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1. 42 issues plus 9 bonus issues Who would have thought it possible er Through the Looking Glass Leiki 2 te Ory j i E 7 F SATON ae DE Are the HP Palmtops Year 2000 compliant How can you 4 ensure that the Palmtop s on board clock is on time OSS TDS EE rebatat eens wee BUDS anna tines canna a Advertiser s Index 00s00000800 Files on November December 98 ON DISK 36 NM 7447083112 What s NEW in 1999 Commercial DOS Programs FREE Lotus Agenda WordPerfect s DataPerfect Button s PC File Free form Square Notes Accounting Pro Over 200 new and updated Palmtop programs Great new software from Japan with English documentation New DOS finds Updated popular palmtop games and utilities PC In Your Pocket and HP Palmtop Technical Reference Manual in HTML From your desktop or palmtop web browser now you can read Ed Keefe s classic containing 100 s of ideas of practical uses of the HP Palmtop Programmers will appreciate a second copy of the Tech Reference Manual designed to be read using HV on the Palmtop More Gutenberg Etexts Our second CD of Etexts is now com pletely full Additional works from Verne Huxley Longfellow Marx Austen HG Wells Darwin Woolfe Lewis London Grey Burroughs plus documents such as the Federalist Papers have been added for your palmtop pleasure and reference 1998 Iss
2. WinCE Cabling Memory Cards Modem Fax Cards Adaptors Leather Cases Micro AC Interlace Card TransPC Card Double Silat TravelFloppy and all HP accessories Software Special palmtop software DOS PAL amp WinCE Services Customized solutions Mobile InterCom Bundles Germany 02202 951780 international 49 2202 051781 Germany o2202 951782 OUR internationa 49 2202 9557700 h Tro Gormany Kunden G oasy usa de International customers aasy use com PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITES EASY USE Aug Ki rspel Str 18 20 D 51468 Berg Gladbach AlipoWiwWasy Lise de German hitpu WWW BaSy USe com English UET ON od OM OFT ge Universal Parallel Port PC Card with Parallel Port and Instant File Transfer Trans PC Card adds the Parallel Port making your Palmtop 100 real PC so now you can connect parallel devices like 100 MB Zip etc and fast print to standard parallel printers Programs for Instant no installation or setup transfer synchronization and management of files between PCs are on the Card flash to save system memory The Card Type with very low power draw upon insertion becomes drive A Programs on Card run under DOS 5 0 and Windows using familiar XCOPY syntax or point and shoot interface Included cable used also for connection to penpherals allows for trans fer between the Card in Palmtop and PC standard parallel port at 30 KB sec 60X faster than Puma s IntelliSyne Trans PC C
3. 44 95 XLC100 Exec Case for HP200 100 95 34 95 MLC150 Exel Pouch HP200 100 95 10 95 608 752 1537 Fax 608 752 9548 1099 95 Blackjack or 21 for the HP 100 200LX Copyrighted freeware Double Nine Dominoes Version 1 0 by Curtis Cameron Double Nine is a dominoes game played with tiles numbered blank through nine Much higher scores are possible but the mental calculations are much greater also Copyrighted freeware Golf Solitaire Version 1 9 by Curtis Cameron Golf Solitaire for the HP 100 200LX New ver sion keeps statistics and gives a better winning show Copyrighted freeware Tetris Version 1 0 by Curtis Cameron Curtis version of the classic falling block game Copyrighted freeware Yahtzee Version 2 1 by Curtis Cameron Yahtzee for the HP 100 200LX Now for one or two players Copyrighted freeware ROESV LEW ORSEOV UI E Wo JRE NAIRE WWS RE SS a TeX on the HP Palmtop You ve undoubtedly heard of desktop publishing This article introduces Palmtop Publishing TFX can turn your Palmtop into a typesetting engine that will let you create photo ready documents Stephan Luettjohann Hans Hoenen and Yoichi Motohashi almtop publishing with TeX is P somewhat like creating a doc ument for the World Wide Web When you look at a Web page you see text in different font sizes and colors Most often the text is orga nized for eye appeal and readability If you re curious about how t
4. If you ve never owned a CD InfoBase we urge you to take advantage of this no risk offer today and see for yourself If you don t like it simply return it for a full refund You take no risk The HP Palmtop Paper s TO INSTALL Run INSTALL EXE while in Windows The CD InfoBase is one of those happy situations where the value of a product vastly exceeds cost Here s what HP Palmtop users have to say about The HP Palmtop Paper s The CD InfoBase is the ideal reference source David Shier Shier Systems All palmtop users would benefit from having this CD Dara Khoyi Florida It s a great product and well worth the money Thomas Rundel Germany The CD is a downright bargain Stan Dobrowski TeamHP I thought the CD was terrific very useful Dorothy Colton Hewlett Packard SPECIAL LOW PRICE Ist Time Buyer 99 95 Reg 129 Save 29 CDRM Upgrade from 96 97 98 CD 59 95 Reg 79 Save 19 CDRU Why wait The sooner you order the sooner you can start enjoying the benefits of a fully empowered palmtop Act now Order Online www PalmtopPaper com or Call 800 373 6114 515 472 6330 Fax 515 472 1879 Editors Message I suspect that people buy a Palmtop because it looks neat and works great They keep a Palmtop when they discover how ver satile it can be For many users the built in applications are more th
5. Landolistrasse 28 CH 3007 Beme SWITZERLAND E mail 100527 2461 compuserve com or Qgutfeldt msmail advd unibe ch TURKEY Ahmet G Ozisik Emmat ago ibm net UKRAINE Linetskvy V Oleg Tel 051 36 73 51 36 73 13 Fax 051 24 4125 UNITED KINGDOM Isleworth Middlesex Michael A Brown MBA Group gt PEPID 99 The Portable Emergency Physician Information Database The world s first living medical textbook Continuous updates available over the Specifically designed for the HP 200LX Also available for desktop amp laptop computers and windows CE palmtops with a web browser Portable reference for all emergent urgent Field tested by over 4 years of actual E D Used by several residency programs and fonts if you re so inclined NEW1999 PRODUCT ENHANCEMENTS 1 000 drugs updated amp over 100 new drugs added All medical topics reviewed 1 100 with over 200 additions or complete rewrites An expanded index for fast navigation Complete database ready to download to your palmtop ONLY 295 00 3 MB memory required Visit our web site www pepid com for an online demo Tel 0181 847 3777 Fax 0181 568 2402 Farnborough Hampshire David Hodges E mail w mier ic ac uk WEST INDIES lan Melville c o Frontline Marketing Agencies Phone 868 642 5492 Fax 868 642 2021 E mail lanmel opus co tt United Sta
6. SYNCDR31 ZIP DOS update to directory synchronizer TETRIS ZIP DOS Game of falling blocks THEDRAW ZIP DOS Early drawing program How to Submit an Article The richness of The HP Palmtop Paper comes from the contributions of Palmtop PC users We and your fellow users welenme your sib FRUIT95 ZIP DOS Sokoban type game TOPCARD ZIP adds a file open menu to the topcard missions We do not offer payment for articles GOLF ZIP DOS Golf Solitaire game TOPCARDJ ZIP DOS Select topcards your reward is knowing that you ve helped others ICNED100 ZIP SMC Icon editor program TOPCARDS ZIP Topcards from Eugene Dorr If you have a good idea and want to go for ICNVU2 ZIP SMC Icon viewer program TPCRD ZIP randomly pick a new topcard A hs pe Aer hn Sos ep LFTREEO6ZIP SMC View directory as a tree UNZIPEXE DOS Free unzipping program 75300 2443 Internet hal_goldstein thad deus com or send disk or hard copy to Hal Goldstein at the above address Alternatively you can send an outline of your idea We will try to guide you as to when and whether we LO_080 ZIP DOS Game of Lights Out LOTUSLAB ZIP WK1 Several Lotus 123 worksheets VADAS102 ZIP DOS shoot the falling numbers game WHERE100 ZIP SMC File finder on all disks would use the article and contact you if we LXCIC ZIP DOS Upgrade for CIC100 replacement WINACTS ZIP Windows program for time check need clarification or have any suggestions please include your phone weir 5 We
7. TXT entry will move to the bottom of the list This shows that even though only two digits appear for the year field Filer does indeed work with a 4 digit year internally Appointment Book If you start the Appointment Book and press F5 and F4 to Goto Today you ll see that the first line in the dis play shows the date with a two digit year However the second line of the display will show the year as 2000 In other words the Appointment Book is Y2K compliant with the minor issue that the four digit year number is not always displayed Summing Up In short all of the other System Manager applications are equally Y2K compliant They handle date opera tions correctly but they don t always show a four digit year For example if you use the DATE key to enter the date in any application you ll get a two digit year Lotus 1 2 3 As was mentioned in the Sept Oct 1998 Basic Tips Lotus 1 2 3 is also Y2K compliant due to the way in which 1 2 3 handles dates cc Mail On the other hand cc Mail is not Y2K compliant and Lotus is not inter ested in fixing the program on the Palmtop Lotus is giving away a Y2K compliant version of cc Mail for the desktop which is of little help to Palmtop users Third Party Software One of the great features of the HP Palmtops is their ability to run many older DOS programs However in the light of the Y2K problem that feature may turn into a queen bug i e one tha
8. The previous tip took advantage of the fact that the replacement value 345 had the same number of characters as the original value 295 This one for one exchange of bytes in a binary file should not damage the structure of the file in any way However binary files are not the same as text files They contain a lot of strange looking binary characters which mean something to the program that uses the file If you overwrite any of these bina ry characters the file will no longer work In short if you use XLATE to replace Ed with Edward in a binary database file you ll mangle the file so badly that you ll probably lock up your computer when you next try to use the file When you want to replace a string such as Ed with another string like Edward in which the number of charac ters is different you need to run the data base program e g Phone Book You will have to perform the replacements field by field This is the only way to maintain the integrity of the data file Such a search and replace operation done one field at a time in a large database file would be an exercise in frustration tol erance However you can reduce the frus tration by installing the FASTDB TSR pro gram in your AUTOEXEC BAT program and resetting the Palmtop FASTDB will let you make a number of changes without pausing to update the whole file after every single change You can use a System Macro to auto mate the repl
9. die A pict mmalod by papit 4 B B 3 How the beginning of this sample was typeset ip camsete ty le chee tres pict m arti cus b t Screen 2 TeX Presents Graphs Tex Navigator TEX Mainmenu document zeeman tex E E Se SS ee ee M Screen 3 Main Screen of LXTeX print your document If you wanted to prepare a techni cal document full of equations and graphs this was the only way to do it The alternative was to write your equa tions on paper and hope that a human typesetter would get them right The most efficient compiling pro gram for producing high quality sci entific technical documents was cre ated by Donald E Knuth more than 20 years ago He called the program TeX LaTeX Leslie Lamport s TeX and EMTeX Eberhard Mattes TeX are versions of the original TeX compiler They will let you produce photo ready documents after a few days learning how to make use of almost all the TeX formatting commands In general here s how you use TeX 1 Type your document using an editor of your choice While typing your text specify with TeX commands where chapters begin where quotes and paragraphs are to be placed where formulas and enumerations begin and end 2 Compile your document with a TeX compiler 3 After that you can preview the document on your screen and send it to a printer 20 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 AT RIGHT gt Printed example
10. within Thaddeus Computing greeted my concept of The Ultimate Palmtop Catalog It meant changing the opera tions of the Palmtop side of our busi ness significantly A refurbished base ment became our upgrade and repair center Our order entry people had to become more Palmtop savvy to answer customers questions Tying up cash in inventory became an issue The whole logistics of shipping prod ucts in a timely fashion had to be developed Thanks to a great internal staff and strong HP Palmtop user support the catalog has proved quite successful Furthermore we have been for tunate enough to acquire the services of long time contributor Ed Keefe as editor This issue is the first that he edited from start to finish In 1999 The HP Palmtop Paper should be the best yet What a change a year makes Enter www PalmtopPaper com Things should get even better Our eighth year of The HP Palmtop Paper will be tied closely to our new web 26 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 site www PalmtopPaper com The Web site s secure shopping cart sys tem will handle your Palmtop prod uct needs online Our goal is for the site to drive both The HP Palmtop Paper and our Ultimate Palmtop Catalog In other words Palmtop tips new product announcements some articles and news will be found at PalmtopPaper com and in our new HP Palmtop free email newsletter See sidebar for more details Specials not in the catalog and new palm
11. 1 000 00 per month To solve this problem you need to know how much of the principal you still have to pay back at the end of 130 peri ods Then you can set up two new prob lems One problem will have payments of 849 15 and the other will have payments of 1 000 00 Then you can find how many payments are required for each problem and how much interest you ll save Here s how to ao this To find how much of the principal remains set N 130 and solve for FV You should get FV 96 316 41 This is the new mortgage amount Change the sign of this number by press This is the main worksheet Font TSpPtp r frptpsept a TSptp sr a frptpiuly Screen 3 Main File Holds the Links ing the L key and then press the F8 PV key to reset the Present value Press 0 and F10 FV to set the Future value back to zero Solve for N and you ll find that there are indeed 350 payments to be made To find the accumulated interest for this loan with N 350 00 in the display press M RCL F9 PMT and then press the key to multiply these two numbers You ll get 297 201 07 Press M RCL PV and press the key to find that the total payments minus the present value leaves 200 884 30 in accumulated interest Now press N STO O to put this amount in Register 0 Press M RCL PV and press the right or left arrow key to open the CASE 2 window in TVM Press N STO PV to set the present value Set I R 10 set PMT 1 000 and if
12. 2 12 by Eric Meyer ZIP is a small fast utility for transferring files between two computers over a null modem cable Shareware BlackJack Version 1 2 by Curtis Cameron 16 THEHPPALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 HP Color Palmiop PE Takes You Places A One Stop Paumrop Suor Hewiert Pacnano Moeite PC cane Why waste time scurrying from place to place searching for Hewlett Packard 620 360 200LX Palmtop PC or HP OmniBook Notebook and then some place else to find the right accessory We are Your One Stop Palmtop Shop You can count on us to supply you with everything you may need for you HP Mobile PC SanDisk flash cards modems leather cases etc We are an exclusive Hewlett Packard dealer We offer large inventory quick delivery and competitive pricing You will always New HP 660LX Colar Palmtop PC The leader with 56Kbps modem and 32MB RAM A One Stop Palmtop Shop 170 South Jackson Street Janesville WI 53545 USA Sales 800 709 9494 Int l WebSite http iwww mrpalmtop com E mail g mrpalmtop com SDOGF 8 8MB CompactFlash 69 95 SDCF 4 4MB CompactFlash 49 95 SD ADA PCMCIA Adapter for CF Cards 12 95 SanDisk PCMCIA Flash Memory Cards SOP 220 220MB Flash Memory Card SDP 175 175MB Flash Memory Card 959 95 SDP 110 110MB Flash Memory Card 649 95 SDP 685 85MB Flash Memory Card 489 95 XLC Genuine Leather Cases for HP PCs XLCB20Z Exec Case for HPG60 B20LX 49 95 XLC320 Exec Case for HP360 320 300
13. American Mathematical Society I usually pre pare my TeX files in the Plane Tex format I call this Plane TeX rather than plain TeX to indicate my fre quent use of itin a plane over Siberia or Italy etc I haven t tried LaTeX since I do not like it very much because of its heavy specifications For a mathe matician Plane TeX is more than enough Some of my friends claim that JTeX a Japanese version of LaTeX works well on their HP Palmtops but I suspect the speed hampers its usabil ity even on a double speed My 2 HP Palmtops are both double speed and 6 MB I use my HP combined with my MAC Power Book 1400C on which I have a far more advanced TeX system by BlueSky Co Textures 1 8 So on trips and during those boring facul ty sessions as well I carry my little HP and work with my mathematical ideas using SBTeX I prepare math articles divided into smaller pieces and combine them on my Mac when 22 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 I am back to my home or office I have never tried to use DVIOUT as a print er interface device Printing can be done far better with the Mac and its laser printer I use the editor TED CQM made by a Japanese professor of computer science which works beautifully and very quickly on both Japanese and English texts I write a TeX file say 2 3 pages with TED TeX it with SBTeX view the dvi file with DVIOUT think about what I ve written correct the origi
14. D and at the DOs prompt type XLATE 295 345 MYPHONE PDB NEW PHONE PDB All of this goes on one line Press Enter and in a few seconds the DOS prompt will reappear Type DIR PDB and compare the number of bytes in MYPHONE PDB and NEWPHONE PDB lf the number of bytes is the same then nothing surprising has happened To see if the NEWPHONE PDB file is valid start the Phone Book application and use the MENU File Open command If the NEW PHONE PDB file appears then you re ready to close the Phone Book use Filer to archive the original Phone Book file and rename the new file as MYPHONE PDB or whatever name you prefer You ll have to put up with the error message Cannot Open File the next time you start Phone Book When this happens just use the MENU File Open command to open the MYPHONE PDB file CAUTION XLATE is very indiscrimi nate in how it replaces things For exam ple if a note field contained something like 29500 00 it will be changed to 34500 00 Likewise a street address may be changed from 295 East Grand to 345 East Grand There are other utility programs that will let you do pretty much the same thing as XLATE does For example some hex editors will let you search and replace globally throughout a binary file But all of the other utilities I ve looked at are equal ly indiscriminate in their search and replace operations Finding and Replacing in Databases with a System Macro
15. DECEMBER 1998 a support book in a used book store Agenda is not immediately intuitive so some help is needed to get started with it Abandonware sites on the Internet come and go They operate on the fringe of legality Sometimes the soft ware on these sites is truly abandoned and this will be the only place to find the software I ll take a look at what s offered on these sites but only after I start my anti virus program There may be a clue in the abandoned program about how to get legitimate versions of the software For exam ple the game Dark Designs runs very well on the Palmtop In the copy I found on an abandonware site it became apparent that the program was written by John Carmack who happens to be involved in developing games such as Quake He was kind enough to return my inquiries about Dark Designs The program is still commercially available volumes I and II are for the PC volumes I V1 for the Apple II So I ordered the Apple I versions and now my quest continues for an Apple II emulator that will run on the Palmtop Where to look Since my treasure hunting began as a supplement to The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK it seems redundant to list this as a resource Still The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK is the best place to get started It contains soft ware that relates to the articles in the current issue and the software is always the latest version System More Menu SMM my favorite replac
16. Hans has been using TeX to prepare documents for his advanced math courses in graduate school Yoichi Motohashi is a professor of math He may raw file that is saved on their disk If they did it wouldn t do much good All the embedded code is in machine readable binary format With modern word pro cessors and desktop publish ing programs the only way to format a document is to let the program embed the code for you However in the early days of desktop publishing that was not the case In the good old days you typed both the text and the commands to format the text There were commands to select different fonts and commands to tell where to place the text on a printed page Once you typed in the text and the code you passed the document to a compiler that prepared the doc ument Only then could you view or Stephan Luettjohann be reached at Honkomagome 5 67 1 901 Tokyo 113 0021 His email address is ymoto math cst nihon u ac jp THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 17 Your palmtop can be up to 12 Paimtops in 1 With Windows like flexibility Not just for the technological elite OK It s true Software Carousel has long appealed to the technologically elite s This elite understood the usefulness of switching between built in applica tions and DOS sessions with a hot key and were willing to endure a techy manual that required experimentation Now Software Car
17. To Months F ng Date 15 Extent and Nature of Circulation a Total No Copies Net Press Run 10400 8500 b Paid And Or Requested Circulation 1 Sales through dealers and carriers street vendors and counter sales not mailed 1650 1550 2 Paid and or requested Mail Subscriptions includes Advertisers Proof Copies Exchange Copies 7925 6300 c Total Paid And Or Requested Circulation Sum of 15b 1 and 15b 2 9575 7850 d Free Distribution By Mail Samples Complimentary And Other Free Copies 125 125 e Free Distribution Outside the Mail Carriers or Other Means 0 0 f Total Free Distribution Sum of 15d and 15e 125 125 g Total Distribution Sum of 15c and 15f 9700 7975 h Copies Not Distributed 1 Office use Leftovers Spoiled 700 525 2 Return From News Agents 0 0 i Total Sum of 15g 15h 1 and 15h 2 10400 8500 Percent Paid and or Requested Circulation 15c 15g x 100 99 98 16 This Statement of Ownership will be printed in the November December issue of this publication 17 Signed Hal Goldstein Publisher Date October 1 1998 beep continuously Just press the CTRL MENU Break keys to stop the macro At the end of the operation the error message Text not found will appear press OK F10 Note The macro works for this exam ple only in which 295 and 345 represent the telephone area codes which are assumed to appear as the first three char acters in a field If you want to change other p
18. You won t be able to delete these characters This seems to happen with Appoint ment Book files that have grown to 200 Kbytes or larger This anomalous behav ior may also depend on the number of repeating appointments and carry forward ToDo s you have One way to get around this is to reduce the size of the file by using the command MENU File Remove and specifying that you want to remove all appointments before today s date You can check the Save Removed Items in Archive check box by pressing the ALT S key in the Remove Item dialog box The program will prompt you for the name of the archive file before it removes the information This will reduce the size of the current file and still let you load the archived file in Appointment Book if you ever need to access that information If you do get a corrupted appointment file try the following things to fix it 1 Open a new Appointment Book Menu File New and see if you can merge the corrupted file into it with the MENU File Merge command 2 If that doesn t work try to remove sections of the Appointment Book to see if you can isolate the corrupted entries The Appointment Book Remove com mand allows you to remove to an archive by dates Just keep removing the data one half at a time That is if you have six months of appointments try removing the first three months and then the second three months If one of these operations fails try removing the
19. and for navi gating the viewer program are con tained ina README DOC file in the EMTEX directory on the Palmtop You may also want to take a look at one or more of the TEX files to see what TeX formatting code looks like As with HTML coding it is fairly straightforward for simple docu ments But for documents with a lot of graphics equations and tables it can become complicated If you make a mistake in the coding the compiler will display an error message but it won t stop the compiling process A Real World Example Yoichi Motoashi is a math profes sor who teaches in Japan but also travels around the world He has used TeX on his HP Palmtop to write arti cles and even a book The following is what Yoichi has to say about the value of TeX on the Palmtop The TeX I use on my Palmtop is SBTeX which is available as SB40TEX ZIP at various sites on the Internet for free DOS software use DVIOUT as the TeX viewer The ver sion of DVIOUT I use has been mod ified for the HP Palmtop and needs EMS In my case the main system is Japanese which automatically enables EMS otherwise the system would not work This TeX viewer may be found by searching for T24202HP LZH However these files are not enough you also need font files I gathered those CM fonts and corre sponding TFMs from various sites which I cannot remember well I now have a complete set of fonts and met rics covering those designed by Donald Knuth and the
20. at www palm top net super html which is now sponsored by our new web site www Palmtop Paper com The LX Files Part 2 The Stuff Is In Here If you ever wondered how you might use a 32 or 64 Mbyte HP 200LX here s the answer Larry Garwood shows how he made his HP Palmtop his primary computer with the help of several dozen programs Lawrence Garwood M D and Ed Keefe he LX Files consist of more than 30 different programs Some of them are System Manager com pliant others are MS DOS programs Many of them have been around for several years However all of them are new to the staff of Thaddeus Computing If you like to play games we have some of those If you like to enhance your Palmtop you ll have lots of chances to do that with the pro grams in the LX Files To give you an overview of the software we ll begin with an abbre viated list and then expand the list with more details including some tips traps and techniques for using the software Where to get the LX Files All of these files are available either from WwWww palmtop net super html or from the Internet sites mentioned throughout this article The disk symbols in the listing below indicate that a file is contained on Nov Dec 1998 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Some of the files didn t make it on the disks there are just too many of them However all the LX Files along with other files that may have surfaced after this issue went t
21. bytes OPEN EXE was one of the pro grams that came with the Japanese book The HP200LX Software Bible It is now available as copyrighted software and may be found at www palmtop net super html A typical use would be to opena DOS window in System Manager by pressing CTRL 123 and then typing OPEN MY PDB This would open the Phonebook and load the MY PDB data file You could do the same thing with a keyboard stuffing routine but OPEN is easier to use MURK ZIP 75 650 bytes Murk is yet another set of games for the Palmtop This one comes in three editions for the HP95LX for the HP200LX and for Windows 95 not included in this archive The file also includes a level editor as well as an icon The file was originally found at http cheesy simplenet com murk htm Be sure to go there for the 79 59 Greenwich Instruments LTD European Distributor Tel 011 44 1381 302 4931 Fax 011 44 181 302 4933 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 13 HOW TO USE The LX Files Part 2 Windows version RUN100 ZIP 14 778 bytes Run100 is a program that will launch an EXM file from a command line It picks up where the OPEN pro gram above leaves off You can com bine this with MoreEXM and FILER INI to run any System Mana ger compliant program by pointing at it in Filer and pressing ENTER The X Finder program needs RUN EXE to be in your DOS path statement to link icons with ICONEDI
22. is a self extract ing archive of the shareware edition with a Windows Player 3 LXP MENU ZIP contains menus for use with LXPlore To restore a saved game the com mand line should be something like SCOTT EXE ADV DAT SAV 12 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 The first time you play a particu lar game there won t be a saved game so you can omit that part of the com mand line TPCRD ZIP 4 078 bytes TOPCARD COM TOP CARD BAT by Lord Jonin will pick a PCX file at random and make it your current TOPCARD The program is not intuitive It requires that you read the documentation before trying to install it TPCRD ZIP is freeware avail able as TOPCARD ZIP from www best com jonin palmtop html We renamed the file to TPCRD ZIP to avoid a file name conflict with the Japanese TOPCARD ZIP archive HPTREK ZIP 45 976 bytes An older version of the classic game of StarTrek with Kirk Spok and Scotty this version of HPTREK is a DOS program that was original ly designed for the HP 95LX It is available in the HPHAND forum on CompuServe ICNVU2 ZIP 64 109 bytes IcnVu Screen 5 displays 44 Icons from multiple directories It permits Icon editing and deletion The pro gram was written by Owen Samuel son and is freeware This version of the program will let you link to other icon programs such as Browse IconSaver and Icon200 enVu is found at www hom net owensam ptidx html ICNED100 ZIP 26
23. may LXF107 ZIP SMC LX Filer replacement WNETTIME ZIP Windows program for time synch ing want to use an article but for a variety of rea j sons you may not see it for many months LXPRO ZIP DOS Upgrade for LX Pro program X FINDER ZIP Replacement for Application Manager Please understand that we cannot promise to MPGT20 ZIP DOS Miles per gallon calculator update XLAT ZIP Search and replace across files run any particular article at any particular time nn ee OPEN100 ZIP DOS launch built in app and data file Y2K ZIP HTML file about Year 2000 fixes If you can especially if you write a Palmtop Profile send us a photo of yourself PC_TIME ZIP DOS Synchronize Palmtop with NIST YAHTZEE ZIP DOS Yahtzee dice game 36 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 isn t it Time For A Second Machine Great gift or inexpensive buy for friend co worker family member J000CK gt for as little as 1 59 The 1000CX is like a 200LX without the built in applications All our 1000CXs come with a supple mental disk with some of the best palmtop DOS free ware and shareware in Zipped format Included are a PIM a word processor and spell checker HTML viewer DOS menu program games and more 7 Reasons to purchase a 1000CX We bet you can come up with more Used means Like New We buy a lot of palmtops We resell the best We maintain very high standards for palmtops we resell Those that don t make the grade are u
24. modi fied and modifiable templates X Finder commands The keys below will perform the actions on the right of the equal sign Untag All e Alternates All Tags Tag all after cursor Attributes Move cursor to view up 1 9 Go to corresponding drive letter F10 DOS shell amp alternate menu Shiftta Changes attributes date time stamp RomD isk Filter OIOOPOLIOL Screen 4 X Finder Opening Screen Shift c Copy to same directory different name Shift d Delete Shift e Edit Shift f Filter Shift h DOS sHell Shift i Launches ISH Shift j Change Path Shift k GoTo Menu on Function Keys User Defined Shift l Log Drive Shift m long naMe edit Shift n reName Shift p Pack copy to LZH Archive Shift q Quit Shift r Rename amp Refresh Shift s Sort Shift t LF Tree if installed Shift u Unpack LZH Archive Shift v View Shift x eXecute Shift y filter Shift z diet WHERE100 ZIP 16 501 bytes Wherels is a very handy program to find files that may get lost on large disk drives Tip 1 When the program is first launched before specifying any filter run the options key and exclude any virtual drives you may have from the list of drives to be searched This pre vents duplicating the search on the same drive Tip 2 After completing the search specify a multiple file viewer such as PNS200 to look at each file found gt CON I
25. out more about A three track cabelas program with 20 r AS 7 educational seminars panel discussions and topics amp opportunities or to chat SFAT ESNE d e Keynote addresses by top high tech executives www pda expo com Mark your calendar for these future EXPO dates APRIL 20 23 1999 CHICAGO plus the Forum for Hand Held Computing in Healthcare 415 641 2450 plus the Utility Industry Hand Held amp PDA Forum CREATED BY SPONSORED BY Microsoft ORACLE ntermec Pe A 4 ci Norand Mobile Systems Division N E iia Incorporated e A o x ae Thaddeus Computing inc se oweusoun CAME REVIEW The LX Files golden oldies every day It was time to pay the programmer Not to do so would amount to software piracy I m convinced that software pira cy will eventually destroy the soft ware industry My experience with the orphaned Atari computer is a case in point People stopped creating pro grams for that machine and put the company in limbo because of piracy As a result I try to register all the Palmtop software I use want my HP 200LX to last me a long time Furthermore since the computer world is being overwhelmed by Windows 95 98 it is important to encourage Palmtop software devel opers Give them what they ask for whether it s E mail a postcard or money Keep the programmers happy and they ll probably write something else you can use Some programmers ask for money but usual
26. seconds later I had a list of five words including fusion The program dis played the matching words on the screen as it searched the dictionary which thought was a nice touch Of course the speed will vary depending on how many wildcard characters you have in your word The anagram feature was nice It returned all anagrams for STOP in just under ten seconds Unfortunately it has its limitations it can t anagram sentences for one It will not return multi word anagrams as the manu al says maori hen will not produce Tran home The dictionary also includes a reverse index of sorts whereby you can input words that might appear in the definition of a word and then have it search to see if it can find your word However this feature is prob ably a little too CPU intensive for the palmtop I tried it on my desktop a Pentium 200 working from a large RAM drive and it still took five or six seconds to do most searches That would be a long time on the 200LX Even so such a feature might come in handy for a person desperately searching for the right word The Collins Electronic English Dictionary and Thesaurus is fairly easy to install it comes on both CD ROM and 3 5 floppy Thaddeus Computing Inc the sole distributor for the dictionary includes excellent instructions and tips for installation and use on the palmtop The dictionary itself takes up a lit tle over 7 5MB which puts
27. the 3 article Software Bonanza section will be available as part of the 1999 CD InfoBase and at www2 palmtop net super html RECENTLY UPDATED SOFTWARE Unless otherwise noted these files are cur rently available at www palmtop net super itml The files will also appear on the 1999 CD InfoBase from Thaddeus Computing Backgammon Version 5 0 by Willy Chaplin This is a backgammon game that is very hard to beat It runs well on the 200LX Copyrighted freeware BIG Version 1 0 by Jorgen Dybdahl BIG con tains two different big screen clocks writ ten in assembler The source code in Turbo Pascal is also included Freeware Dungeon Version 0 9 by Kurt Giesselman A nifty dungeon and dragons game written for the HP95LX but runs on the 200LX Copyrighted freeware EXMBATCH 1 5 The newest version of ExmBatch lets you run a DOS command from an EXM program This will let you assign any DOS command an icon and a hotkey and run it from the Application Manager pro gram It also has support built into it to work with Software Carousel EXMBAT CH has its own home page at rwhitby home ml org exmbatch html Copyrighted freeware HV Version 2 2 by D amp A Software This file contains D amp A s excellent freeware HTML viewer that now supports Japanese Copyrighted freeware MPG Tracker Version 2 0 by Owen Samuelson MPG Tracker is a PAL program that tracks your vehicle s miles per gallon and other data by i
28. the side or back of another arrow or into a fruit the arrow will dissolve Two arrows head to head cannot be altered Collect all the fruit by walking into it TIP If you use Buddy you ll find that the double click feature inter feres with this game You can disable Buddy by running the game after you have closed all applications including System Manager Then run FRUIT95 from the DOS prompt SCOTADAM ZIP 359 872 bytes The adventure games by Scott Adams started out as commercial software but Scott Adams is now dis tributing them as shareware They are a must have set of games for those who enjoy text adventures Brian Howarth also wrote some adventure games using the same for mat as Scott Adams He distributes his games as copyrighted freeware The games run best if you first run ScottFree in monochrome mode using Setit on the palmtop SETIT is available on the 1996 Powerdisk from Thaddeus Computing This is most easily done using a program call LXPlore which is available in the HPHand forum of CompuServe and on this issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK We have included a menu file that you can use with LXPlore By the way here s a tip for anyone using LXPlore don t use the Buffmove com program or you ll mess up LXPlore The SCOTADAM ZIP archive includes 1 SCOTT ZIP Including the Scott Adams and Brian Howarth adven tures with ScottFree exe and the open ing logos for the games 2 ADAMS2 EXE
29. these adventures on my old Atari computer and thought it would be great to have them on my Palmtop as well The quest led me down a trail where I learned about the history of the Adventure International company its bankruptcy and finally the salvation of its software During the search I found several similar pieces of software e g the Howarth Adventures This was a real bonus I began looking at other resources and found a wealth of software which makes the HP Palmtop leave the CE machines and possibly Windows 95 machines in the dust I thought it was just a matter of time before The HP Palmtop Paper would begin to feature the things I had found but it didn t happen I ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Larry Garwood was born and raised in Canada where he earned med ical degrees from the University of Western Ontario and McGill University He is currently an ophthalmologist in Santa Monica California His comput ing began with an Atari 800 and has migrated through several handhelds to the HP Palmtop Larry can be reached at JUGMD compuserve com 2 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 asked Hal Goldstein the publisher if he would be interested in some new software he could feature He referred me to Ed Keefe to whom I ve been sending software treasures for the past couple of months Now I can share the wealth Some reflections on a search During the course of my search I came across all kinds of share
30. units 20U6 20LN 2008 20U5 22DS 2002 21DS 2001 0955 64CD 32CD 8CXD SCXD 2CXD 21CX ICKD 10CX Order Online www PalmtopPaper com or Call 200 ara Bi Ue 472 6330 Fax 515 472 1879 CHECI Mawimam Memory faximmm Palmtop New Reduced Pricing upto 35 off Get the Best of the Best A Brand New HP 200LX Upgraded to 6 8 32 or 64 MB Upgraded to DoubleSpeed In the Box with Manuals Free One Year Warranty extendable Only NOW 619 00 6 MB 2008 NOW 659 00 8 MB 2001 NOW 5895 00 32 MB 2032 NOW 1175 00 64 MB 2064 Warrantied Guaranteed Proven Affordable A Refurbished HP 200LX Upgraded to 5 8 32 or 64 MB e Upgraded to DoubleSpeed e Free 90 Day Warranty extendable 30 Day Money Back Guarantee NOW 349 00 5 MB 20u5 NOW 399 00 8 MB 2008 NOW 599 00 32 MB 20LN NOW 5899 00 64 MB 20u8 Sorry no coupons accepted with these newly priced units UPGRADE your HP 2001x Upgrade to 5 8 32 or 64 MB e Upgrade to DoubleSpeed e Free 90 Day Warranty extendable Prices from 119 to 675 Double Your Speed Add 5 8 320 64 Megs Here s what they re saying about Fast Memory Upgrades Ooooh like this More palmtops to follow Satisfied upgrade customer It works great Steve Carder Wow is that thing fast And all that memory highly re
31. 000 rolls around computers will ignore the 20 in the year field and use the default of 19 As a result date sensitive programs that are not Y2K compliant will fail How About the HP Palmtops The question will the Y2K bug kill the Palmtop has been asked often enough to warrant a definitive answer Microsoft s Response On Microsoft s Web page there s a hyperlink to their Year 2000 page From that page you can click on the Products hyperlink to get a scroll list of Microsoft products The list includes the entry for MS DOS 5 0 ROM for HP200LX In short Microsoft claims that the HP 200LX is compliant with minor issues Here is a more detailed explana tion of the minor issues Of Clocks and Calendars The HP 200LX has a hardware clock and calendar It also has a firmware clock that knows how to interpret the hardware clock This firmware is part of the MS DOS oper ating system Microsoft makes no claims about the Y2K compliancy of the hardware clock calendar It does state that MS DOS is aware of dates beyond the year 2000 MS DOS does not display the full year but will sort files correctly Microsoft further states that after Dec 31 1999 the DATE command in DOS will fail if you set the date using 28 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 only the last two digits of the year For instance if you set the date using any of the digits fro
32. 314 bytes The object of the Lights Out game is to turn off all of the lights on the board This is freeware by Eric Wong It was found originally at ftp net com com pub eg egwong lo_ zip MAKI_100 ZIP11 976 bytes Here is another freeware game from Eric Wong In Maki your challenge is to remove contiguous blocks from a board This sounds easy but it s not It s a challenging diversion to keep you awake during meetings Download from ftp netcom com pub eg eg wong maki_ zip MEMVIEW ZIP 1 917 bytes MEMVIEW is one of the smallest hex ASCII viewers I ve run across It lets you peek into the working mem ory of the Palmtop You could do the same thing with DEBUG but MEMVIEW is easier to use It is free and easy to use on off fixed 9600 baud New Link A Printer Il Smaller size amp Attached cable Link A Printer II is a serial to parallel converter that allows direct printing from your OmniGo 100 to any parallel printer It also works with the HP 100 200LX Link A Printer II has a built in connectivity cable that plugs into your OmniGo 100 Since it does not require batteries or extra cable Link A Printer II is simple Also Available Link A Printer Requires connectivity cable and optional battery Features auto GREENWICH Tel 704 875 8450 Fax 704 875 2801 INSTRUMENTSUSA Toll Free 800 476 4070 ware and was found at www tu darmstadt de hwenzel OPEN100 ZIP 10 614
33. 5 6MB Expect to allocate about 1 5MB per language you want to Definitions let us search the dictionary for all occurences of a word in the dictionary in this case mathematics Although a bil slow on the translate palmtop you can also do boolean searches such as french AND composer as Wildcard lets you search for the word For example 177a you remember the I and a is tour letter word for Italian currency ntr all Also this program is set up as a words containing ntr dictionary not a translation utility Scrabble players and word puzzlers will appreciate the anagram tealure In addition a history of words looked up in a session 1s easily accessible lor backtracking There is no pr ovision for translating sentences or anything more than words or small phrases ing Additionally any common phras quedarse dormido But these small problems aside es involving the word you looked up to have a good night s sleep this is an excellent product that will will be displayed and translated as dormir toda la noche greatly benefit palmtop toting stu well Arrowing down into the defini to put to sleep dents businesspeople and travelers th tes wisdolead pn eiie Guitar tie and even people who just have an will look up that word If the word is animal euphamism kill thes REE i te in a different language the dictionar sacrificar need for this product now or in the ies fierce aA be Pare we to a
34. 6 987 bytes This archive contains a Windows based icon editor that lets you create HP LX icons on your desktop The documentation is in Japanese but just unpack the file in a separate directo ry and run the ICN_EDIT file under Windows Created by N Yamazaki This program was found originally Se en eee Gee Screen 5 The IenVu Viewer at www vector co jp common dos util machine hp and is freeware Setup You must have the Japanese version of the visual basic run time library included This usually goes in the same directory as the program The rest of the files go into their own directory After loading a Windows Icon you will see a little picture of it in the upper right window The three toggle bars will titrate the amount of each color desired before the conversion The big button makes the conversion and the ICN file will appear in the lower right hand window If you don t like it you can manipulate the toggle bars and then convert again to produce the icon to suit your tastes The 12 box inverts the image TIP Be sure to associate the ICN exten sion with this program so you can view HP icons from File Manager or Explorer ICONVIEW ZIP 45 052 bytes IconView does basically the same thing as the IcnVu program However the icons included with this viewer are exceptional and are well worth looking at The file was originally found at Www best com jonin palmtop html and is freeware LO_080 ZIP 11
35. 6 USA PDA Motie ant PDAEARO N aA Cults En EAA EAA 415 641 2450 3 Phone 515 472 6330 Pepid Portable Physician Databasa n ar An e ib ana a eiea 888 321 7828 35 or 800 373 6114 Trans Digital Trans PC Card Universal Parallel Port 916 482 5599 Fax 916 482 5598 27 Fax 515 472 1879 Thaddeus Computing wk ee eee eee eee 800 373 6114 or 515 472 6330 Fax 515 472 1879 Internet letters thaddeus com IDO CD IMOBSsE EAEE N E either NPE E a D e ie IFC EON RAMONE oann sastane a S eed E w abide aaa a A IBC TO SUBSCRIBE change address or clear up Knowledge products Subscriptions HP Palmtop Tech Ref Manual Ref Books CD 8 any problem with your subscription contact CWA OOED or E eh E a E EEA 18 our subscription department Call or fax us at Super Software Carousel 19 the phone numbers above E mail us at Super Software Garousell lt i cim oak ee ee dere ne orders thaddeus com Linge VOU PAUTHON Sack v dacs vr ac bat S E Dieta patna Beak als 6 BC TO ADVERTISE in The HP Palmtop Paper con tact Brian Teitzman Margaret Martin or Tiffan Lisk at phone 515 472 1660 or 800 809 5603 Fax 515 472 8409 Software on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Technical Support November December 1998 HP Technical Support HP offers technical ool gd from 8 am 5pm PS T Phone 970 392 1001 On Line Support offered by these bulletin board services You can find all the software described in this issue in our 1999 H
36. An Independent Fublication tor VUSers OT AP Paimtop Compute E NEWS p m sa A a Editor s Message ieee en U S 7 95 HP Palmtop User Groups 3 P Palmtop The LX Files i The Stuff Is Out There E TER TEE Trust no one who tells you that DOS is dead Larry Garwood offers convincing proof that there is still a lot of good software available for the HP Palmtops you just have to know where to look and what to look for The LX Files Part 2 The Stuff Is In Here ccc cee weeae T lf you ever wondered how you might use a 32 or 64 Mbyte HP 200LX here s the answer Larry Garwood shows how he made his HP Palmtop his primary computer with the help of several dozen programs Recently Updated Software plus a Few New PINKS 5 ici vine ecsueass 19 TeX on the HP Palmtop 1 You ve undoubtedly heard of desktop publishing This article introduces Palmtop Publishing TeX can turn your Palmtop into a typesetting engine that will let you create photo ready documents Vou ve Great Palmtop Dictionaries 28 The Collins Electronic English Dictionary amp Thesaurus and Probably the Collins Series 100 Multilingual Dictionary surpass all Heard Of other dictionaries for the HP Palmtop User To User The 1999 CD InfoBase and New Website PamtopPaper com 2 This year marks the seventh year of publishing The HP Palmtop Paper
37. DOS software will run on the Palmtop However some of it is hard to read Programs that rely on color coded text just don t cut it on the Palmtop Unless a program is a killer app having to press the color toggle keys ON and ON is a nuisance Ideally DOS software should have a command line switch that forces it to use a black and white video mode Sure you can run the TSR utility CGAhelp to force text to appear as black and white but again this is a nuisance rather than a feature Some commercial software such as the Many Faces of Ga Info Select Fritz 2 and Word Perfect look perfect on the Palmtop Othello will never look right Abandon Abandonware Almost The term abandonware refers to software which is more than five years old is no longer sold and seems to have been forgotten It should be remembered that not all abandonware is as abandoned as it seerns Often the person who owns the rights to the software will re release the software in a bundle This is what has happened with the Ultima series the Wizardry series and the Infocom series of games All of these programs run on the Palmtop and may find new life there but to use these programs with out paying for them is piracy Lotus Agenda appears to be an exception to this rule It is freely dis tributed by the Lotus Corporation on their Web site There is no support available but sometimes you can find 4 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER
38. EE Can Mex 6 Outside N Amer 18 tee es ds 17 HP 100 200LX Developer s ETE The editors of The HP Palmtop Paper have organized some of n their best material into a read Attention Palmtop Developers and Enthusiasts able practical book about the Sa anier The Developer s Package includes everything you need to write software design hardware or sim HP Palmtop The book is filled ply understand the inner workings of the HP Palmtop The Package includes with hundreds of real life examples of the HP Palmtop s 1 Printed copy of 86 page Developer s Guide features and capabilities Busy professionals describe how they use the HP Palmtop to organize their time 2 Disk containing eated source code ilities fi l i ae aining HP cr gt ode and utilities for developers information and money to be more effective Order 3 Complete set of kits for marketing your Palmtop product directly from us and we ll include a disk containing most 4 CompuServe Starter kit Compuserve is where Falmtop programmers hang out of the software mentioned in the book Written both for 5 PAL a C source code library for developing software with the look and feel of the HP Palmtop built users and for those considering purchasing an HP in applications Palmtop 79 GDEV 19 95 PCIP Mail Fax Enclosed Order Form or Call 800 373 6114 or 515 472 6330 Fax 515 472 1879 Email orders thaddeus com authors VA003644 It s author Kikuyan has impl
39. EX Clock program but I still haven t found it Used Recycled Software There are a number of sites on the World Wide Web that advertise recy cled and or used software Here are a few of the ones I ve found Your search engine may find others www siteworx com pds predrivn html www microstar com business html www echosoftware com usedcat2 html www completelyfreesoftware com www wdn com ems oldtools inde x html The last site listed above has a lot of older Borland C and Pascal compilers that may be of interest to programmers Friends Sometimes friends will have old software that they no longer want or use Offer to buy it from them Most often they will give you the software gt G fs Way a Quicken Remote_A Remote C w M ngunta Trasn Saver Son BA Icons X Hords as they no longer need it This is how acquired Info Select and Quattro Pro both of which work very well on the Palmtop If you regard corporations as friends you will find that they can be most helpful The Word Perfect Corporation when they were still in Utah had the attitude that once you had purchased Word Perfect you were entitled to use any previous ver sions as well They would sell you the previous versions for the cost of the diskettes only Old Bookstores Etc I found Scrabble for DOS in a used book store it works well on the Palmtop From a used software store I found the SoftKey dictionary the A
40. I A was quite pessimistic about the future of The HP Palmtop Paper EduCALC ACE and other HP Palmtop vendors had gone out of business The number of new sub scribers to the Paper had dropped significantly and advertising support had evaporated We have always had a small but select readership for a computer magazine However with out advertising and with fewer sub scribers the alternative of becoming a very expensive newsletter did not seem realistic At the same time I continued to be an avid and enthusiastic HP 200LX user even though I could have had my pick of any WinCE product avail able one of the perks of publishing a Windows CE magazine Based on your email and on my participation in online palmtop com munities I knew I was in good com pany Furthermore D amp A Software Avi Meshar and Andreas Garzotto Times2 Tech Mack Baggette Shier Systems David Shier the One Stop Palmtop Shop Arild Mellembakken a myriad of freeware and shareware authors www palmtop net Mitch Hamm www hplx net David Sargeant the HPLX mailing list Al Kind and others were doing a great job keeping the HP 200LX alive and thriving Based on this continued enthusi asm for the HP 200LX I felt that losing income from fewer subscribers and few advertisers for The HP Palmtop Paper might be offset by selling prod ucts and services themselves espe cially as other vendors dropped out of the Palmtop market Some skepticism
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42. Mex 6 Outside N Amer 9 The HP Palmtop Paper has saved me countless hours of frustration seve miteneu i i Subscribe Today Included with your six or twelve bi monthly issues are the fol MicroREF Quick lowing one time bonuses Reference Lotus 125 and TIPS p Al BestTips PC Card Review Subscriber PowerDisk DOS 5 Guides 1YEAR 39 PTP1 2 YEARS 69 PTP2 Shipping per year U S FREE Gan Mex 6 Outside N Amer 18 MicroREF Quick Reference fos 123 and Dos 5 Guides MILOT MDOS Interested in Microsoft s new Windows CE operating system What better way to stay on top of it than with a magazine from et the DOS and Lotus Answers You the publishers of The HP Palmtop Paper noga ee Bech Easy Locate subjects fast Numerous examples and Subscription includes illustrations Far superior to any other guide cheat sheet or original documentation an excellent guide for all users Highly recommended John Dvorak PC Magazine 6 bi monthly issues Annual Handheld PC Magazine Windows CE Buyer s Guide Special Report 12 Important Things Every Windows CE User Should Know EACH 14 95 BOTH 25 00 MBOT Handheld PC Magazine s Goodies Disk the 20 best PC In Your Pocket Windows CE based freeware shareware games utilities and applications HP Palmtop book sia Seman Ideal for users PAS fy 1 YEAR 34 95 HPC1 2YEARS 59 95 HPC2 Shipping per year U S FR
43. P Palmtop Paper CD InfoBase and at www palmtop net super html which is now sponsored by our new web site www PalmtopPaper com PRODUCT FUNCTION PRODUCT FUNCTION Q COMPUSERVE GO HPHAND FORUM Call 800 848 8990 or 614 457 8650 BACKGAMM ZIP DOS Backgammon game PCCLK450 ZIP DOS Synch Palmtop s Clock to NIST SE ADRESS SRY LINE Keynes BIG ZIP DOS Two full screen clocks PJT20012ZIP SMC Project Management Program PALMTOP Call 888 265 8001 i for membership information BJ ZIP DOS Blackjack card game PTP42 ZIP Text version of this issue INTERNET NEWS GROUPS BTIPS42 ZIP Files from Basic Tips PTPDSK42 ZIP Database of files for this issue news comp sys palmtops hp news comp sys handhelds CAPUZ11 ZIP DOS Capture screen puzzle maker QTIPS42 ZIP Files from Quick Tips article newscalbcomp sys palistope ip CICFAKE ZIP Replacement for CIC100 READMEZIP Text version of Palmtop Paper on Disk Q HPLX L mailing list To subscribe send an email to LISTSERV UCONNVM DATEKEY ZIP DOS Date and Time keys work in DOS REPLACE ZIP DOS utility from DOS 5 0 UCONN EDU In the message body put DOUBLE 9 ZIP DOS Dominoes game RUN100 ZIP dynamically add an EXM program SUBSCRIBE HPLX L or www sp uconn edu mchem1 HPLX shtml DUNGEON ZIP DOS Classic adventure game EXMBAT15 ZIP Run DOS program from EXM program EXMEX100 ZIP Launch EXM program using MoreEXM FIGDOS22 ZIP DOS Creates Figlets from text SCOTADAM ZIP DOS Adam Howarth adventure games
44. S file to include a line DEVICE RAM SYS When you restart the Palmtop this line will create a Ramdisk file in part of the memory that you have available This is super fluous on the HP Palmtop since the C drive is already a Ramdisk But the program wants to find this ram disk in order to work If you re looking for a more pow erful replacement to Pocket Quicken we encourage you to try this program and let us know what you think We hope to have a professional accoun tant review the program CLOCKDM ZIP bytes CLOCKDM the Clock o Doom marks the time when something is going to happen or has already hap pened The clever thing about this full screen clock is that you can create your own large and small fonts for the display Simply create the fonts using Windows Paint program and then use the BMP DOOM program to con vert the Windows BMP files to Clock o Doom s FNT files FRUIT95 ZIP 16 889 bytes This game program was original ly written for the HP 95LX but since it is a DOS program it will run on the HP 200LX The game is similar to the Sokoban game and is diabolically dif ficult and clever The file may be downloaded from www palmtop net super html or from the original site at ftp eddie mit edu pub hp95LX Rules for Playing Fruit95 In the game you can move your marker by using the number pad You can push an arrow from behind or from the side space bar If you push an arrow into a wall or
45. Sere ih aa rE Dut i ire Tutor p 7 Es en IPF i te cawsai fr 5 a lon ees Loa Like fast task switching Like the Built In Apps How About 40 More Easy To Learn Easy To Use Pre configured with the very best freeware and shareware Games Utilities and Applications available for your Palmtop Applications HV Hypertext Viewer HTML browser to view Web down loads PE PalEdit A MEMO like editor with many enhancements including spellchecker VR Vertical Reader Lets you read doc files and electronic books vertically on the palmtop DBV DataBase Viewer Fast phone appt and database file viewer View Lets you view files from a variety of word processing formats Tune Metronome and musical tuner ZIP Fast PC to palmtop serial transfer pro gram Draw Palmtop drawing paint program PC Outline Enter thoughts plans ideas and orga nize them into a hierarchical structure Stereo Shell DOS File Manager garlic Fixes corrupt database files PKZIP File archiver compressor LHA File archiver compressor LXPIC Lets you view GIF JPG BMP PLX graphics files Andrew3 More readable palmtop font CloseFlr Close Filer to save memory Buddy Zillion utilities in one fastdb Speeds up database programs e g Phone MoreEXM Breaks system limitation of 7 EXM files Enable software like 700M Typing Tutor Type faster on the palmtop Zoom Wonderful Magnify like p
46. T EXM RUN100 can even be used to launch EXM programs from HDM That is if HDM is running in SysMegr and if its DOS window hasn t con sumed all of the memory This program is written by Sekiya and is found at http member nifty ne jp sekiya download index htm and is freeware SHEZ ZIP Shez was one of the earliest shell programs for handling any of the file compression programs It lets you com press tagged files expand selected files from an archive view text files without extracting them etc It is still available 392 653 bytes as a DOS shareware program from ftp sonic net pub users jderr Formerly Commercial Software During the development of this arti cle we discovered several programs that were formerly sold as commercial products The original vendors are now offering these same products for free If you find other such programs like those below be sure to let us know Lotus Agenda This is a Personal Information Manager PIM from Lotus Development Corp Many Palmtop users have already discovered this pro gram and are grateful to have it avail able in their pocket The downside is that there is no online instructions for using the program Books that sup ported Agenda have long since gone out of print But if you re willing to experiment you may find that it s just what you needed Agenda may be found at http ftp support lotus com ftp p ub desktop Agenda dos 2 0 misc Dat
47. aPerfect This is a true relation al database program somewhat like dBASE II It was originally sold by the Word Perfect company When the com pany was bought by Novell and then Corel DataPerfect was returned to the author who is giving it away You can get a copy of DataPerfect from the WPUSER forum on CompuServe PC File If you don t need a relational database but you want something akin to the database on the Palmtop PC File might suit you PC File was sold by ButtonWare Software Since Jim Button has retired he now gives away what he once sold as shareware You can find a copy of version 5 01 of the program at www halcyon com knopf free htn A book The Complete Guide to PC File is available from the authors Visit the site Therein you ll find the true story behind shareware from Jim Knopf a k a Jim Button Square Notes version 3 5 If your job involves researching and keeping notes on related topics for instance when writing a thesis or a product report then SquareNotes 3 5 might be useful It s a free form database with powerful cross referencing capabilities You could probably get the same func tionality from a custom database on the Palmtop But if you want something that will run out of the box on the Palmtop then get your free copy of Square Notes at www sqn com Accounting Pro This is a full accounting package along the lines of DAC Easy Accounting or Quickbooks It is one of the files describ
48. ace We ll show you one such macro designed for the case where we want to replace 295 with 345 only For another search and replace operation you would need to create a different macro To start the System Macro application press CTRL More and select an empty macro record for example Fn F7 Press ENTER to open the macro edit screen and put S amp R in the description field and the following code in the Contents field HOME DEL DEL DEL 345 F4 F4 Then press the F7 Chain key and select Fn F7 as the macro to which to chain This will create a macro that calls itself thereby creating an infinite loop The fin ished macro looks like this HOME DEL DEL DEL 345 F4 F4 Fn F7 Open the Phone Book and put the cursor on the topmost entry Be sure you have all entries displayed Do not try this operation using a subset of the full data base Press enter to show the details of the first entry Start the process manual ly by typing F4 Find to open up the search dialog window Then fill in the search string 295 To avoid searching through the Notes field press TAB and SPACE to deselect the Include Notes check box Press the F4 Next key to con tinue with the set up At this point the first field that contains 295 should be highlighted Now invoke the macro by pressing Fn F7 The macro will run through the entire Phone file search ing in each field for 295 deleting it and entering 345 in its place Dependin
49. acter and holding down the Shift key while press ing the right arrow key Now press CTRL C to copy the character to the clip board Press the F5 key to start the Replace dia log window and press CTRL V to paste the character in the Search for field Put lt BOLD gt in the Replace field and press the F6 Replace All key This will replace all the Control B characters from this point forward in the document You may have to repeat the operation starting at the top of the document to replace all the previous CTRL B characters since there s no search backward option If you want to try this out but you don t have a document containing smiley faces you can create one by opening a new MEMO document and pressing CTRL B as many times as you want You can enter most of the other control characters CTRL A through CTRL Z by holding down the CTRL key and typing the letters You may have to press MENU V C to see some of the control characters A few CTRL keystrokes will perform an operation rather than display something on the screen For example CTRL H back spaces rather than displays a character To enter an ESC character press the CTRL ESC key You ll see a bold arrow pointing to the left Hermann Kellinghaus 100567 2623 ees QUICK TIPS All Quick Tips are by Ed Keefe unless otherwise noted Any shareware or freeware mentioned in the tips will be available on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK The CD InfoBa
50. an enough However they still want to make the Appointment Book Database Engine Lotus 1 2 3 and HP Calc do more For the folks in this camp the Basic Tips column in this issue contains some tips that have never before appeared in print Other Palmtop users seem to have crossed a threshold They realize that the Palmtop could do a lot more if only there were more System Manager com pliant or plain MS DOS programs available If you count yourself as a user who wants more more more take a quick look at the software index on the last page of this issue There are 50 files in the list enough to fill two HP Palmtop Paper ON DISKs Yet when we started to put this issue together we saw that we had enough new software to fill about 15 disks Fortunately we can make room for those on the 1999 PTP CD InfoBase Ninety percent of the files are the result of one person s desire for more more more Dr Larry Garwood turned his penchant for old adventure games into a search for lost software treasures He shares his game strategies and some of the treasures he found in two articles that we ve called The LX Files Hans Hoenen and Stephan Luettjohann have pushed the Palmtop into the realm of desktop publishing with the use of the TeX formatting program Who would have believed that the HP 200LX could do Palmtop Publishing Yoichi Motohashi does and offers convincing proof that it can be done For those who are involved in wor
51. and Hirotaka Hamada published by Softbank Tokyo Now released as copyrighted freeware DateKey Version 1 00 by Hiroyuki Sekiya DateKey is a TSR program to enable usage of the DATE and TIME keys in DOS Originally part of the software collection sold with The HP200LX Software Bible by Hiroyuki Sekiya and Hirotaka Hamada published by Softbank Tokyo Now released as copyrighted freeware EXMEXE Version 1 00 by Hiroyuki Sekiya EXMEXE is a DOS program that works with MoreEXM to launch an EXM pro gram of the same name Rename EXMEXE EXE to HPALARM EXE for example and HPALARM EXM will be run Originally part of the software col lection sold with The HP200LX Software Bible by Hiroyuki Sekiya and Hirotaka Hamada published by Softbank Tokyo Now released as copyrighted freeware Wherels Version 1 00 by Hiroyuki Sekiya Wherels is an EXM program that search es all directories on your disks for the filename you specify The results can be passed to a DOS program which works great with PNS200 Originally part of the software collection sold with The HP200LX Software Bible by Hiroyuki Sekiya and Hirotaka Hamada published by Softbank Tokyo in April 1996 ISBN4 89052 911 X Now released as copyrighted freeware CLK Version 1 2 by Jorgen Dybdahl CLK is a small TSR clock showing the time date or a timer stopwatch in the top right corner of the screen The archive contains desktop palmtop and laptop version
52. ard with Trans Flex Cable Manual Quick Reference and backup disk is 179 00 For more information and dealer nearest you please call Trans Digital Corporation 2517 Marconi Ave Suite 203 Sacramento CA 95821 Tel 916 482 5599 Fax 916 482 5598 Email 110033 31520 CompuServe com THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 27 Rae Ne WEOW RAE Ice Wi See i E V E W Through the Looking Glass Are the HP Palmtops Year 2000 compliant How can you ensure that the Palmtop s on board clock is on time by Ed Keefe he year 2000 is little more than twelve months away and by now most computer users are aware of the Y2K Year 2000 problem Depending on which Y2K articles you ve read you might expect that on Jan 1 2000 the economies of the world will collapse planes will fall out of the sky patients hooked to life support systems will expire Or else you might suspect that the only thing that will happen is that a few old computer programs will stop working An Age Old Bug The Y2K problem began almost fifty years ago when computer mem ory was expensive Programmers saved precious computer memory by using two digits instead of four to represent the year The century part of the year was always 19 It was such a clever way to cut costs that the prac tice was passed on until it permeated the entire data processing world from main frames to PCs to digital clocks When January 1 2
53. arts of a field you ll need to add RIGHT and or LEFT keys to the macro to put the cursor at the exact spot where the deletions should begin You will also need to adjust the number of DEL keys in the macro depending on the number of characters you want to delete As with any operation that destroys data your safest course of action is to back up the original data file and work with a copy of it Chris Lott rclott ro com DOS REPLACE EXE from DOS 5 0 If you use the DOS COPY or XCOPY command to copy a group of files from the C drive to the A drive the command will fail if a read only file with the same name is encountered on the A drive The REPLACE command in MS DOS 5 0 performs a special kind of copy It copies files from a source directory to a target directory overwriting files with the same name in the target directory Adding an A switch on the command line caus es REPLACE to perform almost the oppo site task it Adds copies only those source files that are NOT already present in the target directory Thus two calls to REPLACE one with the A switch and one without accomplish the same thing as one call to COPY as is seen in the fol lowing batch file REM REPLCOPY BAT copies files matching first parameter REM to directory specified by second parameter even when REM a read only file of the same name exists in the target directory REPLACE 1 2 R REPLACE 1 2 A The R switch allow
54. cation that works with dates and time is the Setup program To determine its Y2K compliancy start Setup by press ing CTRL Filer Then press MENU Options Date to open the Date Time dialog window Note that all of the Date Formats indicate a two digit year number Select the DD MMM YY Date Format and press ENTER We want to set the date to 2000 temporarily so press the Arrow keys and the DEL key to delete the 98 from the date field You might think that you d have to type in 2000 but actually you can simply type 00 press ENTER and Setup will correctly interpret this as 2000 In other words Setup s Date Time function overcomes one of the minor issues of the MS DOS DATE command The other minor issue of displaying the four digits of the year still persists How About the Other Apps Filer is Y2K compliant in that it will let you create files with a four digit year However the Filer program itself will only show the last two digits To check this out open Filer and look at the top line on the screen You ll see that the year is shown as 00 Select MENU Options DOS and type REM gt TESTFILE TXT all on one line and press ENTER Type EXIT and press ENTER to return to Filer Make sure that you have a Full screen view of the files in the current direc tory Press F7 if necessary You should see TESTFILE TXT with 0 zero bytes and a date whose year is 00 Select Menu Options Sort Date and press ENTER The TESTFILE
55. commend the Thaddeus Palmtops for anyone thinking of upgrading Robert J Vondra No Risk 30 Day Money Back Guarantee Used means Like New We buy a lot of palmtops We resell the best We maintain very high standards for palmtops we resell Those that don t make the grade are used for parts HP NEW engineering combined with Thaddeus Computing s quality control processes Red u ced ensures that your Used palmtop will meet or exceed your expectations _ Pricing Upgrade your HP 200LK Palmtop FROM TO 5 or 6 MB 8 MB 32 MB 64 MB 1 2 or4 MB 119 00 UPS5 159 00 UP8 395 00 UP32 675 00 UP64 5 or 6 MB N A 124 00 U86 360 00 U326 640 00 U646 8 MB N A N A 330 00 U328 610 00 U648 32 MB N A N A N A 455 00 U643 Upgrade any HP 100 200LX to DoubleSpeed only 75 00 UPCD All memory upgrades normally include DoubleSpeed You may also upgrade your 1 MB 200LX to 2 MB 89 00 with DoubleSpeed U12D or 49 00 without DoubleSpeed U 12 2 Meg units with serial numbers greater than or equal to SG6 will upgrade to 6 Meg WARRANTY Upgrading speed and or memory voids HP s warranty Thaddeus Computing provides a free 90 Day Warranty on all Used and Upgraded Palmtops and a Free One Year Warranty on New Palmtops You have the option of extending these Warranties as follows 90 Day Warranty extended to One Year 25 00 1YRW Alternate Upgrade Contact rola mta 90 Day Warranty extended to Two Years 75 00 2YRW wer ee One Y
56. condary menu Both ZIP and LHA are native to X Finder which means that you can use it to compress or decompress files any way you want In short you can use X Finder either as a menu system or file manager or both The program even permits long file names The main problem with X Finder is the lack of English documentation Furthermore X Finder calls two other programs Memo Express and Log Express and these two programs will not run without Japanese fonts I have tried to minimize this problem by using extensive file associations in the FINDER ENV file I ve substitut ed Flexpad for Memo Express as the Editor and PNS200 for Log Express as the viewer Best runner up EXM programs Wherels and Icon Editor I found both of these programs because of X Finder The finder pro gram calls these other applications and therefore I knew they existed I kept hunting for them until I finally found them Wherels is especially useful for those who have upgraded their Palmtops to 32 or 64M bytes or who have 40 Mbyte or greater flash disks On these large memory Palmtops it s all too easy to lose track of a file or two Wherels makes it easy to find them again Icon Editor is an EXM icon editor which will not consume a DOS win dow nor will it hog an exceptional amount of memory 13 K by my count Best EXE COM program written for the Palmtop IconVu Owen Samuelson s IconVu is fast can view icons from many predefined dire
57. cons xX Hords The MS DOS LX Files Besides the System Manager com pliant programs Larry also found several programs that work well from the DOS side of the Palmtop Most of these are games with the excep tion of a full fledged accounting pro gram and a couple of utility pro grams Here is a brief description of each of these files APDOS ZIP 273 962 bytes Account Pro for DOS was origi nally a commercial accounting pro gram that ran on MS DOS comput ers The developers have decided to give the program away for free on their Website www accsoft ch com free htm The INSTALL EXE program requires that the LHA EXE and Project Vision gives you Planning In Your Palm for 99 For HP 100 200 and DOS based PCs Features Include a One Hour Learning Curve PC Disk e Uses 300K with Max file size from 80K to 1 MEG Logic Networks Timelines Resource Histograms Critical Path Milestones Variable Zoom Mouse and keyboard operated for portability NEW Export to Lotus 1 2 3 WKS Files Inmax Publishing Ltd 2673 Terrace Ave North Vancouver BC Canada V7R 1B5 Tel 604 980 9991 Fax 604 985 5597 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 11 HOW TO USE The LX Flles Part 2 ACCOUNT LZH files are available in the same directory The Install program asks if your computer is limited to 640K lower memory which would be the case with the HP Palmtop If you answer Yes it will modify your CONFIG SY
58. ct information formatted as below if you wish to be added as a contact for a users group in your area Some of the individuals listed offer Palmtop advice but may not be organizing an official users group HP Palmtop Worldwide User Group News Send material about User Group activities to Conrad Cox E mail 76164 467 compuserve com Website www ccnet com cdcox ARGENTINA Buenos Aires Miguel Angel Misseri E mail 73070 3665 compuserve com Martin Sebastian Capital Federal E mait marseb giga com ar Cordoba Paul Nani Tel 54 51 715649 E mail pnaniG si cordoba com ar AUSTRALIA Dr Barry Collins c o Forensic Science Center Tel shart 7700 E mail collib atom forensic sa gov au AUSTRIA Ulrich Hoesch Hoesch hp club or al BRAZIL Marcos L Pedroza Tel 55 84 211 6162 E mail mpedroza sum mer com br DENMARK Jesper E Siig Tel 45 49 15 60 42 Fax 45 49 16 10 01 E mai 100660 3503 compuserve com Web hittip ourworid compuserve convhomepages Siig hpug him EGYPT Mohamed Farag Ahmed Tel 20 2 344 9680 Fax 20 2 344 9680 E mail mlahmed asme org FRANCE Olivier Della Valle Tet 1 43 53 95 67 E mail 101533 160 compuserve com GERMANY Eckart Pnnz Phone Fax 49 6151 376065 GERMANY LUXEMBOURG Gilles Kohl E mail 100114 3146 com puserve com Tel 49 721 69 36 55 after 6 p m Central European time GREECE Athens Stavros D Zacharakos Tel 3 01 8050041 Mob
59. ctories shows 44 icons at once and links to two other icon programs which I use Check out the great about screen 6 THEHP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 Best runner up EXE COM program Fruit95 Fruit95 is my pick of the crop This little sleeper has been sitting around for a long time and nobody seems to know about it It was written for the HP95LX but runs quite well on the HP 200LX Fruit95 is a challenging puzzle game every bit as fun as Sokoban Best DOS freeware shareware My choice here is the Scott Adams adventure games These were the games that got me interested in com puters back when I used an Atari 800 computer I was very pleased to find DOS versions of these games 20 years later and I am also pleased that they are available for legal use again EDITOR Larry Garwood has per formed a remarkable service for the Palmtop community both in starting a search for lost DOS software and sharing his discoveries with the rest of us The accumulated files would fill at least five or six high density disks far too many to duplicate and mail We intend to make all of the files available in a special section on our Web site and on the 1999 CD InfoBase See the article entitled The LX Files Part 2 in this issue for an annotated list of all the soft ware Larry has found You can find all the software described in this 3 article Soft ware Bonanza section in our 1999 HP Palmtop Paper CD InfoBase and
60. curate to the minute The program takes up about 160K of disk space and works best when it is run from the DOS prompt after you ve termi nated System Manager and all other programs The program can also be used as a full screen digital clock W Shareware Freeware mentioned in this article ZIP COM version 2 12 shareware 30 registration fee from Eric Meyers and is available in the HPHAND forum of CompuServe as well as on the CD InfoBase PC_TIME ZIP NISTIMEW ZIP and WINACTS ZIP copyrighted freeware programs avail able from NIST and or on this issue s The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK and the 1999 CD InfoBase PCCLCK45 a shareware program reg istration fee 20 available in the HPHAND forum and on this issue s The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK and the 1999 CD InfoBase Rightime htm the HTML version of the Y2K copyrighted document found at www righttime com The Palmtop Toting March Hare The small graphic in this article was adapted from a picture on the 1998 CD InfoBase s Bonus disk The file is labelled ALICE 02A GIF I took the editorial liberty of updating the March Hare by removing his pocket watch and giving him a Palmtop eee BASIC TIPS eee Unless otherwise noted the Basic Tips are by Ed Keefe APPOINTMENT BOOK Appointment Book Too Large As your Appointment Book and ToDo files grow larger you may begin to notice crazy characters appearing in the appointments and ToDo s
61. d crafting we offer David Sargeant s review of two great dictionary programs that work on the Palmtop In the Through the Looking Glass column I talk about some more software that will keep your Palmtop s clock accurate to the split second I also answer the question is the Palmtop Y2K compliant In short it is you ll be able to use the Palmtop well into the next millennium The question remains what to do with all the extra software Hal Goldstein gives the answer in his User to User column in which he talks about the greatest CD InfoBase yet and announ es www PalmtopPaper com the new Web site for Thaddeus Computing Be sure to check it out Hopefully there s enough in this issue to keep you enthused until next year Eid Kap The HP Palmtop Paper Increasing Your Personal Power By Expanding Your Palmtop s Potential Volume 7 Issue 6 November December 1998 Executive Editor Publisher Hal Goldstein Publications Director Richard Hall Managing Editor Ed Keefe Art Director Al Constantineau Technical Editor Tom Gibson Department Editor Wayne Kneeskern Contributing Writers J Lawrence Garwood M D Hans Hoenen Stephan Luettjohann Yoichi Motohashi David Sargeant Advertising Brian Teitzman Margaret Martin Tiffany Lisk Circulation Sharon Lloyd Marge Enright Sandy Spees Executive Advisor Rita Goldstein Contact any of our editors at editor thaddeus com For orders or custome
62. e directory as the associated file The SELICN TXT file will tell you how to install the program Then you can open Application Manager and highlight the icon you wish to change Launch SELICN using its hot key and a directory tree will appear which enables you to find your icon directory Highlight the new icon you wish to use and press ENTER For some reason this program will not select its own icon for itself but it seems to work well otherwise The program was originally found at http member nifty ne jp sekiya download index htm and is freeware 510 668 4900 FAX 510 668 4905 sales accurite com http www accurite com TOPCARD ZIP 10 173 bytes To make the process of selecting or viewing a topcard easier you can use either of the two System Manager applications in this archive TOP CARD EXM and TOPVIEW EXM let you select and or view your topcards at the press of a hot key This archive with an English documentation file is available at Www palmtop net super html It is freeware Also take a look at the TPCRD ZIP file It does the same thing as TOPCARD EXM using a DOS program rather than a System Manager program PJT20012 ZIP 70 751 bytes This Project Management program is also from Japan The documenta tion is of course in Japanese However another Palmtop user Jeff Malka has provided the English 10 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 translation of the documentation The archiv
63. e magnetic moment ji of the electron with the magnetic induction B This energie is given by the Zeeman Energte Ezg ji B 1 The quantum theory points out that every single term is splitted by a weak magnetic field into 2J 1 equidistant levels Eyum Ey 9ueBMy with y 92 2 where up so 9 3 10 4JT is the Bohr magneton and g is the Land factor with 3I J 1 S S 1 L L 1 eye 3 2 Chemistry and Plots 8 T 6 A plot created by gnuplot 5 ra 3 2 1 2 k c 8 10 3 How the beginning of this sample was typeset documentstyle chemstruc picins article begin document section Physics The Dutch physicist it Pieter Zeeman rm discovered in 1896 that frequencies of atomic spectral lines can be influenced by a magnetic field This splitting of energy levels is effected by the interaction of the magnetic moment vec mul of the electron with the magnetic induction vec B This energie is given by the it Zeeman Energie rm begin eqnarray E_ ZE vec mu cdot vec B end eqnarray The quantum theory points out that every single term is splitted by a weak magnetic field into 2J 1 equidistant levels begin eqnarray E_ JLM_J E_ JL g mu_BBM_J quad mbox with quad gamma g frac mu_B hbar end eqnarray where mu_B frac e hbar 2m_e 9 3 cdot10 24 JT 1 is the Bohr magneton and g is the it Land e factor rm with begi
64. ea future get it now Once Thaddeus runs ou will then look that word up an tener el sueQo ligero a ART ae te its English translation j to sleep with cots sng nae at rege For example in the English euphemism lt Hmm what peers Loe aig Spanish dictionary typing sleep could this be a euphemism for will bring up a large list of word and acostarse con uno phrases It is difficult to translate to SUBENTRY pure text but this is basically what sleep in Collins English Dictionary Thesaurus you get oversleep 59 95 noun dormir tarde Collins 100 Multilingual Dictionaries sueno Quite impressive And nearly 59 95 verb every word in there can be selected Harper Collins Distributed by dormir with the arrow keys and looked up Thaddeus Computing 110 North We Can sleep The dictionary requires about Court Fairfield A 52556 Phone podemos alojar a 130K of memory to run in and can be 800 373 6114 or 515 472 6330 Fax tenemos cabida para loaded as a TSR if you like The TSR 515 472 1879 Web www Palmtop to go to sleep takes up a full 130K however and Paper com THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 25 IE W REVIEW REVI EW REVI EW REV User To User The 1999 CD InfoBase and New Website PamtopPaper com This year marks the seventh year of publishing The HP Palmtop Paper 42 issues plus 7 bonus issues Who would have thought it possible By Hal Goldstein tthe beginning of the year
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66. ed file is available at www palmtop net super html and is freeware To install the program just unzip the PJT200 ZIP file into a separate directory on the Palmtop Install it in Application Manager or MoreEXM Be sure to read the PROJECT DOC and JAPANESE DOC text files The PJTZ2HLP MDB file is in Japanese so unless you understand this language just rely on the English documenta ition files The program does have some limitations e g 1 the Import function doesn t work in the File menu 2 there is no text output to the clipboard 3 databases must reside in either C _ DAT or A _ DAT 4 Find in the Search menu doesn t work 5 Print is the only function to print out all the data in Comma Separated format X FINDER ZIP 100 840 bytes Setting Up X Finder X Finder Screen 4 is a Palmtop version of the Windows Explorer pro gram It works well but getting it to work well may take some experi mentation Here is what seems to work best Begin by unzipping the archive into a separate directory on the hard disk of your desktop computer Then unzip each of the ZIP files into sep arate subdirectories inside the par ent directory Continue by configuring your Palmtop for a new look and feel 1 Put the LHA EXE and the UNZIP EXE file compression programs along with the PNS200 and RUN100 programs somewhere on the DOS path X Finder does not work with the shareware Pkzip unzip programs 2 Install MaxDOS IconEdit LFTr
67. ed in the DOS section of this article Again it s a commercial product that is available for the taking 14 THE HPFP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 ST010 ZIP 18 565 bytes ST EXE is another version of the classic StarTrek game The text file is in Japanese but the crew of the Enterprise all speak English The game is freeware and is available at BXD05136 niftyserve or jp TYPERV ZIP Now you can play TyperV in color on the desktop This version also works in mono mode on the Palmtop and will create a speed graph of your typing efforts It s a freeware program that is available at KFF00642 nifty serve or jp 28 734 bytes VADAS102 ZIP 18 064 bytes Vadas is the original number crunching game It was available on some Casio watches as far back as 1976 In the game numbers march across the screen and your task is to obliter ate them by pressing selected alphabet keys The game is freeware and may be found at KFF00642 niftyserve or jp ZZT ZIP Epic Megagames is giving away ZZT These formerly commercial games run in monochrome on the Palmtop and are most challenging They are available at www epic games com zzt_info htm You ll want to set aside some time to download the large compressed file and then set aside some more time to read the documentation and even more time to play the games 875 049 bytes Where To Find This Software The programs including Formerly Commercial Software in
68. ee Wherels EXM and the LXFiler programs Assign the LXFiler program to the ALT F4 hot key 3 Move the ICON ZIP ICON FLD ZIP and FINDER ENV files to C _ DAT These are a few files that might help get you started You ll probably have to edit them to make them conform to your Palmtop s set up 4 Create a C TRASH directory using Filer s MENU File Create Dir command 5 Edit the FINDER ENV file so that the paths match those on your Palmtop 6 Flexpad is my default English editor for FINDER EXM My path is C TEXT FLEXPAD FLEXPAD EXE Change this to suit your path Pal Edit reveals the codes and therefore is not the best editor for FINDER ENYV If you don t have Flexpad you might try the VDE editor 7 PNS200 is my default Viewer Change this to suit your viewer 8 A list of your EXM software with compatible keys can be created with Finder2P The command line FINDER2P gt EXM ENV will create the text file Both this and the provided PIM ENV file can be grafted to the correct place in the FINDER ENV file 9 File transfer programs for the PC are provided in a separate archive XFS ZIP and IBMXFS ZIP The file transfer programs must be run from DOS mode on the PC The ALT key brings up the menu This gives you the ability to move files from the Palmtop to the desktop in much the same way as you can with the HP Connectivity Pack 10 I ve provided my personal icon archives and FINDER ENV as
69. ement for Application Manager was found only through the Paper The CD InfoBase The CD InfoBase contains all the software from past issues of The Palmtop Paper ON DISK the Power Disks Best Tips and PC Cards Disks If you have all these disks you could get by without the CD ROM However if you re prone to misplace disks or forget what s on them then the CD InfoBase can save a lot of time and aggravation Here s a tip for using the CD InfoBase If you re looking for a par ticular program use the built in search engine to get a list of the software go to the end of the list and work backwards That way you ll get the latest release of the program I just wish there was some way to remove older versions of the same program from the CD Do we really need all the older versions of the VDE editor or the ZIP COM file transfer utility CompuServe The HP Handheld forum is the only reason I maintain my subscription to CompuServe The folks on this forum are helpful and friendly Most Internet providers charge about 20 a month For an extra 5 I can participate in this group It is well worth it The HPHAND libraries contain most of the tried and true software for the HP Palmtop but if you re looking for more you ll need to look to the Internet The Internet If you want to search the Internet for lost software treasures I d sug gest starting with the HP Palmtop Ring maintained by Teng Yan Loke at www geoc
70. emented the following features 1 clipboard view er so you can see exactly what you are copying cutting pasting 2 adjustable cursor size handled by the Shift arrow keys 3 different modes a make the cursor squares black b make the cursor squares white c invert the color of the cursor squares Install the program in Application Manager and run it The program is fairly intuitive Icon Editor CCURSOR Nowe cu EZI C41 C6 C8 Resize cursor PACE Draw pixel File C ICONS FAAGUI ICN X lt 00 Y 02 Width 2 Hight 11 ayes ti DrawMode XOR ne ill i i LFTREE06 ZIP 11 817 bytes For best results install LFTree Screen 2 using the MoreEXM pro gram LFTree shows a branching directory tree The left and right arrow keys expand and collapse the branch es To move quickly through the direc tories just begin typing the name of the branch and you will be moved there The ENTER key creates a link BIN R gt 98 09 12 to LX Filer if itis installed with a hot sot beth 44 CAPLX key of ALT F4 ox eCAPLX403 There may be a limit to the size of CARRE 7 ae here 2 iew HANGMAN 200 97 06 23 FINDER ENU the tree There are no problems view SHARON n 1290 92 06 23 FI ENU ing the full tree of a 32 Mbytes 7383 98 09 05 MOREEXM INI M HAO_ICN4 HEARTS upgraded HP 200LX but there may be a problem with a 64 Mbytes flash card with a complex tree structure This program is found a
71. er countries maintain the most accurate clocks in the world The clocks are based on the vibration of atoms rather than pendulums or springs Ham radio operators have long been able to tune in to the beat of the atomic clock and get the accuracy they needed NIST also maintains several Web sites that will let you access an atom ic clock and read the time on your computer screen The home page for NIST is www nist gov The NIST time Web page is at www bldrdoc gov time freq javacick htm From this last Web site you can download one or two programs that you can use on your desktop com puter The NISTIMEW program will access the atomic clock using your Internet connection while the WIN ACTS program will contact the atom ic clock via a long distance telephone call Both programs will report the time They then give you the option of synchronizing your computer s clock with the atomic clock Sad to say both these programs only work on Windows based computers In the past the NIST page had a DOS version of the program called PC _ TIME That program is no longer supported by NIST However on the 1999 CD InfoBase and the Nov Dec 98 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK we have provided a copy of the PC TIME program with the understanding that it is no longer supported by NIST You can use this program along with a modem to connect your Palmtop to either the U S or Canadian Atomic Clock The NISTIMEW Progra
72. ers along with the HP User Manual HP Technical Reference Manual and Lotus and DOS refer ence manuals That means that vir tually any Palmtop question you have can be answered by typing in a few search words Alternatively you can just browse going through tips and articles that interest you We will also update our Gutenburg collection with more etext from great literature to historical documents There is so much mater ial that we once again will devote a separate CD to it For those who like to read on their Palmtop or desktop and who like having documents and great literature available for research this second CD is invaluable in and of itself It would be hard to place a retail value on this product Whether you want to read Dickens or Lincoln or Lao Tsu you can print out the text read it on your desktop or carry it with you on your Palmtop With up to 64 Meg palmtops and less expensive memory cards there is now more room to carry references Further Hypertext Viewer HV designed for the Palmtop makes reading web based documents on the Palmtop a snap This year we are expanding the readable material on the CD by providing a number of HTML web browser readable doc uments Again you can print these documents use your desktop brows er or carry these documents with you in your Palmtop First we will include Ed Keefe s book PC In Your Pocket How The Organizing Power of the Hewlett Packard Palmtop PC Wi
73. ets Excel and other Windows based spreadsheets use workbooks made up of several worksheets To access the dif ferent worksheets in a workbook you have to click a mouse on a tab button usual ly located at the bottom of the screen Even though this feature is not available in the version of 1 2 3 on the HP Palmtops you can simulate something like this by hooking several worksheets together with Lotus macros The simulated workbook will consist of a main worksheet and sev eral more worksheets that are hooked to this main sheet Screen 3 HE CALG Amortization Problem Revisited Suppose you have a 100 000 mort gage with a 40 year term You ve already made 130 payments and you have 350 payments to go The first thing you do is calculate the monthly payments by starting HP Calc and pressing CTRL T to open the TVM application You enter 480 months as the Number of periods and you key in 10 as the Annual interest To key in the Present value press 1 and L to change the sign Then press E 5 and press Enter to get 100 000 00 TVM uses a minus quantity here since you re subtracting that amount from the lender Make sure Begin End is set to End and the Payments per year field is set to 12 Then press F9 PMT to see 849 15 So far this is a straight forward use of TVM Now you wonder how many more pay ments you d have to make and how much interest you wouldn t have to pay if you increased the payments from 849 15 to
74. first one and a half months then the last one and a half months from the bad section If one of these operations fails divide the time peri od in half and so on Hopefully this will nar row down the trouble spots You can also try the Garlic repair utili ty However there is one caution If your Appointment Book is severely corrupted N NNN NON eNO Screen 2 HLCO Chart some of the data may be saved but other errors may creep in Its best to apply Garlic to a copy of the corrupted file to see if it will fix the problem or make it worse One other method that sometimes works is to use a translation utility such as Intellilink to merge the bad Appointment Book with a blank one The translation program may simply ignore the bad data and translate only the clean data As always before attempting any of these things backup all your data Jim Westley 74124 1451 LOUMS e253 HLCO Graphs in 1 2 3 lf you press MENU and select the Graph Type option in Lotus 1 2 3 you ll see a type of graph labeled HLCO HLCO stands for High Low Close Open and is the type of graph favored by peo ple in the stocks and bonds and com modity trading business If you look for help for this type of graph you won t find it in the built in help files Here is a simple example to show you how to use a HLCO graph In Lotus 1 2 3 construct a worksheet like the one in Figure 1 Then press MENU and select the Graph Type option and select
75. g on the size of the data file the process may take some time When it runs out of data the macro will contin ue to call itself causing the Palmtop to THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 33 STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP MANAGEMENT AND CIRCULATION Required by 39 U S C 3685 1 Title of Publication The HP Palmtop Paper 2 Publication no 1065 6189 3 Date of filing October 1 1998 4 Issue frequency Bi monthly 5 No of issues published annually 6 6 Annual subscription price 39 00 7 Complete mailing address of known office of publication 110 North Court Fairfield lowa 52556 2811 8 Complete mailing address of the headquarters of gener al business office of the publisher 110 North Court Fairfield lowa 52556 2811 9 Full names and complete mailing addresses of publish er editor and managing editor Publisher Hal Goldstein 110 North Court Fairfield lowa 52556 2811 Editor Hal Goldstein 110 North Court Fairfield lowa 52556 2811 Managing Editor Edward Keefe 110 North Court Fairfield lowa 52556 2811 10 Owner Thaddeus Computing Inc 110 North Court Fairfield lowa 52556 2801 Hal Goldstein P O Box 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 Rita Goldstein P O Box 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 13 Publication name The HP Palmtop Paper 14 Issue Date for Circulation Data Below September October 1998 Average No Actual Number Copies Each Copes of Singe issue Published Issue During Preceding 12 Nearest
76. he author created the Web page you can select the View source command on your Web browser and you ll see plain text with a lot of embedded HTML code It certainly doesn t look like the finished product presented by your Web browser The HTML code might seem mys terious and intimidating until you realize that the author probably used a program like Microsoft Front Page or Adobe Page Mill The author mere ly typed the text and then clicked on tool bar icons to change the format of the text In the background Front Page added the HTML code that changed the format On the other hand some people like to create Web pages by hand They use a text editor and type both the text and the HTML commands A Web viewer such as Netscape Communicator or Hypertext Viewer HV interprets the commands and displays a Web page that is truly unique It doesn t look like another Microsoft FrontPage clone This technique of embedding code inside a text document is the basis not only for Web pages but for all word processing and desktop pub lishing Most poeple are not aware of this They see a Windows Word doc ument and they seldom look at the ABOUT THE AUTHORS Hans Hoenen Stephan Luettjohann and Hans Hoenen live next to the Dutch border in Emmerich Germany Hans teaches physics at Willibrord Grammar School He has been using TeX for the past ten years for all his printed material Stephan Luettjohann a former stu dent of
77. html REVIEW REV IEW REV EN R E LEW Great Palmtop Dictionaries The Collins Electronic English Dictionary amp Thesaurus and the Collins Series 100 Multilingual Dictionary surpass all other dictionaries for the HP Palmtop By David Sargeant few weeks ago on the HPLX mailing list there was a ques tion posed Is there a dic tionary for the palmtop that can give me meanings of words or are they all just spell checkers The shareware freeware world is surprisingly lacking in such a piece of software The only decent shareware DOS dictionary that I m aware of is Jorj which while a nice program has a somewhat limited feature set and a limited number of words So those of us who would otherwise have to tote around a large paperback dictio nary have been searching for a good dictionary for a long time One solution has been the American Heritage Dictionary The electronic version of this dictionary is a very nice program Unfortunately it 1 is extremely difficult to find Enter the Collins Electronic English Dictionary and Thesaurus from Harper Collins This program is a really handy one It has so many useful features I hardly know where to start In the first place there s the dictionary itself Running COLE1 EXE brings up the control panel quite quickly it takes less than a second to pop up the control panel window itself The nice little window that comes up includes all of the com
78. ile Tel 3 093 254 717 24hrs Fax 3 01 8050041 Galatsi John Tatsiramos c o TAFARM Tel 01 29 17 401 Fax 01 29 28 174 HOLLAND BELGIUM Mister G Dongs Tel 31 75 6 704205 E mail 74064 173 compuserve com HONG KONG Am 8 20 F Bik B Wah Kai Ind Center 221 Texaco Rd Tsuen Wan Hong Kong Tel 2409 0969 Fax 2407 0782 E mail encom asiaoniine net HUNGARY Zoltan Matok ORbifRADE Hungary Ltd E mail zmatok orbitrade alba hu Tet 36 22 327 687 Faxc 36 22 327 784 To run Figlet you simply issue a com mand at the DOS prompt figlet The HP Palmtop Paper The output will look like the following only larger Figlet comes with about twenty differ ent font files You can design your own internet or by mail and routine patient encounters v Helpful for any physician at any level of training or practice in any medical field use encountering tens of thousands of patients many military vessels To receive more information Call 888 321 STAT 7828 for a free demo amp info pack INDONESIA Chris Wibisono E mail cwjt0630 dneLnet id Dirk H Eversbert c o P T Austindo Mitratama Mr Elman Sunartio Jt Gunung Sahari 2 6E Jakarta 10610 INDONESIA ITALY Mr Andrea Valdre Tel 39 6 87295 205 Fax 39 6 87295 215 E mail a vaidre agora stm it Also Salvatore Fiorenzo Tel 39 933 8120 Fax 39 665 7295 JAPAN Georg O P Eschert Chuo 2 13 19 401 Ota
79. it above the American Heritage Dictionary Standard Edition but far below the American Heritage Dictionary Deluxe Edition which weighs in at a hefty 14MB However the Collins dictio nary s size is increased by the option al modules The Thesaurus adds another 1 1MB the pronunciation data is another 550K and the etymology data or word history adds another 860K The total size of the package comes to about 9 6MB but again a couple of Megs can be shaved off if you don t mind losing the thesaurus pronunciation and etymology All in all this is a great product that thrills me no end I plan to replace my American Heritage Dictionary with this version since the searching is so much faster If you want to have a dictionary with you this is the one to get But hurry once Thaddeus runs out of these packages they re gone for good Collins Series 100 Multilingual Dictionary One thing the palmtop has been missing for a long time is a decent multiple language dictionary If I need to know the meaning of an English word there s always the Collins or American Heritage Dictionary com plete with pronunciation and syn onyms But while I was in a Spanish class or trying to translate a compa ny memo for the boss I d have to rely on a paperback dictionary for the tough words or even worse a 150 Windows translator program No longer The Collins Series 100 Multilingual Dictionary does quite a job It comes wi
80. ities com Silicon Valley Park 4335 hpr_index html From there you can branch off to other HP 100 200LX sites Often there is much to be learned from other experienced users If they love the Palmtop enough to create a Web site you can be sure they are fairly knowl edgeable about it The S U P E R site is the single most comprehensive spot for palmtop soft ware www palmtop net super html Various FTP sites have a wealth of material These include the Eddie and Monash sites ftp eddie mit edu pub hp95LX hp100LX and ftp ftp cc monash edu au pub palmtop The Vector site www vector co jp common dos util machine hp is where you can begin to look for Japanese software The excitement here is that rarely will there be any English documentation so you will have to figure out if vou can use the RomD isk Fiter O100101801 5 KTX X Finder software provided Guel s site spock vector co jp authors VA002322 1x html English and Japanese version not only offers most of his software but also provides links to other Japanese sites What is interesting is that these programmers do not cater to the English market at all Many of the programs are on Nifty Serve and are not available unless you subscribe to that service Sometimes you ll see a reference to a program and be frustrated by its apparent unavailability Keep brows ing eventually you may find it For example I know that Guel has writ ten an IP
81. le s P Pack LZH Compress Q Quit R Rename S Split unSplit T Time Stamp U Unpack LZH Decompress X DOS eXecute highlighted command Z Custom Commands set up in CFG File Shift Letter Move cursor to next file beginning with that letter THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 9 HOW TO USE The LX Files Part 2 Where there s a DoubleSlot there s a way To use 2 PC Cards at the same time even copy files between Cards To run multiple PC Card products SRAM fax modem memory cards etc To connect Type Il and IIl Cards even a Type Il and III at the same time To externally power PCMCIA Cards for those power hungry PCMCIA peripherals To run ATA flash cards and hard drives like the notebooks can DoubleSlot PCMCIA Slot Expander reaching new heights of performance for your HP Palmtop Add the Travel Floppy to your Palmtop World s smallest 3 5 floppy drive PCMCIA type Il compatible For Palmtops or other DOS Windows computers Use it to transfer files archive or run programs directly from disk Portable like your Palmtop goes anywhere Sa Uses inexpensive 44 Mb or 720K diskettes fe se teem atest 48460 Lakeview Blvd Fremont CA 94538 6532 SELICN ZIP 9 661 bytes SELICN lets you select an icon for insertion into Application Manager from a dedicated icon directory that you set up on your Palmtop Icons no longer have to be in the sam
82. ll Make You More Effective as an HTML document That means you can read the book at your desktop or load chapters onto your Palmtop to read at your leisure We are looking into providing other relevant or topical HTML doc uments For example a lot of work is being done to convert the HP Technical Reference Manual into HTML so it can be accessed from the Palmtop We expect this second copy of the manual designed with the palmtop in mind to be done in time to make the CD Finally last and probably most we are packing the CD with more freeware and shareware This edition is devoted to many of the new pieces of software that have come to our attention including new software from Japan great DOS finds and new PAL software In addition many of the great Palmtop classics that we have put on previous CDs have been updated We are continually looking for the most recent versions of these classics Also some very powerful and useful DOS commercial software has been released to the public domain and will go on the CD We are planning to release the CD in December but please be patient in case it slips as it usually does to January E Ga HEWLETT PACKARD Aulhanzed Palmtop Compoiance Cenie NOW ORDER YOUR EASY USE CATALOG FOR FREE NEWEST PRODUCTS AND TOP PRICES We offer the full range of HP Palmtop PC 200LX 1000CX opl 8 32MB DS HP OmniGo 700LX Communicator Plus NOKIA 2110 HP Palmtop PC 360LX 620LX 660LX
83. ly not much My suspicion is that programmers couldn t possibly be making a living off the little they ask for a program They must get their rewards elsewhere The money is just a concrete way to let them know that others love what they ve done Our job as users is to make sure they continue to love their work Some goals in shareware hunting Look for Palmtop specific software Because of the Palmtop Appli cation Library PAL programmers can develop software with a Palmtop look and feel These programs work very well and tend to be constantly honed with upgrades That makes them ideal for the Palmtop Some of the programs are so good that I use them on my desktop with the Palrun program Look for EXM software All things being equal it s better than EXE software EXM programs are those that use the Palmtop s System Manager program Such programs allow for task swapping and they use as little memory as possible leaving the rest for other programs In any System Manager session only one DOS win dow is permitted I have configured the default memory for this window to be 200K which leaves very little base memory for other applications One can get around this problem by using Software Carousel or by defin ing the amount of memory each indi vidual DOS program gets The real no brainer is to have the software be System Manager compliant Look for DOS software that has a compatible video mode A lot of
84. m My method of synchronizing the clocks on both my desktop and Palmtop is slightly unusual but the method is free and does not require any new software on my Palmtop With the NISTIMEW program installed and running on my desk top computer I can contact the NIST clock using my CompuServe con nection to the Internet Once the time appears on the screen I simply click the OK button to synchronize the PC s clock with the atomic clock Synch ing the Palmtop s Clock With my Palmtop connected to the desktop I open a DOS window on the desktop and run Eric Meyer s ZIP COM program On the Palmtop also run ZIP COM in server mode When I press T on the desktop s keyboard the ZIP program synchro nizes the Palmtop s clock with the 30 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 desktop s clock It s almost too slick Since my Palmtop is a far better time keeper than my desktop I occa sionally refresh the desktop s clock with the Palmtop s clock I might lose a split second but the results are good enough for me A DOS Only Solution If you want a program that does the same thing but runs on the Palmtop I d suggest the PCCLOCK rogram version 4 5 This program requires that you have a modem connected to or installed in your Palmtop It will then call NIST the United States Naval Observatory or the Canadian atomic clock to get the exact time It also lets you call CompuServe to get the time ac
85. m 00 to 79 you ll get an error message Invalid Date If you set the date using the digits 80 through 99 the operating system will interpret this as 1980 through 1999 To make the MS DOS DATE com mand behave properly you will have to set the date using all four digits of the year The only other command that uses dates according to Microsoft is the DIR command The DIR command will only display the last two digits of the year However if you use the com mand DIR OD to force a directory list to be Ordered by Date the list will be sorted correctly Files with a 00 in the year field will come after those with a 99 in the year field There are no patches available at this time and no plans to develop any So far so good Microsoft s response only address es the MS DOS operating system and would be the definitive answer for users of the HP 1000CX Palmtop However most Palmtop users run System Manager on HP 100200LX s ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ed Keefe is an author and editor of The HP Palmtop Paper and the book PC In Your Pocket Information When You Need It Ed is also a former college instructor of logic and computer sci ence and a consultant in the computer industry Ed can be reached at ed thaddeus com So the question should be Is the System Manager program and the other built in Palmtop applications Y2K compliant And the answer is almost Check It Out In Setup The most critical Palmtop appli
86. mands you will need including the dictionary thesaurus and search facil ities The dictionary can be passed a word to look up from the DOS com mand line e g typing COLE1 ELE PHANT and pressing ENTER will display the definition of the word elephant The dictionary handled most every word I threw at it includ ing defenestration a word that not many dictionaries seem to have And of course the Collins dictionary includes a complete list of definitions for all of the naughty words Lest you become confused and acciden tally use one of these words in place of a less offensive euphemism the Collins dictionary thoughtfully informs you that they are taboo and offensive slang The program finds definitions for correctly spelled words extremely quickly under 1 5 seconds for any word in the dictionary This compares quite well to other commercial dic tionary programs like the American Heritage Dictionary Of course that s nothing special often the reason you re looking in the dictionary in ABOUT THE AUTHOR the first place is to find out how to spell the word So how does the pro gram react if your word is misspelled If your word is totally nonsensical i e Xxxxxxxx it almost instantly takes you to a list of suggestions For slightly more varied words like djd jfk it takes under 1 5 seconds to return a list of suggested spellings For words very close to the c
87. merican Heritage which worked well as a pop up TSR with Word Perfect I used this for a year or two until The HP Palmtop Paper offered the Collins dictionary Sharing the Treasure Best EXM Program X Finder After just a couple of months of searching 1 have accumulated enough software to fill five disks I realize that s too much to dis tribute with The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK but perhaps it will appear on the www PalmtopPaper com web site in the near future In the meantime let me share with you what I consider the best pro grams I ve found Without a doubt X Finder is the most powerful application I have found It works like Windows 95 Explorer It can launch EXM EXE and COM files regardless of whether or THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 5 REVIEW The LX Files a at ik mar sScWatNretre Ce Usa test ace yat yrerrencerysd e Sip Jatyrefrencenwld na 9 gdb a woe trer ef at Pet ELLE LS ee A D O N a cacti i CH Ci Cc IC E IER E Cc not the EXM program was installed in MOREEXM INI or APNAME LST It uses file associations as is done in FILER INI It treats ZIP and LZH archives as subdirectories It can dis play uncompressed icons directly It sends deleted files to a trash bin so they may be easily restored The pro gram can even be used to browse a desktop and backups to the desktop are possible X Finder can also launch other applications from a se
88. n and documentation have brought the HP Palmtop to a whole new level of usefulness and enjoyment The three articles in this Software Bonanza section describe these discoveries and list upgrades of already popular pieces of palmtop software You can find all the software described in this 3 article Software Bonanza section and MORE in our 1999 HP Palmtop Paper CD InfoBase and at www palmtop net super html which is now sponsored by our new web site www PalmtopPaper com Hal Goldstein The LX Files The Stuff Is Out There Trust no one who tells you that DOS is dead Larry Garwood offers convincing proof that there is still a lot of good software available for the HP Palmtops you just have to know where to look and what to look for J Lawrence Garwood M D efore I discovered the Internet B my only source for HP software was The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK However the Disks seemed to offer the same programs over and over Then with the coming of Windows 95 and Windows CE the false rumor started that DOS and the HP 200LX were dead Since the HP 200LX is my main computer and since my 200LX does far more than any Windows CE machine I began to panic I could imagine that the end was in sight Yet I knew there were still some good uses for the 200LX So I started to look for MS DOS software on my own My quest began with a search for a classic set of text adventures by Scott Adams not the cartoonist I had enjoyed
89. n eqnarray g frac 3J J 1 S S 1 L L 1 2J J 1 end eqnarray REVIEW TeX on the HP Palmtop In Particular We have made our LXTeX package available to readers of The HP Palmtop Paper It takes about 2 Mbytes in its compressed form When you get a copy of the LXTeX package the easi est way to install it is to uncompress the files on the hard disk of your desk top computer This part alone requires Windows Once you have the files decompressed you ll find the files in a directory tree called EMTEX Simply transfer all the files in all the subdirectories belaw EMTEX to the A drive of your Palmtop LXTeX is designed to run from the A drive however we have included instruc tions telling you how to modify the various files so that the program will run from the C or F drive We also show how to install text editors other than PalEdit If you decide to make any changes to the default configu ration you will also need a copy of LXBatch 3 0 to re create the MENU EXE program To run the LXTeX program use the More Menu Applications Terminate command to guit all appli cations When you re at the DOS A prompt you can type LX TeX and the main menu will appear We have included several sam ple files that you can use to test the compiler viewer and printing pro grams to see how they work and get some idea of how much time it will take to compile a document on the Palmtop Further instructions for using the main menu
90. nal or add something TeX it again and send it to Finland for instance On the other side of the world my friend receives the TeX file and immediately prints it out at his office or home and returns his comments which I receive on a street in Tokyo or Oberwolfach in the Black Forest and continue to improve the original idea Eventually the result is published as a joint work To get a better idea of what can be done with TeX on the HP Palmtop let me advertise my book which wrote using TeX on my Palmtop Most of the writing was done while flying over Siberia the Pacific and Atlantic oceans walking along the Danube in Budapest enjoying Botticelli at Uffizi watching snow falling in Turku Finland or wherever Please find the book at www ama zon com by searching for the author Motohashi You should find an adver tisement for Spectral Theory of the Riemann Zeta Function which is published by Cambridge Univ Press Shareware Freeware mentioned in this article LXTeX freeware consists of two files TEX EXE 1 36 Mbytes and TEX2 ZIP 608 Kbytes The first file is a self extract ing compressed file that contains a Windows program to decompress the second file The ZIPped file contains font and style sheets used by the LXTeX for matter Both files will be available on the 1999 CD InfoBase from Thaddeus Computing Inc They will also be avail able for downloading from www palm top net super
91. need ed set FV 0 and solve for N You ll find that you ve reduced the payments to 195 54 periods To find the accumulated interest multiply the number of payments by 1 000 and subtract the present value The answer is 99 218 93 Finally press M RCL 0 and then press C to swap the two values and then press the minus key The solution is 101 665 37 the interest you ve saved Note you could have solved the problem without switching to the Case 2 window in TVM but the second case is a handy feature and worth remembering MEN Oe Control Characters in MEMO The HP User s Manual says that to search for and replace characters in a MEMO document you can press the F5 function key and fill in the Search for and Replace with fields and then press any of the function keys F4 F5 or F6 This works fine until you import a text document that is full of little smiley face characters the CTRL B character along with other characters such as the symbols for hearts 32 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 NH T Tf sptp r rptpnov diamonds clubs and spades etc If you want to change all instances of the CTRL B character to lt BOLDs gt the Search for field won t let you enter CTRL B It just beeps at you Here s the way to make this work Press ESC to cancel the Replace dialog window and highlight one of the CTRL B characters in the docu ment by putting the cursor on a char
92. nputting data at each tank fill up Many improvements in this new version Copyrighted freeware Portions copyright The PAL Group HDM Version 2 4 by Harry Konstas This Hard Disk Manager can manage and organize up to 200 DOS programs with control over zoom mode screen serial port power management etc Built with PAL so it has the look and feel of a built in application Plus Few New Finds The newest version was enhanced by the author and Thaddeus Computing to make it even more powerful Freeware Magic Scorekeeper Version 1 0 by Joe Baughman This is an LXB script to keep track of scores in the card game Magic The Gathering Freeware CICfake Version 1 00 by Hiroyuki Sekiya ClCfake is a replacement for the built in modem card driver CJC100 It can be unloaded from memory and only takes 560 bytes to run Originally this was part of the software collection sold with the HP200LX Software Bible co authored by Hiroyuki Sekiya and Hirotaka Hamada published by Softbank Tokyo Now released as copyrighted freeware Cliplay Version 1 00a by Hiroyuki Sekiya Cliplay is a playback program for sound data to be used in combination with the Database It does for sound what MAP POT does for graphics data It directly plays sound data copied to the clipboard or indirectly from a file specified in the clipboard Originally part of the software collection sold with The HP200LX Software Bible by Hiroyuki Sekiya
93. nsive Hewlett Packard Mobile PC Expert catalog We will strive hard to match anyone s prices One Call get it all for your HP Mobile PC An Exclusive HEWLETT PACKARD Authorized Reseller NEW Hewlett Packard PALMTOP PCs HP200LX 4MB DOS Based Palmtop PC HP200LX 2MB DOS Based Palmtop PC HP200LX 64MB amp DoubleSpeed TTS HP200LX 32MB amp DoubleSpeed TTS HP200LX 8MB amp DoubleSpeed TTS HP200LX 5 6MB A DoubleSpeed TTS HP1000CX 2MB Pure DOS based Palmtop PRE OWNED HP200LX PALIITOP PCs HP200LX 64MB Pre Owned palmtop TTS HP200LX 32MB Pre Owned palmtop TTS HP200LK BMB Pre Owned palmtop TTS HP200LX 5 6MB Pre Owned palmtop TTS TTS cames w DoubleSpeed Added RAM convert an HP 100 200LX memo file directly into HTML Copyrighted freeware DLG Viewer Version 2 0 by Alfred Lee DLG Viewer is a United States Geological Service USGS Digital Line Graph DLG view ing and Global Positioning System GPS moving map display utility DLG is a DOS program ideally suited to run on the HP 100 200LX The latest version handles rectangular and sinusoidal PCX maps and can invert them Gopyrighted freeware LXDR Version 0 99 by Rick Kozak LXDR is a custom reader for mailing list digests The program takes a digest file extracts the subjects of each message and presents them to you in a scrollable list at the top of the screen Copyrighted freeware Details are in the archive on a com mercial version thal
94. o press will appear on the 1999 edition of the CD InfoBase from Thaddeus Computing Inc Stay tuned Comments about these programs These programs are provided as is The staff of The HP Palmtop Paper doesn t have the resources to support these programs over the phone On the other hand if you discover some thing more about installing or run ning the programs whether it s good or bad please let us know Here then are the LX Files System Manager Compliant Files E CAPPUZ play a game E JICONEDIT draw some icons E LFTREE create a directory tree E LXF107 LF enhance Filer E TOPCARD pick your topcard E Pj2T manage your projects E X Finder manage your files E WHERE100 find your files DOS Applications APDOS ZIP keep your books E SCOTADAM ZIP adventures DOOM EXE track your seconds E FRUIT95 play a wicked game HPTREK EXE or an old game W ICNVU view all your icons CON VIEW view all your icons E LO EXE play this game OPEN EXE open a data file RUN EXE run EXM files SHEZ EXE manage ZIPs LZHs ST EXE play Star Trek VADAS EXE play a game ZZT ZIP try this tough game A more detailed listing Please note that some of the LX Files were created by Japanese pro grammers Larry Garwood figured out how to make the programs work and we ve included his tips and techniques CAPUZ11 ZIP 7 041 bytes CAPUZ is a screen shuffle game It captures a screen and lets you decide how difficult a puzzle
95. of TeX output and input Section 1 Physics example of formatted equations Section 2 Chemistry and Plots sample drawings with Tex Section 3 How the Beginning shows sample formatting com mands along with text Formatting commands are like HTML code LXTeX on your Palmtop Taking into consideration the lim ited disk space on the HP Palmtop we have tried to keep the size of our ver sion of TeX as small as possible It still consumes 3 7 Mbyes of disk space We chose as our compiler the TEX EXE program from EMTeX ver sion 3 0 and for our screen preview er we use DVISCRS EXE version 1 6b taken from another EMTeX version For printing we have installed DVIH PLJ EXE version 1 6d which allows you to print on both LaserJets as well as on DeskJets Most of the fonts that are needed are placed in the file DJ_BASE FLI We created some addi tional fonts using the Metafont pro gram also developed by Donald E Knuth We chose PalEdit as the text edi tor to use on the Palmtop Finally to make the process of editing compil ing previewing and printing a docu ment almost seamless we created an LXBatch program that lets you use the function keys to access the various parts of the package 1 Physics The Dutch physicist Pieter Zeeman discovered in 1896 that frequencies of atomic spectral lines can be influenced by a magnetic field This splitting of energy levels is effected by the interaction of th
96. orrect spelling such as elefunt it takes about 2 5 seconds to return a list of words In fact the longest it ever took to search out and return a list of sug gestions was 3 5 seconds Not bad at all These trials were performed on my double speed machine running the dictionary from a flash card The thesaurus is quite complete and returns the most complete list of synonyms I ve seen on a dictionary for the palmtop It s just as quick as the dictionary if not more so I typed in the word mad and got 2 5 pages of synonyms in under 3 seconds The dictionary also has a Wildcard feature useful for cross David Sargeant lives in Boulder City Nevada with his wife and two little girls He is a computer engineering student at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and computer system admin istrator for a local company In his spare time he maintains the www hplx net Web site that is devoted to things LX David can be reached at david hplx net THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 23 REVIEWS Great Palmtop Dictionaries word puzzles and an anagram fea ture useful for well any situation you need to figure out what a word s letters can be rearranged to spell I suppose These features though not lightning fast were surprisingly quick on the palmtop I typed in F 5 N in an attempt to see how long it would take the dictionary to find fusion in the wildcard search screen Five
97. ousel is for the rest of us HP Palmtop Paper editor Ed Keefe completely rewrote the user manual His Getting Started Tutorial is all you need to be fully functional in less than an hour Even better choose Super Software Carousel and in five minutes you ll be using any of its 40 plus applications and adding new appli cations Have up to 12 Palmtops in One An easy to use control panel allows you to customize up to 12 DOS and or System Manager sessions to your exact needs Switch between DOS and Built In programs as easily as you open NoteTaker Don t know what to do with all this new palmtop potential Check out SUPER Software Carousel on the next page to see how Thaddeus Computing can save you many hours of loading and configuring and provide you countless hours of happy and pro ductive palmtopping SOFTWARE CAROUSEL Absolutely fabulous Quick everybody run out and buy Software Carousel tLarry Nielsen Great with 8 32 64MB DoubleSpeeds or Flash Card Talk about a Next Generation 200LX Combine Software Carousel and especially SUPER Software Carousel with the speed and memory of an Upgraded Palmtop and you re talking about unleashing the full potential of your palmtop Works with Flash card memory too Not quite as fast So if you already have an Upgraded Palmtop or you re thinking about it Software Carousel is the ideal way to make the most of it And of course we offer a 30 Day Mone
98. p some of the better examples of TheDraw artwork It s amazing what people did with simple DOS based computers 10 years ago 5 TheDraw is one of the few programs that actually looks good using the four gray scale screen of the HP Palmtop Kent iileman We tracked down version 4 63 of TheDraw Reportedly this is the latest ver sion It s available on the Internet via ftp tele port com and on this issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK TheDraw is one of many such programs that produce art using older CGA monitors as well as black and white monitors The drawings created with TheDraw can be viewed simply by entering the command TYPE SHUT TLE ANS at the DOS prompt However this trick requires the use of the ANSI SYS screen driver to work Since ANSI SYS is not available on the HP Palmtops we rec ommend the ANSI COM program It s a TSR program which may be loaded and removed from memory as needed without the need to reboot the computer FIGLETS If you re interested in TheDraw as a way to play with your Palmtop it might be worth looking at a program that will let you design Figlets another type of line art drawing tool that doesn t require a screen driver The FIGDOS22 ZIP archive is available via ftp ftp internexus net pub figlet pro gram ms dos Screen 2 A Figlet Phrase Those interested in participating in an HP Palmtop users group should contact the following individuals Send us conta
99. problem in all its gory details The article also contains references to dozens of Web sites that deal with all aspects of the Y2K prob lem from testing to patching to upgrading Cleaning Up To clean up from testing use Filer to delete TESTFILE TXT and use Setup to reset the date to the current date and select your preferred Date Format THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 29 REVIEW Through The Looking Glass Y2K Time and Time Again nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the S Rabbit say to Ri Most clocks that are built into PCs experience some drift For exam ple the clock on my desktop com puter loses about 87 seconds a day Who knows why Gratefully the clock on my Palmtop is much more accurate It loses about 1 or 2 seconds a month I just learned that the clocks on board GPS satellites lose a second every 300 million years Losing a few seconds might not be as nerve wracking as losing a com puter due to a Y2K bug in the com puter s firmware However if the clock in your PC or Palmtop triggers an alarm or starts an external piece of test equipment then accuracy could be critical Atomic Clock If the clock on your Palmtop is not becoming accurate enough for you then it should be coming to the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST We old timers still call NIST the NBS the National Bureau of Standards NIST and agencies like it in oth
100. r service orders thaddeus com The HP Palmtop Paper ISSN 10656189 is pub lished by Thaddeus Computing Inc at 110 North Court Street Fairfield A 52556 Periodical postage paid at Fairfield lowa Subscription rates payable in U S dollars checks drawn on a U S bank or by credit card one year 39 two years 69 Postage U S and U S possessions free Canada Mexico add 6 per year other countries add 18 per year Published bi monthly Please allow four to six weeks for receipt of first issue Executive Editorial Circulation Marketing and Advertising Offices 110 North Court Street Fairfield A 52556 Telephone 515 472 6330 FAX 515 472 1879 Copyright 1998 Thaddeus Computing Inc all rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission Reasonable efforts are made to provide accurate and useful information but the reader must make his or her own investigations and decisions the Publisher and Editorial Staff cannot assume any responsibility or liability for the use of information contained here in POSTMASTER Please send any address changes tu The HP Palmtop Paper Attn Thaddeus Computing Inc 110 North Court Street Fairfield IA 52556 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 1 SOFTWARE BONANZA Larry Garwood and Ed Keefe have spent hundreds of hours coming up with the palmtop software bonanza chronicled in this issue Their discoveries experimentatio
101. rogram that enlarges and makes more readable any section of the screen in built in apps For example can blow up datacard for more readable phone numbers Subst DOS 5 utility superior to ASSIGN Velock Whole screen clock and timer Bonus applications and utilites included on CD ready for easy installation Dominoes Goll FreeCell Blackjack Yahtzee Bridge 4 LX Hearts Cribbage Backgammon Tiles Mah Checkers Jhong Tetris Klondike MasterMind Here s how to order Mine Sweep Solitaire Reversi Othello many kinds Sokabin Therapist Boggle Play Music TIT Go Moku Super Software Carousel comes on a CD with complete easy to follow installa tion instructions and a concise electronic User s Guide If you have Thaddeus Computing install it while your palmtop is with us free installation you ll still receive the CD You can even send your palmtop just for the free Software Carousel installation If you are upgrading from a previous version of Software Carousel see How Do l Upgrade on previous page to save 60 Super Software Carousel New Super Software Carousel Upgrade 139 95 55CN 79 95 55CU Games Years of silent fun Here s a brief preview of what SUPER Software Carousel does for your palmtop ing checker af umi isiteg gi AEE in memi e DE FE er About aeaea jim Updria Age E EDLA tohea Sh rs ake Tecntel goearches ROP ia search and reolace nor ts agvooerd aacr a
102. rs P O Box 31284 Charleston SC 29417 1284 Tel 800 864 8444 E mail 75023 44 compu serve com TX Houston Houston Area Palmtop Users Group Tel 713 777 0868 E mail horacek lapc net Washington DC Rick Shaddock c o Computer Instructors Corporation Tet 703 486 2222 E mail rick cicorp com WA Bellevue Suzanne Ow E mail suzanne ow hp com THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 35 How To Contact Us Please note The HP Palmtop Paper does not and cannot provide technical support There are a number of ways to get in touch with The HP Palmtop Paper staff You can write COMPANY PRODUCT Products Advertised in This Issue of The HP Palmtop Paper PHONE FAX NUMBERS PAGE NUMBER A One Stop Palmtop Shop Palmtops and accessories 800 709 9494 or 608 752 1537 Fax 608 752 9548 16 mail us a disk with your comments send Accurite Floppy Drives for 100 200LX Double Slot 510 668 4900 Fax 510 668 4905 10 Internet e mail fax or call Our mailing Aware Micro Roentgen Radiation Monitor800 729 5397 302 655 3800 Fax 302 655 3800 29 KOUPE BOE COREE ILENE a Easy Use Palmtops amp Accessories 49 2202 951781 Fax 49 2202 9557760 27 Thaddeus Computing Greenwich Link A Printer 800 476 4070 or 704 875 8490 Fax 704 875 2801 13 110 N Court Inmax CGA VGA Graphics Pack Vision 604 980 9991 Fax 604 985 5597 11 Fairfield IA 5255
103. s oe WL PLUS I for Detaiisi aheii te CPT Try re il F _ 7 e mai D pir A e LXPIC can view POX BMP JPG GIF files on your palmtop Visible Clock Full screen clock timer stopwatch nae mel Bi Thaddeus Computing a 4 ieee ee Shenae SETET RS a TEN S15 472 1867 H 9800 373 6114 Fax 515 472 1879 N S15 ara 1879 BIr ou Esgil orders s thanoe IS Ea steitick Patty wee Thaddeus com fen Tien chincec Email orders thaddeus com www thaddeus com Zoom Anywhere tyTt and m i di o stane s Taet i feee Here s how Backgammon FreeCell Chess and a Go tutorial look on the palmtop Other games include Tetris Checkers a music selection and a palmtop therapist system Requirements Includes the complete version of Software Carousel plus lots of additional software Runs on HP 100LX 200LX or 1000CX on flash disk or in system RAM C drive Full package requires 5 meg a little over 2 meg for applications 2 meg for games and 1 meg for Software Carousel sessions Even more applications than listed are included on CD REVIEW TeX on the HP Palmtop Screen 1 Equations in TeX sewweone 4 integriert weruen soll Wie runKktion j Nat alleruings Dei pt a 0 eine Polstelle ist folglich bei z pnicht definiert Fur die Losung des Problems setzt man dann folgenderma en an b ie b eaz lim f fle de tim f f z dz Sind beide Grenzwerte endlich so ist das Integral sinnvoll
104. s The palmtop version also has a battery indicator Copyrighted freeware Covey s Weekly Compass Topcards Version 1 0 by Patrick West A collec tion of topcards to help you integrate the Covey methods with your daily palmtop routine Freeware PSpice Evaluation 1 2 PSpice Evaluation 2 2 Version 5 0a by MicroSim Corp This is a 1991 evaluation copy of the PSpice circuit simulation software for DOS Runs on the 100 200LX but is much slower than on the desktop Requires both pspiceSa zip and pspice5b zip to install and run Commercial demo ConvertLX Version 1 0 by John McDonald ConvertLX is a PAL program that con verts between hundreds of different units in the following categories area linear liq uid speed temperature time volume and weight Copyrighted freeware Portions copyright The PAL Group This is a bugfix version DOCHTML Version 1 1 by Vivek Venugopalan DOCHTML is a DOS application that will THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 15 RECENTLY UPDATED SOFTWARE plus a few new finds deal with a live person no voice mail Whatever you need for your HP Palmtop one call get it all We do trade ins service amp upgrades incl DoubleSpeed and up to 32MB RAM on HP200LX with same day turn around service Create a more poweriul business tool when adding a wireless service to your mobile PC like ARDIS and Motorola PM card We got it Call 800 709 9494 for a FREE copy of the exte
105. s REPLACE to copy over files in the target directory even if they re read only And the replaced files retain their read only status Note that where COPY will accept a 34 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 directory name as its first parameter indi cating that all files in the specified directory should be copied REPLACE demands a complete file specification For example instead of COPY C NEW C OLD you d use REPLCOPY C NEW C OLD HP probably chose to omit the REPLACE EXE program from its ROM version of DOS 5 0 since the Backup com mand in Filer does much of what Replace does However if you want to perform a backup by using a batch file then REPLACE may do exactly what you want It is also an important utility program for users of the HP 1000CX Palmtops since there is no equivalent Filer application in these DOS only computers TheDraw An oldie but goodie drawing program that works on the HP200LX is TheDraw Here are some of the advantages of using this drawing program 1 You can draw easily using the cursor keys and insert the final picture in a MEMO document 2 TheDraw is great for schemes and lecture notes or whatever your imagina Screen 1 TheDraw s Space Shuttle tion desires 3 It s relatively easy to use 4 Electronic Bulletin Boards used to be rife with TheDraw art in the days before GIF and JPG files If you know a BBS operator he or she may be able to dig u
106. se from Thaddeus Computing Inc or at www palmtop net super html If there is a particular site for the software it will be noted in the tip Tt ome bm j ba ea em ee y DErtAajases Finding and Replacing with XLATE The database applications i e Phone World Time NoteTaker Custom databas es and Appointment Book have a slow but sure Find function What they lack is the ability to find and replace anything Suppose you want to update your Phonebook to reflect an area code change from 295 to 345 How could you do it Lets compound the problem by saying that your phone book has over 500 entries and each entry has the usual four phone fields namely Business Home Alternate and Fax Each of these fields could con tain a number with the area code 295 Trying to find and replace 2 000 or more numbers manually would be time consuming to say the least In this particular case we re in luck since the replacement value 345 has the same number of characters as the original value 295 We can use a utility program called XLATE EXE to perform the operation XLATE is available on the Sept Oct issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Don t confuse this program with the XLATE utility that comes with the HP Connectivity Pack Here s how to use XLATE Put a copy of XLATE EXE in the same directory as your Phone Book s data file Be sure to close your Phone Book and open Filer Go to the DOS prompt by pressing MENU O
107. sed for parts HP engineering combined with Thaddeus Computing s quality control processes ensures that your Used palmtop will meet or exceed your expectations Warrantied Guaranteed Proven Affordable 1 You or your company have a vertical DOS application or data that must be available wher ever you are 2 You want a stand alone portable email machine maybe you don t like swapping PC DESCRIPTION NEW Low Prices ITEM cards As a dedicated Flexpad user DOS software that replaces built in applications you prefer a straight DOS machine Flexpad is included on the free 1 OOOCX supplemental disk You can order a 1000CX in a memory size con figuration 1 MB 64 MB that will fit your needs 5 You ve always wanted to take apart a palmtop to see how it works 6 You like new toys You want a dedicated Super Software Carousel machine see p 19 that you can run from a PC card or internally from a 8 32 64 MB palmtop 64 MB DoubleSpeed 5899 00 32 MB DoubleSpeed 599 00 8 MB DoubleSpeed 399 00 5 MB DoubleSpeed 349 00 2 MB DoubleSpeed 329 00 2 MB 299 00 MB DoubleSpeed 289 00 1 MB 259 00 95LX 512K 119 00 1000CX 64 MB DoubleSpeed 835 00 32 MB DoubleSpeed 555 00 8 MB DoubleSpeed 319 00 5 MB DoubleSpeed 279 00 2 MB DoubleSpeed 224 00 2 MB 199 00 1 MB DoubleSpeed 184 00 1 MB 159 00 Palmtop Warranties Shipping amp Handling see back cover Sorry no coupons accepted with these newly priced
108. t tr work area to running this program ay to carry out put into action perform to implement a plan 4 A Redes T mit l with tadis full time so you would always have 5 Archaic to complete satisfy or fulfil an instant translation at your CiT from Late Latin implementum literally a filling up from fi i Latin implere to fill up satisfy fulfill ingertips Derived words Of course the dictionary is not implesmental adj s ate lt _ implemenstation sn E perfect Its most glaring deficiency is eZ Jnr Shes eh lio as e San that there are no additional languages 190 000 definitions with 16 000 encyclopedic entries You ll find pronunciation etymology hyphenation points antonyms examples of available if you need Portuguese words in use in depth information on how to use words appropriately Dictionary entries include cities in Japan rivers in Germany busi or Japanese or Russian for example ness words government terms names places dates this will be of no use Also there are i f a aTr z eight separate dictionary files one Paare hai E a Mae ene epi each for English French French English English German etc And Se PE the dictionaries are fairly large from 581K to 827K apiece You can of course delete any files you like and COLLINS EXE won t care it will simply not show those in the dictio nary file options Even so a full install ss lt Return gt for def inition is
109. t www vector co jp common dos util machine hp and is freeware LXF107 ZIP 24 796 bytes LXFiler version 1 07 Screen 3 is a better version of the built in Filer For instance it has a configurable launch menu and can pack and unpack LZH archives and can manip ulate file attributes The Rename func tion is also easier to use than in Filer This program was found at www vector co jp common dos util machine hp and is freeware Installing LXFiler Install the program as you would any EXM program i e put it in Application Manager or better yet 2amMarked Screen 3 LXFiler Opening Screen install it in MoreEXM The LF CFG file must be edited so that any paths and menu items reflect your preferences We have provided an alternative LE CFG file in addition to the one supplied by the program mer The alternative LECFG file sets the sort order to alphabetical and splits the screen in a familiar way To let LXFiler deal with LZH com pressed files you must have LHA EXE installed somewhere in the DOS Path on your Palmtop If you install LXFiler with the hot key as ALT F4 you ll be able to start it from the LF Tree program The Command Set for LXFiler The keys below will perform the actions on the right of the equal sign SoU te O 22 err ICE QNX 33455104 A Set a file Attribute C Copy file s D Delete file s F Find a File H DOS sHell K maKe Directory L Change Directory M Move fi
110. t begets lots of other bugs We have not attempted to test all the software that is available in the CD InfoBase or on the World Wide Web so we cannot say which pro grams will go on ticking and which will take a licking and quit working in the next century If you re planning to use addi tional software on the Palmtop you need to be especially concerned with those programs that deal with calen Detect Pliot Radioactivity On Your HP 100 200LX Complete RM 60 System 149 5 Ta order or for more information call 800 729 5397 45 day back AWARE Electronics P O Box 4299 Wilmington DE 19807 Phone Fax 302 655 3800 E mail aware aw el com Visit us at http www aw el com dars or time tracking In particular if the program you want to use is a full fledged System Manager program or was written using the PAL library of functions then it should be Y2K compliant You ll need to test plain MS DOS programs to see if they can handle dates beyond 2000 correctly Be care ful using database programs project management programs calendars and Personal Information Managers They all work with dates and may try to access the hardware clock cal endar rather than the operating sys tems time and date routines This is where they may fail Read More About It If you re interested in reading more about the Y2K problem take a look at the extensive document at www rightime com The document explains the Y2K
111. tes AZ Phoenix and Tuscon Cory L Curtis Tel 602 930 9661 Fax 602 930 8554 E mail 102010 632 compuserve com or palmtops starlink com CA Los Angeles David Shier Tel 805 371 9391 Fax 805 371 9391 E mail david shier com Web site hitpz www shier com CA San Diego Don Williams Tel 619 452 6267 or 619 546 8166 E mail donw cts com CA San Francisco Conrad Cox E mail 76164 467 compuserve com CO Denver Bill Hoeltgen Tel 303 933 0023 Fax 303 971 0347 GA Atianta AK Avasthi Tet 770 471 1389 iL Chicago Ahmet G Ozisik E mail ago ibm net KS Manhattan Marietha Wilson Tet 913 532 9775 MA Boston Bryan Krauthamer Tel 617 374 9600 x 197 work Fax 617 374 9620 CompuServe ID 70444 41 Mi Detrolt Jeff Zom Tel 313 489 1855 ME Orono University Palmtop User s Group E mail palmtop tree_net Website www tree net palmtop MN Minneapolis Beth Silverwater Tel 612 541 5631 Fax 612 541 5636 E mail 73502 3645 compuserve com NJ NY New York Stanley Dobrowski Tel 201 807 5857 work E mail 76711 2302 compuserve com OH Cleveland Craig de Fasselle clo MEM Inc 4702 East 355th St Wiloughby OH 44094 OK Okiahoma City Richard B Meek Tel 405 842 1267 PA Hershey Gayle J Leininger E mait gleining cathiab car cho hmc psu edu Gary L Wizar E mail gwizar cathlab cardio hme psu edu C Charleston Ron Rive
112. th four bilingual dictionaries it can match English words to and from French German Italian and Spanish I loaded it on my 200LX and started trying out the Spanish dictionary As everybody knows the ultimate test of a multilingual dictionary is whether it can teach you to swear in a differ ent language The Collins dictionary is certainly complete in this regard If the need ever arises for me to curse at somebody while in Spain or Italy Germany or France I ll be ready Next up I tried some less colorful verbs and nouns The dictionary seemed to handle anything I threw at 24 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 it from common words such as tun eat bie chair and speedy to less common terms like laser printer and computer pro gram and bludgeon The 27 page manual that comes with the software which unfortunately seems mostly concerned with the Windows ver sion says that each bilingual dictio nary includes 75 000 references and 110 000 translations which seems to be plenty for what I could think of The speed of lookup was quite impressive on my double speed unit the program was fairly quick to load initially from my flash card and it found words extremely quickly when I typed them in It took about 1 5 sec onds from the press of the ENTER key to the display of the information The interface is quite nice To install the program you insert the CD ROM in
113. the HLCO Oo OMowooED D Q OS ANANN o ONNNN O x 0 00 00 0 NNNNN ega AHENTE Y ounous og type of graph Set the following ranges by pressing the F2 Edit key and pressing the TAB key until the X range is high lighted At this point you ll be able to key in the X range A4 A9 Then press the TAB key and enter the B range B4 B9 Fill in the C D and E ranges with C4 C9 D4 D9 E4 E9 respectively Press TAB to get to the Orientation line and press the space bar when the Vertical label is highlighted Select the Options Data label from the menu and fill in the Data labels as A B4 B4 B C4 C4 C D4 D4 D E4 E4 and set the Alignment to A Above B Left C Right D Left Now press F10 Graph to see what you have created My graph looks like the one in Screen 2 In the graph the end points of the ver tical lines represent the High and Low points for the data The small horizontal lines that branch off the vertical lines stand for the Close and Open price of a stock or commodity Note that in the above chart the Low and Open prices are the same for the first day With this type of chart you can track how a certain stock performs over a cou ple of weeks If you re clever you ll be able to make the HLCO chart serve as a rudimentary Gantt Chart as part of a Project Management package Avi Meshar 75561 633 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 31 Linking Lotus she
114. to make The trick is to install the game in MoreEXM not System Manager Be sure to suppress the clear screen command in MoreEXM otherwise you ll capture a blank screen The syntax for installing the program in MoreEXM INI is C lt Dir gt cappuz exm lt KeyCode gt 1 Capuz You can use a set of PCX files to create the puzzles The documenta tion is in Japanese ICONEDIT02C ZIP 10 984 bytes ICONEDIT Screen 1 contains a System Manager compliant icon editor somewhat like the DOS icon editor built into the HP 200LX The program was originally found at http spock vector ecoa jp THE HP PALMTOP PAPER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 1998 7 The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Get all the great freeware and shareware you read about in each issue of The HP Palmtop Paper This invaluable supplement to The HP Palmtop Paper also contains detailed information from advertisers plus the full text of The HP Palmtop Paper for text search PLUS The best palmtop tips and the best free ware and shareware on two 1 44 Meg floppy disks Included FREE with your The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK subscription or can be purchased sepa rately F Best Tips ON DISK comes free with The HP aT l he Palmtop Paper ON DISK subscription Palmtop Papei 1 YEAR 99 95 0D1 2 YEARS 159 0D2 SINGLE ISSUE Specify Vol and No or Best Tips 33 SGLD Shipping per year US FREE Can Mex 6 Qutside N Amar 18 Single Issue US 4 an
115. to your desktop comput er and run the Windows INSTALL EXE program You must tell it to install the MS DOS PC DOS version during the install Once itis done you can copy the files over to your 200LX from your desktop The program itself COLLINS EXE takes about five seconds to load from the DOS prompt IMPORTANT NOTE on the 200LX be sure you run it with the m switch for mono chrome That makes the screen much more readable Once the program is loaded a menu comes up from which you select the dictionary you want English French French English English German German English English Spanish English Italian Spanish English or Italian English From that point it is another one or two seconds until the dictionary loads and you can begin looking up words Of course you can switch dictionar ies whenever you like Typing in a word produces the translation in a windows beneath the entry line or a list of close guesses if your word was not found If your word was found it will display the various meanings of the word you typed and the translation for that particular mean o lins English Dictionar won t pop up in graphics mode so it Dictionary T C H y Trip z F Bi pop up rap lg lemant M CE Tp Iname _ may not be worth it Ideally you 1 a piece of equipment tool or utensil gardening implements should dedicate a Software Carousel 2 something used to achieve a purpose agent N l vb C impli m n
116. top products will be available in our shopping cart system before they appear in the catalog In short PalmtopPaper com and our free email newsletter will provide you with timely information and instant ordering At the same time most of us grew up enjoying the plea sure of print media In bed in the bathtub or at the beach you will still be able to enjoy a carefully edited and in depth paper catalog and The Palmtop Paper A magazine and catalog gives a kind of flexibility and enjoy ment that the electronic media simply cannot provide So don t throw away your highlighting markers yet The 1999 CD InfoBase Our new 1999 CD InfoBase will be worth the upgrade I feel that it will be a must have product for anyone who uses the HP Palmtop on Be sure to get your FREE www PalmtopPaper com Email Newsletter Starting soon we will send out a free mini newsletter to all interested HP Palmtop users It will contain palmtop tips news information about freeware and shareware web sites or any other item of interest It will be sponsored by us Thaddeus Computing and our new web site www PalmtopPaper com That means we will include brief information about our products including any specials available only on the internet To sign up go to www PalmtopPaper com and click on newsletter a regular basis In the 1999 edition of the CD InfoBase we will continue our tradi tion of integrating all the 1991 1998 Palmtop Pap
117. ues of HP Palmtop Paper All 6 1998 issues of The HP Palmtop Paper have been merged into the gigantic palmtop knowledgebase for fast searches The HP Palmtop Paper s 2 CD Deluxe Edition Thousands of products in one 4 Complete Manuals MicroREF DOS and Lotus 1 2 3 200LX User s Guide 100 200 700LX Developer s Guide 10 Ten minutes to load and master Ten seconds to find any answer 49 All the freeware and shareware from 45 1991 98 issues of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK and Bonus Issues 9 1991 98 Issues of The HP Palmtop Paper and Bonus Issues in an easy reading fast search hyper text format 650 Megabytes of fast answer hyper text info palmtop soft ware and e text classics 1200 Project Gutenberg e text files for you to download and read on your palmtop Classics historical documents and more A lifetime s reading as a free bonus So much material it gets its own CD 1200 Shareware and Freeware Games Programs and Utilities All the software that has ever been pro vided on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK The HP Palmtop Paper s New 1999 CD InfoBase It s not one product it s thousands The new 1999 CD InfoBase is the most powerful tool for your HP Palmtop because it contains thousands of others If you already have the 96 97 or 98 CD here s your chance to get everything from 1998 for what the 98 ON DISK Back Issues alone would cost
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119. will append selected messages to POST LX mailboxes LXPic Version 6 1 by Stefan Peichl LXPic is We honor all major credit cards Volume bids quotes government amp fortune companies POs welcome Open 8 to 6 Saturdays 9 to 5 Sundays closed amen _SDCF 10 10MB CompactFlash HP Windows CE 2 0 Palmtop PCs HP660LX 32MB 56K Modem amp WinCE 2 0 HP620LX 16MB amp WinCE 2 0 HP360LX 8MB amp WinCE 2 0 Send In UpGrade Prices HP200 100LX T2 64MS 64MB UpGrade w DoubleSpeed 799 00 T2 32MS 32MB UpGrade w DoubleSpeed Call T2 8BMS 8MEB UpGrade w DoubleSpeed 249 00 T2 6MS 5 6MB UpGrade w DoubleSpeed 189 00 T25 DoubleSpeed UpGrade also HF 100LX 75 00 SanDisk CF Cards some examples SOCF 48 48MB CompactFlash SDCF 20 20MB CompactFlash 929 95 729 95 549 95 239 95 139 95 89 95 the fastest GIF ICN PCX JPG BMP viewer for 100 200 LX Only needs 15K of disk space and 64K of RAM to decode and view any size picture Includes a small converter for Casio OV 10 CAM files Version 6 1 allows you to configure all of the program s parameters from the command line Copyrighted freeware PALEdit Version 2 1 by Andreas Garzotto PE is a very good text editor for the Palmtop It has the look and feel of the built in MEMO app shares the SysMer clipboard has a powerful search feature integrates with WWW LX to do email and the new version has a built in spell checker Copyrighted freeware ZIP Version
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