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1. Volume 2 Number 5 The HP Portable Portable Plus Users Newsletter September October 1987 THE Port able Paper nounces n new IBM compatible Portable Vectra Ll Compu ter pipi amp Special Feature x 20 to 40 Reduction em Word Processing on pricing of HP110 and Plus Add ons pue IBM tibilit Portable Plus products Publisher s Message 3 PertMaster D mo 2 d nm ERES 12 Letters RightWriter ROM 04 12 Why Not Bundle ROMs 3 Upefad6ese eus coe ha cha hee eS ona ee oes 12 HP9114 Battery Solutions 4 T Master Does It Again 12 Statistical Package For The Portable 4 ROM NEWS gor decid tg haan tae ae ae ees yp 14 HP Introduces New Portable Vectra 5 Products That Almost Worked 16 Features And Description 5 Portable Profiles What s Special About The Portable Vectra 6 Seven Uses For The Portable Plus 18 HP Reduces Pricing of Portable Plus Special Feature Word Processor Add ons FCS cocos a terium tuo cen EC aia romae 8 Spelling Checkers And The Portables 22 110 Hayden s Speller due edat ende 22 Come Say Hello At Interex Las Vegas 9 Webster s Spelling Checker 24 Expert System On The Portable Plus 9 The Word PUS Ed tete o ah ots a pd 24 Chea
2. In addition you can assign the mouse buttons 3 for the Logitech Mouse 2 for the MicroSoft Mouse to whatever keys you wish For example you could assign the 3 Logitech keys to ESC and Return for Lotus That way you could traverse any Lotus Menu just using the mouse We ve preconfigured Sketch Lotus MemoMaker PAM and several other packages for the mouse although it is simple to do yourself Printers modems mice or any other peripherals which use a serial port drain the Portable battery more quickly then normal However if you re using a mouse you can more than likely plug in your Plus to avoid battery drain HP110 HP110 ROUP Y 44 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 Some Random Thoughts And Tips The mostly likely cause of failure is loss of power Fortunately the Portable HP9114 and ThinkJet are all equipped with inter changeable adapters I keep two of the adapters at the office and take them on out of town trips when I use my 9114 disk drive I keep the other adapter at home If I m just taking the Portable out of town I throw the single adapter in my suitcase I have extra batteries for my 9114 and my ThinkJet I do not have batteries for the Portable though Personalized Software should think about distributing a replace ment battery I have used modified Radio Shack Power Supplies to power my HP9114 for Over two years without any apparent harm I think the voltage is a little high but it su
3. Portable Computing HP Style As of this writing Iam scheduled to speak Mon Nov 2 at 11 30 I don t know yet if we will be exhibiting For registration information contact The Producers at 617 683 5622 SuperGroup publishes a magazine for computer users and can be contacted at 801 521 3000 Expert System on Portable Plus Bob Pressey of Denver called me a few days ago very ex cited about a new discovery After I began to understand the implications of his discovery I too became excited Bob told me that he got Paperback Software s VP Expert Berkeley CA to work on the Portable Plus In a later call he told me the VP Expert editor which is one part of VP Expert does not work but it is possible to substitute MemoMaker or your own editor without much loss of capability VP Expert allows an individual to easily create expert systems To understand what this means I will quote from the literature that comes with VP Expert VP Expert provides a ready made shell and the tools you need to fill it with a knowledge base and rules of thumb Then others colleagues staff clients customers can use your system simply by answering the plain English questions you ve written It s that easy For financial analysis tax planning legal consulta tion engineering problems medical diagnosis even wine selecting or gardening Any where there is a need for human expertise there is a convenient productive applica ti
4. Version 4 0 and Advanced Edition are also an excellent disk management sys tem Here are some examples of what you can do Let s say you want to sort directories and files physically on disk either by name ex tension size date time or by any combina tion of these Just use the ds disk sort com mand I use this one to sort my electronic THE NORTON UTILITIES are among the most helpful utilities l ve run across I use them myself every day and in my opinion they re a must Here s why By Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable Paper example to make erasable files unerasable or vice versa and the fs command which tells you the total file size of a group of files I often use it to find out the total disk space occupied by my Lotus worksheet WKS files or by all my text files from a given project Because of their great helpfulness and ease of use THE NORTON We recommend the Advanced Edition UTILITIES are already a e NORTON UTILITIES for best seller in the IBM anyone with a hard disk or for users disk files by size all the time Then when I display the directory the larger files come at How can a deleted file get unerased t fo the end of the list and I can see at a glance PC market Personalized who might need to retrieve blocks of Que Yo which ones to move elsewhere to free up any EE EA text from disks that have become L Qa needed amount of disk space ue d ss gi One corrupted
5. BIN COMMANDCOM path a b memo tm b hp82863k b editor b turbo b sw__shelp b bin b bin etc PROMPT t h h h h h h p s On the Portables PAM automatically looks to the B drive for ROM software PAM automatically adds entries to the path variable so it can execute ROM based applications e g b editor The path command tells The Portables in what subdirectories to look for application programs and batch files PAM sets a limit to the amount of space the environ ment table can occupy The limit on the Portable Plus is 255 bytes or the number of bytes needed when PAM starts whichever is smaller For example my Plus starts with 142 bytes When I try to add a new environment variable by set abc def I get the message Out of environment space ENLARGING THE ENVIRONMENT SPACE ON THE PLUS When PAM starts it looks for the file A NPAM ENV If this file exists its contents are read into the environment space and passed on to other programs e g DOS On the Plus the size of PAM ENV determines the en vironment space available Therefore to make extra space in the environment just add a dummy variable to this file as follows 1 From DOS enter set gt pam env 2 Edit PAM ENV adding the line 42 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 PC This gives your hand held direct access to your MS DOS machine s com putational power and unlimited storage e You can control your HP hand held from IBM PC your HP Portable
6. Fairfield IA 52556 Sub scription rates one year U S and U S posses sions 55 Canada Mexico add 3 surface mail 6 air other countries add 6 surface mail 18 air Please allow four to six weeks for receipt of first issue Executive Editorial Circu lation and Advertising Offices PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Telephone 515 472 6330 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software all rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission Reasonable efforts are made to provide accurate and useful information but the reader must make his or her own investigations and deci sions the Publisher and Editorial Staff cannot assume any responsbility or liability for the use of information contained herein Application to mail at second class postage rates is pending at Fairfield IA 52556 POSTMASTER Please send address changes to Personalized Software The Portable Paper P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Nimis a new version wbicb retails for 169 bas recently been released The new version will run on botb Portables It contains a spreadsbeet type editor from which data can be entered changed or deleted There are five new types of time series analysis Also new is a summary file procedure tbat allows you to create a file ofsummary data eg means from a file or raw data Finally you can now continued on page 43 HP announces new IBM compatible Portable
7. Inc Carbon Copy PLUS is a trademark of Meridian Technology Inc One program I accessed from the CompuServe HP Forum allows me to modify a Radio Shack 12 volt 2 amp power supply to power the 9114 You can essentially unplug the battery from the 9114 and substitute it an AC line power Now I no longer have any 9114 power prob lems 2 CORRESPONDENCE Asa manager I don t need a phenomenal word processing package like WordPerfect Wordstar or MS Word Since my memos are typically one to two pages MemoMaker works absolutely fine My objective is to work on memos without having to reset to zero every time due to various interruptions I also don t want to be tied to my desk I want to be able to write memos at airport departure lounges hotel rooms or any where I can be working on a memo stop close up the Port able it will shut itself off go somewhere else open the Portable hit a key and return to exactly where I was I don t have to fool around with reloading disks restarting and sorting through files I now compose most of my correspondence and memos on a Portable I use my HP IL link to the 150 put the file on a disk and give it to my secretary About a year ago I had a secretary who was an expert in WordStar She took my memos edited them and printed them on a Laser Jet My current secretary uses Executive MemoMaker my MemoMaker files interface with her 150 very nicely A second technique I use especially on
8. Recharger that recharges your Portable from your car cigarette lighter see order form in back of issue They are sending us a 9114 Battery Eliminator If it cbecks out we will sell it instead of our HP9114 Empowerer since it is less ex pensive Statistical Package For The Portable Several months ago I told you of a Statistical package that runs well on my 110 and I promised to send you some more information My apologies for the long delay Iam a wildlife biologist and use my HP110 and the statistics software in stor ing and analyzing data I am only moderately conversant in statistics and computers so I can t provide a thorough expert review The software is Statistix from NH Analytical Software 1958 Eldridge West Roseville Minnesota 55113 612 631 2852 I bought a generic MS DOS ver 4 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 sion 1 1 on two 5 1 4 disks which I downloaded to a single 3 1 2 disk It just fits The software requires 100k of memory on the electronic A drive of my HP 9114 disk drive Statistix was originally designed for 24 or 25 line screens but one of the pro grammers Gerard Nimis modified it so it runs on my 16 line Portable screen The package is without a doubt the most powerful complete and user friendly software I have encountered The documentation is thorough concise 224 pages and very well organized Everything in the index is right where you expect it The manua
9. SEPTEMBER OCTORFER 1987 4 THE PORTABLE PAPER Could it be that that using PAM makes PRINT resident or that PAM itself is resi dent Steve Brown Holland Ohio Plus Mouse Capabilities Hal after reading the reviews in the last two issues of the Portable Paper by the way it s too bad something just as fine doesn t exist for the 150 I ve decided to order the Logitech mouse system for the Portable Plus Then it dawned on me that MSWord at least the way it s used on compatibles supports the mouse Ques tion how if at all are the two mouse systems reviewed in the Portable Paper supported by MSWord on the Portable Plus In the same vein how about the HP products like ECM which support mice when running on other hardware Thanks Richard R Liu Basel Switzerland Hal The mouse works on tbe Portable Plus with MSWord and ECM as a replace ment for tbe cursor keys Tbe MSWord and ECM files tbat run on tbe Portable Plus bave no built in mouse capability If tbe mouse was directly supported by MSWord you could use tbe mouse to set tabs make menu selections open close windows etc Our Logitech and MicroSoft Mouse drivers for tbe Plus written by Bill Saltzstein of HP work on all applica tions we ve tried except within SHELP You can Slide the mouse on the desk in stead of pressing the cursor arrow keys located on the top right of the Plus keyboard Actually you can assign any keys to the mouse movement
10. Special price 99 95 Portable Plus and HP 150 users Also see ad for WEBSTER S SPELLING CHECKER in this issue THE WORD PLUS 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software The Portable Paper and finding products that work on the Portables The rules are actually simpler than chess but the strategy is more complex Two players take turns plac ing stones on a 19 by 19 board and try to surround each other In an Artificial Intelligence class I learned that Go was too complex to simulate on any computer in the near future The future came quickly Crystalline Creations Inc 34 Oak St Lexington MA 02173 617 863 1454 produces Go software that apparently plays an excellent game It retails for 139 I talked to the program s author Bruce Wilcox about running Go from the Portables The program was written for a 25 line screen so that eliminates the HP110 However my hopes soared for the Portable Plus when he said he made no assumption about the machine s hardware it was written for a generic DOS machine I received the game started it and up came questions about options Eventually the board showed up and I thought I was in business The program even accept
11. Yet they re easy to use even if you ve never done data communications before Note our version of T Master has its data com munications portion customized to the Portable Plus T Master includes a DO com mand that lets you string other commands together and execute them sequentially in batch mode without intervention It is surprisingly simple for exam ple to set up a DO command that will perform the following func tions at the end of every month Compile data from selected data bases construct a bar graph insert the bar graph into a monthly report and address copies of the report to aselected list of recipients 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield 1A 52556 515 472 6330 When you realize that you can or chestrate all this by means of a single DO command entirely automatically you begin to see the incredible productivity and power that T Master offers At only 295 for the entire package or even less if you re a Portable Paper sub scriber T Master is easily the best software value available HOW COME HAVEN T HEARD OF IT The T Maker Company developer of T Master chooses to remain small They do not advertise but prefer to let T Master be known by word of mouth This has w
12. existing RAM drawer and replace it with this card You ll have enough internal memory to run the largest application and still have lots of E Disk storage for other programs and data Works with any Portable Plus with 512K of built in memory We will accept your old RAM drawer and any extra memory as a trade in towards purchase Inside front cover RAM ROM Card A megabyte of RAM plus four pairs of ROM slots The ROM drawer that comes with the Plus has six pairs of ROM slots Add the RAM ROM card to your Portable Plus and you have a megabyte of extra RAM in addition to space for Lotus 2 ROM slots Reflection 2 slots Webster s Spelling Checker 2 slots MemoMaker Time Manager 1 slot and SuperROM The Editor SideWinder Shelp Mini PrinterTalk and Format110 all in one ROM slot Webster s and SuperROM are available from Personalized Software We will accept your old RAM or ROM drawer and any extra memory as a trade in towards purchase seep 12 RightWriter Flags errors in grammar style usage and punctuation inserting com ments directly into your document Also produces overall critique of document strength of delivery use of jargon grade level Uses more than 2 200 rules and a 45 000 word dictionary and works with most word processors Also available RightWords dictionary extension utility for RightWriter it has 7 auxiliary dictionaries including business computers and engineering and also lets
13. grams you were forced to carry an external disk drive though it were an external disk drive Usually it will be the C drive but if you have an HP9114 plugged into your system the memory card becomes the D drive EASY TO INSTALL AND USE At the bottom of your Portable Plus there are two compartments designed to hold HP s RAM and ROM expansion AN EXAMPLE OF figuration will either be the one in Example 2 or Example 4 Note If you only purchase one Soft Word card we recommend you get the C drive variety rather than the A drive variety There are three reasons for this 1 If you reset your Portable Plus using the Battery Reset button you will lose whatever is in the A drive memory but what s in the C drive memory will be re tained HOW TO USE ROM SOCKETS 2 A C drive Card allows you to utilize whatever extra RAM drawer memory you may already be using for wherever you went Now all that is changed Be cause now you can boost your Portable Plus s memory by as There are many ways to utilize the 8 ROM sockets on a 1 Megabyte RAM ROM card Here s one combination of programs you might find useful much as 4 megabytes How Simply by installing special 1 or 2 megabyte RAM cards in the bottom of your Portable Plus MEGABYTES PER CARD The RAM cards have been developed by SoftWord of Sur rey England As SoftWord s exclusive U S distributor Per sonalized Software is current ly offerin
14. in this issue THE PORTABLE PAPER CorrectStar StarIndex HP45427D 550 WordStar HP45400D 350 WordStar Professional Options includes MailMerge Cor rectStar Starindex HP45429D 250 Personalized Software Version 4 0 Runs on Portable Plus and HP150 Current owners may upgrade directly through MicroPro for 89 00 to receive WordStar 4 on 5 1 4 disk Contact MicroPro Order Update Department P D Box 7079 San Rafael CA 94901 0079 800 227 5609 or 800 343 3000 Ext 652 WordStar 4 0 retails for 495 Portable Paper subscriber price is 299 and includes HP formatted 3 1 2 disk customization instructions and HP150 utility RightWriter Grammar and Style Checker By Gary Goodman Its makers call it an Automatic Document Proofreader amp Writing Style Analyzer RightWriter analyzes your report or document for grammar spelling reading level strength of delivery and more Using over 3000 rules RightWriter checks grammar style usage and punctuation and checks your words against its 45 000 word dictionary It inserts comments into a copy of the text on how to improve your writing A summary report contains its evaluations sug gestions for improvement and a list of uncommon and jargon words RightWriter works with ASCII MemoMaker The Editor WordStar MSWord MultiMate and many other files RightWords is an auxiliary program that lets you customize the dictionary with specialized vocabularies for
15. let us first say that no spelling checker is perfect Even Webster s with its 110 000 word dictionary won t suggest the correct spell ing every time We tested it with weird deliberately misspelled as wierd and it suggested among other things wider wield wined and whiter But not weird However and this brings up a good point about spelling checkers in general if in a real life situation you meant weird and typed wierd instead you would 55 know what your mistake was as soon as the program _tlagged it The only reasonable possibilities are wierd and weird and if the first one is wrong the second must be right The point is that a spelling checker even though imperfect can give you 100 correctly spelled docu ments almost every time if it s used along with some com The criteria we used in comparing The Speller The Word Plus and Webster s are operating environment speed user interface accuracy flexibility and overall price performance ratio OPERATING ENVIRONMENT The Speller sold by HP runs on the HP110 Portable and HP150 The Word Plus runs on both Portables the 150 and the IBM PC and compatibles Webster s runs on all the above except the HP110 SPEED Surprisingly the length of time needed by the three pro grams to check the spellings of the words in our test file was inversely related to the size of their dictionaries It took The Spel
16. of the popular Portable Pascal Programs PPP disk PPP Release 2 is a double sided disk containing more than 1 5 Megabytes of Pascal source code and documen tation Most of this material is contained in seven separate are files Arc files are disk files containing other files that have been compressed by more than 50 percent of their original size PPP has copies of two programs that make it easy to view these are files and extract individual files You can then compile and run these extracted files in Turbo Pascal The seven arc files hold many of the tips traps and techniques of such professional Pascal Programmers as Cliff Looyenga Paul Grimmer Ed Keefe and Kim Kokon nen Release 2 contains all the old programs from PPP Release 1 New files from Kim Kokonnen show you how to keep your Pascal begins and ends matched up There is also a file devoted to Pascal programs which have been designed and tested on the HP Plus computer The games arc file contains 132K bytes of games many new to Release 2 Another file readings arc has three articles on the such topics as creating chain files using the command line in Turbo Pascal and using pointers to break the 64K data barrier Each article contains small programs to illustrate the topics There is also a program that lets you read a 1 2 3 wks file and print out all the formulas and values in it Another program lets owners of the HP110 turn their computer into a huge exp
17. 400 bps synchronous asynchronous modem 695 1 200 bps asynchronous model 450 HP Vectra DOS 3 2 95 The Vectra CS is available Sept 1 1987 The hard disk Model 20 should be available in the first quarter of 1988 Both systems may be ordered when available through HP authorized sales representatives and dealers Or call 800 367 4772 HP PORTABLE VECTRA CS PERSONAL COMPUTER FACT SHEET FEATURES and DESCRIPTION Microprocessor 8086 compatible CMOS 16 bit processor 7 16MHz clock rate 8087 numeric coprocessor socket Operating System HP Vectra DOS 3 2 on 3 1 2 inch disk optional HP extensions 1 44Mbyte format 4 COM pots soft fonts for localized character sets and HP Personal Applications Manager PAM Y YMT Y A 4 TY Y YS L LNENAD 49 NA THE PORTABLE PAPER Power your Portable ThinkJet HP9114 and HP hand held from a single vio s To ThinkJet wall outlet To HP hand held or 2nd disk drive To wall outlet Can t plug your Portable ThinkJet The fifth is a conventional AC cord that HP9114 and HP hand held into the same plugs into the wall and powers the other wall outlet because the recharger cubes are four too big Here s the solution Get rid of that tangle of extension cords The Model 110A Power Cube Recharger power strips or whatever else you ve been from Summit Concepts putting up with Order a Model 110A Power The Model 110A has five power cords Cube Recharger today Four are
18. 495 00 The Word Plus Recommended for HP110 p 17 2 150 00 WordStar 4 0 Portable Plus or HP150 only 495 00 WorldPort 2400 Portable Modem p 19 389 359 006 79 95 99 95 209 00 49 95 129 00 9 99 75 95 179 95 62 95 89 95 29 95 89 95 129 00 84 95 99 95 89 95 1 695 00 2 695 00 89 00 49 95 69 95 9 997 199 95 2 9 95 89 95 159 95 39 95 69 95 299 00 99 00 299 00 339 319 006 PRODUCTS ALPHABETICAL FAST DELIVERY In most cases you will receive your ship ment within 2 3 days of when we get your order SHIPPING AND HANDLING Portable Paper subscriptions n Subscription prices include U S Second Class mailing Non U S subscribers please add the following amounts for each subscription ye ROM Backup Product Description For ordering instructions see page 40 Price Qty Total e EO E Meso and crore S CL LLL J eres srs a rane pue In North America Add 4 for one item 7 for ai Important Please read and initial Subtotal morethanone item FREE SHIPPING FOR US already own or am ordering the disk based versions of the programs A ORDERS OVER 200 Outside North America f included in my ROM Backup order If not purchased from Personalized lowa residents add 4 tax Ee oll Add 3 surface mail 10 airmail We bill or Software have enclosed proof of purchase shipping and handling see box at right VORNE charge non U S orders for the actual postage Initial
19. 869 Fairfield IA 52556 awe Ts For good buys on used and new HP p equipment see our 4 page brochure enclosed with this issue In other words the Portable Vectra will recalculate a spreadsheet about twice as fast as the already speedy HP Portables Naturally it will be much slower then a ROM based HP Portable in loading an application like Lotus from a disk However it will load an application program like RightWriter from disk much faster than an original HP Portable can load the application from the HP9114 exter nal disk drive The 8086 compatible CMOS 16 bit processor runs at 7 16MHz clock speed with zero wait states The Norton speed test runs at 3 7 3 7 times the speed of an IBM PC However a Corvallis engineer told me the result might be misleading due to the nature of the Norton test He told me that a more realistic assessment is that The Portable Vec tra runs twice as fast as the IBM XT 2 In certain applica tions it runs as fast or faster than an IBM AT 7 The pricing 2495 for the base dual floppy system and 3595 for the 20 Megabyte Portable Vectra seems com petitive for its class of computer P 8 Physically the unit is very attractive and amazingly slim briefcase size for what it contains 9 The battery is removable That means users can pull the old HP9114 disk drive trick and recharge one battery while using another Naturally the HP110 and Portable Plus bat tery life will be much longer than the HP
20. A A la atencion de D Enrique Serra Ronda Universidad 15 08007 Espana an i a we eee es ee Me we SE eR ne PUB ey DIEM CSS qe FEE mE DID SE su Gm Eo ak SIN IXR WES High Quality 372 Disks at a Discount Regular Disks Why pay 69 for 10 disks in a fancy shrink wrapped box with lots of artwork We ll sell you quality Sony disks without the Sony labels or Sony boxes packaged instead in an ergonomically designed library case at no extra charge 4 95 value Portable Paper subscribers pay only 39 98 for 10 unlabelled disks Price to non subscribers 64 90 Now only 29 95 Lifetime Warranty If a disk ever proves defective return it to Personalized Software and we ll send you two good ones Name Title Company Address City State Zip Telephone Colored Disks Ever find yourself hunting through disk after disk reading label after label just to locate the one you re looking for Ever wish the right disk would just pop up and identify itself Now there s a solution COLOR CODED DISKS from Personalized Software They re high quality C ITOH disks and we re offering them at the following dis count prices to Portable Paper subscribers non subscriber price is 44 95 per set of 10 disks From Personalized Software Rainbow Pack 10 disks one each red yellow green dark blue light blue orange maroon red orange pink and beige Monochrome Pack 10 d
21. HP cords that plug into your HP Model 110A Portable ThinkJet HP9114 disk drive s or Power Cube Recharger HP hand held HP41 71 75 series 80 etc 84 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Copyright 1987 Personalized Software Random Access Memory 640Kbyte RAM standard Up to 6Mbytes of EMS RAM can be added to the HP Port able Vectra and 4Mbytes of EMS RAM can be added to the HP Portable Vectra Model 20 Mass Storage Two 1 44Mbyte 3 1 2 inch flexible disk drives for the HP Portable Vectra One 20 Mbyte hard disk drive and one 1 44Mbyte 3 1 2 inch flexible disk drive for the HP Portable Vectra Model 20 No speed specifications are currently available on the hard disk drive Can read and write 720Kbyte or 1 44Mbyte disks Can read and write both in HP format and IBM PC format Display 12 inch diagonal screen Detachable supertwist LCD 80 characters by 25 lines 640 by 400 test resolution CGA compatible Continuously adjustable contrast and tilt Physical Characteristics 16 5 inches wide by 13 9 inches deep by 3 5 inches high 418 mm by 353 mm by 89 mm 17 6 pounds 8 0 kg with battery module standard HP Portable Vectra CS configuration No information about weight of model 20 Battery Module standard 4 Up to 10 hours use on full charge HP Portable Vectra CS Up to four hours use on full charge HP Portable Vectra CS Model 20 PC Lead acid battery module with fuel gauge Battery recharger 110 220Va
22. HP110 or Portable Plus then see the letters section in this issue for a brief review by reader Brendan P Kelly This product will not be listed anywhere in the order ing information You ll need to use a blank line on the order form We will supply the product on an HP format ted 3 5 disk and ship a version that runs on both the HP110 and the Portable Plus Retail 169 Subscriber price 159 WORDSTAR 4 0 According to our Wizard see the Wizardry column this issue WordStar 4 0 runs fine on the Portable Plus in alter nate mode We will be selling the package with an addi tional 3 1 2 disk customized for the Portable Plus and ThinkJet printer This represents a major upgrade of an old 12 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 classic Retail 495 Subscriber 299 PERTMASTER DEMO Here is good news for those who are interested in Pert Master the full featured project management package that runs on The Portables You can purchase the full blown Pertmaster package with all manuals for only 50 The on ly catch is that the demo will only allow up to 50 activities If you like the product and need more activities then you or your company will need to spring for cost of the whole program The program retails for 695 Subscribers can purchase it for 499 The 50 will be deducted from the cost Be sure to indicate whether you have a Portable or Portable Plus RIGHTWRITER Popular request and a reduction of program size has won out
23. If the cursor starts at Row 12 Column 40 it moves to Row 7 Column 40 Again the default value for is 1 ESC B moves the cursor down one or more rows without changing the column position Example ESC 8B 8 down If the cursor starts at Row 7 Column 40 it moves to Row 15 Column 40 If you ve been frustrated trying to use your HP9114 external disk drive only to have the battery quit before you ve finished your work then you know the problem Now you need the solution THE PROBLEM The charge on your HP9114 battery doesn t last long enough for you to do all you d like to For that matter in some cases it doesn t last long enough to do half of what you d like to According to Hewlett Packard you get up to 40 minutes of continuous usage before the battery dies We ve never gotten more than 20 Just formatting disks transferring files or running disk intensive software and getting it to work can be a major triumph Plugging in the HP9114 doesn t help either That only recharges the battery it doesn t let you keep working THE HP9114 EMPOWERER WE HAVE THE SOLUTION The official HP suggestion is to buy another battery pack and keep both plugged in When one loses power replace it with the other This seems clumsy to us What if you want to do several hours of disk intensive work At Personalized Software we have a better solution 2 in fact Either will solve the problem SOLUTION 1 T
24. RightWriter will just barely fit it on two 128K ROMs so we decided to go for it The backup fee for these ROMs will be 179 We expect the ROMs to be available in October Upgrades OUR POLICY READ THIS FIRST Our customers actually help pay for product enhance ments Unlike many vendors we don t like to charge for product upgrades and bug fixes since our users help pioneer the products in the first place Therefore as a general rule unless the upgrade represents a very signifi cant change to the product we upgrade at no or minimal cost to the user Unless otherwise stated the following is our normal upgrade policy If you purchased your product from Personalized Software or can provide proof of purchase you may upgrade in two different ways You can send us a format ted disk with a self addressed stamped envelope and we ll put on the upgrade at no cost to you Or send us a check for 7 50 and well send you the disk In either case we will include supporting documentation T MASTER DOES IT AGAIN By David Hugbes T Maker Research Company has done it again by adding to their already powerful integrated software product T Master Selected as a beta tester I ve had the opportuni ty to spend considerable time with their newest additions the chart and publishing modules The chart command replaces the bar command You can very easily create several different kinds of bar pie line point and radar cha
25. Sarasota FL 33577 800 992 0244 and retails for 95 Personalized Software adds an additional 3 1 2 disk to the packaging along with PAM installation programs for PCI delivers the news News The HP Chronicle The only newspaper devoted exclusively to HP 3000 computer users Each monthly issue includes the latest news productivity tips new products help columns and z classifieds i Scientific Data Chronicle launches electronic publishing at HP 3000 Series 52 not altogether new CPU HP Design amp Manufacturing The journal for scientists engineers HP s new CAD system and others who use tri fae from 9 to 3 dimensions HP technical com t puters Each monthly MAP links for vinis i i n for dinis issue includes Vertra s Enhances Graphics Doplay programming HPN kG serial lies tutorials new product updates applications features and technical trouble shooting and Training SVP Software Video Productions USING es WALKER RICHER Training courses for pio E RN the HP computer user SING ren EXECUTIVE Software Video Productions MEMOMAKER offers USING EXECUTIVE FOR THE HP 150 MEMOMAKER for the HP 150 and USING WALKER RICHER amp QUINNS REFLECTION SERIES for the HP 2622 and 2392 Communications Up to date training techniques and individualized instruction at affordable prices SUBSCRIPTION MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Name S Titl
26. Some of these interrupts have been im plemented on The Portable Plus but not the Portable Pro grams that use these interrupts normally do not use any graphics and tend to update the screen quite quickly Cursor keys and function keys are often used Many software packages can be configured to use these inter rupts Programs of this type often run on the Portable Plus in alternate mode but will not run on the HP110 Examples Norton Utilities using driver 1 XTREE WordStar 4 0 Word Perfect NOTE The Portable Plus has a bug in the interrupt that reads a key from the keyboard interrupt 16 This Causes some programs to appear to hang The program perun fixes most of the problems with this interrupt Since many of these interrupts are not implemented on the Port able Plus many programs are unable to run Many prod ucts written in the IBM PC version of Turbo Pascal will not run because of a routine that checks the clock speed through a BIOS interrupt PROJECT 8 9 10 Project Management Power for Lotus 1 2 3 Fulfill your project management needs with your favorite software tool Project 8 9 10 delivers PERT Critical Path planning and analysis through integrated templates based in Lotus 1 2 3 Features e PERT Time Estimates e Critical Path Plans ex amp 10 Project Calendars e Multi Project MasterPlans e Complete 36 Page Manual Exceptional Value at 99 95 89 9
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28. Turbo Typing Whiz 64K 95 Best of DOS Tools Contains selected utilities from Portable 128K 129 Utilities Disk Vol 1 DOS Tools Super ROM Mini Printerfalk is the abbreviated ver 128K 149 The Editor sion included on the Printerlalk disk it is Shelp functionally equivalent to PrinterTalk for SideWinder most applications Shelp and SideWinder Mini Printerlalk are the same versions as on the 32K Format110 ROM chips see above RightWriter 256K 179 Two 128K ROMs Webster s Spelling Also includes two useful utilites DiskPacks 256K 179 Checker and New Mode at no extra charge Two 128K ROMs Utilities included in the Best of DOS Tools ROM Backup are as follows For program details see Portable Utilities ad in this issue PACK VDL MOVE WHEREIS PRNCONF TRIM DIRS CLEAN TY TJETA CHANGE SDL FGREP SQPC COPYNEW ARCE RENDIR ASK MOVEALL LABEL FDUMP DUMP TMA OFF TEE WAIT BEEP TRANSLIT DIRALL CYPHER FCOPY ARC520 FDATE XCOPY SM Note ARC520 is shareware the author normally requests a 35 contribution However you do not need to send any money We ve already paid your user fee whe MEAM Prices Ur software you buy because the same agree ment applies to the corresponding ROM Backup In most cases this means you may use the software on only one computer sys tem Remember you are buying a backup copy of your software not a second copy Having to buy both the disk version and its ROM Backup is not with
29. a window off to the side it gives you a list of possible correct spellings A simple menu gives you the following options Bl Accept the word as is B Replace the word with one of the sug gested spellings B Enter the correct spelling manually RECOMMENDED FOR uem ent Portable Plus e HPib The Portable Paper Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 B Add the word to an auxiliary diction ary of frequently used words B Replace all other occurrences of the word B Look up the spelling of any other word at any time WEBSTER S also lets you mark in your text any spelling corrections that change length of a word this lets you quickly locate portions of text that may need refor matting WEBSTER S will automatically locate double repetitions like and and It can correct transpositions itme becomes jtem missing apostrophes dont becomes don t and typos of all kinds spellling becomes spelling etc If you re not sure of a word you can even spell it the way sounds and chances are WEBSTER S will supply the correct spelling Fenomenon gets corrected to phenomenon for example In addition WEBSTER S will let you preview a list of all questionable words before displaying them in context this saves you time because it lets you eliminate words from the questionable list or add them to your auxiliary dictionary before you begin the editing pas
30. all traveler s check transactions with local currencies Lotus 1 2 3 then performs all the currency conversions This makes things very easy for me SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 19 THE PORTABLE PAPER A second spread sheet template generates an interna tional travel expense report On a typical European trip you could travel to seven or eight countries in about two weeks The wonderful thing about the Lotus spread sheet is that you can enter your local currency and exchange rate once and then enter all your expenses in local currency Lotus will automatically convert your expenses to dollars This may not be a very sophisticated application of Lotus but it is a very effective one Before I began using the Portable constructing an in ternational travel expense report was a nightmare a thankless two or three week job Now I am back from Europe on a Sunday night and submit my travel expense report to accounting on Monday morning My secretary has nothing to do with it It S perfect it s accurate it s clean 4 PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS As a manager at HP I regularly conduct performance evaluations and development reviews of my people My secretary created MemoMaker templates with all the forms for the different job categories I store these forms in a sub directory on my portable I use much of my free time at home or on a plane to really work on these evaluations I can reflect very deeply on each one Later I print the reports and
31. available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus See ROM Backup ad in this issue Um i RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable e Portable Plus e Portable Vectra EI MEN ME IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield I 52556 515 472 6330 Special Low Price BOTH PROGRAMS now ONLY 59 95 A 90 VALUE Formatt10 lets you format headers footers and page numbers all centered left or right justified chain or merge documents and preview your document on screen Format110 also lets you send your document to your disk file or printer and compensates for widow and orphan lines Disk includes the manual and Turbo Pascal source code Format110 usually sells for 39 95 now with PrinterTalk it s only 59 95 Order both today and get all the text formatting and printing control you need FastAid s Ed Keefe Team Up Put the MemoMaker enhancing utilities of PrinterTalk amp Formatt10 to e for you Existing Format110 owners get PrinterTalk for only 19 95 Existing PrinterTalk owners get Format110 for only 19 95 t C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER of
32. baud 59 95 56 95 T 499 00 9 volt AC adapter for modem 6 95 6 95 TOR EET 50 00 Cable to connect Portable to Modem 30 00 20 VICTOR 44 95 WorldPort 1200 to WorldPort 2400 suk Be al T RU Upgrade Kit p 19 0 0 000 0 00 199 005 2 805 179 00 Specify whether HP110 Portable Plus HP150 or IBM PC Price of Pertmaster Demo applicable to cost of Pertmaster SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON ROM BACKUP To order any of the following products on ROM Backup simply write the product name and price on one of the blank lines in the ROM Backup section at the bottom of the IMPORTANT You must own or order the disk versions of any products you buy on ROM Backup See inside front cover for complete information on ROM order form Backup Service Size of ROM Price Size of ROM Price Best of DOS Tools p 29 Two 64K ROMs 128K 129 SIGCW INGORE CD EJ 73 eds etian ah ade tert ed oboe aTa 55 The ditor pz29 v dL ie eiue hm antis E a ees OAK 95 DEGECIEQDU 2 d at eem ter abet UE SE qr SS ied 64K 95 sigan dep RM aSa E EEn we a 64K 95 Super ROM p 2 2 0 0 0 llle 128K 149 a This version of SideWinder does not include any of the SideWinder utilities The Editor Mini PrinterTalk Formatl10 Shelp and SideWinder Turbo Pascal p 21 eua set Rao Ea a NH bed ases 64K 95 Tvpine Wizi oS 22 54 eae race ILE ERI e 64K 95 Webster s S
33. best But that isn t what makes it so special You see T Master isn t just a very lt bod program It is an entirely A _anique program It s one you simp ly must get your hands on before you can appreciate its incredible richness and elegance and the sheer thoughtfulness that went into its creation THE HEART OF THE SYSTEM As with most integrated pro grams T Master lets you share data between applications for example you can insert a spreadsheet into a report you re typing or can take in formation from a database and move it into a spreadsheet all without leaving the program However with most other in tegrated programs you have to exit the module you re in e g word pro cessor load another module e g PORTABLE PLUS USERS You ll need 384K of main memory to run T Master plus the following amounts for storage of the various parts word processor 123K speller 153K database and spreadsheet com bined 104K data communications 33K chart making 60K misc utilities GOK You can if you wish run the various parts of T Master off your external disk drive HP110 USERS available for the HP119 T Maker an earlier version of T Master runs on the HP110 Portable with an external disk drive The program runs beautifully T Maker doesn t support data communications but it does include word processor spelling checker database spreadsheet scratchpad and simple bar charts It is e
34. can do all this easily at my own convenience One thing I have not yet been able to do is gen erate text slides using the MemoMaker package i e take a MemoMaker file put it into Graphics Gallery and then dump it out as a MemoMaker File Today the cap J abilities on Gallery allow you to take a picture file put it into MemoMaker merge text and graphics and print it But you can t go the other way I have been told by our software friends that they are in the process of making this possible Once they have it I will be able to generate text slides on MemoMaker and put a whole pre sentation together I can then transfer those files to my secretary so she can just plot it out on her 7550 clean it up add colors etc ANSWERS TO SOME QUESTIONS I AM COMMONLY ASKED Where is HP headed in the portable market Its very clear there are two branches to the portable market The first branch is what I call the electronic brief case market The second branch is the desktop PC replacement market The first branch uses the Portable the way I do I try to have everything normally in my briefcase on the Portable and use just a very thin briefcase for papers The second branch uses the Portable to do everything a desktop PC can do Of course it is extreme ly crucial to have PC compatibility to read all the software In fact it is probably not even that important to have PC hardware compatibility The recent introduction of the HP Port
35. carry a Portable Plus with 896K of mem ory At home I have a ThinkJet an HP9114 and an external 2400 baud modem The software programs I use on my Portable Plus are Lotus 1 2 3 Time Manager MemoMaker Executive Card Manager BASIC and the old PC2622 I also interfaced an old hard disk with the old amego protocol to my Portable Plus at home via an HP IL converter Portable Travel My travel habits have changed a bit since I ve had the Port able In the past when I checked into a hotel I would check how comfortable the bed was how well the TV worked etc Now the first thing I do is see if I can plug my Portable Plus into the telephone jack Whenever I travel I typically use the hour or so at the end of the day to log onto our computer back in Califor nia I read my mail and a file called news of the day which my secretary updates daily to keep me informed I then leave messages and instructions for her I can keep track of projects and nudge people or things a little bit I have to be careful not to do this too much I have also in stalled a separate unlisted telephone line which I use ex clusively for the Portable This prevents any interruptions you often have on a two party line In many newer hotels I can unplug the phone and plug in a 2400 baud modem The external modem is faster than a built in modem and provides better control and feedback There have been times when I could not unplug the phone In many of these
36. dC produces blinking white on black characters ESCAPE SEQUENCE FOR DEFINING THE FUNCTION KEYS The sequence is ESC amp f a k d LSTRING up to 16 characters allowed in LSTRING Example Suppose I want to redefine the f6 function key so it displays the message START UP and activates a batch file called AUTOEX EC BAT Here is how to set up the key definition and why PROMPT e amp f a6kI6d9L START UPautoexec The dots represent spaces All the key definitions start with the sequence ESC amp f a Then comes the number of the key 6 for this example followed by k Next comes the number of characters used in the display 16 here followed by the let ter d Since I wanted the phrase START UP to appear in the lower part of the function key window I assumed the top part of the little window contained 8 blank spaces and the lower part contained 8 characters Next I counted the number of words in the action word In this case autoexec has 8 characters However I want to add a car riage return code at the end of the action word Normal y if I were to key in the word AUTOEXEC at the DOS rompt I would have to press the carriage return key to send the AUTOEXEC word to the command processor So I put a 9 followed by an LI in the sequence Finally I entered the full display string followed im mediately by the word autoexec and a carriage return I generated the carriage return charac
37. driver You must install it on most computers but never on your HP Portable it s already an integral part of the Portable s operating system Inveterate experimenters do NOT try to install 36 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 ANSI SYS on the HP Portables Bad things will happen However if you must you should know that Extend Shift CTRL Stop regains control of the computer You can the delete the DEVICE ANSI SYS line from the CONFIG SYS file To see how the Portable s built in version of ANSI SYS works try the following experiment Put your Portable in DOS mode and at the A gt prompt type in the command PROMPT Hi there Put a couple of blank spaces at the end of the line and then press the Return key You have just changed the PROMPT com mand However this part of the experiment does not use the ANSI screen program The operating system just substituted the text string Hi there for the default DOS prompt A gt Now let s add another string to this prompt This time type in PROMPT e 5 10H Hi there Press the Return key then type the command CLS and press the Return key again The Hi there prompt appears 5 lines down and 10 spaces over from the upper left corner of the screen In this case the ANSI device driver intercepts the e 5 10H string ANSI knows that e represents the Escape character ASCII character 27 and that what follows is not an ordinary string of text but a command So it moves the c
38. for you Order your copy risk free today THE FORMATTER 59 95 49 95 for Portable Paper subscribers for the Portable Plus for an additional 95 THE EDITOR gives you all these great text editing features and more BE Search and replace Just tell THE EDITOR what word or phrase to look for and it will find every place you ve used it At your option it will display each occurrence or replace the occurrences either selectively or globally Edit two files at once THE EDITOR will display two separate portions of text at the same time one above the other You can view and edit two parts of the same file or even two different files simultaneously Backspace delete You can erase the last character with a single keystroke No limit on file size If you re an HP110 Portable user you re no longer confined by MemoMaker s 819 Line limit You can have as large a file as internal memory allows File merge You can merge two or more files to gether with ease Compressed and expanded You re no longer restricted to bold and underline You can imbed control charac ters in your text to tell your printer to print all or part of your text compressed expanded bold underlined or whatever else your printer can handle Unlimited line length Your files are no longer limited to 80 characters per line This means for ex ample you can print 132 character lines on your ThinkJet
39. gt gt i s8 bre 1 IM vi a8 ow ae a sr i VA LG e OS eee i ee e No more cutting and pasting Now you can print it sideways gt HHUHHEPUUDLUCG PENSE HH HET Buea BHEHUHHEEEH HEE BHEHE HRP EEE HRE RHEE IX RR GE DI RE OE ES SESE AP cae BES SE EF St ZE RE ES ESSE EE AE SE GI RI LI Re at SE RE ar dt isis 32 if ir tc iD jf es BE 27 37 35 1 3f P2 1f te 30 iD Ge Er Fe 02 iD Pb Ps 1f 10 At last Sideways printing for the HP Portable Portable PLUS and Think et And the HP150 Vectra IBM PC Its called SideWinder and it s perfect for Lotus 1 2 3 print files MemoMaker files or any other text ASCII file that s too wide for a normal page Just type in the file name and SideWinder does the rest printing up to 53 rows sideways for as long as your paper supply lasts You ll never need to cut and paste again SideWinder s high quality graphics characters are indistinguishable from ordinary characters and SideWinder prints just as fast as your ThinkJet can In addition a builtin mini text editor lets you get inside your print files and easily create double width characters and underlines SideWinder 969 95 59 95 for Portable Paper subscribers SideWinder 1 01 owners may upgrade to current version 2 01 which supports 8 chars inch by sending Personalized Software 7 50 or by mailing a self addressed 39 stamped envelope and t
40. make line drawings on your screen using the cursor and function keys It s a lot like those Etch Sketch toys you played with as a child Actually it s even better because you can draw not just horizontal and vertical lines but also diagonals with a single key Sketch amp Print also lets you print and save anything you draw on the screen 10 for both utilities when purchased with SideWinder o Fora complete graphics software program see ad for Sketch in this issue Order form and guarantee are on inside back cover or send check or credit card number to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 105 rows for QuietJet Printer MultiMate can be configured to look for its 80 000 word dictionary 217K on any specified drive A customized dictionary may be used for your own special words that aren t normally found in the main dictionary MultiMates speller is a pleasure to use and is very fast especially from the Edisc Despite it s speed it is highly disk intensive and like most spellers can drain the HP 9114 disk drive if you re not careful The program is very flexible in that it allows you to spell check a word a phrase or an entire document while you re in a editing text session WordPerfect WordPerfect runs on the Plus on disk only The spelling checker is part of the program but you can choose not to include on disk the extra 340K required for the 115 000 word dictionary
41. no danger of running 5 off your cars oim Sorry we are unable to discount thi a cigarette uni Also works with HP41C CV CX HP71B and li h HP75C D hand helds HP82143 and HP82162 Ighter printer plotters HP82161 cassette drive and rechargeable reserve battery packs for all these devices C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software PORTTERM Brian McIlvaine of Groton Connecticut is still adding the finishing touches to his product PortTerm Contributing Portable Paper editor David Hughes is currently testing the product He tells me PortTerm is an easy to use data communications package David was surprised by its han dy features for such a small package 15K According to David it supports both the serial port and the internal modem and features XModem upload download capability XModem CRC ASCII downloading session logging to printer and a twenty number telephone dialer In addition PortTerm allows you to access ROM based programs MemoMaker Lotus 1 2 3 Time Management and DOS without having to exit and return to DOS The program should be ready for release during the fourth quarter of this year Changing Modes By Rich Burmeister Many software products such as Webster s New World Spelling Checker the Norton Utilities and most IBM com patible products that run on The Portables will not work properly on your Portable or Portable Plus as it is normally configured You must set the Portable s Consol
42. not your product is in ROM you lose more disk space You could of course choose to run the spelling checker off the external disk drive but that is slow and exhausts the bat tery of the temperamental HP9114 Because of these space considerations depending on how you use your word pro cessor Webster s on ROM Backup might be your best choice We will now briefly examine each of the full featured word processor spelling checker combinations that run in the HP Portable environment MS Word MSWord runs on disk for the HP110 and on ROM for the Plus The MSWord speller is disk based works with either version of MSWord and must be ordered as a separate product from HP or an HP dealer Microsoft Spell is a stand alone speller for the HP ver sion of Microsoft Word 1 10 It is fully integrated into later versions of Microsoft Word beginning with version 2 0 i The HP version of Microsoft Spell requires approximate 7 ly 184K for the spelling program its 40 000 word dic tionary and built in utilities Microsoft Spell is unique in that it first proofs the entire document and then allows you to make your corrections alphabetically It is also unique Now ilable on SS ee ee ee ee ee ee ROM Backup VENUE EEE for the Portable Plus HEBER E HEE EH for an additional 55 U iEGE GEI CH ee ee See ROM Backup ad SEIS ce Gh ae oll D NE RE in this issue Sean PB t 2295 IE ts te te Te m ow 9 m
43. on the HP110 Below I ve listed these four layers with example pro grams for each Also in the description you will find hints how to tell whether a program falls into that category and whether programs of that nature will run on The Portables TOP LAYER USE DOS FUNCTIONS Description Programs that use this type of I O do not do any cursor positioning or alter screen attributes They do not use function keys or cursor keys These programs run on both Portables Examples Rightwriter ARC utility many Dos Tools Format LAYER 2 USE DOS FUNCTIONS WITH ANSI ESCAPE SEQUENCES Description Can do screen attributes and cursor position ing Also can read function and cursor keys Screen I O tends to be relatively slow Programs in this mode of opera tion require installation of ansi sys if run on an IBM PC Many of the ansi sys standards are already built into The Portables implementation of DOS See this issue s Look ing Glass column for an explanation of this layer Programs are not usually written to use escape se quences exclusively they also may use BIOS layer 3 in terrupts Programs of this type will most likely work on both Portables Examples Norton utilities using driver 2 Turbo Pascal LAYER 3 USE BIOS INTERRUPTS Description Programs that write to BIOS interrupts are faster since they bypass the higher level DOS layers They write directly to BIOS interrupts that talk directly to the IBM PC hardware
44. probability distributions Those included are standard normal Z T binomial Poisson F chi square correla tion beta negative binomial and hypergeometric You can also examine randomness with a runs test and test nor mality with Wilk Shapiro Rankit plots Summary and descriptive statistics include cross tabulation mean standard deviation median minimum maximum sample size frequency distribution histograms moments nested break downs and scatter plots So far I have mostly used the sum mary and descriptive statistics chi square test T tests and multiple regressions They have all been very quick and easy to use Perhaps the most amazing thing about the software is its price only 75 This is a great buy Brendan P Kelly Fairbanks Alaska Botb tbe price and tbe features bave recently changed According to Gerald THE PORTABLE PAPER Volume two Number five September October 1987 Editor Publisher Hal Goldstein Department Editors Ed Keefe Cliff Looyenga Editorial Consultant Bob Miller Contributing Editors Richard Burmeister Edward Goldfinger Gary Goodman David Hughes Srini Nagoshwar Art Director George Foster Typography The Word Form Corporation Technical Advisors Richard and Frances Burmeister Circulation Rita Goldstein Frances Kempton Glen Frank Larry and Susan Baldozier The Portable Paper ISSN 0886 9138 is published bimonthly by Personalized Software at R R 4 Box 310
45. puter world is being confronted with such a mass of ASSUMED terminology It s mind boggling to a neophyte mind For example who ever heard of booting up sigh grin I firmly think there should be a series of one liner books in words of one syllable to get people like me set up in the computer business I have been breaking my back typing a HUGE document MS WORD and LOTUS and trying to install CompuServe on my Portable Plus There seems to be a huge problem here I must say HP products are surely the top of the line but I have had an unbelievably ghastly year getting my HP Vectra on which I have CompuServe here in Florida in working order We bought the setup at a horrendous price from a dealer who then went out of business So there I was with NO SUPPORT trying to communicate with a group of nerd types sorry about the terminology but the engineer from that dealer was certainly that I couldn t get anywhere Finally I hired a software consultant who got me through the woods About the Portable Plus according to HP in California I seem to have a faulty modem get that terminology and even they don t know what to do about it They have no turn in policy if I want to get a new Plus I ve come up with the idea of using a separate Hayes modem on my Vectra Do you think that would work I have a sequential port I think lots of lit tle pegs in a row I change my CompuServe hand
46. technical fields such as electronics computer science aviation and defense or for business or personal use RUNNING RIGHTWRITER AND RIGHTWORDS RightWriter consists of a main program and three main dictionary files Collectively these files take 254K in cluding a configuration file Ed kRightWriter 2 1 owners with a xight exe file of over 190K see note in tbe News From Personalized Software in this issue to find out bow to obtain a 108K version You can put the dictionary files and program files on electronic or external disk or both To run the program simply starting it from PAM or type right or c right from DOS 4 When you run the program you ar asked for input and output file names if you don t supply that in the DOS command The input file never gets touched The output file which can be a file the printer or the screen contains a copy of the original input file with comments inserted within the text The output file expands to about one and one half the size of the input file The comments refer to misspellings awkward phraseology long sentences com plex sentences unmatched parentheses and so forth RightWords revises the RightWriter dictionaries You can run it from the A or C drive The RightWriter dic tionaries must be present to run the program Make backups first RightWords runs very slowly with C as the default and this could cause the 9114 s battery to run down if not fully charged Loading the pro
47. the FastAid Co Ed writes the Through The Looking Glass column for The Portable Paper Format110 looks so much like MemoMaker from the appearance of its ban ner line and softkeys you may mistake it for MemoMaker itself Format110 takes a different approach to overcoming MemoMaker s limitations Within The Editor or Memo Maker you can embed WordStar like dot commands for headers footers and page numbers Or you can enter them from within the Formatl10 program and print from a menu This method may be the most useful to those who want to print their documents using MemoMaker and don t mind entering the header footer information each time they print Format 110 supports Document preview widow orphan control page numbering comments chaining and merging It also supports the HP ThinkJet and HP82905B THE FORMATTER DOES IT BETTER THAN MEMOMAKER The Formatter is a variation of the Unix style NRoff text formatter What it doesn t give you in friendly user inter face it easily makes up for with raw power The Format ter operates from the DOS command prompt You can direct its output to the screen for document preview the printer or another file It takes some time to get used to this processor but once you ve mastered it you can do just about anything The Formatter See review in the Nov Dec 1986 issue fills automatically hyphenates and justifies your text It provides widow and orphan control headers and f
48. the road is to Copyright 1987 Personalized Software amp K upload the memo through HP disk into our 3000 and then send it to my secretary via HP disk She can then download it compose the memo and have it ready for my signature when I come into work This procedure is very efficient It has also helped me become a more friendly person I generate more correspondence especially the kind like Thank You notes etc that makes the difference between being a normal person and a nice person 3 TRAVEL EXPENSE REPORTING Reporting travel expenses can be a problem especially if you travel frequently or take longer trips It is often dif ficult to keep track of the money you spend There have been times frankly when I have paid for things out of my own pocket since I couldn t reconstruct some expenses Now I use a spreadsheet like Lotus 1 2 3 on the Port able At HP our travel expense reports fit very nicely into a spreadsheet We have generated two expense report templates One is for domestic travel and the other is for international travel When I travel in the United States I record my ex penses in my Portable as I go along and complete them when I come home I print a copy on my ThinkJet sign it and store the report on disk for future reference Within a few minutes I am finished When I travel international ly I use a spreadsheet template to record all the numbers of my traveler s checks in case I lose them I record
49. version and why I can t buy them in a bundle Ralpb Splendorio Hal tThe reasons we don t bundle chips and disks at this time are mostly legal and economic Page 14 vol 2 number 3 of Portable Paper contains a lengthy ex planation In short most companies will agree to let us put their software on ROM as a backup service for a small royalty fee or for free If we were to alter the form of tbeir original packaging we would invite montbs of negotiations and law yers fees if we could keep sucb a com pany s attention in the first place Also since the products we put on ROM have a relatively low retail cost like Shelp at 49 95 not like Lotus at 495 there is no room for profit if we of fered the product on ROM If we sold SHELE SideWinder or even Turbo Pascal on ROM for the same retail price we would lose quite a bit of money on each sale Our RGD time and production costs are considerably more tban tbe gross profit from a sale for example of Turbo or Sbelp Finally if you want to wait long enough we will probably sell disk and ROM together for a somewhat reduced cost starting sometime in 1988 This will only be after we absorb some of the star tup costs for this project and it is expen sive Imake no promises that we will do this I hope the answer ts satisfactory Problems With CompuServe Nerds and Computers In General Thanks Hal for your message via Com puServe My main complaint in this com
50. where on the screen We ll make heavy use of the escape character ASCII Z27 to redefine the function keys GETTING ANTSY PRIOR TO ANSI SYS In the early days of microcomputing there was no uniform way to control the screen Some programming languages used their own methods to do such simple things as clear the screen Others did not even have a CLS clear screen command The situation quickly became anarchic Programmers were left to their own devices or dinary users were left to their own confusion The American National Standards Institute ANSI stepped in and created a set of uniform commands which all computers could use These standard commands allow ed a program to move the cursor around the screen to clear the screen to turn on reverse video and so on Then along came the MS DOS operating system It did not use the ANSI standard commands Howcyer Microsoft the author of MS DOS included the ANSI SYS file on the DOS disk to let users work with ANSI commands If you are familiar with IBM PC compatible com puters you have probably seen the file name ANSI SYS You may have wondered what it does Even if you are ac tually using ANSI SYS which you would have installed by adding the line DEVICE ANSI SYS to the CONFIG SYS file you may still wonder what it does WHAT ANSI SYS DOES ANSI SYS is a computer program which acts like a com mand filter or interceptor Technical writers often refer to ANSI SYS as a device
51. worth the price of the program Another aspect is Turbo s compiler In addition to being uncommonly fast an amazing 80 100 lines per second it is also uncommonly helpful If the com piler encounters a mistake in a program it stops compiling gives you an error message returns you to the editor and takes you to the place in your program where the error occured The external environment for Turbo m is also excellent There are numerous books articles public domain programs and even a CompuServe forum devoted to helping people use Turbo to full ad vantage With all these advantages and more it s no wonder that Turbo Pascal is to day s best selling programming language for the IBM PC THREE PIECE STARTER KIT CUSTOMIZED FOR THE PORTABLES For Portable and Portable Plus users theres yet another enormous benefit Turbo Pascal takes up less than 40K of memory and that includes its powerful Compiling a program means getting it to meet the rules of syntax imposed by the programming language program will not run until it can be compiled built in text editor We are now offering Turbo Pascalin a special 31 disk version for your Por table or Portable Plus ready to install from PAM Although you may purchase Turbo all by itself we recommend our Turbo Pas cal Starter Kit It s ideal for novice and intermediate programmers alike The Starter Kit inludes Turbo Pascal Borland s Turbo Tu
52. 5 for Portable Paper subscribers RUNS ON emma e waeme ww Purere Postage paid order form and 60 day guarantee are on in side back cover or send check or credit card number to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Lotus and 1 2 3 are trademarks of Lotus Development Corp BOTTOM LAYER COMMUNICATE DIRECTLY WITH THE IBM HARDWARE Description Software of this type will not run on either portable These programs have extremely fast display up dating and often use graphics Examples Flight Simulator Norton Utilities using driver 0 desktop publishing MS Windows most games Cliff Looyenga provides technical support for HP PCs and HP3000s and in those circles he is known as The Wizard He has developed a number of Portable and Portable PLUS utilities You can reach Cliff via CompuServe ID 75106 2130 110 continued from page 10 Out Of Environment Space By Richard Burmeister If you ve ever tried to add an environment variable to DOS e g set edconfig a for The Editor you may have received the error message Out of environment space You may also get this message if you have a Plus with a lot of ROM chips This article explains what the message means and how to fix it Special thanks to Gary Goodman for an article he recently submitted which contained the basic idea for the fix on The Portable Plus DOS ENVIRONMENT SPACE MS DOS main
53. 6330 Portable Vectra fl wo e HP150 IBM PC and compat e MILESTONE Project Manager Ideal for field use on small to medium projects Milestone analyzes your project and finds the critical path as you add activities step by step Helpful instructions right on the data entry screens make the program almost intui tive to use Printed reports include job costs labor re quirements calendarized time schedules job descriptions and job prerequisites Milestone is well suited to field use It han dles up to 342 activities on the Portable Plus and uses only about 105K of memory Milestone 89 95 for Portable Paper sub scribers RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable e Portable Pus e Portable Vectra e HP150 e IBM PC and compat e SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 also access the message file off the floppy I have my memory set to 256k and that is sufficient The spelling checker takes 23K and uses two dictionaries that take up 302K To install WordStar 4 0 on the Portable Plus do the following Copy the files ws exe and wsmsgs ovr off the pro gram disk to your A drive Insert the install disk and type c Run the configuration program by typing wschange This program allows you to configure lots and lots of stuff in WordStar Portable Pius users are particularly interested in the display driver and the valid disk drives Select the display driver by typing A
54. 6C moves the cursor forward 6 columns ESC D moves the cursor backward one or more col umns without changing the Row position Example ESC 10D moves the cursor 10 columns to the left ESC S saves the current cursor position in memory After using this command you may use any or all of the cursor movement codes above If you are finished and want to return to your original position use ESC U SCREEN BLANKING OR ERASING COMMANDS ESC 2 erases clears the screen and places the cursor in the Home Position ESC IJ erases the screen from the top line and first column I have not detected the dif ference between these two commands ESC 0 erases everything from the current cursor position down to the bottom of the screen Thus if you move the cursor to row 8 column 40 and then use this se quence the right half of line 8 and the lines from row 9 to the bottom of the screen are erased ESC K erases clears the characters from the cur rent cursor position to the end of the line cursor position included DOS SCREEN ATTRIBUTES ESC m All of these commands have the same form The only thing that changes is the value of These sequences effect the screen attributes blinking and inverse video white on black rather than black on white On a monochrome display like the one on the HP C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software Portable here is what different values of 7 do turns All attributes off Normal White on Bla
55. AABXX Set the valid disk drives by typing CAA You will be prompted for each of the valid drives you have If you want to be able to use mailmerge or the speller set C to be your primary drive This will cause WordStar to look to C for its overlay files Press X till the WSCHANGE program ends To run WordStar just type perun ws If you don t have pcrun you can run it by just typing ws Be sure the pro gram disk is in your C drive By the way WordStar will run without its overlay files but you obviously won t have the features that are in the overlays including printing One reason I really like WordStar is that it is key stroke compatible with Turbo Pascal This means I don t have to constantly learn new key strokes for cursor movement etc every time I program or do word processing I should comment on printing First the patch areas are larger This means that you can load the patch areas with the escape sequences for the ThinkJet the old Word Star patch area was too small for the ThinkJets escape se quences The default printer driver dxaft works fine with the ThinkJet it produces bold facing underlining and strike through in draft mode The printer overlay takes up about 141k of disk space You can however tell the wschange program to shrink that file and just keep the drivers in it that you will use For example when I told it to only keep the draft printer driver the resulting file size was only about 3K
56. ATE I love it Thirty minutes before we were to bring this issue to our typesetter Ed Gilbert author of The Editor called He says Portable users can now access the non U S character set the upper 128 ASCII characters We had this request from a number of non U S users and have been holding up SuperRom burning in part for this fix Editor owners can upgrade in the normal manner ROM News By Richard Burmeister Many of our subscribers have expressed interest in ROM backups for their favorite software This article describes the latest news about currently available ROM backups WEBSTER S Webster s NewWorld Spelling Checkers one of the most popular ROMs should be shipped by late September Put ting Webster in ROM will cause one minor inconvenience You will always have to type in the drive letter when speci fying the file name For example a myfile doc The Webster s ROM had a little extra space on it so we included several extra files First we put the popular diskpack program from the 1987 Portable Paper subscriber s disk We also included a batch file newmode bat Newmode changes your Plus from HP to Alternate mode and vice versa from DOS Owners of the Webster spelling checker may pay 179 fora pair of 128K ROM backup chips RIGHTWRITER RightWriter will soon be available for owners of RightWriter on a pair of 128K backup ROMs for 179 Put ting RightWriter on ROM causes the same minor inconve nience a
57. C IIm finis To use this batch file from PAM or DOS type either newmode a newmode h or newmode to set Alt mode HP mode or print a help message on the screen respectively We include this file in the The Portable Paper 1988 Subscriber s disk and it comes on The Webster Spelling Checker ROMs HOW IT WORKS Read on only if you want to see the gory details There are four distinct parts to the batch file I The first three lines check whether you entered newmode h or newmode a and then jump to the cor responding section HP or ALT II Lines four to six display a help message if you entered anything other than h or a after newmode III If the program branches to the HP section line 9 sends the hp mode escape sequences to the screen IV If the program branches to the ALT section line 13 sends the alternate mode escape sequences to the screen A TRICK TO DETERMINE WHICH MODE YOU RE IN Use the f3 key from DOS to determine whether you are in HP or Alt mode When you press f3 in HP mode the last DOS command will echo at the DOS prompt If you are in Alt mode then several meaningless characters will appear on the screen when you press f3 File Creation Error Explained When you re trying to save or copy a file on your A drive it s possible to get an enigmatic error message synonymous with File Creation Error In such a case it is probably NOT time to reformat your system or take your system in for repair Ther
58. C and compat Indispensible PC Magazine Don t compute without it The New York Times You ll bless this disk Peter MeWilliams The Personal Computer Book Personalized Software is authorized to distribute THE NORTON UTILITIES on 3 2 disk customized for users of the HP110 Portable Portable Plus and HP150 phrase a penny saved is a penny earned into a text file on your electronic floppy or hard disk but you can t remember which file it was or even which directory How to find it No problem Just type ts for text search specify the phrase and the program will display every occurrence of the phrase iden tifying each occurrence by directory and file Or let s say you can t remember which sub directory you put a given file into Instead of hunting for the file manually just type ff find file and specify the name of the file and the directories to search through The program does the rest Other useful features include the fa com mand which lets you change file attributes for few keystrokes to customize THE NORTON UTILITIES to your machine just follow the simple customization instructions included on the disk Also included in our package are the standard 5 1 4 disks sold by Peter Nor ton for IBM PCs THE NORTON UTILITIES are a time saver for you and a life saver for your data Use them just once and you ll wonder how you ever did without them Order your copy at no ri
59. Copy PLUS retail value 195 The program also comes free with the World Port1200 WorldPort2400 Upgrade Kit Carbon Copy PLUS will not run on the HP110 or Portable Plus but both WorldPort modems will run with HP s communi cations software namely the Terminal program for the HP110 and TERM and Reflection for the Portable Plus Great portable modem for your HP portable For example the WorldPort 2400 has auto dial auto answer and both pulse and tone operation It comes with a standard modular phone plug for connecting with the telephone line It offers non volatile storage of up to Z0 commands And it is fully compatible with the industry standard Hayes AT Command Set and with the HP110 s Terminal software and the Portable Pluss TERM and Reflection software Since a modular plug is not always available the WorldPort 2400 also has a built in interface for an acoustic coupler The coupler an optional extra runs at 300 and 1200 baud The unit is compatible with both the internationally ac cepted CCITT communications standards and the Bell communications standards recognized in the U S The WorldPort 2400 uses a standard 9 volt transistor radio battery it s included with the unit A fresh battery will keep the WorldPort humming for 8 10 hours You can extend battery life by operating the unit from a wall outlet whenever possible using the optional AC adapter The WorldPort 2400 draws no power from your Portable s ba
60. EXAMPLE 3 2 5 megabytes 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card installed in a Portable Plus having 512K of built in memory and HP s ROM drawer Gives you 512K of main Edisk memory 12 ROM sockets and 2mb of C drive memory EXAMPLE 4 3 5 megabytes 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card and 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card installed in a Portable Plus having 512K of built in memory Gives you 1 5mb of main Edisk memory 8 ROM sockets and an additional 2mb of electronic disk storage EXAMPLE 5 4 5 megabytes 2 Megabyte RAM A drive Card and 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card installed in a Portable Plus having 512K of built in memory Gives you 512K of main memory and an additional 4mb of storage No ROM sockets are available in this configuration Portable Plus rear view Main memory A drive 640K main Edisk memory Main memory A drive 8 ROM sockets 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card 1 1mb main Edisk memory Main memory A drive HP s nnn drawer 12 ROM sockets Main memory A drive 8 ROM sockets EH 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card 1 5mb main Edisk memory Main memory A drive 512K 2mb Edisk 2 Megabyte RAM A drive Card Compartments at bottom of Portable Plus C drive 8 ROM sockets 1 Megabyte RAM ROM C drive Card 8 ROM sockets 1 Megabyte RAM ROM C drive Card 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card 2mb 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card 2mb 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card 1Can be par
61. PC Magazine SeeP 40 101 Macros for Lotus 1 2 3 Useful in themselves and also as learning tools for novices and experts alike these macros include recalculating ranges double spacing spreadsheet prior to printout hiding notes next to data cells addressing form letters and printing labels automatically Customized for Lotus 1A and Lotus 2 01 seep 10 Mobile Recharger Lets you recharge your Portable ThinkJet HP9114 HP hand held com puter etc from your car s cigarette lighter SeP15 The Norton Utilities Customized For The Portables Allow you to recover deleted Portable files and organize your electronic and external disks Peter Norton has authorized Personalized Software to include an extra 34 disk formerly available only on 5 V4 disk with each package sold The disk includes The Norton Utilities additional utilities and instructions for running The Norton Utilities on the Port ables and the HP150 Both version 4 0 and the Advanced Edition are now available 1987 Portable Paper Subscriber s Disk Software on disk includes 1 DISKPACK a pack utility that can work with subdirectories usable with Edisc external disks hard disks Com mercial equivalent sells for 50 2 Time Manager s Calendar Utility Prints WEEK AT A GLANCE calendar from Time Manager s appoint ments list to the ThinkJet 3 HP Calculator program 4 C Drive Copy Utility Copies file from one disk to another WITHOUT having to copy file fir
62. Portable Plus with their electronic disk drives 2 From my understanding the 12 inch supertwist LCD diagonal display is the largest display available among comparable products If you are at your work station you Personalized EEA Software Products that make HP Portables smarter VOLUME DISCOUNTS If your company users group or dealership needs 3 or more of any of our products You can save significantly The Editor And ROM Backup PrinterTalk Formatll 10 T Master uu Whiz EX 36 nd ROM Backup 145 135 121 108 Webster Speer 80 70 66 62 And ROM Backup P 249 233 217 MODS RightWriter ROM backups Shelp Formatl110 Editor SideWinder PrinterTalk And SuperROM backup WorldPort 2400 amp cable 2400 amp cable can detach the LCD screen and attach the Portable Vectra to an external color or monochrome monitor 3 The keyboard contains full travel keys that is you must press the key all the way down for the keystroke to register As a point of reference both original HP Portable keys sport three fourth travel That should mean a nicer touch for typing more tolerant of mistakes The keyboard is full sized 92 keys with numeric keypad and 12 function keys I believe the keyboard is unique in the portable world 4 Having four IBM PC electronically compatible slots is also unique in the portable world These slots are not size compatible The built in parallel printer port and di
63. Portable Vectra s since the original Portables do not have to power a mechanical disk drive 10 Lest we forget this member of the Vectra family is a true IBM PC compatible HP Makes Strong Price Reductions Of Portable Plus And Accessories HP announced September 1 that it is reducing the price of its Portable Plus 45711F 512K base system from 2995 to 2195 The 45711E 512K Plus with internal 1200 baud modem was lowered from 3500 to 2700 8 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software Of considerable interest to current users is the signifi cant price reduction of the 1 Megabyte HP82992 RAM drawer The price drops from 1695 to 995 The 384K RAM card remains the same 395 for the 128K drawer and 250 for each additional 128K RAM card HP110 and Portable Plus users can now also more easi ly afford a second disk drive as the HP9114B prices go from 795 to 595 What does this mean For a retail price of 3190 a per son can buy a Portable Plus with 1 5 Megabytes of RAM disk He needs to add 500 to get an internal modem and 150 to get the HP82982A software drawer which enables him to purchase and use ROM based software How HP Positions Its Two Portable Families HP feels that it has two lines of portable computers that suit different needs HP is positioning the Portable Plus and HP110 for those professionals who need true por tability and durability HP see the Plus as an ideal tool for those w
64. T THE TO CELL MEMO TEMPLATE WITH WORD PROCESSING amp FANCY PRINTOUT A PASSWORD MACRO TO LOCK UP YOUR FILES A MACRO DRIVEN SLIDESHOW OF GRAPHS 8 PRINT MACROS INCLUDING DBL SPACE amp SUPER TINY A POP UP CALCULATOR WITH SCIENTIFIC FUNCTIONS C a S BO qu DX yd _ WITH 101 MACROS FOR LOTUS 123 ADJUST CELL DATA YEAR TO DATE cT FANCY EORDERS FORM LETTER MACRO DATA ENTRY MACRO COPY TO ALT CELLS ELIMINATE GERR DOCUMENT WORKSHEE FINANCIAL FUNCTIONS NOTEPAD MACRO 2 COMPARE VERT HORIZ SUMS ELIMINATE ZEROS SHOW LEADING ZEROS _ SELF NAMING CELLS N COS TODAY IN WORDS INSERT ROW W FORMAT BIORHYTHMS MACRO EXCHANGE ROWS amp COLS HIDDEN NOTES MACRO XFR ABSOLUTE VALUE ETC ETC ETC MEASURE COLUMN WIDTHS GO RETURN MACRO E MEMORY MACRO __ TOGGLE TITLES ON amp OFF VIEW MACROLISTS _XFR TO ALT MACROLIST AUTOEXEC MACROS TAN SIN CO YEAR TO DATE MACRO POP UP APPT CALENDAR ADD TO ADDRESS DATA BASE PRUNE NO OF FILES DATA QUERY MACRO SWITCH PLACES MACRO LIST amp PRINT RANGE NAMES i TEST amp REPLACE MACRO INSERT ROW W FORMAT 101 Macros for Lotus 1 2 3 69 95 62 95 for Portable Paper subscribers RECOMMENDED FOR 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE HP110 Portable B To order Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472
65. The spelling program is well integrated within WordPerfect and can be invoked any SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 21 duo Juawdojaaaq sn4o Jo sy1europeg patojsigai aie c z pue snjo C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER time while editing a document As with Multimate the speller is a pleasure to use fast flexible and can drain the HP9114 A full featured thesaurus also comes with Word Perfect It too can be invoked any time while editing a WordPerfect document The thesaurus takes up 360K worth of disk space and can be optionally removed It is the only thesaurus that works on the Portable Plus No thesaurus works on the HP110 T Master T Maker T Maker and T Master feature fast spelling check modules and 55 000 word dictionaries that are seamlessly in tegrated with the rest of the program It is possible to look up the spellings of individual words or by wildcard The proof feature produces a correction list of all marked words After the correction list has been edited the proofed file is corrected all at once The T Maker and T Master spellers are very fast and can be used to proof any ASCII file produced by MemoMaker WordsStar or The Editor Similarly Webster s The Word Plus or The Speller can be used on any T Maker or T Master file WordStar A spelling checker CorrectStar and mail merge product can be ordered as an adjunct to the HP110 version of Word Star Portable Plus users c
66. Vectra Computer AND REDUCES PRICING OF PORTABLE PLUS PRODUCTS Hewlett Packard Introduces Industry Standard Portable PC Family The Hewlett Packard Company introduced on September 1 the first two members of a new family of industry standard IBM compatible portable personal computers The HP Portable Vectra CS and the HP Portable Vec tra CS Model 20 computers function as a desktop com puter with the convenience of a battery powered portable Based on an Intel 8086 compatible CMOS microprocessor they are industry compatible and can be converted into desktop PCs adaptable to external monitors These new PCs are part of HP s overall strategy to provide work stations for all levels of user needs said Daniel Terpack general manager of HP s Portable Com puter Division The Vectra CS is the first battery powered portable PC to offer four internal I O expansion slots Users may add increased memory adapters communication devices or peripherals such as printers and plotters without increas ing the size of the computer The Vectra CS provides two 1 44Mbyte flexible disk drives while the Vectra CS Model 20 PC has a 20Mbyte hard disk and one 1 44Mbyte flexible disk drive The high density 3 1 2 inch disk drives offer twice the average storage of other portables and are compatible with IBM Personal System 2 disks as well as industry standard 720Kbyte disks Both systems come with a standard 640 Kbytes of user memory Users can ad
67. WordStar is a top class word processor that I recom mend highly so far Hal tells me that if you purchase WordStar from Personalized Software they will include an HP formatted 3 1 2 inch disk fully customized for The Portable Plus and the ThinkJet IBM Compatibility Revisited I am often asked Is there any way to know whether an IBM PC program will work on the Portable Plus other than just trying it There is really no way to know for sure but the following information might help When a programmer writes software for an IBM PC he has certain speed and feature goals These goals deter mine how the software is written and ultimately how IBM specific the program ends up IBM specific code is most always related to I O input and output An example of input is how keyboard keys are processed Examples of output include how the program puts characters or drawings on the screen and how the program sends information to the serial port THE PORTABLE PAPER There are basically four layers to which a programmer can write his I O routines The top layer makes no assump tions about the IBM PC hardware except that a version of MSDOS is running The bottom layer skips all software and writes directly to IBM hardware The higher the level the greater the chance the program will work on The Port ables HP110 owners have a second I O problem Programs that assume the screen has 25 lines usually do not function well
68. a whole line from the display ESC L inserts a blank line at the cursor s current position ESC inserts a character at the cursor position THE HP TERMINAL ESCAPE SEQUENCES PL dE Pages D 6 and D 7 of the HP110 Users Manual list the HP Terminal Escape Sequences One key sentence says that all ROM Backup for the Portable Plus i for an additional 95 escape sequences are active at all times they are not af See ROM Backup ad in this issue Dm 4 ui 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield LA 52556 515 472 6330 RECOMMENDED FO Portable Plus IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus Typing Whiz is one of the better typing programs on the market and is priced competitively If you want to learn or improve your typing buy Typing Whiz Typing Whiz is on my highly recommended list Dave Mark L A Scrug Notes newsletter Copyright 1987 Personalized Software 80 X 16 alpha display mode Since this mode is already in effect nothing changes ESC Zh and ESC 71 supposedly toggle between text wrap at the end of a line and no text wrap The mode in effect is text wrap Honestly I have never found these commands to work as expected About all th
69. abels envelopes short notes any small typing task e Perform advanced features supported by your printer such as superscripting and subscripting CUSTOMIZED FOR YOUR PRINTER PrinterTalk stores the escape sequences command codes that tell your HP printer how to perform attri butes and print functions Escape sequences are already built into PrinterTalk for ThinkJet LaserJet and car tridges and other HP printers and you can easily customize PrinterTalk for any other printer as well The MemoMaker Enhancer It does the things you wish MemoMaker could do Printerlalk takes up 39K disk space Shorter 25K version sufficient for most applications included on PrinterTalk disk SINGLE KEY OPERATION Instead of a h rd to use intricate series of control codes a single labelled function key sends commands to your printer Simple help screens in plain English tell you what to do and all commands are summarized on a single sheet of paper for ready reference The user manual is clear and concise and includes easy to follow examples of all commands Use you printer s full potential Order PrinterTalk Version 1 2A today 49 95 including manual 44 95 for Portable Paper subscribers FREE UPDATE If you already have version 1 2 or earlier send it to us with a self addressed stamped envelope or send us 7 50 and we ll replace it with version 1 2A 20 less disk space than 1 2 Now
70. able Vectra family satisfies the many requests to enter this second market Will HP increase the amount of ROM software Rick Baker and his people at Corvallis are working to in crease the EDisk type memory that goes into the Portable They just announced a 1 megabyte memory drawer so you can take the software and put it into RAM They are also Whether you want to learn programming or you re a seasoned programmer the best programming language for your HP Portable or Portable Plus is Turbo Pascal Now available on ROM Backup in this issue ies and our Turbo Pascal Starter Kit is the best way to buy it Here s why The Pascal programming language was originally designed for use at the college level in teaching the fundamentals of computer programming Borland Inter national enhanced the language making it practical for actual programming use Their version is called Turbo Pascal Today Turbo Pascal is the programm ing language taught at most universities The reason is that its underlying struc ture fosters good programming habits It forces you to think in a modular way You create self contained well defined units and put them together to make a full working program GREAT WORKING ENVIRONMENT Turbo provides you with an exception ally good programmer s environment One aspect of this is Turbo s built in text editor It s a sophisticated WordStar work alike that in itself is
71. ainly seems a possibility given the background and experience of Cor vallis engineers 5 The 1 44 Megabyte 1440K capacity 3 inch flexible disk drive will certainly be a convenience for HP Portable Vectra users I am sure HP has had the technology for a long time now However this time HP probably wisely choose to wait to see what IBM would do Now that IBM has announced its PS 2 personal computer line with 1 44 Megabyte disks HP can feel confident it is marching with the industry rather than ahead of it in its own direction The built in disk holder for six disks is also a nice touch 6 Apparently the machine zips about twice as fast as the HP110 and Portable Plus Fast here refers to CPU speed not I O CRDTENMRED OACTOARED 1007 7 USED HP PORTABLES AND PERIPHERAIS eee W W W sow Webuythem We sell them We guarantee them Po AES apaes No longer using your HP Buying used HP Any used item you buy from us can yP eee DISK apot wee Portable or peripherals equipment makes sense be returned within 30 days for a full yo PS aers Turn them into cash You know HP quality refund oA CO ces through The Portable Even used HP machines is i o wwe Equipment Exchange can serve you well for VOS oftware Prices fluctuate so years Call for current ve pans call us for current Prices T RN T figures oou aget T earl 515 472 6330 The Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personalized Software P O Box
72. already have Word Perfect for your PC you now can transfer files back and forth between your PC and your Portable Plus or HP150 The same Note to Portable Plus users As always you have to plan memory space in the Portable Plus You ll need 512K of RAM to allow space for the basic WordPerfect program and still leave room for other files on your electronic disk To fit everything on your A drive you ll need an addi tional 340K for the spelling checker and 360K for the thesaurus The speller and thesaurus can be run from your HP9114 if you wish Our version of WordPerfect includes an how to run WordPerfect on the Portable Plus letters continuted from page 58 save results to an ASCII file for transfer into anotber program You may order tbe product from Personalized Software if you wisb subscriber price 159 We will include an additional 5 1 2 HP formatted disk Time Manager The Final Solution The Portable Paper has offered several solutions concerning the 100 name limit to the tm nam file in Time Manager The approach I describe here seems simpler and more direct and permits you to main tain any number of phone lists I give individual phone lists specific names For example I maintain phone lists named personal nam business nam academia nam and bbslist nam The nam extension is not essential but makes the list easier to iden tify in a directory I write batch files for each of th
73. an run the newly released Word Star 4 0 which includes a spelling checker in Alternate mode CorrectStar is available as a part of WordStar Profes sional Options through HP It runs on the HP110 and the HP150 but not the Portable Plus CorrectStar occupies ap proximately 60K and its 80 000 word dictionary con sumes a whopping 346K Of all the spelling verification programs we ve David had the most fun using CorrectStar Its authors must have had unusual personalities since the program frequently comes up with humorous suggestions Although there is some disk switching involved Cor rectStar runs well on the HP110 It is one of the best spell ing verification correction programs available for WordStar Portable Plus users will find a speller integrated into WordStar 4 0 The spelling program and dictionary take up about 300K Users can choose whether or not to include the WordStar speller and dictionary with WordStar You can check the current word or the rest of the document Also as with CorrectStar you can have multiple choices for corrections It is a fast accurate spelling checker The thesaurus that comes bundled with WordStar will not work on the Plus WordStar was the industry standard word processor for a number of years The three stand alone spell checkers reviewed in this article were all written when WordStar was at the forefront Therefore all three stand alone pro grams can read WordStar formatted files direc
74. are P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 0330 All Borland products are supported by Borland Technical Support 408 438 8400 Turbo Pascal and Turbo Tutor are registered trademarks of Micropro International Corp for the Portable Plus for an additional 95 See ROM Backup ad Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER working to make it possible for people to burn their own ROMS Will original HP 110 portable users be able to upgrade their screen RAM and ROM I know many people have asked about whether they could upgrade screens But given the way the machine was built this is very difficult if not impossible Obviously the best upgrade is to acquire a Portable Plus It is more expensive but unfortunately the 110 is a closed machine and was not designed with RAM and ROM drawers Add on Products for Your Word Processor The most natural urge in life is to expand to want more MemoMaker users are generally satisfied with their simple ROM based word processor MemoMaker users can type memos or simple reports without much effort and with lit tle to learn Some MemoMaker users now use The Editor The Editor also takes little time to learn and use sports many more editing features than MemoMaker and requires only 40K of RAM space or one ROM socket However there are many things MemoMaker and The Editor cannot do that come standard with full featured word processors In this ser
75. are s The Editor The second 22 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 class of spelling checkers come as part of or as an add on to a word processor Word processors that have spelling checkers include MSWord WordPerfect Multimate Word Star T Maker and T Master There are three stand alone spelling checkers on the market that should be of interest to Portable users The Speller Hayden Software Webster s Spelling Checker Simon amp Schuster and The Word Plus Oasis Systems All three work on the HP150 Webster s and The Word Plus work on the Portable Plus The Speller and The Word Plus work on the HP110 We ll first describe what is common to all three pro grams Then we will briefly describe each of them We ll conclude by comparing the three using a variety of criteria that we feel are important in deciding which one to use In the second part of this article we ll briefly discuss the word processors with built in spelling checkers COMMON CHARACTERISTICS All three stand alone spelling checkers work with ASCII print files produced directly by MemoMaker The Editor T Maker and T Master and indirectly by MS Word Word Perfect and other word processors If these stand alone spelling checkers are used with ASCII files produced by MSWord or WordPerfect formatting is lost All three spelling checkers will search through a user specified document file and locate suspect words that is words not in the program s bui
76. asily the most comprehensive program spreadsheet work in the second module then import the result back into the first module In addi tion each module presents you with different commands a differ ent environment and often a dif ferent feel Not so with T Master T Master doesn t have modules in the usual sense Instead almost everything is done using the word processor it S the heart of the system T Master s different func tions spreadsheet database etc are in effect aspects of the word processor that have special powers Instead of leaving the word pro cessor to create a spreadsheet that you then have to import you simp ly create a spreadsheet with all the computational power you need right where you are Same for a database Using vir tually the same commands as for typing ordinary text you can set up the structure of the database enter data sort search generate a report and insert that report into your document And that s why T Master is so comfortable You always interact with it in the same mode which is basically just to type And what you type Is ordinary text or numbers or simple English like instructions With T Master you re always on familiar territory SPECIAL FEATURES Here are just a few of T Master s most special features The word processor includes over 100 different functions You ac tivate these either from menus or by means of simple typed commands On line he
77. aving the word as is leaving the word as is but marking it with a predefined character automatically replacing it with one of the suggested spellings browsing through the dictionary to look for other possible spellings or entering the correct spelling manually With Webster s you can look up the spellings of words not included in your document For example if you want to find the correct spelling of character you can give Webster s the nearest spelling you re sure of or just enter char and Webster s will show you all the words in its dictionary that are in the vicinity of the most likely correct spelling Webster s also has a nice time saving feature It lets you preview a list of all the suspect words at once You can eliminate words from the list or add them to your auxiliary dictionary before you begin viewing the suspect words in context and replacing them one by one In addition to working with ASCII files Webster s will handle non ASCII files produced by WordStar and MemoMaker Webster s main program and dictionary take up 207K of disk memory The version sold by Personalized Soft ware runs on the HP Portable Plus and HP150 but not the HP110 THE WORD PLUS The Word Plus has a 45 000 word dictionary which 24 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 SKETCH lets you save part or all of any drawing for future use or you can print directly from the screen onto your ThinkJet or QuietJet pages RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portab
78. bscriptions from us in quantity and save Back cover Webster s Spelling Checker Rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine this spelling checker packs a hef ty 110 000 word dictionary into just 207K of disk memory Webster s shows you incorrect spellings in context and suggests corrections also lets you preview questionable words before you edit Excellent user interface exceptionally easy to learn and use Customized for the Port able Plus and HP150 SeP43 WordPerfect 4 2 Disk based Portable Plus version of the best selling word processing package Includes spelling checker and thesaurus SeP 17 The Word Plus An excellent spelling checker with a choice of two dictionaries 45 000 words and 35 000 words plus the ability to input additional words and abbreviations of your own Also does word counts Customized to the HP Portables seer 39 WordStar Professional 4 0 With over 125 new features this latest release fulfills the wish lists of WordStar users everywhere This most venerable and highly popular word processor over 1 5 million users worldwide now includes an undo feature on screen display of boldface and underline multiple line headers and footers keyboard macros line and box drawing im proved spelling correction and overall higher speed Works with Port able Plus and HP150 Note Built in 220 000 word thesaurus does not run on the Portable Plus seep 19 WorldPort 2400 Portable Modem A battery powered highly
79. c Keyboard Full size keyboard compatible with IBM enhanced PC keyboard layout 92 keys including 12 programmable function keys Separate numeric keypad LED indicators for CAPS LOCK SCROLL LOCK and NUM LOCK keys Full travel keys Choice of Adapters Display printer adapter standard Drives LCD display or external monochrome CGA or EGA monitor Centronics 6 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 compatible parallel connector for printer interface Internal modems optional 1 200 bits per second asyn chronous 2 400 bits per second synchronous asyn chronous Dual serial EMS adapter optional 2Mbyte EMS RAM memory expansion per adapter Nine pin RS 232 C and 25 pin RS 232 C and HP 422 System Clock Real time clock calendar with alarm Design Built in disk holder for six disks Built in retractable handle Extra shock mounting for disk drives Battery powered Printer HP ThinkJet Personal printer HP distributed application software and the HP Portable Vectra CS Family HP AdvanceLink Executive MemoMaker Executive Card Manager Graphics Gallery Collection and Lotus R 1 2 3 R The HP Vectra Invades Bentley College Bentley College the largest undergraduate college of business in New England has purchased 2 200 HP Port able Vectra CS personal computers for its students and faculty Beginning in September incoming freshmen and sophomores at the Waltham Mass institution will use the portables to create spreadshee
80. ch file To access phone lists from the PAM menu simply add an entry to pam mnu for each phone list Joseph J Lischka Ft Lewis WA Switching To Alternate Mode Here is a helpful batch file for the Portable Plus when using processors that require alternate console keyboard mode echo amp k1N 1 echo amp k0N You must create this three line file using the Editor Edlin the DOS copy con command see Portable Paper vol 1 number 1 page 6 or any program that can create the escape character Plus RECOMMENDED FO R EI MM Portable Vectra HP150 IBM PC and compat e WordPerfect customized for the Portable Plus and HP150 WordPerfect features and commands work on all three machines The function key layout is different on the HP machines but this is a simple matter for most PC users to adjust to WordPerfect s powerful yet easy to use features have made it a best seller It s per fect for the Portable Plus or the HP150 and it just may be perfect for you Order a copy today and use it at our risk If within 60 days you are dissatisfied for any reason simply return it for a full refund WordPerfect Ln 495 299 for Portable Paper subscribers IMPORTANT Be sure to specify whether you want the Portable Plus version or the HP150 version 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside ba
81. ck 5 turns the blink ing attribute ON and 7 turns Inverse Video ON On other monochrome displays 7 turns Bold ON High intensity and 4 turns Underscore ON SOME HP EXTENSIONS TO THE ANSI ESCAPE SE QUENCES For lack of a better description I call the following se quences text processing sequences ESC Ifm activates the Alternate character set de scribed beginning on page D 1 in the HP 110 Users Manual Example PROMPT e IIm activates the Alter nate character set and causes the prompt to disappear To restore the default prompt type set prompt and press the Return key Now that the Alternate character set is active type the command PROMPT CTRL B Press and hold the CTRL key while tapping the B key to enter CTRL B Now press the Return key and you should have a smiling face for a DOS prompt This works for the HP110 only ESC 10m reactivates the HP character set Example type in PROMPT e 10m press return and then restore the default prompt You no longer have to poke around in PAM s System Configuration menu to change from one character font to another ESC 48h activates the graphics mode of the com puter This one is best left alone It blows away the screen on the HP 110 and requires you to reset the computer with the contrast key Using a prompt command with the ESC 8h se quence has no apparent effect It is supposed to restore the SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 37 THE PORTABLE PAPER ESC M deletes
82. ck cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield I 52556 515 472 6330 C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software MemoMaker does not create a true escape character The in the two echo lines represents and should be replaced by the escape character Save the three liner to a file say alt bat The first line changes the Plus into Alternate mode The second line runs whatever program you have chosen The third line changes the Plus back to HP mode For example to run the main Norton Utilities program on the Plus you could type alt nu The benefit is that you don t have to go into PAM s system configuration to change modes back and forth The July August 1987 issue of The Portable Paper has to be the best yet I very much enjoyed the technical informa tion on the DOS environment in the last Looking Glass column Ed Keefe the arti cles author said he didn t know why there were 33 missing bytes IBM s DOS manual may provide the answer It says If you have not loaded a pro gram that remains resident such as MODE PRINT GRAPHICS etc DOS ex pands the environment string area to hold additional strings If you have loaded a program that remains resident DOS is unable to expand the environment area beyond 127 bytes When you load a pro gram that is to remain resident DOS is unable to expand the environment area beyond that point
83. compact 4 x 2 x1 lightweight 6 5 oz full featured external modem that transmits data at 300 1200 and 2400 baud Ideal for HP Portable users who want higher speed than provided by HP s internal modems The WorldPort 2400 is fully com patible with the industry standard Hays AT Command Set and with both the CCITT and Bell communications standards Also available WorldPort 1200 modem transmits at 300 and 1200 baud Portable Plus users At last A great spelling checker available on ROM Webster S web stars n The spelling checker rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine Dec 24 1985 and now available from Personalized Software for the Portable Plus and HP150 Customized on 3V2 disk by special arrangement with Simon amp Shuster Inc PC Magazine rated eight leading spell ing checkers for ease of use flexibility speed overall program size thoroughness and accuracy WEBSTER S NEW WORLD SPELLING CHECKER came out on top for a number of good reasons First there s sheer size WEBSTER S contains over 110 000 words in its dictionary five times the number in Hayden s Speller 2 times as many as in The Word Plus yet WEBSTER S dic tionary and main program take up only 207K of disk memory Second WEBSTER S isn t just easy to use it s positively a pleasure It reads your files at high speed then displays every questionable word in context highlighted At the same time in
84. creen boldface and underline subdirectory support improved spelling correction and file compatibility with the older versions of WordStar It prints significantly faster than the original WordStar and more easily generates indices and table of contents than previous versions do How much of it doesn t work on the Portable Plus I haven t checked everything out yet but I ve found that the thesaurus and the tutor don t work The Thesaurus that comes with WordStar is actually the memory resident pro gram WordFinder and does not work on the Plus Also none of the function keys or arrow keys work unless you run WordStar from perun Perun is a program that fixes a bug in interrupt 16h on the Portable Plus I understand that it will be included on the 1988 The Portable Paper subscriber s disk and it is included on the WordStar disk that Personalized Software sells WordStar will work without pcrun but you must use control keys to issue commands Those who have minimum RAM in a Portable Plus will be pinched for space WordStar takes up 78k disk space and its message file takes up 43k You can access all the other overlays files directly off the floppy in fact you can SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 39 THE PORTABLE PAPER ascii macro 40 PRINT LABELS FOR RELEASE 1 A 2 0 AND 2 01 WHAT FOR LESS THAN 70 CENTS A MACRO YOU CAN HAVE RANGE CALC TO SHORTEN F9 CALC TIME A COPY COMMAND THAT STAYS A
85. d s SideKick and SuperKey Certainly not but Shelp s the only such program for the Portable Plus It s a clean easy to use and highly useful helper you ll want at your fingertips always Shelp runs on the Portable Plus only It works with Time Manager MemoMaker Reflection 1 Lotus and any other non graphics program Shelp does not run with MS Word Shelp was written by Randy Salo the former HP engineer who authored MemoMaker on the original HP Portable Shelp 55 49 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 day no risk trial If after 60 days you are dissatisfied with this product for any reason you may return it for a full refund To order use the postage paid form at the back of this issue or send check or credit card number to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield 1A 52556 515 472 6330 C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software If you re using a LaserJet printer it s possible to print the text or graphics in the normal portrait mode or in the sideways landscape mode ThinkJet and QuietJet users can change between four different color print heads Even though HPrint doesn t actually know what color you re using this is an effective solution to the problem of stopping and restarting the printer in the middle of the page for a print head change HPrint supports mailmerge or the insertion of up to forty strings in your text file It is perfect for creating form letters and labels for mass mai
86. d up to six Mbytes of EMS RAM to the Portable CS and up to four Mbytes to the hard disk model Users can also remove the 12 inch diagonal liquid crystal display LCD and connect the system to an exter nal monitor for use as a small footprint desktop PC A standard display printer adapter can drive either the LCD or an external color or monochrome monitor The easy to read LCD based on supertwist technology for high contrast offers 640 by 400 resolution and can be adjusted to any angle A full size keyboard compatible with the IBM PC AT and PS 2 keyboards has 92 keys including 12 function keys and a separate numeric keypad A single battery charge runs the Vectra CS for up to 10 hours and the hard disk model for up to four hours A bat tery fuel gauge indicates the remaining charge and gives a low battery warning to allow ample time to back up files U S LIST PRICES AND DELIVERY The HP Portable Vectra CS with two flexible disk drives sells for 2 495 The HP Portable Vectra CS Model 20 PC with one 20Mbyte hard disk drive and one 1 44Mbyte flexible disk drive sells for 3 595 Both systems include 640Kbytes RAM display printer adapter LCD display full size keyboard four I O slots 8087 numeric coprocessor socket battery model and recharger Options include dual serial EMS adapter with 2Mbyte EMS RAM 1 795 dual serial EMS adapter with IMbyte EMS RAM 995 dual serial EMS adapter without EMS RAM 220 2
87. dPort will be ready to ship in October 1987 It sells for 359 00 319 for The Portable Paper subscribers see order form in back of issue The 1200 baud to 2400 baud updgrade kit pricing Retail 199 Subscriber 179 9 Vold AC Adapter 6 95 Acoustic Coupler Retail 59 95 Subscriber 56 95 CONDOR 3 We were just alerted that the HP150 version of this full featured relational data base runs on The Portable Plus The whole package takes less than 360K and has the SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 11 THE PORTABLE PAPER Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Pius ION A P or an additiona NEW VERS htWriter WE g PH Ri THE Intelligent Grammar and Style Checker RightWriter is a new tool to help you produce lean powerful BUSINESS WRITING RightWriter uses advanced artificial intelligence technology to flag errors in GRAMMAR STYLE USAGE and PUNCTUATION RightWriter is the first office auto WI UMP mation package aimed at producing better writing not more writing t 9 Messages are Inserted directly into text to point out possible errors and problem areas Easy to Use only one command to learn your word processor does the rest e lt Righ ior J Word Procion is long Mer idea whose time including MemoMaker The Editor MS Word WordPerfect MultiMate and WordStar Phil Wiswell uU el PC Magaz pen Ge I5 an excellent low cost UPS p
88. dial auto answer pulse and tone dialing and non volatile storage of up to 20 commands Other features which enhance portability include self contained battery power very compact 4 x 2 4 x 1 size and unique acoustic coupler interface for 1200 baud operaion n internal speaker allows audible monitor ing of a call while an LED array provides visual status of call progress carrier detection speed and low bat tery indication The WorldPort 2400 modem provides dual com munications standards for international use It sup ports the world wide standard for 2400 baud CCITT V 22bis the U S accepted Bell 103 2124 standards for 300 and 1200 baud use and the internationally recog nized CCITT V 21 300 baud and V 22 1200 baud standards The Bell and CCITT standards are software selected i The modem provides versatility for both portable and desktop applications In the field the unit is powered by a single 9 volt battery whose life is conserved by an on board power management scheme On the desktop the unit may be powered with an optional AC adapter or through the RS 232 port A standard RJ ll modular jack is provided for applications where direct telephone connec tions are available The acclaimed Carbon Copy Plus communica tions software is included with the WorldPort 2400 This program will work on an IBM PC but not HP110 or Port able Plus You can contact Touchbase Systems at 516 261 0423 The Worl
89. ducate the marketplace about the value of the powerful light weight self contained RAM and ROM based HP Portable unit leadership role in the Portable industry by abandoning its ROM and non volatile RAM disk based technology Whether or not HP stays in this RAM ROM arena you can be sure that eventually other Portable manufacturers will pick up the idea and produce IBM PC compatible RAM and ROM based machines It is just too good of an ap proach to Portable computing not to catch on in the general marketplace It s exciting to see how the personal computer in dustry and in particular the portable computer industry develops As owners of HP Portables we help pioneer this new marketplace We play a significant role in the in dustry s growth and we have a wonderful vantage point to watch the drama of this young enterprise unfold This issue contains the normal assortment of tips tricks and tutorials profiles and product reviews The issue features ways you can expand the capacity of your Portable word processing with reviews of eight Portable spelling checkers a grammar and style checker and four text enhancement programs The issue also features a discussion of IBM compatibility in our regular Wizardry and Looking Glass columns 7 ID PR CL on My strong hope is that HP will not throw away its Why Not Bundle ROMs Could you please explain why I can t pur chase software in ROM without purchas ing the disc
90. e phone lists Here is the batch file business bat _ echo off en business nam tm nam m ren tm nam business nam echo on To access the business nam phone list type business at the DOS command prompt The batch file renames 8 page supplement to the manual that tells you Note to HP150 users By special arrangement with WordPerfect Corporation our version of WordPerfect includes the standard 51 4 disk plus our supplementary double sided 342 disk that customizes the program for HP150 users The disk includes a special utility that allows WordPerfect to run on the 150 If your HP150 requires single sided disks and also has a hard disk drive a version of WordPerfect may soon be available that will run on your machine Please contact us for up to date information business nam as tm nam starts Time Manager and then converts tm nam when leaving Time Manager complete with all additions and changes You can not switch phone lists while in Time Manager You must exit the program and re enter it using the name of the desired phone list You can create a new phone list by going directly into Time Manager and adding names to the Name and Address List This list will initially be empty at least it should be empty if you use the approach described here because there shouldn t be an existing tm nam file on the A drive You can then rename the tm nam file that is created after exiting Time Manager and write a new bat
91. e Microsoft mouse which See ad for Sketch the graphics program for the Portable Plus in this issue 29 every it s to it is for Portable Plus users With our PORTABLE MOUSE SOFTWARE you can assign a different keystroke to each of the buttons You can also assign a different set of three keystrokes for each of your ap plications Our PORTABLE MOUSE SOFTWARE also lets you control the distance that the cursor will move for a given movement of the mouse TRY IT AT OUR RISK Not sure you ll like using a mouse with your Portable The only way to find out is to try one Remember you can order any product from us use it for 60 days and then return it for a full refund if you are Logitech mouse Nevertheless the TO ORDER not completely Microsoft mouse may be your best bet if Use postage paid order form inside back cover satisfied you want the IBM PC compatible graphics or unc ek T credit un dE Order a Logitech Sefwareitcomes with Percovalized software i Bl If you already own a serial Microsoft PO Box 869 Fairfield 1A 52556 515 472 6330 or Microsoft mouse mouse or would like to buy one there s for your Portable mouse to your Plus and every mon sense A WORD ABOUT THE MICROSOFT MOUSE The Microsoft mouse has only 2 buttons but costs 100 more than the 3 button no need to buy the Logitech Mouse as well to use the Microsoft mouse with your Por table Plus all you need is ou
92. e Mode and Console Font on the HP110 to alternate mode before us ing these products To change from the normal HP mode to Alt mode you must enter PAM S f6 System Config In the menu move the cursor down and change console mode to Alt HP 110 users should also change Console font to Alt Alas some soft ware products such as Lotus 1 2 3 won t work in Alter nate mode They require your machine to be in HP mode Now you have to go back to System Config to restore HP mode What a pain The following batch file newmode bat provides welcome relief It sets your machine to either HP or Alt mode After creating this file enter newmode a to set alter nate mode or newmode h to set HP mode Before trying to create this file please note that the let ters ese represent the escape character In MemoMaker it is impossible to correctly create this character In The Editor you can press CTRL the CTRL key and the key together to generate an esc From DOS enter the command copy con newmode bat then type in the file as listed below without mistakes Press CTRL to put an escape charac ter in the file newmode bat and CTRL Z to end entry 10 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 echo off if Yo1 h goto HP if a goto ALT echo Use newmode h to set hp mode or echo Use newmode a to set alternate mode goto finis HP echo Setting hp mode echo ESC amp Kk0N ESC 10m goto finis ALT echo Setting alternate mode echo ESC amp KINES
93. e amount of daily effort It s a list of the more than 50 programs on Port able Utilities Disk Vol ume 1 DOS Tools Each program performs a spe cific task to make life with your Portable more enjoyable and productive The programs are all in the public domain which means that if you search ed long enough you could find them for free on var ious electronic bulletin boards in magazines and in the archives of local user groups But consider this Even if you had the time to track this many ograms down what about evaluating them and making sense of the documentation It would be a formidable task but we have good news You don t have to do it we ve already done it for you That s right we ve combed through hundreds of public domain utility programs that run on the Portables and HP150 and have selected only the best ones for inclusion in Portable Utilities Disk Volume 1 DOS Tools We ve not only made sense of the document ation but in many cases we ve actually rewritten it A printed 65 page user manual con taining program documentation and plenty of examples in included ith the disk The manual is conve dently indexed by subject so all you have to do is look up the name of the task you want done You don t have to ADDCOL COM Joins two files horizontally by appending corresponding lines ARC512 ARC Archived ARC file compression and library utility ARCE COM Extracts ARChiv
94. e are several possible reasons The most perplexing one is caused by the file limit in your A drive root directory You may have a maximum of 64 files in the A drive main directory If you try to save or copy a file to a directory with 64 files you will get the Can t Create File message If you are unaware of this limitation the message can cause much frustration since you are sometimes able to save files after you have deleted a few files and sometimes not Users sometimes think there is something wrong with their machine and take it to a repair center The solution is to delete files or create subdirectories see the DOS manual a book on DOS or Vol 1 number 2 of The Portable Paper You will also receive this error message if you try to write to the external disk drive with no disk inserted or try to write to a non existent subdirectory continued on page 41 THE PORTABLE PAPER Products that make HP Portables smarter PO Box 869 Fairfield Iowa 52556 515 472 6330 By Hal Goldstein The Portable Equipment Exchange New And Used Portable Equipment The new division of Personalized Software The Portable Equipment Exchange is now in full gear As of this writing we are finishing up a DAVAR agreement which means we will be able to sell new HP equipment with HP s blessings HP is very cautious about whom it lets sell its equipment They want your HP dealer to be able to give you support on the product y
95. e files from ARC 5 12 and previous versions ASK COM Adds interactive capability to batch files Prompts user with message and waits for yes no response BEEP COM Makes a beep sound CHANGE COM Changes or displays file attributes read only archive system hidden CLEAN COM Converts WordStar HP150 or Portable Plus MemoMaker document files to ASCII and removes control codes COPYNEW COM Backs up files if no identical file on the destination disk Also backs up whole directory structure creating matching subdirectories CPU COM Displays computer s clock speed CVTBIN COM Converts files from ASCII to binary when downloaded with CompuServe READ command CYPHER COM Enciphers and deciphers a file to keep it confidential DIRALL COM Displays attributes and pathnames for ALL files on a disk DIRS COM Gives total disk space occupied by a set of files DUMP COM Dumps and edits a disk or file in hexadecimal and ASCII FDATE COM Changes the time date stamp on a file FDUMP COM Lists a file in hexadecimal and ASCII FF COM Sends a form feed to the printer FGREP COM Searches a group of files for a specified string HC COM Converts binary files to from hexadecimal ASCII files HP IBM COM Does a best fit translation from HP ROMAN 8 character set to IBM PC Line Draw character set IBM HP COM Does a best fit translation from IBM PC Line Draw character set to HP ROMAN 8 character set INSTALLP COM Automates installing a
96. e the ANAGRAM and FIND functions the word fre quency count and the global search and replace on multiple words in a single pass M PRICE PERFORMANCE The Speller retails for 49 95 The Word Plus retails for 150 And Webster s retails for 79 95 in a version that runs on the Portable Plus Portable Paper subscribers can purchase The Word Plus for 99 95 and Webster s for 69 95 Considering the size of Webster s dictionary its speed its user interface and its many capabilities Webster s would seem to give the best value for Portable Plus users However Portable Plus users still may opt for The Word Plus if they want any of the special features that it alone of fers The other major advantage to Webster s for Plus users is its availability as a ROM Backup from Personalized Soft ware 179 If you use the HP110 and you re a good speller and 26 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 want mainly to check for typos The Speller may be all vou need Once it flags any misspelled words you can simply correct them yourself If you want a larger dictionary more features and a better user interface then you will probably want to purchase the Word Plus BUILT IN SPELLING CHECKERS Each of the full featured word processors available for the HP110 and Portable Plus include a spelling checker or have one as an associated add on product The advantage to using such a word processing spelling checker com bination is that you can spell check yo
97. ed my keystrokes for moves However when I moved the board did not show either opponents plays When I ran the game on our Compaq little funny faces appeared for the stones These faces are part of the IBM character set that can you can usually generate by typing CTRL a and CTRL b Unfortunately these characters although they are built into the Plus do not show ip properly on the Plus I will talk to Bruce when he returns from vacation about the possibility of a simple fix GOTOLESS CONVERSIONS GotoLess Conversions PO Box 500068 Denton Tx 76206 214 221 0383 makes a product that translates BASIC programs to Pascal Many HP Portable users would love not having to carry the BASIC interpreter with them when they run BASIC programs To make a long story short ihe product translates BASIC into Turbo Pascal routines that use IBM PC features that do not work on The Portables SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 17 THE PORTABLE PAPER PORTA BL E PROFILES Let us profile your or your companys use of the Portable Tell us about your interesting or unusual application of The Portable Or share a description of how you use The Portable let other readers benefit from your experience Give us a call ask for Hal or send us a draft on paper disk or via CompuServe Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52256 515 472 6330 Seven Uses For The Portable Plus The author Srini Nagoshwar is the Value Added Cha
98. ening software package Insid d P e Word Management entati j best have Seen tion tS among the Readability Index measures the reading grade level of the docu Jim Pile Soft Sector ment using the D O D RightWriter 95 00 standard Flesch Kincaid 89 00 for Portable Paper subscribers formula RightWords Dictionary Extension for RightWriter 29 95 Uncommon Word List lists misspelled slang and uncommon words 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use enclosed order form or send check or credit card information 4 exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 RECOMMENDED F0 HP110 Portable Portable Plus R E Portable Vectra e e Le e Recommends never decides RightWriter is a writing aid The final decision is always left to you RightWriter is a trademark of DecisionWare Inc WordStar is a trademark of MicroPro International Corporation MultiMate is a trademark of MultiMate International MS Word is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation WordPerfect is a trademark of WordPerfect Corporation HP150 IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus reputation of being a fast easy to use data base package Retail 495 Subscriber price 379 STATISTIX 2 If you are in need for a strong statistical package on either the
99. ensive digital clock PPP Release2 is a disk for all Portable Pascal users and programmers The programs and articles will give you new insights into writing your own programs and inspiration to delve more deeply into Turbo Pascal Current PPP owner may update their disk in the nor mal way The retail cost of PPP is 49 95 44 95 to Tbe Port able Paper subscribers PPP may also be purchased as part of the Turbo Pascal Starter kit that includes Turbo Tutor and Turbo Pascal Retail 189 85 subscriber 159 95 SKETCH 2 12 3 Sketch 2 12 supports the Logitech Mouse with Portable Plus mouse software Also bugs were eliminated from utilities GSPlus and GSFOR You may upgrade your disk in the normal way RIGHTWRITER The official new RightWriter 2 1 main program has shrunk by almost 50 percent The previous release right exe 195792 bytes dated 3 26 87 required 341K of disk space for installed files The latest release right exe 107709 bytes dated 7 01 87 requires only 250K for install ed files Both releases are labelled version 2 1 since they work exactly the same none of RightWriter s power is lost in this new release Gary Goodman reports that by using the sm smash utility from the Personalized Software DOS Tools disk the 14 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 original right exe can be shrunk another 2K If you bought RightWriter 2 0 or 2 1 from Personaliz ed Software you can upgrade in the normal manner EDITOR UPD
100. enter any Romana character into Lotus worksheet SDL COM Produces directory listings sorted by name size date or extension SEPARATE COM Breaks large text files into smaller files for MemoMaker SM COM SpaceMaker Converts EXE files to COM files and thus saves disk storage space and disk access time SQPC COM Squeezes files to make them take up less space Unsqueeze with TY TEE COM Causes a program or file to be output to both the screen and a file or printer TJETA COM Configures ThinkJet printer easily from the HP Portable TOWS COM Converts ASCII document files to WordStar and Portable Plus MemoMaker format for editing and reformatting TRANSLIT COM Converts one or more characters of one file to different character s and copies result to second file TREEDIR COM Displays names of all files in each directory along with date time and file size TRIM COM Extracts selected columns from a file TY COM Unsqueezes files squeezed by SQPC VDL COM Allows user to selectively delete files from a group of files Program lists files one by one and asks user whether to delete WAIT COM Delays execution of a batch file until specified time WD COM Saves and restores the working directory WHEAROUT COM Gives percent of wear on disk in HP 9114 disk drive WHEREIS COM Searches disk to find the specified file APPENDIX A Describes the contents of subdirectories HP110 SOURCE 123DEMO found on the DOS Tools disk UTILS DOC Rep
101. es Check one box ONAN ara E eL eiut a Ae AL Ara The HP Chronicle US 38 Foreign 72 Address l l L HP Design amp Manufacturing City LLL State Zip LL US 42 Foreign 78 PRONG essei a s EdulpIight ee a O Please send me more information on HP Check enclosed training videos O Bill me O Charge to VISA MasterCard American Express Card Expiration Date Signature Mail to PCI Publications amp Communications Inc P O Box 399 Cedar Park Texas 78613 9987 U S A 800 531 5093 or in Texas call 512 250 9023 PP 11 86 THE PORTABLE PAPER automatic installation and with instructions for running RightWriter on The Portables The Portable Paper sub scribers may order the package for 89 For an additional 179 RightWriter owners may purchase RightWriter on two 128K ROM chips for The Portable Plus The RightWords supplementary dictionary program costs 29 95 When ordered from Personalized Software an additional copy is included on HP formatted 3 disk Text Enhancers Extend MemoMaker s Productivity By David Hugbes THE LAPTOP REVOLUTION Early laptop computers were neither very powerful nor sophisticated They didn t offer all the luxuries of their desktop counterparts Users were expected to upload their reports as rough drafts to a desktop computer for final pro cessing This concept gradually changed as the perfor mance of portable computers improved As the corporate world gr
102. ew accustomed to using small computers its needs desires and expectations grew Business people ex pected laptop computers to perform as well as their desktop counterparts Hewlett Packard designed MemoMaker as a simple easy to use text editor for the travelling professional It was perfect for everyday items memos letters outlines briefs and short reports There was no need to learn complicated word processing commands since the system was entire ly softkey driven The Editor from Personalized Software came along and significantly expanded MemoMaker s editing capacities Neither MemoMaker nor The Editor was designed as a complete word processing system However MemoMaker became popular with many users since it was built into the Portable and was available with Time Management in ROM format for the Portable Plus The Editor also became popular since it offered many more editing features than MemoMaker and did not take up much electronic disk space Some users recognized Memomaker s and The Editor s value and tried to overcome their limitations EXTENDING THE USEFULNESS OF AN OLD FRIEND If you are addicted to MemoMaker want to rely upon ROM based software can t afford a new word processor or don t want to pay the price for WordStar MSWord WordPerfect or MultiMate then perhaps a good text enhancer will add some glitter to your otherwise drab looking words There are currently three programs specifically designed to help Me
103. ey do is clear the screen and cause the prompt to disappear ESC P when sent to the ANSI driver deletes a character at the cursor s position 38 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 fected by the mode setting This means that you may mix both kinds of escape sequences and they will work There is just a slight difference in how HP designed its escape sequences You will notice that HP does not use the left bracket Sometimes it will use the ampersand amp in stead Also most of the HP cursor movement sequences do not support repeater numbers Thus both HP and the Alternate cursor up se quences use ESC A but the HP version does not allow for any in the escape code HERE ARE THE HP CURSOR MOVEMENT SEQUENCES ESC A moves the cursor up one row while keeping it in the same column If you want to move up more than one row use ESC A ESC A etc ESC B moves the cursor down one row while keeping it in the same column ESC C moves the cursor forward one space This has the same effect as pressing the right arrow key ESC D moves the cursor backward one space This is not a destructive backspace It has the same effect as press ing the left arrow key ESC F moves the cursor to the lower left corner of the display This is called the Home Down sequence in the Manual ESC H or ESC h is the Home Up command It moves the cursor to the upper left corner of the display ESC I and ESC i tell the ANSI driver to generate respectively a fo
104. f you buy a new or used computer from the Port able Equipment Exchange you have the option of pur chasing many of our products at an even greater discount than normal We look forward to using the Portable Equipment Ex change to meet your HP Portable needs and to expanding our business so we can serve you better New Products NEW PORTABLE WORLDPORT 2400 BAUD MODEM We are adding the new WorldPort 2400 modem to our price list It will be ready for shipping in October For more information see the review on the WorldPort 1200 in Volume 2 Number 3 of The Portable Paper The following description of this new modem is an excerpt from a Touchbase Systems press release Touchbase Systems of New York has announced their latest communications product the WorldPort 2400 Portable Modem The compact battery powered device is both the first and smallest 2400 baud modem designed for both portable and desktop computers It also provides a unique interface for acoustic coupler operation at both 300 and 1200 baud allowing use when direct phone line connections are not possible An external modem the WorldPort 2400 provides important features for laptop and portable computer users not available with internal modems The combination of many features normally found in popular modems with new standard ones make it ideally suited for portable use These new features in clude full AT Command Set compatibility 2400 1200 300 baud operation auto
105. file and alphabetize the words in a file automatically If you ve ever worried about spelling errors or embarrassing typos worry no longer Order THE WORD PLUS It s fast it s friend ly and it never forgets a spelling Of all the spelling checkers I ve used I like The Word Plus best Jerry Pournelle Author of Chaos Manor column Byte Magazine THE WORD PLUS works with MemoMaker The Editor and other word processors that can produce ASCII files Our version of THE WORD PLUS includes a 3 5 disk and simple instructions for customizing the program to the HP Portables RUNS ON HP Ponabie juo e Portable Plus IBM PC HP Vectra most of the same word replacement features as Webster s a top rated spelling checker that runs on the Plus see ad in this issue What s more THE WORD PLUS even does some the HP110 or Reflection on the Portable must be run on both ends You can make the serial connection by using the standard HP printer cable HP9222IP See Vol I issue 6 page x of The Portable Paper Now that transferring files to and from Portables has become big business another approach has emerged Soft ware and cabling has been designed specifically for fast 4 simple to use transfer between Portables and PCs Accord ing to many independent reviews the fastest and simplest is Traveling Software s LapLink Unfortunately all such packages we have found assume the Por
106. g two kinds of cards e 2 Megabyte RAM Cards e Megabyte RAM ROM Cards containing 1 mega byte of RAM and 8 sockets for ROM chips Each ROM socket can hold up to 128K of data or software on ROM A DRIVE AND C DRIVE Each kind of SoftWord card comes in two different varieties A drive and C drive The difference lies in how the RAM memory on the card is used in your system RAM that s on an A drive Card be comes part of your Portable Plus s main Edisk memory the internal memory you partition using the P A M System config menu RAM that s on a C drive Card doesn t affect your Plus s main Edisk memory instead it func tions as electronic disk storage just as Reflection uL Turbo Pascal 8 ROM sockets Webster s Spelling Checker MemoMaker Time Manager Available from Personalized Software drawers Any of the SoftWord cards can be installed in either of these two compartments All you do is remove whatever drawer may be in there and replace with a SoftWord card Note We will accept your old RAM or ROM drawer and any extra memory as a trade in towards purchase Please call for current trade in prices Once installed the extra RAM on the SoftWord cards works exactly like ordinary Portable Plus memory only there s lots more of it HOW TO CHOOSE The examples in the box at the far right will help you examine your op tions For most users the ideal con Super ROM 1 b
107. ged high quality highly padded cases to protect your ThinkJet HP9114 and HP Portable when traveling Tiger Fox A great video game of changing mazes and double pursuit First video game designed for the Portables Time Manager The highly acclaimed Portable Plus ROM based Time Manager pro gram in a 3 disk version for the HP110 Portable Does not run on Portable Plus Available to Portable Paper subscribers only Seep 13 T Master and T Maker T Master is a fully integrated word processor speller relational database manager spreadsheet file manager and communications package that also includes keyboard macros and bar chart graphics It runs on the Portable Plus without modification and on the HP150 with a PC emulator T Maker is an earlier version of T Master it runs on the HP110 Portable with an external disk drive T Maker does not include the communications module Both programs are more integrated than any other package on the market For example the same editing com mands are used in all the modules The full featured word processor Personalized Software Products that make HP Portables smarter P O Box 869 Fairfield Iowa 52556 515 472 6330 even has some features that WordPerfect lacks The spreadsheet shows the formulas along the borders clearly visible at all times The database manager is easy to use and is comparable in its power to dBase III Our reviewer says there is no other application I k
108. gram from C with A as the default drive by executing c words from DOS 30 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 works very well You will need about 136K of internal memory and 110K of scratch space The RightWords pro gram takes 64K It is very convenient to have both RightWriter and RightWords on the same disk RightWords can rewrite the new dictionaries to the same directory where they will be used by RightWriter The standard RightWriter and RightWords files together occupy less than 500K of disk space on a standard formatted 700K double sided disk Both programs require so much memory that most of the HP110 s A disk must be cleared and PACKed before they can be run USING RIGHTWRITER A previous review in The Portable Paper by Ed Keefe Vol 1 No 3 page 22 contained an example of the proof reading comments inserted in some sample text The ex ample was intriguing but I still wondered if this program was really useful or just novel And would it work for technical writing I have now used RightWriter for over a month on let ters and technical documents written in the very struc tured D O D style My wife has used it for college reports We both found that the program is simple to use and helps us write more directly and simply RightWriter flags all occurrences of passive voice and long sentences Not that these are wrong but their overuse weakens your writing The program also points out many little things not necessarily e
109. have two To Do files a personal To Do file and a work To Do file From Time Manager I run DM Swap to swap the To Do files One interesting thing about this is that my work Things To Do changes all the time but my personal Things To Do just keeps expanding because I never get to them But with the 20 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 To Do Time Manager and HP Disk I have greatly im proved the management of my time 6 ADDRESS BOOK MANAGEMENT My objective here is to keep track of all my friends business associates customers and acquaintances without having to transport a Rolodex with me Executive Card Manager ECM comes to the rescue I run the ECM on the Portable and on my 150 When I have time I enter any new calling cards into my ECM Regardless of when and where I travel the ECM files are always with me This has saved me considerable amounts of time I create a backup on a subdirectory on a 150 hard disk using the HP IL link 7 SLIDE PRESENTATIONS I can generate slides for plotters and overhead projec tors using the Portable I enter my data into a Lotus spreadsheet and create a graph which I save as part of the spreadsheet A program called The Worksheet Con nection which runs on the 150 takes the spreadsheet data and converts the graph into a Graphics Gallery compatible file My secretary who has a plotter on her system then runs Graphics Gallery to generate bar charts pie charts line charts and more I
110. he Formatter the personality of each enhancer is remarkably as friendly as MemoMaker itself The Formatter is an exceptional program but it was not designed with a visible friendly user interface It is a very powerful compiled word processor and is actually a relative of the Unix style NRoff text formatter Although sometimes a bit difficult to use you easily become accus tomed to it You can also configure it for most printers WHAT ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT Though you should certainly examine the Portable en vironment when considering a new product this is far les critical for the Portable plus Format110 is the smallest product consuming approx imately 23K There are two versions of PrinterTalk the complete version consumes 39K and the condensed ver sion requires 25K The Formatter occupies approximate ly 62K HPrint requires about 60K and additional space is required for each additional character font table Unless you expect to print documents while on the road or have them in ROM on the Plus you ll probably leave most of these programs behind PRINTERTALK THE ORIGINAL ONE PrinterTalk See review in the May June 1986 issue is the original solution for overcoming MemoMaker s limita tions Written by Hal Goldstein publisher and editor of The Portable Paper it provides a way of escape from MemoMaker s dislike for imbedded control characters and allows you to use a wide variety of type styles whatever you
111. he SideWinder master disk in that it allows you to review all of your spelling correc tions even after you ve made them Corrections are per manently entered into your document when you re satisfied with the proof You can utilize up to five different dictionaries at a time main update high frequency user and document The document dictionary is very handy for proofing special words that are peculiar to a specific document In addition to the speller MSSpell comes with utilities to look up individual words count the number and frequency of words and solve anagrams MSSpell is an add on well worth the small investment of 80 00 MultiMate ae MultiMate speller program is part of the ROM based JultiMate Professional Word Processor It is readily ac cessible from the main menu and from within a document by depressing Shift Ctrl 8 The dictionary itself is not part of ROM and must reside in RAM or external disk MS DOS computers and most HP graphics printers OPTIONAL EXTRAS Southern Software of New Orleans creators of SideWinder have also created two companion utilities that work only on The HP Portables SideChar lets you create your own sideways characters Satect te toggle block Career keys t wove Simply filli in a grid on your Portable to modify SideWinder s built in characters create italics Hebrew letters integral signs whatever sideways characters you wish Sketch amp Print lets you
112. his is a special power sup ply It will allow your HP9114 disk drive to run forever Just remove the battery pack plug Solution 1 into the open slot and into your wall outlet It s that easy And lets you run your HP9114 to your heart scon tent It costs 129 it you re a Portable Paper subscriber 145 if you re not SOLUTION 2 A power supply and battery pack Solution 2 includes Solution 1 and a modified HP battery pack you can substitute for yours How many times have you wished you had a 2nd external disk drive Personalized Software is selling for a limited time complete HP9114A units including power supply at a substantial discount Call Our special battery pack lets your Portable run directly off your wall outlet You can plug in the regular HP charger at the same time so your battery pack always stays completely charged Solution 2 sells for 199 to Portable Paper subscribers other wise it s 225 Both solutions are custom made Both solve the HP9114 battery prob lem And both will let you finish your work 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date Puede aan Personalized Softw P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Please dia 3 4 M m din 515 472 6330 for details ESC C moves the cursor forward one or more col umns without changing the Row position Example ESC
113. ho spend the majority of their time making sales and service calls to customers but who still need access to information at the main office On the other hand the IBM Portable Vectra PC offers true IBM compatibility flexible and hard disk storage and convenient portability for mobile business professionals sales and marketing representatives and students Corporate Users For discounts on all Personalized Soft ware products see Volume Pricing ad on previous page ut THE PORTABLE PAPER Come Say Hello At Interex Las Vegas For the second year in a row we will have a booth at the Interex Conference Interex is the official international Hewlett Packard users group This year the show will be held in Las Vegas at Bally s September 21 through September 25 The vendor portion of the show is free and is held Sept 22 9 6 Sept 23 12 9 and Sept 24 9 5 Please come by and meet my wife Rita me and our two newest staff members Larry and Susan Baldozier Check out our latest products For more information contact Interex Las Vegas Con ference 680 Almanor Ave Sunnyvale CA 94086 408 738 4848 Come Say Hello At SuperGroup Washington D C We have many subscribers concentrated in the Washington D C area Hopefully I ll have a chance to meet some of you at The SuperGroup Users Conference East at the Washington Hilton Washington D C November 2 4 SuperGroup has asked me to speak on
114. hotel rooms people have cut the lip off the connector so you can t pull it out The first time I encountered this situation I called room service and used one of the prongs on a fork to pry the connector out Now I carry a little communications kit with a screw driver Sometimes the connector is hard wired I have a Radio Shack cable with a modular jack on one end and bare wires on the other I unscrew the wall plate and connect the bare wires to it I can then use the modular jack Of course I only do this if I am at a place for three or four days It s really not worth it if I am just there for one night ers Data communications at 2400 baud in a 6 ounce package If you do data comunications with an HP Port able or Portable Plus you ve probably found the internal 300 or 1200 baud modem to be too slow Until now the only solution was to buy a bulky external modem and lug it around wher ever you go A better solution is the Worldport 2400 It measures a trim 4 x2 x1 it s rugged it weighs only 6 ounces including the battery and it sends and receives at 300 1200 and 2400 baud A MYRIAD OF FEATURES The Worldport 2400 has a wealth of features you would expect to find in a desktop modem several times its size EXTRA BONUS FOR USERS OF THE IBM PC AND NEW HP PORTABLE VECTRA Included with the WorldPort 2400 at no charge is the acclaimed communications and remote control software package Carbon
115. ice is without cable for connecting to HP Portables Circle price that applies 7 f you already own or have ordered either Sketch or HPrint then the price for the other one is just 69 95 subscribers only FREE SHIPPING FOR U S ORDERS OVER 200 The Editor p 23 99 95 The Editor The Formatter p 23 159 90 Flowcharting Il Portable Plus only 232 00 The Formatter p 23 59 95 HP9114 Empowerer Power Supply p 37 145 00 HPrint p 12 80 00 Link HP IL Connecting Software p 42 l 80 00 Logitech Mouse System for Portable Plus mouse software cable p 25 219 00 101 Macros For Lotus 1 2 3 p 40 69 95 Milestone p 40 99 95 Mobile Recharger p 10 29 95 Norton Utilities Version 4 0 p 15 99 95 Norton Utilities Advanced Edition p 15 150 00 Power Cube Recharger p 6 89 95 PrinteiTalk Format110 p 33 89 90 Project 8 9 10 p 41 99 95 1 Meg RAM 8 Socket ROM Card 1 yr guarantee Plus only inside cover 1 995 00 2 Meg RAM Card 1 yr guarantee Plus only inside cover 2 995 00 RightWriter p 12 95 00 Shelp works on Portable Plus only p 35 59 00 SideWinder Utilities p 27 79 95 Sketch p 24 80 00 T Maker Recommended for HP110 p 13 295 00 T Master Plus HP150 p 13 295 00 Turbo Pascal p 21 99 95 Turbo Pascal Starter Kit Pascal Tutor Pascal Programs p 21 189 85 Typing Whiz p 38 49 95 Webster s Spelling Checker back cover 79 95 WordPerfect Specify Plus or HP150 p 43
116. ies of reviews we discuss prod ucts that add value to MemoMaker and The Editor and even to the more full featured word processors such as MSWord that run on The Portables First we will discuss all eight spelling checkers available for the HP110 or Port able Plus Then we examine a grammar and style checker that runs on both machines and works with all HP Portable word processors Finally we look at four text enhance ment programs These programs significantly enhance the look of your word processing documents Spelling Checkers And The Portables By Edward Goldfinger and David Hugbes A computer program that checks your spelling is a god send to anyone who has trouble spelling accurately Some of the best of us are in this boat But it also can save time and effort for the good speller Even a good speller can make errors in typing and a spelling checker program can find those errors in a fraction of the time it would take to proofread a document by eye Some spelling checkers merely tell you which words you ve misspelled leaving it to you to supply the correct spellings As we ll see others practically brush your teeth for you There are two categories of spelling checkers of interest to HP110 and Portable Plus users The first cat egory covered in the first part of this article are stand alone spelling checkers These work with any ASCII text such as produced directly by Hewlett Packard s Memo Maker and Personalized Softw
117. ime you want to add a new environment variable just get rid of dummy to free up 25 bytes then add the variable For example you might use the following batch file to start The Editor on the Portable Plus set dummy set edconfig a edplus 941 set edconfig set dummy abcdefghijklmnopqrs Note that dummy is reset to its previous value so the next time PAM starts the environment space contains the extra 25 bytes HP110 USERS On the HP110 you cannot increase the environment space by following the above strategy However you can gain space by shortening the prompt Use this batch file set prompt p g set edconfig a edII0 YI set edconfig set prompt Sd h h h h h hSh h h hSt h hShShshsh p s The last line resets the prompt to the default on the HP110 You can use any prompt you like here WordPerfect It s the best selling word processor for the IBM PC According to many reviewers it s the best word processor on the market WordPerfect is a word processing power house Its advanced features include crea tion of text in columns automatic footnote formatting and numbering mail merging and text sorting Now there are versions of WordPerfect for the HP Portable Plus and the HP150 touchscreen In either case it s the full blown Version 4 2 complete with compre hensive thesaurus and 115 000 word spell ing checker Not only can you use WordPerfect on your HP computer but if you
118. isks of same color choose from red yellow green light blue and maroon Set of 10 disks 39 95 2 or more sets of 10 disks 35 95 each To order Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 HP150 users Be sure to indicate single sided disks on your order form if necessary FOLD HERE BUSINESS REPI Y MAIL FIRST CLASS PERMIT NO 1047 FAIRFIELD IA Postage will be paid by addressee Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 NO POSTAGE NECESSARY IF MAILED IN THE UNITED STATES FOLD HERE Are you a Portable Paper subscriber Yes What kind of computer do you use check all that apply LJ HP110 Portable C Portable Plus Portable Vectra C HP150 touchscreen L IBM PC or compatible Specify size of disk LI 3 U 5 4 IMPORTANT Check here if you require single sided 3 disk Method of payment L Check MasterCard J VISA Company purchase order Card Cardholder Signature Expires Personalized Software European Customers Products that make HP Portables smarter Prcesaharsinteed moth Instead of ieu pun Us ERNEUT EP DADO CNRC NU RINT RM ou may contact our European PO Box 869 Fairfield Iowa 52556 515 472 6330 ORDER FORM October 31 1987 ares abe j SoftWord Retail Subsc
119. kes When you save a file THE EDITOR saves not just the current version but the previous one as well 4 THE EDITOR takes up less than 40K of memory 5 THE EDITOR loads and saves files and executes commands exceptionally fast Even in the desktop market it is dif ficult to find a word processor with this many useful features at this low a price For the Portables THE EDITOR simply can t be beat See for yourself Order your copy risk free today THE EDITOR 99 95 79 95 for Portable Paper subscribers RECOMMENDED FO R HP110 Portable e Portable Plus e Portable Vectra e e e HP150 IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 Special combined offer SAVE 30 THE EDITOR and THE FORMATTER together Only 99 95 total Portable Paper subscribers only Note The user manual itself is a challenge and no technical support is available We therefore recom mend THE FORMATTER for strong computer users or those already familiar with text formatters If you need any of the features listed above and if you re willing to spend the time it takes to learn the commands THE FORMATTER is
120. l is well referenced using up to date sources The programs are written in Pascal The data and file management routines are excellent You can enter data from the keyboard or import ASCII files I enter much of my data as ASCII files from dBasell or Lotus 1 2 3 Options under Data Management in clude append cases delete cases edit cases insert cases key in new variables omit restore cases purge variables rename variables sort cases transforma tions view data arithmetic expressions and logical Boolean expressions Under Data Management the manual also ex plains precedence machine precision and test for equality handling of missing values and built in functions Goodness of fit and association test include chi square test Kolmogorov Smirnov test log linear models McNemar s symmetry test rank Spear man correlation and two by two tables Fisher exact test A suite of linear models includes all subset regressions discrete Poisson regression eigenvalues principal com ponents analysis of variance and covariance logistic regression multiple regression one way analysis of variance partial correlation simple correlation and variance covariance Another section deals with one two and multi sample tests Included are T tests sign tests rank tests median test Kruskal Wallis one way analysis of variance and Friedman two way analysis of variance You can calculate probabilities for several
121. lculator Notepad Key Macros and Off Choose Calculator and get a 4 function calculator that works just like a pocket calculator with memory You can save results in ten W paste results at the different storage cursor location in registers and retrieve whatever application you them again with two were using when you quick keystrokes invoked Shelp Choose Notepad and a scratch pad pops up on your screen Type whatever you want into it exit to your appli cation and then recall the notepad whenever you want No more having to scribble notes on paper to remind you of phone numbers things to do or bright ideas Choose Key Macros and you can assign strips of up to 31 typewriter characters to any of the 26 letters in the alphabet This saves you having to type the same phrase over and over again Example If you type United States a lot you could assign the entire phrase to the U key Just move the cursor to U in the Keyboard Macros menu and type United States To recall United States simply press Ctrl Extend char then U Presto United States appears at the cursor location in your application Choose Off and your Portable Plus turns off without having to return to P A M and without having to save your application file When you turn your computer back on you ll be in the same place in the same application with no data lost All the capabilities of IBM PC programs like Borlan
122. le from time to time if you see LIBRA that s me I tried SUGAR and that opened a can of worms I then tried GRAMM Y and got dead silence Molly Glen North Palm Beach Florida Hal Molly I hope you don t mind me editing and combining several of your CompuServe Electronic Mail pieces you sent me Nothing is sacred anymore You express the frustrated sentiments of many of our readers The world of com puters is a wonderful powerful useful world but given the state of the art it seems we all still must go through an in itiation rite I bope The Portable Paper is of some help I really try to mix the articles so there are some for novices and some for experts with over half appealing to both camps and to the majority of readers who are somewhere in the middle I ll ap preciate your feedback on the Paper and any products you buy from us As I men tioned to you on CompuServe I think Other readers will find useful a chronical THE PORTABLE PAPER of your triumphs and frustrations with your HP machinery In terms of your modem HP has a one year guarantee on all its microcom puter equipment I m sure if you took your unit to an authorized HP service center they would be able to help you Your Hayes modem or the WorldPort 1200 or 2400 Baud modem we sell should work fine with your Plus To hook up to CompuServe or any other computer via the phone lines you must run a communications software program on your compute
123. le Portable Plus T Portable Vectra you are not completely satisfied with SKETCH within 60 days you can return it for a full refund Why not order a copy today SKETCH graphics program 80 75 95 for Portable Paper subscribers HP150 IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backu for the Portable Plus c C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software together with the main program takes up about 165K of 4 memory If you wish you can use a 35 000 word dic tionary instead this saves about 30K of memory You can load the smaller dictionary and the Word Plus program on the HP110 s A drive and still have about 40K for your document As with The Speller you first correct all the misspelled words and then tell the program to enter the correct spell ings into your text all at once However The Word Plus is more like Webster s in that it also suggests correct spellings For each suspect word The Word Plus gives you ap proximately the same options as does Webster s including the option of viewing suspect words in context It also gives you an extra option you can add words not just to one auxiliary dictionary but to either of two One of these is a dictionary of your own special terms You actually can have many such dictionaries one for each kind of jargon or technical terminology you may use The Word Plus will search this dictionary only if you ask it to so you can save
124. ler about 65 seconds to check an 80 word file in which most of the words were deliberately miss pelled It took The Word Plus 55 seconds Webster s with 5 times as many words in its dictionary as The Speller and 2 times as many as The Word Plus did the same job in just 25 seconds It took Webster s only 90 seconds to check a 2000 word article USER INTERFACE The Speller is the simplest program and one would expect its screen prompts to be simple as well They are but they re not always self explanatory you do need to read through the short manual to know what each menu option means The same can be said of The Word Plus Once you ve read through the manual everything makes sense SEPTEMBER OCTORER 1987 25 THE PORTABLE PAPER and you can step through the procedure of finding and correcting spelling errors in a straightforward and logical fashion Webster s is in a class by itself Its user interface is one of the nicest we ve seen in any kind of program On asingle screen for example you see a section of your text with the suspect word highlighted a window containing Webster s suggested correct spellings and a menu of your command options with brief and clear explanations of what each one means The step by step procedure in Webster s is intuitive Webster s does things just the way you would expect ACCURACY A spelling checker s ability to accept already correct spell ings and find incorrect ones is mainly a function
125. lings These fields are specified with the Mn code and are replaced by HPrint when printing occurs To use mailmerge create a small database file consisting of fields separated by commas and then place the corresponding merge fields in your docu ment HPrint can also automatically insert the date or time in your text USING HPRINT I was impressed with the flexibility and versatility of HPrint I created a MemoMaker document with a graphics image accompanying a text column You can use any font except subscript and superscript in the same line as a raphics image There were several minor annoyances Unlike Printer fAlk HPrint doesn t give you the choice of how many Spaces to substitute for the nn codes If you don t mind justifying your text extending the margins and then im bedding the control codes you re fine If you imbed the codes and then justify you ll find your right margin is uneven It also takes a while to get used to the subscript and superscript support But prior to HPrint no such sup port was available Last but not least the EXIT command is F1 not the customary F8 I have on occasion saved the configuration file instead of exiting the program EXTENDING HPRINT Several utilities accompany HPrint on the distribution disk TJIL COM allows you to change the ThinkJet printer s configuration switches You can change the printer modes and the standard character set You can also redefine
126. lp is available at all times Highly suitable for desktop publishing T Master s word pro cessor handles text in columns and lets you view reduced size layouts of entire pages The spreadsheet is different from any other With most spreadsheets the RECOMMENDED FOR HPii Portable e Portable Plus Portable Vectra o HP150 IRM PC and camnat columns are of a fixed predeter mined width and the formulas for calculating each cell can only be viewed one cell at a time With T Master you specify the column widths and locations and you type the formulas at the edges of the spreadsheet where you can No other application that I know of matches the power thoroughness and simple elegance of T Master David Hughes Contributing Editor The Portable Paper see them at all times Very helpful in getting your spreadsheets to work Also unlike other spreadsheets you can imbed explanatory text anywhere you like another bene fit of T Master s text oriented ap proach to program integration T Master s relational database manager competes with database only products like dBase III It s easy to select and combine data from two or more files set up cross tabula tions from data on disk and gener ate ad hoc reports T Master s data communica tions capabilities include many you would expect to find in sophisti cated stand alone communications programs
127. lt in dictionary And all three let you view suspect words in context as they appear in your document Naturally not all suspect words are misspellings People s last names for example are not like ly to be in a spelling checker s built in dictionary and they would be flagged as suspect even if spelled correctly It s up to the user to decide which of the suspect words to leave as is Each of the three products allows you to replace suspect words with their correct spellings globally in other words you can replace all occurrences of the suspect word at once You can also add words to your own auxiliary dictionary of frequently used terms All three products will count and display the total number of words in your document and all three have some provision for handling soft hyphens Soft hyphens are a feature of WordStar and many other word processors Finally all three spelling checkers automatically create a backup file with the extension bak in which the original uncorrected version of your document is saved This of course takes up extra disk space HAYDEN S SPELLER The Speller by Hayden Software is the simplest of the three stand alone products Its main dictionary contains the fewest words 20 000 Once The Speller tells you what words are suspect you need to enter the correct spellings manually the program won t suggest correct spellings for you The Speller lets you mark words for later considera
128. luding sideways or even ii JHI2UMHU THE ANSWER You can also import graphics screens into SKETCH from Lotus or any other graphics program SKETCH doesn t limit the size of your dreawing area to the size of your screen The total drawing area is 70 bigger than the screen on the Portable Plus and more than 150 bigger than the screen on the Portable As you move the cursor past your screen s borders SKETCH automatically shifts you into the areas that were off screen Now you might be expecting that all these great features come at a high price in terms of memory space But they don t The entire program takes up only 44K As I said Paul Grimmer has done it again USING IS BELIEVING No matter how fired up you might get by reading about SKETCH or looking at the few samples we ve shown of what it can do there is no substitute for actually getting your hands on this wonderful pro gram and trying it out for yourself Remember with our money back guarantee if simply by pressing upside down U or D You also can set the cursor Speed and can tog gle between a faster speed and a slower uou want uc UIT SIBUTP AUE ejr4m WEBSTER S SPELLING CHECKER Webster s has the biggest dictionary over 110 000 words When Webster s displays suspect words in context it also displays in a window off to the side a list of possible correct spellings It then gives you several options These include le
129. moMaker and The Editor make better use of the HP ThinkJet printer These three text enhancers are PrinterTalk Format110 and HPrint A text formatter is another type of program that can extend the capabilities of MemoMaker A formatter differs from an enhancer in that it can fill lines hyphenate justify paragraphs merge files and create tables Enhancers may perform some of these functions but most of them rely upon the text editor to fill justify and hyphenate The For matter written by Ed Gilbert author of The Editor is a text formatter 32 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 In order to use any of the four programs you must first create your file in MemoMaker or The Editor or any pro gram that can save a file in ASCII format While i MemoMaker you enter certain extra characters com mands For example if you plan to use PrinterTalk you enter 2t at the point where you want to change from the normal six lines per inch to eight lines per inch If you plan to use HPrint you can enter 2D within MemoMaker where you want today s date automatically printed in your Memo When you finish typing your document in your word processor you then use one of the four programs to actually print the document For example when Printer Talk prints the document the ThinkJet starts printing at eight lines per inch when it encounters the Qt EASY TO USE If you re concerned about using a new text formatting system relax With the exception of T
130. n application program on RAM disk the HP Portable Portable Plus Install Utility Program LABEL COM Labels or changes the label name on a disk LC COM Counts lines in each file useful in determining amount of paper needed to print LF COM Sends a line feed to the printer LJET COM LaserJet pronter configuration program for the HP Portable Makes selection LaserJet format easier MMTOP COM Causes Portable Plus MemoMaker to print without usual 5 line top margin MOVE COM Moves one file to another directory without copying MOVEALL COM Moves a set of files to another directory without copying the programs them selvesso they work better and so their message displays are easier to under remember the names of the programs And we ve even changed some of Contents of Portable Utilities Disk Vol 1 DOS Tools OFF COM Shuts off the HP Portable from DOS PACK COM Packs a disk Does not have subdirectories bug of earlier version PC EXE Allows some IBM programs to be run on HP150 PCBOSS COM File manager for IBM PC and compatibles only PRINTIT COM Print formatting program simple but effective PRNCONF COM Allows ThinkJet printer to function as Epson printer also sends escape se quences to the PRN device RAMDSK ARC Archived utility for HP150 only creates internal RAM disk RENDIR COM Renames subdirectories RNGNAME COM Displays and restores range names for Lotus worksheet ROMANS8 WKS Provides ability to
131. nnels Marketing Manager at Hew lett Packard He is responsible for marketing HP products including PCs and peripber als through worldwide dealer channels I began using an early proto type of the HP110 in February 1984 three months before we placed it on the market I wanted to understand from first hand experience how our customers who are often managers like myself would use it Today the Portable Plus is deeply woven into everything I do as a manager In fact I am completely hooked I could not function without it The Portable Plus has proven invaluable for Communications Correspondence Travel expense reporting Performance evaluations Time and calendar management Address book management Slide presentations Ew ha Srini Nagoshwar N AVN AUN e 1 COMMUNICATIONS Electronic Mail I first used the Portable primarily for electronic mail All of us at HP are on the HP desk system HP has close to 42 000 employees worldwide connected to each other by the HP3000 I can send and receive messages to and from any of these employees This particular network is a crucial element in our internal communications strategy There was one big problem with this system however I received so many messages I had to work late just to read them I wouldn t get home until 7 or 8 p m To solve this problem I started accessing my HP mail from home at my own convenience via the Portable Normally this p
132. now of that matches the power thoroughness and simple elegance of T Master SeP21 Borland Turbo Pascal Customized For The Portables Turbo Pascal the HP Portable programming language of choice outstrips others in price performance compatibility memory con sumption and programmer environment The WordStar type editor alone is worth the price Borland has authorized Personalized Software to include an extra disk with their product customizing the Turbo editor to The Portables editing keys The Turbo Pascal Starter Kit includes Turbo Pascal Turbo Pascal Tutor 2 0 a step by step interactive tutorial on Turbo Pascal programming and Portable Pascal Pro grams a double sided disk with more than 50 program examples for the Portables Also available Turbo Toolbox includes Pascal sort and search routines that create database file management system SeP 38 Typing Whiz Better than almost any typing tutor program on the market designed specifically for The Portables and the HP150 Immediate numeric and graphic feedback of your progress SeP8 Used HP Portable Equipment The Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personalized Soft ware buys and sells used HP Portables Portable Pluses HP9114s HP ROMs and RAMs for the Portable Plus Because of HP quality used HP products are a great buy 30 day return policy on all used equipment we sell Volume Discounts Corporate buyers users groups and HP dealers Order products and su
133. of ROM called an EPROM can be altered once information is burned in EPROM stands for Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory Although blank ROMs are in general less expensive than blank EPROMs the initial burn in costs for ROMs are much higher ROMs also require a much longer lead time to produce than EPROMs Currently EPROMs that can be run on the HP Portables come in 16K 32K and 64K sizes ROMs are 128K We use EPROMs for our 32K and 64K backup chips and ROMs for our 128K packages C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software PUBLISHER S MESSAGE On September 1 HP intro duced the IBM PC compati ble HP Portable Vectra CS Personal Computer HP also announced a 20 to 40 per cent price reduction of Port able Plus computers 1 Megabyte memory cards and external HP9114B disk drives How good is the new Portable and how does it compare with its competi E tors What does this dual an s nouncement mean to HP110 Hal Goldstein and Portable Plus users As you will see in our feature story the new Portable Vectra looks quite good on first impression and stands up well with its competition The effect on current Portable users is hard to tell The drastic cost reduction of the Portable Plus along with the attention the HP will get with the introduction of the Portable Vectra might mean good things for the Port able Plus The price decrease and publicity might mean that HP finally will be able to e
134. of dic tionary size So one would expect Webster s to score highest here And it does It also scores highest in its ability to suggest correct spellings And it s set up to handle things that neither of the other two programs can like adding a missing period at the end of Dr or telling you when you ve erroneously repeated a word like the the If you don t know the correct spelling of a word you can even spell it phonetically and in many cases Webster s will give you the correct spelling For example it will cor rect farmacy to pharmacy However there s a limit Webster s won t correct farmasy to pharmacy In this case the incorrect spelling is apparently too far off In terestingly Webster s was unable to correct ohuse to house even though the product literature gave this as an example of what the program can do When we tried ohuse Webster s suggestions all began with the letter o The Word Plus did about the same but then we remembered its ANAGRAM feature When we entered ANAGRAM OHUSE out came house as the answer FLEXIBILIT Y By flexibility we mean the number and kind of options each program offers the user Clearly The Speller is the least flexible because it only flags suspect words it makes no attempt to suggest correct spellings Although Webster s has the best user interface The Word Plus is more flexible in that it offers features not found in Webster s These in clud
135. offers friendly ser vice and prompt delivery Several New Simple Communications Programs For The Portable PLUS For many Portable Plus users Reflection the communica tions package HP sells on ROM is a bit of an overkill The thick manual and two terminal emulators that come with Reflection can be a bit intimidating to users who just want to transfer a few files or download mail from CompuServe Next issue we plan to publish an article about getting started on Reflection Two simple alternatives have come to light in the past few months We will look into putting one or both into ROM PPTERM The first of these programs was developed by CompuServe system operator Mark Horvatich You can find PPTERM in HP forum Data library 2 DL2 on CompuServe with full source code in DLO9 A help file to download the file itself is located in DLI and called dnlpp hlp PPTERM supports XMODEM file transfers and can be used with the built in Plus TERM program We will be in cluding PPTERM on The Portable Paper 1988 Subscriber s disk SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 9 THE PORTABLE PAPER It s the Mobile Ni CaD Recharger MNR2 from S O S and it couldn t be easier to use simply plug one end into your car s cigarette lighter and your Portable 5 52 55 meas m HP9114 The time it takes to charge a given unit is about 30 longer than with a wall charger Your car does not have to be running the unit can operate and ThinkJet overnight with
136. ograms that enhance DOS all tested on The Portables Documentation has been rewritten for clarity and ease of use and includes examples index and table of contents SeP23 The Editor The Formatter separate packages The Editor Many features not in MemoMaker including search replace embedded printer codes up to 255 columns per line Also does word wrap right justify Easy to use Uses less than 40K Ver sions for HP110 Plus IBM PC HP150 all on master disk The Formatter Sophisticated text formatter for large reports program documentation etc Multiline headers footers page numbers table of contents glossary capabilities and more Works with almost all printers Note Documentation is in draft form no technical support available sere HP9114 Empowerer A hardware product that prevents the HP9114 disk drive from running out of juice in the middle of your work Plug Empowerer into your HP9114 and a normal wall outlet and you can run your HP9114 forever seeP 33 Flowcharting II This program creates professional looking flowcharts and organiza tional charts using 26 flowchart symbols in 95 sizes Wide variety of text fonts for creating labels both inside and outside the shapes Easy to add and delete lines without disturbing the rest of the flowchart Shrink Screen feature lets you view up to 14 x 11 chart on 25 line screen Runs on Portable Plus only SeeP 34 HPrint A multi featured program that takes tex
137. on games arithmetic to ad vanced input output graphics and more Every program is included on the disk so you don t have to key in any of them they re ready to run or to be in corporated into your own larger Pascal programs If you re into or getting into the highly productive world of programm ing our Turbo Pascal Starter Kit will help you become an expert Order your copy of this dynamite programming package at no risk today Portable Paper Subscribers The Turbo Pascal Starter Kit saves you 30 off the price of the three products purchased separately Retail Subscriber price price Turbo Pascal Starter Kit 189 85 159 95 includes Turbo Pascal Turbo Tutor Turbo Pascal Programs for the Portables Turbo Pascal 99 95 89 95 Turbo Tutor 2 39 95 35 95 Pascal Programs for the Portables 49 95 44 95 Turbo Pascal on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus 95 00 95 00 ROM Backup version includes RUN COM a utility pro gram that can save 10K of disk space from any program you compile with Turbo Note You must own or order the disk version of Turbo in order to purchase the ROM Backup ver sion See ROM Backup ad in this issue for details 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Softw
138. on for VP Expert In other words we could create an expert system bas ed on the Hewlett Packard Portables We could build a system containing answers to questions about hardware and software that work with The Portables The system could expand as more information is gathered As the literature says The possibilities are endless especially if you consider the environment of a portable computer Bob Pressey told me to publish his phone number and address Interested readers can contact him directly at 303 777 0326 400 South Lafayette Apt 707 Denver 80209 Bob told me he will write a review for the Paper The program comes copy protected and sells for around 100 For an additional 10 you can purchase a non copy protected version of the software Bob tells me it requires 256K of internal memory to run and occupies around 360K of external disk space We will be contacting Paperback software to see if we can sell it directly without copy protection on 3 1 2 disk Cheap ThinkJet Paper I got the following information from a dialog between Alan Stein 71246 216 and Steve Broshears 73775 1127 on the HP CompuServe forum Elek Iek is selling TJet paper made by Hammerhill at the VERY attractive price of 5 reams for 33 Their HP paper costs about 8 50 ream For the quality you get on the HP paper by setting BOLD you can get on the Ham merhill paper with NORMAL Do not use bold it will be too much Call 800 621 1269 Elek Tek
139. ooters document merge automatic page numbering paragraph numbering several different paragraph styles and table of contents It supports your built in printer enhancements Since the product is very technical most of the com mands are implemented in dot commands or macros It is possible to extend the power of The Formatter by writing your own macros You can for example define your own special paragraph style or index HPRINT A review of Paul Grimmer s HPrint follows this article MEMOMAKER TEXT PROCESSORS AT A GLANCE PrinterTalk m e Easy to customize to any printer e On line help e Typewriter Mode Including enhancements e Two Versions complete and abridged e Built in codes for HP Printers including the LaserJet e Automatic page numbering e Substitute any sequence of characters to two characters Formatll0 e Single line headers amp footers e Document Preview e Widow Orphan control e Automatic page numbering e Turbo Pascal source code e DOS system commands available from within program e Margin control e Comments 34 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 e Uses WordStar like dot commands for printer control e Document chain merge HPrint e Change print colors on ThinkJet amp QuietJet e Single line headers amp footers Automatic page numbering e SKETCH style graphics support merged with text e Re definable character sets with HPRUTIL COM e Time Date formats e Mailmerge e Italics gra
140. or desktop computer e You can use your Portable or desktop computer s video screen to display entries made on your hand held Your hand held can access and control IBM PC any peripheral device that connects to your Portable 150 modems printers plotters mainframes graphics tablets and more In short without adding a single piece of or PC including RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable e Portable Vectra E Portable Plus e HP150 IBM PC and compatibles B LINK was written by Paul Grimmer author of SideWinder the sideways printing program and Sketch the freeform graphics program both for the HP Portables hardware LINK extends the power of your hand held to include a whole world of peripherals and capabilities And it does so for less than the cost of a single peripheral Order this breakthrough in hand held computing power today LINK HP IL Connector 80 75 95 for Portable Paper Subscribers 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software dummy abcdefghijklmnopars 3 Return to PAM This will add 25 bytes to the environment space WARNING The first line of PAM ENV COMSPEC B NBINNCOMMANDCOM must never be changed Anyt
141. orked well because of the high level of user satisfaction According to a re cent survey 12 out of every 13 T Master users highly prefer the program over other integrated packages they re familiar with T Master is widely distributed in Europe and the Far East where it is bundled with IBM PC compatible computer systems NOT FOR EVERYONE T Master is not for everyone The T Maker Company has told us that their most satisfied users are computer oriented people for whom increased productivity is im portant as opposed to casual com puter users who might not appreciate the time and effort T Master can save them let alone its elegance If your computer is an important part of your work life and if you re willing to learn a new and much easier way of functioning then we urge you to try T Master for your self If within 60 days you feel T Master is not for you simply return it for a full refund But remember T Master must be experienced It has a unique way of doing things and a feel that s all its own Order T Master today It may change the way you use your computer T Master For Portable Plus Portable Vectra HP150 295 00 279 95 for Portable Paper subscribers T Maker HP110 Portable 295 00 199 95 for Portable Paper subscribers THE PORTABLE PAPER THE PORTABLE PASCAL PROGRAMS REL 2 By Ed Keefe FastAid Co Personalized Software has just released the second edition
142. ou buy To become an HP dealer requires quite a financial investment and a storefront For us given our location and size becoming an HP dealer is out of the question However HP also has what is called a DAVAR program for third party vendors like ourselves who add value to and support HP products DAVARs arrange to buy products at a discount from a qualified HP dealer and resell it usual ly along with the DAVAR s own products HP must approve every DAVAR agreement What does this mean to you You can purchase all your HP Portable products from one place When you do you gain three levels of support HP our HP dealer and our selves I trust most of you who have been doing business with us for the past two years realize that we care We are conscientious sell our goods at a fair price and give you personal attention as required As virtually the sole sup port of HP Portable computers we feel we are most quali fied to discuss and sell you HP Portable equipment We also have been aggressively buying used HP Port able equipment We believe in the machines and know most of you do too You may want to upgrade from an HP110 to a Plus or may need more Portables for your com pany or may want to give a family member or associate a valuable gift All our used equipment is in good to excellent condition and we give you 30 days to check it out We pick up the shipping costs and I think you ll find our prices more than reasonable I
143. out advantages For one thing many disk products include extra utilities that have to be deleted from the ROM chips in order to save space Also if your ROM drawer gets full you can remove a ROM chip and still run the corresponding program off your disk drive EASY TO INSTALL We supply a ROM insertion tool makes in stallation simple plus clear instructions with diagrams LIFETIMEMONEY BACK GUARANTEE Our ROM Back Up Service comes with a life time guarantee If a ROM proves defective at any time as long as you own the computer in which it is installed we will replace it at no charge In addition our regular 60 day guarantee of satisfaction also applies If within 60 days you are dissatisfied with a ROM Back up product for any reason you may return it for a full refund However we don t think you ll be dissatisfied You ll find these ROMs to be fast reliable and an incredible boost to your productivity Whatever your reason to free up valuable memory space to minimize the need for an external disk drive or for sheer con venience order one or more of our best selling programs on ROM Backup today To order enter products and prices in special ROM Backup section at bottom of order form in back of this issue W ABOUT ROMS A ROM Read Only Memory is a microelectronic chip that stores programs or other data Once information is burned in to a ROM it cannot be altered A different form
144. owners of the Portable Plus for an additional 179 You must own the disk based version in order to purchase the ROM d Backup Word Processor Spelling Cbecker Combinations MSWord Hewlett Packard HP110 HP150 disk based version HP45474D 375 Portable Plus ROM based version 45549K Opt 400 375 2 plug in 128K ROMs requires 140K of internal RAM Optional spelling checker runs on HP110 Portable Plus and HP150 HP45556D 80 MultiMate Hewlett Packard Portable Plus only HP45554K Opt 400 495 2 plug in 128K ROMs requires 152K of internal RAM Includes spelling checker T Maker T Master Personalized Software Manufactured by T Maker Com pany Mountain View CA T Maker runs on HP150 HP110 Portable Plus T Master runs on Portable Plus and HP150 Retail for both 295 The Portable Paper subscriber price 279 for T Master 199 95 for T Maker Spelling checker included WordPerfect Personalized Software Separate versions that run on the HP Portable Plus and HP150 HP150 version only available from Personalized Software Manufactured by Word Perfect Corp Orem UT Retail 495 Portable Paper subscriber price 299 Spelling checker included J j WordStar Hewlett Packard Version 3 Runs on HP110 and HP150 Three options WordStar Professional includes WordStar MailMerge Read this list gt 150 all on a single disk It may look long and boring but it can save you an incredibl
145. p 33 llle 39 95 Mouse Logitech p 25 0 0 4 119 00 Mouse Microsoft p 25 iilis sess 195 00 Mouse Software p 25 illius 70 00 Mouse Cable p 25 0 0 0 00 30 00 Padded Case for Printer Disk Drive 39 95 Padded Case for HP Portable Plus 59 95 Pertmaster uan da bebe arise dy S ee 695 00 Pertmaster Demo 0 0 0 000 50 00 PrinterTalk p 33 00 0 0 0 0 080 49 95 Private File 22v Sond Gib Sank 4 ela eb 33 95 To order any of the following products or others described in The Portable Paper but not listed on the opposite page simply write the prod ADDITIONAL P RODUCTS uct name a price on B of the bank lines in the MISC section near the bot of the order dd d i f Subscriber Price Retail Price Subscriber Price UG una d aei 35 95 RightWords dictionary extension dioses wa 199 00 for RightWriter p 12 29 95 29 95 TONER 35 95 SideWinder without utilities p 27 69 95 59 95 iuret ent 99 95 Tiger FOX 2 05 6 Wed dere oe A a Pah de Sa POL IOs a olen Ba ah eres aay ih 174 95 Turbo Pascal Programs for Portables p 21 49 95 44 95 D 60 00 Turbo Toolbox p 21 69 95 62 95 IT TET 20 00 Turbo Tutor p 28 sass ma ke ie ER OOD ee wk oe 9b5 TITEL 37 95 WorldPort 1200 modem p 19 199 00 179 00 DUE 56 95 Acoustic coupler 300 1200
146. p ThinkJet Paper 9 RightWriter Grammer And Style Checker 30 Changing Modes 00005 10 Text Enhancers Extend MemoMaker s Out Of Environment Space 4 PEIOCOBWGUVIDY ar Pay 5 46 A ee hed 32 What s New At Personalized Software HPrint Mingling Text And Graphics ida p uU et as 34 The Portable Equipment Exchange 11 Through The Looking Glass 36 New Products ooo oo eee ee 11 Controlling The Portables Screen 36 New Portable WorldPort 2400 Baud Modem 11 MUIZAUOE V ondes oid ER TIENS VE dd CONDOE Sai iii hopes qanm ec e a RU BA 11 WordStar 4 0 6 on see Ke Mb does E Rd 39 SSR er 25h gcse Tos ie eo dee Gee eee ddnde 12 IBM Compatibilty 048 40 WordStar4 Seta a mere aad 12 User GLOUDS os seis o od mee quer ee tees 44 Add Megabytes of RAM and ROM inside your Portable Plus Leave that bulky disk drive in your closet Now your 8 pound Portable Plus is all you ll ever need to run your programs and access your files With the advent of the Portable Plus Hewlett Packard solved almost every problem of computer portability The machine is rugged weighs only 8 pounds stores software on ROM chips and has non volatile memory But as every user knows the Plus has one major drawback limited memory space Until now if you need ed even a modest amount of space for data files and application pro
147. pacing paragraph alignment enhancement mode page breaks font changes merge and graphics files One interesting feature of HPrint is its ability to con catenate connect in a chain lines of text while in the com pressed pitch mode This overcomes the eighty column limitation of MemoMaker Any line of text beginning with the Q code will be connected to the next line HPrint adds a space to each line to keep the words from running into each other HPrint s headers can be right or left justified or centered You can include the page number in the footer HPrint fully supports alternating headers and footers for even odd pages It s a program called Shelp shell help and it runs on the Portable Plus from within any non graphics program Here s all you do Press Ctrl Shift Extend char and up pops the Shelp menu right in the middle of your appli cation Lotus in this example SideKick and SuperKey are registered trademarks of Borland International Inc EXCLUSIVELY HPRINT Instant Access Pop ups for the Portable Plus Calculator e notepad e macros e and more A great easy to use productivity booster If there s one program every Portable Plus owner Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus for an additional 55 See ROM Backup ad in this issue TRE 1 should have it s Shelp Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable Paper The menu gives you 4 choices Ca
148. pelling Checker Back cover Two 128K ROMs 256K 179 b Mini PrinterTalk is the abbreviated version included on the PrinterTalk disk It is functionally equivalent to PrinterTalk for most applications Our Products in Brief CompuServe Starter Kit Gets you started on the Electronic Information Service CompuServe which includes the HP Forum Includes 25 worth of free time com plete Users Guide permanent user ID number and preliminary password and CompusServe s monthly magazine Online Today Condor 3 and Condor Jr Easy to use database programs customized for the the HP Portabies With almost no need to refer to the manual you can enter data sort search manage files and print address labels Condor Jr runs on the HP110 and its 16 line screen It allows limited report writing and is highly memory efficient the main program is only 25K and you add individual 10K programs for each function you wish to use Condor Jr is fully upgradable all Condor Jr files can be used by Condor 3 Condor 3 which runs on the Portable Plus and HP150 is considered the fastest database management system available It is a fully rela tional system allowing you to select and combine data from two or more files It includes advanced report generating capabilities data transfer to and from Lotus 1 2 3 and other applications and much more SeP29 DOS Tools Portable Utilities Disk Vol 1 Well over 50 excellent public domain pr
149. pensive I bet on HP quality and never bought a service contract for my system I won my bet since I think I can now buy a used machine for less than the cumulative cost of the contract Tom Page Houston TX Corvallis support ts working on a for matting program that allows you to use the HP9114 to format IBM 3 1 2 disks We hope to put the program on the 1988 subscriber s disk Thanks to so many of you who are willing to help organize local users groups Users groups give an opportunity to share tips answer questions discuss other products trade free software and Lotus templates and meet other professionals As you will notice some areas have more than one contact person and some major areas have none If you are in a missing area and would like to organize a group contact us If your groups combine also tell us We will publish this column each issue keeping it up to date Write Local Users Groups Box 869 Fair field IA 515 472 6330 California Southern California We meet 2nd Thur 7 9 at HP sales office 5161 Lanker shim Blvd North Hollywood Request PORTOVEC Notes Newsletter Dave Mark 818 794 4969 San Diego Stephen L Eyre 619 452 8530 San Mateo Santa Clara Counties San Francisco Bay Area BAYCHHU HP Lap tops amp Handhelds meet 2nd Sat of the month Contact Jim Horn 707 523 4890 eve or Michael Felsenstein 415 564 8279 eve Herbert L Hamerslough D 415 340 8811 E 415 323 9618 Los Altos Mountain View Marge
150. phics character set on the ThinkJet e Comments e HP IL printer support with TJIL COM change printer mode dip switches like Centronics Serial version e Line concatenation e Sub Superscripts The Formatter e Fills and Justifies Text e Supports nearly all printers e Automatic hyphenation e Document Preview e Macro Language define your own styles and commands e Subset of NRoff word processor e Automatic paragraph numbering e Automatic Table of Contents e Document chaining and merge e Widow Orphan control Common Features of Formatters Text Enhancers e Multiple character fonts within a document e Page numbering Margin line spacing control e Directly embedded dot or commands HPrint Mingling Text and Graphics HPrint is an exciting new text enhancer from Paul Grim mer of Southern Software specifically designed to comple ment MemoMaker You can easily mingle text and Sketch graphics on the same page produce italics with the Think Jet and print with your own character set HPrint supports the ThinkJet QuietJet and LaserJet printers and runs on the Portable Portable PLUS and the IBM PC THE PERSONALITY OF HPRINT HPrint adds a touch of class to your otherwise boring MemoMaker text files To use the program you must em bed special HPrint control codes known as Q com mands directly within the text file You can specify headers footers subscripts superscripts comments line s
151. printer in compressed mode Lines per page You can specify the number of lines per page using the control codes required by your printer Easy in easy out You can exit from THE EDITOR run another program then type a one word command and be back in THE EDITOR in a flash exactly where you left off This includes exiting and returning from DOS which means you can delete copy and rename files while running THE EDITOR Right justification and automatic paragraph indent A simple command right justifies your text and at the same time automatically indents your paragraphs however many spaces you wish Undelete Erased something you want back No problem A simple command will un delete the last word line or block of text deleted Upper lower case conversion Another simple command lets you change upper case to lower case and vice versa without having to retype anything In terms of useful features per dollar and in terms of the convenience and in creased productivity you gain I feel that THE EDITOR is a truly exceptional buy I urge you to try it Order yours today C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software by Hal Goldstein President Personalized Software Paul Grimmer has done it again He s the author of two of our best selling pro grams SideWinder the sideways printng program for the HP Portables and LINK the program that lets you transfer data back and forth be tween HP hand helds and Por
152. r The Plus has a built in communication program called TERM but it ts rather primitive To do anything besides transferring sim ple text ASCII files like CompuServe EMAIL you probably need Reflection although we discuss other communica tions software for the Plus in this issue Good luck and we look forward to hearing from you and helping you through The Portable Paper HP9114 Battery Solutions When I first got my 110 I almost never had a problem with the 9114A battery run ning low This year I encountered this problem much more frequently At first I thought that maybe I was just running big ger and more disk intensive programs But the more frequently I ran out of disk power the more I realized the battery and or charging circuitry was not what it used to be I took a chance and bought a new battery and Torx wrench from EduCalc for about 20 WHAT A DIF FERENCE I can now load RightWriter many times without that old power light giving a flicker I also got a 9114 Battery Eliminator from them for 70 This unit is built by Software Operations and Systems Co and is called an S O S Power Supply You remove the 9114 battery and plug the cord from the power supply in its place The unit measures 2 25 x 3 25 x inches It has a power indicator light a fuse but no on off switch It seems to work well but the transformer hums Gary Goodman Fredericksburg VA S O S are tbe folks tbat built the Mobile
153. r Portable Mouse Software and a cable to connect the CA Plus risk free today Don t forget to order our PORTABLE MOUSE SOFTWARE and cable too you ll need them to run either mouse with your Portable Plus Portable Plus Mouse Systems Logitech Mouse Portable Mouse Software Cable 219 00 179 95 for Portable Paper subscribers For pricing of individual components and Microsoft Mouse see Additional Products opposite the order form in this issue 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Vectra Portable Plus HP150 E esi IBM PC and compatibles e C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software utilize to use all at once It has a FIND feature that lets you look up all the words with a given prefix or suffix Useful if you want to find rhyming words To find the words that rhyme with say Portable just enter the com mand find ortable and you ll be presented with a list that includes comfortable importable and unsupportable In addition to counting the number of words in a document The Word Plus can tell you the frequency of use of each word It also can alphabetize the words in a file and has an anagram feature that will unscramble words that are scrambled Example The command ANAGRAM LECUN gives UNCLE as a result THREE WAY COMPARISON In comparing the three spelling checkers
154. r printer supports The program s defaults fully sup port the ThinkJet printer and LaserJet A B font cartridges You can also define other printer codes PrinterTalk extends MemoMaker s usefulness by pro viding multiple copies automatic page numbering single sheet feed line spacing control and user defined codes Multiple fonts may be specified in a line PrinterIalk also features a nifty line oriented typewriter mode that s great 4 for small typing chores And it is very user friendly FORMAT110 DOES IT LIKE MEMOMAKER Format110 See review in the May June 1986 issue is a very simple yet productive text enhancer written by Ed Keefe f i HAA A EA Merona users Now you can take advan tage of all your printer s features not just bold and underline PrinterTalk Version 1 2 A an easy to use software package from Personalized Software prints your MemoMaker files allowing you to Change attributes type styles anywhere within the files you print Bold underline italic compessea EX panded whatever your printer supports e Control numerous print functions including number of copies lines per inch lines per page spacing including double triple quadruple automatic page numbering Avoid paper waste by preventing annoying form feeds e Use your HPIIO as an electronic typewriter PrinterTalk connects your keyboard directly to your printer Great for l
155. re avoids problems caused by low bat teries I would probably pay HP price fora state of the art model that reads writes and formats disks so they are compatible with IBM and Toshiba computers and can read HP format disks I currently use a Toshiba luggable with hard disk when I travel I carry my Portable but I expect my 9114 and printer will spend more time in Houston I back up my work on IBM machines Most of my important data is available in an alternate format and my HP9114 can read IBM format If my 9114 crashed and a suitable HP replacement were unavailable I would consider substituting an IBM PC clone equipped with a 3 5 disk drive If my Portable crashed and could not be revived by addition of new power I would prefer replacing it with a Plus This is not a cheap option Another option is to replace it with a used Portable I understand you have some used machines at quite reasonable prices The replace ment box might not even have a sticky 4 key A person who cannot be without a Portable for an extended period of time might consider buying a complete back up system The cost of a used HP11O is now very low You could change to another brand of Portable computer but I don t think any true Portable person would really like a this option David Hughes in the last issue of The Portable Paper compared the Portable with some other portable computers He did not mention how much easier it is to connect the Por
156. riber Astage Rectory Lane Product Price Price Qty Total Windlesham The Portable P ipti Surrey GU20 6BW T n i raper 3 Year SUDSCHDHOR 139 00 N A England e 5 New subscriber C Renewal 2 Year Subscription 99 001 N A Phone E Jan 1986 CJan 1987 O Currentissue 1 Year Subscription 55 00 N A In England Bagshot 0276 75440 2 Back Issues indicate numbers N A In Europe 44276 75440 N Time Manager Pack HP Calculator N A 7 504 ho Ne 7 504 1987 Subscriber Disk 3 N A RRPARRRRHR 3 64 90 amp 44 95 60 DAY 44 95 MONEY BACK 196 00 3 900 GUARANTEE Condor Junior HP110 Portable only 99 95 89 95 If within 60 days you are d DOS Tools Portable Utilities Vol 1 p 29 49 95 39 95 dissatisfied with a subscrip tion or product for any Q reason you may return it for 4 a full refund Should you become dissatisfied with a subscription after the 60 day period we will refund the unused portion of your subscription Includes free 1987 Subscriber Disk Available only to subscribers 3 Available only to those whose subscriptions include at least onc 1987 issue The 750 includes shipping Alternatively you may mail in a formatted disk and a 39 self addressed stamped envelope to receive the software at no charge 5 Subscriber price for colored disks Rainbow or Monochrome Pack is 39 95 for one set of 10 35 95 each if total order includes 2 or more sets of 10 Cir cle price that applies 8 Lower pr
157. rints on disk The Portable Paper Vol 1 Issue 4 Utilities article Gives practical examples of many of the files on the DOSTools disk RECOMMENDED FOR IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backu for the Portable Plus wo See order form for details Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 for your stand Given the state of the art in writing and test ing software there s no guarantee that every item of software works as doc umented without a hitch However most of the test ing and evaluating was done by Hal Goldstein publisher of The Portable Paper and by Gary Good man and Thomas Page Anyone who has read Gary s and Tom s articles in past issues of The Port able Paper already knows of their conscientiousness and thoroughness So look through the list If even one program proves useful DOS Tools could pay for itself immediately With more than 50 docu mented and tested pro grams to try out and use it s the bargain of the cen tury Order yours today Portable Utilities Disk Volume 1 DOS Tools 49 95 39 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Now ORDER C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus for an additional 129 See ROM Backup ad
158. ro cedure would be very time consuming because of our complex security system But I wrote an auto log com mand file that lets me easily access the HP disk and my in 18 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 tray I discovered I could answer my messages with more timeliness and friendliness I could also provide input and send comments even thank you messages As a result I became a much more valuable member of the team Airline Reservations I also used the Portable to schedule low fare airline trips by accessing the Official Air Line Guide available through CompuServe I would tell my secretary the flights and fares I had chosen and she would make the reservations im mediately On some flights I saved 300 on a 700 ticket The Portable paid for itself in just three or four trips Computer Technology Increased Efficiency One objective in using the Portable is to generate addi tional free time for business and personal use This is part of a strategy to take advantage of computer technology to really form a team with my secretary to increase efficiency and productivity My secretary has an HP150 Touchscreen 2 a LaserJet and a 7550 plotter I also have a 150 and a ThinkJet I use an HP IL card in my 150 to allow it to back up my Portable transfer files and more For software we use Lotus 1 2 3 Executive MemoMaker Executive Card Manager and Graphics Gallery A communications package like Advance Link connects to our HP Mail On the road I
159. rogram will oc cupy one 64K EPROM Knowing Paul he will make sure that every last byte will be filled with goodies Products that Almost Worked Normally I don t discuss products that don t work on the HP Portables in 75e Portable Paper However the follow ing products came very close to working or are of great importance to HP users Perhaps with your added voice The Portable Paper and its readers can get the manufac 16 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 turers to make the changes so they run on the Portables As most of you know the HP110 and Portable Plus are vaguely IBM compatible with the HP110 significantly less compatible then the Portable Plus We discuss the compatibility issue in the Wizadry column and in past issues particularly in Vol 1 issues 2 and 3 in The Wizadry column Basically the fewer assumptions a piece of soft ware makes about the actual physical computer it runs on the greater the chance the software will work XTREE Xtree from Executive Systems 15300 Ventura Blvd 305 Sberman Oaks CA 91405 818 990 5457 has been the favorite hard disk organizer of many users and reviewers for many years It does what PAM and its File Manager at tempts to do much more efficiently and visually It graphically shows the subdirectory structure of a disk and makes it easy to copy move delete rename print and display groups of files Portable users would find such a program valuable for manip
160. rrors that I often overlook 7 awkward overused or wordy phrases etc Since usin RightWriter I have become much more aware of the com plexity of the English language and the difficulty of classi fying grammar into rigid rules Although RightWriter was not designed primarily as a spelling checker it does check spelling It also prints a list of unrecognized words The program needs 216K of memory to run Although too large to store and use on the HP110 or on some Port able Plus s it will work easily from an external drive RightWriter does have its limitations It can be confus ed by such things as misplaced periods nested paren theses or complex sentences It does not understand the meaning of words and cannot tell when your tenses are in consistent And it doesn t fully appreciate complex literary writing It would probably take a program ten times the size of RightWriter to do all the things a professional proofreader does And it would probably not run very well on today s PCs However most of us don t have a friendly profes sional proofreader and we probably wouldn t like him or her telling us EVERYTHING that is bad about our writing A program doesn t judge us by our writing and we can ig nore its comments with impunity ORDERING INFORMATION RightWriter and RightWords normally come on 5 1 4 disks and can be run from DOS without modification They are manufactured by RightSoft Inc 2033 Wood St Suite 218
161. rts You can create these charts in text mode and view them in graphics mode You can also insert the chart definitions into your file along with the text The print command has several different enhance ments to support desktop publishing including graphic images page layout snaking columns and sub pages 8 The Portable Plus supports both chart and print They should be available in September Current owners will have to contact Personalized Software to check the upgrade policy of this product The upgrade cost should be minimal T Master it may be the only rogram you ll ever need And it may be the most comfortable program you ve ever used It may sound strange to call a com puter program comfortable but that s the best way we ve found to describe T Master And the other part is true also T Master may be the only program you ll ever need That s because T Master has with in it virtually every business appli cation you can think of including word processor spelling checker file manager spreadsheet database manager numerical scratchpad graph making data communica tions desktop publishing and even more There are of course other in tegrated programs on the market that combine a number of applica tions in one T Master however is the only integrated program that runs on an HP Portable In terms of capabilities T Master also happens to be one of the
162. rward tab and a backward tab If you put eight el commands in a PROMPT command and then press Return the cursor will come to rest in column 64 of the screen Remember that you can restore the default prompt with set prompt ESC S rolls the screen up andESC T rolls the screen down ESC U has the same effect as pressing the Extend Down Arrow keys it goes to the Next Page of the screen ESC V has the same effect as pressing the Extend Up Arrow keys it moves you to the previous screen The following sequences allow you to use repeater numbers to move the cursor a number of rows and col umns with just one command ESC amp a x Y and ESC amp a y X are very similar com mands which move the cursor to a new position relative to its current position Example Assuming that the cursor is on line 5 and 10 spaces from the left edge then the com mand PROMPT ea6y54X puts the cursor on line 11 64 spaces from the left edge Ae PROMPT ea54x6Y does the same thing You must be careful to keep straight what is x and what is y Notice that the first letter x or y is in lower case The second letter X or Y is in upper case ESC amp a X keeps the cursor on the same line and THE PORTABLE PAPER j E el moves it spaces to the right ESC amp a Y keep
163. s Johfi Dvorak writing in the San Fran cisco Examiner called WEBSTER S the BULK RATE U S POSTAGE PAID FAIRFIELD IA PERMIT 218 best spell checker we ve seen in a long spell Henry Kisor of the Chicago Sun Times has called WEBSTER S the best proofreading software on the market We agree with them both and we think you will too Order your copy at no risk today Webster s Spelling Checker on 3 disk customized for the Portable Plus and 69 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Webster s is available on ROM backup for an additional 179 See ROM ad in this issue for important details me WEBSTER S SPELLING CHECKER works with any file produced by the Editor WordStar and MemoMaker It also works with ASCII files produced by MS Word and Word Perfect Our version of WEBSTER S includes a custom ized 3 5 disk and simple instructions for run ning the program on the Portable Plus and HP150 A special utility allowing WEBSTER S to run on the HP150 is included on the disk 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330
164. s TOTAL anm if it exceeds these amounts NEW SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 How to Order TO ORDER BY PHONE TO ORDER BY MAIL Call 515 472 6330 between 1 Fill out your name etc on the reverse side of the 9 00 am and 4 30 pm Central Time Monday through Friday or use CompuServe order form Be sure to indicate your disk requirements EMAIL ID 72257 714 2 Locate desired items on order form S Subscriptions are at the top Products are next and are alphabetized e The blank lines near the bottom labelled MISC are for you to write in special instructions or to order miscellaneous products not listed on the form The last section of iat the order form is for ordering software on Personalized Software ROM backup See below 3 Fill in desired quantity of each item e Please pay special attention to footnotes 4 Calculate shipping and handling costs see box near bottom of order form e Shipping is FREE for U S orders over 200 9 Calculate total 6 If paying by check or money order Make payable in U S funds to PERSONALIZED SOFTWARE Place check and order form in an envelope and mail e f you d rather have us pay the postage Fold order form so panel addressed to Personaliz ed Software is on the outside Tape shut and drop in mail Retail Price CompuServe Starter Kit 39 95 HP9114 Empower with Battery Pack p 6 225 00 Formatll0
165. s Webster You will always have to type in the drive letter when specifying the file name SHELP SIDEWINDER Since SideWinder and SideWinder Enhance are both writ ten in Turbo Pascal we were able to include Enhance by compiling both as chain files and using a run file GO COM to execute them If you don t know what chain files are don t worry If you do then you may make use of GO COM to run your own Turbo Pascal chain files Either way you get Enhance on ROM as a free bonus To use SHELP on this ROM you need to change the line device a shelp sys in config sys to device b sw__shelp shelp sys The new Shelp file ex tract utility unfnotes is included TYPING WHIZ The original version of Typing Whiz would not allow you e to create your own word lists when run from ROM We asked the program s author Jack Bower to change the pro gram and he did Now you can have the Typing Whiz files on ROM and create your own word lists on the A drive Or just use the original test files on ROM It happens to the best of us One slip of a finger and a whole week s worth of text or data is past history But not if you have THE NORTON UTILITIES Just type qu for quick unerase give the first letter of the name of the file you erased and the file gets restored Miraculous as it sounds in many cases that s all there is to it Erased your files Get them back with The Norton Utilities
166. s the cursor in the same column and moves it lines down Although the next four commands look like the last four they are different In place of X and Y they use R and C or the lower case equivalents ESC amp azc R and ESC amp a r C move the cursor to a specific row and column no matter where the cursor is R stands for Row and C stands for column ESC amp a R and ESC amp a C move the cursor down the screen or to the right while keeping the cursor in the same column or row ESC senses the relative cursor position while ESC a senses the absolute cursor position HP TEXT PROCESSING ESCAPE SEQUENCES ESC L inserts a line at the cursor ESC M deletes a line at the cursor position ESC P deletes a character at the cursor ESC Q turns on the insert mode of character entry ESC R turns on the overwrite mode ESC amp s0 has the same effect as shutting the CAPS key off ESC amp s turns on the CAPSLOCK mode of entry ESC dQ turns the cursor on ESC dR turns the cursor off If you put ESC dR in a PROMPT command both the prompt and the cursor will disappear Restoring the default prompt will not restore the cursor Even the trick of pressing the Extend f1 keys does nothing HP VERSIONS OF THE SCREEN ATTRIBUTE ESCAPE EQUENCES SC amp d turns on normal screen display black on white or dark grey on light grey ESC amp dA causes characters to blink ESC amp dB causes characters to appear as white on black ESC amp
167. search time by omitting your special terminology dic tionaries from the search whenever you wish The other auxiliary dictionary is an update to the main dictionary this is for words you use frequently but which are not in the main dictionary when you buy the product The Word Plus will go through the update dic tionary every time it does a word search The Word Plus has some additional bells and whistles not found in the other two spelling checkers It lets you do a global search and replace on multiple words in a single pass You can for example change every occurrence of TENES ees 508 8 K John to Jonathan Top rated mouse adds convenience and fun Move a mouse around on your desk and the cursor moves around the screen It s easier than cramping your fingers on the arrow keys especially if you move the cursor around a lot with Lotus say or with your word processor For creating freeform graphics a mouse is a must The best mouse we know of is also one of the least expensive EDITOR S CHOICE It s the LOGITECH MOUSE model C7 from Logitech Inc and it runs beautifully on the Portable Plus when coupled with a PORT ABLE MOUSE SOFTWARE program devel oped exclusively for us by Bill Saltzstein The LOGITECH MOUSE was rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine January 27 1987 3 BUTTONS EASY TO CUSTOMIZE The LOGITECH MOUSE offers high resolu tion precision tracking and a convenient 3 button design Th
168. sit down with each in dividual At the end of our meeting my employees are en couraged to make comments Since the evaluation is on my portable they can type their comments right into it I then use the HPIL Link to transfer them onto a disk which I give to my secretary to print Within minutes I submit the com pleted evaluation to Personnel 5 TIME AND CALENDAR MANAGEMENT My calendar management strategy is quite simple I use Time Manager on the Portable as a complement to my master calendar and diary function on the HP 3000 Since Time Manager files and the HP disk files are not compatible I wrote a program and linked it to a batch file I then created a function called calendar update on my Portable which allows me to log into the HP 3000 It uses the same command file I use for the auto log on HP disk Using the calendar function I can down load 90 days worth of calendar data from HP disk dir ectly in the Portable Plus After that I call up a Basic program I wrote on the Portable Plus This program looks at the downloaded calendar file from the HP3000 and places the files in Time Manager To keep things orderly my secretary is the only one who makes entries into my calendar I run the calendar up date program daily One nice benefit of the HP desk func tion is that anyone in my department can find out when I am free thus saving valuable time I also downloaded from CompuServe a program call ed DM Swap which allows you to
169. sk today NORTON UTILITIES DATA RECOVERY DISK MANAGEMENT THE NORTON UTILITIES 4 0 99 95 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers THE NORTON UTILITIES ADVANCED EDITION includes version 4 0 150 129 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software LHe PUORIABLE PAPER THE EDITOR The Editor is another very popular ROM backup Since The Editor requires only about 40K of ROM we had room to add PRNCONE COM which puts your ThinkJet in EPSON alternate mode This allows you to enter much shorter printer codes than those used in HP mode A batch file sets up the printer starts The Editor then puts the printer back in HP mode when you finish editing DOS TOOLS There were not enough orders to justify putting DOS Tools on a 128K ROM We have to order 500 128K ROMS at a time Therefore we are putting DOS tools on two 64K ROMs We will honor the advertised price 119 One ROM contains all of the smaller com files such as pack clean etc The other ROM contains run com and several Turbo Pascal chain files fcopy chn cypher chn etc This approach allows us to pack more programs on the second ROM Since the Plus alloca
170. splay adapter uses one slot However three more are available for such items as a high speed modem a serial mouse or extended memory I think these open slots will make for HERE Paper year 2 ES s isi d 92 n e Portable Paper 2 year Portable Paper 3 year 139 139 24 T 39 88 5 Bo Tools 24 22 Km EJEJEIEJEIEJERE 72 64 56 175 157 140 122 114 108 Norton Utilities 85 80 74 72 69 67 mewe DWpspgpepsepa a 3 RENE 79 77 75 73 d ROM Backup 274 268 28 235 219 211 202 194 SHELP 55 50 45 40 35 32 30 27 SideWinder Utils 80 70 65 61 56 54 52 49 SON Disks And ROM backup Turbo Pascal 100 90 79 77 And ROM Backup E 185 175 168 a 149 33 n eU 26 24 22 88 81 74 54 52 2 e aorta RAM car a 2695 2627 2559 2491 E EG ES 1 Meg RAM S8 Socket ROM 1995 1695 1660 11625 1590 1572 1555 1537 eam es p HOW TO ORDER Use the chart at left to determine the discount price If you do not find the product you want listed on the chart contact us for discount pricing Enter the desired quantity on the order form in the back of this issue or use company purchase order Cross out the price printed on the order form and replace it with the price given on this chart Boj EN PRICES GOOD THROUGH DECEMBER 31 1987 Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield Iowa 515 472 6330 E299 293 288 interesting possibilities A non volatile electronic RAM card or a card that will accept ROMs cert
171. st to your Portable 5 Other suprise goodies including game and Lotus templates SeP6 Power Cube Powers and recharges up to four HP devices HP Portable ThinkJet HP9114 HP hand held etc from a single wall outlet SeeP 33 PrintetTalk and Format110 MemoMaker Enhancers These two independently developed programs expand the formatting capabilities of MemoMaker With PrinterTalk you can change type styles in the middle of a document change number of copies and lines per page do automatic page numbering and much more Format110 lets you format headers footers and page numbers chain or merge documents compensate for widow and orphan lines and much more Purchase both products at the same time and receive a 33 dis count subscribers only Private File Protects your confidential letters documents spreadsheets programs and data communication files Private File scrambles your file so on ly you can understand it 3 Project Management Packages All 3 work on the HP110 Plus HP150 and IBM PC Project 8 9 10 a Lotus template helps you manage small to medium projects Milestone is also for small to medium projects On HP110 you need to scroll to see entire Milestone screen Pertmaster is for medium to large projects specify which machine All three are reviewed in Vol 1 Issue 6 of The Portable Paper Inside front cover 2 Megabyte RAM card A giant leap in memory size for the Portable Plus Simply remove your
172. t ASCII files you ve created with MemoMaker The Editor or other word proc ssors and prints them on an HP printer Comes with italic type font for Think et Also allows bold underline compressed expanded subscripts superscripts headers footers page numbering double space and much more all of which you specify from a simple menu or by means of sensible control codes For example U toggles underline H lets you specify a header L toggles 6 8 lines per inch etc There s no need to know your HP printer s less obvious control codes because they re already programmed in HPrint also does mail merging and it lets you create your own graphic characters integral signs Greek alpha etc SeP4 LINK HP IL Connector A software program that lets you transfer data from any HP IL device to any other HP IL device Now you can access your main computer HP Portable HP150 or IBM PC its unlimited storage capability and all its peripherals from your HP41 71 75 or series 80 hand held SeP25 Logitech Mouse for the Portable PLus A 3 button mouse for the Portable Plus bundled with our proprietary Portable Mouse Software and special connecting cable Using the mouse instead of arrow keys to move the screen cursor makes using your Plus easier and more fun You can assign a different keystroke to each of the mouse s buttons for each of your applications Lotus word processing etc The Logitech mouse was rated Editor s Choice by
173. t bury your disk drive oo far back in your closet DOUBLE GUARANTEE SoftWord s RAM cards are manufac tured to extremely high standards by a company in the Netherlands that has more than seven years of experience in designing and fabricating memory expansion devices for Hewlett Pack ard hand helds and portables Relia bility is assured by extensive testing All SoftWord cards come with a one year manufacturer s warranty cover ing parts and labor Should a problem develop simply send the card to us and we will ship it to and from Soft Word at our expense In addition the cards are covered by our own money back guarantee If you are not satisfied with a SoftWord card you can return it within 60 days for a full refund By boosting your Plus s memory in to the megabytes you gain the ulti mate flexibility in portable computing Order one or more SoftWord cards risk free today 2 Megabyte RAM A drive Card or C drive Card 2995 2695 for Portable Paper subscribers 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card or C drive Card 1995 1695 for Portable Paper subscribers IMPORTANT Be sure to specify A drive Card or C drive Card on the order form Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 Non U S Customers Please order directl
174. table s HP IL ThinkJet printer than those used with most portable computers PC Magazine reviewed laptop com puters is its July 21 1987 issue They gave the HP Portable a very poor review I don t think they understand the essence of port able computing They certainly showed that they don t understand the HP Port able Be very wary of what the experts say about computers especially portables Ronald Colwell in his letter on page 4 of last issue brought up an important point that should be kept alive Now that our HP110 s are getting older we must find an economical way of handling repair There may be an opportunity for an enterprising computer repair person to set up a Portable exchange program When your machine dies he could send you a comparable rebuilt machine in ex change for your old machine He could then repair and sell it or use it for parts I don t know how much such a service would cost 100 No problem 200 I would have to look at other options I think the range for printers and disk drives would be 50 75 When my Portable was under war ranty I took it to the HP repair center in Houston I received excellent service but it turned out I had a faulty external modem I also had my disk drive checked too Unfortunately nothing much could be done to cure its hereditary heart con dition As a last straw I would consider hav ing HP repair my Portable This option is most likely prohibitively ex
175. table serial port is IBM compatible Neither the HP110 nor the HP Portable Plus s serial port is IBM PC compatible Consequently LapLink and all the other com mercial data transfer packages I have discovered thus far including The Brooklyn Bridge do not work I phoned Mark Eppley president of Traveling Software and sent him relevant portions of The Portable Plus technical manual After looking the portions over he said no go it would require too much of an engineering effort to get LapLink to work on either machine But there is hope On the CompuServe HP forum Jim Scheef 76137 757 reported that Platt River Software in Denver Co is working on porting their file transfcr product Duette to the Portable Plus Duette is a product like LapLink that transfers files at up to 115 000 baud but unlike Traveling Software Platt River is interested in serv ing the PPlus market Hopefully we ll see a Portable Plus version in a few weeks We wih certainly keep you posted and distribute any decent product that becomes available If nothing becomes available we ll rig up a cable with simple communications software for the PC the HP110 and Portable Plus We ll make it as simple to use as possible but the file transfer will 5e much slower than commercial products GO When I was younger I used to love playing the ancient Japanese game of Go No time now I m too busy writing TIT 150 124 for Portable Paper subscribers
176. tables printers and other peripherals Now he s developed SKETCH a fab ulous graphics program designed for both the HP110 Portable and Portable Plus CURSOR BECOMES DRAWING PEN Using SKETCH couldn t be simpler Put SKETCH in draw mode and your cursor becomes a pen The pen can either be up or down Whenit is down it draws wherever you move it When it is up you can move it around the screen without affecting the drawing You set the cursor up or down At last Graphi for the Portable and Portable Plus Hi SATURN Now available on Backup for the Portable Plus for an additional 95 See ROM Backup ad in this issue speed in an instant The pen also has an eraser Just press E and when the cursor is down it will erase whatever it encounters DOZENS OF HANDY FEATURES But that s just the beginning SKETCH also lets you draw diagonals boxes circles and arcs each with a single key If you have a mouse you gain even more convenience Move the mouse in any way b you want and the cursor follows instantly See ad on the Logitech Mouse for the Por table Plus in this issue SKETCH also lets you fill closed shapes with light or dark solid or even invert the entire screen light areas become dark and vice versa with a single keystroke With SKETCH you can create text in any of 5 different character sets and place the text any where in your drawing inc
177. tains a table which contains some very use ful information such as where it should look for the SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 41 Attention users of the HP41 71 75 and series 80 computers Transfer data both ways between your HP han held and your P P or table or HP150 IBM PC printer modem and more Hewlett Packard s HP IL interface lets you transfer data from certain HP IL devices to certain other HP IL devices for example from hand held computers to printers and disk drives or from your HP Portable to an capability Unfortunately the HP IL interface does not allow all possible combinations notably missing is the ability to transfer data from HP hand held computers to MS DOS com puters like the Portables the HP150 and the keyboard Now all that is changed thanks to a soft ware program called LINK LINK lets you transfer data from any HP IL device to any other HP IL device This means for example e You can transfer data both ways be tween an HP41 71 75 or series 80 com puter and your Portable HP150 or IBM provided your 150 or PC is equipped with an HP IL interface card available from Hewlett Packard Operating system command com when you start the com puter On the Portables PAM makes its own copy of this table To find out what s in this table from DOS type in set gt the env Then edit THE ENV with your favorite editor Mine has these three lines COMSPEC B
178. ter Webster s Spelling Checker and Southern Software SideWinder For numerous legal economic and logistical reasons we offer ROMsto you asa Backup Service This means you may pur chase a product on ROM provided you already own the product on disk If you pur chased a disk product from us Personalized Software we have that in our records If you purchased a product elsewhere you must show us proof of purchase before we can sell you the ROM Backup Also it is important that you read and adhere to the licensing agreement that comes with the disk based version of the SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON ROM Here are the programs we re offering on ROM Backup For product details see individual ads elsewhere in this issue Note that in many cases you can save space in your ROM drawer by buying two or more programs on the same chip All our ROMs come with complete easy to follow installation instructions Product Notes Size of ROM Shelp Includes improved version of note ex 32K 55 m traction program SideWinder Does not include any of the utility pro 32K 55 grams that come with the disk based HEN version of SideWinder The Editor 64K 95 HPrint i I 64K 95 Shelp SideWinder Same versions as on 32K ROM chips 64K 95 see above plus SideWinder enhance ment utility Sketch 64K 95 Turbo Pascal Includes RUN COM which can save 10K 64K 95 of disk space from any program you compile with
179. ter by holding the CTRL key and pressing the M key The prompt disap peared However the words START UP appeared in the window for function key 6 When I pressed the f6 key my AUTOEXEC BAT file ran Ed Keefe is an author programmer and Computer Science instructor He is the president of The FastAid Co 314 SW Logan Ankeny IA 50021 Ed s CompuServe I D is 73277 1064 Ed If you re interested in learning more about ANSI escape sequences send a formatted 3 1 2 disk and a self addressed stamped envelope to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Ask for TLG11 Offer and we will send you a sample file containing sequences Ibat spin letters on tbe screen 110 or Plus and scroll a fancy border 110 only along witb some more clever in formation from Ed Keefe about programming ANSI escape sequences es WIZA by The Wizard Cliff Looyenga Wordstar 4 0 I got a call the other day from a friend who had purchased the newly released WordStar 4 0 He wanted to know if I d help him get it running on a Portable Plus I said Sure bring it up So up he came with 1 8 megabytes worth of WordStar Ten minutes later we had it up and running on the Portable Plus If you like WordStar you ll just love WordStar 4 0 So what s so great about WordStar 4 0 There are over 125 new features including undo keyboard macros line box drawing improved printer support multi line headers and footers on s
180. tes ROM files in 1024 byte sectors each file normally requires some multiple of 1024 bytes of disk space For example BEEP COM which contains 8 bytes takes 1024 bytes of disk space To save disk space the small COM files are all contained in xeq com xeq allows you to keep several com files in one file like a library and to execute each COM file from within the library To execute BEEP for example just enter xeq beep Alternatively individual com files may be extracted copied to the A disk etc After saving so much space we had room to add a few extra tools sm SpaceMaker translit character transla tor and xcopy file backup program We also included a help file that contains the syntax and description of each command TURBO PASCAL As advertised we included RUN COM which lets you exe cute Turbo Pascal chain files This also allowed us to add XREECHN Ed Keefe s cross reference program which produces a listing of all the words in a file indexed by line number SUPERROM We re running a little late but we should be shipping about a month after you receive this issue SuperRom will feature SideWinder Shelp Unfnotes The Editor Mini PrinterTalk Format110 and Prnconf We managed to squeeze an awful lot on one 128K ROM Foreign characters are supported on the SuperRom version of the editor HPRINT AND SKETCH Paul Grimmer of Southern Software the programs author will be burning the ROMs for us Each p
181. tible This solution works very well Users just connect the two computers with the thin black HP IL cables and then use the normal PAM File Manager or DOS Copy to transfer files between the Portable and IBM PC The one snag in this system is that whenever you want to transfer data to an IBM PC or Vectra that PC requires an HPLink card Finding such configured PC s in one s travels is unlikely J Alternatively you can use phone lines ora serial con nection to transfer files between HP Portables and PCs In either case communications software such as Terminal on The Word Plus A great spelling checker and more Recommended for the HP110 Portable HP110 Portable users There are several reasons why THE WORD PLUS is your best bet in a spelling checker First of all THE WORD PLUS fits into your machine Its dictionary has 45 000 words but you can use a 35 000 word dictionary instead this saves 30K of memory space On the HP110 this leaves 40K for your document The full dictionary and main spelling program take up about 165K Second THE WORD PLUS comes with a carload of useful features In fact it offers things Webster s can t do For example e It can find all the words with a given prefix or suffix or even find words that rhyme e It can do a global search and replace on multiple words in a single pass e Additional utilities within THE WORD PLUS will count the frequency of each word in a
182. tion without replacing them but this has to be done by actually adding a marking character manually word by word Once you enter the correct spellings The Speller will replace all the incorrect words in a single Operation e The Editor It s way beyond MemoMaker Now available on ROM Backup See ROM Backup ad in this issue l You won t believe all the word processing features this 99 95 program contains and it takes up less than 40K of memory only 79 95 for Portable Paper subscribers by Hal Goldstein Let s face it MemoMaker is an adequate word processor but it has its limits No search and replace No simple way to merge files No destructive backspace key To delete the last character you have to use the left arrow key and the deletion key s No compressed or expanded printing No but why go on If you use Memo Maker you probably have your own list of things you wish it could do Well we have good news Now there s an easy to use text editor that runs on the Por table and Portable Plus that will satisfy almost every item on your wish list And the program comes with a built in bonus It also runs on the HP 150 IBM PC and HP Vectra which means that now you can use the same program and files on your desk top that you use on your Portable The program is called THE EDITOR It does everything MemoMaker does plus a heck of a lot more And you don t have
183. titioned in any ratio in normal manner with maximum main memory of 512K 2 A 2 megabyte RAM A drive Card will only work in a Portable Plus having 512K of built in memory In the Portable Plus 2 5mb of main Edisk memory can only be partitioned as 512K main memory 2mb Edisk C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software ULltat UCWS LOr rortavie rius Users Our best selling Portable software now on ROM chips Pack your favorite programs into just a few slots in your ROM drawer Ba Save valuable memory space B Eliminate need for disk drive Custom ROMs available too Now you can simultaneously free up memory space in your Portable Plus and save yourself the trouble of using a disk drive How It s simple Some of our best selling software products are now available on ROM Backup as many as five products per chip Insert one or more of our ROM Backup chips in your ROM drawer and you ll never have to load those programs again It sthe ultimate in convenience It s much faster than running programs off a disk drive And it leaves your computer s internal memory free for data and other programs ROM BACKUP HOW IT WORKS Before we could offer software on ROM to our customers we thoroughly researched the field locating the most reliable sources of Roms and ROM services In addition we have formed special ROM agreements with our leading software sup pliers including Borland International Tur bo Pascal Simon amp Schus
184. tly This feature is also convenient for Portable Plus MemoMaker users since Plus MemoMaker normally saves its files as WordStar formatted files ORDERING iNFORMATION The following products are distributed by either Hewlett 28 SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 Packard or Personalized Software All Personalized Soft ware products listed below with the exception of _ Webster s on ROM Backup can also be obtained from computer dealers or manufacturers of the product di rectly but without additional 3 1 2 HP formatted disk or customized instructions for how to use the product on the Portable Any product description beginning with Hewlett Packard can be ordered from HP directly calling 800 538 8787 Any product description beginning with Personaliz ed Software can be ordered using the order form in back of the issue or contacting Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Stand Alone Word Processors The Speller Hewlett Packard Runs on Portable HP150 HP35154D 49 95 The Word Plus Personalized Software Retails for 150 from Oasis Systems San Diego Portable Paper subscriber price 99 95 Webster s New World Spelling Checker Personalized Software Manufacturer Simon amp Schuster New York NY The HP Portable Plus and HP150 version of Webster s Spelling Checker 79 95 69 95 to Portable Paper subscribers Webster s is also available from Per sonalized Software on two 128K Backup ROMs for
185. to go to the expense of buying WordStar for the Portable or MS Word for the Plus to go beyond MemoMaker s capabilities THE EDITORS s most valuable features are listed on the chart to the right It s quite a list isn t it To me THE EDITOR is a real blessing I use it daily instead of Memo Maker and I ve silently given thanks to its author Ed Gilbert many many times Just afew minutes with THE EDITOR that s all it takes to be up and running and I think you ll be a fan of his too In addition to the many great features listed to the right there are five more I especially want to emphasize 1 THE EDITOR s Lotus like menus make it incredibly easy to use ae The Formatter THE FORMATTER gives you advanced formatting capabilities that even THE EDITOR can t handle like multi line headers and footerseautomatic hyphena tion you can even add your own words to the built in dictionary euser specified page length and line lengtheautomatic page numberingetables and charts etable of contents generationeand more THE FORMATTER works by imbedding special for matting codes into your EDITOR MemoMaker or other ASCII text files You can customize THE FOR MATTER for almost any printer y 2 THE EDITOR creates ASCII files which means you can send your files to and from almost any other program or computer without special formats or codes 3 THE EDITOR will automatically back up your files to protect you against mista
186. tor and our own special disk Turbo Pascal Programs for the Portables Here s a rundown on each Turbo Pascal Our ver 3 sion of Turbo Pascal is customized to both the HP110 Portable and the Portable Plus at no extra charge The customization B authorized by Bor land allows the Turbo editor to use all the normal Portable editing keys Ex tend Char Delete Line etc This saves you from having to learn many of the commands particular to WordStar 4 Turbo Tutor is a well ES written interactive tu torial that includes a manual and a disk E The manual covers B not just the funda mentals but many fine points of Pas cal programming as well it is of value i even to advanced E programmers The disk in cludes every example covered in the manual already keyed in and ready to use Note neither the IBM ver sion nor the HP150 version of Turbo Tutor will run on the Portables only our 3 disk version will RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Vectra Portable Plus e HPI50 IBM PC and compatibles e Turbo Pascal Pro grams for the Porta bles is a great supple ment to Turbo Tutor Based on the princi ple of learning by example the disk contains more than 50 sample Turbo Pascal programs and every one of them runs on the HP110 or the Portable Plus The programs range in length from ten lines of code to hundreds and from simple temperature conversi
187. ts for finance courses solve accounting problems write papers and more Students will be allowed to use the portables in their rooms at study sessions and on weekends and vacations All full time faculty members will use either a desktop or a portable Vectra PC to develop and distribute class assignments prepare lecture notes and perform research Because the new portables are compatible with industry standards professors can make assignments using text book software without modifying the programs What s Special About The Portable Vectra by Hal Goldstein We do not a have an HP Portable Vectra to look at yet From studying the specification sheet and talking with an HP Corvallis engineer here are some of my initial impressions about the strengths of the unit Imagine a balance scale On one side of the scale put 17 6 pounds and a few more pounds if you want the HP Portable Vectra CS Model 20 On the other side look at all the Portable Vectra s features What follows is a discussion of the most salient of these features See which way you think the scale tips for your needs 1 The machine is rugged The Corvallis designers ap parently spent a lot of time making the Portable Vectra as rugged as possible It was built with extra shock mounting for disk drives The clamshell closed case design means that the system can take some abuse However the disk drives are still mechanical the unit will not be as hardy as an HP110 and
188. ttery DOUBLE GUARANTEE In addition to our standard 60 day mon ey back guarantee the RECOMMENDED FOR The 4 x2 x 1 WorldPort 2400 costs less than HP s internal modems is faster and can be used with more than one computer HP110 Portable Portable Vectra e Portable Plus e HP150 e IBM PC and compatibles e WorldPort 2400 comes with a 2 year manufac turer s warranty covering defects in materials and workmanship The WorldPort 2400 offers portablility relia bility well designed features and ease of use Order yours risk free today Retail Subscriber Price Price WorldPort 2400 modem 359 00 319 00 with Carbon Copy PLUS software WorldPort 1200 modem 199 00 179 00 without software Cable to connect modem to HP Portables 35 95 19 95 Acoustic coupler 59 95 56 95 300 1200 baud 9 volt AC adapter 6 95 6 95 Upgrade kit WorldPort1200 WorldPort2400 199 00 179 00 includes Carbon Copy PLUS software 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 WorldPort 2400 and WorldPort 1200 are trademarks of Touchbase Systems Inc Hayes is a trademark of Hayes Microcomputer Products
189. ulating files on their electronic disks especially as the RAM capacity on the Plus grows Such a program would also be most helpful when using the Portable in conjunction with the external disk drive I had reason to be optimistic CompuServe users in the HP forum had reported that they could make XTree work with the HP150 using the HP150 IBM PC emulator pro gram Most programs that can be made to work on the HP150 can work at least on the Plus using Alternate mode from PAM s f6 System Config As a further sign of hope a configuration program 4 that gives an option for a non IBM system was included with XTree To my delight the opening X Iree screen came up on my Plus displaying my Edisk subdirectory structure a list of files and file statistics However X Tree did not recog nize any subsequent keystrokes such as m or 1 It did recognize the Extend Char as the IBM Alt key We will be talking to the XTree folks to see if they will modify their program for HP Portable users LAPLINK The rest of the world is discovering what we HP Portable users have known for years Portable computers are most useful tools and 3 1 2 hard floppy disks are superior to 5 1 4 disks Now new portable users are faced with the problem that has plagued us from the beginning transferring data from 5 1 4 disk to 3 1 2 disk The HP solution has been to purchase an HP IL card and software HP45643A that fits into an IBM PC or com pa
190. unreadable by DOS to distribute them on OE Teter aay OU TOME MPRE DUISUE ANE depo disk tor sers ot the HPLID Portable lt x Portable Plus and HP150 All it takes is a Qe S af Pron ut Simple The file isn t really deleted in the first place When you delete a file all that actually gets erased is part of the file s directory en try That s why it only takes an instant to delete an entire file Without a directory en try DOS can t find the file but THE NORTON UTILITIES can Now what about those cases where you can t possibly recover a file because you ve already partially overwritten it with other files Surely THE NORTON UTILITIES can t help you then Wrong they can THE NORTON UTILITIES wont recover the entire file of course but they can help you restore the portions of the file that still remain on the disk It s done with a powerful utility called nu that lets you display change and capture to a file any information on any disk In complex cases you may need to do some detective work but nu will help you find whatever remains on the disk thereby saving you from countless hours of retyping lost data In my opinion the ability to recover lost files alone makes THE NORTON UTILITIES well worth the price But theres even more to the pachage THE NORTON UTILITIES RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Plus e e Portable Vectra e e ej HP150 IBM P
191. ur document in an environment related to your word processor For example in WordPerfect you can invoke the spelling checker at any time right from within your editing session There is another important advantage of using a spell ing checker associated with a word processor You do not lose any internal formatting information when doing the spell checking For example in WordPerfect there are in ternal formatting markers that keep track of margins page length headers footnotes columns table of contents mail merge and so on If you save such a WordPerfect file as an ASCII file in order to use Webster s much of this in formation gets lost Alternatively in WordPerfect MSWord and most of the others you could print your document to a file rather than the printer and then run the file through Webster The fruit of the internal format markers that is the table of contents headers footnotes and so forth gets saved in a print file However you loses the internal format markers themselves if you ever want to re edit the file However there is a disadvantage in using these full featured word processors and associated spelling checkers in the HP Portable environment the amount of disk space required If you are not using a ROM product like MS Word or MultiMate you are already using up a lot of disk space even without the spelling checker If you decide to use a spelling checker with the word processor whether or
192. ursor to row 5 column 10 and displays Hi there To restore the default prompt type in set prompt and press return Remember this for later Now you know how to get ANSI s attention just send it an Escape character e When followed by the lefta bracket and some other gibberish the Escape characte becomes an escape sequence The PROMPT command is the easiest way to send these escape sequences to the ANSI command interceptor INVISIBLE REFERENCES ANSI SYS makes it relatively easy for users to redefine their function keys There are only four pages about this in the HP110 Users Manual Appendix D in the HP 110 Users Manual pages 6 9 and it is hardly mentioned in the DOS Users Manual Yet it is very handy and easy to use SO HOW DO YOU USE THE ANSI TERMINAL PROGRAM Before I show you how to make sentences of escape se quences let s decipher the code from Appendix D of the HP 110 s Users Manual We ll look at the Alternate Escape Sequences and then see how HP has extended them In the following ESC represents the escape character HERE ARE THE CURSOR MOVEMENT COMMANDS The commands ESC 24 zH and ESC 4 4F move the cursor to a specific location 7 represents a number if it is omitted the computer assumes you mean I Example ESC 12 40H places the cursor on Row 12 Column 40 ESC A moves the cursor up one or more rows without changing the column position Example ESC 5A 5 up
193. y contrast a 2 Meg abyte RAM A drive Card must be used in place of an existing RAM drawer 3 With a C drive Card in your system you have in effect two built in disk drives the A drive and the C drive that s on the card By stor ing copies of critical data and programs on both drives you protect yourself against disaster if your A drive becomes corrupted which as you may know can happen WHOLE NEW MACHINE The minute you install your new SoftWord card s your Portable Plus becomes an entirely new machine You ll be able to run large applications like WordPerfect or RightWriter or even an entire integrated package like T Master and still have plenty of room left over to manipulate large There is one potential drawback to using a C drive Card You cannot directly back up your drive to an IBM PC or HP150 that has an HP IL in terface card if the PC or 150 has a hard disk of more than 10 megabytes In such cases you can back up your C drive to an external disk drive or to your A drive and then copy your files to the PC or 150 from there your A drive see Example data files all without the need for an external disk drive In addition you ll enjoy the faster access time that comes with RAM stor age and the convenience of not hav ing to hassle with disks all the time You should of course continue to use disks to back up your files occasion ally as a safety measure So don
194. y from SoftWord Here is their full product line and price list prices include shipping and insurance 384 RAM Card aana 12 Megabyte RAM A drive Card or C drive Card 800 Upgrade to 1 Megabyte 500 1 Megabyte RAM A drive Card or C drive Card 1200 2 Megabyte RAM A drive Card or C drive Card 1800 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card or C drive Card sei cide ert Sneed borne ed 1200 UK residents please add Value Added Tax at the ap plicable rate SoftWord Astage Rectory Lane Windlesham Surrey GU20 6BW England Telephone National Bagshot 0276 75440 International 44276 75440 ADDING MEGABYTES Here are some ways you can use SoftWord s A drive Cards and C drive Cards to expand the capacity of your Portable Plus Note 1 megabyte 1024K Portable Plus s built in memory EXAMPLE 1 1 64 megabytes 1 Megabyte RAM ROM C drive Card installed in a Portable Plus having 256K of built in memory and 384K of extra memory purchased from HP Gives you 640K of main Edisk memory 8 ROM sockets and an additional 1mb of C drive storage EXAMPLE 2 2 1 megabytes 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card and 1 Megabyte RAM ROM C drive Card installed in a Portable Plus having 128K of built in memory Recommended for users who may need more than 8 sockets filled with software on ROM Gives you 1 1mb of main Edisk memory 16 ROM sockets and an additional 1mb of C drive storage
195. you add words of your own to RightWriter s built in dictionary See p 2 Software on ROM Many of our best selling programs are available on ROM chips via our ROM Backup service Portable Plus only Saves valuable electronic disk space minimizes need for disk drive Custom ROMs also available seras Shelp Whether you re in a Lotus spreadsheet a MemoMaker memo or almost any program Shelp gives you immediate access to a notepad and calculator and lets you define up to 26 keyboard macros that is assign up to 31 characters to a single keystroke Written exclusively for the Portable Plus seeP 27 SideWinder This program written specifically for the HP Portables the HP150 and the ThinkJet printer allows you to print your spreadsheets or any other text file sideways This means you can print your 60 column by 53 row spreadsheet on the ThinkJet from your Portable as one long printout without cutting and pasting SeeP 24 Sketch A graphics program for the HP Portables Lets you draw free form using cursor keys Also draw lines boxes circles by pressing a single key Fill shapes with light or dark solid Five character sets can be displayed nor mally sideways or even upside down Entire screen can be printed on ThinkJet at virtually any enlargement Screens can be saved for future use Screens can also be imported into Sketch from Lotus and other pro grams Only uses 44K of memory Se P 33 Soft Padded Cases Roomy rug
196. your printer s character set with HPRUTIL COM change the characters or even create new ones with its bit editor For example you can probably create a Kanji or Greek character set for the ThinkJet In addition it s possible to test the printer s ink ports renumber characters in a file and merge character files A complete italic character set comes with HPrint This allows you to print parts of your MemoMaker file in italic CONCLUSIONS It should be quite obvious that HPrint is a relatively com prehensive text enhancer that extends the usefulness of not only MemoMaker but the ThinkJet and QuietJet printer as well It has great potential and is worthy of serious consideration if you re looking for a good text enhancer SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 1987 35 THE PORTABLE PAPER By Ed Keefe Controlling Your Portable s Screen by Ed Keefe Ed In the last issue the pam env variable COMSPEC was inadvertently put in lower case in the examples it needs to be in upper case The case of letters in escape se quences described in this article is also important This months article was written and tested by Ed Keefe on an HPIIO Some of bis examples do not work on tbe Portable Plus Please consult the Portable Plus technical reference manual ESCAPE INTO THE LOOKING GLASS This time we ll take a close look at how to control our looking glass the display screen of the HP Portables By to control we mean to control what goes

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