot g Corporation 4165 Fast La Palma Ave Anaheim Calif 92807 Call Today For More Information 800 232 1347 Protege Corporation Trademark 714 961 7000 FAX 714 961 0102 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 33 Nee ane i e Di lt smera pmpra M hy i fF TAIVA tae lime How to Manage Your Time amp Get Control of Your Life Use the HP Palmtop and these techniques to manage your future rather than being managed by it By Tad James M S Ph D Copyright 1994 We ve all wished we had more time and were better organized That s one of the reasons we use the HP Palm top APPT reminds us where we re supposed to be PHONE organizes contact information and MEMO or NOTETAKER can store a raft of information about personal and busi ness interests As is the Palmtop is a good Personal Information Manager However the HP 100 200LX has the potential to become a great advanced time management tool more sophisti cated than the most advanced plan ning system on the market today First let s look at the basics of time management Then let s see how you can use your
26. and wish to create it on their own See database definition in the index of your HP 100 200LX User s Guide for information on creat ing or modifying a database 1 Enter Goals into the Goals Database The following instructions assume you are using GOALSET GDB on an HP 100 200LX Copy GOALSET GDB to your HP Palmtop and press CTRL to open the Database applica tion Then press File Open select GOALSET GDB and press ENTER Now add the goals you have just developed There are 2 examples of goals already entered so you can see how it works A Press F2 Add and enter the goal that you have written into the Goal field B Tab to the Age field and enter your present age This is to assist you in being able to appropriately context ualize the goal by reminding you of the age you will be at the time the goal is occurring C Tab to the Date Accomplished field and key in the date by which you want to accomplish the goal D Tab to Priority and enter the priori ty of the goal If you re not sure come back to this one E When you transfer each goal to your Appointment Book calendar 2 a i Database GOALSET CDB Length of Time ne Bee ee ES Data Item _GOALSET Project Planning Database by Tad James Ph 800 800 MIND Coal EAEN Age AI Date Accomp 5722 95 Prioritu Al Ent d in Calendar O 18 Years O Six r ThreeYr OneYr 6 Months 3 Mo OneMo 4 26 pm 1 22 95
27. any sugges tions We may want to use an article but for a variety of reasons you may not see it for many months Please understand that we cannot promise to run any particular article If you can especially if you write a Palmtop Profile send us a black and white photo of yourself Products advertised in this issue of The HP Palmtop Paper Company Accurite ACE Aware Electronics Brownstone Challenger css DataViz DesignWare EAE EduCALC El Dorado Envoy Data EXP Computer Extended Systems Greystone inmax IntelliLink MicroGram MobileMedia Opus 63 PEPID Protege Shier Systems Simple Simon Software Smart Modular Steele Creek Tech Thaddeus Computing Product Phone Fax numbers Page number Floppy drives for 100 200LX 5 408 433 1980 Fax 408 433 1716 25 ACE 800 825 9977 or 408 734 0100 Fax 408 734 3344 28 29 Palmtop Omnibook Products Includes ACT for HP Paimtops ACE lt gt FAX Fax Software and Modem Bundles ACE lt gt LINK File Transfer Software BATTman Battery Monitoring and Data Protection Software Carrying Cases Desktop Card Readers Acoustic Modem Couplers HP 200LX Palmtop Systems HP Color OmniBook Software NiMH Batteries Printers and Accessories X JACK Megahertz Modem Bundles ACE DoubleFlash Plus FlashRAM to 80MB Gieger Counter 4 25 800 729 5397 Phone Fax 302 655 3800 39 Option Trading System a 800 642 7116 Tel F
28. as controlling the darkness are not obvious The best feature of this printer is the ability to print on plain paper and transparency film By carrying a few pages of company letterhead it is possible to print formal letters If you give presentations using over head projections it is possible to print last minute updates while on the road Another advantage to its use of plain paper is that you don t have to worry about running out of special paper half way through a road trip A box of Pentax thermal paper adds about a pound to your briefcase You can use just about any standard cut sheet you find Howev er highly textured paper does not allow the ink to be transferred as well as smoother paper This is a consideration when choosing paper for your own letterhead The ribbons are small and light enough to carry a couple of extra with you I should mention that you can purchase color ribbons for the PN60 This provides full color output when used with appropriate soft ware Unfortunately I was unable to find any software to run on the Palmtop which supported this option If you run into any let us know Also at a cost of up to 4 00 a page this option is intended only for those situations where you need a color page for a presentation and don t have access to any other printer Citizen has used all of its experi ence to bring out a printer that meets the challenge Which printer is for you As with the modem
29. d completed the run in 14 F temperatures with the southwest wind at 8 knots with a wind chill factor of 32 This was relatively mild compared with some years The Palm top s screen thawed out also displaying characters as clearly as ever Kip Absher BP Exploration North Slope Alaska Flight simulators and other software Below are comments on some games utilities and other files I ve found for the HP 100LX First the games I would say that Jet Fighter II by Velocity is the best of the newer flight sim ulators that runs on CGA hence the HP 100 200LX See Product Index page 55 Load it and press ON or ON E to invert the screen and adjust contrast as need ed The first release copies have a couple bugs worth noting falling through the carrier on takeoff landings occasionally And it slows the clock down after exten sive play A free update is available to correct these problems It needs about 1 1MB on a PCMCIA card JetFighter II lets you chase MIGs and CRUISE missiles then shoot back You get 5 different jets to choose from and a good story line Well worth the 25 I paid And since it comes with CGA EGA amp VGA drivers you can also play it on your desktop PC computer Mallard s Flight Planner ver 91 1230 is the only other one I know that is still carried in some stores Flight Planner may still be available in some stores but Mallard Software s phone is disconnect ed an
30. document for this shareware total to about 105K Chess Here too there are several choices available EdChess in EDCV23 ZIP Si among many others One that does a good job on the HP 100 200LX is Powerchess i a shareware program by Wild H Heiss The graphics are fine once you get used to the fact that the board is a rectangle and not a square The movement keys are very natural and easy to get used to This game offers multiple skill levels and can even solve chess problems I m not a ranked chess player so I don t know how well Powerchess plays at the higher skill levels except that it can often defeat me For a casual game on an airplane the skill levels are fine Executable files documents and game files total to about 150K Chinese Chess The HPHAND forum on Compu Serve has two versions of Chinese Chess available in CCHESS ZIP W Inte eee ee nn 68080O C co Supports the HP 95LX 1OOLX and 2ZOOLX Transfers Translates important data between your HP Palmtop and Windows PC One runs on the HP 100 200LX and the other on a desktop PC The rules and the board are rather different from normal Western chess but en thusiasts claim that it is a faster mov ing game that is very enjoyable inter move Z BITS gSa Chinese Chess screen I don t know the rules well enough to play a full game However I downloaded and ran the HP Palmtop version It seemed to work fine and its executable files and
31. ext 309 Fax 212 217 57 61 eae For HP Palmtop users in the Ukraine Odessa Kiev Crimea tact Linetskvy V Oleg IPEMMPHATHE IPON PECC 1 Spusk Nikole 327015 UKRAINE Phone 051 38 7431 36 73 13 Fax 051 24 41 25 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 9 NEW THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS 100 200LX EXP ThinFax Fax Modem Flash Memory Card Designed for the HP 100 200LX this PCMCIA combi nation card comes with fax modem and Flash memory built into one card The card also has System Manager compliant MiniFax fax mod em software built in The ThinFax card lets you trans mit faxes and data at 14 400 bps The card comes with 2MB or 4MB of Flash memory on board giving you file storage and fax modem capability on one card See review page 13 See advertising inside back cover Availability 4644s 009 ees Now Medium neme PCMCIA card Runs under SysMgr Yes Pricing of ThinFax 1414LXM w 2MB Flash 349 w AMB Flash 399 no Flash a 4 se 299 CONTACT EXP Computer Inc 12C Maunchly Irvine CA 92718 USA Phone 800 EXP NYCA or 714 453 1020 Fax 714 453 1319 Ethernet Cards 100 200LX Silicom PCMCIA Ethernet SPE Card This Ethernet adapter card ships with its own PCMCIA Support Driver software for the HP 100 200LX Palmtop PCs Install the software on the Palmtop slip the card in the Palmtop s PC Card slot and connect up to your Ethernet Local Area
32. flash memory cards will help lighten your load LEFT HP 100LX with EXP ThinFax Flash memory card in slot and Pentax PocketJet printer connected to serial port RIGHT HP 200LX with SmartModular SmartModem Flash memory card in slot and Citizen PN60 printer attached to serial port Las Vegas There I was delighted to find two new light weight portable printers with serial interfaces and two new PCMCIA fax modem cards that came with onboard flash memo ry These new products promised to simplify and lighten the burden of my mobile office ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Shier is a former software engineer and a marketing and sales director in the electronics industry He is now President of SHIER Systems amp Software a company dedicated to developing and marketing custom products and applications for the computer market David can be reached at SHIER Systems amp Software 920 Hampshire Road Suite A Westlake Village CA 91361 Phone 805 371 9391 Fax 805 371 9454 CompuServe ID 75030 3374 palmtop JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 13 REVIEWS Fax modem memory cards The fax modem amp flash memory cards Ever since the first PCMCIA modems started appearing for the HP Palmtop computers users have wished for additional Palmtop disk space The software that came with the earlier cards tended to take up a lot of disk space and sometimes did not fit on the Palmtop s C drive In addition the faxes
33. get around the no batch file limitation of FILER INI is to convert the batch file into a COM or EXE file with a batch file compiler There are several such batch file compilers on the shareware market BATLITE LZH is an exam ple of one such program BATLITE LZH contains the program used to compile the batch file and a docu mentation file describing how to use it Once you ve converted a batch file to a COM file you may use the COM file in place of the D DOS COMMAND COM C ploy de scribed earlier Using FILER INI with the built in applications The autoload FILER INI feature was designed to handle DOS programs on the HP 200LX By itself it does not work with the built in System Man ager compliant programs such as Memo Phone Appointment Book 1 2 3 etc However with a little help from a couple of useful add in pro grams FILER INI s usefulness can be extended to System Manager applica tions as well KEYSTUFF AND FILER INI The first of these add ins is KS COM a small program that stuffs a char acter or series of characters into the keyboard buffer causing the Palmtop to execute them Functionally this THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 41 HOW TO USE FILER INI program lets you enter predeter mined strings of characters or com mands into the Palmtop just like a macro We needed to modify the original keystuff program to make it work with FILER INI The modified ver sion KSX COM along with the orig
34. handlers hobbyists Works with any m Thousands sold for over five years Call or write for PC Mag amp Byte reviews Complete RM 60 System 149 50 To order or for more information call TEST AUTOLOAD FEATURE Switch back to Filer press F5 Goto key in D BIN and press ENTER In the D BIN directory you ll find several icon files that end with the extension ICN Highlight one of the filenames and press ENTER Almost immediate ly the ICN200LX EXE program will start displaying the icon file you highlighted Press Quit to quit ICN200LX EXE highlight another ICN file and press ENTER to view that icon You re up and running What happened The HP 100 and 200LX are set up to run program files from Filer For example you highlight a file with a EXE COM or BAT extension and press and the program runs Ordinarily if you were to highlight a data file like one of the ICN files and press ENTER you d get the error mes sage ee i un fale File exte wD va V BAT v F a s MELA L n j FA i LUM CF mt With FILER INI in the loop the error message is by passed the associated COM or EXE file is run instead and the highlighted data file is loaded into the COM or EXE application 800 729 5397 P O Box 4299 Wilmington DE 19807 AWARE Electronics Phone Fax 302 655 3800 Limitations to using FILER INI and workarounds There are two limitations to the use of this built in au
35. in a day planner But the Palmtop makes it quick and easy The above is one small but important step in gaining control over where you are going and what you want to have when you get there JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 37 Through the Looking Glass Start an application and load its data file in one step Ed shows how to use FILER INI to activate a built in undocumented autoload feature of the HP 200LX that lets you highlight a file in Filer and press to start the corresponding application with the file loaded By Ed Keefe Apple Macintosh users sometimes boast about the fact that they can click on a document file folder and open it automatically in the appropri ate application A comparable fea ture Associate is found in the Windows File Manager Users of the HP 200LX might be interested and surprised to know that a similar feature is built in to HP s new Palm top PC This undocumented autoload feature of the HP 200LX lets you highlight an MS DOS application s data file in FILER and then press to launch the DOS application with the data file loaded The key to accessing this feature on the 200LX is the creation of the FILER INI file This feature may sound familiar to users of the programs 95Buddy 100Buddy Wi and now Buddy 2 05 for the 100LX amp 200LX see product description page 12 These excellent shareware programs added this fea ture to the HP 95LX 100LX and 20
36. in treasuries agencies munis corporates zeros Cds and bills Bonds and Bills 250 in cludes Euro A amp S A US Corporate US agency US treasury US domestic and Japanese bonds Bond nalyst 495 00 1 2 3 add in to help you analyze US and foreign bonds bills amp CD s PGO3 ff 835 Finance Epargne Placement Provides multiple equations and Lotus solutions libraries for the HP 95LX for professionals and students including Bonds bariation volatility and dura tion Matif Options Black Scholes valuation Coefficient fs and many others Finance 89 learn and do basic financial analysts mort gages loan analysis bond anal ysis compound interest and more Comes on a PCMCIA Type II card for the 100LX STUDENT ZIP ta contains a BOND EQN containing a set of bond calculations developed by finance student Douglas Gilbert Product Index pg 55 O Share Freeware pg 56 BEST PALMTOP Tips ON DISK 175 tips 51 software tools on 2 5 megabytes with your HP Palmtop Paper on Disk subscription You ve got the knowledge Now get the tools RENEW OR SUBSCRIBE TODAY FOR PEAK PALMTOP PERFORMANCE HP Palmtop ape A SUPPLEMENT OR FAX 515 472 1879 Thaddeus Computing Inc 57 E Broadway Fairfield IA 52556 U S A soe DAS TCA S Se Tips by Rich Hall Many are elaborations on tips found in the APPS INI and NOTES NDB files in the
37. macros as I keyed in the commands The mac ros created in this manner worked fine However when I opened the System Macro application and looked at these macros the Alt 1 code and any key strokes entered after it did not display They were there some where because the macros worked I just couldn t see them In addition I couldn t manually type in a macro with the Alt 1 notation from the System Macro application nor could I edit a recorded macro with this sequence Editor s note This is a bug in the macro editing program I spent most of an airplane flight from Huntsville to El Paso using these system macros to move home phone numbers and address informa tion to the correct fields of the HP 100 200LX Phone Book application The macros made it easier than I had envisioned However the way PhoneBook handles address informa tion is a pet peeve of mine For example my HP 95LX phone book contains the names and ad dresses of all employees in my com pany about 60 entries in all Each phone book entry has fields for the company s name and address If I used these fields as designed would end up with a file that con tains 60 repetitions of the same data I would prefer some means of having this information entered once This would reduce storage and greatly ease record updating were my com pany to move or change phone num bers and we ve done both in the past NoteTaker for important numbers
38. named Due One of my subset definitions is Due lt 01 30 1995 This se lects all items due today or past due items My subset definition for tomorrow is Due gt 01 30 1995 For Today or before subset the update macro opens a new database re cord goes to the date field Due uses Date to enter the current date uses to move that one day in the future copies that date then goes to the subset edit view de letes the old date pastes in the new date and saves the changes Similar procedure is used for the Tomorrow sub set Following is the update macro Database F2 Tab Date Ctrl x F10 F6 tod Alt E Left BackSp BackSp BackSp BackSp BackSp BackSp BackSp BackSp BackSp BackSp Ctrl V F10 tom Alt E Left BackSp BackSp BackSp BackSp BackSp BackSp BackSp BackSp BackSp BackSp Ctrl V F10 a F10 Once you get this set up correctly you don t have to do a single thing Each morn ing the subsets are updated automatically You do have to make sure that nothing will interfere with the macro The Database has to be set to the TODO GDB and you can t leave the DOS window selected or a DOS applica tion running I ve been using this macro for almost a year with little trouble Russ Fitzgerald CompuServe ID 71234 30 K Cases ERG 100 200Lx Newton 110 case supports the HP Palmtops was looking for something to carry the HP Palmtop and StarLink c
39. number of video poker games like TAHOES ZIP K that simulate the kinds of pseudo poker found on commercial slot machines I ve tried a number of these games on the HP Palmtops but I don t find this form of poker to be very enter taining i 4 amp te l Lt i3 J Pugin E s WALIYO TF Vit Cin nd persone MobileMedia is the leader in alphanumeric text messaging and among the largest providers of paging services We offer local regional national and international coverage And we ve got a reputation for reliability innovation and responsive service Solitaire I ve gotten more than a dozen differ ent solitaire games to work on the HP 100 200LX Two of my favorites are the commercial games of Solitaire Royale by Spectrum Holobyte and Hoyle s Book of Games Vol II Solitaire by Sierra On Line games The Solitaire Royale disk offers a dozen common flavors of solitaire including klondike pyramid and golf It also has a suite of simple children s games such as Concentra tion The colors are a bit tricky on the Palmtop screen but the cards are visible even using the overhead lights Sore ioe gt For about the same cost as an alphanumeric pager you get the MobileMate PCMCIA Card user manual and receiving software To find out more about how MobileMate and JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 MobileMedia can give you the power to stay in touch wherever you go ca
40. quandary I knew that my original reasons for keeping TIPI small were good and that if I went against my instincts I would soon have something as bloated ugly and slow as Microsoft s Foundation Class es heh heh just kidding there Bill Still I had to do something I fell back on my core belief of busting a problem into byte sized chunks The TIPI workbench is a batch file that calls a TIPI program The help system takes that one step further by calling multiple TIPI pro grams The whole thing works no single chunk is larger than 32K and the help system itself serves as an example of how to write a fairly large program in TIPI Product Index pg 55 Share Freeware index pg 56 Letters continued from page 5 I was surprised What caused the shift in attitude I guess it was the objective facts printed on the screen of a non threatening and quite interesting piece of technol ogy I hadn t changed their perception of me had Maybe more women should buy HP Palmtops Lucinda Hall Fairfield IA USA Analyzing Bonds on the HP Palmtop I have been using an HP 19BIL calculator for some time and recently bought the HP 100LX I was disappoint ed to find that the 100LX does not have a Bond Menu to calculate the yield to ma turity or price for a bond I am writing to ask you if you know of an aftermarket pro gram that would enable the 100LX to perform the above tasks Petros D Goneos New York NY USA B
41. rights reserved Modular Technolog les SMART Logo is a trademark of SMART Modular Technologies Inc lt 45531 Northport Loop West Fremont CA 94538 All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies Toll free 1 800 536 1231 Tel 510 623 1231 Fax 510 623 1434 Publisher s Message It s hard to believe but this issue begins our fourth year publishing The HP Palmtop Paper Almost four years ago HP introduced its computer in your pocket the 512K HP 95LX as a Lotus 1 2 3 machine with some DOS compati bility and a useful suite of built in applications At the time for an addi tional 400 you could buy a 512K memory card to store more data Throughout the months and years the HP Palmtop and accessories evolved Today for about the same total pur chase price you can buy a true DOS compatible 2 Megabyte 200LX with a richer suite of applications and a 10 Megabyte card 20 compressed for extra storage space The cover story unveils more of how the usefulness of the HP Palmtop has evolved First of all both Smart Modular Technologies and EXP Com puter have introduced fax modem amp Flash memory storage cards This means you can use your Palmtop and the card as a communicator without external accessories The storage space on the card means there is room both for fax and modem software and for the data you want to send and receive across phone lines without having to borrow space from the built in Palmtop
42. save for a car over three years Now suppose in three years you hadn t been saving Let s see what the monthly payments would be if you were to purchase that 19 090 78 car Assuming 19 090 78 is still on the calc line in the lower right move the cursor to PV and press ENTER Otherwise just reenter the number at PV Type 0 followed by F10 FV For this example let s assume your loan will cost you 10 so type 10 and press F7 1 YR Now press F9 PMT and your monthly payment becomes 616 01 But suppose at car purchase time you can still afford only 500 a month over a 3 year period Type 500 F9 PMT F8 PV You will be able to purchase a 15 495 62 car not a 19 090 78 car JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 3 Dictionary and Thesaurus on the HP Palmtop I got the Webster s Random House Electronic Dictionary and Thesaurus College Edi tion running on my HP 100 200LX It occupies 10MB uncompressed on my flash card and it is faster and more comprehensive than the American Heritage Dic tionary see article Vol 3 No 4 Pg 24 Having Web ster s in my pocket is in credibly useful Edward A Cane CompuServe ID 73051 3722 Webster s is published by WordPerfect Corporation and retails for 69 The slimmed down School and Office version retails for 29 For further information contact WordPer fect Corporation at 800 321 4566 or contact a software retailer in your area
43. stack and does all math operations using a syntax known as Reverse Polish Notation or RPN RPN was originated by Jan Lukacie wicz a Polish mathematician While I knew that RPN can be confusing for new programmers I also knew that RPN is efficient and unambiguous Furthermore using RPN keeps the interpreter fast and simple while making all instruction calls consis tent TIPI differs from Forth by having an additional stack for string values In addition to grafting some of BAS IC s legibility onto TIPI I wanted my language to inherit some of BASIC s wonderful string handling capabili ties By giving TIPI a string stack I was able to create RPN equivalents of MID LEFT RIGHTS and other useful string functions I also created some new functions such as the faint ly AWK like PARSES Throughout the process of devel oping TIPI I had to battle the ten dency to add features to the lan guage I wanted my language to remain small enough to fit on the Portfolio but still be powerful Give your Patutor Bar Cope CAPABILITIES For ETc Our systems are turn key complete with all the hardware and software necessary to print bar code labels scan bar codes and transfer data into PCs or MACs A 919 N E 2nd Street Corvallis Oregon 97330 Telephone 503 752 4419 1 800 733 5017 Fax 503 752 7037 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 45 HOW TO USE TIPI TIPI Contest Between now and Apri
44. the like I prefer classic board games such as checkers chess and backgammon or card games such as gin rummy solitaire and poker To run on the 100 200LX a pro gram needs to support CGA graphics or use Monochrome text an 8086 CPU not 286 386 or 486 and 640K or less system memory Flight simu lators and the like requiring too much in the way of really quick keyboard action are difficult to play See letter on page 5 for comments on other filght simulators and games Since the HP 100 200LX comput ers only weigh 11 ounces and I don t like to add to that weight I don t install games that have copy protec tion schemes requiring the user to carry around a manual or coding de vice for access codes Sources of games for the HP Palmtop computers One of the unexpected advantages of the 100 200LX s somewhat limited al ad adel ae 7 45 4 Ree er Aa PPL AS AN are aS Ga ata LA A idat wiih ye amp AT UDA Are u E a TE Pe SEPT 2 207 488 58H a 4 P R U Y ta a Stones captured hy Black 10 White ti Ancient Game of Go mentioned in Publishers Message graphics support CGA only is that many interesting games can be found in the sale and close out bins and shareware sections of toy stores department stores and computer stores I ve bought more than a dozen excellent games for between 5 and 10 that were originally priced at 25 to 50 when they first came out
45. thorough M keys can be used in the Arithmetic function remember that they can be used in the other HP CALC applications IE Memo 100 200LX Mess up memo Restore previous version If you make a mistake in a memo file you can back up over the mistake with the backspace key or use the Cut and Paste feature to delete a line or two If you ve made some extensive mistakes and have not yet saved the file you can restore your previ ous version if you have one On the HP 95LX press File Open and answer Yes when asked if you want to Replace file without saving Then select the appropriate file name and press ENTER On the HP 100 200LX press MENU File and you are presented with following File menu 2 Edit View Format Search Qptions Quit Help ee E Open Insert Save Save As Passyord Print Exit 1 C CHSLIN EQN C POJPRO DOC F9 Shift te Shifts Fis File menu 100 200LX The last two files you had open are listed at the bottom of the screen Press 1 and the last file you saved will be loaded EA Misc 19S 100 200LX Press F1 for Online Help Press FT on any HP Palmtop to get online help wherever you are Let s say you are a new user of the HP 200LX and open up Appointment Book for the first time Just press Fi and you get the Appointment List help screen describing the basic features of APPT describing the various symbols used in the Appointment Book
46. to a limit of 21 If you need more you can create an additional set of 21 by duplicating the CALC ENV file and switching between the two ENV files The other limitation is that the conversion rates must all be constants not formulas It could be used for such con stants as force and energy Btu s Joule s watts nano tera giga etc For very large numbers you may need to use the scientific format Press Options Num ber Format Scientific Before re using the built in Currency conversions close HP CALC in FILER goto C _DAT and copy the CALC ENV file to CALCENV BAK Otherwise once you key in a new set of conversions and close HP CALC you ll lose the curren cy conversions The Currency Conversion sub application can hold up to 21 possible conversions All you have to do is highlight a field and press F2 to Edit Press F2 again to change the name Then key in a Suitable conversion rate and press ENTER Do the same for as many fields as you need up to 21 in all When you re finished editing the fields press ESC twice To get the currency con versions back close HP CALC and run a simple batch file ren calcenv bak Ci il c env The biggest limitation to this tip is that you should not run SWAPCONV BAT while HP CALC is open Ed Keefe CompuServe ID 75300 3667 Macros 100 200LX Use System Macro in Phone to find a client record in another Database wanted to look up a cus tomer
47. to remedy this situation as soon as possible HP expressed thanks for customer pa tience on this The HP Palmtop Paper will try to get permission to put the update on an upcoming issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK When the Jan Feb 95 issue went to press the software update was still being tested by HP Rich Palmtop News New full featured fast color HP OmniBooks Revised PC Card standard HP Palmtop OmniBook repair and exchange in Canada HP Palmtop and OmniBook users in Canada can arrange for repairs of their units by calling 800 268 1221 Canada only HP 95LX users will have to send their units in to be ser viced HP 100 200LX and OmniBook users can request a unit exchange i e having a refurbished unit sent to them to replace their faulty unit or send their units in for service Unlike U S Express Exchange there is a fee associated with the unit exchange service For more information contact the toll free number above or write HP Canada Service Centre 5101 Orbitor Drive Unit 1 Mississauga ON L4W 4V1 CANADA New full featured HP OmniBooks with color display Hewlett Packard Company recently unveiled two new OmniBook PC computers The HP OmniBook 600 is a lightweight full performance color notebook computer The HP Omni Book 4000 combines fast performance and a large brilliant color display The HP OmniBook 600 PC Lightweight color notebook At 3 8 pounds the HP OmniBook 600 is lar
48. user docu ments total about 100K Scrabble Scrabble from Virgin Interactive En tertainment plays very well on the HP 100 200LX and the graphics are Controls what data is transferred how it s formatted and where it s transferred Keeps your HP Palmtop and PC data in synch Reconciles data notifying you when conflicts are found ACT for Windows Commence Excel Supported Software Paradox Windows ASCII CSV Files dBASE Lotus O Schedule Cardfile Calendar _ CaLANdar ECCO PackRat Sidekick 2 0 Word for Windows All products listed are trademarks or trede names of their respective entitles IntelliLink for Windows Only 99 95 IntelliLink surpasses other desktop to palmtop links in its ease of use its smart way of han dling of data files and its error correction features during uploads and downloads Windows Sources June 1993 IntelliLink is a major step forward in the of ut to make your palmtop and desktop machines a smoothly functioning team PC Magazine April 28 1992 IntelliLink removes the user from the complexities of accurately translating data The HP Palmtop Paper March April 28 1992 To uredo aw for Wiri IntelliLink fnformretion Woods conde JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 J One Tara Blvd Suite 210 Corporation Nashua NH 03062 Tel 603 888 0666 Fax 603 888 9817 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 21 REVIEWS Palmtop Games quis good I found this game in
49. variety of technical enhancements and features designed to broaden the market for PC Card technology The following enhancements are of partic ular interest to palmtop users 1 PC Cards designed to the new standard will be able to offer users multiple functions on the same card The old standard allowed for cards combining an I O function and memory like fax modem plus flash memory cards The new standard lets developers combine input output functions on the same card for exam ple data fax and LAN access capa bilities JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 La Project Planning in your palm For HP 100 200 and DOS based PC s Fre Features include ee Dem One Hour Learning Curve 0 PC Disk Uses 300K with Max file size from 80K to IMEG Logic Networks Timelines Resource Histograms Critical Path Milestones Variable Zoom Multiple projects Max tasks of 75 or 1000 activities Mouse and keyboard operated for portability Inmax Publishing Ltd 2673 Terrace Ave North Vancouver BC Canada V7R 1B5 Tel 604 980 9991 Fax 604 985 5597 2 The new 3 3 volt standard will allow developers to create memory and I O cards that use less energy lengthening the battery life of the device into which they are inserted 3 The new standard also provides additional tools to improve compati bility making it easier for software to identify configure and use PC Cards The standard includes a set of guide lines making it e
50. 0 LX Editor s Note As of this writing the 200Buddy file launcher feature overrides this undocumented 200LX feature However Buddy users can turn off Buddy by pressing CTRC and turn it back on by pressing CTRL The two launchers are somewhat complementary as Buddy is optimized for built in applications and FILER INI for DOS applications The 200LX feature is undocument ed meaning that it s a little bonus added to the 200LX but unsupported by HP You won t find any reference to the feature or the FILER INI file in the HP 200LX User s Guide This arti cle will attempt to show you how to set up the FILER INI file and use this feature The article is based on our experience with this feature to date We hope it will get you started using this feature but make no claim as to the completeness of the information presented The fact that this feature is undocumented means that HP s Technical Support hotline doesn t support this feature and will most likely not be able to give you any help with it It also means that the feature may be dropped from future ROM software revisions of the 200LX or subsequent versions of the HP Palmtop We sincerely hope that this doesn t happen The FILER INI fea ture cannot be transferred to another HP Palmtop Testing the autoload feature and creating FILER INI Enough disclaimers Let s get a feel for what this autoload feature can do To access it we first have to crea
51. 00 200LX HPHAND 100LX Gen 11 Share 24 The following games would not fit on this disk but are available on past issues of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK and the Subscribers PowerDisk Bolded titles were mentioned in this issue Some titles are alternate versions 95 GAM ZIP Jan Feb 92 Go Moku Mine Field Sub Hunt HPHAND 7 Free 22 95 100 200LX AG ZIP Jan Feb 92 Chess amp Space Invaders HPHAND 7 Share 20 95 100 200LX DIVDSK ZIP Fall 1991 15 ames including Checkers Concentration Fastermind FastPoet Fox N Hounds Go Moku Mini Adventure eee Around the Rose Poker Poker Solitaire Reversi Tetris Unscramble Ye Olde Togale Block Game HAND 7 Share 21 25 20 22 25 95 100 200LX EDCV23 ZIP Nov Dec 93 Ed s Chess 21 100 200LX GAMESLX EXE PowerDisk 94 95 Checkers NEW 6 Share Poker Solitaire MasterMind NA Free 21 95 100 200LX KLON ZIP Mar Apr 92 Standard 7 pile Klondike solitaire HPHAND 7 Share 23 95 100 200 MLYAHT Tetris type game for 95LX HPHAND 7 Free P Sep Oct 94 Yahtzee dice AE 8 TOO 200LX Free 25 100 200LX TT95 ZIP Jul Aug 93 To Order the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK see order card page 49 22 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 a traditional draw poker game which includes very realistic sound effects which can be turned off during business events The key stroke movements for functions such as calling raising etc are intuitive and very natural on the H
52. 00BUDOY ZIP Besl Tips HPHAND 11 Share 38 1STTHING ZIP MeyiJun 4 HPHANDI11 Free 4 G5SBUDOY ZIP Best Tips HPHANDV7 Share 38 a AWKZIP 5 0 93 HPHANDI 5 Share 45 DIET145F ZIP Best Tips HPHANDI Free 46 FCLZIP MIA 4 HPHANDIT1 Share 12 PKLIOS ZIP WF 92 HPHAND Share 46 QEDIT EXE MU 93 Zenith 6 Share 41 STUDENT ZIP M A 93 na Free 48 VDE171 ZIP Best Tips HPHANDV Shara 41 TO ORDER the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK see order card page 49 T he Only P Palmtop Upgrade That Has It All To get the most from your HP 100 200LX palmtop you need 3 advanced upgrades on 1 convenient PCMCIA card First you need to send and receive both faxes and data at an exceptional 14 400 bps speed Second you need fax modem software that operates easily with the same HP function keys and commands you already use without the hassle of downloading software and without consuming precious hard disk space Third you need Flash memory for fast easy access to all your software applications and for efficiently storing data Plus you need to fax from and receive faxes into your Flash memory for extra convenience And most of all you need the flexibility to use all your upgrade features together or independently without inserting and removing separate fax modem and memory cards Now you can have it all with ThinFax 1414LXM ALL THE ADVANCED UPGRADE FEATURES YOU NEED ON 1 CONVENIENT PCMCIA
53. 00LX press Options Calculator Modes make shure the Show Stack and Show Registers boxes are checked and press OK You should see a display that looks something like this Ropt iH D Rogl o 00 Rage 86 Raga o 88 Repi o Stack a 0 0 2 00 Cit 0 0 4 00 ET BUS LEE Oe SESS ee HP Calc Arithmetic function with Registers and Stacks displayed HP 100 200LX Step 2 Key in the number 4 and press ENTER This enters 4 in the calculation line at the bottom right of the screen Now we re ready to see what those keys do Step 3 Press the Z through M keys see what happens Press the keys one at a time and watch what happens to the calc line and the Stack immediately above it The Stacks are used to keep track of the last three numbers entered a handy feature for some calculations If key in 3 1 press ENTER and then key in 2 2 and press ENTER 3 1 is bumped up to the Stack 1 position i e it is stored in Stack 1 buffer memory If then key in the number 5 and press ENTER 3 1 is bumped up to the Stack 2 position and 2 2 is bumped up to the Stack 1 position If all three Stack positions have numbers in them and key in a fourth number the Stack 1 number is bumped to Stack 2 the Stack 2 number is bumped to Stack 3 and the Stack 3 number is bumped out of the Stack and forgotten by HP Calc The Registers can be used to store and recall additional numbers as described below Below is a summary of w
54. 01 320 7000 Fax 801 320 6002 Newton Message Pad Case 75 HICO7SLLIA Case for Apple MessagePad 10 See page 53 Contact MacConnection 800 800 0002 or MacWarehouse 900 255 6227 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 59 oe 3 1 j na ematic capture program no longer su ed by its developer Latest maior apat work on Palmtops See page 33 Contact Check sale and closeout bins in software stores PG03 ff 835 French 9 48 financial analysis program See page Contact Bruckert Diffusion FRANCE oe O73 1 40 21 24 08 Fax 33 1 40 Songs Set eats ing Gas Ce ct CaseLoge ob hone 800 44 7 4848 Fae mg Pocket Quicken 69 95 Stand alone version of Pocket Quicken for 100LX users Lar paopao aa Contact Intuit soe 603 295 3015 Intemational 41 eter PocketJet Printer 499 Lightweight portable thermal rerni serial interface See pages 10 17 Contact Pentax Techn Phone 800 543 6144 Fax 303 460 1628 BBS 303 460 1637 PN 60 Printer 399 Lightweight portable printer with serial inter face See pages 10 18 Contact Citizen America ration Phone 310 453 0614 Fax 310 453 2814 Printer Cables PN60 100 200L X cable 42 PocketJet 100 200LK 35 See pages 18 19 Custom cables to connect lghtweight printers to HP 100 200LX serial Contact Shier oe amp Software Phone 805 371 9391 Fax 805 371 9454 CompuServe ID 75030 3374 PowerBasic 275 BASIC pr
55. 1 echo type 40 Pause 2 In Memo create another file that contains some text for example This is the SAMPLE TST file omit quotes Save this file as C SAM PLE TST 3 Use Memo to add the following line to the FILER INI file TST D DOS COMMAND COM C Save the FILER INI file 4 Go to Filer highlight SAMPLE TST and press ENTER You should see the following Cr test bat l Hello I m the c test bat program The data file I m associated with is C sample tst Gecho off echo Hello I m the 0 program echo The data file I m associated with is 1 echo type 0 pause Press any key to continue What happened was this FILER IN detected the TST extension and responded by running COMMAND COM which in turn ran TEST BAT It s possible to run a batch file from FILER INI using this method Viewing editing or running batch files you choose Remember our goal To create a sys tem whereby we can view run or edit a highlighted batch file Let s see if we can get FILER INI to let us highlight a batch file press and be asked whether we want to Run it View it or Edit it One way to do this uses ECHONL COM M a program dis cussed in Vol 3 No 4 Pg 53 of The HP Palmtop Paper That issue gives detailed instructions on how to create ECHONL COM using Memo and the built in Debug feature of the HP Palmtops The batch file that follows uses an ECHONL command 40 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUA
56. 100 200LX to get con trol of your time and your life The Basics of Time Management There are four steps that are vitally important to successful Time Man agement They are as follows 1 Know and write down your long term goals Develop a written list of the most important things that you want to do in the next 3 years If you are a busi ness owner writing goals for the next 10 years wouldn t hurt Suppose for a moment that you were in a boat about to set sail The captain orders the crew to weigh anchor and then leans over to you and says By the way I forgot to mention that we don t have a rud der What would you do Jump ship then and there if you were smart Without a rudder or charts to guide your course you don t have the slightest idea where you ll end up You also need to set a course in your life Where do you want to be in the next three months Six months One year Three years Six years Ten Years How do you ex pect to get there unless you know where there is 2 Have an effective daily calendar and appointment system You need to be able to keep track of your daily events and appointments The system should be able to re spond to your needs and keep you on time Those of us with HP Palmtops already have Appointment Book to keep track of where we want to go and what we want to do However we may still keep another calendar on the wall at home or another elec tronic appointment b
57. 3 E Juanita Ave Suite A Mesa Arizona 85204 Tel 602 892 0954 Fax 602 892 0029 1 800 368 6971 can expect from such a device Both cards require a driver program to be loaded from the CONFIG SYS file in order to run Both provide an instal lation program to copy the driver to your C drive and to modify the CONFIG SYS file automatically Un fortunately the current Smart Mod ular card only allows you to run this installation procedure once After that the installation files are no lon ger accessible This limitation is not mentioned at all in the sparse docu mentation and needs to be more clearly defined More on this below I ran the acCIS CompuServe ac cess program without a hitch on each card I also ran the America On Line software for the 100LX on the Smart card and Tapcis on the EXP card I did not try the other combinations but have no reason to believe that they would not work together The real surprise was running the America On Line software I was told that this software had never worked on a PCMCIA modem before I sim ply installed the AOL software using the instructions provided by the AOL PDA Palmtop forum leaders and logged onto the service The Smart Modular Fax Modem amp Memory card The Smart Modular card is available with 2M 4M or 6M of on board flash memory The modem speed is 14400 bps for sending faxes 9600 for receiv ing faxes and 2400 for data transmis sion Given the slo
58. 6 8328 gt Fo nl 800 600 5710 e PCMCIA Type Adaptor Now use Type Ill Cards in Type or Il slots Low Cost Direct Plug in Ready to Use Type Ill devices can be used without blocking second slot in a stacked 2 slot system A must for Laptop Notebook users Graystone Peripherals Inc 130 A Knowls Drive Los Gatos CA 95030 mamma a Tel 408 866 4739 Fax 408 866 8328 M Greystone TO order 1 800 600 5710 How do you currently load software onto hard drives Greystone has High Performance Low Cost Duplication Solutions IDE DataBlaster SCSI DataBlaster PCMCIA DataBlaster DataBlaster Host Controller Our family of duplicators allows you to duplicate the way you want in the time you need up to 2MB sec up to 224 drives at once mix and match we have the tools No complicated training or installation required you ll be more accurate efficient and flexible almost the minute your Greystone equipment arrives Graystone Peripherals Inc 30 A Knowls Drive Los Gatos CA 95030 Tel 408 866 4739 Fax 408 866 8328 To order 1 800 600 57 0 GREYSTONE We trudged forward in a pack to complete the run watching arctic foxes in their white winter coats making tracks in the snow and hop ing we didn t run into their big white brothers the polar bears We all made it back to the warm base operations center and thawed out satis fied that we
59. 6 years and 10 years Go over the notes you ve taken and edit them down or rewrite them until you are satisfied with the goals CARD BASIC Creates card based applications for Palmtop and PC Complete CGA and VGA graphics Perfect for Engineering Scientific Business programming e Low cost solution to Full Value from your HP100 200LX 1995 OFFER NOW SHIPPING Send CARD BASIC on 3 4 disk O Enclosed is 19 95 Ck or MO O Please send FREE Information Kit Name p Addini a einat bei ba cas dandele l me ELEELE ae TESE oko OP ATIT TA 0 9 00 2 die dee Oaia add 5 for shipping charge Check box for your computer I OHPI00LX OHP200LX OPC Compatible J Send to MICROGRAM SYSTEMS 415 747 0811 J RO Box 252 La Honda CA 94020 0252 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 35 HOW TO USE Managing your time implementing our time management system on the HP 100 200LX After you ve clarified your goals above enter them on your HP Palm top You can save them in a Memo text file However the instructions below assume you are entering your goals into GOALSET GDB H a spe cial 100 200LX database file I ve created for this purpose A copy of GOALSET GDB is available on this issue s The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK or in the 100LX General section of CompuServe s HPHand forum I ve displayed the GOALSET Data Item screen on the next page for those who do not have access to GOAL SET GDB
60. 99 ext 231 or 614 457 0802 Finance 89 Financial bled See page 48 Pocket Consultant Phone 612 220 6060 Fax 612 566 6727 RAMES COMMERCIAL ames were found in software fet se bis the author of the article on pages 20 Budokan 24 95 Martial arts eme See poge Contact Electronic Ms Drect Phone 600 245 4525 415 571 7171 H ht Planner discontinued it Simulator combat See page 5 Contact rec closeout or sale bins in software store pba tl t Plight Simulator or DOS 5 0 65 een e 25 Contact Microsoft Corporation Phone 9400 Fax 206 635 6100 Software Toolworks CD Game lies ack 39 95 es Ki eat Gin aking Se Tee ligno Cribbage King ey eas Caddiehack CGA Tour 4 99 MicroStar golf game See AR Casino Games 4 99 MicroStar disk containing Segall and Vegas sonny S Draw Poker t Ges page 2 i Conta 1343 Fax 619 rine ll Hoyle s Book of Games Vol Il Solitaire 95 Vanations of solitaire See page 23 Contact Slerra On Line Phone 757 7707 Fax 206 649 0340 UK 44 734 303171 fax 44 734 303201 Europe Phone in France 331 460 146 00 Fax 33146317172 Falcon XT discontinued Spectrum s combat flight simulator Check closeout and sale bins zE page 5 Solitaire saol v f solitaire Se 23 ariations of 0 les Soe page 2 y P 800 695 GAME Fax C R1052 Amarillo Se 7 Card Po in 95 Las V po sotvare Contact vi Crespo ma Phone 800 521 3963 Fax
61. After completing the 95LX phone book translation I opened NoteTaker and focused on entering some impor tant numbers I had been keeping in my DayTimer These included bank account numbers social security numbers frequent flier numbers etc For example I gave one entry the Hot New PCMCIA Cards for your Palmtop Big Memory MobileMax PEMEIA Flan Memory Cart You ll be able to store really large programs and lots of data just like a hard disk only better This newest concept in Flash technology from Maxtor uses up to 9 times less current and writes up to 8 times faster than other Flash brands Its type I size enables it to fit in any PCMCIA slot Automatic data compression included typically doubles each flash card s capacity Stock 3242 1MB 2MB compr 99 Stock 3236 2 4MB ccccsesscssecseessseseseseens 165 Stock 3237 4 8MB sscccccssssssssesssscssseseiens 269 Stock 3238 8 LOMB csscccsssescssssscsrssseeeee pII Stock 3239 12 24MB scssssesesesssseeresees DIF Stock 3240 16 32MB cscssssesssssesereseee BOGE Stock 3241 20 40MB serssssessesssesseree 109 A Powerful Way Of Thinking Multi Function You ll get state of the art com munication that in cludes built in memory SMART s new fax modem and memory card allows you to fax larger files than before with its 4MB optional 2MB flash memory Has 9600 4800 bps fax send receive and 2400 bps modem Stock
62. BAT Press R F6 ENTER to run TEST BAT You should see a message something like this Options for Cr test pat Riun Vjiew E dit2r Z Hello I m the test bat program a data file Tm associated with ls c choice bat echo off echo Hello echo The with is echo type pause I m the 80 program data file I m associated K a Press any key ta continue List extract view an archive file This example shows you how to use FILER INI to set up a system that will let you highlight an archived file press and be given the options to list the files in the archive extract one or several files from the archive or view the contents of one of the files in the archive The example below assumes that you are looking at an archive file created by LHA EXE M LHA is a file compression program that lets you bundle a group of files together in a compressed file that ends with the extension LZH Suppose you have a group of documentation files that take up a lot of space on a disk and are referred to only on rare occasions To conserve space use LHA to archive them into a single compressed file called ALL DOCS LZH You d like to be able to access the documentation files without having to uncompress them all You might want to get a listing of the files in ALLDOCS LZH You might want to view the contents of one of the files without extracting it You might want to extract one or several documenta tion file
63. Both of the cards reviewed have strengths and weaknesses Your needs will dictate which is best for you but I can honestly say that ei ther card should make any HP 100LX or 200LX owner quite happy If you need to send and receive faxes and engage in interactive on line communications then the Smart Modular card may be for you It s a little better on battery life and the speed and quality of the faxes Re member that both combo cards will draw more power than flash or SRAM memory cards On the other hand if you intend to transfer large amounts of data or use a program such as acCIS that transfers data as fast as the modem will allow then the EXP s ability to run six times faster in datacommun ication makes it a better choice With CompuServe lowering their connec tion time charges for faster data rates the extra speed of the EXP modem can be directly translated into lower forum access costs CompuServe connect charges changed Effective Feb 5 access at 9 6 and 14 4 kilobits per sec droppped by 50 to 4 80 hr The monthly member ship fee increased by 1 to 9 95 and now includes free access to the Executive Service Option ESO surcharges for specific products continue to apply CIS eliminated the Western Europe prime time communications surcharge and cut by 31 the U S Wide Area Telephone Service surcharges The Canadian WATS line charge were be cut by 41 Bantem Weight Portable Printers Hewlett Pa
64. Cards JASA 100 200LX Cardwell Memory Cards Cardwell s PCMCIA SRAM Cards use low power chips and include an internal auxil iary battery ensuring data retention during main battery replacement Cardwell also has PCM CIA Flash Cards available for the HP 100 200LX Availability 4 0055 Now Medium PCMCIA Memory Cards Pricing IMB SRAM 169 2MB SRAM 5 289 1MB FLASH 2 cc ce5 ea 129 2MB FLASH 179 AMB FLASH 249 CONTACT Cardwell Intemational Corporation 110 Blue Ravine Road Suite 156 Folsom CA 95630 4712 USA Phone 916 985 1880 Fax 916 985 1899 10 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 AEA 100 200LX Shape PCMCIA Protectors These pocket sized molded plastic cases provide protec tion for your PCMCIA cards The PC DuraStor is a molded clear plastic case to protect your card from dust and debris The PC CardStor is mold ed in high impact unbreak able polypropylene to pro vide maximum durability and strength The PC Data Store is de signed to meet or exceed industry drop test standards and has a floating internal tray for maximum shock absorption The PC FlexStor is a vinyl pocket sized single storage case The PC MultiStore ac commodates up to six Type I or II PCMCIA cards or three Type II Cards or combina tions thereof Availability Now OEM only Medium Plastic PCMCIA cases PRCT si asian nes Please ca
65. File selection portion of the screen Select the GDB data base file to load and press ENTER This approach has a limitation It only takes you to the Database File selection screen You have to select the GDB file from there This is because Pushkeys doesn t recognize Yo as a valid command line parame ter nor does it have any meaning in a System Macro 42 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 Pushing FILER INI to the limit If you re interested in extending further the capabilities of FILER INI check out another add in program called PNS200 i Point N Shoot The PN5S200 EXE and its data file will let you create menus similar to the menus we created above for BAT and LZH files The advantage of using PSN200 is that you don t have to create separate batch files for each application PNS200 will also run KS COM so that you can start System Manager applications and automati cally load the data file pointed at The disadvantage is that the coding in the PNS200 INI file is very cryptic and will require some experimenta tion to gain mastery of the program Why keep this neat stuff secret As was mentioned in the beginning of this article FILER INI is a undoc umented bonus program in the HP 200LX Such undocumented features are not unusual in HP products and one can only speculate as to why they are left on the Palmtop Perhaps these programs were developed for HP in house use HP may have felt that th
66. OmniBook AC DC world wide Adapter neresen Fakaha 99 F1058A OmniBook 600C Rechargeable NIMH battery pack stivnccansearieaut 99 Ethemet PCMCIA Card for OmniBook Coax and Twisted Paiir se re Solutions Magnify version 1 HP 100 200LX Software Magnifying Lens 415 555 1665 282 555 1637 215 555 1863 re 555 Hes 408 555 1861 282 555 1829 215 555 1865 a7 citris 1909 Chester Alan firth TELE Adjustobte sings 1X 2 34 ond aX Dwight D Eisenhe 4 Matt fee 919 555 1945 Franklin Pierce George Washinton Tia dda 1 foo Ee ee ee Move lens with Grover C Lewes land Ep2 323 1805 565 555 1897 CuroT keys Harry 5 Truman 383 555 1545 719 555 1953 New Magnify for 100LX and 200LX Pop Up magnification from 1X to 4X Hotkey activation in any Built in Application Auto alignment with lines and columns in PhoneBook Remembers and returns to last position in each application Move Lens with Quick Keys and Arrow Keys Magnify C1240 for HP 100 200LX c cccccccecsesssessesssssseccssersnvenessvveee UY ner e BLATT DIR ae Paes ATEU araa T RATIT E Te es o mee tees leisy ar ae PEKARE Pale Pek a E RAL AEN JARAG JA te Pk AA a eisie iaae Liim ee ate Connectivity Solutions ACELINK The simplest file transfer program for your 100 200LX No PC installation required No Palmtop Software to download v Use FILER to view and exchange file
67. P keyboard The game can also be invoked in monochrome mode which works better than the CGA color version and is quite clear if small on the HP screens File storage for the necessary files is about 155K Also available is a similar game called Amarillo Slim s 7 Card Stud by John Comeau from Villa Crespo Soft The Power of MobileMedia and MobileMate A New Force in Wireless Communications Introducing the combined power of MobileMedia paging and personal communications services and the MobileMate PCMCIA Message Card a powerful new level of text messaging service MobileMate is the first PCMCIA card that s fully compatible with the HP 100 200LX A technological breakthrough its antenna and design provide superior receptivity and longer battery life MobileMate lets you store sort track and manipulate the information you receive anytime anywhere gt True Type II PC Card no bulky external antenna gt Available for HP 100 200LX Palmtop gt Receives messages inside or outside palmtop LED indicates message received b 32 message storage gt 750 hour battery life uses lithium watch batteries ware This is a good rendition of stud poker Although the cards are slight ly smaller than in Vegas Johnny s Draw Poker the overall screens and the movement commands are essen tially identical File storage runs a bit over 200K but more than 50K are devoted to the sound effects files There are a
68. R port next to the JetEye PC 2 Start FILER on your desktop PC How you do this will depend on how you have the Connectivity Pack software installed on your desktop You can run the CPACK software out of DOS by typing app200 at the DOS prompt and pressing ENTER Then highlight the FILER icon and press If you have CPACK installed on a system running Windows click twice on the CPACK200 icon then run FILER 3 Press ALT C to bring up the Communications menu Press Remote Settings 4 Set the Baud rate to 115200 5 Set the Interface to the COM port that JetEye PC is connected to 6 On the 200LX open FILER press ALT C to bring up the Communica tions menu Press Remote Settings 7 Set the Baud rate to 115200 8 Set the Interface to Infrared You then should be able to transfer files between the Palmtop and the desktop PC Refer to the FILER sec tion in the Connectivity Pack users euide for information on how to transfer files using Filer USING LAPLINK LapLink Remote Access creates a special kind of link called a redirec tor With a redirector link your Palmtop s drives appear as additional drives on your PC providing you with direct access to all of the Palmtop s files LapLink should be configured as described in the LapLink Remote section in the Connectivity Pack user s guide see LapLink Remote settings in the index You ll want to make sure that the Palmtop and the desktop PC are set t
69. RY FEBRUARY 1995 How CHOICE BAT Works CHOICE BAT works by picking up the code from FILER INI converting it to 1 inside the CHOICE BAT program and storing it as an environment variable Fn short for Filename Since there s no second command line parameter at this time the CHOICE BAT program displays the prompt When you enter the additional command line parameter namely E V or R the GHOICE BAT program builds a batch file named BAT file and runs it The BAT program contains the line C choice bat C test bat V which causes the Choice pro gram to jump to the label V invokes the file viewer and loads the TEST BAT program into it The toughest part of understanding this code is keeping the batch file parameters straight 0 stands for the name of the cur rently running batch file 1 stands for the first command line parameter 2 stands for the second Fn stands for the contents of the environment variable Fn If you can keep track of the variables as they go from FIL ER INI to CHOICE BAT to BAT and back to GHOICE BAT then seriously consider a ca reer in computer programming CREATE VIEW EDIT RUN BATCH FILE First we ll create a batch file to give us the Run View Edit option In Memo key in the following batch file Don t type the delimeters or the comments to the right of them Hecho off if exist del Delete the intermmediate files goto 2 IE the second parameter is noc
70. Rich How to use Successful Habits database I downloaded the Habits of Highly Successful People database file mentioned on page 41 of the May Jun 94 issue ISTTHING ZIP i I have loaded it but cannot save changes CompuServe ID 73477 1305 With the above mentioned Database loaded look at list screen Does This Week appear in in the center of the top line If so you have a subset selected Your entries have been saved you just can t see them because the subset only displays Items due this week To correct press Subset and select All Items Robert Roney Loved Palmtop Wisdom I loved the Nov Dec 94 issue especially the new Palmtop Wisdom section immediately implemented the Leadership suggestion in the APPT application page 3 However the way I read it and implemented it the message is an event In the APPT application this places the event above all the daily appointments and I can t get to it Having the message Press F3 seems ludicrous It results in a warning beep Any suggestions Is there something I am missing E Gordy INTERNET ID egordy heartland bradley edu There is something miss ing If you press lt Tab gt the cursor will move up to the event Then pressing F3 will display the mission statement that was put in the note field Press or to leave the note field Pressing again will move the cursor to the first appointment of the day Robert Ron
71. Share 22 CCHESS ZIP Chinese Chess 100 200LX __ HPHAND 100LX Gen 11 Free 21 COLOSS ZIP Colossal adventure 100 200LX HPHAND 100LX Gen 11 Free 24 CRIB ZIP Cribbage 100 200LX HPHAND 100LX Gen 11 Free 22 DUNGEO ZIP Dungeon 100 200 HPHAND 95LX Gen 7 Share 24 HBUS ZIP Hearts amp Bones 200LX ver for 100LX HPHAND 1O0LX Gen 11 Free 25 LEAPER ZIP CGA Frog game hea anni HPHAND 100LX Gen 11 Share na LPCHKRS ZIP Let s Play Checkers 100 200LX IBMNEW 13 ohare 21 MAZEUS ZIP Lair of Squid 200LX game for 100LX HPHAND 1O0LX Gen 11 Free 25 MONOPO ZIP Monopoly 100 200 HPHAND 100LX Gen 11 Free 22 PCHESS EXE Powerchess 100 200 PCPRO Spiele amp Ani 10 Share 21 PDTREK ZIP Star Trek graphics adventure 100 200LX HPHAND 100LX Gen 11 Share 24 POKER ZIP Poker 95 00 200 HPHAND 95LX Gen 7 Free na POPGAMES ZIP 4 games Tetriz Wall Breaker l 00 200LX HPHAND 100LX Gen 11 Share 5 PTOMB1 ZIP Pharaoh s Tomb arcade game 100 200LX HPHAND 100LX Gen 11 Share 24 QUEST ZIP Adventure game 100 200LX HPHAND 100LX Gen 11 Free 24 REVER4 ZIP Reversi ketal game 100 200LX ZENITH Fun amp Games 7 Share 22 ROGUE ZIP Adventure game 00 HPHAND 100LX Gen 11 Free 24 SEAHNT ZIP Battleship game Mu HPHAND 100LX Gen 11 Free 24 SOKOB LX EXE Clone of Sokoban 95 100 200LX HPHAND 95LX Gen 7 Free 25 TAHOES ZIP Video poker 95 100 200LX HPHAND 95LX Gen 7 Share 23 TETRIS ZIP Tetris sideways for 100 200LX HPHAND 100LX Gen 11 Free 20 25 TREK1 ZIP Star Trek text adventure 95 1
72. XP is rated to receive at up to 14400bps However the Smart Modem actually required less time to receive a page of text To get an idea of what was happening I watched the sending fax machine as it sent a fax to the Palmtop When sending to the SmartModem card the paper on the sending fax machine fed through without slowing down When send ing to the EXP modem flash memory card the sending fax machine paused often slowing the transmission time I assume that this pause occurs when the EXP card is writing the data to the file The SmartModem card re ceives data at a slower rate but may buffer data better than the EXP card 16 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 The EXP ThinFax 1414LXM modem flash memory card The EXP card had not been released when I wrote this article but EXP provided a prototype card for review purposes The EXP card comes with either 2MB or 4MB of flash memory The modem speed is 14400bps for both faxing and data Editor s Note EXP is now shipping both 2MB and 4MB cards See product announce ment page 10 this issue While the EXP modem has a ma jor advantage in data communica tions speed 14400bis vs 2400 for the Smart it draws more power from the Palmtop The Smart card goes to standby mode within half a second of powering up on the Palmtop The EXP waits 10 seconds before lower ing the power to the modem While 10 seconds may not seem like much time this occurs every time you t
73. a epartment store close out bin for less than 10 The only problem with this game is that movements using the keyboard are a little cumbersome since the game was created primarily for use with a mouse This is a big game and all of the various files total to roughly 300K If you store the whole dictionary with definitions then that would add about another 400K It s not necessary to use the dictionary with the Palmtop since the definitions are terse and the game plays fine without the meanings Other Board Games A number of other board games are available that will probably work on the HP Palmtops but which I have not personally tried Some of the board game titles I ve seen on share ware disks and in forum libraries include Chinese checkers Go Mo nopoly Il Parchisi Othello Reversi Gi Shogi or Japanese chess and Trivial Pursuit Card games The HP 100 200LX are very good computers for card games and quite a few are available It s important to consider whether the designer creat ed the game to be played primarily using keyboard commands good for Palmtop users or a mouse not as good Following are some of the card game programs that I ve seen and tried Blackjack Blackjack is a fairly easy game to simulate and there are perhaps a dozen or more shareware versions available Some of the more sophisti cated versions also include various counting systems tutorials and aids for becoming a better blackj
74. ack play er To me blackjack on a computer has very little appeal I ve tried out uite a few versions but only to see if they can be downloaded and work successfully which most have done The storage ranged from about 25K to more than 50K Editor s Note We ve included on the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK BJ EXMBI a 95LX system Manger version of blackjack which installs in the Application Manager on the 100 200LX and re quires 12K Bridge Although I don t play bridge myself I ve seen a number of bridge simula tions available For example the HP Handheld forum on CompuServe has a bridge simulation called BridgePal I in its library which can be played by one or two players and takes about 250K of storage Cribbage Different versions of Cribbage are available including CRIB ZIP E from the HP Handheld forum on Compu Serve Another version of Cribbage Cribbage King is available on the Software Toolworks now Mindscape Inc CD Game Pack I which also includes gin rummy Note that only the CD ROM version of Toolworks lets you down loaded these games to the HP Palm top The disk based versions were all copy protected Once loaded the cards of the Toolworks version display nicely and the keyboard movements are straight forward Storage for the necessary files runs to about 175K Gin Rummy There are perhaps half a dozen gin rummy games available as shareware or down loadable from forum librar ies and b
75. almtops version 1 1 C1255 veces SOP BATTman version 2 0 Battery Management Software for HP 100 200LX Use NIMH NiCd Alkaline or Lithium batteries for your HP Palmtop Predictive algorithm gives you early low battery warnings and prevents loss of your valuable data BATIman 2 0 Battery Management Software seseccccccncnn POP BATTman 2 0 with 2 NIMH 1200MAH batteries cern OMY BATTIman 2 0 with 2 NIMH 1200mAH batteries amp charger 1 nen oe ee ces _ a nre n le 0 able Computing Solution Color OmniBook 600C Flexibility power and color Now with the HP OmniBook you can take it with you HP introduces the OmniBook Color 600C 486DX4 75 The smallest lightest color notebook with desktop performance now with up to 260MB hard disk BMB of RAM expandable to 16MB New Super VGA color video output for external monitors Built in BIOS upgradeable Flash Pre installed with DOS 6 2 Windows for Workgroups Enhanced mode and HP s Windows PIM applications HP OmniBook Super Portable Systems OB600C 486DX2 50 AMB RAM 170MB Hard Disk 0ccccccccccccecenee ge OOF OB600C 486DX2 50 4MB RAM 260MB Hard Disk 00ccccccee 3 099 OB600C 486DX4 75 8MB RAM 170MB Hard Disk 9 399 OB600C 486DX4 75 8MB RAM 260MB Hard Disk 0000ccccccceee 3 699 FIOS4A OmniBook 600C AMEB system RAM expansion Card sssrin 399 F1055A OmniBook 600C 8MB system RAM expansion Card sssr 649 F1044B
76. and e mail users received quickly filled up the C drive The first and only PCMCIA mo dem card developed for the HP 95LX Palmtop was the PalmModem from New Media It had its own fax and data communications software built into the card saving precious C drive space for messages However the card had to be used with that soft ware and could not be used with popular communications programs such as fastCOMM and acCIS The HP 100LX and HP 200LX Palmtop computers support standard PCMCIA modems which makes them far more versatile However most PCMCIA modems are designed for use in laptop and notebook com puters These computers have plenty of hard drive storage space available The need for card modems with on board memory and built in software was not apparent until the voices of Palmtop users began to be heard by the industry The first two PCMCIA fax mo dem amp memory combination cards to emerge are from Smart Modular Technologies and EXP Computers The cards are specifically designed for the HP Palmtops Both cards solve the basic dilemma of the single PCMCIA slot in the HP Palmtops by providing both fax modem and Flash memory on one card However each card provides unique features that must be considered Attention VARs OEMs Call Us for Factory Direct GEM Pricing KA packar HP 200LX Palmtop PC Similarities between the two fax modem amp flash memory cards Both cards allow you to run fax or data so
77. ank Baum Categories in NoteTaker You can view ideas according to categories For example let s view those notes related to Son To create a Subset for Son from the All Notes view press Subset Define to Category press and type s to put the cursor on Son Press and then Fi0 OK Give a name to the subset say Ideas for Solomon and then press Fi0 OK Now to view all ideas concerning your son press F Subset and select Ideas for Solo mon Press and you can examine your thoughts about Solo mon To look at all notes again press Subset and put the cursor at the top on All Notes and press ENTER 2 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 HUMAN RELATIONS Finding phone numbers when you need them There is a simple practice that I guarantee will pay off handsomely Whenever you make a new contact find yourself calling a new number or writing a new address ALWAYS enter that information into HP Palm top PHONE book If you think you may forget who that contact is be sure to type in key words in the Note field Use any identifying characteristics tall mus tache met in New York publisher s conference Take the minute or two required to enter the name address phone number and key words This method of always entering contact information has saved me incredible time hassle and embar rassment in the years that I have used the Palmtop Sometimes it has been over two years since I needed th
78. ard CGA graphics games is a consider able accomplishment Product Index pg 55 Share Freeware index pg 56 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 25 JetEye PC Provides HP Palmtop Users with Infrared Link to Desktop PCs JetEye PC lets you set your HP Palmtop or OmniBook down next to your PC and transfer files back and forth without the hassel of connecting cables or the expense of memory cards and card readers By Al Harrington The great advantages of the HP Palmtop is its portability and ease of use It slips in your pocket at a mo ments notice and goes where you go When you need to look up a phone number or write a memo you pull it out and press a couple of keys Al though the Palmop provides an al most self sufficient solution to per sonal information management many users still rely on their desktop PC for many tasks and occasionally have to transfer files back and forth be tween their Palmtop and their desk top systems In the past this procedure has been a little complicated and expen sive Users had a few options They could purchase a connectivity cable install file transfer software on their PC and physically connect the two computers to transfer files They could install a PCMCIA card reader in their desktop PC and use a PCM CIA memory card in their Palmtop s card drive to swap files back and forth A third more complicated approach would be to outfit both computers with modems an
79. ard games This is because many board games use only two colors so black and white mono chrome displays are fine In addition many board games have simple movement patterns so the key strokes needed for movement are straightforward I prefer graphics based board games because the display looks better than those using character graphics Here are some examples that work fine with the HP screen Backgammon Many backgammon games are avail able from bulletin boards and other sources One such program is BACKGM ZIP M Another program that looks very good on the HP 100 200LX screen is PC Gammon from Micro Star s Casino Games disk This is a standard backgammon game that uses a fairly convenient set of key board commands for movement It is not terribly sophisticated in terms of playing skill but then neither am I The executable file and user guide total to about 125K of storage Checkers For some reason there are not as many computer based checkers games as there are chess games CHKRS95 EXE Mi a checkers game made for the 95LX works on the 100 200LX In addition there is a graphics based checkers game called Lets Play Checkers Il by Don Lund man that works very well on the 100 200LX screen The graphics are very clear on the Palmtop screen and the movements by keyboard are very easy to learn This game has multiple skill levels and can play either like a novice or a pretty good player The executable file and user
80. ard that would prevent them from rattling around and doing damage in my briefcase found a nylon case with a belt loop that would handle the HP Palmtop StarLink and my Motorola Ultra Clas sic phone It s made by a company called CaseLogic and it s called the PH1 Phone Case 15 SRP 19 99 The real surprise was the leather case designed for the Newton MessagePad 110 29 Ed When we check the price on this found that Apple s leather case HOO75LL A sold for about 75 Its a little big for the HP Palmtop and StarLink card in a stylish baggy kind of way The interior is made of a satin like material and has pockets for several PCMCIA cards The external pocket was designed for the Newton MessageCard which is the same as the HP Star Link card You can have your HP Palmtop and PCMCIA cards protected inside and you can see and hear your HP StarLink card on the outside It s probably the best case out there for this combi nation Mark Ressa CompuServe ID 71052 256 DOS 100 200LX Avoid interference with DOS program run from the Appointment Book You can run a DOS program at a specific time by putting the full pathname for its exe cutable file EXE COM or BAT in an appointment Placing lIc batt100 com for example as the first thing in the description field will run batt100 when the appoint ments alarm would sound The alarm must be enabled and placing a Q in the loca tion field wi
81. artin To subscribe change address or clear up any problem with your subscrip tion contact our subscription depart ment Director Sharon Dilmore CompuServe ID 76125 1773 Technical Support HP Technical Support HP offers these options FREE TECHNICAL SUPPORT is offered to all Palmtop users and is available by calling 503 757 2004 m FREE AUTOMATED SUPPORT is offered 24 hours a day by calling 800 443 1254 e REQUEST FAXED OR MAILED INFORMATION 800 752 0900 On Line Support offered by these bulletin board services COMPUSERVE GO HPHAND FORUM Call 800 848 8199 or 614 ee For FREE membership state AMERICA ON LINE Keyword PALMTOP Call 800 227 6364 or 703 893 6288 for membership infor mation INTERNET comp sys palmtops or eddie mit edu Peve P P How to submit an article The richness of The HP Palmtop Paper comes from the contributions of Palm top PC users We and your fellow users welcome your submissions We do not offer payment for articles your reward is knowing that you ve helped others If you have a good idea and want to go for it send it in via Compu Serve E Mail 75300 2443 Internet 79300 2443 compuserve com or send disk or hard copy to Hal Goldstein or Rich Hall at the above address Alter natively you can send an outline of your idea We will try to guide you as to when and whether we would use the article and contact you if we need clarification or have
82. asier for developers to achieve higher levels of compati bility with their products Backward compatibility has always been a priority with PCMCIA and this new release continues that tradi tion Existing PC Card products will work at least as well under this re lease of the standard as they did under previous release For example if a PC card works in a current de vice it works in a comparable device created under the new standard However not all products de signed to take advantage of the new standard s features will be compatible in existing environments For exam ple a PC Card designed to operate only in a 3 3 volt environment will not work in an existing 5 volt Palm top or desktop PC Fortunately like existing cards cards created under the new standard can be designed to work in both 3 3 and 5 volt environ ments THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 7 WARNING Your subscription may be about RENEW OR SUBSC THE HP PALMTOP AND GET ALL THIS THE HP PALMTOP PAPER Super Ken Cutler Terrific Mark Gitlitz truly the most rewarding maga zine I have ever subscribed to with tons of information and products specifically for the HP Palmtops I don t have to go to the news agent to Oo a a on the f Gian browse the PC magazines for informa tion re palmtops anymore Thank you very much Khundry Kumulia Standing choulders BEST PALMTOP TIPS Maximiz
83. at contact information sometimes just a person s name Without the Palmtop that information would have been almost impossible to find ON THE PALMTOP It s only two keystrokes and to adda contact So always enter phone infor mation into PHONE book ALT N takes you directly to the Note field Put anything here that will help you remember tall thin Sam s uncle New York etc The next time you need to call and can t remember the name do an Find on Sam s uncle or New York TIME Plan for the week first then for the day There are many in the time manage ment field who suggest plan for the week then review tasks at the begin ning of the day as opposed to just creating daily to dos The advantage of the weekly view is you have more perspective You can schedule per sonal as well as business priorities at a time when you are not in the heat of battle If you only schedule a day at a time you are likely to be driven only by what is urgent rather than what is important If you make time for non urgent yet important items in the long run you will have less fires to put out The advantage of this approach is that you can allocate chunks of time at the beginning of the week to work on the business not in it If an emergency comes up you should immediately reschedule these impor tant appointments with yourself ON THE PALMTOP Fortunately week at a time planning is easy with the HP Pa
84. attery Management Supports NiCd NiMH Alkaline amp Lithium batteries Palmtop or PC v HP Palmtop Optimized Driver Y Optional ROM Installation Card v Three power modes Y 5 Volts only Y 300 000 hours MTBF v Shock resistant to 1 000 G vY Five Year Warranty Time to Upgrade Running on 486DX2 66 Generic ATA Flash Cards Random Ts Sotinae Ron Your Total Palmtop Storage Solution DoubleFlash 6M up to 6MB 239 DoubleFlash 10M up to 10MB 309 DoubleFlash 20M up to 20MB 459 DoubleFlash 40M up to 40MB 799 DoubleFlash 60M up to 60MB 1 099 DoubleFlash 80M up to 80MB 1 499 Ask about special ACE pricing on system bundles To Order Call 800 825 9977 CE ACE Technologies inc Technology Leaders in Portable Computing ACE Technologies inc 592 Weddell Drive 6 SUnnyvale California 94089 U S A Tel 408 734 0100 or 800 825 9977 Fax 408 734 3344 DoubleFiasn DoubieFlicsh LZS and Stocker ore trademarks of Stoc Electronics inc Pius are trademarks of ACE Technologies inc PP501
85. ax 908 654 7108 46 Medical Reference Education Software 800 676 0822 x 123 or 901 385 1840 x 123 27 Barcode system Environmental Case 800 733 5017 Fax 503 752 7037 45 MacLink Plus 800 733 0030 or 203 268 0030 Fax 203 268 4345 15 Palmtop circuit analysis software 617 923 4275 Fax 800 536 7595 37 Leather Cases 800 896 2273 Int l 916 344 5047 Fax 916 782 9306 17 Accessories Catalog 800 713 6522 or 714 582 2637 Fax 714 582 1445 31 9S 200LX and Accessories 800 227 8292 or 415 494 6600 Fax 415 494 1995 14 PCMCIA Products 602 892 0954 Fax 602 892 0029 14 ThinFax Modem 800 EXP 6922 x 641 Fax 714 453 1319 inside back Desktop Infrared Interface 800 235 7576 or 208 322 7575 Fax 406 587 9170 41 JetEye Infrared Printer Interface m Rec ee ara Oe ee ace 35 Universal Card Drive 800 600 5710 or 408 866 4739 Fax 408 866 8328 4 CGAVGA Graphics Pack Vision 604 980 9991 Fax 604 985 5597 7 Windows Connectivity Pack _ 603 888 0666 Fax 603 888 9817 21 Card Software Development System Phone Fax 415 747 0811 35 MobileMate 800 562 2830 23 Liberator Shoulder Holster 800 588 OPUS or 718 706 6787 Fax 718 706 7034 19 Emergency Physicians database 800 329 7872 ext 73743 Fax 708 475 0779 11 ATA X Card Drive 800 292 1347 or 714 961 7000 Fax 714 961 0102 33 acClS CompuServe a
86. ber of a person you met at a conference You remember that you entered his name into your Phone Book You also remember that the person had an unusual hobby collecting eggs You entered that in the F3 Notes field You go to the PHONE application press to go to the Find dialogue box Type in egg and press or ENTER The 100 200LX searches the entire phonebook and stops at the first entry in the Phone Book with egg entered in any of the fields If you press Find Next the Palmtop starts from wherever you are in the phone book list and searches forward If you press F3 Pe eaimioe searches for previous instances of the word The F4 Find feature works in and of the data base related applications APPT PHONE DATA BASE NOTETAKER WORLDTIME The Appoint ment Book and Phone Book on the HP 95LX have a Find feature accessed by pressing F7 HP Calc CEIS 100 200LX HP CALC functions below second row keys The labels just below the Z X C V B N and M keys are functions used in the HP CALC applica tions A step by step example will help clarify what they are and how to use them Step 1 Open Arithmetic make sure Stacks and Registers are visable When you first start HP Calc you should come up in the Arithmetic function If not press Arithmetic on the HP 95LX or Applications Arithmetic on the HP 100 200LX The Registers and Stacks should be displayed If they are not press F2 SHOW on the 95LX On the HP 100 2
87. bugger displayed you can step through your code until you find the source of your particular problem The debugger has saved me liter ally days worth of work and on one occasion helped me find a bug not in my TIPI code nor in my language but rather in Dave Visti s ASIC com piler A bit of detective work and some E mail to Dave cured the prob lem but it sure proved to me the value of a good debugger TIPI s shareware debut In the fall of 1993 I released TIPI as shareware 1 had spent much of the summer working on the manual for Altima Trading system The most advanced option pricing and position management software for hand held computers available today Powertul Derivative Pricing and Position Management Software If you are a floor trader or a trader who needs portable valuation power look no farther Designed for the HP 100 amp 200 LX Altima allows for multiple equity commodity and index positions Utilizing advanced modeling techniques Altima will give you an edge over the crowd Available pre installed on a PCMCIA Type II card or on disk Currently in use on trading floors and desks in the US UK and Europe Designed for and by traders now available to the public Call for demo and literature 1 800 642 7116 Brownstone Productions Inc Tomorrow s Derivative Software Today 5 Paulmier PI Jersey City NJ 07302 brownst panix com Toll Free 800 642 7116 Tel Fax 908 654 7108
88. ccccssecceeseeseneens Pee 55 Advertiser s Index No 56 Files on Jan Feb ON DISK 56 YOUR HP PALMTOP JUANTUM LEAP With just one SMART move your Hewlett Packard provider this powerful multifuntional card has all Palmtop can jump from a portable organizer to a the performance features you need 4MB or 6 MB mobile communications center The Fax Modem amp flash memory 14 400 bps fax 2400 bps modem HP Memory Multfunction Card from SMART Modular Laserjet compatibility as well as auto dial and Technologies enables this transformation by answer functionality SMART has also made combining industry standard fax amp modem capabili installation as easy as possible getting you up and ties with powerful on board flash memory all on running in seconds sleep and standby modes for the same streamlined PCMCIA Type I compatible prolonged battery life and our comprehensive card By coupling fax modem and memory functions five year warranty in a single card All told the Fax Modem amp you can easily Memory Card from send and receive SMART is a Calaveras the data intensive County like leap forward communications that before now were for palmtop computing and serious Hewlett Packard 100LX and 200LX users like you Think Think SMART beyond the reach of palmtop computing In keeping with our reputation for PCMCIA innovation and as a leading PC Card 1995 SMART Modular Technologies Inc All
89. ccess program 805 371 9391 Fax 805 371 9454 47 817 283 6691 Fax 817 283 5871 35 800 536 1231 Fax 510 623 1434 inside front Card link Drives Phone amp Fax 704 588 1780 7 HP Palmtop Paper 800 373 6114 Fax 515 472 1879 8 HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK 00005 ian EE We a ae 49 Fax Modem amp Memory Shareware and Freeware Index January February 1995 Software on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK or CompuServe Product ASIC ZIP BUDDY ZIP COMMO ZIP TED3 21P TIPLZIP GOALSET GDB PTPOSK19 ZIP VERSES ZIP GAMES TLG19 2IP BONDS ZIP FIDROOF SND BATLIT 2IP CPK45 2IP CASE COM HLVSCR ZIP KS ZIP LHA213 EXE LZEXE ZIP STRIPCR COM UNZIP EXE HPLIBS ZIP ADVERT ZIP PTP19 ZIP 56 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 Function Application ASIC a compiler for basic like code Application Ver 2 0b add useful features to 100 200LX CIS forun Library Type Page IBMPRO Basic Share 45 HPHAND TO0LX Gen 11 Shara 12 Applicaton Ver 6 41 a small fast reliable comm progam HPHANDHOOLX Datacomm 9 Share 12 na Free 41 HPHAND Palmtop Prog 15 Share 43 48 Application Tiny Editor 3 use with TLG19 ZIP Application A small Forth like programming language designed for tha 100 200LX Database Sample goal setting amp project management na Free 36 Database PTP OnDisk Index in 95 100LX formats na Free Database Sample scriptures database na Shareware freewar
90. ckard has developed many innovative products such as the Palmtop computers the LaserJet and DeskJet printers One of the reasons for this creativity is that it operates each division as though it were a separate company However this can result in lack of integration between products from different HP divisions For example the HP Desk jet Portable 320 an excellent printer is quite large and only has a parallel interface Since the Palmtops only have a serial interface you can t directly connect these two portable HP products together A serial to parallel converter is required to use this printer with the Palmtop Fortu Protect your palmtop with thts zippered case and carry itin your Suit pocket Diim 6 5 x 375 x 1375 165 59 5 4 3 49cm Black leather Regular 435 00 Protect your palmtop with this small and beautiful case Dim 65 s 37S a LIY 165 9 524 4em Motepad Inelucedd Black leatler Regular 260 00 Ideal for traveling and meetings Also fits calculators and electronic organizers Bint 6 a2 70 3 x 15 22 5 lem Notepad included Black or burgundy leather Regular 69 95 64 95 remit oF a eather USA 1 800 896 CASE 2273 Int l 916 344 5047 Fax 916 782 9306 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 nately two competitors Citizen and Pentax have introduced new printers that address the needs of the Palmtop user much better than HP s offering Pentax PocketJet P
91. ct the Citizen PN60 and the Pentax PocketJet portable printers to the 100 200LX see review page 13 Availability Now Pricing PN6O cable 42 PocketJet cable 35 CONTACT Shier Systems amp Software 920 Hampshire Road Suite A29 Westlake Village CA 91361 U S A Phone 805 371 9391 Fax 805 371 9454 CompuServe ID 75030 3374 Fax Modem Cards Cardwell Fax Modem 14 4 E A 14400 bps fax modem Type II card with Group 3 fax capabilities also supports older class 1 amp 2 fax ma chines Extended AT Com mand Set provides compati bility with a wide range of PC based communication applications Availability Now Medium PCMCIA card PONG ME T be os 189 CONTACT Cardwell Intemational 110 Blue Ravine Road Suite 156 Folsom CA 95630 4712 USA Phone 916 985 1880 Fax 916 985 1899 HP Palmtop Users Groups Those interested in participating in an HP Palmtop users group should contact the following individuals Write us if you wish to be added as a contact for a users group in your area Cleveland OH USA Selle clo MEM inc 4702 Boston MA USA CompuServe ID 4 95LX 100 200LX users in the Cleveland area should contact 355th St Willoughby OH 44094 Phone 216951 1333 Ret teak users in the Boston area should contact Bryan Krauthamer contact Craig de Fas Detroit al ba 95LX 100 200LX users in the Detroit area should contac
92. d TIPI a programming language designed from the ground up for palmtop programming TIPI A Threaded Instruc tion Processing Interpreter TIPI pronounced tepee is a small structured programming language that runs on any MS DOS computer but has been optimized for palmtops It was originally written to run on the very small Atari Portfolio I have since ported it over to the HP 100LX and optimized it for the Palmtop The name TIPI is an acronym meaning Threaded Instruction Pro cessing Interpreter I chose to make TIPI an interpreter rather than a compiler to avoid having a separate compile and link stage For an expla nation of programming terms see the Non programmer s introduction to programming on this page I wanted TIPI to be able to let programmers quickly try various ideas The term threaded refers to the way the in struction building blocks link to gether within the interpreter The TIPI interpreter takes up about 12K of disk space and TIPI programs are A non programmer s introduction to programming Hopefully this introduction will de mystify some terms used to describe computer programming A computer program is a series of instructions that tell the com puter how to behave A program may tell the comput er to act like a word processor a database program a game etc Programs can be simple comprised o a few lines of instructions or quite complicated thousands of lines long Programming la
93. d ils decimal code dup chr prints spaces dup hexs print spaces Print Spaces enddef define wait_for_key EK i Waits until a key is pressed and then returns the keycode While it s waiting il shows the current time begin showtime key dup LE dup endif until enddet fdow let s put all thas stuff togeth eT cls t Displays the column headings and the instructions Char Hex pec i e ie oe e Press any key to see its code ESC exits 0 cursor Hide the cursor This is the main loop It will t loop until the user presses the ESC key begin Wal t_ for_key 5 3 locate dup asciiline at until L eursor Set the cursor back to normal elements of these two languages together with neat ideas from AWKH C and Assembly language In December of 1992 I began work on TIPI I wrote the TIPI interpreter on a desktop PC using a shareware compiler called ASICIBl ASIC is the work of David Visti and his compiler takes code that is almost BASIC and compiles it down to a very small executable I chose ASIC over other BASIC compilers such as QuickBasic or PowerBasic because it produces such tiny EXEs I could have chosen to write TIPI using C Assembler or Forth but I had become intrigued with ASIC and wanted to use it in a full development project Once I had the core interpreter running I began adding features to the language Like Forth TIPI has a numeric
94. d transfer files between the two computers via a phone connection JetEye PC provides infrared file transfer A few years back Extended Systems came out with the JetEye Infrared Printer interface This device connect ed to the parallel port of a LaserJet printer and let 95LX users and even tually 100 200LX users set their Palmtops down next to the printer and have memos and other docu ments printed via the infrared port It eliminated the hassel of transfering files to a desktop PC or connecting the Palmtop to the printer via a col lection of cable and serial to parallel adapters Extended Systems has done it again with the JetEye PC an infrared interface for your PC Originally designed for the HP OmniBook it allowed the OmniBook to transfer files to and from your desktop PC without needing to use any cables Extended Systems recently an nounced that the JetEye PC will also work with the HP 200LX The JetEye PC allows on the go connectivity for the Palmtop With LapLink loaded and running on your desktop PC you need only put the Palmtop near the JetEye PC and start LapLink Remote No cables no has sles Installing JetEye PC I was surprised when I opened the JetEye PC box and looked inside there wasn t much there The JetEye PC IR receiver looks like a PC mouse that has been cut in half see drawing below It has a cable coming out of it with a 9 pin connector on the end Installing the JetEye PC couldn t
95. d unit detects Alpha Beta Gamma amp X Rays Displays 1000 times the resolution of f don gas Find sources Check food water ceramic coffee mugs for contamination eye opening Plot Muon showers Easy to setup and run Learn about radioactivity Exciting computer application Demonstrate alpha emission from smoke detector beta and gamma emission from lantern mantle other common items Plot background cosmic rays rocks bricks plane ride Wipe tissue on T V screen then generale a beautiful Also available LCD 60 Digital readout for use without computer RM 70 amp RM 80 pancake units as well as other types of sensors VISA MC EURO 45 day back decay plot of the collected Radium B Radon daughter half life 27 mins Check TVs CRTs for X Rays U S Dept H E W 21 CPR 1029 10 Rugged and accurate digital circuitry needs no adjustments Draws a minuscule amount of power from HP s serial port Cable extendible with telephone wire Should last a lifetime Superb user friendly software including A propra run other ent cdosime programs simultaneously Makes excel ry system with alarm real time graph data logging and TSR Medical personnel slip in pocket when ma inp rounds i dd strobe siren to meet OSHA S reg 9CFR 1910 96 amp 1910 97 Used by medical waste facilities cancer treatment centers water amp sewer plants universities lessons available nuclear facilities high schools scrap
96. d we cannot find a new number Rich Falcon XT or 1 0 not to be confused with Falcon AT is no longer available through Spectrum Holobyte its developer However recently found it for 9 ata Best Buy Superstore so there are still some copies out there Although Jetfighter II is far better Falcon XT occu pies less than 500K and may be more suitable for those with limited disk space POPGAMES B is a pop up TSR program of four games Tetris Numbers Light cycles and Breakowt Pop loads the program pop stop removes it If you load it while shelled to DOS it will be removed when you quit the System Manager If you hit while playing one of the games POPGAMES keeps your place in the game until you come back or quit entirely You can keep it loaded and pop it up be tween other work POP GAMES occupies only 30K and can stay on the RAM disk Best of all POPGAMES is FREEWARE and for a modest fee you can get more games It s the first good game I ve found for those without PCMCIA storage I ve discovered some additional useful utilites and 100 200LX related files that make life easier on the HP Palmtop STRIPCR COM H strips a file of all carriage returns type Striper lt filename gt newfile name CASE COM amp converts a file to all capital letters type case lt filename gt newfilename CASE can really improve the readability in batch files FIDROOF SND W is a custom alarm for the 100 200LX A
97. deas during the day that have nothing to do with what we are working on Many of these ideas can be very useful but tend to get lost without an organized way to collect them The built in NoteTaker application is perfect to track these ideas for later review The category field is what gives this application the most power As you start entering ideas you will notice that the ideas fall into cate gories Examples of how to classify your ideas might include books to read things to do with your son a marketing idea some suggestions for your boss Some of your ideas such as a book for your son might have two categories ON THE PALMTOP To start Note Taker just press More N or press CTRL MEMO Press F2 to enter an idea If the idea can be expressed in a few words just use the Title field Other times you will want to elaborate in the Note field When it is time to type in the category keep its name short You are only allowed 256 total characters when you combine all the names of your categories So you might name your categories Books Son Mkt Boss The first time you use a cate gory simply type in the category name Subsequently from the Cate gory field press and then type the name of the category until the cursor falls on it Press or if you want to assign more than one category press on each category press when you re done Finally press to save the note olomon series by Fr
98. define and select other subsets of your All Cities list THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 51 ssa Q WICK TIPS AAA Appt 100 200LX Appt too soon Some users have found that their appointments will sound the alarm too soon For ex ample a 12 01am appoint ment will be fired off instead at 11 58pm If this happens you may have a problem in the hidden file C _DAT ALARM Q To fix this You will have to make the hidden file visible and deletable You can do this by entering the following command at the DOS prompt atrib c _dat alarm g h r First back up the file then with the Appointment Book open delete the ALARM Q file Then re enter the Ap pointment Book and close it A new ALARM Q will be cre ated When you open Ap pointment Book again your alarms should be on time Mark Scardina CompuServe ID 76711 732 B 4 100 200LX Separate work and personal ToDos with priorities You can use priorities in the ToDo list to separate work and personal tasks HP 100 200LX Example Give all work related tasks priorities beginning with A A1 A2 etc and all person al tasks priorities beginning with B B1 B2 etc To separate the items visually in the ToDo list put a header in as the first entry in each main category For example key in Work at the ToDo Description give it a priority of AO and give other work related ToDos priorities of A1 A9 Then key in Personal as anoth
99. defining a new instruction called WAIT which causes execution of the program to pause until the Table 1 TIPI Instructions Table 1 TIPI Instructions mimi gt Control Instructions Graphics Instructions Math Instructions SS e a a A eo a a a a a m a x lt a E Drawline Scroll Abs id Begin Until Drawrect Setclip Max GetfFont Setfont Mam l CHRE oi GE oro Endor Getpoint Setlinetype Mod H Of are endot Movepen setlogorg St A L Ploticon Setpencolor Mise Instructions Plotpoint Setreprule 22 gt 4 default Plotbext Setvmode Bie Random Fndcase Screen zoom Bye Randomize a i ear Ticks Cases se ofS endotsS T70 Instructions Eval Timeout kaef Pie Erir epah WE LLM Z False True z Beep Machine Version Bload Noe F defaultS Bsave l OF EES Endcases Close p gt 4 l Cis Stack Instructions EO Do TT oor Color oe Color Depth TE aoa Else oea ERGIT Column Depths Comstat Brop While Wend Console Drops CR Dup Data Tnstructions Current DBups s gt gt 5 gt gt Cursor Over Fetch Defseg Overs l Store EOF Pick Sse e Fa eneo CO EXE ended Picks Debugging Instructions Filepos Pop oa SS SS Getbyte Push
100. distribute just those EXEs Furthermore running the pro gram would be as simple as typing ANIMA at the command line Because the TIPI interpreter is so small I didn t have to rewrite my entire program to make a compiled version of TIPI Instead I created a slightly modified version of the TIPI interpreter that could be bound to gether with a user s source code to create a single EXE Using this meth od I got the MakeEXE function up and running in one evening I put this feature into the share ware version of TIPI but I added one small element a registration code When the MakeEXE is used in an unregistered version of TIPI the EXE will be made but it will display a small shareware notice before the user s program runs By setting things up in this way I let the users see the usefulness of the MakeEXE function while also giving them an incentive to register Help System I also went to work on improving the workbench and the TIPI user s manu al I knew that TIPI would be new to everyone so they would need good reference materials The HP 100LX has a built in database engine so created a help file in that format for HP users I also knew that some people were using TIPI on regular PCs so I set to work on writing a PC based help system for TIPI Natu rally chose to write this in TIPI Since the help system had a lot of text this quickly grew beyond the 32K limit I had imposed on TIPI a bit of a
101. e postings on the comp sys palmtops newsgroup about this very same problem One poster said HP Techni cal Support recommended an in war ranty replacement Once settled back in Huntsville I called HP and got very courteous service They sent the replacement 200 overnight mail and I transferred my files over to it with out any problems The new unit doesn t exhibit the clicking sound but has a much stiffer hinge Conclusion Overall I have been very impressed with the HP Palmtop products Ex cept for the hinge problem the unit has held up very well under all types of adverse conditions Having been a long user of HP calculators I have come to expect this ruggedness from their products I have successfully shifted my PIM activities and have nearly eliminated my use of paper slips Having a small computer with all these capabilities in my pocket or briefcase has proven to be a real benefit to me and I recommend it highly The Easiest Way to Transfer PCMCIA ATA Data Between Your Palmtop amp Your Desktop Introducing the ATA X PEMCIA ATA Desktop Reader Writer Now Only 99 __ ATA X provides a seamless we PCMCIA ATA data transfer path between your Palmtop and virtually any 16 bit ISA DOS PC making your PCMCIA ATA storage devices as casy to use as a floppy ATA X supports ATA Flash Cards and 1 8 Hard Disks accommodates Hot insertions removals uses standard MS DOS utilities such as Disk
102. e connected with Netware and we use a single dedicated computer running CloseUp and connected to a modem to pro vide remote access Once connected the remote caller can check his or her e mail and otherwise work with files and programs on the file servers or the dedicated CloseUp computer When I first got my 200LX I nev er dreamed that I could use it as a re mote user to our office network However doing so turned out to be quite simple I placed the CloseUp program on the C drive since I must remove the A drive in order to use the modem and ran it like normal I used CloseUp version 6 the current version I only needed two files on the Palmtop CREMOTE EXE 272 Kbytes and CLOSE _UP MNU 658 bytes I told it the computer had a black and white monitor use the com2 port at 19200 baud and I was connected Several engineers and managers back in Huntsville needed to keep abreast of the progress of our work at White Sands To this end my Palmtop came in handy The drive from our work place to the hotel was about one hour This trip home in the afternoon was the perfect time to prepare a daily report I was riding as a passenger When I arrived at the hotel I would connect to the office upload the report and send it to the appropriate engineers by e mail This way they had detailed up to date progress reports waiting for them on their computers each morning Logging onto Internet I have an account with an Int
103. e games on this special two disk ON DISK issue are listed in the sidebar on 0seecsneeennneaes Misc Some files mentioned in Through the Looking na Looking Glass Contains CHOICE BAT ECHONL COM GDB MAC LZH OPT BAT PNS200 LZH SAMPLE INI SAMPLE TST TEST BAT VU COM Solver Bond equations for the 95 100 200LX HPHANDVT00LX Gen 7 11 contains 95L EQN file from BONDS95 2IP Sound Fiddler on the Roof sound file Utility Batch file compiler Utility Compack file compression utility Utility Converts file to all capital letters Utility Contains HELV200 font for the 200LX na ZENITHDOS Utilities 5 IBMPRO10 na HPHAND 100LX Gen 11 Utility KSX COM keystuff for 100 200LX used with TLG19 na Utility File compression and archival used with TLG19 ZIP HPHAND Gen 1 Utility File compression program Utility Strips cariage retums from file Utility Latest version of utility to decompress ZIP files ZENITHIDOS Utilies 5 na HPHAND General 1 Text GDB Descriptions of files in CIS HP forums na Text Descriptions products advertised this issue na Text The HP Palmtop Paper January February 1995 na Text cover letter for HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK na Software mentioned and included in past issues of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK The Subscribers PowerDisks or CompuServe s HP HAND Forum a Program issue included in CompuServe Forum shareware ireeware status page references this issue a 1
104. e keystroke This reduces the programmer s depen dence on a raft of manuals ExpertHelp is 100 com patible with the Norton Guides and supports Text Cut and Paste Global Search ing 25 28 43 50 60 line vid eo modes mouse control and more The SofSolutions BBS has over 70 ExpertHelp databases available free to ExpertHelp users including Borland C Microsoft C Assembler Net ware Clipper and D Base Those involved in the PAL project discussed in the pro gramming section of Compu Serve s HP Hand forum can receive a discount on the prod uct This product is of interest to those writing programs for the HP 95 100 200LX but does not necessarily work on those machines Availability 5 Now DOOMED oc savers Floppy disk Pricing Mot Spooks e aiara 129 PAL project participants 59 CONTACT SofSolutions Phone 800 325 6820 or 402 332 5611 Fax 402 332 5617 CompuServe ID 72500 1452 Ae TOS SR ta TEvotuRONIEiNg tne prei iice of Emergency MEE PEPID The Palmtop EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN Information Database Quick Access to Diagnosis Pathophysiology Treatment and Disposition essentials for virtually all emergent urgent and routine Emergency Department problems Prepared by Emergency Physicians many dual boarded Pediatrics Orthopedic and Internal Medicine Specialists and Certified Pharmacologists in leading teaching institutions Unique Note Format allows rapid assi
105. e programs were of some use to the general population but limited in their appeal or required a little too much technical savvy to use They may have left them on the Palmtop for the more adventurous and self sufficient users to play with They may have decided not to mention or document them so they wouldn t confuse the majority of users or spend a lot of money technically supporting little used applications It s fortunate for us that they left FILER INI on the HP 200LX and PUSHKEYS COM on both the 100 and 200LX They are very useful pro grams that let us with a little bit of work expand the capabilities of HP s fine Palmtop PCs It s fun to discover that you ve got some pretty good prizes in HP s Cracker Jack com puter Share Freeware Index pg 56 Programmer s Corner TIPI A Small Programming Language for Small Computers TIPI 2 0 a is a small structured programming language written to run on small DOS compatible portables like the HP Palmtops By Kent Peterson Back when I was a tiny little pro grammer I dreamed of having a tiny little personal computer I could take with me anywhere I pictured myself programming on the shores of a secluded lake a high tech hermit coding the Great American Program Well life doesn t always work out exactly the way we plan I got mar ried and acquired two sons a lazy cat and a whole bunch of computers I finally got my tiny little personal computer and develope
106. e three small indicator lights on the top of the printer that display up to 13 different status conditions of on off or blinking lights Fortunately a sticker on the bottom of the printer explains the various conditions indi cated by the lights and Pentax pro vides a quick reference card that fits in a outside pocket of the carrying case Still I would prefer more intu itive indicators and controls As their first entry in the consum er portable printer market Pentax s new PocketJet printer is a serious contender JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 Citizen PN6O Pocket Printer The Citizen PN60 represents the third generation of battery powered porta ble printers from this veteran of the portable printer market The im provements incorporated in this grandchild of my old PN46 clearly show Citizen s experience While not as small as the Pentax the PN60 is tiny and light With the optional battery attached the printer weighs less than 1 75 Ibs about 1 Ib without the battery The list price of the Citizen PN60 is 399 including the AC adaptor charger optional battery is 579 This printer uses a ribbon and prints on plain paper using a ther mal fusion method In thermal fu sion the ink is transferred to the paper under heat and pressure The ink is a plastic coating on the rib bon which will not come off on your hands if you touch the ribbon While these ribbons are about half the size of the PN48 ribb
107. e your palmtop lt productivity with this collection PALMTOP of the most useful tips tricks shortcuts and hidden features we ve discovered in our two years of writing The HP Palmtop Paper Great for users at any level New issue each year YOU RECEIVE TWO ADDITIONAL BONUS ISSUES FOR EACH YEAR YOU SUBSCRIBE _ n amanan sie PC CARD REVIEW A special report with all the information you need to make sense of the many types of PCMCIA cards becoming available SRAM FLASH FAX MODEM NETWORK WIRELESS MORE REVIEW An invaluable reference item NEW ISSUE whether you re looking to buy EACH YEAR or just looking THE SUBSCRIBER POWERDISK A different PowerDisk for every year you subscribe Loaded with the best Programs Games and Utilities we can find many subscribers have told us that the PowerDisk alone is worth far more than the cost of a sub scription But you can t buy it You can only get it free with your subscription to The HP Palmtop Paper BACK ISSUES AVAILABLE NEW THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS Third Party Products of Interest to HP Palmtop Users This section lists products new since the last issue and includes hardware software books videos training and services of interest to HP Palmtop users The icons above the product name indicate which Palmtop the product is suitable for for the 95LX for the 100 200LX in some cases the pr
108. eed to refer to this database such as when assigning a drawing number to a new part I have the entire database right at my fingertips I simply call up the spreadsheet on my 200LX and make the necessary changes This capability came in very useful on several occasions during my trip Schematic Capture One of the programs I transferred to my Palmtop before leaving Hunts ville was an old copy of OrCAD a schematic capture program I recalled from an article in the Palmtop Paper that a 100LX user had successfully gotten Orcad to run so I thought I d give it a try on the 200LX I installed OrCAD on my desktop computer configured it for CGA drivers then copied the whole program over to my Palmtop I had a doubled 30MB Flash card in my memory slot and wasn t concerned about space How ever the program can easily be pruned down Sure enough things worked smoothly I configured the program for a CGA display I was surprised at how crisp the CGA mode appeared on the 200 compared to a regular monitor I was able to put OrCAD to use during my trip by drawing up several small test circuits I needed I used OrCAD 3 11 which is no longer supported by the manu facturer The current version SDT 386 requires a 386 processor and will not work on the HP Palmtop Hinge Problem Towards the end of my trip I began to notice a distinct clicking sound from the left end of the Palmtop s hinge Coincidentally I noticed som
109. ely you can obtain TIPI and all the code from CompuServe s HP Handhelds forum If you have any questions or comments about TIPI drop me some E mail The odds are w l m up the coffee s on and I m hacking on DEMO TPT by Kent Peterson 11 17 94 define hex n l i hs t Returns hex equivalent of a number ue begir dup 16 mod 01 23456789ABCDEF 1 1 mids SWapsS 5 l6 dup not until drop endde define showtime l Shows the current time t on Ehe top row of the screen 0 5 locate times prints enddef define spares j PrintS four spaces v Y prints enddet user presses a key define wait begin key until enddet Once you have defined WAIT you can use the WAIT instruction any where in your code TIPI contains over 170 built in instructions for the programmer to use as building blocks These instruc tions fall into eleven categories Table 1 lists these categories and their asso ciated instructions A Bit of History TIPI borrows from a computer lan guage called Forth Forth was invent ed in the late 1960 s by Charles Moore I did a fair amount of work in Forth in the early 80 s and was very impressed by its elegance and power Forth tends to be cryptic BASIC on the other hand is regard ed as being quite legible but lacking in structure and power TIPI is my attempt to combine some of the best define asciiline c t Displays c as a character t 1ts hex code an
110. em and printer still takes up the better part of a pilot s case I have wanted to reduce the bulk of the latter two items for some time and have longed for a smaller combination PCMCIA fax modem amp flash memory card and a smaller serial printer I have been using an external pocket modem instead of a PCMCIA card modem because I need a lot of file storage space for CompuServe messages and must use the Palmtop s card slot for a memory card Unfortu nately the pocket modem and its serial cable are too big for my Palm top s carrying case What I needed to simplify my life was a PCMCIA card modem with Flash memory on board This would allow me to keep the messaging software on the card along with fax and modem messages I also carry a three year old Citi zen PN48 printer with me when I travel This 2 6 lb printer is about the size of a rolled up newspaper The printer comes with a parallel inter face only requiring an additional serial to parallel converter to connect it to the HP Palmtop While small and light for a full page printer it still takes up more space than the rest of my mobile office A smaller lighter printer with a serial interface was also high on my list With all this in mind I attended the November 1994 Comdex show in When youre on the road smaller is better Bulky peripherals mean bigger carrying cases and every extra pound drags you down This new field of diminutive printers and fax modem amp
111. ended After supporting the HP Palmtop these past three and a half years people ask us Don t you run out of material and Don t you get tired of writing about the HP Palmtop Frankly I am more excited and impressed today about the HP Palmtop and what it can do for me than I was when we began this publication The possibilities of a DOS computer in my pocket seem endless As we HP Palmtop users continue to discover and invent more uses for our pocket computer we will continue to report the findings in these pages Yal Lolli Top Hal Goldstein Bottom Robert Roney and Rich Hall The HP Palmtop Paper INCREASING YOUR PERSONAL POWER BY EXPANDING YOUR PALMTOP S POTENTIAI Volume four Number one Executive Editor Publisher Hal Goldstein Managing Editor Richard Hall Technical Editor Robert Roney Department Editors Ed Keefe Mark Scardina Contributing Writers Al Harrington Tad James Capers Jones Chris Lott Kent Peterson David Shier Advertising Marketing Brian Teitzman Margaret Martin Diane Wimett Circulation haron Ash Sharon Dilmore Cindy Ericson Tom Gibson Tiff any Lis Colleen Rodibaugh Executive Advisor Rita Goldstein The HP Palmtop Paper ISSN 10656189 is ublished bimonthly by Thaddeus EPOE ape at 57 East Broadway Avenue Fairfield TA 52556 Second class postage paid at Fair field Iowa Subscription rates payable in U S dollars checks drawn on a U S bank or by credi
112. er ToDo and give it the priority of BO Give other personal ToDos priorities from B1 B9 After you ve entered a few ToDo items your ToDo list will look something like this AO Work Al Write letter to AJones Al Send estimate A2 Compensation plan A3 More BO Personal Bl Fix cabinet door Bl Change oil in car Fy TF am r Ba amas to JJ amp c shopping T5 Was BS ar MII aie You can then change the default priority of new ToDos to whatever you enter most commonly For example you might want A1 high priority work related items to be your default priority Change this default priority in the Appointment Book by press ing Options ToDo Defa ults tab to the Priority box and enter A1 From that point on whenever you enter a ToDo it will have the A1 priority entered automatically if you need another priority level you ll have to tab to the Priority box in the ToDo item entry screen and key it in HP 95LX Example You can use this system with a few modifications on the HP 95LX The 95LX Todos only allow nine priority levels 1st through 9th Enter the header Work as your first 1st Priority ToDo and Personal as your first 2nd Priority ToDo Designate all work relate Todos as 1st Priority and all personal Todos as 2nd Priori ty After you ve entered a few Todos your Todo list will look something like this 52 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 ist Prio
113. er fine magazines JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 43 HOW TO USE TIPI similarly small TIPI requires about 100K of RAM to run in and is thus well suited for palmtop computers such as the Poquet PC or the HP LX series TIPI was created to be Efficient TIPI is based on a multi stack interpreter This lets numeric and string data pass quickly and con sistently between instructions greatly reducing the need for complex inter nal parsers and temporary variables Structured TIPI is very modular All TIPI instructions have one entry and one exit point All instructions are clearly defined and perform most of their interaction via stacks TIPI does not have the spaghetti genera ting GOTO instruction Small TIPI is not a language for creating huge programs The basic philosophy of TIPI is that problems should be broken into small discreet easily understood components In threaded languages performance degrades as the threads get longer and longer threads are what you get when you write big programs To keep TIPI reasonably fast the TIPI in terpreter is limited to processing programs of 32K or less Clear A program is more than a set of instructions telling a computer how to solve a particular problem it is also a document precisely describ ing a set of problem solving proce dures A programming language needs to be comprehensible to the computer the program will run on and clear to the
114. ernet provider in Huntsville and I keep up with several USENET newsgroups The 200LX worked very well in this application I used the built in Data comm application with my FAX Modem card This setup allowed me to call in from anywhere with a phone line and have instant access to the entire Internet Not only did I keep up with newsgroups but I used many of the other services on the Internet For example 1 have a medical condition that requires occasional visits to a specialist back in Alabama One such visit happened during my assignment out here I used the inter net to communicate with my doctor and to arrange the details of the appointment Unfortunately other communications with my doctor such as a prescription and informa tion regarding an experimental medi cal trial program he wants me to consider had to be handled by con ventional means snail mail and FAX machines I can see the day soon however where even this kind of information can flow rapidly and electronically over the internet My doctor reports that radiologists are already using the internet to ex change high resolution medical imag es Amazing Transferring a Report to a Macintosh I had an occasion to provide an engi neer at White Sands with a report he needed The report in question was prepared in ASCII format by an asso ciate and was stored on our file serv er in Huntsville To complicate mat ters my company is PC based while the en
115. ervice varies Wireless messaging service for one stop communications solution Contact 800 97 LINK 5MB 12v Flash Card 499 HP F1012A with Stacker 3 0 data compression software not for the 95LX 10 PEE Flash Card 879 F1013A with Stacker 3 0 data ression software not for the 95LX ae Card 149 95 F1011A 39 95 Usha ai ABA Europe PC Connectivity Ga 24 95 HP F1015A comes 95LX and 100 200LX to DOS compatible PC MAC Connectivi Cable 24 95 No 95LX and 100 HP F1016A 200LX to Apple F Bee ay Pack 119 95 Connectivity Pack 119 95 HP F1021B HP F1021C International LX Connectivi Pack Software Only ConnectiAdapter Kit A 95 P F1023A 4 ada connecting he 1007200x lo madens inter and PCs 00 200LX rida Cradle 79 bs F1027A Connects the 100LX or to U S Robotics WorldPort V 42bis Modem Skytel pager and other products Q5LX Accessory Cradle 60 HP F1006A service a reements Ye For U S HF Palmtop users Units must be under warranty to extend 95LX 1 year extension 50 95LX 3 year extension 135 100 200LX 2 a extension 85 Contact HP Corvallis Service Center USA Phone 503 757 2002 NOTE Suggested retail price listed OTHER PRODUCTS Bonds U S 395 Bonds Internat 495 Investment analysis See page 48 Contact oy Investment Phone 610 688 2508 Fax 610 688 5084 acClS 3 0 69 on 2MB SRAM card 329 Automates CompuSe
116. ess ENTER You should see the message Pushkeys installed Restart System Manager by typing 200 and pressing ENTER 3 Create a MAC macro file to use with the Pushkeys program This file will contain the keys and commands you wish to execute with Pushkeys To create this file follow these steps A Press the Filer key and go to the C _DAT directory and highlight the SETUP ENV file Press and copy the SETUP ENV file to SETUPENV BAK This step saves the current macros in a backup file and ensures that what we re about to do can be undone B Press CTRL amp to start the Sys tem Macro application Then press to clear out ALL the macro definitions that you may have C Point at the Fn F1 field and press ENTER In the Description field type GDB in the Contents field type Database Menu folTab There is a shortcut to entering a key name bracketed in French braces Press and then the key For example to enter Data base in the Macro Contents field press and then press CTRL PHONE When you re finished entering the macro code press OK D Press File Save As and save the file with the name GDB MAC 4 Add the following line to FILER INI and save the file Sob Dini pus Niga cam One aa Start Filer and point at any file that has an extension of GDB and press ENTER The database application will start the Open File screen will be displayed and the highlight bar will be resting in the
117. ets you print out annotated sessions and comes with an improved user inter face The new version of DE RIVE must be downloaded to an HP 95 100 200LX from a desktop PC Once down loaded DERIVE automatical ly adjusts its display size and configures for minimum bat tery usage Availablity 20 eee enna Now Medium 465 Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr No Requires 1MB of RAM on Palmtop RINNE PAAR PATS T 125 DORE SEEE es 60 CONTACT Soft Warehouse Inc 3660 Waialae Ave Suite 304 Honolu lu HI 96816 USA Phone 808 734 5801 Fax 808 735 1105 100 200LX Discount for Aztec C This small C compiler was mentioned in Sept Oct 94 page 53 Manx Software Sys tems is offering their Aztec C Developers Package to Palm top Paper readers at 50 off The package includes compil er assembler linker and Unix like utilities including a VI editor The package nor mally sells for 299 Availability A i 0 06 cece wee Now J a ii Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr No Un eee ree 4 eee 149 50 CONTACT Manx Software Systems Inc P O Box 980 Freehold NJ 07728 USA Phone 800 221 0440 or 908 308 3800 ON DISK Index pg 56 Portable Printers and Fax Modem amp Flash Memory cards lt Lighten the Travelers Load a Lad oc By David Shier While the HP Palmtops have com pletely replaced a laptop or notebook computer for my traveling my mo bile office including mod
118. example we might have the following steps a Realtor t Available ecide on the S p mng oDaCes paje GE pace LETE FTE 55 the Le s Aa F La 799 JOE a1 OT ase Wal ae Aa Move LT Woy eae ad The Move in date above is the criti cal one All other steps need to hap Palmtop Circuit HP 95 100 200LX Nonlinear analog circuit analysis Common emitter BCA anplifier Help Insert d Z00 Redraw AT y gt plus plots fi or fi function analy S151 with y waveform options Square triangular tra pez zoidal Eaei lso ge ee b SOL Lee Lh aE a ee You can in e valua if te cin cuits by DC f ih AC ort transien ent pulse 1 mnit step si sine B at ar oiron symbolic rouits a ysis sis loseg tor mi i axpres 2551 ee Why waste time with a series of trials Pick the outcome you want Palmtop Circuit will deliver the necessary parameters using optimization With Palmtop Circuit the power of circuit analysis is al C ways in your pocket And if you buy Palmtop ircuit now you get the same fully featured IBM PC compatible version Absolutely free vetie J 14expt SE4at JH COSC SESHt 162 6 ett 5 9 18 0 15 8 20 8 c VJ 1 8 8 13 0 5 r A Output voltage Hardware requirements HP 95 100 200LX and minimum MB of memory card Comes on 3 5 disk requires serial cable amp HP Connectivity Pack for br Time Cus downloading to HP
119. ey Cold Dark and the HP Palmtop It was a long sub zero win ter s night many miles above the arctic circle A group of five people bundled in cold weather gear jogged into sight brave participants in the 14th Annual Prudhoe Bay Alaska Five Mile Fun Run Joining in on the run more accurately a fast walk I pulled out my HP 95LX opened Memo and attempted to capture the descriptive flow of the run the people their feelings and comments and our extreme surroundings Every year we do some thing a little different in the run This year the difference was the HP Palmtop We were using the HP 95LX and 95Buddy to time runners and make notes In weather this cold the display turns blank almost immediately but that doesn t affect the other functions we can still work the stopwatch and take notes in Memo To give myself a little edge I used a hand warmer to keep my fingers and the Palmtop from completely freezing 4 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 PCMCIA for Your Desktop PC o 6 amp CardDock Supports TWO TYPE I ll or Ill PCMCIA cards A Universal support for I O Memory Flash LAN FAX and hard disk PC Cards Software and hardware included in one low price Easy to install in a 5 1 4 half height bay DOS and Windows compatible A Convenient front panel jack for modem Graystone Peripherals Inc 130 A Knowls Drive Los Gatos CA 95030 a Tel 408 866 4739 Fax 408 86
120. ftware from the memory por tion of the card while using the mo dem They each come with fax send and receive programs preloaded on to the Flash memory While the fax modem portion of both cards will work on other PC s equipped with a PCMCIA slot the flash memory of both cards only works on the 100 200LX EXP is compiling a list of computers with PCMCIA slots that can use the memory portion of their card They are also updating their drive for greater compatibility At this time neither card comes with separate data communications software Both cards have a built in phone line interface so no large external connector pod is needed Installation for either was simple as close to plug and play as you Palmtop Accessories for the 100 200 LX Omnibook Memory Cards NEW with 200LX Intuit Palmtop Quicken SECRETE RES R ER R ORR EE Both Available in 1MB or 2MB HP 200LX pictured Call for Dealer OEM Pricing l Carry with you your bank check credit card and cash account balances And do reconciliation PC Compatible It runs your off the shelf DOS based sottware Your tavorite sotiware right in your pocket Mus be DOS based CGA Compatible 1 MB 2MB RAM DOS 5 0 and Expandable Memory Supports up to 32MB with optional plug in memory cards one slot PCMCIA Type II cc Mail Remote is Built in You tan attach a modem to access e mail plus a wide range of communication networks Lotus 1 2 3 rel
121. gahertz XJACK Bundle HP 200LX compotible v Pop out telephone connection No extemal phone odopters of converters No easier way to send foxes XJACK 14 4K 14 4KFax modem ACE FAX Other Great Modem Bundles with ACESFAX External 14 4K Pocket Fax Modem ccccceeecceccess 9269 External 2 4 9 6K Pocket Fax Modem 0 000000 ceca 139 Modem Phone Interface Connects any modem to Digital phones Supports full speed modem data rates Battery or AC adapter Operation d level selector for optimum matching Simple plug in installation Modem Phone Interface P4112 w Moderm Bundle Acoustic Coupler Connect to any phone in the World v High performance Acoustic Coupler PCMCIA or extemal v 2400bps with standard pay phones Upto 14 4kbps with electronic phones AA204 ACOUSTIC Coupler c cccccsescsceeseerenseess PEETRE pin w Modem Bundle Carrying Cases Carrying Cases for Your HP Palmtop Custom Black Nylon sil maces 19 Custom Black Leather case EEEO O N E E Deluxe Black Leather case y AN alma T Executive Black Leather Portfolio re ee SPECIAL SAVE 10 with any expense is 500 ormore ss 10 HP 200LX Systems with DoubleFlashe Plus Available only from ACE this complete package contains everything thing you will need to start enjoying the full benefits of the HP 200LX e ACE LINK file transfer soffware with HP PC serial cable DoubleFlashePlus Hi Performance solid
122. ger than previous OmniBooks But it is also packed with features including a back lit 8 5 inch color display a nickel metal hydride bat tery providing up to four hours of battery life and Instant On which allows the user to return immediately to where they were when they turned the machine off The 600 PC 6 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 system also includes an HP Palmtop compatible Personal Information Manager financial calculator and comes with a full size keyboard pop up mouse and an optional recharger that allows customers to recharge multiple batteries The 600PC features two free Type II PCMCIA slots useable as one Type IH slot an infrared port as well as serial parallel floppy drive and SVGA display ports An optional enhanced port replicator is available with SCSI 2 PS 2 mouse and key board ports in addition to a LAN card expansion slot The new HP OmniBook 600 PCs are equipped with Intel 486DX2 50 or 486DX4 75 processors 4 or 8MB of RAM expandable to 12 or 16MB and a 170MB or 260MB hard drive 1 8 inch PCMCIA Type II The HP OmniBook 600 PC series is expected to start at an estimated street price of 2 599 for a system equipped with the Intel DX2 50 processor 170MB hard drive and 4MB of RAM The 600 PC ships standard with an exter nal floppy drive serial cable external AC adapter power cord and re chargeable NiMH battery pack HP OmniBook 4000 PC Fast portable with large
123. gineers at White Sands I was working with used Apple Macin toshes exclusively First I used the CloseUp program to connect to the office and trans 32 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 ferred the report to my Palmtop Using a short phone line cable with RJ 11 connectors which I always carried in my briefcase I connected my Palmtop modem directly to the Mac s modem We started up a ter minal emulator program on both machines Datacomm on the 200LX issued the ATO command to each modem which made them connect Once connected I simply transferred the file using the ZMODEM protocol While I was glad to be able to get the report delivered as required look forward to the day when computers are more universally connected and such gyrations aren t necessary Downloading FORTRAN Files to a Luggable Computer During the trip I needed to make an unexpected side trip to a supplier to assist in performing acceptance tests on some equipment These tests re quired the use of a luggable PC based computer running some special purpose FORTRAN data processing programs While I had brought the computer along with me I didn t have the FORTRAN files needed The solution again involved my Palmtop I connected to the office computer and downloaded the various source batch and data files I needed to my 200LX After that I connected my Palmtop by serial port to the lug gable I was then able to transfer the files u
124. hat to expect 50 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 Key pressed What happens answer in example Z iX Calculates square root of number on Calc Line 2 X 1 x Calculates the reciprocal the of number on Calc Line 0 50 C 2 Swaps the number on Calc Line with the number in Stack 1 position 0 00 if your stack was cleared V Ab Moves Stack down one position Stack 3 number moves to Stack 2 Stack 2 number to Stack 1 Stack 1 number to Calc Line Calc Line number to Stack 3 Calc Line 0 50 B LAST Copies number in Stack 1 to Calc Line Calc Line 0 00 If you were in the middle of a calculation say 1 2 and pressed B the number in Stack 1 would be copied into the calculation 1 2 0 50 If you then pressed ENTER the answer 3 50 would appear on the Calc Line N STO Lets you STORE the number on the Calc Line in one of the Registers so you can access it later Key the number 1 4 into the Calc Line Now press N STO and 0 Look up at the top of the screen to see that 1 4 is now stored in the Reg0 position M RCL Lets you RECALL a number stored in the Registers Press 0 ENTER to clear the Calc Line Now press M RCL 0 and 1 4 the num ber stored in Reg0 is restored to the Calc Line You can use this feature in the middle of a calculation So if you wanted to add the number in Register 0 to 5 2 you would press 5 2 MO and then press ENTER Although this example shows how the Z
125. he 200LX which data files will be associated with which application The autoload feature reads the line and knows that whenever a file with a ICN exten sion is highlighted in Filer and ENTER is pressed the autoload fea ture will start the ICN200LX program and load the highlighted ICN file into it The ICN above refers to the three letter file extension for icon data files The equal sign tells the feature to associate files with this extension to the following The path name and MS DOS program name of the associ ated application follow FILER INI requires the complete path and file name of the associated file It won t be able to find ICN200LX even if the PATH statement in your AUTO EXEC BAT file contains D BIN You also have to include the EXE or COM extension in the name The last character on the line is a percent sign It is the code that stands for the full name of the data file that will be loaded into the ICN200LX EXE program Be sure to put a space in front of the percent sign After you ve entered these two lines in Memo press File Save and key in the name C _DAT FILER INI FILER INI must be in the C _ DAT directory Make sure that the ASCII check box in MEMO has a check mark in it all Detect Plot Radiation On Your HP 100 200LX survey geiger counters Track Open a door to the fascinating world of nuclear science with the RM 60 icr ro Roentgen Radiation Monitor This palm size
126. hor and Personal Growth Consultant He is the Author of The Secret of Creating Your Future and Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality He holds Ph D in Erick a Masters Degree in Communication from Syracuse sie of and a nian Hypnosis from the American Institute of Hypno therapy Tad is a Certified Master Trainer of Neuro Linguistic Program ming and the creator of the Time Line Therapy techniques He and his wife Ardie live in Honolulu You can contact him at 808 941 2021 or on CompuServe at 73160 352 34 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 going 3 months to 5 years down the road This is especially important when we are 3 years out on a 5 year plan and have lost the vision of the big picture Creating your future What are your long term goals First things first write down your long term goals What do you want to be doing in three years Can you imagine in your mind what it is that you ll be doing three years from now If you ve never looked at what you want to do in your future per haps you would like to try an exer cise I call creating your future Let s create our goals for three years from now Imagine if you would that the future is a road that stretches out before you In your mind s eye imagine walking out on that road to three years from now As you walk down the road to your future let your mind create for you the changes that you want in the future When you get t
127. i nal KS COM are found in KS ZIP on this issue s HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK and on CompuServe The file also includes a description of how to use keystuff For example when KSX COM is available you can put the following command in the FIL ER INI file gabet AES Col doRtagg This command lets you highlight a GDB database file and press to start the built in Database applica tion and automatically load the data base file Similar commands may be created for files that have the exten sions NDB EQN for HP Calc Solver and even WKI1 We ve included examples of several such commands in the KS ZIP mentioned above If you don t have The Palmtop Paper On Disk there s another way to get FILER INI to work with System Manager programs This solution involves a program called Pushkeys built into the HP 100 200LX PUSH KEYS COM is a built in program that stuffs keystrokes and commands into the keyboard buffer causing them to be automatically executed in much the same way as a macro Pushkeys is a Terminate and Stay Resident program that uses MAC macro files created by the built in macro applica tion for its input The solution involves several steps We ll walk through them and leave it up to you to decide if all the additional keystrokes are worth the extra effort 1 Exit System Manager completely by pressing Application Terminate OK 2 At the DOS prompt key in the command d bin pushkeys ji and pr
128. iles Most often they will be in a ZIP file You will have to use one of the utility programs like UNZIP i to extract the files from this compressed format In this arti cle I assume you already know how to do this My approach is to download the games to my home desktop comput er then check the downloaded mate rial for possible viruses You cannot be too careful about virus protection I normally use the HP Connectivity Pack for transferring games from my desktop PC to the HP 100 200LX The HP Connectivity Pack is sluggish for large files but easy to operate I ve found that roughly a third of the games I look at won t install properly on the Palmtop for various reasons For example sometimes I ll install a game on my desktop PC and copy the installed files over to the Palmtop The initial installation pro Capers Jones is the chairman of SPR Inc an international consulting and software company He also writes and has published eight books on business and technical topics His CompuServe id is 75430 231 He can be reached on Internet at capers spr com 20 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 cess configures the game for the computer they are first installed on When the game is copied to the Palmtop the configuration is no longer valid and the game fails If a game does not install properly after a few tries I give it away or scrap it Board games The HP Palmtop computers do an excellent job on bo
129. ime to time Although this program is no longer available from the publisher I found this pro gram in the sale bin in the software section of a local department store for 5 00 File storage is about 150K for this game Football There are a number of shareware football simulations that work on the HP 100 200LX computers and I ve tried perhaps half a dozen without finding any that held my interest for more than a few minutes However I m only a casual football fan One that I have not tried an old version of a commercial football simulation NFL Challenge by Xor reportedly works very well on the HP 100 200LX Other Sports Simulations Many other sports have CGA games that can be played on the HP 100 200LX computers I found an inter esting martial arts simulator called 24 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 Budokan from Electronic Arts that worked although I had to carry the users guide around with me to get the passwords necessary to access some of its features I have seen but not yet tried out other CGA games for baseball bil liards miniature golf tennis soccer and various summer and winter Olympic games Computer based games The games we ve looked at so far are adaptations of games that exist out side of the computer environment i e chess solitaire But the advent and growing popularity of computers has ushered in the development of new and unique software games created only for compute
130. l 15 1995 I ll be accept ing entries in the great TIPI code contest The contest is open to ANY user of TIPI even if those of you who haven t gotten around to registering it yet You entry must consist of a TIP program you have written that you think is interesting practical fun neat cool or generally wort more than the disk space it occupies You may enter as many programs as you like and yot may enter as many times as you like ntries must be submitted either via E mail or on MS DOS floppy disks Your disks will not be returned nor will your E mail costs be reimbursed E mail may be sent to either Internet peterson halcyon com or Compu Serve 72310 2174 Disks may be mailed to Kent Peterson GREAT TIPI CODE CON TEST 360 NW Dogwood Street A 201 Issaquah WA 98027 USA Copyrights to all code entered into this contest will remain with you but any code entered may be distributed to registered TIPI users What You Can Win The author of the niftiest program as judged by myself my wife and some of my nerdy friends will win the following incredible prizes 1 One box of delicious Boehm s Chocolates from Issaquah Washington 2 A genuine TIPI Code Contest trophy to show off to all your friends 3 A free cup of Espresso from one of Issa quah s many fine Espresso bars and a chance to hang out with TIPI s developer If you make it to Issaquah Washington In vat of 1995 anyone who has REGIS TERED TIPI by A
131. list view and how you move to different days and weeks and change the duration of appointment slots me ea ee ee ae ae Oe Maag 2 2 gt lt j iPppointren FEL See STL TT for general information t this application Press MENU V A to display daily schedule Vertical line indicates duration of iten musical note indicates is set in A COV Sw NH SOD bulle indicata iten repeats indicates iter ha Use arrows nove highlight current date anges pte A nes Hh Main Appt list Help screen 100 200LX Note that certain words or phrases are highlighted on the 95LX and outlined boxed in on the 100 200LX You can use the up and down arrow keys to move to these words or phrases and then press to get a more detailed description of what it means or how to use it if it is a feature Help is context sensitive in that Help screen displayed by pressing F1 relates not only to the application you are in but to the specific feature you are using For example you are back in Ap pointment Book on the 100LX and you press MENU Options Alarm Beep to change the sound of the alarm on your Palmtop The Alarm Beep dia logue screen is unfamiliar and you don t know what to do so you press and get the following screen larn Bey To adjust alara volume and sound i Press MENU O B 2 Sorot mm tia level and Custon plays sound defined in file c Se OATNALARNT SND Soa anual for details To
132. lized Puzzle and Movement Games The Russian game Tetris spawned a whole new class of computerized games that is still growing rather rapidly Several Tetris clones and Tetris itself are available in versions that run on HP 100 200LX comput ers TT95 ZIP Ei A new version of Tetris was recently released for the HP 100 200LX you hold the Palm top sidewise to play TETRIS ZIP i A game in the same family but with a different playing style is the popular Sokoban fai game In this maze game the pieces are motionless and the player tries to push them out of the way without getting them stuck against walls or each other Because time is not a factor this game does not require frantic key board movements and has a more leisurely style It is fairly compact and takes about 20K of storage The HP 200LX comes with a built in Lair of Squid game also available for the 100LX as MAZEUS ZIP ff In Squid you move around inside a 3 D graphics maze avoiding the squid It takes up about 30K A newer version of Hearts amp Bones is built into the 200LX and is also available for the HP 100LX HBUS ZIP H Internation al versions of Squid and Hearts amp Bones are available on CompuServe for French German and Spanish language 100LX s Children s Games Here too a host of available games can be played on the HP Palmtops Some of these games fit into the com puter based category such as the adventure game Commander Keen
133. ll CONTACT Shape Technology 2105 S Bascom Avenue Suite 336 Camp bell CA 95008 USA Phone 800 462 4165 or 408 369 8136 Fax 408 369 8066 Sa 100 200LX Citizen PNG6GO Ultra Portable Printer This 1 5 Ib with battery printer comes with a R5S 232 serial port and can connect to the HP Palmtop with an optional serial cable and gender changer or custom serial cable from Shier Sys tems amp Software see product description page 9 The PN60 prints up to two pages per minute at 360x360 dpi resolution and emulates Epson LQ and IBM ProPrinter drivers options available on the HP Palm tops It comes with resident Roman Courier San Serif Orator amp Script fonts The Citizen PN60 can print 30 40 pages per fully charged bat tery It handles regular cut sheet paper envelopes labels and transparency film The PN60 comes standard with an international AC adapter charger and has an optional NiCad battery and optional car adapter The printer comes with a stan dard 2 year warranty and has warranty extension op tions See review page 18 Availability 22 0 605 Now PHD A pureed os Se NiCad battery 79 Car adapter 49 CONTACT Citizen America Corpora tion 2450 Broadway Suite 600 Santa Monica CA 90404 3060 USA Phone 310 453 0614 Fax 310 453 2814 EiS g 100 200LX PocketJet Printer This 17 oz battery powered printer comes with serial and parallel ports s
134. ll 1 800 562 2830 MobileMedia Paging and PersonalCom Services THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 23 REVIEWS Palmtop Games on commercial airliners The key board movements for these games are fairly intuitive and quick so you can play any of the games very qui ckly File storage runs to about 90K The Hoyle s Book of Games II solitaire suite is much more ponder ous but has many different games and multiple levels of difficulty This game uses about 600K of system RAM to operate so you must leave System Manager Press amp Applica tions Terminate all and start the program at the DOS prompt When playing the keyboard movements are straight torward but quite a lot of keystrokes are needed Since the play is also very slow 1 tend to use this game only when flying on long trips The cards show up quite well on the HP 100 200LX screen and the colors shown as shades of black and white can be adjusted for the dim lights of airlines and hotel rooms This is a very large game and takes over 300K to store all of the files Other Card Games There are too many kinds of card games available to deal with all of them Some of the other games I ve seen on forums and bulletin boards include canasta fish hearts Japanese card games using flower decks old maid pinochle spades various Tarot implementations and whist Gambling Games Most forms of gambling have game versions available Some of the games I ve see
135. ll suppress any error messages You do not need to leave the Appointment Book appli cation open for BATT100 to run every time But you do need to 1 Be in System Manager If you have terminated Sys tem Manager or booted the Palmtop into DOS no ap pointment alarms will run until System Manager is started again 2 Have enough free mem ory to run your DOS pro gram 3 Not have another DOS application open Mark Scardina CompuServe ID 76711 732 Filer view changed from 95LX to 100LX A most regrettable change from the 95LX to the 100LX was that the viewer in 100LX Filer displays only the print able character range This is regrettable because it was handy to be able to browse through binary files and get a rough idea of what s there Gilles Kohl CompuServe ID 100114 3146 Editor s Note On either HP Palmtop you can go to DOS and use DOS s DEBUG command to view a short file This will display all the char acters in a file For example to look at the TERM ENV file in the C _DAT directory you would type the following debug term env d the file will be displayed with the memory addresses and HEX codes to the left and the equivalent ascii charac ters to the right g The q quits debug Robert HP CALC eal 100 200LX Add a second set of currency conversion tables to HP Calc You can edit the Currency conversion sub application in HP Calc to change or add new conversions up
136. lmtop One approach is to enter the week at glance view by pressing from APPT b sai ee Aar 12822388 L a WwU eee FB Tsangi APPT list every 15 minutes Pressing Fn lt Spacebar gt ZOOM changes the hourly listings from every 15 minutes to every 30 min utes to every 60 minutes This gives you different perspectives on the week In the hourly view you can see what time slots are full for the whole week from 8 00 AM to 6 00 PM On the 15 minute view you see less of the day but can read more of the specifics of the appointment When you are planning for the week on the Week screen move your cursor to the day and a nearby time slot for what you want to schedule Press and type in the activity or appointment adjust ing the time if necessary You can also use the ToDo func tion of APPT in a similar manner during your weekly planning ses sion We ll discuss some more ideas about weekly planning in another article FINANCE Building wealth Pay yourself not the bank In general there are three things you can do with money First you can buy things consumer goods car home With the possible exception of property most anything you buy quickly depreciates in value Sec ondly you can earn interest by loan ing your money to the bank bank account or to a corporation bonds Finally you can own equity in com panies your own company or stock Over the long haul one becomes fi nancially
137. ls like it may have some chemical preservatives added to pre vent spoiling The odor of drying mud fills the house for a couple of days after its use I tend to be conserva tive when it comes to the health of my family and prefer the powdered non toxic variety There I was in the only lumber yard in a small mid western town of about 10 000 I m not sure whether it was the fact that I was a woman with two kids in tow or the use of the word non toxic when requesting joint compound but the clerk looked bewildered and the guy in line behind me snickered The conversation went something like this Clerk You mean mud Me Yes Clerk But mud s non toxic It s got to be it s just plaster I ve used it all my life Me Don t you notice the smell It lasts for days after wards Clerk It s dry in a day then I don t smell anything Me My husband can t smell anything either I took out my Palmtop be cause had a note on it about the powdered drywall compound I have a MEMO file on my HP 95LX that I use for notes keep it load ed all the time so that when I turn my Palmtop on the information need is there I jot down quick notes and tentative appointments that I either save in that file or transfer to my home calen dar later on The clerk and the guy in line behind me immediately became attentive Right be low the notation about buy ing a jump rope for the Sun
138. m have similar concepts players move through gloomy dun geons and kill various monsters As you proceed and pick up various objects and gain experience your strength goes up and the monsters get tougher Rogue is a character based program that takes only about 99K of storage Military Games The use of computers to simulate military campaigns at both the strate gic and tactical level is also a signifi cant sub industry Both commercial games and shareware games are now available that deal with every kind of warfare known to the human species infantry combat armor combat air combat naval engagements subma rine warfare and missile combat Every historical era from the ancient world through space warfare have multiple games available One such military game that works on HP 100 200LX is SEAHUNT ZIP ii a varia tion of battleship The PC Conguter ge e Land lubbe et ESEEESEE HH aaa Te Pe ee EzE kaz Seahunt screen TEER of Battleship Flight and Driving Simulators There are many different kinds of vehicle simulations that work on the HP Palmtops including the older versions of the classic Microsoft Flight Simulator Within this same class of games can be found automobile rac ing games various space flight simu lators and a few simulators of other kinds of vehicles such as sail boats There are even several air traffic con trol games reported to work on the 100 200LX Specia
139. me apply to become an HP Software Develop er filled it out and sent it off A few weeks later I got a very fat envelope from HP This was the Rosetta Stone of the HP hacker the HP 100LX Developer s Guide This contains all kinds of useful informa tion such as what interrupts do what as Well as cool semi useless stuff like what the HP internal codenames for the palmtops are Editor s Note A new 100LX 200LX technical reference manual will be available soon Check the new issue of The HP Palmtop Paper for details I set to work on some serious hacking First I added control of the software power toggle and battery timeouts and then I began to dig into the graphics routines Boy I m Sure Glad Didn t Quit My Day Job Meanwhile the registrations weren t exactly pouring in In fact they were n t exactly trickling in either Sure I got a few registrations all from HP owners by the way but by and large TIPI had not made a huge impact on my bank account If you figured in What I d spent on my new HP my increased Compuserve bill and all the coffee I was drinking I was way in the hole Still I was having loads of fun I checked with other shareware authors especially language authors e Send Faxes e Get Stock Quotes e Read the Latest News e Communicate With Others Around the World e Download Software Directly To Your Palmtop Fax 805 371 9454 CIS 75030 3374 Your Palmtop Access to the W
140. milation of data Complete modifiability by user is an extremely valuablefeature Designed for the HP 200LX Palmtop Computer includes Quicken Lotus 1 2 3 even DOS General E D 229 00 Includes Neuro Psych Dentistry Ophthalmology ENT Cardiovascular amp ACLS algorithms Pulmonary GI GU OB GYNE ID Rheumatology Allergy Environment Dermatology Trauma and Medicolegal concerns Pediatrics 89 00 Includes All Pediatric problems neonate to teenager growth and development all diseases Emergency Resuscitation and Primary Care Toxicology 89 00 Includes General Management Overdoses Antidotes Drugs of Abuse Occupational Exposures Plant Identification and Poisonings General Toxins and a list of Poison Control Centers All 6 databases complete only 425 HP200LX Computer 1MB 499 2MB 679 Shipping amp Handling Databases always FREE Connectivity Pack 99 Data Cards 3 6 MB 269 5 10 MB 319 10 20 MB 479 20 40 MB 799 50 off any one RAM card ordered with PEPID databases FREE UPDATE SPECIAL Order before June 30 1995 Accessories 5 each Palmtops 10 each MD Challenger also available call for details Residents Students cal for special discount IL Residents add 6 1 2 sales tax Pharmacology 179 00 Includes Generic and Trade names Adult and Pediatric doses Dosage Formulations and Adjustments Pregnancy Class Contraindications Adverse Reactions Important Drug Interactions C
141. n in computer stores and forum libraries include Baccarat Kena Craps Roulette Slot machines of various kinds and even oriental gambling games such as Mah Jong Sports simulations On the whole I have not been satis fied with sports simulations on the HP 100 200LX Often the colors are difficult to distinguish or the key board movements tend to need such frantic finger work that it is difficult to keep pace Here are a few that seem to work Golf Since I enjoy real golf I ve tried at least half a dozen commercial and shareware golf games and have not found any that I really like My pref erence is for graphics based golf games that give a sense of truly play ing the game I ve tried character based golf games that simply use statistics or random factors to simu late the results from hole to hole and find them boring From the shareware world a golf game called Caddiehack CGA Tour from one of Micro Star s disks plays fairly well The registered version is definitely better than the demo ver sion since it allows you to turn off the very leisurely introductory screen includes more courses and allows multiple players The one cou rse one player version takes about 100K and the multi course multi pla yer game goes over 150K From the commercial world a golf game called California Pro from Virgin Interactive Entertainment has fairly good graphics and plays well although this game locked up my Palmtop from t
142. nce the Palmtop has built in support for the LaserJet the setup was easy It also prints much like a laser printer receiving 18 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER I also have a Citizen PN48 printer th ae up newspaper The printer only provides a connecting it to the HP Palmtop requires converter While quite small and light especially considering it is about l also have a Citizen PN48 printer It is newspaper connecting converter The printer only provides a it to the HP Palmtop requires While quite small especially considering it and light is about Top Pentax PocketJet Printer output Bottom Citizen PN60 Printer output a complete page of data before print ing anything then printing the com plete page all at once An important feature of this print er is its built in RS 232 interface Editor s note Shier Systems amp Soft ware will provide a special cable 35 to directly connect the Pentax printer to the Palmtop see the photo on page 13 without extra adapters This cable fits in the sleeve of the Pentax carrying case Although I was not able to bench mark the decibal levels of either printer both were acceptable in all but library situations The PocketJet was noticeably quieter than the Citi zen PN60 The power paper feed and bat tery charging of the PocketJet are controled by a single button on the top of the printer A separate dial on the side controls the print density There ar
143. nguages Computers only understand 0 s and 1 s They only respond to a small set of instructions that do simple math and store the results in memory For a computer to do anything it has to be fed a series of instructions and memory locations for data This is a program and it is also made up of 0 s and 1 s Since it is difficult for people to make sense out of long lists of O s and 1 s Programmers created symbols for each machine instruction Then the wrote programs that would translate one human rea able symbol like ADD into one machine readable instructions like 0110 This was the first programming language an assembler It allowed programmers to write a oe jram in a text editor using recognizable symbols like ADD SUB MOV The assembler trans lates the file into the machine executable instructions that are saved into another file That executable file can than be run on the computer This saved a lot of time and allowed programmers to write large pro rams They then realized that there were many rou tines within a program that they were writing repeat edly like printing or saving a file Each one of these routines might take 50 or more instructions So they wrote a progra where one human readable instruc tion would translate into or panpa the whole series of instructions needed to PRINT or SAVE The instructions were still typed into a text file and then compiled into an executable file Languages like COBOL Fo
144. ntax PocketJet is 499 including the AC adaptor charger battery and case spare battery 38 The PocketJet requires special thermal paper that comes in packages of 100 sheets weighing about one pound for 7 99 one package is in cluded with the printer This gives the PocketJet a fixed printing cost of 08 per page Pentax provides an 800 number 800 543 6144 to order paper or to find a local dealer that stocks it Since the printer is new it may be difficult to find a local dealer so allow enough time to receive your paper directly from Pentax You can make do with regular fax paper in a pinch if you run out of the Pentax paper However the Pentax thermal paper produces better results than regular fax paper The Pentax paper is much thicker than thermal fax paper Since it co mes in flat sheets you don t get the curly memos that we are familiar with from fax machines While I was pleased with the output you must remember that this is thermal paper and is therefore subject to fading after long exposure to ultraviolet light such as sunlight Also Pentax recommends avoiding allowing the PocketJet paper to contact blueprint and carbonless papers vinyl or ace tate such as notebook covers and organic solvents oils or ammonia As I have rather oily skin I have found that excessive handling of thermal paper tends to cause finger prints and smudged printing The printer emulates the HP La serJet IIP PCL4 Si
145. o the place that is three years from now use the sample goals sheet above to write down your goals or open up Memo and write down what you discover what you want to happen Title your notes Goals for 3 years Date 01 15 98 Age 47 01 15 98 is the Infrared Printing From Your HP 100 and 200LX Cable free printer connection Works with any parallel printer Fast reliable and easy to use Extended Systems 1800235750208 32197 Fx S07 7 Goals for Years Date_ Age Sample long term goals sheet date by which you ll have accom plished the goals and 47 is your age at that time This information will help focus your attention on the goals Then list your three year goals Do this process for 3 years at the SSFAXER By Simple Simon Software The quickest and easiest way to send receive view and even print faxes with any HP Palmtop Complete package is only 19 95 Faxing on the HP 100LX and 200LX Menu version runs under System Administrator Command line version runs under DOS Use External or PCMCIA modem cards Print to dot matrix or laser printer Under 100K space or less depending on installation Compatible with Class 1 and Class 2 fax modems Recommended by Megahertz and HP Simple Simon Software PO Box 926 Bedford TX 76095 Tel 817 283 6691 Fax 817 283 5871 very least and 1 year 6 months and 3 months if you can If you re adven turesome then also do
146. o the same file transfer rate 115200 The Palmtop should be set to the IR port The desktop PC should be set to the COM port that the JetEye PC is con nected to Conclusions While the Filer method worked just fine I prefer to use LapLink I found it to work quite well with the JetEye PC However remember that it is much easier to interrupt an IR con nection than a cabled connection If you hit the Palmtop and cause it to point away from the JetEye PC the connection can be broken This can cause a problem if a file transfer is in progress If this happens you will get a Permission Denied DOS error and the connection will close If you move the Palmtop back into IR range the connection will resume in any where from 20 seconds to one min ute While the reconnect times varied in my tests it always reconnected It is nice to be able to walk up to my desktop PC set my Palmtop next to the JetEye PC and start LapLink Remote on my 200LX No cables no hassles MD Challenger jal hiss ey Q MD Clinical Reference amp Educational Software Consists of over 4 000 questions with complete explanations and citations Menu driven requireing no typing skills Availible for Macintosh IBM Compatible and HP Palmtop computers Up to 200 Category CME hours available MD Challenger for HP 100LX or 200LX 695 on 10 20MB ROM card 868 on 10 20MB RAM card Multi user and diskette versions availible
147. o you can eas ily connect it to your HP Palmtop or Desktop PC See related product custom PocketJet Paltmop printer cable page 9 The PocketJet uses direct thermal printing technology producing 300x300 dpi laser quality output on special Fe ntax thermal paper The PocketJet features full LaserJet IIP PCL 4 emula tion and prints up to three pages per minute 30 35 pag es per battery charge You have to use Pentax thermal paper with this printer but do not need ink cartridges or thermal ribbons The Pentax PocketJet printer comes with a re chargeable Ni Cd battery Centronics parallel interface cable serial cable optional AC adapter battery charger Thermal paper 100 sheets Carrying case DOS print utility program Quick refer ence card and a Users guide amp supporting documentation See review page 17 Availability ccc anaes Now Pricing Pookotet n assures 499 Serial interface 25 99 Paper 100 sheets 7 99 CONTACT Pentax Technologies 100 Technology Drive Broomfield CO 80021 USA Phone 800 543 6144 or 303 460 1600 Fax 303 460 1628 BBS 303 460 1637 Software Health Care 100 200LX HealthProbe The HealthProbe HNPR Prescription Writer keeps tabs on patients and their active and past medicines and automates the process of writing a prescription It provides you with over 1 000 medicine variations you can add more if you like and customizable c
148. oduct may be suitable for the 100LX or 200LX but not both Prices listed are suggested retail We invite vendors and subscribers to send us information about HP Palmtop related products they discover We rely on information we receive from the manufacturer and cannot test every piece of hardware or software We welcome any user feedback on product suitability By Richard Hall Hardware 100 200LX AC Traveler This portable AC power inverter turns your vehicle s cigarette lighter into an AC outlet that will power the HP Palmtop s and OmniBook s AC adapter It can also be used to power TVs VCRs power tools lights and other household appliances Low battery alarm and automatic shut down protect your vehi cle s battery Availability Now PRG betes Peete eats 89 95 CONTACT Major Electronix 33900 Curtis Bivd Unit 210 Eastlake OH 44095 Phone 800 966 2345 or 216 942 0054 Fax 216 942 2102 Cables PC Comm Link RJ 11 cable interface Compact fax modem tele phone cable interface Inter nal RJ 11 cable extends from and retracts into a card the size of a PCMCIA Type III card Availability Now OEM Only PANS Ee ok et arak he Call CONTACT Shape Technology 2105 S Bascom Avenue Suite 336 Camp bell CA 95008 USA Phone 800 462 4165 or 408 369 8136 Fax 408 369 8066 HSA 100 200LX Printer Cables for Citizen and Pentax Portable Printers Custom cables let you con ne
149. of Buddy 2 0 are available in the CompuServe HP Hand forum or on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Registered versions are available from the author lt ne TEN Now KD Tae svinmly ores turin Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr Yes Pricing add 5 for diskette Registered version shareware fee 40 CONTACT Jeffrey Mattox P O Box 45282 Madison WI 53744 5282 USA CompuServe ID 71044 2356 100 200LX COMMO 6 41 amp COMMO is a small fast and reliable terminal program for DOS Windows and OS 2 It provides a comprehensive macro programming lan guage This new version in cludes INTERNAL Z MODEM macro compiling greater speed and many more enhancements COMMO is a shareware program that works on the HP 100 200LX but not on the HP 95LX See Shareware Freeware index page 56 this issue 5 8 9 100 200LX DERIVE 3 0 Mathematical Assistant A major new release of Soft Warehouse s Mathematical Assistant software includes Boolean algebra integer and nonscalar variable declara tions subscripts polynomial quotient remainder and gcd functions and Taylor series approximation functions The DERIVE plotting feature has been enhanced by the addi tion of implicit plots auto scaling trace mode zoom boxes and 3D plot animation using AcroSpin New predi cate generator and selector functions make it easy to write function definitions that are short and efficient DE RIVE 3 0 l
150. ogramming language See page 45 QuickBasic 135 BASIC language from aroso AA Contact Programmer radise Phone 800 445 7899 Fax 908 389 9227 SmartModem Fax Modem ah Memory card varies PCMCIA Fax Modem card with 2MB 4MB or a on board flash memory see pages Contact Smart Modular Techno Phone 510 623 1231 Fax 510 623 1 ThinFax Fax Modem Flash Memory card varies PCMCIA Fou Set with 2MB or 4MB of on board flash Ren Ae see pag pe Contact EXP Computer EXP 6922 x 641 Fax 714 453 1319 User s Groups for the HP Palmtop See box on page 9 this issue Webster s Random House Electronic Dictionary and Thesaurus See page Contact WordPerfect Co tion Phone 800 321 4566 Fax 801 228 5977 Webster s New World Spelling Checker 39 Small full featured spelling checker for the HP 100 200LX eee 4 ge e B05 ce tas or oo n 6330 Fae 515 472 1879 HOW TO CONTACT US There are a number of ways to get in touch with The HP Palmtop Paper staff You can write mail us a disk with your comments send CompuServe mail fax or call Our mailing address and contact information is Thaddeus Computing Inc P O Box 869 or 57 E Broadway Fairfield IA 52556 U S A Phone 515 472 6330 or 800 373 6114 l Fax 515 472 1879 CIS ID Hal Goldstein 75300 2443 Internet 75300 2443 compuserve com To advertise in The HP Palmtop Paper contact Brian Teitzman or Margaret M
151. ombinations of these medicines Lets you print prescriptions to Epson FX or HP Laserjet compat ibles You can also send a prescription directly to the pharmacy via modem 2MB or more of RAM storage recommended for data Availability 4 Now Medium Floppy disk NN ey cron sme g E 99 CONTACT HealthCare Data 5311 Mount Pleasant North Drive Green wood IN 46142 USA Phone 317 887 1326 Programming 100 200LX Card BASIC Create fast compact card based applications for your HP 100 200LX or PC Card BASIC supports advanced graphics using CGA or VGA Its visual interface includes font icon windowing Good language for engineer ing scientific programs or PCMCIA card products Disk includes program editor onscreen help documentation in text file Free Information Kit available See Advertising page 35 Availability NOW s waari aata Floppy disk NEW THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS A TER E T 19 95 CONTACT MicroGram Systems P O Box 252 La Honda CA 94020 0252 USA Phone Fax 415 747 0811 call before sending fax HSS 100 200LX ExpertHelp for Programmers ExpertHelp is a TSR hyper text help facility targeted to any DOS programmer using C Basic Assembler Pascal Clapper D Base etc Expert Help enables you to have hundreds of language specific function descriptions ASCII charts keyboard scan codes color charts ROM BIOS ad dresses etc available at a singl
152. ommon Overdose Management and Pharmacokinetics for over 700 common drugs Orthopedics 89 00 Includes Diagnosis and management essentials of all Fractures Sprains Ligament and Joint Injuries and Infections Plus Orthopedic procedures Trauma 89 00 Includes Resuscitation Basics and Management of all traumatic emergencies plus a step by step guide to procedures How To Order Voice Mail 800 329 7872 ext PEPID 73743 Office Phone 708 475 0778 Fax to 708 475 0779 write PEPID Inc 100 Greenwood St Evanston IL 60201 4712 Visa M C Discover and personal checks accepted JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 11 NEW THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS Conferences LAP amp PALMTOP 95 LAP amp PALMTOP Portable Computing and Communica tions Exposition and Mobile Solutions Conference is a complete exposition with ma jor companies exhibiting and a full set of conferences The show provides the latest in Laptops Notebooks PDAs PIMs Pen PCMCIA Wire less amp Cellular WANs E mail services integration system security software and more Location Dates 1995 New York NY Mar 9 10 Los Angeles CA Jun 13 14 i a N Bas sae cary Sep 28 29 Toronto ON Canada Dec 4 5 CONTACT Laptop Expositions 104 East 40th St 802 New York NY 10016 1801 USA Phone 800 444 EXPO or 212 682 7968 Fax 212 867 8277 PC Card 95 Conference and Expo This PCMCIA
153. on I left the driver for the other card installed and assumed that I could simply delete all the files and try the install procedure again This was a big mis take since the files were no longer available on the card No backup diskette was included so you might want to back up the install program and the SMDRIVER SYS file before running installation I was able to use the SmartModem to access Smart Modular s BBS system to download the required driver file The modem part of the card can be used without the SmartModem system driver SMDRIVER SYS installed With the card in the slot all you need to do is add D BIN CICIO0 EME SEV 1 tO your AUTOEXEC BAT file and reboot the Palmtop SENDING AND RECEIVING FAXES ON THE SMART MODULAR CARD The Smart card comes with a special version of BitFax software for DOS preloaded The software user inter face could be more user friendly but does work This software looks like it Was originally designed for a computer other than the Palmtop For example when viewing faxes the default screen mode is reverse video white text on a dark background which requires you to press ON to have a normal view For other than viewing faxes BitFax uses the 40x16 column display Also I was unable to print faxes using this soft ware I continued to receive an error message error opening file but was unable to determine which file it could not open It should be simple for SmartModular
154. on from memory locations and data to be processed This is called parsing Some programming languages allow you to enter a mathematical expression as you would write them in an algebra class Basic Fortran C etc A B Others like FORTH and TIPI use Reverse glish Notation RPN to write math expressions A B The HP Palmtop s HP Calc let s you use either Algebraic or RPN Refer to the HP Palmtop User s Guide index under RPN Amemory area is set aside to store a sequential series of intermediate results This is called a stack Some languages manage the stack automatically while others like FORTH and TIPI allow programmer direct access to the stack Numbers used in calculations are mostly han dled in one of two forms in the computer integer and floating point Integer is simply 1 2 3 10 5000 etc Floating point is 2 45 10 35665 etc Floating point math requires a specialized set of routines which may be part of the programming language or part of the computer s processor or math co processor The type of number used will have an effect on the accuracy of results and is the source of rounding errors Robert Roney Technical Editor The HP Palmtop Paper ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kent Peterson spends his days as a manager at a software development house in Issaquah Washington In his spare time he has written for Micro Cornucopia Portable 100 The Computer Journal of the PPC Analog Computing Modern Haiku and oth
155. ond calculations are not built into the HP Palmtop but they can be handled by HP Calc s Solver application and by Lotus 1 2 3 There are several sources for these missing HP 19BU financial functions fram the amateur to professional levels One is a short article that describes how to use HP CALC or Lotus 1 2 3 for such calculations page 35 Mar Apr 93 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper Also available is the following shareware freeware and commercial software BONDS ZIP fi 100LX com patible SOLVER file solving a wide selection of BOND prob lems BOND95 ZIP i contains a 95LX compatible SOLVER equation that will allow the user to solve complex BOND problems including yield to maturity yield to call price accrued interest etc Registered version also has other useful bonus equations ready for use Documentation is a good 48 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 primer on bonds Bond Analysis 219 esti mates prices and yields of fixed income securities under a broad range of assumptions Lane Bond Trader 399 provides tools needed to calcu late bond prices and yields and manage portfolios Bonds 395 professional investment analysis software for the fixed income trader and analyst that runs on the 95LX and 100LX as a Lotus 1 2 3 add in Calculates yields prices sensitivities duration convexi ty value of 01 and 32nd accrued interest etc for invest ment
156. ons they can print about 50 more However even with the longer ribbon life this is still an expensive printer to operate The ribbons cost 9 00 per package of two and each ribbon can print about 25 pages of text or about 18 pages of graphics depending on density This works out to about 16 per page In discussing the operating cost I should note that I never found this to be a significant factor in my experi ence with the PN48 This is because I don t expect the light weight printer to replace my desktop printer I use it only for printing while traveling In this case the costs are easily offset by the convenience of the small size and weight While the earlier printers came standard with either a parallel cable or an Apple Talk RS 422 cable as with the Pentax Citizen added an R5 232 serial interface to the PN60 Editor s note Sheir Systems has also designed a cable 42 to directly connect the PN60 printer to the Palm top see photo on page 13 Edu CALC will be providing the PN60 and custom cable as a set The PN60 is controlled by a set of four buttons on the top When setting the configuration a page is printed showing the current settings and instructions for changing the configu ration A group of five LEDs are used to indicate various conditions and configuration changes While I feel that this design is a bit more straight forward than the Pentax single button control some basic functions such
157. onvenient plug in installation to your parallel printer port Reads writes SRAM and FLASH cards Only 189 95 Steele Creek Technologies Inc 14035 Appling Lane Charlotte NC 28278 Phone or Fax 704 588 1780 equipped with an Intel DX2 50 pro cessor 260MB hard drive DSTN display and 4MB of RAM The 4000 PC ships standard with a built in floppy drive rechargeable NiMH battery pack and an AC adapter with power cord HP reducing desktop and server prices HP has recently announced price reductions of up to 26 percent on its Vectra desktop PC and up to 22 per cent on its NetServer PC servers The reductions are expected to make HP desktops and servers less expensive with comparable Compaq s IBM s and computers from other major manufacturers HP also announced an expansion of its distribution channel to increase desktop server sales through autho rized value added resellers in the United States We announced in the Nov Dec 1994 issue the HP Palmtop s move to Singapore Beginning November 1994 Singapore is responsible for HP Palmtop development support mar keting and manufacturing PCMCIA JEIDA unveil new unified PC Card standard The Personal Computer Memory Card International Association PCM CIA and its Japanese counterpart the Japan Electronic Industry Devel opment Association JEIDA have recently introduced a unified world wide PC Card Standard The new global standard includes a
158. ook on our desktop at work Appointments can get spread around in different places The point here is use one calendar for all your appointments 3 Have a list of the items you need To Do on a daily basis Again Palmtop users have an excel lent ToDo feature built into the Ap pointment Book but may keep addi tional todo lists written down on a legal pad or on little yellow slips posted to the computer It is very important that all your todos are in one list It is equally important that the To Do list be in the same place as the daily calendar This lets you look at what you need to do and easily schedule it or com pare it to what you already have scheduled Having the To Dos and appointments together creates a syn ergistic system that makes you more effective You should also be able to prior itize your To Do list That is you should be able to designate the rela tive importance of each todo You may designate a todo as an A B C 1 2 3 or a combination of the two like Al A2 A3 B1 B2 etc 4 Integrate the above three The final thing we need to do is to integrate these parts of our time management system As we plan our day s or weeks appointments and todo s we check our immediate pri orities and long term goals This helps us get beyond focusing only on immediate priorities and lets us focus part of our attention on where we are ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tad James M S Ph D is a Seminar Leader Aut
159. or a third party developer to improve this interface and make it better match the design of the Palmtop s software The most important improvement would be to provide default settings that elimin ate the current need to cycle through every parameter setting each time you run the software The good news is that this soft ware is stored on the flash memory portion of the card so future updates can be loaded by the user or other fax programs can replace it Despite the awkward software controls and the minimal documentation sending and receiving faxes proved to be very easy QUALITY OF FAX A fax program converts text to a graphics dot pattern to be transmit ted The quality of the fax you re ceive at the other end is dependent on the quality of the fonts used by the fax program to convert the text to graphics The SmartModular software produced characters that were clear and easy to read more so than the EXP software Also the Smart Modular software automatically sent through enough blank space to force the receiving fax machine to cut the paper at the standard 11 inches In contrast the EXP ended the page shortly after the last line of text saving fax paper but causing the re ceiving fax machine to cut the page at an odd size prefer having mes sages on standard sized sheets of paper and favor the method chosen by Smart Modular The SmartModem card is rated to receive faxes at 9600bps bits per second the E
160. orld e Send Receive Electronic Mail acCIS is the only CompuServe access program that is fully SYSMGR compliant and works on all HP Palmtop models Join the HPHAND forum and correspond directly with many of the Palmtop Paper authors and other palmtop experts Plus you get a DOS version of acCIS for your desktop at no extra cost Only 69 00 California residents please add 7 25 sales tax plus shipping SHIER Systems amp Software 920 Hampshire Road Suite A 29 Westlake Village CA 91320 Phone 805 371 939 and I found out that most of these folks aren t getting rich either Those that are doing the best are the ones who stick with it give their users an incentive to register and do a lot to pitch their product Those all sound ed like good ideas and they all soun ded like work so I poured myself another cup of coffee and got back to programming MakeEXE One of the requests I d gotten from users was to give TIPI the ability to make stand alone EXEs from their programs Under the existing meth od you would run a TIPI program for example HANGMAN TPI by typing CIPI HANGMAN TPI at the DOS command line If a user wanted to share a TIPI program with a friend or sell it he had to include the TIPILEXE with his program If e Fast e Fasy e Versatile e Cost Effective e Complete JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 47 HOW TO USE TIPI TIPI could make its own EXEs then users could
161. our alarms will be on the road with you where they belong Manage your notes Take Memos from your Palmtop and convert them into Mac word processing documents such as Microsoft Word ClairisWorks etc Your formatting such as bold underline etc will remain intact You can also convert word processing files from your Mac into HP Memo files Don t leave your numbers behind In addition to PIM and Memo translations MacLinkPlus can also convert your Mac spreadsheets into Lotus 123 format on your HP Formatting and formulas all remain intact Once you ve made changes on your Palmtop you can convert your file back into Mac format Databases too Use your HP databases in FileMaker Pro Microsoft Works database and other Mac database programs All of your data and its formatting such as date and time will be translated Everything s included Just connect the two computers with the included serial cable MacLinkPlus HP Palmtop will do the rest Call for more information 800 733 0030 int W 55 Corporate Drive Trumbull CT 06611 Tel 203 268 0030 Fax 203 268 4345 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 15 REVIEWS Faxi modem memory cards constructed The phone cord connec tor on the end of the card is a bit more rugged than the one on the EXP but it is also larger As noted above the on board software only allows the installation procedure to be run once I made an error during installati
162. pack gave the best compression so I used it to make TIPI even smaller Eek Bugs Throughout most of 1993 I worked nights and weekends on TIPI I found myself using TIPI for more and more projects not just on the Portfolio but on my desktop PC as well I also found the big drawback of writing programs in your own language when your program has a bug you don t know if the problem is in your program or your language Of course I had my share of both types of bugs and tracking these wee beasties down caused me to develop the TIPI debugger The debugger is a very simple debugger that does a surprisingly good job of tracking down problems Since TIPI code is interpreted debug ging statements can be dropped into the code anywhere to give you a kind of XRAY of the program as it runs The debugger consists of an informational window that may be turned on and off via the instructions TRACEON and TRACEOFF The position of the window is controlled by the instructions TRACEROW and TRACECOL and it can be placed wherever it is convenient The win dow also pops up automatically in case of a fatal error to give you a JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 post mortem dump The TIPI debugger displays the contents of the data and string stacks the last instruction executed and the command TIPI is about to execute Also by use of the TRACEVAR in struction you can tell the debugger to display the contents of any vari ables With the de
163. phone number and quickly pull up the cor responding folder of infor mation for that client creat ed a client profile in the data base application included name address last contact date activity report etc Then wrote a system macro that would take me from the Phone Book name to the clients information in the Database application The macro looks like this single line no carriage return iEnter Copy F10 Database F4 Paste F10 Enter You can create a system macro by opening the Macro application and entering the above code into the Contents field of an empty macro You can also create a macro on the fly recording the keys as you press them For more information on creating sys tem macros see System Macros in the index of your HP Palmtop User s Guide The above macro is as signed to a function key Whenever want to activate it press Fn and the function key An example will clarify this Let s say assigned the JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 53 above macro to F1 open my PhoneBook highlight the desired name in the All Items list and press Fn F 1 Here s what the macro does step by step Enter Opens the individu al item screen The Name information is highlighted Copy Copies the Name information to the HP Palm top clipboard F10 Closes the individual item screen in the PhoneBook Database Opens the Database application F4 Acti
164. ppointment Book Remember the movie Fiddler on the Roof VERSES GBD Ml is a database I created to keep favorite scriptures By plac ing a subject label with each verse you can create subsets on faith law or whatever topic you choose Keep vers es with numbers less than 10 ordered properly in the database lis by preceding they with a O i e 01 02 03 etc Very little modification could adapt this database for any denomination or reli gion Thank you for the great tips in past issues Many should have been in the owners manual Especially the screen inverter and con trast controls These are a must for CGA games Phillip Nichols Internet ID pnichols bbs gatecom com Trenton MI USA See games article page 20 this issue for more fun Get R E S P E C T with the HP Palmtop In college I used to fix my own Volkswagen Bug I knew the engine backwards and forwards The guys in various auto parts shops got used to seeing me in my greasy work cloths and talk ing shop with me Times change I have my master s degree in education and still occasionally substi tute teach when my duties as a full time mom permit Recently I walked into the local lumber yard kids in tow looking for some drywall joint compound a k a mud Standard drywall joint compound comes in premixed buckets and powdered form that you mix We use it a lot in re modeling for sealing seams and texturizing walls The premix mud smel
165. pril 5 1995 will receive a disk containing some new TIPI programs written by me the winning entry from the contest and whatever cool runners up there were enough to let me write real pro grams This made some trade offs necessary No Floating Point Floating point math is one of the things that I consciously left out of TIPI Forth purists will tell you that you don t need floating point math I ll tell you that TIPI doesn t have it because it would make TIPI too big and too slow for what I wanted but the Forth guys are basically right I have seen 3 D animation engines written using only integer math and two friends of mine have coded an entire hockey game including player physics and AI without using any 46 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER floating point code The TIPI data stack and all its math instructions work with long 32 bit signed values This means TIPI can handle integers from 2 147 483 648 to 2 147 483 647 This is a very wide range and with some creative scaling you should be able to handle almost any problem that you thought would require floating point math Of course I am not a fanatic on this point If I get a huge number of registrations accompanied by requests for floating point math I will most probably add it to a future version of TIPI Once I had TIPI running and stable I experimented with various runtime file compression programs tested LZE B PK Lite Diet and Compack id Of these Com
166. programmers who write the code and future program mers who may have to modify it With TIPI every effort has been made to make the language consis tent and easy to read Extensible Rather than having a complex system of libraries and in cludes TIPI lets you use a text edi tor to copy commonly used instruc tion definitions into your code This means you can define your own instructions in TIPI so you can add the features you ve always wanted in a language A good way to think about this is to think about how the English lan guage is extended by the addition of jargon Here s an example Suppose you didn t know what RAM is You ask someone and they tell you RAM means Random Access Memory or RAM is memory that forgets every thing when you shut your computer off Let s say that one of these defi nitions makes sense to you and you remember it From now on when you talk about computers you can use the word RAM because you know what it means in terms of things you already knew You use the jargon as a quick and easy shorthand for some thing more complicated You have just extended your vocabulary to include the word RAM Where English has words TIPI has instructions In the same way that you add jargon to your English vocabulary by defining a new word in terms of words you already know you extend TIPI by defining new instructions in terms of existing in structions Here is a small chunk of TIPI code
167. r 2 Press CTAL 123 to go to DOS At the DOS prompt type REM gt C 0 CMD and press ENTER This creates a file called 0 CMD The file is empty and takes up no disk space 3 Type exit and press to re turn to Filer You should see the 0 CMD filename in the C directory listing 4 Highlight 0 CDM and press and the DOS command prompt is displayed The line you ve just added to FIL ER INI tells the autoload feature to run COMMAND COM the DOS command interpreter This causes you to go to DOS If you want you can copy the 0 CMD file to other directories on your disk so that this shortcut to DOS will be available in more than one place Running batch files from FILER INI The fact that you can launch a copy of COMMAND COM using FILER INI makes it possible to run a batch file from FILER INI The general form of the line added to FILER INI in this workaround looks like this EA ToD WOODS COMMANLT COM C Cr assoc DAC EXT stands for the file extension you wish to associate with COM MAND COM i e the extension of the file you wish to highlight and press in order to run the batch file assoc bat stands for the batch file you wish to associate with a the given EXT extension As an example try the following 1 Use Memo to create the following batch file Save this file as C TEST BAT echo off REM Test bat echo Hello I m fhe 0 program echo The data file I m associated with is
168. r tiles back and forth without hasseling with cables memory cards or card readers HOW TO USE Palmtop Wisdom 0 cesesssesseeeesenne 2 3 Personal effectiveness using the HP Palmtop Contains tips on managing new ideas finding phone numbers when a need them time management and building wealth User Profile Engineer on the Road with the HP Palmtop PC 000 30 His home and office are in Alabama and he s temporarily assigned to White Sands Missle Range in New Mexico Read how he manages it with his HP Palmtop PC Manage Your Time and Get Control of Your Life 34 Use the HP Palmtop and these techniques to manage your future instead of being managed by it Through the Looking Glass Start an application and load its data file in one step 38 Ed shows how to activate an undocumented autoload feature built into the HP 200LX FILER INI lets you highlight a file in Filer and press ENTER to start the correspondinc application with the highlighted file loaded Programmer s Corner TIPI A Small Programming Language for Small Computers 43 TIPI 2 0 is a small structured programming language written to run on small DOS compatible portables like the HP Palmtop PCs Basic Tips 0 IENE PAT EPEA AOE 50 51 Quick THIS sccscsscssesasvesvesessnsctostoossesss 52 5 HP Palmtop Users Group 0 s0ss0000 9 Product Index c
169. rests on the Title field Individual item NoteTaker Screen HP 100LX If you press Done or ESC to return to the All Notes list you will not be able to use the DownArrow key to move down the Notes list When you press it you ll get a beep You will be able to use the UpArrow key but once you get to the top of the list you re stuck To avoid this problem tab to the Note or Category field in the Note card screen and press Done or to return to the All Notes list You ll be able to use the DownArrow key A better solution is avoid the individu al Note screen Highlight an item in the All Notes list and press F3 to display the Note field only You can still edit that field and when you go back to All Notes there s no DownArrow problem Rich Hall Editor HP Palmtop Paper HP PRODUCTS Contacts Authorized HP computer dealers worldwide i e the same you can purchase an HP LaserJet To locate an authorized dealer in the USA call 800 443 1254 You can also purchase the 95LX amp 100 200LX and its accessories from ACE Technologies at 800 825 9977 or 408 734 0100 Fax 408 734 3344 EduCALC at 800 677 7001 Fax 714 582 1445 Global Con baie at 608 752 1537 Fax 608 752 HP ROOL 2MB 699 200LX 1MB 549 HP F1060A HP OmniBook 600C PC 486DX2 50 170MB HD Svanes 486DX4 75 260MB HD Svaries HP OmniBook 4000 PC 486DX4 100 520MB HD varies 4860X2 50 260MB HD varies HP StarLink S
170. rinter When I first heard about the Pentax PocketJet I was not very enthusiastic I had envisioned this thermal prin ter s output to look like those dread ed faxes that curl up on your desk and can t be fed into a copying ma chine Once I received the evaluation unit I was pleasantly surprised First this printer has a quality look to it It is amazingly small and This practical and small case is ideal for your Palmtop Dim 6 88 x 4 25 9 1 5 L735 10 8 Jiem Black beather Regulnr 550 00 44 95 F 75 Carry your Palmtop with a pager or Connectivity Pack Dim 9 75 24 5 2 175 24 7 a 14s 4 4em Black leather Regular 55 00 49 95 NEW YEAR SALE Futura 150 Polyester 45 95 Leather 5117 00 Carry your HP Omnibook So or your Palmtop and a h cellular phone or bidirectional modem Inelitles pockets for PCOMCLA I cards and documents Dim 11 75 x 7 25 p25 29 8 y LHA dem Regular in polyester 49 95 JNE gt idea THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 17 REVIEWS Portable serial printers very solid 10 x 2 2 x 1 2 At about 26 cubic inches this printer is just under the volume of the HP Palmtop itself The printhead covers the full width of the paper so the only mov ing parts are those that move the paper through the printer True to its heritage the PocketJet looks like a fine piece of photographic equip ment and includes a high quality carrying case The list price for the Pe
171. rity Work Write letter to A Jones Send estimate to J C Compensation plan oe MOEG sa 2nd Priority Personal Fix cabinet door Change oil in car Xmas shopping sa a MOYGi a The default priority on the 95LX is 1st and cannot be changed You can expand this system on the 95LX by adding additional priorities For example 3rd level priori ties could be for your hobby 4th level for your Church activities 5th for the night classes you are taking etc Rich Hall Editor HP Palmtop Paper 100 200LX Use a timed macro to automatically update Database subsets Last issue Nov Dec 94 Al Harrington described how to use the 100 200LX Database application as a customized ToDo list and how to use Subsets to organize catego ries of your list This tip gives you an additional tool for managing a ToDo Database or any Database that con tains a Date fields Robert created a database file TODO GDB that uses two subsets one to display items due today and another for items due tomorrow Instead of manually chang ing the date in each subset every day use a repeating appointment at 6 AM every morning that runs a macro updating the subsets You can create this macro be cause the HP 100 200LX has the date key Fn the or can be used to incre ment or decrement the date in a date field and copy and paste can move the correct date into a subset definition The TODO database has a date field
172. rlton Avenue East Rutherford NJ 07073 1038 CIS ID 71031 2162 Phone 201 ANIONA City OK ESO 95 100 200LX users in the Oklahoma City area Contact Richand B Meek 1804 Huntington Oklahoma City OK 73116 USA Residential Phone 405 842 1267 PECON VA USA For 95LX 100 200LX users in the Central Virginia area Contact John Haskell Chop VA 23226 3615 CIS ID 70750 1243 or Phone 804 288 6073 work oat ego CA USA For 100 200LX users in the San Diego uve Contact Mark Gillitz Internet com Work phone 619 537 3000 Fax 619 695 950 Francisco CA vent S P A M Society for Palmtop Advancement through Meetings For HP Palmtop users in the Bay m Califomia Contact Dennis Dodd CompuServe ID CTN Phone 415 592 3970 Seattle WA USA For HP Faeroe Merete oaas a We Pipe Bare area Contact Kent Paterson 360 N W Dogwood A 201 Issaquah WA 98027 CIS ID 72310 2174 Intemet pelerson halcyon com Phone 506 302 3 123 SCANDINAVIA For HP Palmtop users in the Scandinavian countnes Contact Martin Hagvail Vaermegatan 9 41832 Goeteborg SWEDEN Phone 46 31 533300 Fax 46 31 141410 SOUTH AFRICA HP Palmtop Omnibook users in South Africa should contact James Dean CIS ID 70714 613 Intemet address james charonhipsys co za Phone 011 806 1382 OV Fax 011 Ways HP Palmtop users in Turkey should contact Ahmet G Ozisik Soyak Binasi Buyukdere Istanbul 80290 TURKEY Phone 212 275 09 10
173. rs i e Tetris and many of the electronic arcade games In fact this new software game business is now far larger than any of the older traditional game businesses and is one of the fastest growing industries in both the Unit ed States and in Japan The software game business is also very interesting to those in the computer industry itself The major game companies are industry leaders in the development of software tools and methodologies Here are some examples from a few of the many categories of these specialized games that work on the HP 100 200LX computers Adventure Games The use of computers for interactive adventure gaming has spawned a significant sub industry in its own right As of 1995 a total of more than 100 adventure games are on the com mercial market or can be download ed from various libraries and bulletin boards In addition there are proba bly 20 text based adventure games and perhaps a dozen graphics based computer games that work fairly well on the Palmtops including Quest Ii ADV100 ZIP sa COLOSS ZIP lai ADV95 ZIP i DUNGEO ZIP Ei TREK1 ZIP Ei PDTREK ZIP i Pharoah s Tomb amp see graphic next page and others Pharoah s Tomb screen One of the classic adventure games of all time Rogue Idi is now available for the 100 200LX About 10 years ago the game of Rogue by Michael Toy and Kenneth Arnold had the same kind of popularity that Doom is achieving today Rogue and Doo
174. rtran and C are examples When you made a mistake in a program you would have to re compile it every time Some one thought of combining the editor and compiler into one development program to make writing software easier This is called an interpreted programmin language You type the human readable instruction a the terminal and the instructions are translated and fun in one Site This allows for easy testing and prototyping at the keyboard Languages like BASIC AWK FORTH and TIPI are examples Additional programming help Even with all the developments and improve ments in programming languages the process still has many problems and pit falls To help overcome the remaining limitations programmers use many additional software tools Taken as a group these additional support programs are referred to as a Workbench One of the most basic tools is a debug ger which is a program that helps pinpoint the location of bugs in the program as it runs Program mers also use collections external routines sets of pre programmed instructions which can be called and included in the program they are writing These external routines are stored in files referred to as libraries internal variations Intemally a programming language has to interpret the instructions that it receives store the temporary results and provide accurate output To interpret instruction it needs to read a line of instruc tions and separate out the instructi
175. rve access no additional software required to run See pages 14 15 17 Contact Shier Systems amp Software Product Index Contact information for products mentioned in articles See Advertisers Index next page for additional product references Phone 805 371 9991 Fax 805 371 9454 CompuServe ID 75030 3374 American Heritage Dictionary 3 0 59 95 See page 4 e page Contact Softkey Intemational Phone 800 227 5609 Fax 4 27 1750 ACE DoubleCards and DoubleFlash cards varies PCMICA Flash momay cards Seer page 30 Contact See ACE Ad back Bond nalyst Standard Gold 595 Platinum sa 1 2 3 add in to analyze bonds bills and CDs See page aoan Tech Hackers Phone 212 344 9500 Fax 212 344 9519 Bond Analysis 219 Financial software See page 48 Contact Pocket Consultant Phone 612 229 6260 Fax 612 566 6727 Bonds and Bills 250 Bond and Bill analysis aapa ge 48 Contact Chistian de Lis ble Rabley Park Ridge Nr Potters Bar Hertfordshire EN6 3LX UK Phone Fax 0707 642201 CakeWalk 4 0 99 Record edit and play back music throuc MIDI intefaced instrument See page 54 Contact Twelve Tone Systems Phone 800 234 1171 Fax 617 924 6657 CloseUp 6 0 199 Computer remote control See page 32 es Norton Lambert Co Shine CompuServe Information Service CIS Rate changes varies see page 17 Contact CompuServe USA Phone 800 848 81
176. s Guide 3 Determine steps of action to accomplish goals In reality this has to be done wheth er you are using the Palmtop or writing things down on paper Ac complishing any goal involves the creation of a plan a list of things you have to do people you have to meet milestones you have to reach Before you can move goals to your Appoint ment Book you have to flesh out each goal and write down the steps in volved in accomplishing it We ll enter the steps of action in the LastStep and Project fields of GOALSET GDB A Press CTAL PHONE both at the same time If the GOALSET database is not already selected press MENU File Other move the selection bar to GOALSET GDB and press ENTER B Highlight one of the goals that you just entered into the Database and press ENTER Press ALT L or tab over to the LastStep field and enter the last thing that has to happen so you know you have achieved your goal For example let s say we enter Find New Office Space as our goal The last step in that process might be signing the lease So we enter We Sign the Lease in the LastStep field C Tab to the Project field and enter all the things you need to do to find a new office space First write down all the steps involved even if you are not sure of the order Then put the steps in the correct order cut and paste if nec essary and assign dates by which each step must be accomplished In the New Office Space
177. s from the archive Below is LZH_OPT BAT a batch file that will give you these options echo off REM LZH_OPT BAT if exist 5 del if not 32 ooto 32 set Fn 41 echo Options for fn echo L ist View E xtract echonl 0 fn gt copy con 5 bat S AE LHA L ine more echo pause goto end oi lha D Fn 4 goto end if you have VU COM or another File Viewer substitute the following 4 lines in place of the last two gt Iha e Fns 343 s wu 3 gt Gel amp 3 27 goto end iE lha x SPn 3 7end Add the following line to FILER INI The next time you point at an LZH compressed file and press ENTER you ll see a prompt that asks you to press List View or Extract followed by and ENTER You can use List first to see what files are in the LZH file To view a particular file in the archive type V followed by the file name followed by ENTER To edit a particular file type E filename ENTER You ll have to wait a couple of seconds before the LHA program starts to work You ll wait forever if you forget to press CTRL 2 or and then ENTER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 gt s Serial Adapter For Your 200LX Supports HP Connectivity Pack for 200LX Point and shoot data transfer Fast reliable and easy to use pegs Extended Systems 5777 North Meeker Ave Boise ID 83713 TL 035 7576 08322755 Fa 87910 Compiled batch files another workaround The second way to
178. s let you delete extract or print a group of items in the Phone Book and Filer on the 95 100 200LX and other Database related applica tions on the 100 200LX First you must select or tag the group of items you want to work on ON THE HP 95LX Lets say you want to delete a few records from your Phone Book Highlight the first record you want to delete and press Tag Highlight and tag the rest of the items and press Cut to delete them all Items have to be tagged individually in PHONE and FILER on the 95LX However you can untag all files tagged in PHONE or FILER by pressing a ON THE HP 100 200LX Highlight each desired item and press to tag it Press and all selected items will be deleted You can press ona 100 200LX to alternately tag and untag all items in a Phone Book or Database Filer on the 100 200LX JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 lets you tag all items by pressing Options selecting All and pressing F10 To untag all Filer items press MENU Options select None and press F10 WorldTime 100 200LX Custom Cities list makes it easier to find time The World Time All Cities list comes with over 475 cities already on it and can add more as the need arises The maximum is limited by the avail able RAM disk space However sometimes a smaller list is a bit more practical Let s say your home office is in Chicago and you re going on a business trip and will visit five cities New York London Tel Avi
179. s with your PC Connects at speeds up to 115Kbps on your PC Fully operational from a diskette great when you travel to other PC locations PC HP 100LX 200LX serial cable is INCLUDED ACE LINK File Transfer with 100 200LX serial cable C1260 Desktop PCMCIA AITIA Drive Low cost solution to transporting data between PCMCIA storage devices such as our DoubleFlash and your desktop PC Compatible with ACE HP and SunDisk Flash cards s Less than 8KB on your PC No PCMCIA Socket Services required ATA X PCMCIA Internal Card Drive ep ATA X PCMCIA External Card Drive e pictured here Purchase with any Flash card LT CROC I Printer Solutions Print from your HP Palmtop Connect to any parallel printer Connects with HP PC serial cable No batteries required ACE Serial to Parallel Converter 0 79 Portable Printer for HP Palmtop F2621A HP DeskJet 320 portable printer 300dpi resolution Napp 9335 F2622A Printer and cut sheet feeder jaga bundle ee poB O F3003A Rechargeable battery A E T a SE F3004A Worldwide rapid charger tgs oi SPECIAL SAVE 20 on Serial to Parallel Converter with printer purchase s m p a To Order ACE Technologies Inc 592 Weddell Drive 6 Sunnyvale CA 94089 U S A 408 734 0100 Fox 408 734 3344 User Profile By Chris Lott I m an electrical engineer working on a re
180. search pro gram for the defense indus try My home and office is Huntsville Alabama USA but I was recently assigned to the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico for two months Having just upgraded from an HP 95LX to an HP 200LX I thought this would be an excellent opportunity to put the 200LX through its paces I also promised myself that I would shift my PIM activities en tirely to the HP Palmtop abandon ing the clumsy hybrid system I had used in the past with my 95LX a DayTimer and endless slips of paper The system I purchased was a 1MB HP 200LX an ACE Double Flash Plus 60M a MegaHertz 14 4 FAX Mo dem the HP connectivity pack a spare serial cable and the HP AC adapter I use a leather case I got from EduCALC 2520 to protect my investment when kicking around bi W j gt T Switching from the HP 95LX to the 200LX I bought my 200LX locally in Hunts ville The other accessories were mail ordered and hadn t yet arrived but I was able to transfer files between the 200LX and my 95LX using FILER and the IR ports I received my spare serial cable before I received the new HP 100 200LX Connectivity Pack Fortunately I found that I could use the software from the HP 95LX Con Engineer on the Road with the HP Palmtop His home and office is in Alabama and he s temporarily assigned to White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico Here s how he bridges the distance with the HP Palmtop
181. self sufficient by owning equity or investing in assets that ap preciate The antithesis of wealth produc ing activity is consumer debt When you borrow money to buy consum ables you are not building wealth In fact you are going in the opposite direction You receive no value for your monthly credit card interest or car payment You are just helping those that loan money and own loan institutions to become wealthy Some self discipline will pay off in the long run The HP Palmtop HP Calc and Lotus 1 2 3 programs can play a significant role in strengthening your personal financial position Use them to help you eliminate your consumer debt and start accumulating equity ON THE PALMTOP You probably have a rough idea when you want to buy your next car and what you can afford a month Suppose you can afford 500 a month and you would be willing to wait for 3 years Sup pose further you place that 500 a month in some conservative invest ment that earns 4 per year Go to HP Calc press CTRL Q or MENU Applications TVM Move the cursor up to number of periods Enter 36 months Move the cursor down one and enter 4 for 4 Make sure Present Value is 0 and type in 500 for Payment Press F10 FV or move the cursor down to Future Value and press lt Spacebar gt You ll see that at the end of 3 years you will be able to purchase a car for 19 090 78 FV 19 090 78 Using TVM to determine how much you can
182. sing terminal emulation pro grams and the ZMODEM protocol This transfer worked and the files compiled and worked as expected My side trip was successful and went without any further problems Quicken for Expenses have never used Quicken before my Palmtop purchase but it was surpris ingly easy to learn I used it to keep track of my travel expenses When the time came to fill out my travel expense report all the information I needed was right there in the Pocket Quicken database I was so im pressed with this program that I bought a copy of Quicken for my home computer I look forward to balancing my checkbook electronical ly each month Ham Radio Packet Operations I am an amateur ham radio opera tor and I carry my VHF packet sta tion with me on long trips such as this In this application I use the 200LX as a terminal which connects to the TNC terminal node control ler With this setup I can communi cate over radio to a variety of bulle tin boards and send messages to my ham buddies back in Huntsville Configuration Management I have responsibility for keeping track of the numerous drawings for the equipment we were installing at White Sands Back in Huntsville we maintain a Lotus 123 database of the drawing numbers This database contains the drawing number the title the responsible engineer the date released etc Before my trip I made a copy of this database on my Palmtop Now whenever I n
183. sponsored event provides a two day exhibition of PCMCIA related products and three day con ference program containing specific presentations for all levels of interest For more information contact 800 767 2336 Those outside the U S should call 508 474 9258 2b 100 200LX Mobile World Conference and Exposition Mobile World features pre sentations by over 50 mobile experts on mobile hardware technologies mobile software development and applica tions mobile and wireless communications and corpo rate management issues Pre sentations show how compa nies such as GE United Air lines Avis and Pitney Bowes have increased customer sat isfaction reduced operating costs and streamlined their operations through wire less mobile technology used by their field personnel The Mobile World Expo sition showcases the latest products and services by over 100 of the leading mobile companies eS ee et June 6 8 Location Dallas TX USA a Pe ee ere eed ee varies CONTACT Mobile World Phone 508 470 3880 Fax 508 470 0526 E Mail DCiconfl aol com Upgrades Notices 100 200LX 100 200 Buddy version 2 0 B Buddy is a feature rich util ity for HP 100 200LX Eng lish language displays that adds dozens of keystroke shortcuts and other options to the built in applications making it easier to use Ver sion 2 0 runs on both the HP 100LX and 200LX and will operate correctly with font
184. ss phone field Cut cuts it to the clip board Alt O moves the cursor to the Home phone field Paste pastes the cut number in that field I was consistent in entering ad dresses in my 95LX Phone Book Address field The first line for the street address and the second for the city and state When the PBK file was translated by the 200LX this information appeared in the Note field as shown below 1334 Main Street Apt 55 Nowhere NM 23456 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chris lives in Huntsville Alabama with his wife Debbie and three children He received a BEE from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1985 He works as a lead engineer for Phase IV Systems Inc doing hardware design of RF analog and microcontroller systems He welcomes comments and questions by Internet e mail to lott phase4 com 30 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 My second macro moved the first line of the notes field to the 1st ad dress field The macro looks like this The third macro moves the con tents of the second line of the notes field into the city state and zip code fields respectively It looks like this A The above macro assumes the city is a single word I had to manually fix the fields of city names with two words such as New York Los Angel es etc Note the System Macro applica tion seems to have a little trouble with Alt 1 key combination I used the Palmtops system macro record feature to record the above
185. st 0 9 letters next A Z e g highest to lowest 0 3 7 A Al A7 AA B etc For more information on using these features see appointments adding and to dos adding in the Time management on the HP 95LX The system described in this article was developed for the HP 100 200LX However it s pretty easy to get it to work on the HP 95LX You cannot use GOALSET GDB on the 95LX but you can create a simplified version of it using the Phone Book database Open a new Phone Book and enter the following information in the following fields Prone GIG SS aaea atocn eR s A Information NAITO iror r Agee arte total Goal Number Date priority length of time Age Address PIG ONG ero het ete a sume ate LastStep Subsequent lines steps dates accomplished lf you are consistent with the way you enter your goals dates etc you can create macros that will cut and paste that information to your Appointment Book The HP 95LX provides 10 priorities for your Todos On the wi 95LX from APPT press F10 Todo F8 Insert to enter a Todo The second ca in the Todo entry screen is the Priority field With the Priority field highlighted press to select 1st through 9th priority levels Your Todos will be ordered by priority level 1st highest 9th lowest in the Todo display list For further information see Macros Appoint ments adding and todos adding in the index index of your HP 100 200LX User
186. state storage card e BATTman 2 0 for Alkaline NiCad NIMH Lithium batteries ADpMAW gives you complete control of DOS applications W Two 1200MAH high capacity non toxic no memory NiMH batteries HP world wide universal AC Adapter 200LX IMB Complete System with DoubleFlash 6M up to 6MB 200LX 1MB Complete System with DoubleFlash 10M up to 1OMB 200LX 1MB Complete System with DoubleFlash 20M up to 20MB 200LX 1MB Complete System with DoubleFlash 40M up to 40MB 200LX 1MB Complete System with DoubleFlash 60M up to 60MB 200LX 1MB Complete System with DoubleFlash 80M up to 8OMB For 200LX 2MB Complete Systems ccsccceseeeeeeeeeeseeeneees HP 200LX Basic Systems HP 200LX 1MB with AppMAN HP 200LX 1MB with ACE LINK PC Serial cable and AppMan oe ms HP 200LX 2MB with AppMANI HP 200LX 2MB with ACE LINK PC Serial cable and AppMarn ACE Softwe ACT for HP Palmtops version 1 1 gD oe 529 669 699 Best Selling Contact Management now available for the 95 100 200LX Store up to 4 000 Contacts and 400 activities Daily and weekly calendars for quick reference to activities Multi scheduling capabilities calls meetings and to do s Customized contact record fields to suit any business contact Stores standard information in popup menus Import and Export capabilities including the HP Phonebook ACT for HP P
187. t Jeff Zom 29371 Ara nel Farmington Hills MI 2815 Phone 313 489 1855 EST or Louis Peeples St Clair Shores MI 48080 Phone 313 777 9390 GERMANY HF Paimt book users in Germany should contact Eckart Prinz Obere Mahistr 56a 64291 Darmstadt GER Phone Far 49 6151 376065 GERMANY LUXEMBOURG Not an official user group but this individual is wiling to help HP Palmtop users with questions or technical problems contact Gilles Kohi Hagsfelder Allee 16 D 76131 Karlsruhe GERMANY CompuServe ID 100114 3146 intemet ID gilles spam fido de Phone 49 721 69 36 55 after 6 p m Central European time Arata te HP 95LX 100 200LX users in the low countries should contact PROMPT HP G Dongs Postbus 1081 1500 AB Zaandam HOLLAND Phone 31 75704205 meat s USA 95LX 100 200LX users in the Chicago area should contact Gordon Campbell 290051 Bames Ave West Chicago IL 60185 Phone 708 23 INDONESIA HP Handheld users HP 75C 110 48 12 100 200LX in Indonesia should contact Dirk H Ss a ee Mr Elman Sunarlio Jl Gunung Sahari 2 6E Jakarta 10610 sel Eisa Contact Manetha Wilson P O Box 1151 Manhattan KS 66502 0012 USA Phone cos Angeles CA sa 95LX 100 200LX users in the LA area should contact Dave Shier at 805 71 9391 Fax 805 371 9391 CIS 75030 3374 for more information fe Jersey New York USA 95LX 100 200LX users in the New Jersey New York area Contact Pre Praia dey aero 113 Ca
188. t card one year 39 two years 69 Postage U S and U S possessions free Canada Mexico add 6 per year other coun tries add 18 per year Please allow four to six weeks for receipt of first issue Executive Editorial Circulation Marketing and Adver tising Offices P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Telephone 515 472 6330 FAX 515 472 1879 Copyright 1995 Thaddeus Comput ing Inc all rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced without writ ten permission Reasonable efforts are made to provide accurate and useful information but the reader must make his or her own investigations and decisions the Publisher and Editorial Staff cannot assume any respon sibility or liability for the use of information contained herein l POSTMASTER Please send any address changes E Palmtop Paper Attn Thaddeus Computing Inc P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 1 Personal Effectiveness Using The HP Palmtop The editors of The HP Palmtop Paper welcome you to Palmtop Wisdom Palmtop Wisdom takes the latest think ing about leadership human relations time manage ment finance self development travel and enter tainment and shows the concrete application of these concepts using HP s 100 200LX Palmtop PCs We welcome your feedback ideas and contributions By Hal Goldstein PERSONAL LEADERSHIP What to do with new ideas Most of us get useful i
189. te the FILER INI file We ll start with a simple test case using one of the DOS applications built into the HP 200LX ICN200LX EXE an icon viewer and editor is found in the D BIN directory It is a program that lets you view edit or create icons to be used in Application Manager You can start the program from Filer by highlighting ICN200LX EXE and pressing ENTER You get a screen that looks like this e Mer ea SSS es ra z De a 2 SS a L oo SE E alias HP 200LX Icon Editor ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ed Keefe is an author programmer computer science instructor and long time contributor to support publications for HP computers He is the president of the FastAid Company 314 S W Logan Ankeny IA 50021 Ed s Compu Serve ID is 75300 3667 38 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 From here you can load existing icons and create and save new ones The autoload feature is built into the 200LX It is activated by instruc tions in the FILER INI file To set the con program up to autoload CN files from Filer we have to create a FILER INI file that contains the ap propriate instructions Start MEMO and type in the fol lowing two lines Launeher 3 b T Fom TTi j iF 1 1 i i h o N gt BLN ONO als The first line Launcher must be included it must be spelled as shown and be enclosed in square brackets Upper or lower case letters may be used The second line tells t
190. toload feature The first is that it doesn t work as is with the built in applications That is you can t create an entry in the FILER INI file to launch a built in application by highlighting its data file We ll talk about that later and suggest a work around The second limitation is related to DOS batch files The 200LX lets you highlight a BAT COM or EXE file and press to launch it How ever you sometimes need to load a BAT file into a text editor to view or modify it You cannot use the FIL ER INI approach described above to load DOS Batch files into a text edi tor to edit them If you try the above approach with batch files you ll lock up your 200LX Workaround Using FILER INI to view edit or launch batch files It would be nice to be able to high light a batch file and have the op tions to either view it edit it or launch it You can view a batch file from FILER by highlighting it and JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 39 HOW TO USE FILER INI pressing View You can run it by pressing ENTER There is no easy edit option Fortunately there is at least one way to get around the FILER INI batch file limitation and create such a system To understand this work around lets first look at a way to use FILER INI to quickly go to the DOS prompt 1 Load FILER INI into MEMO and add the following line CMD D DOS COMMAND COM Save the modified FILER INI file and return to File
191. turn off alarn sound check Mute To hear selected sound press F3 Press F10 OK s Alarm Baen help screen 100 200LX This screen gives basic information on how to adjust volume and change the sound of your alarm Help screens are available for all the built in applications on the HP 95 100 200LX Phone SSS 100 200LX Getting back to the top of the phone list quickly keep some special entries at the top of my Phone list For example 00Hometodo is a list of repairs need to make around the house OXmasList is a list of potential Christmas presents for members of my family There are other special entries Whenever open my Phone Book like to be at the top of the list to see these special entries This is no problem when first open PHONE The highlight bar is always at the top of the screen However if open PHONE go to a phone entry somewhere down the list e g O Toole Mike and then go to MEMO to write a note about something when go back to PHONE l m still at O toole Mike The quickest way to go to the top of the phone list on any HP Palmtop is to press the HOME key Fr cLeftArrow gt Alternatives would be to press MENU Quit to exit PHONE whenever you go to another application a bit cumbersome In my phone book on the 100LX if press 00 go to 00HomeTodo the first entry in my phone book 8 100 200LX Select multiple records in Phone or Database The HP Palmtop
192. ulletin boards Software Toolworks CD ROM version has a gin rummy game Gin King that works well on the HP Palmtop but remember that only the CD ROM version will download to the Palm top File storage for this version runs to about 180K Poker There are several very good share ware and commercial poker games available that work very well on the HP 100 200LX machines One that plays well is a shareware game called Vegas Johnny s Draw Poker by Micro Star This is a very good rendition of Special Games Edition of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK The ganas listed below are available on a special two disk issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK This special ON DISK issue also includes other shareware and freeware mentioned in this issue like Buddy 2 0 for the 100 200LX the updated HELV200 font program and the TIPI programming language Freeware programs are available at no additional charge Shareware programs are available for trial purposes only If you want to continue using a shareware program you have to pay a registration fee usual 5 30 to the author of the program File Name Description CIS forum Library Type Page ADV100 2ZIP Adventure games 100 200LX HPHAND 100LX New 8 Free 24 ADV95 ZIP Adventure games 95 100 200LX HPHAND 95LX Gen 7 Free 24 BACKGM ZIP Backgammon 100 200LX HPHAND TOOLX Gen 11 Free 21 BJ95 Z P BJ EXM Blackjack 95 100 200LX HPHAND 95LX Gen 7 Free 22 BRIDGE ZIP Bridge Pal 100 200 HPHAND 100LX Gen 11
193. urn the Palmtop on If you tend to use the LX for quick reference turning it on many times a day for brief peri ods then you may find the EXP to be a significant drain on the batteries Also while both cards have rather small drivers that must be loaded at 7KB the EXP driver is over twice the size of the Smart driver The EXP comes with their Mini Fax software It is System Manager compliant an EXM which looks just like the built in applications and is a great example of how software for the HP 100LX and 200LX should be designed I found this software very easy to use despite the fact that my evaluation card was provided with out any documentation A particular ly nice feature is the fax transmission log that listed all faxes sent or re ceived You can view or print any received fax by selecting it from the listing While more than acceptable the quality of the EXP s transmitted fax was not as good as that of the Smart Modular s fax but since I prefer to use CompuServe to send faxes this was not an important issue to me Instead I directed my attention to the use of this card for high speed data transfers I used this card with the CompuServe access program acCIS for over a month Carrying a tele phone cord in my Palmtree leather case in the pen slot was very conve nient This enabled me to log into CompuServe from anywhere and with plenty of room for storing mes sages and files Which card wins
194. ut the existing file in Filer first to see if the information in it was really worth saving If it was I ll give it a new name transfer it to my PhoneBook NoteTaker or Database or save it under another name If it wasn t I ll copy over it Rich Hall Editor HP Palmtop Paper 100 200LX Default tabs in Memo The tab settings in Memo are only stored with FORMAT TED files If all you ve typed in is ASCII text no BOLD UNDERLINE OUTLINES etc then your document is ASCII not FORMATTED The easiest way to force it to be FORMATTED is to press twice The first time turns BOLD on the second time turns it back off doing nothing except setting the FORMATTED flag Then when you save the docu ment the TAB settings will be saved with it There s no where in an ASCII file to save the TAB settings Everett Kaser CompuServe ID 74431 1441 You can create a system macro to open Memo and set the tabs the way you like them Bob Russell CompuServe ID 71571 3072 54 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1995 EA Misc 100 200LX Make MIDI Music with the 100 200LX run Cakewalk 4 0 for DOS on my 100LX Cakewalk is MIDI sequencing software that lets you record edit and play back music through a MIDI interfaced instrument have a 20 MB double flash card that use to store Cake walk and all of the files use the Key MS124 Midiator po cket MIDI box that connects through the HP serial cable
195. v Hong Kong and Tokyo You can create a smaller Custom Cit ies list that only displays these cities Press CTRL to go to the World Time All Cites list Since your home office is in Chicago you probably have that city set up as your Local City If you don t and want to start typing in Chicago until the highlight bar moves to that city Then press Local and answer Yes when asked if you want to set it as your local city The rest of this tip assumes Chicago as your Local City Move your highlight bar to each of the five cities mentioned above A quick way is to start typing the name of the city and the bar will auto matically jump to the city To select a city for the custom list press A check mark will appear on the same line as the city over to the right next to the time column see screen display below To remove a city from the custom list highlight the city and press Once you have selected all of your custom cities press and only those cities will be dis played Local City Chicago IL USA 1 14 pn Custom Cities Hong Kono Kong 14 an London United Kingdon J 14 pr New York City NY J 2 14 pa Tel Aviv Israel J 9 14 pr okyo Japan J 4 14 an Example of World Time s Custom Cities list You can return to the All Cities list any time by pressing F9 again You can also access the Custom Cities list by pressing Subset and selecting Custom Cities You can also use the Sub set feature to
196. vates the Find function Paste Copies the name information into the Find screen F10 Starts the Find search and goes to the de sired item in the Database All Items view Enter Opens the Individu al Item view and shows me the clients profile Steve Michell CompuServe ID 73004 2607 Memo S S 100 200LX Use a TEMP DOC file in MEMO to keep track of short notes When need to jot down a miscellaneous note I ll open Memo and type it in save most miscellaneous short term notes as TEMP DOC just in case only store information in TEMP DOC if am almost positive won t need it in the long term but want it saved for a little while just in case For example if I m going to pick a few items up at the store I ll jot them down in Memo and save the file as TEMP DOC Once get the items don t care about the note It is overwrit ten when next save Occasionally I ll jot down some information that want to keep for a while and then delete but don t know quite what to do with it If save it as TEMP DOC know it will get written over pretty quick ly Instead I ll save it as TEMP1 DOC TEMP2 DOC etc Since don t use these file names very often the information in them will re main on my Palmtop longer When finally do attempt to save another note to one of those file names the Palm top asks me if want to Re place the Existing File stop the save and check o
197. w data modem speed this card is best suited for users who will be using the fax fea ture and or communicating interac tively with a host computer Since interactive communications speeds are generally limited by the user s typing speed the slow data rate would have little impact On the other hand if you have to download large files from an on line service where you pay for connect time or long distance telephone char ges a slower data rate would trans late into higher connect and or phone charges The Smart card appears very well Supports HP Z200LX HP 100LX HP 95LX MacLinkPlus HP Palmto the Missing Link Use Palmtop files on your Macintosh and vice versa Backup your palmtop on your Mac Backup your entire Palmtop on your Mac with just a click of a mouse MacLinkPlus will move all of your Palmtop files onto your Mac The directory structure will remain the same on the Mac as it was on the HP Don t retype all those names MacLinkPlus can translate your phone book files onto your HP No need to retype all that information And you can translate your HP Phonebook names back into your Mac phone book as well No excuses for missed appointments Appointment book alarms don t do and good if your not at your desk to hear them With MacLinkPlus you can convert your Mac appointment book files such as Now Up to Date or DateBook Pro into the HP Appointment Book format Now your appointments and y

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