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1. 0 000 005 195 00 174 95 Mouse Software 0 000000 70 00 60 00 Mouse Cable 0 0 2 0 0 0000 ccc eee 30 00 4 20 00 Padded Case for Printer Disk Drive DOI ec aaa 37 95 Padded Case for HP Portable Plus 59 95 56 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 uct name and price on one of the blank lines in the MISC section near the bottom of the order form Retail Price Subscriber Price Pertmaster uuunauaua aaaea aaa 695 00 499 00 Pertmaster Demo 000005 50 00 50 00 Penter ea a a a AD OD ts riuin 44 95 Private File a2 4254 80 Se tet 5 aan edt g eave b ans O10 Ss sea ee 34 95 RightWords dictionary extension for RightWriter p 42 0 29 99 2 ee bei 29 95 SideWinder without utilities p 37 69 95 59 95 T Maker Recommended for HP110 p 19 295 00 199 95 Teer Tor ap Pn S S2 Da iia ee acd 29 95 Turbo Pascal Programs for Portables p 18 49 95 44 95 Turbo Toolbox p 13 nian ete hss dey 2 ee hho 69 95 62 95 Turbo Tutor 3 0 p 18 eriei drda ap a 89 95 24h bees 35 95 Turbo Tutor 4 0 p 18 0 0000000 000 DO Obs Ge feed 53 95 WorldPort 1200 modem p 23 199 00 179 00 Acoustic coupler 300 1200 baud 59 95 anuau 56 95 9 vo
2. Available on ROM Backu for the Portable Plus executes commands exceptionally fast Even in the desktop market it is dif ficult to find a word processor with this many useful features at this low a price For the Portables THE EDITOR simply can t be beat See for yourself Order your copy risk free today THE EDITOR 99 95 79 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARAN TEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Special combined offer SAVE 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 for you Order your copy risk free today THE FORMATTER 4 59 95 49 95 for Portable Paper subscribers See Software on ROM ad THE EDITOR gives you all these great text editing features and more Search and replace Just tell THE EDITOR what word or phrase to loo
3. 21 File Transfer From HP75 To VAX 40 Products Discussed In This Article 21 About The Editor ee ee E A a E A 40 Special Feature Organizing Your Disks 21 Time Saved For Professionals 40 he i Configuring The 110 For The 9121 Disk Drive 40 Gfimmer s Portable Tales 3 Configuring The Portable Plus For The 9121 41 Through The Looking Glass 34 Attaching MS Word Style Sheet 4 Wizardry 110 DOS Files Backups Attributes And Security 38 HP Announces New DeskJet Printer 7 USEr GrOUPS coroide ena a a 44 USED HP PORTABLES AND PERIPHERALS We aanie gt ag PON ces usen eave S No longer using your HP cS Portable or peripherals Turn them into cash through The Portable Equipment Exchange Prices fluctuate so buy them Buying used HP You know HP quality can serve you well for years Call for current call us for current Prices figures For good buys on used and new HP equipment see our 4 page brochure enclosed with this issue 7 GOOD REASONS TO BUY NEW HP EQUIPMENT FROM US I Big discounts 12 25 off retail prices 2 Immediate delivery Virtually all Portable related items are in stock and are shipped the next day 3 Liberal trade ins on all used HP Portable equipment Want to upgrade from HP110 to Portable Plus from HP110 or Portable Plus to Portable Vectra Call for curr
4. code simultaneously Then press the se cond key of the key code There are three key codes ex for ex panded ec for Expanded compressed and co for compressed Press ctrl ex ctrl ec or ctrl cc respectively to have the text emphasized with different print styles You can change the font for each character You can have bold printing at the same time by using the respective op tion in the Choose Typeface menu ex cept for the compressed font This style sheet may look com plicated at the beginning but it is actual ly very simple You see no control or printer codes on the screen Unfortunate ly you don t see the font size on the screen either and if you have more than one font size on one line the screen doesn t show the correct length so it s definitely not WYSIWYG Rudolf J Sommer Nussbaumen Switzerland 110 continued from page 10 Symphony is an integrated package which includes a spreadsheet data base word processor graphics and data communication modules However Lotus could not deliver it in time or make it small enough to fit onto the HP110 ROM s Consequently MemoMaker and Terminal were created in the last few months of development to ac company 1 2 3 on the HP110 We have reason to believe that the new version of Symphony 2 0 can be made to run with custom software drivers out of RAM on the Plus By next issue we should be able to give details THE Intellige
5. E and when the cursor is down it will erase whatever it encounters DOZENS OF HANDY FEATURES But that s just the beginning SKETCH also lets you draw diagonals boxes circles and arcs each with a single key If you have a mouse you gain even more convenience Move the mouse in any way you want and the cursor follows instantly See ad on the Logitech Mouse for the Por table Plus in this issue SKETCH also lets you fill closed shapes with light or dark solid or even invert the entire screen light areas become dark and vice versa with a single keystroke With SKETCH you can create text in any of 5 different character sets and place the text any where in your drawing including sideways or even upside down SKETCH lets you save part or all of any drawing for future use or you can print directly from the screen onto your ThinkJet or QuietJet pages RECOMMENDED FO R HP110 Portable Portable Pus Portable Vectra HP150 IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus Instant Access POp UDS tor the Portable Pius Calculator notepad e macros and more A great easy to use productivity booster If there s one program every Portable Plus owner should have it s Shelp Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable Paper The menu gives you 4 choices Calculator Notepad Key Macros and Off Choose Calculator and get a
6. Norton will show you the directory in directory format Pressing Return will cause the format to be changed to Hex ascii The attribute of a file is stored as the byte following the file name The attribute byte for a subdirectory should be hex 20 Use your cursor keys to move to the byte following the subdirectory you want to make hidden and change the 20 to 22 Once that is done press escape and have the Nor ton Utilities save the changes to disk At this point you are done so go ahead and exit the Norton Utilities Preview of coming attractions I ve ordered a Port able Vectra with a hard disk You ll be hearing more about it and Portable Vectras in general in upcoming issues Cliff Looyenga provides technical support for HP PC s and HP 3000 s and in those circles he is known as The Wizard He has developed a number of HP110 Port able and Portable Plus utilities Cliff s CompuServe ID is 75106 2130 WordPerfect customized for the Portable Plus and HP150 WordPerfect It s the best selling word processor for the IBM PC According to many reviewers it s the best word processor on the market WordPerfect is a word processing power house Its 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 th
7. 95 Topine Whiz issesntssaar n tiea eie ea et eee 64K 95 Webster s Spelling Checker Back cover Two 128K ROMs 256K 179 gt Mini PrinterTalk is the abbreviated version included on the PrinterTalk disk It is functionally equivalent to PrinterTalk for most applications Our Products and Services in Brief Carbon Copy Plus For Portable Plus and Portable Vectra a highly rated program that does both data communications and remote control for operating a remote computer from the keyboard of a host computer The data com munications functions are among the easiest to use on the market Dual chat windows allow local and remote users to type at the same time without garbling messages The remote control functions are password protected to prevent unauthorized use of remote computers The entire program is memory resident Specify Portable Plus or Port able Vectra version CompuServe Starter Kit Gets you started on the Electronic Information Service CompuServe which includes the HP Forum Includes 25 worth of free time and CompuServe s monthly magazine Online Today Seer 44 Condor 3 and Condor Jr Database programs customized for the HP Portables Enter data sort search manage files and print address labels with ease Condor Jr runs on the HP110 and Portable Vectra It allows limited report writing and is highly memory efficient Condor 3 runs on the Plus Portable Vectra and HP150 It is a full
8. Great News I0r rortabpie Fius Users now on RO Pack your favorite programs into just a few slots in your ROM drawer E Save valuable memory space E 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 s the 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 ips 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 Schuster Webster s Spelling Checker and Southern Software SideWinder For numerous legal economic and logistical reasons we offer ROMs to 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 tha
9. izational techniques I use from day to day Some of these methods are universal Some may not be applicable to you Any organizational scheme must be tailored to the indivi dual user Remember however that even a small amount of DISKorganization is better than disorganization Sorry couldn t resist It is great but there is a potential problem now that the memory of my Edisc exceeds that of one 3 5 floppy One easy solution is as follows for a simpler path command you should have as many of your executable files e g wp exe your sys files such as shelp sys mouse sys and your configuration files as possible in one subdirectory These kinds of files will not be changed so they do not have to be backed up These will also probably account for the bulk of your Edisc space On your designated back up disk you should only copy the files from your Edisc that have been changed I wrote a small batch file that uses the bac com utility found on the DOS Utilities disk from Personalized Software and available on many bulletin boards to copy only those files that have been changed Even though my Edisc is now 1 3 Meg I can easily perform back ups to a 710k floppy If disk space is still a problem note that the only time that you need config sys mouse sys and shelp sys or any sys file for that matter is when the computer is booted up If you choose to delete these after booting you can save a lot of disk space
10. 1 for a discussion of how to use more in order to see One screen at a time when us ing the DOS type command The final DOS command vdisk sys lets you create a temporary electronic disk We will discuss this in a future issue qd2 is a disk organizer with the trade name QDOS from Gazelle systems I use QDOS when I want to see a graphic listing of my subdirectory structure and when I want to move delete copy or rename groups of files MARCH APRIT 1088 17 THE PORTABLE PAPER PAM s File Manager offers these capabilities but in a much more primitive way than QDOS a dedicated disk organiz ing product I find the program easy to use very intuitive You don t even need to read the manual setup is HP s program to configure the Portable Vec tra Configuration information is stored in non volatile RAM and remains when the Portable Vectra is turned off With the setup program you can define the palette as described above set the date and time set an alarm cause the program to stay resident and for non US users load different screen fonts dlink is the Direc Link program reviewed later in this column It allows Portable Vectra users to transfer files from the Vectra to a desktop IBM compatible computer via the parallel or serial port Finally ed is Personalized Software s The Editor pro gram The Editor is a powerful fast compact ASCII editor that runs on the HP110 Portable Plus HP150 Portable Vec tra and
11. 13 cenll0 app 8 87 1 728 Interfacing a centronics printer w the HP110 13 cts cpapp 8 87 15 594 Using Portables CTS companion Pac 14 com23 a 0 11 87 2 495 Introducing the Portable Vectra CS 14 com23 e5 11 87 4 258 Creating address labels ECM amp Thinkjet 14 comI7 e3 7 87 6 331 Portable Plus Most frequent questions 14 comY8 e27 7 87 7 317 MS Word Data transfer information Guidelines For Connecting A Centronics Printer To The Portable The following application note comes courtesy of the HP Response Center and HP CompuServe Forum Concerning file cend10 app in data library 13 see above This method of connecting The Portable with a standard parallel printer was only tested with the HP110 Plus users Please tell us of your success in using this method with the Portable Plus SO we can report to other readers WARNING The Portable is not designed to commu nicate with centronics printers The method mentioned below will not work with all centronics printers It is mere ly a configuration that has worked for some printers If you can still not get your printer to work with The Portable after following these instructions contact your printer dealer for further assistance 1 Connect The Portable to the centronics printer through the HPIL GPIO interface HP82165A 295 retail 259 from us Make sure you have a complete HPIL loop between The Portable and the interface 2 To configure The Portable set the PRINTER INTER FACE field
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13. I doubt if it will ever beat ver sion 3 0 on the Portable since even the commandline ver sion of the compiler requires 79k of disk space 42k for the compiler and 37k for the base library For Portable Plus users it will be a good package when we get around to duplicating the CRT unit for our machines i e the one that contains all of the IBM PC goodies More on this later Paul Grimmer president of Southern Software writes commercial and public domain software for the HP110 and Portable Plus His credits include SideWinder for sideways printing of spreadsheets to the ThinkJet printer Sketch for free form graphics on the Portables and ThinkJet Hprint for fully exploiting the text font and graphics capabilities of the ThinkJet and QuietJet printers and Link which enables the transfer of data be tween all HP IL devices On the side he works as an engineer at Conoco You can write Paul at 12501 Clippership Dr An chorage AK 99515 or send E mail on CompuServe to 713 70 1303 HP110 and Portable Plus The answer is yes and no The integrated environment version of TP4 does NOT work on the HP110 and the Portable Plus but will run as is on the HP Portable Vectra The integrated version has pull down menus and pop up help screens It requires IBM PC com patibility along with 384K bytes of memory However Borland has provided another version of TP4 This rendition of TP4 is what Borland calls the com
14. I think that the designer of MindReader must have written the program with tongue in cheek It demonstrates such grossly poor taste that it is funny Oh yes there is a command in Mind Reader to adjust the volume of the bells and whistles and mute the colors However I like to run MindReader at full volume with its most garish colors racing around the border of the screen I like to use it for otherwise colorless memos and dull reports LET S GET SERIOUS In a more serious vein and also in the realm of word pro cessing there is GALAXY version 2 3 For the past year GALAXY has been my word pro cessor of choice It is easy to learn and to relearn after periods of non use The newest version of GALAXY is what I thought impossible it is improved File retrieval and saving is faster than before The program will now let you load a file by pointing at the file s name in much the same way that you retrieve a file in 1 2 3 The new version also contains a macro writing capability It requires just turn ing on the macro recorder and performing a series of keystrokes The same keystrokes can be replayed again and again at the push of a single key GALAXY was originally written in Turbo Pascal The new version has been converted to Turbo Pascal 4 0 Now instead of several program files there is just one large file of 140K bytes There is no longer any Setup program Screen colors and default directories may be chosen from within the progr
15. Personalized Software It retails for 69 95 and is available to The Portable Paper subscribers for 59 95 You may use the order form in back of the issue or call 515 472 6330 Products Discussed In This Article The following list contains the names prices and publishers of the Portable Vectra products mentioned in this article In most cases you may obtain the products from the manufacturer a computer dealer or from Per sonalized Software If you are a The Portable Paper subscriber and you decide to order from us we will be happy to pass along our subscriber discount To order from us call us at 515 472 6330 You can use the blank spaces on the order form in back of the issue or on a separate piece of paper and send your order to Per sonalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 You may pay by check credit card or company purchase order RETAIL SUBSCRIBER PRODUCT PUBLISHER PHONE PRICE PRICE Direc Link software only Micro Z 213 377 1640 59 50 53 95 Direc Link software 3 ser 2 par cable set 134 90 115 00 Lotus 1 2 3 Lotus 617 577 8500 495 00 399 00 Monitor EGA Goldstar 205 772 8860 649 00 495 00 Monitor Monochrome Goldstar 205 772 8860 129 00 119 00 Monitor CGA Goldstar 205 772 8860 449 00 395 00 Norton Utilities Peter Norton Co 213 453 2361 99 95 79 95 Norton Util Adv Peter Norton Co 213 453 2361 150 00 119 00 QDOS Gazelle Systems 801 377 1288 69 95 62 95 Quattro Borland Internation
16. and compressed fonts and of course nor mal Pica The easiest way to use this sup port is with a style sheet From the edit mode in MS Word press f8 or Esc to go to the menu gallery then insert Assign a key code consisting of one or two characters I suggest using two meaningful characters instead of one e g x for expanded ec for expanded compressed etc next press tab To usage insert usage press up arrow key to see list of usages DO NOT PRESS RETURN YET Next press tab to variant insert variant press up arrow key for list of variants DO NOT PRESS RETURN YET Again press tab to remarks and insert whatever remark you want to make referring to the use of the key code e g Expanded or Titles Subtitles etc This will facilitate amendments and re mind you of what you had in mind when you created this style sheet Next press return format character Choose from the menu whatever options you want Tab to the op tions but before pressing RETURN Tab to font size Insert your respective option THE PORTABLE PAPER only ONE Make separate entries into the style sheet for each size 16 is expanded 14 is expanded compressed 12 is normal Pica and 8 is compressed Also note that some of the features offered in this menu are not supported by MS Word with the ThinkJet italics dou ble underline subscript superscript small capitals Now press return
17. check or credit card number to Personalized Software PO Box SideWinder 1 01 owners may upgrade to current version 2 01 which supports 8 chars inch by sending oO rarte MY SEPR Soraya e O08 Personalized Software 7 50 or by mailing a self addressed 39 stamped envelope and the SideWinder master disk d100 JUAUIdOJanaq sno Jo syreWapeN palaysiBar are 7 pue sno 105 rows for QuietJet Printer Copyright 1987 Personalized Software A NEW LEASE ON LIFE FOR A QUIET LITTLE filling out forms planning activities and coordinating staff COMPUTER schedules I hope so The Time Manager program along As you may have surmised my HP110 has been pushed into with 1 2 3 MemoMaker and one or two dBASE II pro the background in favor of a PC compatible desktop com grams should keep it active for a couple more years I ll puter I miss using the 110 It s a great little machine and keep you posted for almost two years it was my only computer It ran Until next time Happy Porting faithfully quietly and almost flawlessly Now it sits on my Ed Keefe is an author programmer and computer desk running continuously It keeps accurate time with the science instructor He ts the president of the FastAid Com CLOCK110 program available on this year s Subscriber s pany 314 SW Logan Ankeny IA 50021 Ed s CompuServe Disk However it no longer gets the attention it deserves ID is 73277 1064 That may soon change My wife has a n
18. pound Note The DeskJet printer works well with most types of paper including that typically used for photocopy ing Bond paper such as letterhead gives excellent quality JetPaper should not be used however Paper Handling Built in sheet feeder up to 100 sheets Manual envelope feed Control Panel On line Prime FF Form Feed Envelope Feed Up and Down Arrow Keys Font Mode Up Arrow Down Arrow Reset Interfaces Dual I O Centronics parallel and RS 232 serial Environmental Ranges Temperature 10 C to 40 C 50 F to 104 F max imum operating 15 C to 35 C 59 F to 95 F recommended for best quality 40 C to 60 C 40 MARCH APRIL 1988 a division of Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 Portable Plus HP150 IBM PC and compatibles le F to 140 F storage Humidity 10 70 RH non condensing Acoustics per ISO 7779 standard Sound pressure level LpA 44dB A front bystander position Power Requirements Power modules 100v 120v 220v 240v AC 10 10 47 5 63Hz Consumption at 120 VAC 60 Hz 8 watts maximum non printing 25 watts maximum printing Physical Specifications Height 20 2 cm 8 Width 44 0 cm 17 3 Depth 37 7 cm 14 8 Weight 6 5 kg 14 3 lb Buffer Size 16 K bytes Product Certifications UL CSA NEMKO TUV VDE FTZ SETI SEMKO LCIE DEMKO KEMA SEV SECV Homologation Spain VCCI Japan SABS
19. see box near bottom of order form e Shipping is FREE for U S orders over 200 5 Calculate total 6 If paying by check or money order e Make payable in U S funds to PERSONALIZED SOFTWARE e The last section of e Place check and order form in an envelope and ia the order form is for mail e If you d rather have us pay the postage ROM backup See Fold order form so panel addressed to Personaliz below ed Software is on the outside e Tape shut and drop in mail ordering software on ADDITIONAL PRODUCTS Product Retail Price Subscriber Price Carbon Copy Plus Portable Plus Version 225 00 199 95 Carbon Copy Plus Portable Vectra IBM PC Version 0 0005 19500 Ca hae ere 179 00 CompuServe Starter Kit B08 gio hte E 35 95 Direc Link p 20 00 0 59 95 53 95 Parallel cable 0 0 0 0 00 0 eee eee eee D995 2s ee nko es 19 95 Parallel cable adapter 20 005 sexs 47d oie Re 18 00 Direc Link Cable Pack 8 serial cables plus parallel cable adapter AD OO wos oa ace 3 42 00 HP9114 Empower with Battery Pack p 43 225 00 199 00 HPDuette Portable Vectra only p 35 I S eae 56 95 POPMIAUIIO 2 Sshatacsinna i eene r e AE ews DOs IO AEE 35 95 The Formatter p 29 0 0 0 00 0 0 DOO Oe date AE 49 95 Mouse Logitech 0 0 0 0000 00005 TIO OO 1g ara ates 99 95 Mouse Microsoft
20. A fresh battery will keep the WorldPort humming for 8 10 hours You can extend battery life by operating the unit from a wall outlet whenever possible using the optional AC adapter The WorldPort 2400 draws no power from your Portable s battery DOUBLE GUARANTEE In addition to our standard 60 day mon ey back guarantee the RECOMMENDED FOR IBM PC and compatibles The 4 x2 x1 WorldPort 2400 costs less than HP s internal modems is faster and can be used with more than one computer HP110 Portable Portable Vectra 2 Portable Plus HP150 WorldPort 2400 comes with a 2 year manufac turer s warranty covering defects in materials and workmanship The WorldPort 2400 offers portablility relia bility well designed features and ease of use Order yours risk free today Retail Subscriber Price Price WorldPort 2400 modem 359 00 319 00 with Carbon Copy PLUS software WorldPort 1200 modem 199 00 179 00 without software Cable to connect modem to HP Portables 30 00 20 00 Acoustic coupler 59 95 56 95 300 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
21. For example these three sys files waste about 13 5k Since I do a lot of low level hack ing on the Portables I crash my machines more often than many users probably do and I have found that it is not too much of a hassle to recopy the sys files to the Edisc reboot and then delete them again In fact config sys is the only one that really ever needs to be on the A drive since the others are specified in a path name in the con fig sys file PROGRAMMING PROJECT FOR THE PORTABLES Our programming project for the year will be to make a pop up like SideKick for the Portables This program is in tended to be flexible enough so that any programmers and there are quite a few out there will be able to simply drop their code for a calendar phone dialer etc into our shell MARCH APRIL 1988 41 THE PORTABLE PAPER and recompile it This kind of program is sorely needed for the Portables and it will also enable us to do some rather nifty things with the machines The first thing we need for our pop up program is a name Porta Poppy If you have any suggestions give me a call at 907 345 3593 or leave me a message on Com puServe ID 71370 1303 Also let me know the types of things you would like to see in a pop up that are not listed below keyboard macros any key notepad with paste capability phone dialer calculator small database appointment scheduler DEFINING CRITERIA FOR THE PROJECT From a technical st
22. Goldstein President Personalized Software Paul Grimmer has done it again He s the author of two of our best selling pro grams SideWinder the sideways printng program for the HP Portables and LINK the program that lets you transfer data back and forth be tween HP hand helds and Portables printers and other peripherals Now he s developed SKETCH a fab ulous graphics program designed for both the HP110 Portable and Portable Plus CURSOR BECOMES DRAWING PEN Using SKETCH couldn t be simpler Put SKETCH in draw mode and your cursor becomes a pen The pen can either be up or down When it is down it draws wherever you move it When it is up you can move it around the screen without affecting the drawing You set the cursor up or down simply by pressing U or D You also w can set the cursor speed and can tog gle between a faster speed and a slower shows that This Yo want Cc MOT Z3SUTP RUE S IAM Shelp Recommended by Hewlett Packard and used by more than 1 000 of their employees age l sa program called Shelp shell help and it runs on the Portable Plus from within any non graphics pro gram Here s all you do Press Ctrl Shift Extend char and up pops the Shelp menu right in the middle of your application Lotus in this example H SATURH speed in an instant The pen also has an eraser Just press
23. LCD unit in seconds The introduction of the Portable Vectra has opened up the world of monitors to me One of the unique features of the Portable Vectra is its built in support for color and high resolution monitors the Portable Vectra needs no extra hardware adapter card Portable Vectra users can choose a CGA EGA or monochrome monitor INEXPENSIVE HIGH QUALITY MONITORS FOR THE PORTABLE VECTRA Dave Sample from our Kansas City HP dealer affiliate knew I was searching for a quality alternative to high priced HP monitors Dave is enthusiastic about GoldStar monitors they are less costly without sacrificing quality and carry a one year warranty It happens to the best of us One slip of a finger and a whole week s worth of text or data is past history But not if you have THE NORTON UTILITIES Just type qu for quick unerase give the first letter of the name of the file you erased and the file gets restored Miraculous as it sounds in many cases that s all there is to it How can a deleted file get unerased er for p O Qa R S m lt es eye Fon yw 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 wh
24. Maker and I ve silently given thanks to its author Ed Gilbert many many times Just a few 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 The Formatter THE FORMATTER gives you advanced formatting capabilities that even THE EDITOR can t handle like multi line headers and footers automatic hyphena tion you can even add your own words to the built in dictionary user specified page length and line length automatic page numbering tables and charts table of contents generation and more THE FORMATTER works by imbedding special for matting codes into your EDITOR MemoMaker or other ASCII text files You can customize THE FOR MATTER for almost any printer 2 THE EDITOR creates ASCII files which means you can send your files to and from almost any other program or computer without special formats or codes 3 THE EDITOR will automatically back up your files to protect you against mistakes When you save a file THE EDITOR saves not just the current version but the previous one as well 4 THE EDITOR takes RECOMMENDED FOR up less than 40K of HP110 Portable memory Portable Plus 5 THE EDITOR loads Penati veeta 4e and saves files and IBM PC and compat
25. South Africa com pliance FCC Class B Certified per FCC Rules Part 15 Subpart J when used with a Class B computing device Reliability and Estimated Usage MTBF 20 000 hours 2 000 hours power on and 12 000 printed pages per year 50 pages per day average use An HP110 Portable Plus User s View Of The Vectra I first encountered the HP110 as an HP engineer and it was love at first sight When I left HP I purchased an HP110 and formed our company Personalized Software around the machine I now use the Portable Plus I believe that even THE PORTABLE PAPER without full IBM compatibility the Portable Plus is the best most practical portable in the marketplace Time moves on and for many reasons HP has at least temporarily dropped the Portable Plus RAM ROM disk drive approach and introduced the mechanically disk based Portable Vectra After using a dual floppy Portable Vectra regularly for a month here are some of my thoughts If you travel a lot and want to work on planes in air ports hotel rooms or client s offices pick up a used Port able Plus or an HP110 If you require IBM compatibility there are a number of excellent laptops from which to choose However if you want the advantage of both an IBM compatible desktop and a true portable in one machine the HP Portable Vectra is the way to go I use the Portable Vectra as my main computer at work I removed the LCD screen and attached it to
26. Your first entry into the new style sheet has now been completed Start again for your next font size by pressing insert You are already in the Gallery menu and con tinue as explained above Don t forget to save the style sheet once it is completed Then press transfer and save Name the style sheet as you wish MS Word will attach sty to the given name If you name it NORMAL it will be load ed automatically each time you start MS Word Style sheets with other names have to be attached to the document as shown below Now press return To quit the gallery menu press edit which brings you back to the editing screen To at tach your style sheet to a document if you are in editing mode press f8 or esc to go to the menu Press gallery then transfer and load Type the name of the style sheet you want to attach Press the up arrow key to see the list of available style sheet names which are in the current directory Again press return and edit and your style sheet is now attached to your document You can now mark the sections sentences single characters paragraphs divisions whole documents you want to print in different fonts by going to the first or last character of the desired section Then press Select and mark the section with either the respective arrow key or the Select Text menu softkeys Once you have marked the section press ctrl and the selected key of the respective key
27. a critical error handler i e how to avoid the nasty Abort Retry Ignore message a technique for windows including saving restoring the current screen and a fastwrite routine for the Portable and the Plus INCREASING THE PORTABLE PLUS SCREEN SPEED In closing I will show you a simple technique for the Plus that increases screen speed by more than three times You will not have to modify any of your existing code and it adds only 32 bytes to your programs Just insert the follow ing variable at the top of your program Var AsZ2Byte array 0 1 of char Now insert the following procedure anywhere in your program procedure PlusConDriver ch char begin AsZ2Byte 0 ch inline BB 06 00 mov bx 6 BE AsZ2Byte mov si AsZ2Byte CD 50 int 50 end Were almost there In your main program you must SUBSCRIPTION If you re a Hewlett Packard computer user and buyer a Reflecdon File Transfer i poene acne e simply Ab A gt of HP related hardware software or peripherals Pea P i TALNA HP PROFESSIONAL the monthly magazine of o y F Hewlett Packard commercial and technical com puting is for you It s really something But it costs you nothing ynoustAy WATCH HP s New Wave It s Informative It s Monthly It s Read by 30 000 professionals like you It s FREE Read HP PROFESSIONAL for information and insights on the latest har
28. a software escape sequence will appreciate the front panel From the front panel you can control the font the letter or draft quality and the envelope feed mechanism From the panel you can also advance the printer a page form feed or you can move the paper line by line for ward or backward The printer comes standard with Courier normal and bold depending on the font selection You can select 5 10 16 67 and 20 characters per horizontal inch depending on printer mode and font selection Depending on the font you can select 6 or 12 lines per inch The inkjet cartridge 18 95 retail prints approx imately 1 2 million draft characters and 5 million letter quality characters At 2500 characters bytes per page that s 2000 pages letter quality and 4800 draft mode You can expand the DeskJet s capacity to print dif ferent fonts type styles The DeskJet comes standard with two slots for font cartridges Prices for the font cartridges are between 75 and 125 An assortment of proportional type fonts ranging from Letter Gothic to Helv 14 point to various Times Roman points sizes are available Alter natively for 150 each you can purchase up to two 128K RAM cartridges that can store soft fonts fonts generated from software and sent from the computer to the DeskJet There is also an Epson FX 80 printer emulation Cartridge if your software does not know about HP printers The DeskJet retails for 995 The Portable Paper subscr
29. card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O 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 Inc Carbon Copy PLUS is a trademark of Meridian Technology Inc folders represent additional levels of subdirectories You can put files on top of the cabinet that is the root direc tory and in the front of each drawer and folder As I said my primary utility disk has a subdirectory SETUP to hold copies of all the files I keep on my Edisc Lotus Graph files are in a subdirectory named LOTUS An extensive subdirectory system that identifies baud rates and locations holds Terminal configuration menus and logon files These are necessary because phone numbers change as I move around the country Using sub directories allows disks to hold more files each floppy directory only has slots for 96 files The volume label occupies one of these slots and each subdirectory occupies a directory slot USING DOS COMMANDS FOR TERMINAL FILES I keep a fairly large batch file on this disk to run commu nications routines when the external disk is attached From time to time I use the DOS copy command to copy selected configurations to the Edisc to get its speed ad vantage The DOS copy and delete commands are the best way to handle transferring and subsequently removing terminal menu and logon
30. expect that it will run without problem on the Plus Any reader who is interested in testing both dBXL and QuickSilver more extensively and would like to review both products for a 1 5 Megabyte Portable Plus and for the HP150 if possible should give us a call By Hal Goldstein Vectra Views contains information which specifical ly pertains to the Portable Vectra In this column we note the latest developments on Portable Vectra products from Hewlett Packard Personalized Software and other third parties and include specific tips for the Portable Vectra Please feel free to contribute on disk or letter to Per sonalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 or call 515 472 6330 At the end of this column you will find a complete listing of products discussed Creating An Optimal Portable Vectra Environment ADJUSTING THE PALETTE The first challenge many Portable Vectra users face is in rendering the Portable Vectra LCD screen as readable as possible This problem exists because the Portable Vectra is capable of running color EGA or CGA monitors Smart software programs are able to know that the Port able Vectra supports a high resolution color monitor Without prompting these packages send a rainbow of col ors to the Portable Vectra display To the Vectra user however this rainbow appears as different shades of grey and oddly formed letters on its LCD screen Readability ranges from excellent to barely legibl
31. files to the Edisc The surgical precision obtained by directly manipulating DOS allows copying only files that will be used for a session Terminal configuration files multiply like coat hangers in a closet The Edisc is not big enough for a complete set I tried a batch file to copy Terminal files to the A drive but found Copyright 1987 Personalized Software it much more difficult to control than DOS and it was just too slow USING WILDCARD SYMBOLS The standardization of file names and extensions helps with file manipulation First it makes files easier to find Perhaps more important it allows the use of the MS DOS wildcard symbols and to manipulate more than one file at a time For example suppose you are using 1 2 3 to prepare weekly and monthly reports Monthly reports could be named MRyymmdd WKS and weekly reports could be named WRyymmdd WKS In the file name yy is the year mm is the month and dd is last date of the report period Further suppose that letters of transmittal are prepared to accompany and expand on the reports The same file naming system could be applied to these letters except that the extension might be rpt If you receive a request for all monthly report transmittal letters for 1986 these can be copied to another disk with the following series of commands md a hold create temporary sub directory copy c MR86 rpt a hold copies files from archive disk copy a hold c copies files
32. he she never bothered to back them up I ve got to admit backing up the portable is a pain but not near ly as painful as the consequences of not backing up BACKING UP PORTABLE FILES So what is the best way to back up an HP Portable This is one of the questions I am asked most frequently I don t know if there is a best way as always there are tradeoffs On my HP110 I organize my Edisc so that my im portant work files are in a subdirectory All I do to back them up is copy the contents of the subdirectory to a flop py disk using the DOS copy command This works all right for my 110 because its Edisc is so small so the backup is quick and easy My Portable Plus however has much more memory and therefore the organization of the Edisc isn t so simple What seems to work best for me is the backup restore pro gram that is usually included with DOS including that for the Portable Vectra The backup program gives you the Option to backup only the files that have been modified since the last time you did a backup It will also search your subdirectories so that you don t have to back them up separately However when you need to restore a file you can t just copy it off the backup floppy with the DOS copy command you must use the restore program I was naturally curious as to how the backup program knew what files d modified since the last time I used the program DOS does this by keeping some information about the fil
33. how to charge his Portable Plus along with his 9114 Disk Drive and ThinkJet has more solutions than already mentioned in The Portable Paper 1 Buy one or more of HP s 220 v 50 Hz European chargers for the HP 110 Plus They come with modern European stan dard plugs and are readily available from HP Direct Marketing in the USA as HP 820668 With the European charger you ll still have problems because the French Germans Swiss etc all have their own ideas about sockets including varia tions with the vintage of the building But plug adapters to mate with HP s standard European charger can easily be found locally 2 Use HP s USA 120 v 50 60 Hz chargers with the CORRECT Franzus con verter NOT the one Donald probably tried That one which Franzus supplies in some of its traveler s kits is just a diode which chops off half of the 240 v sine wave to give power but NOT AC voltage equivalent to 120 VAC for RESISTIVE _ DEVICES ONLY portable irons space heaters without fans etc Franzus also makes a miniature step down transformer about 1 5 x 1 5 x 4 x which truly converts full sine wave 240 v 50 Hz AC to full sine wave 120 v 50 Hz AC It s hard to find but I bought mine in a luggage store near the Miami airport It s sold separately and costs about 35 You can tell the two units apart because the diode one weighs under an ounce and is rated at 500 watts or more while the transforme
34. in a subdirec tory named setup on my main floppy utility disk The last entry in the floppy disk pam mnu file should be Setup A copy c setup a That way Setup A appears as the last menu box in PAM GETTING THE MOST OUT OF THE EDISC To maximize the size of the Edisc always use the smallest working memory possible For example the system con fig main memory Edisc could be set to 96 176 The Port able is very fast if the A drive is used and slow as grandma if a program is run from the external disk drive C Therefore I always try to put necessary files for the pro grams I want to run on the Edisc This style of operation requires memory re configura 22 MARCH APRIL 1988 tion from time to time as well as the transfer of files be tween disks to back up the A drive and to move data and programs to the A drive for execution After the basic stuff is put on the Edisc applications are installed and removed depending on the work being done PAM s file manager f2 or The DOS directory and copy commands are always available to transfer files However there are other tech niques that use batch files HP s install and remove utilities and other readily available disk maintenance utilities that can facilitate transferring data between disks We will discuss some of these techniques as we move along PRESERVING PRECIOUS DISK SPACE Whenever something is done on the Portable com promises are necessary When
35. mand line version It contains only the compiler and the Turbo Pascal Library a disk file named turbo tpl Osten sibly this version of TP4 is for the die hard hackers who use custom text editors and extended batch files This ver sion WILL work out of the box on the HP110 You must use your Own text editor to write your programs MemoMaker in ASCII mode will serve the purpose The compiler and TPL file consume about 80K bytes of disk space The program calls for 256K bytes of working memory so on the HP 110 you won t be able to keep the files on the Edisc and still run the compiler However on the Portable Plus with more memory this should be possi ble THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF TP4 What are some advantages of TP4 Well for one thing the compiler optimizes the code of your programs This means that it discards any code that is not absolutely necessary to run your program Thus small programs stay small even in their compiled version On the other hand if your ap plications require more than 64K bytes of code then TP4 can handle that as well Are there any disadvantages Yes indeed there are For one thing you will have to be satisfied with writing strictly standard Pascal programs Essentially this means that you will be limited to Read In and Write In commands for keyboard input and screen output You will not be able to HPduette It transfers files both ways between your Portable Pl
36. monitors a button that lets you switch between full color and eye saving amber mon itors today You might even want two one for home and one for your office GoldStar monochrome monitor 129 Portable Paper Subscriber Price 119 GoldStar high resolution EGA color monitor 00 649 Portable Paper Subscriber Price 495 takes just seconds to install one in place of ochrome your Vectra s LCD screen It s equally easy to replace the LCD screen when you re ready to travel GoldStar s monochrome monitor is a Perhaps my favorite memory resident program for use on the Portable Vectra is Ready With Ready I create various outlines that I can pop up at any time For example I always have a next Portable Paper outline No matter what I am working on if I have an idea for say the Vec tra Views section of the next Paper up pops the Portable Paper outline I make an entry in the Vectra Views subhead and am back to what I was working on before with one keystroke MY EVERY DAY UTILITIES The heart of my utilities disk is the subdirectory I named utils Here is an annotated listing of the files currently in my utils subdirectory Directory of A UTILS FILENAME EXT BYTES PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION ds exe 25638 Norton Directory Sort fa exe 7296 Norton File Attributes ff exe 7924 Norton File Find fs exe 8536 Norton File Size qu exe 14554 Norton Quick Unerase
37. of contents glossary capabilities and more Works with almost all print ers Note Manual is in draft form no technical support available SeeP 35 HPDuette A software program that lets you transfer files back and forth at high speed between your Portable Plus and an IBM PC or compatible desktop computer without the need for an HP IL card Comes with proper serial cable seep 43 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 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 x11 chart on 25 line screen Runs on Portable Plus only HPrint Takes text ASCII files you ve created with MemoMaker The Editor or other word processors and prints them on an HP printer Comes with italic type font for ThinkJet Also allows bold underline compressed expanded subscripts superscripts headers footers page numbering double space and m ch more all of which you specify from a sim ple menu or by means of sensible control codes HPrint also does mail merging
38. old RAM or ROM drawer and any extra memory as a trade in towards purchase seP 42 RightWriter Flags errors in grammar style usage and punctuation inserting com ments directly into your document Also produces overall critique strength of delivery use of jargon grade level Works with most word processors Also available RightWords dictionary extension utility it has 7 auxiliary dictionaries business computers engineering etc and also lets you add words of your own to RightWriter s built in dictionary SeP2 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 Seer 11 Shelp From within almost any program Shelp gives you immediate access to a notepad and calculator and lets you define up to 26 keyboard macros that is assign up to 31 characters to a single keystroke Writ ten exclusively for the Portable Plus SeeP 37 SideWinder This program allows you to print your spreadsheets or any other text file sideways on your ThinkJet Thisymeans you can print your 60 column by 53 row spreadsheet from your Portable as one long print out without cutting and pasting SeeP 11 Sketch A graphics program for the HP Portables Lets you draw free form using cursor keys Also draw lines boxes circles by pressing a single key Five character sets can be displ
39. or for anyone wanting a letter quality printer 3 Ease of use The DeskJet s built in sheet feeder holds up to 100 sheets at once and loads from the front in just seconds In addition to computer con trol of all functions you can manually operate form feed line feed in both directions and selec tion of type fonts and pitch characters per inch 4 Low price Retail price of the DeskJet is an amazingly low 995 Portable Paper subscribers Whether you print memos letters reports spreadsheets business graphics or all of the above there is no better printer value on the market today than the new DeskJet from Hewlett Packard See for yourself Order a compact laser like DeskJet at our risk today Retail Subscriber price price HP DeskJet printer 995 00 879 00 Extra ink cartridge 18 95 17 50 one is included free with the unit Serial cables For Portable Vectra IBM PC 40 00 35 00 For IBM AT HP Vectra 55 00 49 00 For HP110 and Portable Plus 40 00 35 00 Parallel cable For Portable Vectra IBM PC 55 00 49 00 For prices on font cartridges RAM cartridges and other ac cessories please call us at 515 472 6330 or see the enclosed Portable Equipment Exchange brochure 515 472 6330 The Portable Equipment Exchange HP S AMAZING DESKJET PRINTER PARTIAL LIST OF FEATURES E Third generation ink jet technolo
40. page 39 THE PORTABLE PAPER a aaa A HP Announces New DeskJet Printer HP has recently announced a new entry in the printer market that should perk the interest of many HP Portable users For under 1000 portable and desktop users can purchase the latest quantum advance in inkjet technology the 14 3 pound DeskJet printer We are certain that the combination of its price and quality will quickly make this printer into a real winner in the printer market The Deskjet prints with virtually the same greater than letter quality 300 by 300 dots per inch as the 2600 HP LaserJet II We were sent a sample of two identical pages filled with high quality text and graphics One page was printed by the LaserJet and the other by the DeskJet The slightly darker output of the LaserJet was the only discernible difference The quality of the type and bar charts were exactly the same The DeskJet prints two pages per minute at letter quality and four pages per minute in draft mode The DeskJet works with most papers including good quality photocopy paper It gives excellent results on letterhead bond paper HP specifies however that InkJet paper should not be used Since the LaserJet has become such a popular printer almost all major software packages support the LaserJet s printer control language The DeskJet responds to these same LaserJet commands As of February 1 over 60 other software packages support additional DeskJet feat
41. risked the possibility of getting billed for consulting service It actually took the technicians at HP a couple of efforts but they came up with the answer and did not charge me for their time because they decided the proper configuration was in advertently not documented in the manual There is a hidden file on B that is en titled amigo sys I was told to create a file in MemoMaker that contains this line device b amigo sys O n where n is the number of disks to address and file it on A as config sys The address of the 9121 is set to 00 and the number of exter nal drives shown in the 6 System Con fig menu stays at none In my case where n 2 for a single 9121 unit PAM shows A B C and D as available drives use Condor 3 to compare select and combine data from two or more files Condor 3 also lets you create your own custom report formats Condor Jr in cludes a LIST com mand for limited re port writing You can transfer data back and forth from Condor 3 to Lotus 1 2 3 print files RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra HP 150 IBM PC and compat where C and D are drives 0 and 1 respec tively on the 9121 It works perfectly I haven t tried but I see no reason why I couldn t hook up additional 9121 s and also unless there is some problem with disk formatting of which I am unaware why an HP IB hard disk would not work the same way Maybe
42. that plugs into the wall and powers the other four l Get rid of that tangle of extension cords power strips or whatever else you ve been putting up with Order a Model 110A Power Cube Recharger today Model 110A Power Cube Recharger 84 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Copyright 1987 Personalized Software dBXL PLUS P VECTRA DBase III Clone Works On The Plus by Hal Goldstein The good news is that WordTech system s DBase III work alike can be made to run on the Portable Plus and HP150 The bad news is that you really need an HP or SoftWord 1 Meg drawer to use it and the screens refresh themselves slowly INSTALLATION Last issue we reported our frustrations in trying to install dBXL on the Plus We discussed the problem with Word Tech technical support and they suggested a solution that worked When you run the dBXL install program you must lie when it asks you Are you installing dBXL for the first time Y N Tell it n From then on everything is smooth sailing Run the install program from a backup of your master disk or from the Edisc You need to have the install files and dbxl exe on the same disk When you are prompted for terminal type during in stallation select ANSI terminal Next you will go through a straightforward ten minute installation procedure in which you define for dBXL the non alphanumeric keys such as the cursor and function keys In order to be suc cessful in the installati
43. the Plus Because of HP quality used HP products are a great buy 30 day return policy on all used equipment seP1 Volume Discounts Corporate buyers users groups and HP dealers Order products and subscriptions from us in quantity and save Back cover Webster s Spelling Checker Rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine 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 Exceptionally easy to learn and use Customized for the Portable Plus and HP150 seP 39 WordPerfect 4 2 Disk based Portable Plus Portable Vectra and HP150 version of the best selling word processor Includes spelling checker and thesaurus The Word Plus 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 seP 23 WorldPort Portable Modems The WorldPort 2400 is a battery powered highly compact 4 x2 x1 lightweight 6 5 oz full featured external modem that transmits data at 300 1200 and 2400 baud Faster than HP s internal modems the WorldPort 2400 is fully compatible with the industry standard Hays AT Command Set and with both the CCITT and Bell communications standards The WorldPort 1200 modem transmits a
44. there are many dBASE II books on sale in bookstores and garages at incredible bargains I ve picked up four different books in the past few months for less than 20 total This is especially useful because the dBASE IJ manual is by far the worst computer manual I have ever seen in 15 years of programming FOR TRAN COBOL amp assorted 4GL s on IBM Burroughs Honeywell NCR and HP Without the aid of these supplementary books you re likely to waste a lot of calls to HP or Ashton Iate only to be told that you should have looked at page 23b paragraph 2 where the information you want is clearly implied Comments on Ed Keefe s comments Vol 2 No 2 p 22 a dBASE II is cost effective at 150 b I found it easy to learn even with the horrendous manual c the built in editor is not recom mended even by Ashton Iate instead use the word processor of your choice and save the file to lt filename gt prg in ASCII format Hints for people who already own dBASE II a escape sequences can be embedd ed into your code for screen display con trol through the use of the ASCII character codes refer to Thinkjet manual p J 2 for printer controls b some applications I ve written in dBASE II that I now consider necessities i Checking account credit card maintenance system My check book is always balanced and my credit card Status is always up to date No surprise credit denials ii All of my lett
45. 4 function calculator that works just like a pocket calculator with memory You can WE save results in ten E paste results at the different storage cursor location in registers and retrieve whatever application you them again with two were using when you quick keystrokes invoked Shelp Choose Notepad and a scratch pad pops up on your screen Type whatever you want into it exit to your appli cation and then recall the notepad whenever you want No more having to scribble notes on paper to remind you of phone numbers things to do or bright ideas Choose Key Macros and you can assign strips of up to 31 typewriter characters to any of the 26 letters in the alphabet This saves you having to type the same phrase over and over again Example lf you type United States a lot you could assign the entire phrase to the U key Just move the Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus for an additional 95 See Software on ROM ad in this issue ii ONT 2HWy 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 t
46. 95 69 95 WordPerfect Specify Plus or HP150 p 39 4 00 299 00 The Word Plus Recommended for HP110 150 00 99 00 WorldPort 2400 Portable Modem p 23 389 359 005 339 319 005 ea eee ee ee ee el e a errr ey I aes i ea a ee eee ete er ees ae te ee E ance eNOS OI ROR ae ee Sa aaa aa oa ae ean ea eee eee lia er Important Please read and initial Subtotal on already own or am ordering the disk based versions of the programs included in my ROM Backup order If not purchased from Personalized lowa residents add 4 tax Software have enclosed proof of purchase Shipping and handling see box at right o Initials TOTAL T X NEW dissatisfied with a subscrip tion or product for any reason you may return it for a full refund Should you become dissatisfied with a subscription after the 60 day period we will refund the unused portion of your subscription MONEY BACK GUARANTEE If within 60 days you are A 1 Includes free 1987 and 1988 Subscriber Disks 2 Includes free 1987 Subscriber Disk 3 Available only to subscribers 4The 7 50 includes shipping Alternatively subscribers may mail in a formatted disk and a 39 self addressed stamped envelope to receive the soft ware at no charge 5 Lower price is without cable for connecting to HP Portables Circle price that applies FREE SHIPPING FOR U S ORDERS OVER 200 Non U S Customers Please make
47. ABOUT AS EASY AS AsEasyAs can accommodate up to 256 columns and 1024 rows It does graphs fairly well and performs database statistical and financial functions AsEasyAs CAN be made to look and feel like 1 2 3 However the macro language of AsEasyAs is different from that of 1 2 3 For example the help screen for macros lists such commands as MenuOn MenuOff Tone and even Write and Writeln which betrays the Pascal heritage of AsEasyAs One clever feature of AsEasyAs is its fast matrix routines With the Array command you can add subtract multiply invert and transpose non unique arrays There is even a command to solve simultaneous equations The catch is that there is no documentation to show you how to use these functions However a payment of 30 to the author will get you the latest version of the program and a printed manual AsEasyAs is still in the process of developing I have version 3 00D There may be a more re cent version by the time you read this If you want to try this program I would recommend downloading it froma bulletin board You may also write to the author in care of Trius Inc 15 Atkinson St Lynn MA 01905 No more cutting and pasting Now you can print it sideways ee me eee OO ee a eee a es see ee eas a Se ar a e Now Damri oem Lene SCTE o ADDE Ds mummon m ana Couma ose renee vce Bena CO OY mp Leue e
48. BM PC and compat 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 Intemational MS is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation WordPerfect is a trademark of WordPerfect Corporation 42 MARCH APRIL 1988 HE HP9114 EMPOWERER 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 ot what you d like to According to Hewlett Packard you Plugging in the HP9114 doesn t help either That only recharges the battery it doesn t let you keep working WE HAVE THE SOLUTION The official HP suggestion is to buy another battery pack and keep both plugged in When one loses power replace it with the other This seems clumsy to us What if you want to do several hours of disk intensive work At Personalized Software we have a better solution the HP9114 Empowerer and plug The Empowerer into the open slot and into your wall outlet It s that easy To run your HP9114 to your heart s content orde
49. HER COM Enciphers and deciphers a file to keep it confidential DIRALL COM Displays attributes and pathnames for ALL files on a disk DIRS COM Gives total disk space occupied by a set of files DUMP COM Dumps and edits a disk or file in hexadecimal and ASCII FDATE COM Changes the time date stamp on a file FDUMP COM Lists a file in hexadecimal and ASCII FF COM Sends a form feed to the printer FGREP COM Searches a group of files for a specified string HC COM Converts binary files to from hexadecimal ASCII files HP IBM COM Does a best fit translation from HP ROMAN 8 character set to IBM PC Line Draw character set IBM HP COM Does a best fit translation from IBM PC Line Draw character set to HP ROMAN 8 character set INSTALLP COM Automates installing an application program on RAM disk the HP Portable Portable Plus Install Utility Program LABEL COM Labels or changes the label name on a disk LC COM Counts lines in each file useful in determining amount of paper needed to print LF COM Sends a line feed to the printer LJET COM LaserJet pronter configuration 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 aset of files to another directory without copying plenty of examples are included with the disk The manual is con
50. IBM compatibles It is great for memos letters text to be sent across phone lines and any simple word pro cessing task For printer intensive tasks a full featured word processor is more appropriate APPLICATION DISKS Each of my other disks is dedicated to a particular applica tion For example I have a WordPerfect disk In subdirec tory wp I put all the files necessary to run WordPerfect In subdirectory ppl4 I have all the files for this our fourteenth issue of The Portable Paper I have a ppfut subdirectory for articles for future issues and a dwp subdirectory for other WordPerfect files d stands for data As my needs grow I will probably create new subdirectories Even with 900K of WordPerfect program files I still have over 400K for WordPerfect documents sufficient for current work For spreadsheets I have Borland s Quattro on order I have seen a demonstration and for what I need I think Quattro will give me all of the capability of Lotus 2 01 in cluding a similar menu structure for less than half the price of Lotus I ll report more on my experience with Quattro in future issues As soon as I get the program PI create a Quattro disk with a quattro subdirectory for the Quattro program and a dquattro subdirectory for my Quat tro spreadsheets THE AUTOEXEC BAT FILE When a Portable Vectra system boots up one of the first things it does is look for a file named autoexec bat If it finds the file it starts executing
51. M PC and compatibles Turbo Pascal Pro grams for the Porta s bles is a great supple ment to Turbo Tutor Based on the princi ple of learning by example the disk contains more than 50 sample Turbo Pascal pro grams and every one of them runs on the HP110 or the Portable Plus The programs range in length from ten lines of code to hundreds and from simple temperature conversion games arith metic to advanced input output graph ics and more Every program is included on the disk so you don t have to key in any of them they re ready to run or to be incorporated into your own larger Pascal programs If you re into or getting into the highly productive world of programm ing our Turbo Pascal Starter Kit will help you become an expert Order your copy of this dynamite programming package at no risk today WHICH VERSION SHOULD YOU ORDER Portable Vectra users Order the latest version Tur bo Pascal 4 0 HP110 and Portable Plus users Version 4 0 will not work fully on your machine but Version 3 0 will We have Version 3 0 in limited quantity when we run out it will not be available again Please order now 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 3 0 or 4 0 189 85 159 95 includes Turbo Pascal Turbo Tutor
52. 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 3 disk formerly available only on 5 14 disk with each package sold The disk includes The Norton Utilities and instruc tions for running The Norton Utilities on the Portables and the HP150 Both version 4 0 and the Advanced Edition are now available 1987 Portable Paper Subscriber s Disk Includes 1 DISKPACK a disk packing utility whose commercial equiv alent sells for 50 2 Time Manager s Calendar Utility 3 HP Calcu lator program 4 C Drive Copy Utility 5 Game and Lotus templates Clear instructions are included right on the disk 1988 Portable Paper Subscriber s Disk Contains 1 New utilities for Time Manager including an expanded Calendar program and an automatic mail merge utility 2 Some of the best public domain software and shareware for the HP Portable Vec tra 3 A password program to protect usage of the HP110 Portable 4 TERM xmodem program for the Portable Plus 5 Lotus templates 6 Games 7 New DOS tools 8 A file to toggle HP and Alternate mode from DOS 9 Lots more Clear instructions are included right on the disk SeeP 12 Power Cube Powers and recharges up to four HP devices HP Portable ThinkJet HP9114 HP hand held etc from a single wall outlet Pri
53. OS and our Turbo program both of which we are not sup posed to be able to do In the case of a keypress causing the pop up we have to steal the keyboard functions in the machine watching all the keys that are pressed and passing on all of those that we don t want Even after we find the one we want we have to use some trickery to determine if it is safe to take over For example if the program currently running is writing to a disk it would be a disaster if we were to pop up and do some disk opera tions In many cases we will have to wait until it is safe before we take over 3 Once we decide it is okay to take control we will app ly some more trickery so that we can get back into DOS and also Turbo If what we are trying to do involves any screen activity we will also have to save the portion of the screen that we want to use so that we can restore it when we re finished with it Generally we will operate within 32 MARCH APRIL 1988 windows it gets complicated when we try to add in the capability to move the window 4 Once we are through with the pop up we have to restore everything to the way it was before we popped up This is no easy chore but relative to everything else it is a piece of cake ADDITIONAL FEATURES FOR THE PROJECT There are a number of other chores we have to include in our program For example it is bad if our pop up were to abort due to an error of any kind DOS gets very con
54. Paper was put together Getting Organized emerged as the unifying theme and is also the title of the featured article Notes On The First Two Years Of The Portable Paper After plowing through two years worth of The Portable Paper in two weeks I can t help but feel like a member of a very large extended family with you as the clan coordinator I am convinced that your efforts on behalf of HP Portable users are primarily selfless and based upon a true desire to help and be helped by the rest of our community Further I not on ly do not begrudge you the profit that you make on Personalized Software sales but wish you could gain in quantity what you probably are not getting from the size of individual sales As an independent computer consul gt tant on the HP3000 with a need for travel built into my genes sometimes I have trouble lasting even a year in the same town I have spent the last eight years working contracts in England Scotland Ireland Holland Switzerland Italy New York and yes silicon valley About five years ago I suggested to friends that we pool our resources and buy a computer to share only to be told that there were no reasons for spending that kind of money Frustrated I continued to type letters to my many friends around the world using hpslate on the 3000 and photocopying the printouts for distribution Finally I woke up to the fact that those friends who origin
55. Portable Vectra 3 1 2 inch disk drive and read from or write to the disk Roger Smith of Dallas gave me a call saying that we had saved him several thousand dollars with that program He said that despite our caution in the documentation the program works fine with his HP110 He can now inter change 3 1 2 inch disks with his office computers and he does not have to buy a new portable computer He has on ly to format the disks originally using the formibm program The real thanks goes to the Corvallis engineer who prefers to remain anonymous who wrote the program He devoted much of his own time to get the program to us in time for inclusion in the 1988 Subscriber s Disk There is an intermittent bug in the program that we and several users have experienced Occasionally the disk won t format and the system locks up or the disk drive keeps spinning indefinitely No harm is done Just reboot the system CTRL Shift Break and try again MARCH APRI 1988 9 THE PORTABLE PAPER PASSWORD PROGRAM CAUSES HAVOC WITH SOME Some of you have called in a panic very frustrated and quite annoyed with us You claimed the password program did not work as we said it would in the documentation Many readers not interested in the password program should still read this section for some useful tidbits as to how we solved the problem The password program pass runs on the HP110 Plus and Portable Vectra When you install pass you must type the p
56. RAM card in one of the two compartments at the bottom of your computer The procedure couldn t be simpler Just remove two screws at one end of the compartment The proper kind of screwdriver is right in the pack age along with each 1 Megabyte RAM card Slide out the old card slide in the new and replace the screws That s it MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE If you ve been facing memory limitations with your Portable Plus you ll be amazed at all the flex ibility you ll gain from even a single megabyte of extra memory See for yourself Order one or more 1 Megabyte HP RAM cards at our risk today 1 Megabyte HP RAM card 995 Portable Paper subscriber price 795 If ordering by mail please write 1 MEG HP MEMORY CARD on the order form in the enclosed Portable Equip ment Exchange brochure Or use the order form in back of this issue 515 472 6330 The Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 TRADE IN YOUR OLD MEMORY CARD If you need to remove an existing memory card in order to install a 1 Megabyte RAM card don t throw the old card away We ll be glad to offer you a trade in allowance For details call us at 515 472 6330 You can use the 1 Megabyte HP RAM card in a variety of different ways depending on your needs Here are _ some examples MANY WAYS TO USE IT Terminology The compartments a
57. RD EXTENSIONS I use the ltr extension to identify letter files You will see that I use various file naming conventions to identify related files I try to use standard names and extensions when possible For example bat arc txt doc Where standards exist I certainly want to follow them I would like to hear of alternate naming conventions if this what Iam using conflicts with some program or other standard A BATCH FILE FOR CUSTOMIZING FUNCTION KEYS fk bat another file stored in a bin customizes DOS f keys and the DOS prompt to indicate the set of active f keys F keys are set by typing a text file containing escape se quences for setting f keys as well as positioning the cur sor and performing other screen management chores These files identified with fk0 or fkl extensions were created with Personalized Software s The Editor program For normal DOS operations f 2 becomes del bak f 5 becomes pack disk f 6 becomes dir and f 8 becomes exit The other DOS editing keys retain their original func tions See The Portable Paper Vol 1 No 2 p 3 and Vol 2 No 2 p 28 Ed fk bat configures the prompt and sets function keys for DOS and several utilities such as Right Writer that are normally executed at the DOS prompt To distinguish my f keys from the standard f keys I put the descriptions in lower case rather than initial caps I attached Ed Gilbert s diskpack utility rather than HP s pack program t
58. Turbo Pascal Programs for the Portables Turbo Pascal 3 0 or 4 0 99 95 89 95 Turbo Tutor4 0 00 59 95 53 95 Turbo Tutor 3 0 39 95 35 95 Pascal Programs for the Portables 49 95 44 95 Turbo Pascal on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus 3 a EEA 95 00 95 00 ROM Backup version includes RUN COM a utility pro gram that can save 10K of disk space from any program you compile with Turbo Note You must own or order the disk version of Turbo in order to purchase the ROM Backup ver sion See ROM Backup ad in this issue for details TO ORDER See inside back cover Be sure to specify Version 3 0 or 4 0 All Borland products are supported by Borland Technical Support 408 438 8400 Turbo Pascal and Turbo Tutor are registered trademarks of Borland International Inc WordStar is a registered trademark of Micropro International Corp Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER You can order dBXL from WordTech Systems Inc PO Box 1747 Orinda CA 94563 415 254 0900 for 199 or for 189 from us Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 If you order from us we will include a backup disk that contains a pre installed Portable Plus and HP150 version of dBXL We probably won t be shipping the new version until early April We have not had a chance to test WordTech Systems dBase III compiler QuickSilver However we
59. Vol 3 No 2 The HP Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra Users Newsletter March April 1988 THE Portable Paper Special Featu eem dBXL Cernig Organized i dBase mi cone Publisher s Message 3 An 110 Portable Plus User s View Of The Vectra 8 Letters 1988 Subscriber s Disk Update Related Tips 9 Notes On The First Two Years 3 Symphony 2 0 On The Plus 10 Microref Guides Squeezing 1 2 3 5 New ThinkJet Cartridge For Plain Paper 42 Don t Want To Return To PAM 5 COompuserve Piles 0 42 out eee eee eee 42 Criticism And Recommendations 5 Guidelines For Connecting Centronics Printer 44 Using Expert System Shells On The Plus 6 Print To Screen And Printer Simultaneously 44 InkJet Paper Complaints 6 HPORT Update i024 yaceusuk eiaa ee BA 44 Success With Portable Plus Speed Up 6 dBXL DBase III Clone Works On Plus 12 Reaction To Rom Delays 6 Portable Vectra Views Using Reflection s Shell Command And E Mail 39 Creating Optimal Portable Vectra Environment 14 English Portable Plus Keyboard Differences 39 Getting Organized 0 02006 16 More Games On The 110 Plus 40 Best File Transfer Product Direc Link 18 Another Approach To HP110 Memory Upgrade 40 New Vectra Product Mobile Recharger
60. Wash computer center Seattle Bob Moore 206 543 7879 Washington D C Greater Washington D C Area 8 00 PM Third Monday of Each Month Ballston Tower 1 800 N Quincy St Room 519 Call to confirm and to say Hi William F Cross D 202 696 4112 E 703 845 9508 Australia 8 Avoca St S Yarra Victoria Australia Nigel S Ball 03 267 8344 Central America I would be happy to form a users group either Spanish or English Apartado Postal 1587 Tegucigalpa Honduras England Trafalgar House Grenville Place Mill Hill London NW7 3SA England Tim Cullis 01 959 4359 Netherlands Mr R M Franquiner Menthenbergseweg 13 NL 6816 PR Arnhem The Netherlands Spain Club de usarios HP 110 Pont Reyes S A A la aten cion de D Enrique Serra Ronda Universidad 15 08007 Espana Sweden Stockholm first Thursday each month 6 30 p m call to confirm Jens Pettersson 08 713 1710 Telex 149 70 gentel S 44 MARCH APRIL 1988 High Quality 3 2 a Disks at a Discount Personalized Software Why pay high prices for 10 disks in a Disks for HP110 Portable Plus and HP150 fancy shrink wrapped box with lots of 10 unlabelled disks plus CASE gasi da a AREA ees 64 90 artwork We ll sell you quality Sony Subscriber price Pee TOR disks without the Sony labels or Sony boxes packaged in an ergonomically designed library case at no extra 1 44 megabyte high density disks for HP Portable Vectra 10 unlabel
61. a 119 GoldStar monitor A few days ago I started using a GoldStar EGA color monitor see Vectra Views in this issue for more details This setup takes a relatively small amount of space on my desk small footprint Because the Vectra keyboard is so good however the Portable Vectra with a monitor is to my thinking equivalent to a desktop computer If I want to work at home I simply detach the monitor and attach the LCD screen that comes with the unit a process that takes less than a minute Actually I am starting to leave my LCD at home That way all I have to carry in my briefcase is the 12 pound base unit The two disk drives gt fold in and can hold two 1 44 Meg disks usually all I need for an evening s work Now that I ve sprung for the 495 GoldStar EGA monitor ll start using the GoldStar monochrome monitor for home use Ill use the LCD screen only for small trips when I need the IBM com patibility and the battery powered capability of the machine IF I WERE HP I think HP has two winners with the Portable Plus and Portable Vectra If I were HP I would aggressively market both machines and bring out an IBM compatible Portable Plus as soon as possible I would bundle a monitor with the Portable Vectra and advertise it as a portable and a desktop in one machine I would advertise the Plus as the most powerful truly portable laptop in the marketplace I would use testimonials from Portable Plus users like y
62. able 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 UTILITIES are already We recommend Version 4 0 for HP110 users and HP150 a best seller in the IBM users We recommend the Advanced Edition of THE PC market Personal SORTON UTILITIES for users ized Software is author who might need to retrieve blocks of text from disks that ized to distribute them have become corrupted on 3 1 2 disk for users unreadable by DOS of the HP110 Portable E E Portable Plus and HP150 Al it takes is a few keystrokes to customize THE NORTON UTILITIES to your machine just follow the simple customization instructions included on the disk Also included in our package are the standard 5 1 4 disk sold by Peter Norton for IBM PCs THE NORTON UTILITIES are a time saver for you and a life saver for your data Use them just once and you ll wonder how you ever did without them Order your copy at no risk today NORTON UTILITIES DATA RECOVERY DISK MANAGEMENT THE NORTON UTILITIES 4 0 99 95 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers THE NORTON UTILITIES ADVANCED EDITION includes version 4 0 150 129 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order for
63. ainly do not of fer them at discount Does anyone know if the MS DOS versions of these games will work on the HP110 and or Portable Plus I think it would be worth finding out Gary Goodman Fredericksburg VA CompuServe ID 76012 3675 Another Approach To HP110 Memory Upgrade I have just read with fascination Sam Chau s article about expanding the memory in the HP110 Vol 2 No 6 p 32 It seems however to be an overly complex way to expand the memory I have never and will never open up my HP110 to look at the insides out of curiosity or any other reason so I don t know what s in there However isn t it possible to stack similar chips on top of the already existing chips and increase capacity that way If theoretically possi ble is there enough room in the HP110 If not when making the suggested conver sion wouldn t it be advisable to use sockets for the new chips if there is room In a similar vein I was glad to see the article Vol 2 No 6 p 7 on the Corvallis Microtechnology external electronic HP IL drive for the Portables This seems to me to be the direction to go for the expan sion of the HP110 and any other com puter for that matter If developed properly it may be the way to eliminate mechanical disk drives entirely Perhaps with the right inspiration from you it could be developed further for the HP Portables Alexander J Banach Jr D D S Naples FL File Transfer F
64. al 408 438 8400 195 00 159 95 Ready Living VideoText 415 964 6300 99 95 89 95 SideKick Borland International 408 438 8400 84 95 69 95 SuperKey Borland International 408 438 8400 99 95 79 95 The Editor Personalized Software 515 472 6330 99 95 79 95 Vectra Mobile Recharger S O S 714 558 1806 69 95 59 95 Vectra DOS HP MicroSoft 800 538 8787 95 00 85 00 WordPerfect WordPerfect Corp 800 321 5906 495 00 249 00 These prices are only for Portable Vectra versions of these programs The slightly higher prices for the HP110 Portable Plus versions are due to the additional disks and instructions we supply to customize these programs for those machines or to higher wholesale prices imposed by publishers for special HP Portable versions of their software To get the subscriber price order these products from Personalized Software by phone 515 472 6330 or mail PO Box 869 Fairfield IA You may refer to this Vectra Views column Organizing Your Disks By Thomas Page The author wrote the first half of this article from his perspective as an HP110 user As he begins the second half of the article the author has upgraded his system to a Portable Plus that contains more memory We feel sure that users of all three HP Portables will find the entire piece relevant because disk organization and budgeting of disk space are critical no matter what computer system you use Vectra users think in terms of your 3 1 2 flop py o
65. alized Soft ware Compared to the 172K maximum Edisc of my old portable this 1 Meg Edisc seems almost unlimited Granted as compared to the 30 Meg hard disks found on some machines today 1 Meg is not a lot of memory But compare the boxes these machines are in Given the choice I would much rather drive a Ferrari than a VW van or a Mack truck ORGANIZATION IS REQUIRED One of the Portable s best characteristics is that it requires its user to be somewhat organized How may owners of 30 Meg disks have their directories subdirectories and files neatly arranged If I owned a 30 Meg disk I would prob ably have 42 738 files scattered through 2379 directories Actually maybe that is not true Taking care of my 110 s lit tle disk taught me techniques that help me to manage large disks also When I upgraded from the 110 to the Portable Plus some rearrangement of floppy disks was necessary My old master utility floppy disk became useless because most of the utilities on it are now on ROM and my old Terminal 26 MARCH APRIL 1988 configuration files are useless with Reflection I also upgraded to 1 2 3 Release 2 01 rendering the old Print Graph obsolete ADVANTAGES OF HAVING MORE WORKING MEMORY With my 110 I always tried to operate with the smallest useable working memory I have set my Plus for the maximum 512K One nice feature of this much memory is that it allows me to dash out the back door of one pro gram and execute
66. ally couldn t think of a reason for buying a computer were suddenly all busy crunching away on their own machines scattered about Europe leaving me feeling foolish Determined to correct this situation I started collecting data sheets on lap models and reading magazine reviews A _few years ago the word in England was the HP110 The only drawbacks were the price and the mini screen By the time I returned to California in 1986 I knew that the only computer that would satisfy my requirements small lightweight sturdy full size screen was the Portable Plus People would advise me with variations on the theme Look at this new portable XYZ Invariably XYZ would be larger bulkier and less satisfying than the Plus Finally I sprang for the Plus with full memory drawers MS Word dBASE II Lat tice C Thinkjet amp 9114B Sure it cost a bundle but it does what I want My primary use for the Plus is port able word processing I write a lot of let ters to a lot of people and a few articles to magazines and now am able to tailor my letters to specific friends without re typing all of the many details that they re quire about my current whereabouts like What country are you in this week In addition I use dBASE II to manage my finances my Letters database contain ing information on who has received which letters when my several pages of resume details plus recruiter addresses around
67. am will not run until it can be compiled built in text editor We are now offering Turbo Pascal ina special 342 disk version for your Por table or Portable Plus ready to install from PAM Although you may purchase Turbo all by itself we recommend our Turbo Pas cal Starter Kit It s ideal for novice and intermediate programmers alike The Starter Kit inludes Turbo Pascal Borland s Turbo Tutor and our own special disk Turbo Pascal Programs for the Portables Here s a rundown on each Turbo Pascal Our ver sion of Turbo Pascal is customized to both the HP110 Portable and the Portable Plus at no extra charge The customization authorized by Bor land allows the Turbo editor 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 Turbo Tutor is a well written interactive tu torial that includes a manual and a disk t The manual covers not just the funda mentals but many fine points of Pas cal programming as well it is of value even to advanced programmers The disk in cludes every example covered in the manual already keyed in and ready to use Note neither the IBM ver sion nor the HP150 version of Turbo Tutor will run on the Portables only our 312 disk version will RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Vectra Portable Plus e HP150 IB
68. am and then saved in the program itself GALAXY simulates the best of WordStar but with the speed WordStar lacks and the best of MS Word without the complexity It s fast and handles almost all of my text processing tasks GALAXY 2 3 is a shareware program which is available from many electronic bulletin boards It will take about half an hour to download at 1200 baud It is also available directly from OMNIVERSE Inc P O Box 2974 Renton WA 98056 Sad to say GALAXY will not run on either the HP110 or the Portable Plus However it should run admirably well on the Vectra CS ATTENTION NUMBER CRUNCHERS For those who use a spreadsheet more than they do a word processor behold another product from Borland Interna tional Quattro Quattro is a commercial spreadsheet pro gram that sells for 195 list Mail order houses are already discounting it at 130 This price will get you four disks 36 MARCH APRIL 1988 containing almost 1 2 Megabytes of program and text files along with three large manuals Quattro will run right out of the box on most PC compatible computers This means that it should work well on the Vectra CS It will not run on the Portable Plus Quattro has its own menu structure which differs from that used by Lotus 1 2 3 If you want to use the op tional 1 2 3 menu structure you may As a matter of fact that is the only way that you will get any of your Lotus worksheets to run in Quattro When I first rea
69. an additional 2mb of electronic disk storage Main memory A drive 8 ROM sockets 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card 1 5mb main Edisk memory 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 Main memory A drive 912K 2mb Edisk 2 Megabyte RAM A drive Card Adding Megabytes With Memory Expansion Cards Portable Plus rear view Compartments at bottom of Portable Plus E 8 ROM sockets 1 Megabyte RAM ROM C drive Card 8 ROM sockets 1 Megabyte RAM ROM C drive Card C drive 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card C drive 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card C drive 2 Megabyte RAM C drive Card 1Can be partitioned in any ratio in normal manner with maximum main memory of 512K 2A 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 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software THE PORTABLE PAPER If all the report files rpt and wks for a particular month e g June of every year are needed this series of commands could be used copy c MR 06 a copies selected files to A drive copy a MR 06 c copies selected file
70. and change the attributes of a file For exam ple I can use fa to make my basic memo form a read only file That way I cannot inadvertently change or destroy the file ff lets me find a file no matter on what disk or sub directory I have lost it fs gives me the exact number of bytes that a file or group of files occupies The PAM File Manager and DOS dir underestimates the amount of storage a file actually takes up on a disk qu lets me unerase in seconds any file I have accidentally deleted With ts I can search a group of files for a phrase This is handy when I remember some of the specific contents of a file but have forgotten its name The next group are standard DOS utilities that come on the Vectra DOS disk print lets you print an ASCII file from DOS while you continue your work xcopy lets you copy the entire subdirectory structure from one disk to another chkdsk allows you to make sure a directory has not become corrupted and sometimes lets you fix the problem if there is one diskcopy copies by bit rather than by file data from one disk to another With format you for mat 1 44 Megabyte 3 1 2 inch floppy disks The for150 pro gram formats 3 1 2 inch floppies for 700K of file space in HP format so that the Portable Vectra and the HP110 HP150 and Portable Plus can read the same disk The mode command tells the Portable Vectra the in formation it needs in order to use a serial printer See page 20 of the last issue Vol 3 No
71. and it lets you create your own graphic characters integral signs Greek alpha etc LINK HP IL Connector Software 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 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 The Logitech mouse was rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine 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 seP 16 Mobile Recharger Lets you recharge your HP110 Portable Plus Portable Vectra Think Jet HP9114 HP hand held computer etc from your car s cigarette lighter SeP 17 Monitors for The Portable Vectra Convert your Portable Vectra to a desktop computer and back to a portable in seconds Excellent values in monochrome and high resolution EGA color monitors from GoldStar seP 15 The
72. andpoint a program that terminates but stays memory resident TSR is one of the most difficult programming efforts in the world of DOS Most are done in assembly language but we will set as one of our criteria that the TSR must be written in Turbo Pascal since it will be much quicker to add modules and maintain In addi tion our experience as a user group is with high level languages not assembler Our TSR will work through a set of routines that we will use to set up our program The whole thing will then go memory resident and at the appropriate time it will pop up or insert keypresses into the keybuffer or whatever then go back in hiding so that whatever other program we are running will not even know that it ever came up The design of the program will be modular once the shell routines are written we will be able to drop our code in the appropriate place and have a new or modified pop up There are many points that we must consider as we construct the TSR 1 The TSR at first will not do anything other than initialize some variables and steal some interrupts and then ter minate returning control to DOS but staying resident in memory 2 At the appropriate time the program will interrupt whatever is running and take over Normally this will be as a result of a hot key being pressed but it can be after a certain time or whatever This is probably the most im portant part of the TSR We want to be able to re enter D
73. another These back doors are in 1 2 3 Release 2 01 s in Personalized Software s The Editor esc f c and in Reflection shell 512K of memory also makes it possible to keep resident some useful utilities Most importantly there is Personalized Software s Shelp which always makes available a notepad a calculator a keyboard macro generator and system off Primarily I use Lotus 1 2 3 The Portable Plus larger screen allows me to keep Time Manager almost instantly available although I rather resent having to drag along MemoMaker to get TM The Editor is my choice for all editing and word processing chores I use it on the IBM compatible office bound and luggable machines that I use from time to time as well as on my Portables I have only loaded MemoMaker once and that was to see if it looked the same Reflection offers opportunity for communications but is rather intimidating I downloaded PPTERM from CompuServe s HP Forum PPTerm is also now available on The Portable Paper 1988 Subscriber s Disk It is an almost perfect terminal program for a portable lower case intend ed computer The only flaw is that it will not configure for a 9600 or 19200 direct RS 232 connection At 19200 baud Reflection will transfer files between a Plus and a T3100 Toshiba at about the speed that a Portable writes to the 9114 disk drive USING TOSHIBA FORMATTED DISKS I just discovered that my Plus will read and write disks for matt
74. assword before you can use your portable Here is the problem The documentation says that if you install the password program but do not define a password yourself typing the default password TESTPASS allows you access to your computer However some users called to tell us that they typed the default password and they still couldn t get into their systems That meant they couldn t use their computers at all much less access any of their electronic disk files The situation was made worse when they discovered that if they had unarchived pass on their electronic disk and had at some time gone back to PAM they were now required to enter this default password to use their systems Portable Vectra users had no serious problem They could simply start the computer re boot off a disk other than that where the password program resides However HP110 Plus users do not have that luxury The system automatically boots off the electronic A disk where the password program resides Fortunately for those who printed out their documen tation we did describe a method for bypassing the password program This method is important for any of you who ever create or alter a file named config sys on the A drive and make a mistake The password program works through the use of the line shell a pass exe in the con fig sys file The first thing an MS DOS computer does when booting up is look for a config sys file for special in struction
75. ayed normally sideways or even upside down Entire screen can be printed on ThinkJet at virtually any enlarge ment Screens can be saved for future use Screens can also be imported into Sketch from Lotus and other programs Only uses 44K of memory Soft Padded Cases Roomy rugged high quality highly padded cases to protect your ThinkJet HP9114 and HP Portable when traveling Statistix A comprehensive statistical package that s easy to learn and use Runs on the HP110 Portable Plus HP150 and IBM PC compatibles Data can be entered from keyboard or imported from spreadsheet or database files Includes multiple regression most standard parametric and non parametric tests p values plots histograms and much much more Personalized Software Products that make HP Portables smarter 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 seer 19 T Master and T Maker T Master is a fully integrated word processor speller relational database manager spreadsheet file manager and communications package Also includes graph making It runs on the Portable Plus and Portable Vectra without modification and on the HP150 with a PC emulator T Maker is an
76. chive the files For example to use the IBM formatting program you must issue the arce formibm command from PAM or DOS Actually you may have to prefix arce or formibm with say a or c depend ing on in which drive the particular file lies As archived formibm are takes up only 1393 bytes When it is un archived using the arce formibm command it is shown to contain formibm com 4480 bytes and formibm doc 370 bytes In order to be able to archive squeeze and combine files yourself you must obtain a copy of the shareware are program or an equivalent You can do so by purchasing the Best Of DOS Tools disk or ROM from Personalized Soft ware by downloading it from CompuServe or most any other bulletin board You are asked to pay the authors of arc an additional shareware fee unless you purchase our ROM we ve already paid the fee We inadvertently called the arce file in our documen tation of the 1988 Subscriber s Disk arce exe In fact its actual name is arce com IBM FORMAT ON THE HP9114 One of the most popular programs on the 1988 Subscriber s disk is formibm By using formibm an HP110 Portable Plus or IBM PC compatible with an HP IL card can format an HP9114 disk in IBM format rather than HP format Once formatted you can read files from and write files to the HP9114 disk with your HP Portable or IBM PC with the HP IL card Then you can take the disk to your IBM PS 2 Toshiba laptop or
77. ck 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 SideKick and SuperKey are registered trademarks of Borland International Inc THE PORTABLE PAPER Power your Portable ThinkJet HP9114 and HP hand held froma single viron a To ThinkJet wall outlet To HP hand held or 2nd disk drive Can t plug your Portable ThinkJet HP9114 and HP hand held into the same wall outlet because the recharger cubes are too big Here s the solution The Model 110A Power Cube Recharger from Summit Concepts The Model 110A has five power cords Four are HP cords that plug into your HP Portable ThinkJet HP9114 disk drive s or HP hand held HP41 71 75 series 80 etc To wall outlet The fifth is a conventional AC cord
78. ct for Lotus 1 2 3 print RANNANNNNNRES ES Carer tee te e files MemoMaker files or any other text ASCII file that s too Simply fill in a grid on your Portable to modify SideWinder s built wide for a normal page in characters create italics Hebrew letters integral signs whatever sideways characters you wish 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 Sy E Sketch amp Print lets you make line drawings on your screen Sketch amp Print using the cursor and function keys indistinguishable from ordinary characters and SideWinder Age prints just as fast as your ThinkJet can eae Its a lot like those Etch Sketch toys you played with as a child In addition a built in mini text editor lets you get inside your Actually it s even better because you can draw not just horizontal i i a m and vertical lines but also diagonals with a single key Sketch amp Haga oe double wi dth Print also lets you print and save anything you draw on the screen 10 for both utilities when purchased with SideWinder SideWinder se anaa erties cee bday ne ate 69 9 5 K S graphics software program see ad for Sketch S 59 95 fe or P or table P aper subscribers Order form and guarantee are on inside back cover or send
79. d that Quat tro could have a 1 2 3 style menu I thought it could be made to have the look and feel of 1 2 3 but that s not the case Quattro uses the same command words as 1 2 3 However the Quattro menu pops up on the right side of the screen The cursor slides up and down rather than back and forth The command description line still ap pears at the top of the screen and this takes some getting used to Many of my own 1 2 3 worksheets including the TimeLog worksheet and my Automated Gradebook did not fare too well when they were run in Quattro It took several hours of re programming to get the menus to look presentable Quattro is faster than 1 2 3 in recalculating large spreadsheets and its graphs are almost presentation quality Nonetheless I think it is no great loss that Quattro does not work on the Portable Plus However if you are looking for a full featured spreadsheet for the Vectra CS you might want to look at Quattro It costs less than 1 2 3 and does more Almost all of the files for Quattro should fit on one microfloppy This would leave another disk free for data files Many people do not need the horse power of a Quat tro or even the muscle of 1 2 3 So why pay big bucks for something that is useful only as a status symbol To answer that question PC Magazine recently critiqued several spreadsheet programs that sell for less than 100 However the reviewers missed my favorite inexpensive spreadsheet AsEasyAs
80. d the command nu pass exe The exact contents of the file pass exe appeared on the screen Since pass exe is a program file rather than a text file I stared at a bunch of meaningless symbols However the word TESTPASS did appear in the rubble of funny characters After staring at the Norton screen a few minutes I finally realized the problem a classic situation for anyone who has used computers for a while What we all did when prompted for the password was type testpass rather than TESTPASS the computer program only recognized the upper case form of the word TESTPASS works fine PROCOMM INCLUDED ON DISK Many people consider shareware program procomm the best communications package for the IBM PC and hence Portable Vectra For Portable Vectra users it won t work on the HP110 or the Portable Plus we included procomm on the 1988 Subscriber s Disk in file premdocp arc However we neglected to mention it in our documenta tion or promotional material Remember if you use the program please send the authors of the program their re quested shareware fee it s still much cheaper then most commercial packages YOUR FAVORITES We ve received rave reviews for several of the programs In particular many of you have been waiting for a long time for a program like formibm so that you can interchange disks between your IBM compatible 3 1 2 inch drives and the HP9114 drive Another favorite
81. d was create a utilities disk My inten tion is to always have this disk available and normally boot off that disk To boot off a disk means to put it in the A drive and turn on the computer Hard disk users can boot off the C or hard disk unless a disk is present in the A drive On the utilities disk I keep all my favorite utilities that I want available all the time In particular I created a sub directory structure and divided my files into appropriate subdirectories If you do not know about subdirectories check out your DOS manual or any book on DOS at your local bookstore We will be running a Foundations column on subdirectories in a future issue of The Portable Paper MEMORY RESIDENT PROGRAMS On this utilities disk I have my favorite memory resident utilities SideKick SuperKey and Ready A memory resident program is a program that can be popped up at any time even while you are running another program With SideKick installed in the middle of whatever I am doing I can hold down the two Shift keys and I have immediate access to a calculator notepad phone dialer or a calender I have on order the current version of SuperKey I tried an old version and it did not function properly on the Portable Vectra I was told by a contact at HP Corvallis that the current version of SuperKey works fine on the Portable Vectra SuperKey is a keyboard macro generator Unless you are used to such an animal it takes a little time to
82. dware software trends and developments Start your free subscription today Send us the coupon below You ll receive a subscription application in the mail Fill out and mail the application and if you qualify we ll start your free subscription Professional somcumrow sencon regus YES I d like a FREE subscription to HP PROFESSIONAL Send a subscription application to NAME coreane te IE Company Address CI se DIA Zip Mail to HP PROFESSIONAL P O Box 445 Spring House PA 19477 0445 THE PORTABLE PAPER put the following two lines so that screen output uses our procedure rather than using DOS AsZ2Byte 1 0 ConOutPtr ofs PlusConDriver Refer to pp 209 210 of the Turbo Pascal Referenc Manual for a discussion of User Written I O Drivers The procedure we are using makes use of function 6 of inter rupt 50h of the Portable Plus only This routine sends an ASCII Z string i e ends with ASCII 0 to the display bypassing DOS although it does process escape se quences What I have done is send a two character string to the interrupt as the variable ASZ2Byte with the first character as the one we want to display and the second always as ASCII 0 There are several other techniques which are even faster than this but none are as simple and none can pro cess escape sequences In our pop up we will have at least two others one that even has windowing capabilities just as described in t
83. e depending on what software you are running Word pro cessing generally is not a problem but spreadsheets pop up programs such as Ready or SideKick and disk organ izers may pose some difficulties depending on your eye sight and what colors the software chooses With its setup command HP offers a way out setup lets you adjust the palette by allowing you to manually assign different shades of grey to different hues Further there is a procedure to automatically customize a palette 14 MARCH APRIL 1988 for each program you run by using a simple setup com mand within a batch file We will match palettes to pro grams in future issues Please send us your favorite palette number for each of the programs you use We will publish the results and save future users the trouble of doing this customization on their own I have opted for a quick and dirty solution I made all the colors the darkest black as my default palette which I use in all applications In most cases this results in a screen at least as readable as that of the Portable Plus with characters clearly formed The problem with this solution is that many software menus use one color on top of another The menus become unreadable with my solution since there is no contrast between the foreground and background Again I look forward to your ideas as we will all benefit USING A MONITOR The Portable Vectra serves as both a desktop and portable comp
84. e 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 Yet they re easy to use even if you ve never done data communications before Note our version of T Master has its data com munications portion customized to the Portable Plus T Master includes a DO com mand that lets you string other commands together and execute them sequentially in batch mode without intervention It is surprisingly simple for exam ple to set up a DO command that will perform the following func tions at the end of every month Compile data from selected data bases construct a bar graph insert the bar graph into a monthly report and address copies of the report to a selected list of recipients TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 When you realize that you can or chestrate all this by means of a single DO command entirely automatically you begin to see the incredible productivity and power that T Master offers At only 295 for the entire package or even l
85. e try Condor 3 or Condor Jr Condor 3 runs on the Portable Plus Portable Vectra and HP150 Its smaller the package Condor 3 essssssseseas 495 00 cousin Condor Jr runs on the HP110 Condor 3 but not Condor Jr is a fully 379 00 for Portable Paper subscribers Condor Jr 667644644 448 054 99 00 and Portable Vectra only Both versions relational DBMS That means you can 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers let you set up a database in a single step simply by typing a picture of the in put form right on your screen You enter and modify data or even revise the database structure simply by typing right on the same form Unlike other database systems you simply tell Condor what to do not how to do it and you tell it using simple English like statements such as LIST CUSTOMER BY NUMBER NAME STATE intended for use with this machine I do however have some HP IB odds and ends among them an HP IB 2225 printer ThinkJet and several 9121 3 1 2 disk drives single sided I went out and bought the 82169A HP IL HP IB converter and looked forward to sending data all over the place following the direction of the manual It didn t quite work that way at first The printer worked right away with Printer Interface in f6 System Config set to HP IB O1 the converter at address 00 and the printer at address 01 However I couldn t do anything with the disk drive I called the HP Help line and
86. e E mail system Keep up the outstanding work with The Portable Paper and Products That Make HP Portables Smarter You re doing a great job Eric R Isacson Saratoga CA 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 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software English Portable Plus Keyboard Differences I was recently introduced to The Portable Paper by David Burch of Softword here in England and have read through the back copies of your excellent magazine There are a number of issues and ques tions I would like to raise My Plus has an English keyboard and in common with all non US boards there are problems in using many of the ex cellent utilities you advertise This can best be illustrated using Shelp where in terestingly the problems and solutions vary with each mode Calculator mode The math opera tors and equality sign are in different posi tions from the US version In order to use the calculator I would have to use the US key positions for the signs but as they are marked differently this means remember ing the positions or marking my keyboard in order to use this mode If Shelp had made use of the numeric keypad it would be universally useful without problems Notepad Basic alpha cha
87. e are all painfully aware that the one major drawback of the machines is their incompatibility with the mainstream MS DOS world Rather than complain about this I think we can turn this into somewhat of an advantage if we can make use of those differences DOS TIPS Last issue I mentioned that there was a simple utility called more com that enabled a user to look at any text file ina straightforward and easy way Dr Sergio Biguzzi pointed out that you can shorten the command to just more followed by the filename i e you do not need type filename more I recently bought a 1 Meg board for my Portable Plus THE PORTABLE PAPER spreadsheet and BankAcct Check Register spreadsheet Beginning with the fourth line my entries are variable and may include current spreadsheet projects and installed applications such as games like Deadline or Seastalker Even though I often use mindless PAM Menu entries to load programs Iam not fond of PAM It is slow even if the external disk is not connected I tolerate it since in ad dition to identifying installed applications it performs useful functions such as setting alarms for Time Manager turning off the modem and serial port and resetting f keys for those programs that do not clean up after themselves CONCLUSION One of the most frustrating aspects of using computers is that there are often many different means of accomplish ing one specific task I have described some of the organ
88. e are of course other in tegrated programs on the market that combine a number of applica tions in one T Master however is the only integrated program that runs on an HP Portable In terms of capabilities T Master also happens to be one of the best But that isn t what makes it so special _ You see T Master isn t just a very od program It is an entirely nique program It s one you simp ly must get your hands on before you can appreciate its incredible richness and elegance and the sheer thoughtfulness that went into its creation THE HEART OF THE SYSTEM As with most integrated pro grams T Master lets you share data between applications for example you can insert a spreadsheet into a report you re typing or can take in formation from a database and move it into a spreadsheet all without leaving the program However with most other in tegrated programs you have to exit the module you re in e g word pro cessor load another module e g PORTABLE PLUS USERS You ll need 296K of main memory to run T Master plus 135K Edisc space for the core system plus the following amounts for storage of the various parts word processor 53K speller 151K database and Spreadsheet 135K data communications 35K chart making 52K misc utilities 60K You can if you wish run the various parts of T Master off your external disk drive 4P110 USERS T Maker an earlier version of T Mas
89. e changes However don t count on the Users Manual to teach you programming I have found that most of the examples shown in the book are fragmented and incomplete IS TP4 WORTH IT Is TP4 worth the cost of upgrading If you re an inveterate user of Turbo Pascal and you re also upgrading your hard ware to a Vectra CS then add about 35 to your cost and upgrade to TP4 You won t be disappointed On the other HPDuette is a registered trademark of Platte River Associates Inc Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 Copyright 1988 Personalized Software hand if you re staying with the HP110 or Portable Plus then stay with TP3 You ll save yourself a few dollars and more important you ll save hours of frustration DEFINITELY A LAUGHING MATTER Over the semester break I had a chance to look at a lot of software that has been languishing in my IN basket Sorry to say none of it worked on the HP 110 or Portable Plus However if you have a Vectra CS or another PC compatible computer you might want to take a look at these programs One of the funniest programs I have ever seen is Mind Reader It s not a game or a book of jokes but rather a word processor and a funny one MindReader is a shareware program available from Brown Bag Software and can be downloaded from most local bulletin boards I ll probably never use it as a word processor However if I ever throw a computer party
90. e full blown Version 4 2 complete with compre hensive thesaurus and 115 000 word spell ing checker Not only can you use WordPerfect on your HP computer but if you already have Word Perfect No mossing Soina Version 4 Perfect for your PC you now can transfer files back and forth between your PC and your Portable Plus or HP150 The same 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 000 495 299 for Portable Paper subscribers IMPORTANT Be sure to specify whether you want the Portable Plus version or the HP150 version 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 v
91. e in its directory For one it keeps track of each file s attribute There are five possible attributes directory system hidden read only and archive FILE ATTRIBUTES The directory attribute indicates whether the file is real ly a subdirectory and the system attribute tells DOS that the file is a system file used by DOS The hidden attribute hides the file from the dir command more on this later 38 MARCH APRIL 1988 The read only attribute protects files from being changed or deleted and the archive attribute is used any time the file is modified The archive attribute is what the backup program uses The backup program only backs up files that have the archive attribute on and once it backs up a file it turns the archive bit off After that the only time the ar chive attribute is turned back on is when the file is opened with write access There are a number of programs that allow you to view and or change the attributes of a file I have been us ing the program called change change is available on the Personalized Software Best Of DOS Tools disk The Nor ton Utilities fa file attribute program also does the same thing I use this program to be sure a particular file is back ed up or is not If it s not right I can run the program to change the archive bit to what I want SECURING A FILE Another question I m frequently asked is whether there is any way to secure a file so that others
92. earlier in the month have been eliminated Adding the second node to the system resulted in hangs and unanswered calls for about two weeks This 7 month members have been discussing the development of their own EPROM s and quite a few new files for the Port able Plus and the HP110 have been uploaded Not bad for the first month of operation Remember the data numbers are 300 1200 baud 216 942 6383 1200 2400 baud 216 942 7516 One bug that has not been corrected and may take some time is that the screen will freeze a few seconds when a new user logs on the other node This is due to the user file being dedicated to the new user only while he registers We are working on it Thanks to so many of you who are willing to help organize local users groups Users groups give an opportunity to share tips answer questions discuss other products trade free software and Lotus templates and meet other professionals As you will notice some areas have more than one contact person and some major areas have none If you are in a missing area and would like to organize a group contact us If your groups combine also tell us We will publish this column each issue keeping it up to date Write Local Users Groups Box 869 Fairfield IA 515 472 6330 California Southern California We meet 2nd Thur 7 9 at HP sales office 5161 Lankershim Blvd North Hollywood Request PORTOVEC Notes Newsletter Dave Mark 818 794 4969 San Diego Stephen L
93. 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 Our reviewer says there is no other application I know of that matches the power thoroughness and simple elegance of T Master seeP 13 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 customizing the Turbo editor to the HP110 and Portable Plus s editing keys The Turbo Pascal Starter Kit includes Turbo Pascal Turbo Pascal Tutor 2 0 and Portable Pascal 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 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 Inside front cover Used HP Portable Equipment The Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personalized Soft ware buys and sells used HP110s Portable Pluses HP9114s HP ROMs and RAM drawers for
94. ed on the Toshiba When calling up a directory the Plus seems a little slow with a Toshiba disk However ex cept for finding the directory disk operations such as sav ing reading and copying are as fast as with HP disks There is probably some difference between directory entries on the two formats I put an HP disk in the Toshiba and did chkdsk This found the data in lost clusters dir displayed garbage The Plus internal modem is accurate enough for nor mal telephone connections It is not as good as my WorldPort 1200 should I upgrade to 2400 baud Com puServe here in Houston is a real test for a modem I suc cessfully downloaded files from C Serve but I got an error rate of 30 Visible errors make reading text difficult The internal modem is not the worst modem I have used but it is not worth 500 With PPTERM and Reflection some thing eventually seems to come through that locks up the computer Rebooting is the only cure USEFUL UTILITIES Iam taking advantage of a number of techniques to make every byte of disk count System Enhancement Associates Archive Utility are exe compresses files not immediately Portable PI us users If you need more System Memory Edisc space in your Portable Plus the most economical approach is a 1 Megabyte HP RAM Card The price to Portable Paper subscribers is just 795 a saving of 200 off the normal retail price EASY TO INSTALL You install HP s 1 Megabyte
95. eezed 1 2 3 file when it is retrieved take up no more than 64K addi tional RAM when loaded be available in ROM EPROM on a single chip from your company Surely such a utility would be a real winner in your product line If a Plus owner has 1 Meg extra Edisc installed HP s or your UK boards and assigned half of the Edisc 500K to Lotus files this utility at 67 compression would turn that 500K into virtually 1 5 Meg Lotus file space thus adding 1 Meg of effective ex tra Edisc memory Now the Plus with 1 Meg extra Edisc looks like 512K RAM plus 2 Meg Edisc plus ROM drawer space for 12 ROM chips This will further enhance its appeal vis a vis floppy portables like the Toshiba 1100 1200 series thanks to the Plus lightning fast RAM disk and ROM downloads and the Plus Rip Van Winkle slumber instant wake up and resume capability To change the subject we bought the PC MS DOS and Lotus 1 2 3 2 0 included MICROREF Quick Reference Guides from Educational Systems Inc 3175 Commer cial Ave Northbrook IL 60062 312 498 3780 and are very pleased with them as a portable 5 x9 x 9 x 1 4 alternative to carrying the imprac ticably bulky HP equivalent manuals with us on the road In fact they are so complete so well organized all 74 pages tabbed on both sides and so easy to use including a cleverly built in easel that we now prefer them for office use over the manuals
96. efile echo any character at X ARChives TM files in TM ARC echo pause cls goto MARK OOPS echo echo Requested Time Manager name file 1 not available MARK echo echo Available Time Manager name files echo arc v tm arc nam echo pause END cls tml bat assumes that three TM name files personal business and buddies will be stored in an archive named tm arc It also assumes that only one to do list will be maintained and that Time Manager note files not will be stored in the archive To invoke the file type tml namefile x Namefile is the file name of the Time Manager file to be made current The x parameter is optional and is used to tell tml bat to return all files to the archive after Time Manager is run USE THE DEFAULT ROUTE Fast system operation is one of my goals It is almost as im portant as disk conservation For this reason the default route through these batch files is generally the simplest path if required archive extraction is automatic Return of files to an archive is not l bat can be told to archive a worksheet file only by placing a parameter in the fourth position on the command line SEEING IF THE ARCHIVE IS SUCCESSFUL I had to work around a flaw in the Archive Utility Since it does not return DOS error levels my batch file cannot N REK The Editor It s way beyond MemoMaker Now available on ROM Backup for the P
97. eing explored using Micro Expert I have enjoyed using both expert system shells on my Portable Plus Each has given me some insight into the strategy and logic needed for preparing a knowledge base I would recommend both of these programs to interested readers Donald R Mattison M D University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Inkjet Paper Complaints The letter from Sergio Biguzzi in The Port able Paper Vol 2 No 4 and the letter from Harry McLean Vol 2 No 6 are very interesting to me because of the com plaints from our staff about the quality of Inkjet paper The original HP paper 92261N 20C 0193 8 84 was well receiv ed by our secretaries chemists and engineers and because we had bought large quantities we did not need to reorder for some time When its replace ment 92261N MODUO186 29C 1636 came in and we began to use it there was immediate negative response from our staff Letters and discussions with HP were pleasant but produced no real im provements and we went to other sup pliers INMAC has a paper that our people feel is acceptable and they provide ser vice nationwide Moore also has an accep table product but Boise Cascade is our preferred supplier The letter from HP engineer McClean claims that HP knows what is best for its customers This is exemplified by the statement We believe that the paper we have selected best meets our require ments This seems to indicate that the cust
98. em while here in England we use the outer two After correction the system worked well You might want to include this tip to anyone else from the U K buying from you Ingemar Nilsson Letchworth England Criticism and Recommendations I recently received your last issue and your questionnaire which leads me to believe you are reviewing your goals and attempting to get feedback from your readers I hope your questionnaire works I was one of your original subscribers I started with an HP110 and your paper has been a lifeline to me as I was a com plete novice in the use of computers Recently I bought a used Portable Plus after looking at many other portables My decision was prompted by the fact that your company exists I have the greatest respect for your integrity and on the rare occasion when I have called I have received everything I could ask for in terms of intelligent and courteous response actually I felt a sincere desire on the part of your knowledgeable staff to help me But I do have criticisms of your paper and will voice them with the intent of tell ing you what I think would make it better for both you and me I would prefer a different format for the purpose of making the paper easier to read and to reread when looking for specific items MARCH APRIT 1988 5 THE PORTABLE PAPER If I were editing The Portable Paper I would not mix advertising and text on the same page For a reader this is conf
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100. enus in programs such as SideKick could not be seen given the contrast of colors Once I put the LCD screen back on ran setup and activated the default palette the contrast problem went away See the last section of Vectra Views for pricing infor mation on the GoldStar and HP monitors Getting Organized Since one of the themes of this issue is getting organized I ll report how I am starting to organize my Portable Vec tra dual floppy system Hard disk users should also find the 16 MARCH APRIL 1988 ideas relevant See the end of this article for a complete list of the products mentioned in this section GETTING STARTED One of the nicest features of the Portable Vectra is that you can put 1 44 Megabytes of programs and data on your 3 1 2 inch floppy disk The first thing I did was format a box of floppies and put the operating system on each disk I put the operating system on by issuing the DOS command for mat b s I kept a backup of my master DOS disk in the A drive when I issued the command I am used to DOS and like Tom Page am not a fan of PAM However I do suggest that novices and PAM fans follow instructions in the star tup manual and also install PAM on each disk After I put an operating system on a disk I was left with 1 338K for data For me it is worth giving up 100K to know that I can always boot up start the Portable Vec tra from any disk I use CREATING A UTILITIES DISK The next thing I di
101. er squeezed 3 printearc b9 87 23 680 Print Time Manager Calendar on PPlus 3 hpilst arc b 9 87 25 088 Hints and utilities for IBM Vectra HP IL card VEION of the file about 25K that must be downloaded 3 pattm arc b9 87 5 120 HP110 Time Manger block cursor patch using XMODEM or the CompuServe protocol Once 3 arcecom 69 86 5 504 Extracts files from ARC archives downloaded you can use the arce com on the 1988 DEEA e a as k 5 S cc y5 com z urn o us an 1saDie ring interrup Subscriber s disk to unsqueeze it Alternatively you can 3 utilfarc b5 86 9 600 Part1 of Utility Collection download the ASCII des file directly over 50K 5 Washan lt bO s0 8200 Bile manipuladon ulllity o gt R 3 arc txt 4 86 2 045 Introduction to ARC utility Because of space limitation we cannot list all the 3 delallarc b3 86 14 976 Delete files through subdirectories CompuServe HP forum files or even the files relevant on 3 ee ae 61 312 Rev F Portable Desktop Link for Vectra 3 sdir com 2 8 3 328 Sorted directory program for HP150 PPlus ly to HP Portable users However we list below a sample 3 copydi exe b 11 85 12 928 Disk copy utility for HP150 HP110 PPlus of available files on the forum The b stands for a binary 3 search com b 8 85 3 712 Finds files in different directories cln 4 jetctrarc b9 87 7 552 PPlus pop up printer control utility file that has to be transferred with XMODEM or Compu 5 emacppare b5 87 42 880 EMACS for the PPlus Ser
102. er Executive Advisor Rita Goldstein The Portable Paper ISSN 0886 9138 is published bimonthly by Personalized Software at R R 4 Box 310 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 1988 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 POSTMASTER Please send address changes to Personalized Software The Portable Paper PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 not encountered any difficulty what soever But better safe than sorry Finally let me again reassure you that The Portable Paper is providing a valua ble service and thank you for allowing us the opportunity to share our experiences Michael A Jackson Los Altos CA Microref Guides Squeezing 1 2 3 Regarding Donald Harkleroad s letter in Vol 2 No 6 staying charged abroad Don s problem about
103. er memory you may already be using for Reflection Lotus 1 2 3 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 your A drive see Example 1 by 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 e
104. ere 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 won t 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 vell worth the price But there s even more to the pachage THE NORTON UTILITIES 2 RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable o Portable Plus Portable Vectra o o HP150 IBM PC and compat Erased your files et them back with The Norton Utilities Version 4 0 and Advanced Edition are also an excellent disk management sys tem Here are some examples of what you can do Let s say you want to sort directories and files physically on disk either by name ex tension size date time or by any combina tion of these Just use the ds disk sort com mand I use this one to sort my electronic disk files by size all the time Then when I display the directory the larger files come at the end
105. ers are stored on 4 MARCH APRIL 1988 disk and indexed by date number and to whom sent No longer do I type the same story over and over just cut and paste and no longer do I wonder what it is I did or did not tell someone this file also in cludes all formal correspondence iii a self tutoring foreign vocabu lary instructor I just type in the new words as I come across them from a text book or from out on the street iv a Star Trek game based upon the ubiquitous Star Trek game found on many mainframes 4 MS WORD Special characters for controlling the Thinkjet font size can be embedded by co pying the appropriate lines from the file created as described in Vol 1 No 1 p 5 I use this method for printing my running headers in compressed mode Don t forget to return the print to normal mode at the end of the altered text before con tinuing with the normal part of your document 5 KODAK DATASHOW Vol 2 No 3 p 30 I ve seen this unit in action and was impressed as I worked on my terminal everything I entered and received from the computer was echoed onto the opa que projector for all to see If a company has the need to demonstrate user computer interaction and the monetary resources this toy gets my recommen dation 6 PACK Vol 2 No 6 p 42 Pack 792 04 03 86 does work on the C drive on the Portable Plus 7 Note to Molly Glen Vol 2 No 6 p 17 I sympat
106. ersion of WordPerfect includes an 8 page supplement to the manual that tells you how to run WordPerfect on the Portable Plus letters continued from page 6 have filled all our back orders We ap preciate your patience and understand ing Hal Using Reflection s Shell Command And E Mail I have finally discovered the difference be tween Reflection and PC2622 and for me it s a big one Reflection has an additional com mand shell which is extremely useful when using MemoMaker or any other Portable resident program in conjunction with E mail The shell command allows one to suspend connection to the E mail system go directly into MemoMaker and then return to E mail directly from MemoMaker For example typing shell memomakr A test on Reflection s command line will put the connection to E mail on hold turn on MemoMaker get the file test allow test to be edited then exit directly from MemoMaker back into Reflection and continue the E mail ses sion right where you left off I do a great deal of work with an E mail system and get frustrated trying to remember different word pro cessors editors The shell command makes it extremely convenient to stand Note to HP150 users By special arrangement with WordPerfect Corporation our version of WordPerfect includes the standard 5 disk plus our supplementary double sided 3 disk that customizes the program for HP150 users The disk includes a special uti
107. escended to the right subdirectory on the Vax pressed User and To Host and File75 was uploaded to the Vax in a minute or two The Vax inserts an extra linefeed at the end of each line which can be deleted with the Substitute command just like Turbo s Find and Replace I tried alter ing the terminal configuration but it seems that in order to log on Vax only ac cepts 7 bit text and a return EOL se quence Downloading worked similarly with data capture using the invocation string type Filename William F Allen Vancouver B C Canada About The Editor You do nice work I use the IBM version of Personalized Softwares The Editor as much as any other program in my toolbox I must like it I gave it mention in my newspaper column Recently I did a job for the World Bank The system I built for them needed a good word processor editor so I gave them my copy of The Editor I plan to in clude that program in several more systems that I am developing Walt Clark Woodbridge VA Time Saved For Professionals The information provided in The Portable Paper is very helpful I have also found that your software programs for the HP Portables are a great help to business pro fessionals who may not have time to play around to get a program to work on their particular machine Gerald R Williamson Yanbu Al Sinatyah Saudi Arabia Configuring The 110 For The 9121 Disk Drive After reading the artic
108. esch Kincaid formula RightWriter i s S f is long overdue aN idea whose time ue Phil Wiswell PC o ight Writer is an excellent low Sii Ye opening soft Wware Package gt tee Inside Word Man a Pls documentation is among th oe est I have Seen Wie CompuServe Files In our last issue we began a new column Paul Grimmer s Portable Tales In his column Paul discussed in detail the benefits for HP Portable users to be derived from the HP CompuServe forum The HP forum like all the forums on CompuServe contains useful files which users can down load into their computers To learn how to download CompuServe files HP110 Terminal users should see the ar ticles in The Portable Paper Vol 1 No 4 p 5 and Vol 2 No 2 p 11 Plus TERM and Reflection PC2622 users should refer to Vol 2 No 6 p 10 Available files on the forum range from articles about Jim Pile Soft Sector RightWriter 89 00 for Portable Paper subscribers RightWords Dictionary Extension for RightWriter 29 95 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 Uncommon Word List lists misspelled slang and uncommon words SECOMMENDEL TOR HP110 Portable Portable Pus e Pocabie Vectra re I
109. ess 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 worked 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 easler 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 Po
110. every DOS command in that file At the moment my autoexec bat file on my utilities disk looks like this path a utils b wp b quattro prompt t h h h h h h d p g rem cd key rem key generic ml cd ready ready cd sk sk cd The first command in the autoexec bat file is path This command tells DOS where to look for programs to run In this case I tell DOS to look for my utils subdirec 18 MARCH APRIL 1988 tory on my A drive and for the WordPerfect or Quattro subdirectories on the B drive If my WordPerfect disk is in the B drive I can type wp from my A gt prompt First the system looks to the main directory on the A drive for the wp program file to execute It then follows the path and looks to the a utils subdirectory before finding the b wp subdirectory where it can execute the wp WordPerfect file The rest of the autoexec bat file installs the memory resident programs described above Since I do not yet have a working copy of SuperKey I have put remark in front of the SuperKey commands As soon as I install SuperKey I will remove the rem portion of the command I look forward to hearing from any and all Vectra users about your favorite utilities and programs and how you organize PAM or DOS Best File Transfer Product For Portable Vectra Direc Link The January 12 1988 issue of PC Magazine ran a review of nine products designed to transfer files from an IBM compatible portable with 3 1 2 i
111. ew job as ac You can obtain the shareware programs mentioned tivity director of a retirement village The job involves a lot in this article MindReader Galaxy 2 3 and AsEasyAs of paper work as well as the enjoyable aspect of working from Personalized Software You may send either 7 50 or with people Helen keeps asking if I ever use the quiet lit a formatted disk with a self addressed stamped envelope tle computer any more I can take a hint The quiet lit Remember if you use the program you must pay an ad tle HP110 may get a new lease on life It may even be happy ditional shareware fee to the author Ed MARCH APRIL 1988 37 THE PORTABLE PAPER ER WIZA by The Wizard Cliff Looyenga F RY Backups Attributes and Security RECOVERING LOST FILES Every once in a while someone will bring me a portable and hopefully ask me if there is some way I can save a file that got inadvertently trashed The first thing I do is deter mine which represents less work to have them reconstruct their file or for me to try and piece it back together again with the Norton Utilities program If the file is a simple text ASCII file such as a MemoMaker file and the user has not tampered with the Edisc in any way the Norton qu command will normally be able to recover the file in seconds Otherwise it may take lots of work or be impossible to recover I m always amused to see how important these lost files are to the user yet
112. from the internal disk Naturally dBXL on the Edisc was significantly faster In either case the screen refresh function left a little to be desired It takes from 2 to 5 seconds for the contents of one screen to change to another I found this lag a bit an noying at times but mostly still acceptable However you must be careful to avoid repeated cursor moves to see data off the screen or else the screen may have to refresh itself each time the cursor key is pressed Page up or down can be used instead To test dBXL dBASE compatibility I copied a small 50K name and address file and a program file from our IBM compatible These files came from a dBASE environ ment that we use to keep track of our customers and leads Using dBXL on the Portable Plus I was able to edit the pro gram index the file add names to the file and run the pro gram printing addresses in label form on the ThinkJet In general the dBXL menu structure is similar but not identical to dBASE III Most of the differences are cosmetic like the dBXL gt prompt as opposed to the dBASE III prompt Some of the menu sequences are slightly dif ferent but nothing that I encountered would confuse a dBASE III user RECOMMENDATIONS On a 1 5 Megabyte Plus dBXL can be used for data entry Our data entry person can use the Plus at work or home to enter names and addresses dBase III programmers can use dBXL to create and test programs If you have the memory or are willin
113. fused when this happens and if you are lucky the only solution is a reboot This means we must catch ALL errors and re spond in a nondestructive manner Turbo lets us do some of this and we will improvise the rest relax most of this part is already writt n If you just want a set of working programs and are not interested in the programming aspects then sit back and watch the fireworks If you are interested in learning and or participating I recommend that you get a good book on DOS Ray Duncan s Advanced MS DOS Peter Norton s Programmer s Guide to the IBM PC or the DOS Technical Reference Manual as well as the Portable Plus Technical Reference Manual We will make sure that the source code is fully commented to ease your pain USING INLINE COM WITH TURBO PASCAL Unfortunately some of what we want to do cannot be done without some assembly language We will try to minimize it as much as possible If you know some assembly language using it within Turbo Pascal is a lot easier than you may think if you use inline com available in the Borland forum on CompuServe This is a program that takes normal assembly code and assembles it into beautiful Inline code that Turbo Pascal recognizes It is quite good and easy to use In order not to clutter up this column with a lot of code I will refer you to the HP forum on CompuServe if you want to keep up with our project Between now and the next issue we will post
114. g 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 TO ORDER exp date signature to Copyright 1987 Personalized Software available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus for an additional 129 See ROM Backup ad in this issue determine if are is successful in extracting the worksheet from the archive Since less disk space is required to create a new archive than to update an existing archive the nor mal operation of l bat deletes the archive after the file is extracted I used the ROM DOS Tools x ask command to give the user a chance to stop the program if the archive is not successfully extracted The shareware pkarc utilities are faster than arc exe and return error level c
115. g on the cable maybe not a great idea but it saves time and hassle On my Compaq I start Direc Link by typing dlink and when prompted for a disk drive type c for the C drive hard disk Up pops the screen telling me the computers are not yet connected In my A drive on my dual floppy Portable Vectra I have my trusty utilities disk described above In the B drive I have the disk I want involved in the file transfer I type dlink and wait for the green disk drive A light to go off telling me the program is loaded Then I type b for B drive and go back to my Compaq Voila the Compaq screen changes and a tree diagram of subdirectories on the C disk appears awaiting my file transfer instructions If I want to see the file structure or create or remove subdirectories on my Vectra disk all I have to do is press the ScrollLock key and see both tree structures at once You can move easily between one tree or the other Directories on either computer can be sorted by name size extension or date of creation Tag the files individually by wild card and begin the transfer You don t need a Portable Vectra display to transfer files either way You can purchase the Direc Link software and cables in a variety of ways If you want just the software the cost is 59 50 The Portable Paper subscriber price 53 95 The Micro Z parallel adapter cable costs 20 18 to subscribers To make the parallel connection between the two computers you sim
116. g to use the HP9114 disk drive there is nothing you can do in dBASE that cannot be performed in dBXL If you can live with the limitations we described and you need dBASE III compatibility dBXL is as they say the only game in town Fortunately dBXL is among the least expensive of the dBASE clones WordTech is scheduled to ship a new version of dBXL this month Based on our discussions with WordTech an added graphics section of the new version probably will not work on the Portable Plus or HP150 If the program grows significantly and without advantage to Portable Plus users we may be able to sell the version reviewed here rather than the new version 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 for the Portable Plus for an additional 95 See Software on ROM ad in this issue nit mii i T 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 st
117. 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 3495 2995 for Portable Paper subscribers 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card or C drive Card 2350 1995 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 IA 52556 515 472 6330 Non U S Customers Please order directly from SoftWord Here is their full product line and price list prices include shipping and insurance 384 RAM Card 0 2 00000 ee 575 1 2 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 0 0 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 Internati
118. gy Prints on com mon office paper at 120 characters per second 2 pages per minute for laser quality text and 240 cps for draft quality W Handles letter and legal size paper as well as 10 business envelopes Multiple type fonts Courier Courier Bold and Courier Extended are built in Two cartridge ports handle additional font cartridges 12 are available each with 4 or more fonts Cartridge ports also accommodate 128K RAM cartridges for soft computer generated fonts W Prints at 5 10 16 67 or 20 characters per inch point size 6 or 12 normal bold expanded under line double underline superscript subscript and more Italic is available in optional cartridges Parallel and serial interfaces and a 16K byte print buffer are built in RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Vectra pay only 879 That s about 4 the retail price of a LaserJet mode and font selection Point size 6 or 12 depending on font selection Style Upright Stroke Weight Normal or Bold depending on font selection Typeface Courier Other print features bold expanded underline dou ble underline super sub script Also half height and half width depending on printer mode and font se lection Italic available in optional cartridges Paper Size U S letter 8 5 x 11 inch U S legal 8 5 x 14 inch European A4 210 x 297 mm 10 envelope 4 1 8 x 9 1 2 inch Paper Weight 60 90 g m2 16 to 24
119. he Turbo manual as an IBM Goody TURBO PASCAL 4 0 USEFUL FOR PORTABLE USERS One last observation Turbo Pascal 4 0 is out but I think it may be premature for HP110 Portable Plus users to switch By Ed Keefe KEEP ON SMILING In a previous article Vol 3 No 1 I discussed the MC hand held computer made by Corvallis Microtechnology This past week I received two 8 X 10 black and white photographs of the computer The display of the MC II ap pears to be quite readable It almost smiles at you with its bold dark characters At the same time CMT announced that shipment of the MC II would be delayed for a month or so Now that s what I call a Looking Glass event Remember the Cheshire cat TURBO PASCAL 4 0 NO LAUGHING MATTER Turbo Pascal version 4 0 has arrived and is getting a real workout on my desktop computer It s a delight to work with fast is the best word to describe it Turbo Pascal can no longer be laughed at It has lost its adolescent awkwardness and matured It is now a language for pro fessional programmers the kind of people who say damn the byte count full speed ahead RUNNING TP4 ON THE HP PORTABLES A question Does Turbo Pascal 4 0 TP4 work on the 34 MARCH APRIL 1988 I will write a review for the next issue of The Portable Paper that covers it more fully At this point the cons lack of generic MS DOS support including no editor ap pear to outweigh the pros
120. he areas that were off screen Now you might be expecting that all these great features come at a high price in terms of memory space But they don t The entire program takes up only 44K As I said Paul Grimmer of Southern Software has done it again USING IS BELIEVING No matter how fired up you might get by reading about SKETCH or looking at the few samples we ve shown of what it can do there is no substitute for actually getting your hands on this wonderful pro gram and trying it out for yourself Remember with our money back guarantee if you are not completely satisfied with SKETCH within 60 days you can return it for a full refund Why not order a copy today SKETCH graphics program 80 75 95 for Portable Paper subscribers C Copyright 1987 Personalized Software Now available on Backup for the Portable Pius See Software on ROM ad in this issue cursor to U in the Keyboard Macros menu and type United States To recall United States simply press Ctrl Extend char then U Presto United States appears at the cursor location in your application Choose Off and your Portable Plus turns off without having to return to PA M and without having to save your application file When you turn your computer back on you ll be in the same place in the same application with no data lost All the capabilities of IBM PC programs like Borland s SideKi
121. hize with your hardware problems even though I ve lucked out and have only experienced software dif ficulties It used to be lonely being a Port able owner What s a Portable I didn t know HP made a laptop Why didn t you get an XYZ but not anymore Aside from this emotional reinforcement though I wanted to comment on one of your difficulties my Thinkjet has been stacked on top of my 9114B almost since I bought them I m only beginning to ap preciate how fortunate I ve been with my hardware my 9114B has never given me any power difficulties whatsoever I keep all units plugged in at all times nor have I had any need for maintenance on the Thinkjet or the Portable Plus So I ask please before I paint myself into a cor ner why can I do for a year what Molly can t for a moment Is putting the printer atop the disk drive really so bad or is it just Molly s machine I can feel no heat up on either of my units 8 Portable Plus and X rays For all the many times my computer has gone through airport check in s I ve THE PORTABLE PAPER Volume three Number two March April 1988 Editor Publisher Hal Goldstein Managing Editor Michael A Sugarman Department Editors Ed Keefe Cliff Looyenga Paul Grimmer Contributing Editor Thomas R Page Art Director George Foster Typography The Word Form Corporation Circulation Frances Kempton Glen Frank Larry Baldozi
122. ibers can purchase the DeskJet through the Portable Equipment Exchange for 879 HP SPECIFICATIONS SHEET Print Method Plain paper drop on demand thermal ink jet printing Print Speed Letter quality mode 120 cps at 10 cpi Draft mode 240 cps at 10 cpi Command Language and Emulation HP PCL printer language PCL Level 3 Optional Epson FX 80 emulation Text Resolution and Character Cell Structure Letter quality mode 300x300 dpi 30 h x50 v Draft mode 300 x 150 dpi 15 h x 50 v Graphics Resolution Full page 75 100 150 300 dpi Character Sets HP Roman8 PC8 PC8 Danish Norwegian ASCII ISO 7 bit languages U K Germany France Italy Norway Sweden Spain Portugal JIS ASCII ECMA 94 Latinl Legal Other character sets are available depending on font cartridge selected Printing Format Pitch 5 10 16 67 or 20 cpi depending on printer MARCH APRIL 1988 7 HP s new DeskJet Printer Laser like quality for under 1000 The new DeskJet printer is another engineering breakthrough for Hewlett Packard a personal printer that satisfies four of your printing needs at once 1 Laser like quality The DeskJet s high quality text and graphics output is virtually indistin guishable from that of Hewlett Packard s LaserJet printer 2 Compact desktop design The DeskJet weighs in at only 14 pounds and takes up less than 2 square feet of desk space It s the perfect printer either for Portable users
123. in doubt I compromise toward more Edisc One of the techniques I use to preserve disk space that is applicable to floppy disks as well as the Edisc is to write a large batch file that uses replaceable parameters rather than a series of small batch files to ac cess applications A batch file is a series of DOS com mands that executes sequentially in a file See The Portable Paper Vol 1 No 2 Since disk space is allocated in sectors a file will always occupy an amount of disk space which is a multi ple of the sector size On the HP110 and Portable Plus Edisc sectors are 512 bytes Therefore a large batch file may occupy no more disk space than a small file and may be able to perform a number of functions Another com promise I make is to sometimes perform a manual rather than an automated procedure The flexibility of more Edisc space that results may offset the cost of a few keystrokes USING COLOR CODES TO ORGANIZE DISKETTES I assign volume labels disk names to the floppy disks I use with my Portable I use color coded disk labels to assist me in locating each disk For example utilities disks are cod ed red and less useful utilities I code red another color Disks containing important financial data bank accounts etc I code blue and backup disks are indicated by color of disk being backed up orange so my bank account back ups are blue orange Games are coded red blue Compu Serve and Bulletin Board downloads are
124. ind 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 ona C drive Card doesn t affect your Plus s main Edisk memory instead it func tions as electronic disk storage just as 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 HOW TO USE a 1 Megabyte RAM 8 Socket ROM Card 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 2 A C drive Card allows you to utilize whatever extra 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 RAM draw
125. is jetetrl by Jeffrey McKay and The Portable Paper columnist and HP Portable software author Paul Grimmer jetctrl works only on the Portable Plus It is a true memory resident program This means that at any time e g you can be in the middle of Lotus or The Editor you can press Extend char with the space key and pop up the jetctrl menu With jetctrl you can instantly change a ThinkJet font e g to compressed the lines per inch bold and much more Another favorite contributed again by Paul Grim mer is mm When mm is run on the Plus MemoMaker is invoked However now the backspace key not only moves the cursor to the left but deletes the character it moves over To obtain the same result using the MemoMaker f7 Help key on the HP110 see The Portable Paper Vol 1 No 1 p 2 Graham Collins contributed another favorite addr It enables MemoMaker users to easily insert a Time Manager address into their letter by having only to type the last name Using Graham s program you can also address win dow envelopes automatically We are already receiving requests for enhancements of addr You can write Graham in care of Hewlett Packard King Street Lane Winnersh Wokingham Berkshire RG11 England Symphony 2 0 On The Plus While the HP110 was being developed HP originally planned to include Lotus Symphony built into ROM continued on page 42 At last Graph for the Portable and Portable Plus by Hal
126. it s sure to be invited MindReader is billed as a program with artificial in telligence When you begin to type MindReader lets you type the first few letters in a word Then it will pop up a small list of words that it thinks you are going to type All you have to do is point at the right word and that word will drop into your text Its creators claim that if it is used consistently MindReader will learn your vocabulary and move your favorite words to the top of its pop up list MindReader has all the usual features of a word pro cessor It will copy move delete blocks of text undo mistakes and re format paragraphs It does a respectable job of formatting a document for printing It even includes RA AWSTIFT J i INIT BINT Ta m THE PORTABLE PAPER a calculator mode that can add numbers across the page as well as down the screen There is a built in address book MindReader will let you write macros to create boilerplate letters that practically compose themselves WHAT MAKES MINDREADER SO FUNNY Now there s nothing funny about all that What is funny is the light and sound show that is part of MindReader Pop up menus don t just pop up They whoop up and boink and bink at you Windows don t just explode on the screen They whoosh into view Almost every command has its own sound effect And the colors have to be seen All of the screens look like they were designed by the same people who make Hawaiian shirts
127. k 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 witha single keystroke No limit on file size If you re an HP110 Portable user you re no longer confined by MemoMaker s 819 Line limit You can have as large a file as internal memory allows File merge You can merge two or more files to gether with ease Compressed and expanded You re no longer restricted to bold and underline You can imbed control charac ters in your text to tell your printer to print all or part of your text compressed expanded bold underlined or whatever else your printer can handle Unlimited line length Your files are no longer limited to 80 characters per line This means for ex ample you can print 132 character lines on your ThinkJet printer in compressed mode Lines per page You can specify the number of lines per page using the control codes required by your printer Easy in easy out You can exit from THE EDITOR run another program then type a one word command and be back in THE EDITOR in a flash exactly where you left off This include
128. le on the use of HP IB devices with Portables Vol 3 No 1 it occurs to me that it may be helpful to share my experience with this I ve got a 110 but none of the peripherals that are WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY If you want a database you can use immediately without even opening the manual Condor 3 is the DBMS to buy dJim Morgan Data Base Advisor a textbook example of what a database manage ment system should be James Perotti PC Magazine for a straight database I ll take Condor dJerry Pournelle InfoWorld T Co ND 0 R JR Database management made easy and other files not created by Condor Over 150 000 Condor programs are cur rently in use We think the Condor peo ple have done a fabulous job of packing an enormous amount of database power into an incredibly easy to use system We urge you to try Condor 3 or Condor Jr at our risk today AND COMPUTE TOT SALES TO DATE As a result it takes only one fifth the time to compute display sort search or report on your data using Condor as com pared with other database systems such as dBASE III Most users find they can create and begin to use their first database within minutes after opening If you have customer files sales records inventory or lots of anything that you need to keep track of you need a database management system DBMS If you want a sophisticated DBMS that even a beginner can us
129. learn However the effort is well worth it A keyboard macro generator allows you to assign a series of keystrokes to one keystroke On another desktop I create all my WordPerfect and Lotus macros in SuperKey even though those pro grams support macros Having one program to create macros saves disk space and means that there is only one macro user interface to master Examples of my simple Lotus macros include change column width Alt w and type sum Alt s One of my WordPerfect macros Alt 1 creates a form for a letter with current date and so forth A second macro Alte extracts the header of that letter to address an envelope for my LaserJet Best buys in monochrome and high resolution EGA color monitors for the Portable Vectra The Portable Vectra isn t just a great portable computer It s also a great desktop computer The no compromises keyboard large disk capacity small footprint and fast processor allow it to hold its own against many desktops on the market All that s needed is a full size CRT monitor The ones we like are by GoldStar They give excellent quality for the price and it huge step up from the Portable Vectra s LCD display As with any monochrome monitor connected to a machine with a color graphics card certain software pack ages will occasionally create less than ideal characters and contrasts The high resolution EGA color monitor has a feature not available on most color
130. led disks plus case 0 000005 99 95 charge 4 95 value Subscriber price o eeen n 69 95 Lifetime Warranty If To order ata disk EVEL DIOVe gt defective return Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or it to Personalized Software and we ll credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Sento coodones 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 REPLY MAIL FIRST CLASS PERMIT NO 1047 FAIRFIELD IA NO POSTAGE NECESSARY IF MAILED INTHE UNITED STATES Postage will be paid by addressee Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 IMPORTANT Check here if you require single sided 31 2 disk Method of payment LI Check LI MasterCard O VISA Company purchase order Card Pn i SER DES Cardholder Signature FOLD HERE l l ij I Are you a Portable Paper subscriber i LI Yes LI No P 1 ee nA a ce kee ee rea What kind of computer do you use check all that apply 1 HP110 Portable a O Portable Plus i L Portable Vectra C l a L HP150 touchscreen Address IBM PC or compatible i City State Zip Specify size of disk LI 3 15 Telephone I j l 1 I i i i i I i Personalized Software ORDER FORM sitioutnctce Pr
131. lity that allows WordPerfect to run on the 150 If your HP150 requires single sided disks and also has a hard disk drive a version of WordPerfect is available that will run on your machine Specify single sided on your orders RECOMMENDED FO R HP110 Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra Ci o IBM PC and compat We ship Wordperfect with keyboard templates for the HP150 and Portable Plus ardize on only one i e MemoMaker Several other Reflection PC2622 capabil ities help Keyboard edit keys can be used to edit anything in screen memory The device control and to devices func tion keys provide the ability to copy any thing in screen memory directly into Portable files And the transmit com mand enables any ASCII file from Memo Maker Lotus 1 2 3 etc to be up loaded to the E mail system just as though you were typing it manually e g on the command line just type transmit A test To be fair there is a pseudo SHELL capability in PC2622 ctrl shift x will suspend Reflection and its connec tion to the E mail system but it takes you back into PAM where you must call up MemoMaker then re start Reflection after finishing your editing But all this is rather time consuming and far less convenient than Reflection s shell command It seems to require an extra 100K or so of main memory apparently to store the state of affairs when suspending connec tion to th
132. lt AC adapter for modem OOT rirau 6 95 Cable to connect Portable to Modem 30 00 20 00 WorldPort 1200 to WorldPort 2400 Upgrade Kit p 23 0000 naaa anaa 199 00 179 00 Specify whether HP110 Portable Plus HP150 or IBM PC Price of Pertmaster Demo applicable to cost of Pertmaster i ae ae eae a ee ee a ee ee 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 order form Size of ROM Price Best of DOS Tools p 30 Two 64K ROMs 128K 129 The Editor p 29 ios tases ar Bhs Bees Se tn wee ee PO 64K 95 HPCalculat r tied acho edee a AGES OED 64K 95 Shen e H eria eea e E E E A 32K slones 55 Shelp SideWinder 000000022000 64K 95 This version of SideWinder does not include any of the SideWinder utilities 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 Backup Service Size of ROM Price SideWinder p 3T av eke ee he ee ee oe at ee JAE risa 55 he Ceo FG 1 CO ra aa aE r e E OR 64K 95 Super ROM center spread nnaou aaua aaa 128K 149 The Editor Mini PrinterTalk Format110 Shelp and SideWinder Turbo Pascal PIS eres 85 oe Ee a ene i 64K
133. lth of features you would expect to find in a desktop modem several times its size EXTRA BONUS FOR USERS OF THE IBM PC AND NEW HP PORTABLE VECTRA Included with the WorldPort 2400 at no charge is the acclaimed communications and remote control software package Carbon Copy PLUS retail value 195 The program also comes free with the World Port1200 WorldPort2400 Upgrade Kit Carbon Copy PLUS will not run on the HP110 or Portable Plus but both WorldPort modems will run with HP s communi cations software namely the Terminal program for the HP110 and TERM and Reflection for the Portable Plus For example the WorldPort 2400 has auto dial auto answer and both pulse and tone operation It comes with a standard modular phone plug for connecting with the telephone line It offers non volatile storage of up to 20 commands And it is fully compatible with the industry standard Hayes AT Command Set and with the HP110 s Terminal software and the Portable Plus s TERM and Reflection software Since a modular plug is not always available the WorldPort 2400 also has a built in interface for an acoustic coupler The coupler an optional extra runs at 300 and 1200 baud The unit is compatible with both the internationally ac cepted CCITT 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
134. m 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 THE PORTABLE PAPER It s the Mobile Ni CaD Recharger MNR 2 from S O S and it couldn t be easier to use simply plug one end into your car s cigarette lighter and the other into your pinot arge Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra your Po rtable HP9114 or ThinkJet The time it takes to charge a given unit HP110 Plus or is about 30 longer than with a wall charger Your car does not have to be running the unit can operate overnight Portable Vectra with no danger of running down a nor mal car battery off your car s yere oki T Portable Ponie pis E igarette Portable Paper subscriber price i i lighter Mobile Recharger for P Vectra Portable Paper subscriber price Higher price for Portable Vectra version is due to 1 precision input that the Portable Vectra requires for charging Copyright 1988 Personalized Software I have been pleased with both the GoldStar mono chrome and the EGA monitors I now use the mono chrome monitor at home and the EGA at work Each type of monitor has its limitations The mono chrome monitor suffers from some of the same shortcom ings as a standard LCD screen but not as severely Software that analyzes Po
135. me to track this many programs down what about evaluating them and making sense of the documentation It would be a formidable task but we have good news You don t have to do it we ve already done it for you That s right we ve combed through hundreds of public domain utility programs that run on the Portables and HP150 and have selected only the best ones for inclusion in Portable Utilities Disk Volume 1 DOS Tools We ve not only made sense of the document ation but in many cases we ve actually rewritten it A print ed 65 page user manual contain ing program documentation and ADDCOL COM Joins two files horizontally by appending corresponding lines ARC512 ARC Archived ARC file compression and library utility ARCE COM Extracts ARChive files from ARC 5 12 and previous versions ASK COM Adds interactive capability to batch files Prompts user with message and waits for yes no response BEEP COM Makes a beep sound CHANGE COM Changes or displays file attributes read only archive system hidden CLEAN COM Converts WordStar HP150 or Portable 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 CYP
136. nch drives to an IBM compatible desktop computer with 5 inch drives We studied those reviews and talked to various manufacturers and tried some of the products Based on our research we recommend Direc Link by Micro Z for the Portable Vectra The program itself is powerful flexible and easy to use Many of the nine programs reviewed boast similar strengths The feature that gave Direc Link the competitive edge in the Portable Vectra environment is its ability to use both the parallel and serial ports for file transfer Most of the programs allow the user to transfer by connecting the serial ports of the two computers with a serial cable With Direc Link the two computers can be connected serially or via cables connecting the parallel ports Since all Portable Vectras have a built in parallel port Portable Vectra owners will be able to use Direc Link Fur ther those Portable Vectra users with the optional dual serial port adapter can choose to use either the parallel or serial port for data transfer This flexibility is useful because quite often a desktop computer has the serial or parallel port free or more accessible than the other port The Direc Link program is easy to use I have yet to read the manual The extremely easy visual tree structure and help screens were all I needed after I loaded and ran the main dlink exe program in both computers Some time soon I intend to look through the brief manual and learn how to create
137. nded Compressed characters across a ThinkJet page Using this ThinkJet font makes a letter that is very easy to read Here are my files pam alm autoansr bat mm bat autoansr cmm autoansr cm terminal cmm terminal cmt terminal cm2 3 cnf cal com ff com lf com pack com pam env pass exe letZI fmt startup fmt tememo fmt let74 let tememo let pam mnu pam msg pmacro prn tmacro prn config sys Alarm clock file set with Time Manager Causes Terminal program to answer telephone Turns MemoMaker help key into a destructive backspace see The Port able Paper Vol 1 Nos 1 amp 3 Terminal main menu file for auto answer Logon file for autoansr cmm Terminal main menu file Terminal download menu file Terminal upload menu file 1 2 3 default configuration file Perpetual calendar Sends form feed to printer Vol 1 No 4 Sends line feed to printer Vol 1 No 4 Disk organization tool Vol 1 No 2 PAM environment sets path to include C Vol 2 No 4 Requires password to start Portable after reboot MemoMaker format file MemoMaker default format file MemoMaker format file Letter base for personal letters Letter base for business letters PAM menu file PAM message file created by Time Manager 123 printing macro Vol 1 No 5 123 title setting macro Configures DOS These files need to be kept on the A drive at all times I store backup copies of most of these files
138. nk statement reconciliation to be displayed as PAM entries l bat allows the user to enter any 1 2 3 spreadsheet as a PAM application l bat will find the spreadsheet even if it is stored in an archive and return it to an archive upon exiting See The Portable Paper Vol 1 No 5 p 5 for an explanation of how to install a Lotus spreadsheet into PAM My l bat batch file is too long to list here and would be extremely tedious believe me to have to key in from Plus in this issue scratch If you would like a copy of the batch file with its accompanying explanation you may request Pagedisk from Personalized Software Readers should send a for matted disk and a self addressed stamped envelope or 7 50 to Personalized Software to request Pagedisk Ed Please note however once you receive the disk you are On your Own as time doesn t permit support from me or Personalized Software 1 2 3 CUSTOM CONFIGURATION FILES Should one job need printer setups for 141 characters per line and 88 lines per page and another require 71 characters per line and 66 lines per page l bat can con figure 1 2 3 to meet these requirements It does this by replacing the default 3 cnf file with a substitute from a library of configuration files stored on the working direc tory This library can be extended almost indefinitely at very little cost of disk space by archiving configuration files with application spreadshee
139. nt 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 lt mation package aimed at producing better writing not more writing New ThinkJet Cartridge For Plain Paper HP reports that ThinkJet QuietJet and QuietJet Plus print ers can use commonly available printer papers with more satisfying results According to HP the original 92261A print cartridge and JetPaper still provide the best possible print quality on these printers and are recommended for heavy graphics use However the new 51604A black ink plain paper print cartridge delivers improved text quality on plain papers The new cartridge boosts less than one se cond dry time and reduce startup clogging The new 51604A ThinkJet cartridge retails for 10 95 and can be purchased through HP Direct 800 538 8787 your local HP dealer or from Personalized Software Messages are Inserted directly into text to point out possible errors and problem areas Easy to Use onlyone command to learn your word processor does the rest Works with Leading Word Processors including MemoMaker The Editor MS Word WordPerfect MultiMate and WordStar Readability Index measures the reading grade level of the docu ment using the D O D standard Fl
140. nterlTalk and Formatl110 MemoMaker Enhancers PrinterTalk lets you change type styles in the middle of a document change number of copies and lines per page do automatic page numbering and much more Formati10 lets you format headers footers and page numbers chain or merge documents compensate for widow and orphan lines and much more Private File Protects your letters documents and data files by scrambling your file so only you can understand it 3 Project Management Packages All 3 work on the HP110 Plus Vectra HP150 and IBM PC Project 8 9 10 a Lotus template helps you manage small to medium projects Milestone is also for small to medium projects On HP110 you need to scroll to see entire Milestone screen Pertmaster is for medium to large projects specify which machine See center spread 2 Megabyte RAM card A giant leap in memory size for the Portable Plus Simply remove your existing RAM drawer and replace it with this card Works with any Port able Plus with 512K of built in memory We will accept your old RAM drawer and any extra memory as a trade in towards purchase See center spread RAM ROM Card A megabyte of RAM plus four pairs of ROM slots Add the RAM ROM card to your Portable Plus and you have a megabyte of extra RAM in addition to space for Lotus Reflection Webster s Spelling Checker MemoMaker Time Manager and SuperROM 5 products on one ROM chip We will accept your
141. ntire 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 C 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 i tet f mia 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 asafety measure So don t bury your disk drive too 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
142. o the f 5 key With 1 5 Meg of RAMI don t see much need to jockey between program memory and Edisc However files can become severely fragmented on the Edisc I prefer diskpack because it eliminates this fragmentation and pack does not tk bat zs also too long to list here and is included on Pagedisk Ed A BATCH FILE TO USE WITH TIME MANAGER Serious Time Management users might have other ideas about how to best organize TM This is what I am doing Time Manager data files are stored in an archive named tm arc Two variations business nam and personal nam of tm nam are used PAM Menu entries Personal TM and Business TM activate a batch file named tml bat shown below to select appropriate TM files from either the disk or the TM archive echo off cls echo Time Manager Archive echo if IX X goto HELP if exist I nam goto REN if exist nam arc e tm arc I nam 28 MARCH APRIL 1988 if not exist nam arc e tm arc JI nam tm tdo not if not exist I nam goto OOPS REN ren I nam tm nam if exist personal nam arc m tm arc personal nam if exist business nam arc m tm arc business nam if exist buddies nam arc m tm arc buddies nam echo tm ren tm nam JI nam if 2X X goto END echo echo Saving Time Manager files in TM ARC echo arc m tm arc JI nam tm tdo not goto END HELP echo echo command TML filename X echo echo filename is name of alternate TM nam
143. odes allow ing them to integrate very well into batch files but they are not on ROM and I don t have 40K of Edisc to spare PAM MENU ARRANGEMENT Applications are installed in the PAM menu files in a logical order The first line includes DOS Commands PAM insists on this 1 2 3 The Editor Spell Check and RightWriter DOS f keys for RightWriter _ The second line has DOS Commands The real one with reset f keys FONE Loads Reflection and requests to call SYSOP Logs on to office RBBS CompuServe and RS 232 19200 baud port to port connection The third line Archive DOS f keys for Archive Utili ty Business TM Personal TM ExpRpt Expense Report RIMMER RIMMER _ _ Portable Tales by Paul Grimmer My objectives in this column are to provide tips on operating the HP110 Portable and the Portable Plus as well as to offer some insights on programming these machines The language we will use is Turbo Pascal since in my opi nion it is the best blend of power and programming utility currently available for microcomputers Also its small size makes it very usable on the Portables Let me defuse any arguments this may cause by saying that the concepts presented here should be applicable to all languages The Portables are wonderful machines for a variety of reasons I know that I do not have to waste time convincing you of their virtues since you already own one and would agree with at least some of my praise W
144. oducts that make HP Portables smarter European Customers PO Box 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 515 472 6330 ae cnn nead aroda throughs Product Price Price Qty Total L ay ponas our European The Portable Paper 4 Year Subscription SoftWord amp Begin with Jan 1986 0 Jan 1987 2 Year Subscription Surrey GU20 6BW E OJan 1988 Current issue 1 Year Subscription England Backissues Gndioate umbo ox va Phone Time Manager Pack HP Calculator 7 504 n aes ean 75440 7 908 Call first to verify pricing 7504 29 95 2 10 unlabeled Sony disks and case 1 44 meg high density P Vectra p 45 69 95 Condor 3 Plus HP150 only p 41 379 00 Condor Junior HP110 Portable only p 41 99 95 89 95 Direc Link Complete Pack p 20 134 90 115 00 dBXL p 12 199 00 189 00 DOS Tools Portable Utilities Vol 1 p 30 49 95 39 95 7 508 7 508 7 50 29 95 6995 37900 8995 115 00 189 00 399 E S m 2 2 j 1 Meg RAM 8 Socket ROM Card yr guarantee Plus only center spread RightWriter p 42 Shelp works on Portable Plus only p 11 Csempe 80 007 7898 statist SSS 0 00 o T Master Specty Pius HPT60 or Portable Vectra p 19 29500 27995 Turbo Pascal Specify which computer p 13 99 895 __ Turbo Pascal Starter Kit Pascal Tutor Pascal Programs 110 or Plus only p 13 189 85 15995 Typing Whiz 9958995 Webster s Spelling Checker back cover 79
145. of The Portable s SYSTEM CONFIG menu to HPIB 08 If you are lucky your printer might work at this point If your printer still does not seem to be com municating with The Portable it means the handshak WOOO 0009 TO WONN SN HP110 HP110 ing between the converter and your printer is incorrect To try to get rid of the handshaking problem 3 Note the configuration made to the copy of the In terface to Parallel Printer wiring diagram from your inter face manual s Appendix C 4 Rewire the cable used to connect the interface to the printer so that pin 11 of the printer is connected to pins 1 and 2 of the interface 5 Next rewire the cable so that ONLY pin 21 of the interface is connected to pins 19 through 30 of the printer If your printer still doesn t work after this rewiring con tact your printer dealer for additional help Print To The Screen and the Printer Simultaneously Here is a little trick that will work on all three Portables and on any IBM PC compatible computer If you are in DOS and you want to see a directory listing on both the screen and the printer simply hold down the CTRL key and press p and type dir Until you press CTRL p again all output from any DOS command appears on both the screen and your printer HPORT Update by David Speltz 76054 1022 Users of HPORT the HP Portable section of the Cleveland HAMNET are reporting that most of the dif ficulties encountered
146. of the list and I can see at a glance which ones to move elsewhere to free up any needed amount of disk space Or let s say you remember putting the Indispensible PC Magazine Don t compute without it The New York Times You ll bless this disk Peter McWilliams The Personal Computer Book Personalized Software is authorized to distribute THE NORTON UTILITIES on 342 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 isplay 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 THE NORTON UTILITIES are among the most helpful utilities I ve run across I use them myself every day and in my opinion they re a must Here s why By Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable Paper example to make erasable files uneras
147. ol 1 DOS Tools Two 64K ROMs Super ROM Mini PrinterTalk is the abbreviated version in 128K 149 The Editor cluded on the PrinterTalk disk it is functionally Shelp equivalent to Printerfalk for most applications SideWinder Shelp and SideWinder are the same versions as Mini PrinterTalk on the 32K ROM chips see above Formati10 Webster s Spelling Also includes two useful utilites DiskPacks and 256K 179 Checker 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 CLEAN TY COPYNEW ARCE DUMP TMA DIRALL CYPHER Note ARC520 is shareware the author ik E a ty contribution However you do not need to send any money We ve oo panty your user fee e NEW MOVE WHEREIS PRNCONF TRIM DIRS TJETA CHANGE SDL FGREP SOPC RENDIR ASK MOVEALL LABEL FDUMP OFF TEE WAIT BEEP SM FCOPY ARC520 FDATE XCOPY ur best selling Portable software 4 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 without advantages For one thing many disk products include extra utilities that have to be deleted from the ROM chips in order to save
148. omers needs are secondary to those of HP This leads us to a situation where the customer gets the final vote by doing what we have done and going to another supplier Another subject of reader interest has been that of statistics I have been using a program called Sigstat from the Signifi cant Statistics Co of Provo Utah for the last two and a half years The program is the Bio Med Pac from UCLA and is based on a card format which might be difficult for some people to grasp This is a very comprehensive statistical package Two other programs that work on the HP 110 are Statpad by John Clements and the Dennison Stataids Statcap and Statrol These are advertised in the magazine Quality Progress John Henderson Federal Way Washington Success With Portable Plus Speed Up I was very pleased with Sam Chau s arti cle on speeding up the Portable Plus Vol 3 No 1 I am not an expert in handling and understanding IC s but I managed to speed up my Portable Plus within 2 hours and the upgrade is paying Before my intervention I tested the speed by creating a 26 x 255 matrix of random numbers in Lotus 1 2 3 version 2 01 this took 22 seconds and saving this file 140770 bytes to the A drive took 30 5 seconds the NEC V30 marks are 10 5 seconds and 23 seconds respectively ECM and MS Word are pleasantly faster especially Search and Find or Replace routines Indeed the Modem and RS232 test
149. on you must have initially selected Alternate Console Mode from PAM s f6 System Config MEMORY CONSTRAINTS Once installed dBXL is ready to use To run dBXL you ab solutely need the following files dbxl exe 255K bytes dbxl ovl 296K bytes Most users will want the message file dbxl msg 55K If you have several megabytes of Edisc space and you are traveling you might also want the on line manual dbxl hlp 319K bytes Otherwise leave it on the C drive The other big memory crunch is that dBXL requires 12 MARCH APRIL 1988 500K of internal memory to run The documentation recommends that you use 512K or lose speed on the in dexing and sorting procedures In other words to run dBXL with the message file but without the manual you need about 1 118K of memory Therefore if you had a 512K Portable Plus and a 1 megabyte memory drawer you would have 418K left for dBXL data program and index files Of course you can run dBXL off your HP9114 disk drive or store files there But then you sacrifice speed of operation By experimenting you will find the optimum way of dividing up your files between the HP9114 and the Edisc as your application requires Alternatively if you want a relatively fast dBASE machine and want room for lots of data and you don t want to spring for a SoftWord drawer you can remove the ROM drawer and insert a sec ond HP 1 Megabyte drawer PERFORMANCE I ran dBXL both off the C drive and
150. onal 44276 75440 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 eae Plus s built in U 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 384K in RAM drawer 640K main Edisk memory 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 Main memory A drive 8 ROM sockets 1 Megabyte RAM ROM A drive Card 1 1mb main Edisk memory 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 Main memory A drive nni s ROM drawer 12 ROM sockets 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
151. ortable Plus for an additional 95 in this issue MN iip You won t believe all the word processing features this 99 95 program contains and it takes up less than 40K of memory only 79 95 for Portable Paper subscribers by Hal Goldstein Let s face it MemoMaker is an adequate word processor but it has its limits No search and replace No simple way to merge files No destructive backspace key To delete the last character you have to use the left arrow key and the deletion key s No compressed or expanded printing No but why go on If you use Memo Maker you probably have your own list of things you wish it could do Well we have good news Now there s an easy to use text editor that runs on the Por table and Portable Plus that will satisfy almost every item on your wish list And the program comes with a built in bonus It also runs on the HP 150 IBM PC and HP Vectra which means that now you can use the same program and files on your desk top that you use on your Portable The program is called THE EDITOR It does everything MemoMaker does plus a heck of a lot more And you don t have to go to the expense of buying WordStar for the Portable or MS Word for the Plus to go beyond MemoMaker s capabilities THE EDITOR s most valuable features are listed on the chart to the right It s quite a list isn t it To me THE EDITOR is a real blessing I use it daily instead of Memo
152. ou our readers These testimonials would both convey your tremendous enthusiasm for the machines as well as con tain practical examples of how you use your Portable Plus 1988 Subscriber s Disk Update And Related Tips Based on your phone comments and letters many of you have found the programs on the 1988 Portable Paper Subscriber s Disk to be quite useful However there were some difficulties and points of general interest that we will _ discuss here USING THE DISK WITH ARCE We wanted to include a good number of programs on the 1988 Subscriber s disk still leave a little scratch space on the disk and keep some sense of order To do so we opted to archive the files using the popular and widely distributed are program are does two things It groups a collection of files into one file and it also shrinks each file so that the file consumes less memory Some of you may wonder how it is possible to shrink files There are any number of ways of encoding information stored in a computer file Some of those ways can shrink files by as much as 70 over standard ways of storing data Files are not usually stored in such shrunken formats because most programs would have to work harder and thus take longer to manipulate these shrunken files The additional demand on the pro grams would therefore require them to be larger To use any of the programs on the 1988 Subscriber s Disk you must unar
153. ound Portable Vectra key board computer without display to my Compaq DeskPro for data transfer I have a parallel cable and the Micro Z parallel cable adapter permanently hooked to my Compaq 20 MARCH APRIL 1988 mode your Portable Vectra must have an HP UES POR TIREET LINE l prap a serial adapter card available from Hewlett E e nk with parallel is uinea Direc Link 59 95 53 95 i Parallel cable 29 95 19 95 Packard standard parallel cable the kind normally used to con sent S saan 800 nN TT nect a computer to a parallel printer plus a parallel cable arallel cable adapter 00 Ease of use Direc Link displays a simple adapter enables the standard parallel cable to connect Direc Link Cable Pack 45 00 42 00 tree diagram of all the files in a directory the parallel ports of two computers 3 serial cables plus parallel cable 00 i For serial use we recommend the economical Direc adapter RECOMMENDED FOR Link Cable Pack it includes 3 serial cables covering all combinations of 9 pin and 25 pin connectors plus a par Direc Link Total Package ia Se 134 90 115 00 HP110 Portable Portable Vectra allel cable adapter Direc Link Software plus 3 serial cables Portable Plus HPI5SO O parallel cable and parallel cable adapter All I have to do is insert the computer end of the printer cable into my Vectra I just connect it without screwin
154. payment either by Master Card or VISA or by an International Money Order or check drawn off a U S bank SHIPPING AND HANDLING Portable Paper subscriptions Subscription prices include U S postage Non U S subscribers please add the following amounts for each subscription year Mexico a 3 surface mail 6 air Other coun tries 6 surface 18 air All other products In North America Add 4 for one item 7 for more than one item FREE SHIPPING FOR U S ORDERS OVER 200 Outside North America Add 3 surface mail 10 airmail We bill or charge non U S orders for the actual postage if it exceeds these amounts March April 1988 How to Order eames VISA Gane TO ORDER BY PHONE Call 515 472 6330 between 9 00 am and 4 30 pm Central Time Monday through Friday or use CompuServe order form e Be sure to indicate your disk requirements EMAIL ID 72257 714 2 Locate desired items on order form e Subscriptions are at the top e 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 Personalized Software TO ORDER BY MAIL 1 Fill out your name ete on the reverse side of the 3 Fill in desired quantity of each item e Please pay special attention to footnotes 4 Calculate shipping and handling costs
155. ply connect the parallel adapter cable into one computer and a normal printer cable into THE PORTABLE PAPER the other computer Then connect the two cables and the connection between the two computers is made Micro Z supplies three serial cables and the parallel adapter for 45 42 to subscribers The main serial cable is 25 pin to 25 pin There are two short 25 pin to 9 pin adapters With these three cables you can connect the Portable Vectra using either its 25 pin or 9 pin port to an IBM compatible with either 25 pin or 9 pin port We sell a standard parallel cable for 19 95 to subscribers 29 95 retail If you want the software the three serial cables and the two parallel cables the retail cost is 134 90 and subscriber price is 115 New Portable Vectra Product Mobile Recharger By the end of March the new Portable Vectra Mobile Recharger should be ready for shipping This product manufactured by Software Operation Systems lets you charge your Portable Vectra like its Portable Plus cousin off your car s battery via the cigarette lighter The recharger adheres strictly to recharging specifications as defined by Hewlett Packard The time it takes to charge a given unit is about 30 longer than with a wall charger In most cases your car does not have to be running the unit can operate over night with no danger of running down a normal car bat tery The Portable Vectra mobile recharger is available from
156. purple and so on I know that my color coding system is not perfect but it demonstrates principles that should be practical for most users Please bear in mind that organization is always a process it is not static My organizational schemes grow and develop and multiply and blend to accommodate my changing needs When I take an inventory of my disks I may find that some do not reflect my current state of organization but to quote Alfred E Newman What Me worry The data is on the disk and I usually know what it is If I don t know what it is I can always load the files and take a look THE IMPORTANCE OF SUBDIRECTORIES DOS subdirectories are another good tool for organizing data Subdirectories provide a method to organize data on a disk just like it was in a filing cabinet The root directory is the filing cabinet each drawer is a subdirectory and file 2400 baud portable modem for your HP Portable Weighs only 6 ounces If you do data comunications with an HP Port able or Portable Plus you ve probably found the internal 300 or 1200 baud modem to be too slow Until now 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 wea
157. r unit weighs about four ounces and is rated for 50 watts plenty since each charger draws only about seven watts 3 Use the model 110A Power Cube Recharger with the Franzus step down transformer for a compact equivalent to carrying three or four HP chargers After thinking about how we ll be us ing our new Portable Pluses the biggest demand on Edisc memory will be our Lotus 1 2 3 files These will be portfolios we manage for clients price lists inven tories and data entry files prepared in the field for later transfer to our heavy duty ENABLE and PARADOX data base systems at home This made me realize how much you o could enhance the Plus memory capabili ty if you could provide a Lotus 1 2 3 file compressor like Turner Hall s SQZ or SoftLogic s CUBIT We ve tried both with our VECTRA 1 2 3 files and find that both of them consistently give compression ratios of 75 to 80 percent or better 75 means 100K uncompressed becomes 25K compressed Would you please consider giving HIGH PRIORITY to enlisting one of the geniuses On your team to either adapt an existing or develop a new Lotus 1 2 3 file compressor optimized for the Plus It should compress by 67 or better 100K raw file 33K or less when compressed when installed attach itself to 1 2 3 and automatically load whenever 1 2 3 is loaded and unload when 1 2 3 is exited automatically SQUEEZE any 1 2 3 file saved and UNSQUEEZE any squ
158. r your HP9114 Empowerer today HP9114 Empowerer 99 95 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details The Empowerer is special power supply that will allow your HP9114 disk drive to run forever Just re move the battery pack get up to 40 minutes of continuous usage before the battery dies We ve never gotten more than 20 Just format ting disks transferring files or running disk intensive software and getting it to work can be a major triumph RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Plus Portable Vectra HP150 IBM PC and compat 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 How many times have you wished you had a second external disk drive The Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personalized Software is selling HP9114A units including power supply at a substantial discount See enclosed four page brochure for details using HP Portables to software for the Portables These Upload File forum files are organized into categories or data libraries gt rae ree oe MOONS E E PPlus Cur rently there are 14 data libraries numbered as follows 1 romdoc txt 7 87 21 593 Instructions for programming PPlus EPROM s i ie ono i 1 dnlpp hlp 4 87 8 127 Download instructions for PPlus munications 3 Sys
159. r your hard disk when the terms Edisc or A Drive are used Ed Organizing My 110 A little disk organization will go a long way toward mak ing your computer easier to use At best poor organization will result in time lost searching for program and data files At worst important files may be lost permanently WHERE TO BEGIN ORGANIZING The first consideration in disk organization for the HP110 Portable Plus is the Edisc Even with the HP110 s in ternal memory set to the maximum 12 8K of space is still available on the Edisc press the PAM f6 key to configure the 110 s memory This is enough space to store several useful files Although there is no requirement that any file must be stored on the Edisc drive A most Portable users should find the files listed below useful Many of the files in this list are configuration files for the Portable and its built in software To minimize disk re quirements two 1 2 3 macros are stored as prn files mri Ta ene a mn rr a m A ma THE PORTABLE PAPER These can easily be imported into a spreadsheet using the File Import Text fit command See The Portable Paper Vol 1 No 6 p 14 Another file letZY let contains my name and address in a letter header format If I need to write someone a letter I start with this file and avoid typ ing redundant data letZY let has a related MemoMaker configuration file let7l cnf The 71 stands for 71 characters the number of Expa
160. racters are the same as on the US version but many signs are in different positions The solu tion is the same as above Keyboard Macros Can be easily used with the keystrokes on my board The MARCH APRTT 1088 2a THE PORTABLE PAPER macro shows up as the equivalent US key sequence so it looks wrong but functions normally e g diskpack d3 s w a shows up as diskpack d3 s w a gt OFF No problem apart from the bugs noted for all users It would appear that Typing Whiz is another program which is only effective on the US board I would like to make a plea to programmers on behalf of all non US version portable users Please consider us when designing your utilities Would it also be possible for one of the Personal ized Software team to compile a list of products which are keyboard dependent The portable reference manual should provide most of the answers I feel that in general your reviews on utilities are far too eulogistic and na tionalistic and although the US member ship must far exceed the sum of all other national members please try to think of some of our problems It is probably too much to ask authors of utilities to cater to the world market but this is precisely what you could do Finally are there likely to be any keyboard problems with Lotus 1 2 3 and MS Word Colin J Crowther London England IT agree with what you say However we just do not have the resources or knowledge to properl
161. re on the market We agree with them both and we think you will too Order your copy at no risk today Webster s Spelling Checker on 312 disk customized for the Portable Plus and 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 Te 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
162. recia tion for all you have offered me in the past Connie Doolittle Zollikon Switzerland I hear you and agree with most of what you say especially about making things easter to find Hopefully the index to 1986 and 1987 issues will help We plan to do some reorganizing of the for mat of The Portable Paper in the future and will definitely keep your suggestions in mind Hal Using Expert System Shells on the Plus In Vol 2 No 5 p 9 of The Portable Paper there was a note about the use of expert system shells on the Portable I have used two expert system shells on my Portable Plus ESIE Expert System In ference Engine Lightway Consultants Tampa FL and Micro Expert McGraw Hill ESIE is a software program which runs directly without modification on the Portable Plus However ESIE requires the IBM PC simulator to run on the HP150 Micro Expert is written in Turbo Pascal and the source code is included on 6 MARCH APRIL 1988 the disk Therefore using the Turbo ROM Chip it is possible to compile the program for use on the Portable Plus or HP150 Both programs are good introductions to the design and use of expert systems I have used ESIE to design an expert system for determining the probable human risk for teratogenicity based on animal test data see enclosed reprint It was my first attempt to design a knowledge base and has many obvious limitations Further refinements in the knowledge base are b
163. res ThinkJet printer easily from the HP Portable TOWS COM Converts ASCII document files to WordStar and Portable Plus MemoMaker format for editing and reformatting TRANSLIT COM Converts one or more characters of one file to different character s and copies result to second file TREEDIR COM Displays names of all files in each directory along with date time and file size TRIM COM Extracts selected columns from a file TY COM Unsqueezes files squeezed by SQPC VDL COM Allows user to selectively delete files from a group of files Program lists files one by one and asks user whether to delete WAIT COM Delays execution of a batch file until specified time WD COM Saves and restores the working directory WHEAROUT COM Gives percent of wear on disk in HP 9114 disk drive WHEREIS COM Searches disk to find the specified file APPENDIX A Describes the contents of subdirectories HP110 SOURCE 123DEMO found on the DOS Tools disk UTILS DOC Reprints on disk The Portable Paper Vol 1 Issue 4 Utilities article Gives practical examples of many of the files on the DOSTools disk RECOMMENDED FOR Available on ROM Backu for the Portable Plus o See order form for details Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield 1A 52556 515 472 6330 for your stand Given the state of the art in writin
164. rom HP75 To VAX Using The Portable I recently used my Portable to copy files from my HP75 to the Vax First using hplink the file to be copied was loaded into the HP75 and I wrote a 3 line pro gram called Send to send the file name and print list to the Portable according to the Link manual Screen 82 With hplink in A Drive I connected the Port able to the HP75 in a simple loop On the Portable I entered DOS and typed hplink fFilell0 EXT return and on the HP75 ran Send On pressing return File75 is copied to File110 appears on the Port able faster than the eye can follow Exit hplink with function key f8 Next I set the terminal configuration in accordance with the recommendations mentioned in The Portable Paper Vol 1 No 4 adding the logon string and the phone number only and leaving all other items at their default values In the upload configuration I turned protocols off from local file to Filell0 Ext and the Remote Invocation Command Options To Remote File string to read create filevax ext Create is the DCL com mand to open a file and put the Vax in text entry mode and is terminated by Z DCL is Digital s equivalent of DOS I also set up your ter bat file but it got hung up in the autologon string the third prompt is a beep and I don t think I programmed this correctly The logon istring is also several lines long With manual logon I d
165. rtable Vectra HP150 295 00 279 95 for Portable Paper subscribers T Maker HP110 Portable 295 00 199 95 for Portable Paper subscribers IN Damirinht 4007 Darnanna and C afiuara For Portable Vectra users o Transfers files to and from your desktop computer with just a few simple keystrokes o Works with serial or Of all the software on the market that will transfer files between your Portable Vectra and your IBM PC or compatible our choice is Direc Link by Micro Z Company The reasons are versatility ease of use and price Versatility Direc Link transfers files via serial or parallel ports So if your desktop s serial port is being used for something else you can still use the parallel port and vice versa Note To use Direc Link in serial parallel ports You tag the files you want to transfer by highlighting them with the cursor Alter natively you can use Script commands to transfer files automatically with both com puters completely unattended In addition you can display and control both screens from either keyboard and can enter DOS commands without leaving the program Price Even with the added cost of the cables see box Direc Link is less expensive than most other file transfer programs on the market including many that are serial or parallel only For easy versatile file transfer at an excellent price order Direc Link at our risk today Re
166. rtable Vectra hardware thinks that it is con nected to a high resolution color EGA monitor Conse quently some of the characters are awkwardly formed and some of the contrasts on the screen are a bit odd but still certainly readable Even with these problems the monochrome monitor is much more readable than the Portable Vectra display The CGA monitor is a color monitor but without the resolution of an EGA monitor Text is not nearly as clear on a CGA monitor as it is on a monochrome or EGA Conse quently I do not recommend the CGA The GoldStar EGA monitor is good for both text pro cessing and colors It includes a feature not available on its HP equivalent which lets you switch between EGA col or mode and amber monochrome text mode If you are in a word processor the EGA monitor normally displays white letters on a black background The GoldStar EGA monitor has a button in the front which enables you to switch to a monochrome amber display An amber display is much easier on the eyes than a white on black display I discovered one interesting anomaly If you are using either a monochrome or color monitor the HP setup com mand will not let you adjust the palette However if you use the monochrome monitor or the EGA monitor in text mode the default setup palette governs what you see on your monitor Consequently my quick and dirty solu tion of making all the colors black yielded the same results as described above M
167. ruc 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 ay work alike that in itself is worth the price of the program Another aspect is Turbo s compiler In addition to being uncommonly fast an amazing 80 100 lines per second it is also uncommonly helpful If the com piler encounters a mistake in a program it stops compiling gives you an error message returns you to the editor and takes you to the place in your program where the error occured The external environment for Turbo 4 is also excellent There are numerous books articles public domain programs and even a CompuServe forum devoted to helping people use Turbo to full ad vantage With all these advantages and more it s no wonder that Turbo Pascal is to day s best selling programming language for the IBM PC THREE PIECE STARTER KIT CUSTOMIZED FOR THE PORTABLES For Portable and Portable Plus users there s yet another enormous benefit Turbo Pascal takes up less than 40K of memory and that includes its powerful Compiling a program means getting it to meet the rules of syntax imposed by the programming language A progr
168. s In this case the special instruction is run the password program pass exe In order to boot the system and bypass the A drive and its config sys file do the following While The Portable is off press the CTRL Shift and Extend Char keys Then press the contrast key while still holding down the other three keys Do not release the CTRL Shift and Extend Char keys until PAM reappears The other method for regaining use of the computer is more drastic It requires losing all the files on the Edisc Remove the battery and you will delete the config sys file and everything else including the default PAM f6 system config settings We all regularly back up our Edisc work onto a floppy right The fact that we got calls saying that the default password TESTPASS didn t work surprised me Two of us at Personalized Software tested the product before put ting it on the 1988 Subscriber s Disk and it worked fine However after receiving these phone calls I installed the program and to my amazement the default password did not work I took out a copy of the nu part of The Norton Utilities to examine the pass exe program the program that requires the password My thinking was that when we rewrote the documentation for the password program we had perhaps made a typographical error when naming the default password The idea was that the Norton program 10 MARCH APRIL 1988 would reveal the real default password I issue
169. s do fail as mentioned by Mr Chau producing the numbers 218 and 216 as error codes but the Timer Test not men tioned by Mr Chau also fails and yields the same error code numbers I have studied the Technical Reference Manual and I m quite sure that my 128K Portable Plus can be upgraded internally to 512K of RAM by replacing the 8K chips with 32K chips Am I correct in thinking that some peripheral IC s must also be replaced or changed and that the address 01COh in the configuration Eprom must become four whereupon the Con fig Eprom Checksum in address 01BE also must be chariged Because I m not certain of this I need the insight of a man like Mr Chau Therefore I would like to ask him if my suggestion is correct I think articles of the kind Mr Chau produces are attrac tive to many users who want to tune up their Portable Plus I hope there will be many follow ups R M Franquinet Arnhem The Netherlands Reaction To ROM Delays We all appreciate your efforts in regard to ROM s and we know how humiliating these delays are for you If they don t come in until 1990 that will still be a lot better than HP has been willing to do lately Hang in there and keep up the good work J Michael Mooney President BEM Distributing Heavener OK We are finally shipping Webster s spelling checker on ROM and our Super ROM five excellent programs on one chip By the time you read this we should continued on
170. s exiting and returning from DOS which means you can delete copy and rename files while running THE EDITOR Right justification and automatic paragraph indent A simple command right justifies your text and at the same time automatically indents your paragraphs however many spaces you wish Undelete Erased something you want back No problem A simple command will un delete the last line or block of text deleted Upper lower case conversion Another simple command lets you change upper case to lower case and vice versa without having to retype anything In terms of useful features per dollar and in terms of the convenience and in creased productivity you gain I feel that THE EDITOR is a truly exceptional buy I urge you to try it Order yours today Copyright 1987 Personalized Software More than Read this list ble or HP150 all on a single disk It may look long and boring but it can save you an incredible 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 ti
171. s to C drive del a MR 06 deletes selected files from A drive For those times when you may not have the courage to use a wildcard to delete a large number of obsolete files from the Edisc try the following to prove the command before you execute it In this example it is assumed that a series of files with the first four characters proj has been created dir proj If the above command turns up no keepers then del f3 use f3 key to automatically repeat arguments of command Or if you wish to transfer files to the C drive before deleting them then use this series of commands Spacing is a bit critical so minimum spacing is indicated by Space dir Space Space proj copy f3 Space c del Space f3 Since the delete command does not recognize a sec ond argument don t worry about c appearing in the third command And if you should need to know how much space is left on a disk but don t want to wait for a long directory to scroll by directory only one easy file For example dir ff Since I always have ff com on the root directory of the A drive the above command gets me disk free space with minimum key strokes even if I should be in a subdirectory It is almost as good as the utility free ccom which uses valuable disk space Organizing The Portable Plus I recently performed a memory upgrade on my HP110 in the only way that made sense to me I replaced it with a us ed 512K 1 Meg Portable Plus from Person
172. scr 3 6 7 19 20 100 250 1000 Price Price Portable Paper 1 year er 55 ae a 35 sr a2 Portable Paper 2 year Portable Paper 3 year 139 139 134 te 39 F 3 DOS hake And ROM Backup 179 169 152 138 iis 1i6 161 Duette The Editor 100 80 72 64 56 52 48 oe And ROM Backup 195 175 157 140 122 114 105 Norton Utilities 100 90 85 80 T4 72 69 67 Norton Advanced T Ki EI EI a ki Ei KI PrinterTalk Formatll10 10 a And ROM Backup 278 268 259 235 219 zii 203 as GC SHELP 55 50 45 40 35 32 30 27 SideWinder Utils 80 70 65 61 56 54 52 49 as Ae AEW NEE Disks And ROM mo Typing iL ae 36 32 28 26 24 a And ROM Backup 135 121 108 94 88 81 74 Webster Ei OM Backup 259 249 255 23 rr 199 185 17 517 436 407 378 363 349 334 Webster x Parie M backups 533 WordPerfect Plus HP150 CALL Shelp Format110 Editor Bamna SideWinder PrinterTalk And SuperROM backup 474 368 327 286 266 245 225 WorldPort 2400 amp cable 2400 amp cable 389 339 328 316 305 305 aoe eed 288 2 Megabyte RAM car e EA m ESA Ears 2586 es EN a l RAM 8 Socket ROM 1995 1695 1681 11667 1653 1646 pi pe HOW TO ORDER Use the chart above 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 Prices subject to change without notice
173. script files Script files let the user send the same series of files from one com puter to the other automatically These scripts can create messages and you can run these scripts from DOS batch files That means you can automate your file transfer pro cedure for computer novices who can do the labor of file transfer for you Micro Z the publisher of Direc Link was the first company to create a graphic tree diagram as the heart of a commercial package for copying moving deleting and re naming files on hard disks The current version Direc Tree Plus retails for 49 95 46 95 for subscribers Direc Tree and Direc Link employ a similar user interface for transferring files between two computers With a keystroke or two you can tag any file or group of files you want transferred 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 Ther
174. 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 help 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 T Master RECOMMENDED FOR aNG HP110 Portable Portable Plus e Portable Vectra IBM PC and compat T Maker columns are of a fixed predeter mined width and the formulas for calculating each cell can only be viewed one cell at a time With T Master you specify the column widths and locations and you type the formulas at the edges of the spreadsheet where you can No other application that I know of matches the power thoroughness and simple elegance of T Master David Hughes Contributing Editor The Portable Paper see them at all times Very helpful in getting your spreadsheets to work Also unlike other spreadsheets you can imbed explanatory text anywhere you like another bene fit of T Master s text oriented ap proach to program integration T Master s relational databas
175. someone who knows more about this equipment could explain what the limitations are Thanks for your continuing efforts on behalf of us 110 users It makes a dif ference Niles Hanson San Jose CA Configuring The Portable Plus For The 9121 Disk Drive I recently purchased an HP Portable Plus computer I attempted to use it with my disk drives 82901M 5 1 4 and the 9121D 3 1 2 as I have done with my HP 110 Using MemoMaker I have installed device b amigo sys 0 2 on my 110 This gives me access to my other equip ment for storing information This does not work with my Portable Plus but it will work with my hard disk 9153 without amigo sys installed Robert E Shea Arlington VA Attaching MS Word Style Sheet This is something I forgot to mention in Condor 3 cia Jr MEMORY REQUIREMENTS Condor 3 requires only 128K of memory to run The entire program including the report writer fits in less than 360K Since each command is in its own file you can save memory space by deleting any commands you don t need Condor Jr is even more memory efficient the main program is only 25K and you add in dividual 10K programs for each function you wish to use my last letter It refers to David Michael Vetter s problems with MS Word and the HP Thinkjet I work with MS Word ROM myself and I like this product very much The ROM version of MS Word 1 1 sup ports expanded compressed expanded
176. 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 LIFETIME MONEY BACK GUARANTEE Our ROM Back Up Service comes with a life time guarantee If a ROM proves defective al 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 of ROM called an EPROM can be altered once information is burned in EPROM stands for Erasable Programmable Read Only Memor
177. t to get used to the x prefix required by the ROM to access many of my favorite utilities However with one or two ex ceptions the utilities in the ROM are as useable as when run directly I include three favorite Norton Utilities in my utilities subdirectory a bin on my Edisc FindFile named findf com DirSort ds com and Quick Unerase qu com Iam using the earliest versions of these programs available since they are smaller than later versions and seem to be functionally equivalent Later versions provide menu assistance that I prefer not to use and I therefore see no need to give them any space on my disk I considered a few other utilities from Personalized Software s DOS Tools and 1987 Subscriber s Disks impor tant enough to receive a place in my utilities Edisc sub directory They are search com diskpack com and wd com diskpack is distributed in exe format I used x sm SpaceMaker to convert it to a com file It saved only a few bytes but this was enough to make it occupy 1 sector 512 bytes less of the disk I ll be able to dispose of diskpack when my Webster ROM arrives since it is included A BATCH FILE FOR LOADING LOTUS 1 2 3 Batch files used to load various applications are saved in this subdirectory also I use a long batch file named 1 bat for loading Lotus 1 2 3 It renames a selected wkl to autol23 wkl allowing 1 2 3 applications such as exprpt expense report and bankacct check register and ba
178. t 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 31 2 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 21 2 times as many as in The Word Plus yet WEBSTER S dic tionary and main program take up only 207K of disk memory Second WEBSTER S isn t just easy to use it s positively a pleasure It reads your files at high speed then displays every questionable word in context highlighted At the same time in a window off to the side it gives you a list of possible correct spellings A simple menu gives you the following options M Accept the word as is Replace the word with one of the sug gested spellings Enter the correct spelling manually RECOMMENDED FOR of eee pees Portable Plus HPISO ne ae ee The Portable Paper Personalized Software P O Bo
179. t 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 Sa easy to follow installation instructions IMPORTANT You must own or order the disk versions of any products you buy on ROM Backup To order use order form inside back cover Product _ Notes Size of ROM Prices Shelp Includes improved version of note extraction 32K 95 program E ps SideWinder Does not include any of the utility programs that 32K 55 come with the disk based version of SideWinder me The Editor o BAK 95 HPDuette Contains HP half of software 64K 95 HPCalculator No disk purchase necessary 64K 95 HPrint _ 64K 95 Shelp SideWinder Same versions as on 32K ROM chips see 64K 95 above plus SideWinder enhancement utility _ Sketch o 64K 95 Turbo Pascal includes RUN COM which can save 10K of disk 64K 95 space from any program you compile with Turbo Typing Whiz _ 84K 95 Best of DOS Tools Contains selected utilities from Portable Utilities 128K 129 Disk V
180. t the bottom of your Portable Plus are usually referred to as the memory drawer and the software ROM drawer Example 1 Your memory drawer is currently empty In _ Stall the 1 Megabyte RAM card there and you gain a full megabyte of extra memory Extra means in addition to _ the 128K 256K or 512K of memory already built in to your Portable Plus Example 2 Your memory drawer currently has a 384K memory card Remove that card and install the 1 Meg abyte RAM card in its place You gain 640K because you ve removed 384K and replaced it with 1 megabyte which actually is 1024K Example 3 Same as example 2 but remove the software drawer instead and instali the 1 Megabyte RAM card there Despite the names of the drawers either kind of _ Card can be installed in either drawer Now your extra memory totals 384K plus 1024K or 1 408 megabytes in all _ Example 4 for maximum memory Remove whatever is currently in both drawers and install two RAM cards The RAM cards can be any combination of HP s 1 Megabyte RAM card or the extra memory cards made by SoftWord of Surrey England SoftWord makes a 2 Megabyte RAM card and a 1 Megabyte RAM 8 socket ROM card For de tails see Personalized Software s two page ad Add Megabytes of RAM and ROM inside your Portable needed Personalized Software s DOS Tools ROM is worth its cost for this program alone I found it a little difficul
181. tail Subscriber One of the features I liked about Direc Link was that it allowed me to create and delete subdirectories on the fly i e from within the program This way I find I can transfer different kinds of files from the desktop to my for matted floppy and group them on my floppy as I went along When you start Direc Link by typing dlink a display comes up and prompts you to name the drive where you want files to be displayed You do this with each machine Direc Link then tries to connect with the other computer Direc Link keeps trying to connect until it is suc cessful The two computers are connected when the pro gram is run on both computers and the computers are properly connected by the appropriate serial or parallel cables When the two computers connect the screen changes and displays a tree like directory structure Move the cursor to the desired subdirectory for sending or receiving files At this point pressing the f9 key brings up a list of the files in the chosen directory Move the cursor to a file you want to transfer and press the space key to tag the file When you are finished tagging files press the Enter key and file transmission begins There are several other features that make Direc Link ideal for the Portable Vectra Since I have my Portable Vec tra hooked to a monitor I decided to try transferring files without a Portable Vectra display I disconnected the monitor and carried my 12 p
182. te epo cassete a oa a Lama Geter available on Nd e D ON ees ee ee ee es eee er ee ee eae ae ere Se ne eee ae ae ue G5 ae Se es a5 Go Ge aL do an cl we ee 4 ROM Backup PURE UU EHUE ET PUNY UE EEE EEE 2 BEEN EUR EH HET 2 uA us for the Portable Plus HBERERRHRU REE HRHEBHRH REE RHE BE ERBRRERER RR ERE FREE BREE 36e SEA on ROW an EREEREER EERE EE EPER EEE EE UEP ER EREEE EEE EE EE is issue Sian d2 FS da SEH SHEE EKER SHES se PRES Te ta FS po T2 te Te SL mo to io us d te s to Bi SE EF IT RE ES ER TSIS IERE var Et as st erare SE p S gr ap rag BS ITEE ET Bt 22 EZ EZ ES SE EL BE HE es es ct Rt at 22 RE ER ST BOTS T3 3S GS ts TS th IS Ee Es ts te Fe T I3 WE i5 ts Te th Th se HS SY ST WE Tr te 32 ig ts 32 SR SS SS Re ty m te Ts TF i tells a e jed H tee SideWinder is published by Southern Software OPTIONAL EXTRAS Southern Software of New Orleans creators of SideWinder have also created two companion utilities that work only on The HP Portables SideChar lets you create your own sideways characters RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable At last Sideways printing for the HP Portable Portable PLUS and HP150 IBM PC and compat Available on ROM Backup poet rin ct en hiner e for the Portable Plus E SSE BER FENNE nana Thinkjet And the HP150 Vectra IBM PC S upp nET EEES MS DOS computers and most HP graphics printers Rann una anena E thaw ini It s called SideWinder and it s perfe
183. tem Utilities 4 Plotter Printer 1 pplus nws 11 86 1 030 WordPerfect and dbIII compiler for PPlus Utilities 5 Word Processing 6 Data Management 1 portne txt 10 86 11 475 Case histories of using HP110 on the road i i 1 swll0 arc b 8 86 5 888 List of HP110 PPlus software 8 186 7 Graphics 8 Source Code Files 9 Programming 1 kerpro arc b 8 86 102 272 KERMIT file transfer protocol 10 HP Windows 11 General Interest 12 Patches i pace 10 85 17 765 ot application sis A aii s doc 8 85 2 905 Bui l 9114 dri 13 Application Notes Questions and Answers 14 1 term kip 7 85 5 120 How DA E ik EA T and HP11 Communicator articles My understanding is that libraries 1 faq004 doc 7 85 6 670 TERM questions HP110 A 1 faq008 d 8 12 MemoMak ions HP150 HP110 PPI 12 13 and 14 are supplied by the Hewlett Packard 1 fag0I3 dec oe 7 500 ee eee ota ee Response center and the HP CompuServe forum system 1 hpll0 bug 12 84 27 435 List of firmware bugs in HP110 12 29 84 1 dnlzzy0O hlp 12 84 13 580 Download help for HP110 Op Craton f 2 mscplu arc b 10 87 3 072 PPlus serial port on off control A fairly up to date list of all the files in all the data 2 kerm parc b8 86 33 536 KERMIT 2 29 for HP110 A 3 pphist arc b 10 87 16 512 DOS command line edit for PPlus libraries can be found m files hpfdl des and hpfdl arc a 3 miscplarc b 10 87 2 432 PPlus serial port control amp HPIL test utilities data library 0 The are file is a much small
184. ter runs on the HP110 Portable with an external disk drive The pro gram runs beautifully T Maker doesn t support data communications but it does include word processor spelling checker database spreadsheet scratchpad and simple bar charts It is easily the most com prehensive program available for the HP110 spreadsheet work in the second module then import the result back into the first module In addi tion each module presents you with different commands a differ ent environment and often a dif ferent feel Not so with T Master T Master doesn t have modules in the usual sense Instead almost everything is done using the word processor it s the heart of the system T Master s different func tions spreadsheet database etc are in effect aspects of the word processor that have special powers Instead of leaving the word pro cessor to create a spreadsheet that you then have to import you simp ly create a spreadsheet with all the computational power you need right where you are Same for a database Using vir tually the same commands as for typing ordinary text you can set up the structure of the database enter data sort search generate a report and insert that report into your document And that s why T Master is so comfortable You always interact with it in the same mode which is basically just to type And what you type is ordinary text or numbers or
185. that came with our HP 110 for DOS and 1 2 3 Although they are not cheap at 20 each they are spiral bound and printed in two colors on a nearly indestructible plastic paper which takes pencil notes that erase very cleanly with art gum You might want to offer these com pact guides through your catalog and in clude perhaps also the WordStar 4 and WordPerfect 4 2 versions which I have THE PORTABLE PAPER never seen in a store On another matter you wrote a while ago that your wife had created a mysterious file named Lesson 1 while using The Editor and that DOS refused to recognize or delete this file PC Magazine suggests renaming the illegal file i e rename lesson l lesson 1 Another solution we ve found is to use del lesson which will of course delete Lesson 1 and any other Lesson file Rodman Sharp Sharp Associates Santa Fe NM Don t Want To Return To PAM I would like to see articles on how to operate all settings available under system configuration and datacomm configura tion from batch files As the system gets more loaded particularly on the RS 232 port it becomes time consuming to have to reset between each application I have also received the Touchbase system modem thanks for extremely fast shipping At first I could not make it work and called Touchbase in New York They were very helpful in advising that in the U S the two center wires are used for communication to the phone syst
186. the world a language self tutor program and more While reading back issues of The Portable Paper I made notes of comments I d like to add Readers should refer to their copies If they don t have all the back issues let me urge them to get them and read them and then read them again 1 CHKDSK B V Vol 1 No 5 p 26 Vol 2 No 1 p 30 THE PORTABLE PAPER On the Plus this produces the message CHKDSK of B not allowed No big deal just that someone said something works and it doesn t seem to 2 Thinkjet paper I have found in my travels that there is plenty of poor quality paper available around the world except here in the U S My guess is that everyone outside of the U S can acquire low quality high absorption paper at wonderfully low prices but that for once our American predilection for quality has hurt us 3 dBASE II Vol 2 No 2 p 22 I called up Ashton Tate in mid 1986 to learn about the differences between II amp III and discovered that the most relevant difference for me was 150 vs 680 Let me be more explicit dBASE II can be bought from Ashton Tate for 150 At that price it s too good a bargain to pass by I am thoroughly satisfied with the product and have no desire to upgrade even should a version of dBASE III exist on the Plus I was told by Ashton Iate that there was no version for the Portables You might also note that because of the ex istence of III
187. to transmittal disk del a hold rpt deletes files from A drive rd a hold removes temporary sub directory Bra TRINITY i a nn rT arm re Add Megabytes of RAM and ROM inside your Portable Plus Leave that bulky disk drive in your closet Now your 9 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 9 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 grams you were forced to carry an external disk drive wherever you went Now all that is changed Be cause now you can boost your Portable Plus s memory by as 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 currently offering two kinds of cards e2 Megabyte RAM Cards e Megabyte RAM ROM Cards containing 1 megabyte 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 k
188. to your Portable Plus and the other into the desktop HPDuette transfers data at 57 600 baud To use HPDuette you connect the 9 pin serial port on your Portable Plus to the serial port on your desktop com puter using the serial cable that comes with the program 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to HP110 Portable Portable Vectra Portable Plus e H P150 IBM PC and compatibles gO use such commands as GotoXY 1 to position the cursor at the top of the screen The code for that command works only on PC compatible machines It would crash the HP110 or Portable Plus Similarly to get the HPIL printer to work with your programs will be a challenge left to the experts Perhaps a wizard or two will rework the turbo tpl file so TP4 can be made to be more useful on the HP110 and Portable Plus CHANGING OLD HABITS If you are thinking of upgrading to TP4 prepare yourself for some unlearning of old habits A lot has changed in Turbo Pascal For example most compiler directives have been outmoded or their effect is different in TP4 The ReadKey command replaces the old read kbd ch com mand Character data types are no longer compatible with string 1 data types There are no more Chain files or overlay procedures The 650 page Users Manual lists all of th
189. ts Practically I find that a few general purpose configurations meet most of my needs If you are not familiar with controlling 1 2 3 through configuration files you should investigate the wgd command l bat is not a small file but it saves disk space since it eliminates the need for many batch files Replaceable parameters in the batch file work this magic These are fed to L bat on the DOS command line or through pam mnu entries I originally included a help facility and a utility for searching system are which contains Lotus configuration files in my prototype of L bat I decided to drop these op tions to reduce the size of the batch file and to speed its ex ecution However should a nonexistent worksheet file be requested L bat will display a listing of worksheet files in cluding any worksheet files stored in archives Worksheet archives are identified by the extension wka The Archive Utility normally expects archives to have an extension of MARCH APRIL 1988 27 THE PORTABLE PAPER arc However any extension may be forced with are by simply typing it in and this is what l bat does If you wish to manually command arc to do something with a wkar chive you must remember to give it the wka extension Should a nonexistent 1 2 3 configuration file be re quested l bat will display a list of available configuration files and pause Files in the configurations library are iden tified with cnx as the extension USING STANDA
190. ts exe 17276 Norton Text Search print com 8963 DOS print spooler xcopy exe 5402 DOS copy subdirectories chkdsk com 9819 DOS diskcopy com 5211 DOS check directory integrity copy exact disk image format com 11629 DOS format program forl50 exe 11314 HP formats HP 3 1 2 disk format mode com 14739 DOS defines serial printer info more com 282 DOS types screen at time utility vdisk sys 2831 DOS Electronic disk qd2 exe 74752 Gazelle Systems disk organizer setup com 42240 HP palette monitor control dlink com 37878 Micro Z file transfer Direc Link ed exe 39608 Personalized Software editor The first six programs come from The Norton Utilities They are all included in both the regular and the Advanced Edition See Vol 1 No 2 p 16 or the Norton To make your Portable Vectra dou ble as a true desktop computer order one of these affordable GoldStar mon RECOMMENDED FOR HP110 Portable Portable Plus Portable Vecta on o 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 IBM PC and compat ad in this issue for more information ds lets me sort a disk directory by date size name extension or in any arbitrary order As discussed in this issue s Wizardry column fa lets me examine
191. ures HP110 Portable Plus and Portable Vectra users can use the DeskJet printer with no difficulty Although the Desk Jet is not a portable it still can be carried around We ll be looking into providing a carrying case for the printer The printer weighs 14 3 pounds and is 8 inches tall 17 3 in ches wide and 14 8 inches deep That s slightly more than the length and width and twice the height of a Portable Vectra computer To use the DeskJet with an HP110 or Portable Plus you need a serial cable HP9221P You must properly configure PAM s System Config for a serial printer Then in the Datacom Config menu you must set the Baud rate and other serial parameters as defined in the DeskJet manual The DeskJet comes standard with both a serial and parallel port This means that you can connect the Portable Vectra to the DeskJet with a standard printer cable dif ferent than the parallel ThinkJet cable If you have a serial adapter card for the Portable Vectra you can also connect the printer serially to the Portable Vectra Similarly you can connect the DeskJet via the serial or parallel port to most any microcomputer Another nice DeskJet feature is the automatic single sheet feeder up to 100 sheets with a front loading design for quick reloading of paper The printer accommodates U S letter legal and European A4 paper sizes as well as manually fed 10 envelopes ThinkJet users who have tried to control the printer with
192. us ing Also I would finish articles which should always be appropriately titled without continuing them on rear pages In the table of contents I would keep to the same format in all issues As a reader I want to look at the table of con tents and know what page I want to turn to and what kind of information I m go ing to find there When I look back through previous issues which I do very often I want to be able to find what I want very easily and quickly I would also try to think of better divisions of contents as reflected in the table of contents To me it is more impor tant that something is a word processing program for example or a data base pro gram than whether it is located on the A or B drive In your paper I value ease of reading and identifying what is useful to me and also not having to read the whole issue and be distracted by continually turning the pages back and forth or by advertis ing I also want to be able to refer to items in back issues without re reading every issue I appreciate articles which are well written in terms of organization and clari ty and particularly those with an opening sentence that lets me know whether or not I want to read the entire article I hope what I have written will be helpful to you My point has been not specific recommendations but overall principles which I would like to see im plemented in the future With best wishes for your continued success and app
193. us and your desktop computer without an HP IL card An HP IL card inside your IBM PC or com patible computer lets you transfer files to and from your Portable Plus It s a good solution to the data transfer problem provided you only use one desktop computer But if you ever need to transfer data between your Portable Plus and some one else s desktop computer you re stuck or at least you were until now Because now there s a way to do it with software It s a program called HPDuette Together with a special serial connecting cable that it comes with HPDuette is all you need to transfer files at high speed both ways be tween your Portable Plus and any IBM PC compatible desktop RECOMMENDED FOR HPDuette performs complete error check ing during the transfer process to ensure data integrity It handles multiple file transfers subdirectory transfers and DOS wild card usage It lets you use DOS com mands such as type list rename and erase without having to exit the program And it transfers data faster than you can with an HP IL card HPDuette is easy to use too Simple menus and easy to understand help screens are available at all times For true convenience in file transfer to and from your Portable Plus order HPDuette today HPDuette with cable for Portable Plus 99 95 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers H Pdue f f Cv comes with a serial cable and two disks you load one disk in
194. using the computer can t see it One way is to encrypt the files you want secured You can encrypt files by using my program cypher found on the DOS Tools Disk or by using Private File also available from Personalized Software This is ac ceptable but has the inconvenience of having to run a utili ty before and after using the file A more serious problem with using encrypting utilities is that when you forget your lockword you might just as well delete the file because there isn t any easy way to decipher it Another way to secure a file is to use the hidden at tribute When the hidden attribute is set for a file the file becomes hidden to the dir del and copy commands You can hide a file by using the Norton fa command or the DOS Tools change command I created a subdirectory and then used the Norton Utilities to hide the subdirectory When someone types dir in the root directory it doesn t show the additional hidden subdirectory I use the hidden subdirectory to hold all my secured files When I want to use them I don t have to bother with a utility to decipher the file I want and I can still dir the contents of the subdirectory This method isn t entirely secure because there are utilities that list hid den files It does however keep the average person from snooping into my files If you are interested in trying this use the Norton Utilities to explore the file root directory
195. uter In my office it sits on my desk attached to a monitor The no compromises keyboard large disk capaci ty small footprint and relatively fast processor make the Portable Vectra an excellent desktop computer When I want to take work home or ona small trip I attach on the LCD screen and carry it away Using a monitor with the Portable Vectra couldn t be easier A monitor s cable fits into the monitor adapter port standard in the back of the Portable Vectra It fits so snug ly that I don t even bother screwing in the monitor cable That way I just unplug the cable when I need to take my Portable Vectra home or to another desktop in the office for file transfer In order to use an external monitor first plug it in but leave the LCD screen attached Then run the HP setup pro gram being sure to follow its menu instructions to con figure the monitor Save your monitor choice mono chrome EGA CGA Next activate the external monitor The LCD goes blank since the Portable Vectra supports only one display at a time Removing the LCD is a matter of opening the Portable Vectra slightly in front Next slide the release latches on the back of the computer toward the center and you can lift the LCD off the computer Replace it with the rear cover strip supplied with the Vectra and you are ready to go To put the LCD display back on simply reverse these steps It is slightly trickier but after a few times you can replace the
196. ve protocol Many of the programs listed on the forum 5 lwearc b 12 86 10 752 Converts text file to lower case 5 emacsp arc b8 86 55 040 EMACS for HP110 have pee melee Ages Gary e his ees ne 6 ppdrv doc 12 86 4 130 Use 1 2 3 v2 01 on PPlus research as the basis of our product the Best 6 labelsarc b 11 86 28 032 Mailing label program Tools chart continues on next page MARCH ADDTT 1AQQ A2 THE PORTABLE PAPER Upload File DL Filename Date Size Description amortiarc b9 86 26 368 Generate loan amortization tables pprie ccom b 1 87 1 024 View RLE files off line on PPlus kal 0 com b 7 86 15 488 Generate kaleidoscope images on HP110 jetsrc arc b 9 87 12 160 Source for PPlus Printer control TSR pptsrc arc b9 86 15 744 Source to PPTERM COM in DL2 readid asm 12 84 1 140 Routine to return serial number of HP110 apburn com b 7 87 1 024 Burn EPROM s on Aprotek programmer prolog arc b8 86 63 488 Public domain version of PROLOG 87 xlisp arc b 8 86 172 416 Public domain version of LISP ppprom arc b 9 85 34 048 ROM programming utilities for PPlus hpil hlp 2 85 2 150 Intro to HP IL Toolkit for HP110 hpilmn bin b 2 85 2 048 HP IL monitor for HP110 forth bin b 12 84 17 152 FORTH for HP110 11 mf com b 12 86 5 888 A game for PPlus Minefield 11 navll3 arc b 1 86 96 128 Navigation flight plan system for HP110 13 answer app 8 87 3 598 Configuring the HP110 for auto answer mode 13 autolg app 8 87 5 602 Configuring the HP110 for autologon mode
197. ven tently 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 selves so they work better and so their message displays are easier to under Contents of Portable Utilities Disk Vol 1 DOS Tools remember the names of the programs And we ve even changed some of the programs them 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 i 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 enter any Roman8 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 Configu
198. vi sion Based on my early conversations they seem open to Hal Goldstein gt ideas and enthusiastic about their mission The Portable Plus is still alive and well although the Portable Vectra is viewed as the line of the future Let s hope we end up see ing the best of the Portable Plus and Portable Vectra in up coming machines We can only wait and see what happens Here at Personalized Software we have doubled the number of phone lines from two to four no more busy signals we hope The expanded work space in our new building means we should be more efficient in serving your needs We will be incorporating in March with possibly a new name so far Personalized Portables Cor poration and Portable Resources Inc lead the pack any other suggestions Your support has enabled us to grow That support has let us continue to bring out new HP Portable products and expand The Portable Paper We appreciate your praise and your constructive criticism You send us so much interesting material to share with other readers In this issue we have expanded our letters section so that we could publish some of that information We also discuss the implications of HP s exciting new DeskJet printer for HP Portable users This fourteen pound inkjet printer retails for under one thousand dollars yet produces LaserJet letter quality text and graphics on nor mal letterhead or copy machine paper As this issue of The Portable
199. x 869 Fairfield Iowa 52556 M Add the word to an auxiliary diction ary of frequently used words E Replace all other occurrences of the word 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 item 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 pass John 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 softwa
200. y 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 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software PUBLISHER S MESSAGE Hewlett Packard has moved its Portable division 1000 miles down the coast from Corvallis Oregon to Sunny vale California Personalized Software has moved its entire operation five miles down the highway from our home in the Iowa countryside to a building on the Fairfield Iowa town square Both moves have signifi cance for HP Portable users For the short term the HP move means a lack of product support and R amp D effort on the HP Portable front Very few Corvallis engineers have elected to follow the Portables down the coast Despite all its charm life in the San Francisco bay area also means a high cost of living and more complexity in every day life Consequently new faces will make up the HP Portable marketing R amp D and manufacturing team In the long run it should mean more competitive pric ing for HP Portables and a more coherent and integrated HP microcomputer line HP is putting a top quality experienc ed team in place to manage the HP Portable computer di
201. y relational system allowing you to combine data from two or more files It includes advanced report generating capabilities data transfer to and from Lotus 1 2 3 and other applications and much more SeP 12 ABXL A dBase III work alike that runs on the Portable Plus seeP 20 Direc Link A software program for high speed transfer of files between your Port able Vectra and IBM PC or compatible Versatile works with parallel and serial ports easy to use simple manual file tagging or automatic unattended file transfer and very affordable price Disk Conversion Service We will convert your data to and from single sided double sided high density 3 2 inch and 5 inch formats at a reasonable cost seP 30 DOS Tools Portable Utilities Disk Vol 1 Well over 50 excellent public domain programs that enhance DOS all tested on The Portables Documentation has been rewritten for clarity and ease of use and includes examples index and table of contents seep 29 The Editor The Formatter separate packages The Editor Many features not in MemoMaker including search replace editing 2 files at once embedded printer codes up to 255 columns per line Also does word wrap right justify Easy to use Uses less than 40K Versions for HP110 Plus HP150 Vectra and IBM PC all on master disk The Formatter Sophisticated text formatter for large reports program documentation etc Multiline headers footers page numbers table
202. y support our non US customers The best we can do is publish letters that report the problems and solutions Fortunately HP has the resources to support its worldwide customer base and as far as I knou their versions of MSWord and Lotus 1 2 3 on ROM work fine on all keyboards Speaking of solutions I just had a call from Connie Doolittle in Switzer land who says she finds an extra utility which Paul Grimmer includes on his HPrint program disk most helpful in set ting proper European page length on the ThinkJet Hal More Games On The 110 Plus Have you ever played any of the Infocom interactive fiction computer games I have two of them ZORK I and ENCHANTER These games are quite challenging It took me about a year to figure out most of Zork I have never reached the end of En chanter Almost everyone to whom we have shown these games soon becomes enthralled trapped into hours of play ing Infocom sells their games rather in expensively and generally has specials like ZORK II and ZORK III for 29 95 WISHBRINGER DEADLINE WITNESS STARCROSS SUSPENDED INFIDEL and SEASTALKER sell for 14 95 each These games are available for many 40 MARCH APRIL 1988 MS DOS computers as well as for 100 IBM compatibles Infocom says that you must order the HP110 versions through Hewlett Packard implying that HP modifies them to work on their com puters However HP does not offer a very big selection and they cert

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