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1. A3020 For more information Call 800 825 9977 INGES ACE Technologies Inc ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zanker Road 103 San Jose California 95134 U S A Tel 408 428 9722 Fax 408 428 9721 Stacker LZ5 is o trademark of Stoc Electronics DoubleFlash DoubleCard and DoubleRAM ore trademarks of ACE Technologies Inc
2. Steele Creek Technologies 14035 Appling Lane Charlotte N C 28278 Tel 704 588 1780 SUNDISK SUNDISK K Corporat on C3568 Card Drives are available from SCT for 169 95 tered The additional information in these fields and the information in the Address field is hidden much like a Note is in the Appointment Book STOP Before you buy another set of batteries BATTman wew SWITCHoblal NiMH batteries 2 If you are tired of throwing away batteries BATTman will allow safe hassle free use of rechargeables on your 95LX Every caminan of BATTman works flawlessly and never once lost data With NEW Features BATIman now reports Hours used NIMH provides 200 more capacity than e standard NiCds Rechargeable up to 1 000 times No memory effects and non toxic to our environment Palmtop paper August 1992 For more information on our products and how to order call 800 825 9977 Join thousands of other 95LX users start using BATTman battery management software with NiMH Nickel metal Hydride rechargeable batteries and SAVE BATIman NEW version 1 2 on 3 5 floppy BATTIman with two Ni metal Hydrides BATTman with two Ni metal Hydrides amp charger 69 ACE ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zonker Rood Suite 104 Son Jose Collfonia 951344 SA 408 426 9722 FAX 408 4276 9721 Dele amp Distibulons welcome MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 43
3. UTIL Forth 70 Version of Forth designed for the 95LX CONTACT Essex Marketing Services Inc attn Chris Smith 272 Old Farms Road Simsbury CT 06070 USA Phone 203 651 8284 Fax 203 651 7926 Sources for Commercial Programming Software The Programmer s Shop 90 Industrial Park Rd Hingham MA 02043 USA Phone 617 740 2017 or Programmer s Paradise P O Box 560 Farmingdale NY 11735 USA Phone 800 445 7899 Shareware Freeware Mentioned in This Article On the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK cis sHR Freyja M A 93 issue Memutil amp Thor archived in Freyja cis sHR PCC J F 92 issue cis sHR PRGTOOL1 ZIP M J 92 issue cis sHR PRGTOOL2 ZIP M J 92 issue Contains other freeware shareware software mentioned in this issue CIS Also available in the HP Handhelds forum of CompuServe SHR SHAREWARE is software distributed free of charge for evaluation purposes only If you decide to use it you must pay the author the shareware fee This goes for any shareware found on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK or CompuServe AOL many of these files may be found on American Online in the Palmtop Library keyword Palmtop HOW TO USE Getting Started Your 95Lx IG What is Your 95LX IQ Do you make the grade Have you got the right stuff Now s your chance to find out and have fun in the process By Peder Sweeney Harken back to your SAT Scholastic Aptitude Test or GRE
4. MAY JUNE 1993 An Independent Publication for Users of HP Palmtop Computers U S 7 95 HP Palm bie Pap er F THE HP 100LX PAGES 6 AND 12 Tin tne arr Solect with prase yotter gos HP announces Omnibook 300 SuperPortable PC PAGE19 N EOW S Publisher s Message cccmsseeseeee OD Letters to the Editor 4 The HP 100LX ETTET LE ee 6 HP s new Palmtop PC is fully PC compatible with an improved library of Built in applications CGA compoatible display a 9 pin serial port anc longer battery life User fo User A Hands On Look at the HP 100LX 13 Hal Goldstein gives an account of his first thre weeks using the 100LX and tells why you might o might not want to upgrade The HP OmniBook 300 Superporfable PC sss 19 HP s new light weight subnofebook PC comes with Microsoft Windwos 3 1 Word and Excel bui in It has four PCMCIA slots and a fax modem sic and has options for 80MB of hard disk space anc 8MB of system RAM memory New Products and Services 21 RE VDE WS Add ins Improve APPT 0 25 This software helps you to better manage you appointments by letting you see more than one day s appointments at a time view appoint ments and to dos together and more ADDITIONAL APPT SOFTWARE sussen 31 Database Program for the 95LX PRR r Take a look at some of the database programs available for the 9SLX including Notes9
5. Payment By Check enclosed payable to Chaplet Peripherals J Visa L MasterCard Card Exp Date Signature Send me the following Item Qty Item Qty CA residents add 8 25 salestax Shipping amp Handling USA 5 00 International 10 00 ily ULAN rT iF viz Li Mea m ms DIe ee ale n NAAR a ea PANVEST GROUP Ego RAM amp ACT 95 Join hands to bring you Hassle Free Installation on HP95LX amp the New HP100LX PCMCIA 2 0 JEIDA 4 1 Compatible 5 Year Free Battery Replacement 5 Year Product Warranty Order EgoRAM amp ACT 95 together at a low bundled price and we will pre install ACT 95 for your HP Palmtops on the EgoRAM Card You install ACT 95 directly from the EgoRAM Card No hassles with COM port on the host PC Run ACT directly from EgoRAM and save 122 Kbytes of system RAM disk space Use EgoRAM to store amp back up data files To place order call toll free 1 300 308 3388 252 North Wolfe Road Sunnyvale CA 94086 USA Phone 1 800 308 3388 or 408 732 7950 FAX 408 732 6050 b ACT 95 and ACT are registered ti ina of Contact Software and Symantec Conpnatiin EgoRAM EgoCARD are registered iii of Chaplet Peripherals S Publisher s Message It seems Hewlett Packard listens to its custom ers Feature after feature in HP s new 100LX addresses a limitation in the HP 95LX You ll find no PHONE file size limit on the HP 100LX Its
6. The desktop ThinCardDRIVE transters data effortlessly between Palmptops and MS DOS or MS Windows PCs Plugs right into the printer port Pass thru feature retains printer operation Model TMD 500 reads and writes SRAM cards a TMD 550 SRAM amp FLASH cards Fully PCMCIA JEIDA compatible with the industry s broadest range of card supplier and platform support It s quick and easy sn t it time Cara ThinCardDRIVE is a trademark of Databook Inc words Goldstein Urgent and Ar ticle 3 04 should be available by the time you read this article There is no upgrade charge for registered Multiday users Editor WEEKABK E This program provides a concise graphical display of appointments one week at a time and a seamless entry into APPT to insert and edit appointments For those who want a small program 14K of system RAM and don t need sophisticated search features of Multiday This System Manager compliant program displays the week graphi cally across the screen with the days of the week across the top in col umns and the times of the day in one hour increments down the left side Each appointment in the day is 28 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 you put one on your expense report Call 716 889 4204 for further information OEM Dealer inquiries welcome blocked off in the hour segment or segments that it occupies Aer inleenlL Bouk 2233 3 31 pr i alik RE abk OO BACUAJBA
7. m REQUEST FAXED OR MAILED INFO TION 800 752 0900 On Line Support offered by these bulletin board services m COMPUSERVE GO HPHAND FORUM Call 800 848 8199 or 614 457 0802 For FREE membership state 231 AMERICA ONLINE Keyword PALMTOP Call 800 227 6364 or I eet ee for membership infor mation How to submit an article The richness of The HP Palmtop Paper comes from the contributions of Palmtop PC users We and your fellow users welcome your submis sions We do not offer payment for articles your reward is knowing that you ve helped others you have a good idea and want to go for it send it in via CompuServe E Mail 75300 2443 or send disk or hard copy to Hal Goldstein or Rich Hall at the above address Alternatively you can send an outline of your idea We will to de you as to when and whether we would use the article and contact you if we need clarifi cation or have any suggestions We may want to use n article but for a variety of reasons you may not see it for many months Please under stand that we cannot promise to run any article _If you can especially if you write a Palmtop Profile send us a black and white photo of yourself Cardiff Pub Chaplet Classic Computers Products Advertised in The HP Palmtop Paper Product InfoManager BATTman Battery Monitoring Software Classic Lunar Lander DoubleCard RAM Memory Cards REMOTE o Bu sell used HP Equipment Com
8. But sometimes you may want to do a calculation first and put the result into the list You could switch to Arith do the calculation but it s easier to stay in List mode and per form the calculation For example suppose you wanted to multiply 8 times 12 and place the product in the list Press 8 12 and 96 is entered into the list The above format assumes that you are using Algebraic notation in your calculations If you are using Re verse Polish Notation RPN ap pears at the bottom left of your screen you would press 8 12 Ted Dickens HP Forums Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 Memo FIND DOESN T WORK WITH SPECIAL CHARACTERS The Find F7 function in MEMO doesn t work right with special characters Press ALT 1 to put a open happy face in your 95LX MEMO document and then try go to it with the Find function Find takes you to the first special character it finds usually the next the End of Line marker Jim Gurney Lotus Development Corp Atlanta GA USA Set Up WHERE TO PUT AUTOEXEC BAT amp CONFIG SYS lf you have a RAM card recom mend keeping AUTOEXEC BAT and or CONFIG SYS in A If something goes wrong and you can t boot from the A drive you can just pull the card and reboot with a plain configuration Ted Dickens HP Forum Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 GETTING PRT SC TO WORK The 95LX print screen feature sends text characters to the printer but not graphics In ad
9. For more information see Ad page 26 or CONTACT IntelliLink Inc 98 Spit Brook Road Suite 12 Nashua NH 03062 USA Phone 603 888 0666 Fax 603 888 9817 New Release of ACT for Windows 1 1 Links to 95LX This newest release of ACT for Windows corrects a prob lem with earlier versions and allows ACT for the 95LX us ers to transfer ACT files back and forth between the Win dows version Other new fea tures in this version include greatly improved speed point and shoot data import ing links with WinFax PRO faxing software and quick dialing for common phone numbers Availability Now Medium Floppy Disk Windows version Not for the 95LX PGND YS o8 aves nea yess 395 CONTACT Contact Software Interna tional 1840 Hutton Drive 200 Car roliton TX 75006 USA Phone 800 365 0606 or 214 919 9500 Fax 214 919 9750 UK CONTACT Phone 44 0 753 830727 Fax 44 0 753 833317 GERMAN CONTACT Phone 49 0 89 2 31 138 0 Fax 49 0 89 2 31 138 11 LoanSTAR 4 0 Upgrade Adds Features The newest version of Loan STAR has four ways to amor tize loans Regular schedules accelerated fixed rate sched 24 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 ules accelerated ARM schedules and biweekly mort gage schedules The compare loans module now places three loan options side by side on the same display and the same is true of Fixed vs ARM LoanSTAR now prequalifi
10. PROHLP ZIP Bytes 11 775 A program along with the Borland C source code that displays the scan codes of all the keys on the 95LX even the blue keys The program also presents a table of the ASCII characters in the 95LX and does a fair job of number base conversions LXKEYS ZIP Bytes 1 148 A 9 6 byte program that displays just the scan codes for all the keys KEYS 95 Bytes 10 645 A text file from ISV documentation with a list of all the scan codes Personal C Compiler Support PCC E is a popular shareware alternative to Microsoft C and Borland C Registered users receive a usable debugger and some other utilities Several Program mers have been able to get this to work on the 95LX They ve shared their experi ence in the following files CIS ON DISK J F 92 PCC H ZIP Bytes 3 830 A collection of C lan guage header files for PCC the Personal C Compiler The header files contain defini tions for PCIO mod ules along with a modified version of STDIO H for the 95LX STRING ZIP Bytes 4 970 Useful for PCC users even if they re not 95LX programmers The file contains most of the string functions that were missing from the shareware version of PCC DELIM ZIP Bytes 5 934 Contains a sample PCC C program 50 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 source code only that parses comma delim ited files This is a must have if you re thinking of writing conversio
11. Sponsored by IC Card Systems amp Design magazine e Nearly one million portable platforms with a card slot are expected to ship this year and an annual increase of close to 100 percent through 1996 is anticipated It is predicted that within five years the price of solid state storage will drop to the point where many con sumers are willing to make the switch from magnetic media e Of true international importance it is estimated that by the end of the century the U S and Europe will each account for approximately 1 3 of all Flash card revenues while Japan will account for 20 percent e Activity in the I O arena has been dramatic It is estimated that the number of platforms delivering fax modem capability by integrating a PCMCIA card slot will jump from 15 percent in 1992 to over 50 percent in just five years WITH VIRTUALLY LIMITLESS APPLICATIONS FOR IC CARD TECHNOLOGY IN OFFICE AUTOMATION CONSUMER ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIAL PROGRAMS AND MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION YOU WILL FIND IC CARD EXPO TO BE YOUR TOP SOURCE FOR TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCT INFORMATION AS WELL AS FOR VENDOR SOURCES Register Now 800 525 9154 303 44 00 010 OM Is Fax 303 770 0253 Yes I m interested in the Second Annual IC Card Expo July 27 28 1993 Santa Clara Convention Center Santa Clara California Send me more information I want to attend please send me a program brochure _ I m interested in exhibiting Name Company
12. business cards accessories and receipts checkbook and still fits into pocket or purse The Black Custom Carrying Cases are available in Nylon PPI 30101 7 Leather PPH 30105 and Foam Lined Naugahyde PPI 30102 which also features a belt loop The Deluxe Series avail able in Burgundy PPI 30201 a is F m gt is pe PPI 30201 or Black PPI 30202 features padded sides secure inner pockets a pen holder and an adjustable velcro closure to lock everything into place Also fit PSION SERIES 3 CASIO BOSS 8300 9300 and 9600 models and SHARP WIZARD 5000 6000 and 7000 series Organizers NOW SHIPPING 1mb and 2mb sram cards for the HP 95LX to parallel converter on the other The converter draws its power from the parallel port you are connecting to not the 95LX See Advertising page 54 Availability PO etait Dicuss a 125 CONTACT Imaging Supplies Express a be eS PPI 30101 PPI 30102 PALMTREE A FADDUCTA INE Call or FAX for immediate delivery PALMTREE PRODUCTS 145 WASHINGTON STREET NORWELL MA 02061 617 871 7050 FAX 617 871 6018 MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 21 NEW THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS 3892 Del Amo Blvd Unit 705 Torran ce CA 90503 USA Phone 800 462 4309 or 310 370 6882 Fax 310 370 3265 HP Parallel Port Self contained bi directional serial to parallel
13. plied by the video trade publications and the studios This allowed me to have an up to the minute listing of all movies being released at any giv en time I could search by order date name or release date etc I was also able to print this out by transferring it with the connectivity pack to my PC Then I would make copies for our other representatives It was a great sales tool and I impressed the management by having the informa tion literally at my fingertips With the addition of a small printer to use with the 95LX I could leave the cus tomer a completely current printout The best thing to happen was the 1992 Palmtop Paper subscriber disk which included the very useful APPT utility Week at a Glance WEEK ABK3 ZIP fi Increases time available for sales calls quicker closes Peter Eaton regional sales manager for equipment leasing company I ve consolidated my telephone directory business card holder Rolo dex and prospecting notebook into the 95LX All my files are now avail able for updating right after my sales call I telemarket directly from my car with a cellular phone and Phone Book This saves me valuable time and has added measurably to the number of calls I can make in one day Most importantly I can run the cash flow analysis while I am with the customer jump back to our pric ing program and eliminate at least two additional sales calls in closing the sale Keep competitive information
14. 214 994 8103 Pocket Sales Force Call Contact manager with user definable data base program CONTACT CM Software Unit 3 Ash croft Close Botley Oxford OX2 9SE UNIT ED KINGDOM Phone 44 0865 864844 Fax 44 0865 864856 qaPalm 145 A screen generator for creating a data collection pogar CONTACT QA Systems Inc 220 East 42nd Street New York NY 10017 USA Phone 800 945 1717 or 212 599 1717 Fax 212 599 2614 SWITCH 2 0 69 Provides a menu driven environment for your DOS programs Allows SWITCHable applications to operate as built in applica tions CONTACT ACE Technol 2880 Zanker Road Suite 103 CA 95134 USA Phone 800 825 9977 or 408 428 9722 Fax 408 428 9721 NOTE Price listed is suggested retail price not including shipping and handling You may be able to purchase the product for less from a software retailer ies Inc In previous issues we fo cused on how individual users got the most out of their 95LX From time to time we ll take a slightly different approach and give you a taste of the combined experience of a specific group of professionals t n this article a group of sales profes sionals tell you how they use the 95LX In future articles we ll profile accoun tants engineers physicians real estate professionals and more Towards a Truly Mobile Office Sales is a profession on the go Win dows of opportunity open and close quickly at unexpe
15. Each time you press Cut to delete a to do the curser jumps back toward the beginning of the to do list This forces you to scroll through the entire list to get back to the same spot This makes it difficult to delete numerous items from a iong list of to dos without spending a lot of time scrolling and scrolling I unsuccessfully tried creating Using PHONE as a To Do List PHONE macros User Keys to cure each one of these problems I also tried titling each of the priorities e g WORK PERSONAL CALLS etc and setting up macros to take me to those titles This approach took up to many mac ro keys and valuable screen space I tried using the built in MEMO function as a to do list by setting up a MEMO file called TODO TXT and having each to do listed as a sentence within a text file I found the task of inserting modifying and deleting to do items cumbersome with this ap proach Further there was no way to attach and hide additional informa tion to the to do item like you can from within APPT by pressing Note Finally MEMO did not pro vide me an easy way to prioritize my to do items Flexible Phone Book Many articles in this publication have demonstrated the flexibility of the built in Phone Book application PHONE has been used for many tasks other than tracking phone num bers and addresses It has excellent search features the ability to display ABOUT THE AUTHOR Glenn is an attorney with Con
16. HOW TO USE Phone Book To do List To see the hidden information in my PHONE to do list I highlight the desired item in the index view and hit ENTER Phone Hook 86 26 59 4 56 pr todo pbi Indes Contact broker Conkack Bher iff File divoeovery nE CBee Ge over Fleander case with Echusrt i b 1 nee t in hi Eon re RA status mhe dinner Order tus For dang tamed b me Ay lore at Paul s Auto re Horlend case Index view of Phone Book to do entry structuring a Phone Book To Do Entry Go into any Phone Book file and press a letter and you immediately go to the first entry beginning with that letter in the Name field This ability lets me set up categories and priorities in my Phone Book to do list I begin all of my task entries in the Name field with a group letter either P or W followed by a blank space and a description of the task P indicates my personal to dos and W my work related to dos PHONE automatically sorts its entries alpha betically Every time I call up my PHONE to do list all of my personal to dos are grouped together at the beginning of the list and all of the work to dos at the end Furthermore if I want to go to one specific group for example my work to dos all I need to do is press W and I automati cally jump down to the first entry with a W at the beginning Note that I am not using the Find F7 function Though I only have two groups you can have as many as you wan
17. Individual Macros Written by Ed Keefe Contributing Editor The HP Palmtop Paper 25 00 includes S amp H check or money order international orders add 10 The FastAid Co 314 S W Logan Ankeny IA 50021 The current date flashes to help keep the viewer oriented Pressing or FS in this view takes you to the same date in the previous or next month respectively Pressing F8 always takes the user back to the current date One very useful feature allows you to find a time slot for an ap pointment of a specific length Press Free and enter the duration of the appointment in minutes i e 100 for 100 minutes anytime during the day 90 p for 1 hour and 30 minutes anytime during the afternoon Multi day then searches forward from the current date and displays the first date and time with the requested amount of time available The num ber of days to be searched and the times of the day to be searched are configurable options Press to go to that day and press again to actually key in the appointment Multiday then automatically transfers MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 27 REVIEWS APPT Add ins you to the built in APPT application and leaves you positioned on the day in question ready to insert your appointment In fact whenever you have the cursor placed on an appointment in MultiDay you can press APPT and immediately go to that appointment in APPT for rapid review and editing of your schedule Multida
18. Macro to run type in the cell where the macro is Using Keystroke Macros LOTUS located i e D1 and press ENTER 1 2 3 will read the macro in D1 and play back the keystrokes as if you had just typed them in The message Range to format Al A1 will appear on the prompt line The Al Al part of the message wili vary depending on the current location of the cursor You would then type in the range and press ENTER You can run a keystroke macro more easily by doing the following First give the cell in which the macro is located a special name To do this press Range Name Create F D1 ENTER where F is the name you ve assigned to the cell and D1 is the location of the macro Note that the backslash key on the 95LX is the Shifted 9 not MENU The backslash stands for ALT in 1 2 3 macro language So to activate the macro located in D1 all you do is press ALT F It s kind of magical to press two keys and watch a large series of keystrokes executed automatically It s this magic that has hooked a lot of good people into creating large libraries of Lotus keystroke macros ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ed Keefe is an author programmer computer science instructor and long time contributor to support publications for HP computers He is the president of the FastAid Company 314 S W Logan Ankeny IA 50021 Ed s Compu Serve ID is 75300 3667 46 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 Creat
19. a program that underlies many of the applications In fact Phone Book World Time and Notes are all variations of Data Base Making opti mal use of the Data Base application will be a topic of many future articles in The HP Palmtop Paper The two Phone Book screens above give you an example of what you can do with Data Base Below is an exam ple of a database that lists the files on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK H50U0DT 2IF Neve Dec 32 Utility Sew version yer PELT O51 RF ZIP EE Jan Feb 92 Utility Print Sereen Lo P E dan Fob 52 mathe Send graphio 2 with Print Sere 5 GAH 2IP dan Feb G2 mela ls et danvFeb 52 Ut lity toh GR Jan Fob 92 Utili SABRASC ZIP SepvGet 32 Utilitu angl PASEET ar SepvOct 52 Utility Jan Feb 53 Application tACETE SIP Jul Aug 32 Applicat ion Automata CompuServe iene ee Find T3 Custom Database List view 14 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 i Jul 22 Philadelphia PA Learn HP 95LX tips eee and short cuts in 1 day hands on seminars Classes now including the HP 100LX CIC has trainers nationwide and has trained the employees of AT amp T Alex Brown US General Services Administration NASA and even Hewlett Packard Company on the HP 95LX I recently took the above mentioned class and it was excellent I would recommend this course to anyone Arthur Nields CBS San Jose CA HP 95LX Seminars 9am Spm Plan for Individuals couples 285 each
20. and runs at 7 91MHz This results in a 66 increase in speed This coupled with a CGA graphics accelerator results in very impressive perfor mance The total available RAM is still It s The Cheapest Health Insurance You Can Buy If You Don t Believe Us Just Ask TakeCare Inc TakeCare Inc is one of the largest HMO s in the country TakeCare has recently selected the Personal Food Analyst HP 95LX as the consumer nutritional analysis tool of choice for its TLC Take Lifelong Care Wellness program lf you d like to find out why you can try the Personal Food Analyst FREE for 30 days Included in this offer is an infovideo on using the software to improve your diet If you decide to purchase the software you will also receive the handbook Secrets of a Professional Dieter Mirical Nutrition Corporation This booklet is available exclusively through See for yourself why TakeCare has chosen the Personal Food Analyst Call today just for the health Video available lo domestic markel only 800 732 7707 or 719 598 5276 MIRIC amp L CORPORATION MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 7 NEWS HP 100LX 1MB 10K to 636K of which is allo catable for System RAM However the 100LX has 2MB of built in soft ware on ROM twice the amount of the 95LX Increased Battery Life Charge Batteries Internally Usually an increase in performance means a reduction in battery life This is not the case with the 100L
21. at your figure tips Gene Climer Computer Equipment Sales amp Leasing Lansing IL USA The convenience of having all the data I need wherever I am has al lowed me to be more productive and creative MEMO I m on the road a lot and keep my service record for my car in MEMO I don t need to go through my files at home or in the car I keep the date and description of the ser vice and enter future service appoint ments i e oil changes etc in Ap pointment Book Paperless office and still stays in touch with HAM radio Thomas V Walker Manufacturers representative Costa Mesa CA USA I find myself more organized and closer than ever to a paperless office with my 95LX I am a manufacturers representative selling electronic com ponents I represent 10 manufacturers and have an account base of about 2 500 customers PHONE I use PHONE as mini database for frequently called num bers specific accounts HAM radio frequencies COMM I connect the 95LX to a radio frequency modem which is attached to a VHF receiver operating on HAM radio frequencies This is called Packet Radio I can then com municate with other HAM radio operators who use similar equipment with their personal computers It s like connecting to a BBS without the phone lines The 95LX is particularly handy in this way as I can quickly pack it up and go anywhere and still be able to keep in touch with Packet Radio 40 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER M
22. chronicled in future The HP Palmtop Paper issues Application Manager Mark Scardina has promised to write a future article on the Application Manager and its many undocumented features Those of you who tried Ed Keefe s Menu95 from last year s Sub scriber Disk or who use Mark Scar dina s Switch from ACE technologies have a flavor of Application Manager Application Manager lets you launch DOS or system compliant programs by pressing More and typing a letter standing for the application Customizing Application Manager to launch your favorite programs is quite simple it just involves filling out a few boxes You can preconfigure any DOS program with EXE COM or BAT extension or any system com pliant program EXM extension For example I have my favorite DOS outline program Grand View config ured in such a way that all I have to do is press and the V and Grand View starts Similarly one can assign a hot key automatically to a system compliant program say CHESS from the Sparcom Games disk No more messing around with the undocu mented APNAME LST file The bad news is that in Set Up you have to predefine how much space you allow for DOS That means in theory no matter how much memory your DOS application requires the predefined amount gets allocated The iarger the predefined DOS space the less memory is left over to hotkey back to PHONE 1 2 3 or any of the built in applications The good news is
23. decimal point To do this in 1 2 3 you d press the following keys Range Format Currency 2 EN TER and then type in the range e g A1 D5 or use the arrow keys to highlight the range Finally you would press ENTER You can just as easily create a Lotus macro for this keystroke sequence How to Create Lotus Keystroke Macros The process for creating a Lotus key stroke macro is easier to do than it is to explain Lotus stores its macros in empty cells so the first thing you have to do is move the cursor to a spot in your worksheet that won t be used for anything else Then type in an apostrophe the keystrokes you want and then press ENTER For example to create a macro to format a range of cells to display two places after the decimal point in currency e g 25 98 you would move to an empty cell say D1 type in Irfc2 and press ENTER You ve created a keystroke macro that s all there is to it The keystrokes rfc2 are called the label Note the leading apostrophe Without this you d acti vate the 1 2 3 menu instead of writ ing a keystroke macro Also note that the symbol in the macro language for MENU is the foreslash and the symbol for ENTER is the tilde There is also a macro Learn mode that lets Lotus record your keystrokes into macro instructions For more on this feature see page 13 27 of the HP 95LX User s Guide You can access this macro by pressing ALT F3
24. urgents by pressing Urgent bina FLT AFi rm EH iz is a very old note HW 1812 52 A note can be very short a at You can add conamnt to nota Poe 16 63 notes can contain almost any kind of information muthins that ddeass i papal Information phone a esto u can Sek in in notes A That uahat th i Hbhol is Phone mur alara in notes a That whmtt hia ai iz Notes95 displaying notes ABOUT THE AUTHOR Marty is the publisher of Take It With You The Newsletter for Palmtop Computing He is also a Sysop for both the Aportfolio and Palmtop forums on CompuServe He can be reached at 75300 1770 or at Perfection Applied 454 West 1010 North Orem UT 94057 32 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 Unfortunately once you have used Find or Urgent to select a sub set of the notes there is no list com mand to display all the notes again The only way discovered to show all notes is to put a common word in each note and then do a find for that word The main file NOTE95 ZIP M has six files archived in it Only NOTES95 EXE non system compliant must be run from DOS is re quired to run the program and create new data files NOTES95 ACC has some sample notes in it and might help you get used to using the pro gram To install the program copy the NOTES95 EXE file to your 95LX It s recommended that you create a sepa rate directory to put this file in as all data files will be stored in t
25. Address City State Postal Code Zip Country Phone Fax Complete and mail to IC Card Expo 6300 S Syracuse Way Suite 650 Englewood CO 80111 9912 Or fax to 303 770 0253 Questions 800 525 9154 TCI 10 11 12 13 14 54 a Read the Function key info along the bottom of the screen b Press for help c Press menu for options d Read The HP Palmtop Paper Connectivity could involve which of the following a The ability of one computer to talk to another b The topcard c The serial port d The infrared port In which application s could you create a Recipes database a 1 2 3 b Filer c Phone d Comm What are the results of remov ing all batteries a No result if AC adapter plugged in b Lose all info except ROM c OK if computer is off d No power In what application would you adjust the volume a Filer b Comm c Set Up d Appt What can the IR port do a Control a home entertain ment system b Share data via another IR port c Open a garage door d Cause a brain tumor In C _DAT BIZ PBK which is the sub directory a C b DAT c BIZ d PBK In question 12 what does the PBK mean a File identifier b A Phone Book file c Phone backup utility d Phi Beta Kappa In question 12 which is the root directory a GAS 70 79 C You ll have to do better b DAT than this if you want to get c BIZ into a prestigious s
26. Appointment Book has week and month at a glance views The 100LX has much greater IBM PC compatibility and much freer access between built in applications and DOS It comes with a full featured flat file data base program HP has greatly decreased the possi bility of losing C drive data In addition the 100LX provides an outlining feature search and replace capabilities date stamping and more The list of implemented customer re quests goes on and on To find out about this new technical marvel read Mark Scardina s analysis on page 6 and then my hands on report in User to User page 13 There is one user concern that HP didn t address with the HP 100LX its size The HP Palmtop form factor is successful because you can easily carry it anywhere Yet many of us don t like the fact that it is difficult to type memos or reports with its diminutive keyboard HP has a solution for that too Enter the HP OmniBook 300 superportable PC HP spent quite a bit of time talking to its key customers about what they wanted in a portable PC Customers told HP make it small make it light make its batteries last but give me a full size keyboard The result is the HP OmniBook 300 The same HP Corvallis division that pioneered PC compatible palmtop computing is now staking out new ground with the HP OmniBook HP sees the HP OmniBook as a new class of laptop a superportable page 19 Next issue we plan to give you our hands on report and w
27. Call Us for tap tory Direct OEM Pricing rA HEWLETT PACKARD HP 95LX Accessories Aa p a i reu oa L E aq rr jarci Sparcom Ne Drv aecTechnologios AMD 2MB amp ame RAM Cards 1015A Serial Cable HP 95LX to PC 1016A Serial Cable HP 95LX to MAC CALL TOLL FREE 1 800 227 8292 Fax 415 494 1995 MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 45 User Keys in Lotus HOW TO USE Through the Looking Glass User Keys Enhance 1 2 3 with Keystroke Macros or Ed shows how you can use Lotus 1 2 3 keystroke macros or 95LX System Macros User Defined Keys to make using 1 2 3 on the HP 95LX a little easier Although this article was written for the 95LX the tips given should be useful to users of the new HP 100LX Palmtop PC Editor By Ed Keefe Veteran users of 1 2 3 are familiar with the power of Lotus macros They ve discovered what great time Savers macros can be On the other hand new users take one look at the instructions for creating macros and shake their head in wonderment Granted Lotus macros can become quite complex But that doesn t have to be the case In this article we ll take a look at a few simple macros that you can cre ate All you ll need is your 95LX and a few minutes To show you how easy it is to cre ate a Lotus macro let s suppose that you wanted to change the format for a range of numbers to the currency format with two numbers after the
28. D Complete sentence translation Translates idiomatic expressions Translates in grammatical structure of target language GERMAN FRENCH SPANISH Phone 703 273 5600 Fax 703 273 3866 Continued from page 5 For viewing only you can use the built in FILER Simply put the cursor on the file name and press ENTER You will be able to see the file and scroll through it but there are no editing capabilities WordPerfect 4 2 as de scribed on page 44 of the Nov Dec 92 issue may be another solution The new 100LX file size is limited only by the available memory Robert Roney Sheriff Says Get that Lotto Program Running I am having trouble making Ed Keefe s Lotto program run page 37 Mar Apr 93 issue I have entered and re entered the program with no luck The sheriff is the owner of the 95LX and is pressing me to get this pro gram running Is the program printed correctly in the magazine If not please fax me correct version Also the Louisiana Lot tery uses six numbers be tween 1 and 44 what modi fications are needed to make this program select 6 num bers instead of 5 Mark Percle St Marinville LA 70582 The program was printed correctly last issue I ve received a couple of letters from Europe in response to the Lotto picker The original Solver equation and user keys are found in UFK TXT 8 The request is for a lotto picker with 6 nu
29. Graduate Record Exam A few more points and you would have gotten into that prestigious school Well here s your chance to do it right Take the PAT Palmtop Aptitude Test I wrote this 95LX LO test for a class we have at Thaddeus Comput ing Everyone had fun with it so we decided to inflict it on our subscrib ers There are one or more correct an swers per question Put all your books under your desk and use a 2 pencil only No talking will be allowed during the test a File organization and transfer b Communications between the 95 and other computers c Dices and slices even makes Julienne fries d Multiple applications open at once In which of the following appli cations could you figure amorti zation a Set up b HP Cale c Lotus d Filer Which of the following can be used in the 95LX s card slot b ROM card c Fax Modem card d Greeting card How many batteries are in a 95LX without a card in the PCMCIA slot a One b Two c Three d Four If confused and needing help a user could 1 What is the operating system of a RAM card the 95LX a Lotus 2 0 b System Manager ABOUT THE AUTHOR c 05 2 Peder Sweeney is the Marketing Director at Thaddeus Computing publisher d DOS of The HP Palmtop Paper He lives in Fairfield Iowa with his wife Kelly Peder is ics of the many things he s discovered not to do with the O5LX ie set 2 Which are features of System the ti
30. Jul 13 Los Angeles CA Aug 3 San Francisco CA Jul 15 Chicago IL Aug 10 Tampa FL Jul 20 Boston MA Aug 17 Dallas TX Aug 24 Seattle WA Jul 27 New York NY Aug 31 Washington DC Call us if you have at least 3 people at 295 each 2 people at 395 each or 1 on 1 training for 349 in DC NY LA or San Francisco HP 950 Plan for Groups 5 10 persons Ex 100 300 950 1350 group of 10 Hotel Plane Fee Seika 135 student A quick way to enter the current date in the date field is to press Fn keypad comma I can sort the List view above by the Due date field Employee or PROJECT field I can choose whatever fields I wish for list view MEMO Memo now has more formatting capa bility margins headers footers tabs underline and bold You can now find and replace as well as search What I like most about the new Memo is its simple yet quite useful outline feature To start an outline ina Memo document press to Promote an outline point from I to A to 1 etc and F8 to Demote a point Below is an example of an outline with a Ro man numeral format You can also select a decimal outline format The applications normally display on a 64x18 screen The font is smaller than the 95LX font but very readable You can use the Zoom feature in Outline in Memo Memo in the NOTES field of APPT PHONE or DATA BASE and in DOS text based applications Press and the Zo
31. Robert Roney Department Editors Keefe Mark Scardina Contributing Writers Gene Climer Peter Eaton Glenn C Etelson Kurt M Giesselman David J Pierce Jones Marty Mankins A Greg Outlaw Robert Perry Peder Sweene Thomas V Walker Peter Zalumus Jeffrey C Zorn Advertising Marketing Brian Teitzman Peder Sweeney Margaret Martin Circulation Sharon Dilmore Cindy Ericson Tom Gibson Rene LaReau Diane Wimett Executive Advisor Rita Goldstein The HP Palmtop Paper ISSN 10656 189 is published bimonthly by Thad deus Computing Inc at 57 East Broad vay Avenue Fairfield LA 52556 Sec ond class postage paid at Fairfield Iowa Subscription rates payable in U S dollars checks drawn on a U S bank or by credit card one year 39 two years 69 Postage U S and U S pa sessions free Canada Mexico add 6 per year other countries add 18 per year Please allow four to six weeks for motel at of first issue Executive Edi torial Circulation Marketing and E Offices P O Box 869 Fair field LA 52556 Telephone 515 472 6330 FAX 515 472 1879 Copyright 1993 Thaddeus Computing Inc all rights reserved No part of this publica tion 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 ce gee or iability for the u
32. a TSR A Termi nate and Stay Resident program runs in the background while other programs are running If it is exe cuted as a TSR ABKTool can be assigned a hotkey using a program called a Loader included in the package It can be called up on top of all the built in applications in cluding 1 2 3 In the current version 2 1 you do have to quit APKTool before you go to a built in application or other EXM program However because ABKTool is a TSR it remains loaded in System RAM memory even after quitting the program When you call 26 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 it up again you go back to where you were You cannot cut and paste between ABKTool and other system compliant programs However version 2 1 al lows Appointment Book alarms to ring while ABKTool is in control Since ABKTool uses the same ABK file as the APPT application it s best to keep APPT closed when working in ABKTool If you have both applications open at the same time each accessing the same ABK file changes you make in one will not appear in the other If you keep several applications open at the same time or are limited on the amount of RAM memory available you might have difficulties with ABKTool One point to ABK Tool s favor is that it can be run on you desktop system insuring cross platform compatibility Program author Paul Kramer seems to have thought of just about everything with ABKTool If you have t
33. adds the current number to whatever is in memory and F10 subtracts the current number from whatev er is in memory For more on memory functions see Using Registers beginning on page 23 12 of HP 95LX User s Guide USE HP CALC AUTOMATIC CONSTANT FEATURE TO FIGURE DISCOUNTS The 95LX is very helpful for those store wide 25 off sales You can use the automatic constant feature in HP CALC to figure out the discounted price of an item Let s say you go into a store with a 25 off sale What that means is that you will pay 75 of the original price original price 75 discounted price Use HP CALC to figure out the price of the first item say its list price is 125 00 Go into HP CALC key in 125 00 and press ESC C the times key twice Then enter 75 and press The result 93 75 appears at the bottom right of the screen along with 0 75 Calculator Ari thrPset lo HP CALC s Calculator Arithmetic Screen What has happened is that when you pressed the second time you told the 95LX to use the next number as the automatic constant The 95LX automatically multiplies future entries by this number For example to calculate the discounted price of the next 25 off item key in the regular price and press You can create automatic constants for or raising a number to a power For more on using the automatic constant in calculations see page 23 6 of HP 95LX User s G
34. and device drivers Microsoft Windows Ver 3 1 Set password protect against unauthorized use Change configurations Change desktop options Install printers Setup fonts Program Manager File Manager Control Panel Notepad Clock Microsoft Windows components not in HP Omni Book 386 enhanced mode support and some applications fonts and drivers LapLink Remote Access TM File transfer capabilities Connect to desktop PC and see drives locally Prices OmniBook and Accessories OmniBook 300 with 10MB Flash ROM card F1031A OmniBook 300 with 40MB hard drive F 1032A Fax Modem Communications ONAN 040A 2MB RAM Expansion Module F104 ee ob Boe Be oe we ka aa a i ar rh E 4MB and 6MB rete biel modules will be released later 40MB Hard drive F10 AV Rosson een 10MB Flash ROM card A UTIA ANRE en 5MB Flash ROM card F1012A Ere Fe A or AF oe ea a a i a a y 20 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 The Software Microsoft Windows 3 1 MS DOS 5 0 MS Word for Windows MS Excel a Phone Book an Appointment Book and other utilities are included in the more than 10MB System ROM card Like the 95LX and 100LX the Omni Book has an instant on feature The off button powers the computer down it does not exit the applica tions When you turn the OmniBook back on all the applications are ex actly as you left them Also you can start applications and switch between them by touching one of
35. and the size of the memory block for the program The main program file FASTNOTE EXE is pretty small 54K The program is SWITCHable which means that it runs from DOS or it will act like a system compliant program if it is used with SWITCH 2 0 also available from ACE Technol ogies FastNOTES also comes with FASTNREN EXE a utility to renum ber your notes This is useful if you ve deleted some entries in be tween old and new notes Fast NOTES specially formats its notes and stores them in a file with a UNO extension FastNOTES comes with PBK2UNO EXE a small 10K utility that converts a Phone Book file into the fastNOTES format It s great for bringing your phone book entries into fastNOTES FastNOTES is a more 95LX com patible version of UNO ii discussed on page 10 of the July August 1992 issue Pocket Sales Force PSF is a system compliant contact manager built around a user definable database that lets you save names phone numbers and notes or other information PSF reminds you of people to call or places to be but there is no way to set an appointment for a specific time If you need a database already customized for contact management check out PSF first See page 8 of the May June 92 issue for more on PSF PSF s opening screen lists a menu of seven functions Action Today lets you cue up a list of contacts which are due action today Find company records lets you search by any field in the
36. cis sHR UNO ZIP May Jun 1992 cis sHR EFMS Sep Oct 92 cis Also available in the HP Handhelds forum of CompuServe SHR SHAREWARE is software distributed free of charge for evaluation purposes only If you decide to use it you must pay the author the shareware fee This goes for any shareware found on The HP Palm top Paper ON DISK or CompuServe AOL many of these files may be found on American Online in the Palmtop Library keyword Palmtop HP 95LX Word Processor and Spell Checker Introducing fastWRITE User programmable Macro commands Edit multiple h files eo fice Bate pata ya on your promotion Date January 26 1993 Built in 100 000 word spell Checker am fractionation fastWRITE Features Full featured Word Processor for HP 95LX Imports and Exports WordPerfect MSWord WordStar and standard ASCII formats AQUARIUM oon ii Se eli a pro ein ig pe Salrstrippings an ar ike same aie proces Sige as water c thet oh method for marir ariums SWiTCHable Th Status Line AICONGRAT DOC S ons os ge McDonal Aliens Brisht g Vice President fernal Affairs Split Window Easy to use Pop up Menus E pii Ritan ms for is gaining For more information Call 800 825 9977 Complete control of style fonts and formats Supports multiple printers and proportional fonts Complete Macro commands for customization Fully SWiITCHable with built i
37. contents of the cell and you will loose your macro Date Stamp Macro This macro inserts today s date in the current cell in the DD MMM YY format 13 Mar 93 Once inserted the date does not change The macro sets the column width to 10 so the date will fit in one column The macro pauses to allow the user to change the column width if desired use the arrow keys or enter a number Finally press ENTER to accept the width 1 2 3 Macro RFD1 NOW CALC wCS10 WCS System Macro Version Comment 123 Fixed Date Contents ENTER MENU rfd1 ENTER now F9 ENTER MENU wes10 ENTER MENU wes Variable date This puts the function NOW in the current cell and formats the range to DD MMM YY Whenever you call the worksheet up the current date will appear in that cell and change from day to day The macro sets the column width to 10 so the date will fit in one column The macro pauses to allow the user to change the column width if desired use the arrow keys or enter a number Finally press to accept the width 1 2 3 Macro RFD1 NOW WCS10 WCS System Macro Version Comment 123 Variable Date Contents ENTER MENU rfdi ENTER now ENTER MENU wes10 FNTER MENU wes Time Stamp Macro Inserts the current time in the cell you are positioned on and formats the time to be displayed as HH MM AM PM 6 9 12 45 PM Once the time is inserted into the cell it does not change The macro sets the column width to
38. converter Doesn t need a power supply or batteries because it gets all its power from printer sig nals Availability 0 0 00000 ee Now Medium Serial to Parallel Converter PAO poten ee ese 79 95 CONTACT The BSE Company 2114 N 4th Street Flagstaff AZ 86004 USA Phone 602 527 8843 Fax 602 527 1540 Card Drives CardPro Universal External Card Drive Connects to your desktop or laptop PC and provides the ability to read and write as appropriate to all types of PCMCIA compatible memory and I O cards Additional models will be available in the second quar ter of 1993 Availability 0 0 renu Now Pricing CONTACT DATA I0 10525 Willows Road N E P O Box 97046 Red mond WA 98073 9746 USA Phone 800 332 8246 Fax 206 869 7423 Memory Cards EgoRAM SRAM Cards PCMCIA 2 0 cards with long battery life and a five year warranty and battery replace ment guarantee Availability 0 c 0005 Now Pricing IMB Gard sreo iinan 219 OMB Card c 4 6 600 329 CONTACT Chaplet Peripherals 252 North Wolfe Road Sunnyvale CA 94086 USA Phone 800 308 3388 or 408 732 7950 Fax 408 732 6050 CompuServe ID 76004 3660 22 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER Software Print to an HP Infrared Printer Just uploaded to CompuServe is a freeware utility written by Dave Marsh for printing text files to the HP Redeye infrared printer 82240A or 82240B The utility IRPRT COM E may be used to pri
39. database applications HP 95LX Monthly Video Each issue is packed with over 5 hours of valuable tips and information for beginning and advanced users covering Filer Appt Memo Set up Comm Phone Hp Calc DOS Plus practical applications and 3rd sete ee teres eee eeeeeoenee Call to get your free 1 hour Sene ndoo Umile ofen POTTS Se ERE E FORE EE sebreteeeteoootere NEW VISIONS 4000 S Redwood Rd Bldg F 2051 Salt Lake City UT 84123 801 977 8774 6 30am 3 00pm MST MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 31 REVIEW Database Programs for the HP 95LX Database Programs as PIMS PHONE is a remarkably robust database program However there are a number of other more sophisticated database programs available Take a look at Notes95 fastNOTES Pocket Sales Force Info Manager and QA Palm In this article Marty looks at database programs for use as Personal Information Managers However these databases can be used generically to handle many types of information for business medicine scientific research engineering education and many other professions Editor By Marty Mankins The main reason I purchased the 95LX was so that I could have a Personal Information Manager PIM with me at all times I want to have access to phone numbers notes schedules and to do lists wherever I am I was also tired of having Post its stuck all over the place occa
40. date in the calendar hit and ABKTool takes you to the daily listing for that date This is a big help when you want to go to the second Tuesday in November to see what you re doing but don t remem ber what that date is You can also use the Calendar pop up to find and insert a date in an appointment note or to do item ABKTool includes an Only func tion that lets you search for only those appointments with a key word or phrase in them and display them i e all appointments with the word Goldstein in them This function even allows for sophisticated and or and not searches of the ap pointment file Search parameters can 1 800 733 5017 A ed 3 EC 95 ENVIRONMENTAL CASE for the HP95LX Rugged aluminum case with high gloss finish Waterproofs and shock mounts the HP9SLX for hostile environments Built in rechargeable power supply Options include handstrap carrying case auxiliary battery and high capacity NiMH batteries Corvallis Surveying s 919 NE 2nd St Corvallis OR 97330 System 800 733 5017 503 752 4419 FAX 503 752 7037 in CANADA 604 756 6199 be saved and re used so that fre quently used searches can be pre stored and executed with just a cou ple of keystrokes You can pre store up to 20 of these search phrases ABKTool requires more disk space and more RAM than any of the other packages reviewed here It must be executed from the DOS prompt or run as
41. easy to learn and use APPT file viewer It shows a month s worth of combined appointments to dos and notes 95Buddy adds fea tures to APPT and enhances the inte gration of both MULTIDAY and WEEKABK with APPT Since all are Shareware feel free to try them But remember that if you find them use ful and decide to keep them on your system you ll need to register the copies The registration fees are listed in Shareware Freeware box SYSMGR Compliant No DOS or TSR can be loaded with a hotkey BONUS Features Over 40 levels of play SWITCHable Score 2000 pts and receive a 10 discount Coupon on ANY ACE products SWiTehebla To Order 800 825 9977 Lander c2001 NCE ACE Technologies Inc ohareware Freeware Mentioned in This Article On the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK cissHR ABKTool May Jun 93 APPTBOOK ZIP May Jun 93 cis SHR Multiday 3 01 Ma Jun 93 cis sHR WEEKABK Nov Dec 92 CIS SHR rap May Jun 93 cis sHR 95Buddy Nov Dec 92 cis Also available in the HP Handhelds forum of CompuServe SHR SHAREWARE is software distributed free of charge for evaluation purposes only If you decide fo use if you must pay the author the shareware fee This goes for any shareware found on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK or CompuServe AOL many of these files may be found on American Online in the Palmtop Library keyword Palm
42. file one note for each MEMO file and put the MEMO filename in the descrip tion field It s very useful to have my MEMO notes consolidated When I can t remember which specific note m looking for I can search for notes based on a word or phrase in the note I can also sort this file by pres sing to list the notes and O to order them FastNOTES could function as a Control your TV VCR Introducing myREM OTE verte 2 0 User programmable Macro commands Up to 100 commands mUREMOTE v2 fs single Key access to your Remote s functions New Features Now you can control your 95LX with IR remotes great for presentations demos and fun SWITCHabie with built in applications New improved algorithms supports more remotes Allows time delayed operations with built in macro commands MyREMOTE version 2 0 C1065 rsss MAY JUNE 1993 limited PIM You could keep impor tant information with you in note form You could keep to do lists associated with a specific topic im portant information like car repairs monthly goals daily expenses meet ing notes etc Individual appointments could be placed in note form but I think they would get lost in the rest of the notes It may be possible to keep separate data files one for notes and one for appointments and switch back and forth between them FastNOTES uses either single character or function key commands For example press New or
43. from the above I was able to see the May birthdays immediately You can enter new appointments from the week or month screen by placing the cursor at the right date and time and pressing ENTER TRANSLATING PHONE FILES Next it was time to translate data from PHONE my most used 95LX appli cation The translation went smoothly but I noticed that my PHONE file grew from 30K to 55K Fortunately there no longer is a 64K PHONE or MEMO file limit on the 100LX Open ing a PHONE entry gave me a hint as to why the file grew see page 12 for PHONE entry view As you can see PHONE provides a number of new fields to better cap ture your contact information You can modify the default PHONE fields by reading the PHONE file into the Data Base application and modifying its structure For example you could transform the 100LX Name field into two fields First Name and Last Name I discovered one problem translat ing the 95LX Phone Book file to the 100LX format The 95LX Phone Book only has three fields Name Num ber and Address The translation program copies the 95LX Name field to the 100LX Name field and the Number field to the Business field However the 100LX translation pro gram does not know how you have listed information in the 95LX Ad dress field so it doesn t know which 100LX filed to copy it to It copies all information in the Address field to the Notes field It is up to you to manually move the
44. i Fil User profile SALES In previous isg uegg we have beenabl riz Totri ren the User Contest 1 The eo i J nn So ee armer tJan Gilbert tudent cher Apra4 There wer toriegse EBG much ice Mi information tha one person WE WD ike to give wou a t combine Sx Paeriegnce Since there were APpPlication we decided tg group them by articie we ll lee zome he profession Fuca Eney use the K In later article Proeres ionalse BEGOUNnRLING engineerin estate and pan rave a He me Se ahh Al ibak rabert ESN iia my n i oo uni inie paiiar HIRDER np EAr Tripe uii ae are Ee Reni hits Mach Po e neh le dace tear ttl 100LX 80x25 display mode in MEMO but small 80 column by 25 row dis play This display is a great addition for users of standard DOS programs but try it before counting on its use fulness My guess is that HP devel oped the 64x18 mode because the 80x25 mode was a bit small Full CGA 4 color mode is sup ported colors are mapped to gray scales HP 95LX graphics mode is sup ported which means that you can display PCX graphics developed for the 95LX However the 240x128 95LX screen is mapped into a 480x128 centered window on the 100LX Be cause of this the graphic appears stretched on the 100LX Improved Performance Not only has the 100LX been physi cally enhanced but it has been given a big boost in performance A brand new PC on a chip from Intel has been used that is 80186 compatible
45. mean and group standard deviation In addition the 100LX will curve fit linear log expo nential or power the two columns of data on an graph with X and Y axes For example you can plug in two col umns of data and select Linear The 100LX will tell you how close the data is to a straight line correlation coeffi cient You can then plug in other X values to find other Ys based on the linear model List Stat Curve Fit graph NoteTaker Another favorite of mine is Note Taker NoteTaker is a simple but pow erful use of the built in Data Base application NoteTaker has only three fields Title Category and Notes Whenever I have an idea for The HP Palmtop Paper I put it in NoteTaker If I come across a quotation that I like I put it in NoteTaker Similarly I have notes for books I want to read invest ment ideas and travel tips Whenever I come across something that I want to remember I jot it down in NoteTaker 8 3 doctor 3 5 wosk Book Shelf dinentsio 38 wide 7 tall oak kelly s FF Printing Fairfield Teena n Ed s assis Hoal Low sugar Low fatl High ruff phew ms Annuities sti alt nenu key cart Contest keys On and am Tribute to Edward Go David Hawthorne Where Edwa tine mailers e ne ees eS T T ees DE D E E tl NoteTaker Screen NoteTaker s Category field also The Executive Leather Case amp Organizer for your HP 100LX or your HP 95LX The TimeBoss Executive Leather case c
46. move to the next or previous day If you have to go many days forwards or backwards try this technique Press to enter the Calendar display 4 28 pa alendas Appointraent Book myc abh 425 93 C 19593 April 1993 May Appts Calendar View Use the Arrow Keys to position the cursor on the day you want to move to the day you want and press to switch back to the Daily display W Filer CREATING A DIRECTORY The DOS operating system on the 95LX lets you create directories on your C drive Like file folders in a file cabinet these directories help you organize your hard disk by letting you store like files in one separate location One directory _DAT comes with the 95LX and is the location where most of the built in applications automatically store their data For instance lets say your work involves a number of special projects You can create a directory on your C drive to store all the files relating to your special projects Enter FILER and MENU Directory Create Then type in the name you want to give your directory e g C PROJECTS where C stands for the C drive and PROJECTS is the directory name You can create a directory on the RAM card in your memory slot by entering the A drive name and filename i e A PROJECTS After you have created the directory you can save files to it or move all your special project files to that directory For instance from MEMO you would save a file by pressing Fi
47. of charge for evalu ation purposes only AOL many of these files may be found on American Online in the Palmtop Library keyword Palmtop NTERNET E MAIL SERVICE FOR THE HP 95LX 4 Nationwide dialup access for 19 per month flat rate 4 FREE System Manager compliant software included 4 Send and receive electronic mail to subscribers of Internet CompuServe AT amp T Mail MCIMail and all other connected networks in the global messaging matrix 4 Two way wireless access is available for 69 per month flat rate through RAM Mobile Data if you sign up by June 30 1993 PSilink 4 1200 2400 and 9600 bps dialup access is available Canadian European and Pacific Rim dialup access is available at additional cost 4 Compatible with U S Robotics WorldPort modem and Sparcom s SmartDock ComStation A PSILink also works on DOS laptops 4 Ask us about our LAN integration capabilities GLOBAL MESSAGING ACCESS PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL INC Suite 1100 11800 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston VA 22091 56 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 Phone 1 703 620 6651 E Mail psilink info psi com FAX BACK INFO 1 800 79fax79 ABASIC TIPS eee Appt USE CALENDAR TO MOVE AROUND IN APPOINTMENT When you are in Appointment Book s Daily displa you can press PG UP lt Shift gt lt UpArrow gt and PG DN lt Shift gt lt DownArrow gt to
48. person respon Custom Palmtop Databases lf canned packages don t suit your needs Lighthouse Software offers a service to quickly create custom database applications using a proprietary database program specially de signed for the palmtop platform The custom database has relational capabilities allows for various data types pryse calculated generated and look up ields is SWITCHable exports data to Lotus or other applications utilizes 95LX power management and runs on 95LX and PCs Lighthouse can provide a well tested and completely documented custom database Boman in less than a month For more information on Lighthouse see display ad page 9 this issue sible dates due and key words A Free form Database allowing you to combine structured and unstructured data together in a single record Support wildcard and Boolean searches for lightning quick data retrieval Instant recall of your last 50 search inquiries or records with the press of a button One keystroke word indexing Unlimited forms per record unlimited fields per form Performs mathematical calc ulations Great for Invoicing Inventory and Quotations Form customizer allows you to update and change data layouts quickly and easily System manager compliant The Import Export features allows easy data transfer with other software The versitile Print Menu allows the unlimited creation of custom reports The Macro Recorder helps m
49. programs reviewed this is the only program that can complete ly replace APPT ABKTool can be started with a hotkey It pro vides you with a daily view and a 10 day calendar view of your appointments Finally tt lets you insert and edit appointments without going back to APPT If you re looking for a APPT replacement check this out ABOUT THE AUTHOR APPT ABEToewl wis dalsayt abk 2 36 pr Tuc Apr amp 19493 Ba gaa 130a AARP i 2 z z z Z ca nalil ra APPT arkiria eerk ou Ainhard ipyradn Far Unaed Peer hooks A7 eustlonmer tel survey wlth Pe werk on petting article enote z on Freyja inztealilstia retesz on stacker 3 8 Zen softuare ABK Tool display screen ABKTool is a feature rich replace ment for the built in Appointment Book application It displays a daily view of appointments and To do s in a single list or a 10 day view list of appointments only with the current day at the top ABKTool allows the insertion editing deletion and cloning of ap pointments to dos and notes It also lets you check off to dos as you com plete them Basic text editing features are provided within the program including cut copy and paste In addition you can press to access a pop up help function in case you get stuck optional 21K file The other APPT add ins reviewed WEEKABK MULTIDAY and ZApp Bob is currently the Director of Management Information Systems for Telematics International F
50. sary corrections to your macro press Mark highlight the macro and press F2 to copy it to the 95LX s clipboard again Finally press lt Shift gt FILER Char move the cursor to a blank macro and press to paste the macro into the Contents field What Does All This Get You As mentioned User Keys are easy to find and use and don t take up space in a worksheet However they do have a drawback you re limited to ten of them at any one time A previ ous Looking Glass column showed how to do this by swapping SET UP ENV type files see page 39 40 Mar Apr 93 issue However to use this procedure you have to leave 1 2 3 swap the SETUP ENV files and then return to 1 2 3 The macro li brary file approach described earlier would be better if you have more than 10 Lotus macros you need to use Until next time Happy Porting Shareware Freeware Mentioned in This Article On the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK TLG ZIP M J 93 issue Getting Started Ten Lotus 1 2 3 Macros To get you started I ve listed 10 Lotus keystroke macros that I ve developed over several years I ve also rewritten them as User Keys to give you a better idea of what they look like The keystroke macros can be found in TLG WK1 the User Keys in SETUP ENV Both of these files are in TLG ZIP B A warning Once you have copied a keystroke macro to a cell move to another cell before running the mac ro If you do not the macro will overwrite the
51. steps are taken Never insert a SunDisk HP95 card into a 100 with it turned on This will cause it to reboot and all unsaved data will be lost Set up your CONFIG SYS on C drive of the 100LX without using SDPDRV SYS the 100LX does not need it would also recommend using rechargeable NiCds in your 100LX as they are better suited to handle the higher current drain when writing to the card These cards are significantly slower to write to than SRAM cards but are of higher capacity The provided Stacker software is compatible on both machines SunDisk SDP 12 FlashRAM HP100 Flash Disk Cards The 12v SunDisk FlashRAM cards may only be used in the 100LX Do not insert a 12v card into a 95LX The 100LX does not require software to read these cards The 12v cards are about three times faster than the 5v ones but this comes at a cost of much higher current consumption NiCd batteries are the optimum choice here We recommend using Stacker on either of the FlashRAM cards especially if you store a lot of small files Any disk or memory card is divided up into minimum storage units called clusters On the FlashRAM cards the cluster size is 4K That means that a small 40 byte file is really taking up 4 000 bytes If you use Stacker on the card the cluster size is 0 5K in summary if you need the most disk space for the dollar and don t mind slower transfer speeds the FlashRAM cards are an excellent choice SRAM cards are the choice if speed is your to
52. that there is a feature not documented in the manual that gets around this limitation More will be explained in future issues Ina nutshell the trick is simply to tell application manager how much of DOS memory is needed to run the application by typing a vertical bar followed by the number of K bytes required by the application So for example when I configured Application Manager to run Grand View for the path I gave it a gv gv exel218 That means even though in Setup I configured DOS to 384K whenever I run GrandView only 218K is consumed Communications I have not yet had a chance to try cc MAIL or the COMM program However future articles will provide users experiences and tips in using these programs IntelliLink The intelligent Link Transfers Translates important data between your HP 95LX and desktop PC Reconciles data notifying you when conflicts are found Controls what data is transferred how it s formatted and where it s transferred Keeps your HP 95LX and PC data in synch Intell Link for Windows Intel liLink WPO IntelliLink is a major step forward in the effort to make your palmtop and desktop machines a smoothly functioning team PC Magazine April 28 1992 IntelliLink removes the user from the complexities of accurately translating data between file formats March April 1992 IntelliLink s smart information transfer is one of the key pieces for successful mobi
53. the fast access key combinations press and then through F12 These fast access keys are re assignable so you can set up your own applications or update the built in software to new versions The OmniBook 300 comes with a serial cable and LapLink Remote Access software built in This makes it easy to transfer files to and from your desktop computer LapLink Remote allows the OmniBook to directly read a desktop PC s drives and can redirect printer output from your OmniBook to a printer connect ed to your PC LapLink can connect with your PC through either the built in serial or parallel ports The OmniBook also comes with an infra red port and can transfer files be tween another OmniBook HP 100LX HP 95LX or one of HP s new Vect ras which feature an IR port All this makes backing up and file transfers easier If the built in software doesn t suit your needs you can use LapLink Remote to install any compatible Windows or DOS applications Who is the OmniBook for The OmniBook 300 is for the on the go professional who needs mobility Window s applications and a useable touch type keyboard Although the OmniBook is too large to fit in your coat pocket it would fit easily into a briefcase or medium sized purse The OmniBook provides much of the convenience and efficiency that has made the LX systems so useful You may find that you have two HP s an LX in your pocket and an Omnibook in your briefcase NEW TH
54. to create a new note You can also press to access a command menu You can also bring up the help menu by pressing Fi This gives you a complete list of the functions you have available It takes a little time to learn the commands but once you ve got them down fastNOTES is pretty easy to use I reviewed a pre release version of Stereo with the 95LX SWITCHable me Multiple files for different remotes Commercials nee ALT V VCR ALT C CD ecto STERE FIE BAES HBe LT 0 This Ke oh ALT 2 11 7 SALT UR eS pm Universal Train mode ARROW keys to select item ITER Send E dit Doelete I gt nsert Torain For more information Call 800 825 9977 ACE ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Jonker Rood Sulfe 103 Son Jose California 95134 U S A Dealers amp Dishibutors welcome THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 33 REVIEWS Database Programs fastNOTES and did not get a chance to test the automatic installation features of the program All of the program files should go in the same directory I created A FASTNOTE and manually copied the program files there There are two FastNOTES configuration utilities that I was able to use and test FASTCFG EXE lets you change what a note looks like when it s on the top of the pile in the background or being edited You can also use it to change the default size of new notes and allow backup files to be created FNOTECFG EXE lets you specify the default directory
55. types zuch az test nuxncric date tiac and iene ro Calculations can be linked acros Forss to crente business applictions lietala HES i ee a i li COPTER Heras To Fiki Main INFO Manager Screen The Author Date field contains infor mation on who entered the data and when they entered it The Headline field is for name title of the entry Two features make help make INFO Manager powerful The first is its flexible Information field which can hold structured information stored in Forms i e invoices pur chase orders etc A programming language and linking between Forms allow the development of sophisticated business applications The second powerful feature is INFO Manager s ability to search the database for specific criteria or key words and create Lists or subsets of the database The Pick List function automatically keeps track of the last 50 entries you have created or modi fied You can quickly display the Headline of each of these entries in a list for quick review and selection You can also search on key words placed in the Information field INFO Manager could be used as an effective to do list The date due and person responsible could be kept in the Author Date field a brief description of the item in the Head line field and more complete infor mation in the Information field The pick list gives you a quick look at the last 50 to dos You can do a more specific search on the
56. wards to the previous appointment by pressing E7 F5 This method does not work when you search over long periods of time We tested the procedure on a 512K and 1MB 95LX and found that if the period of time between appointments was greater that two years the search would not work Jim Gurney Lotus Development Corp Rich Hall Editor The HP Palmtop Paper Batteries CHANGING A RAM CARD BATTERY HP ACE and some but not all other RAM cards allow you to change the card battery without removing the card from the card slot Make sure that your RAM card is being powered while you make the battery change or you may lose all your data 58 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 When the RAM card is in the card slot and the 95LX is switched ON the card is powered from the 95LX s main cells or AC adapter if connected Connecting the 95LX to the AC adapter disables the auto shutoff feature and gives you all the time you need to change the bat tery lf you don t have access to AC power when you need to change the battery you have three minutes before the 95LX powers down and cuts the power to your card You can press a key every minute or so to keep the 95LX from powering down You can also turn the 95LX on and disable timeout by using SWITCH 95Buddy E or TIME OUT EXE Ei Slide the lock lever at the end of the card to the unlock position and remove the little battery tray Pop the battery out and replace
57. was once able to trade 20 billion yen of Nikkei 225 options Travel light and healthy with all your product information Kurt M Gitesselman Fortune 100 salesperson California USA Compu Serve ID 72356 1742 I am responsible for a specific line of products in the western third of the United States and portions of western Canada I have a rigorous travel schedule most business trips last a week stopping in as many as three cities per day Therefore I am a firm believer in traveling light Now I can leave all 17 pounds of my lap top at home LOTUS My product line is over 400 items each with specific characteris tics and specifications I store this information in a 1 2 3 worksheet file in the 95LX and use Lotus Range Search function to identify the best product for my customer s appli cation quickly PHONE I actually have six differ ent phone directories I use the cut and paste feature to move a complete record from the prospects directory to the current customer directory when I land a new account I in clude in the Address field key con tacts and even travel directions to the account I also have a phone book directory of hotels I have stayed at or read about one for restaurants and another directory of speciality stores wine antiques etc APPT I use the To do list during customer calls to capture requests for information I even use it as a tickler file by creating To dos with a future date t
58. 5 NOTE Suggested retail price listed EE NETWORKING BY MOTOROLA ti T Ins Lines Ra JEMBARC from Motorola M keeps you informed while x k z n a Di r eas Roam te nation with your HP SLX and stay in the loop With the EMBARC wire less network your HP 95LX is your lifeline to current information whenever and wherever you travel In over 200 cities in the U S and Canada you re connected to E mail from the office and news and weather briefs from USA TODAY as well as optional services such as sports key market and financial develo ments and HeadsUp tar eted industry news briefs from IN IVIDUAL Inc You can even ae our important databases routinely updated automatically Il you need is EMBARC s compact powerful NewsStream cane it plugs want into most laptop palmtop and notebook computers ad the simple software package that drives it Pay as little as 395 install it in minutes and you re ready to go without wires faxes or phones Equip your whole team to receive memos documents and files for pennies per recipient You ll find EMBARC so cost effective you ll communicate more Try it for 30 days if you re not satisfied return the receiver and software for a full refund of the pare ase price Sign up right now by phoning 1 800 EMBARC4 Ext 50 Give your team the home field advantage even when they re on the road EMAR Motorola and News
59. 5 fastNOTES Pocket Sales Force Info Manager and QA Palm mow TO US User Profile The 95LX in Sales csccccceeeseeeeee OO Take a look af how a group of sales profes sionals use the HP 95LX fo manage their time betfer and increase sales Using PHONE as a To Do List 42 Nor satisfied with Appointment Book s To Do list function this user created a versatile easy to use to do list using Phone Book Looking Glass Enhance 1 2 3 with Keystroke Macros or User Keys 46 Lotus 2 3 comes with its own keystroke macros the 95LX has its User Keys Both can make Lotus 1 2 3 a little easier on the 95LX Advanced Programming Tools for the HP PSEA oo ivsstsccesescsscrssenvessnn AY This article summarizes the programming fools available for the 95LX including C lenigucges Assemblers BASIC and Pascal If also looks at more specialized tools relating to 95LX system compliancy graphics keyboard clipboard ant the four pin serial port Basic Quiz What is your HP Palmtop IQ 52 Find out how much you know about the Y5LX BASS TIES AAE A NA PEPE EFFE ae QUICK 8 Oe oe ee RTE DG Advertisers Index 00 00000 60 Files on May June 93 ON DISK 60 Introducing S WITCH i pE 2 Nominated for Multi Tasking Software for 95LX roe McDona Br ob gal o ferns Presiden dent ESS 13937 Ya LA E io Hall airstri Pract ionat fan are me bas ocess ree
60. 5V Sundisk cards can use them on the 100LX provided that the unit is off when they are inserted The ultimate leather case for your HP 95 LX Palmtop PC 8 Pockets designed to hold Application modules credit cards and business cards Special Pocket designed for Check books Documents and or additional calendar Standard 4 x 6 Notepad included gt 2 Pen Pencil Holders Attached via Velcro included Crafted from Premium Nappa Cowhide Leather Specially Padded to protect your Palmtop To Order send Check or money order to E amp B Company 1013 Mc Rae Way Roseville CA 95678 916 782 9219 Please indicate Street address Daytime phone number Color black or burgundy Please add your local sales tax _ For 2 day air delivery add 5 00 ea SE eC ee eS ere Otherwise allow 4 6 weeks for deli recommended for all memory cards Existing SRAM cards work fine with the 100LX However if you are using specialized compression soft ware such as DoubleCard you should contact the source company for 100LX setup instructions Serial and Infrared Ports One cause for rejoicing is the 100LX s new serial port it s a true RS 232 compatible port While it still sports a proprietary connector all of the sig nals are provided This means that you will be able to use most modems with the 100LX as well as communi cations and other software that relies on a standard R5 232 port The downsid
61. 86 Min file size uncompressed 17 5K RAM occupied when running 22K Pricing Version 20 ville elses 79 Japanese version 79 Upgrade previous versions 29 CONTACT Genus Software Corp 1625 Richards Street Salt Lake City Utah 84115 USA Phone 801 487 6220 Shareware Mentioned in Third Party Products On the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK cis sHR ABKTool MJ 93 cis IRPRT COM M J 93 cis Also available in the HP Handhelds forum of CompuServe SHR SHAREWARE is software distributed free of charge for evalua lion purposes only If you decide to use it you must pay the author the shareware fee This includes any shareware found on The HP Palm op Paper ON DISK or Compt AOL Many of these files may be found on American Online in the Palmtop Library keyword Palmtop T gt gt a ag By Bob Perry The HP 95LX sets new stan dards for ease of use and seamless integration However several of the built in ap plications do benefit from enhance ment software that is currently avail able This article reviews five of the more popular add ins to the Appoint ment Book function UTIL Forth V2 4 95LX Programmer s Toolkit Harness the power of your 95LX with UTIL a System Manager compliant version of the Forth language Even you non programmers can use the Sample programs for games graphics and utilities m Create System Manager loaders fo
62. 9 so the time will fit in one column The macro pauses to allow the user to change the column width if desired use the arrow keys or enter a Number Finally press to accept the width 1 2 3 Macro RFDI 2 NOW CALC WCS9 WCS System Macro Version Comment 123 Fixed Time Contents MENU rfdt2 ENTER now F9 ENTER MENU wcs9 ENTER MENU wes Variable Time Macro This puts the function NOW in the current cell and formats the range to HH MM AM PM Whenever you call the worksheet up the current time will appear in that cell and change from day to day The macro sets the column width to 9 so the time will fit in one column The macro pauses to allow the user to change the column width if desired use the arrow keys or enter a number Finally press to accept the width 1 2 3 Macro RFDT2 NOW WCS9 WCS System Macro Version Comment 123 Variable Time Contents MENU rfdt2 ENTER now ENTER MENU wes9 ENTER MENU wes Column width This macro lets the user set a range of columns to a specified width The macro will pause to let you adjust the column width by moving the arrow keys or typing in a number 48 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 1 2 3 Macro WCCS System Macro Version Comment 123 Multi Column Set width Contents MENU wccs Column Reset This macro resets a specified ranae of columns to their original column width The macro pauses to let the user specify the range of contigu
63. A action items to follow up c other clients ED doctor s offices EH het prospects EL law firms uM manufacturers P personal numbers EVY yengors For example an Only search on M V A would list the manufactur ers from whom I buy directly and I have an additional action item to follow up Ay ZB i Cc gt r ct Wr INSTANTLY BACK UP YOUR O SMB AND IMB HPSSLX Irvine California U S A 714 453 0100 FAX 714 453 0114 800 CARDS 4 U MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 39 HOW TO USE Sales Profile MEMO I use MEMO files to describe projects I am currently working on I have several files in a projects directory I created a User Defined Char key to automatically take me to my project directory and list the files I merely arrow to the file and strike return to bring it up I can store as many projects as I like using this system Movie distributor has all the reviews Jeffrey C Zorn Farmington Hills MI USA CompuServe ID 71165 1650 LOTUS I created a simple spreadsheet with movie reviews for our customers MOVIE WK1 fi I was able to input the information at any time while reading about a video movie thus keeping my file updated This worksheet contained the name of the movie studio box office gross video release date video pre order date theatrical release date if appli cable the major stars a rating from A C and a short blurb Most of the information was sup
64. AIBOA Meek 1A Herk 14 Tiri WEEKABK Screen Display Ne As the cursor is moved down the column for a specific day the Ap pointment subject and actual start and end times are displayed at the bottom of the screen Arrows at the top of the screen indicate whether there are appointments in the day that are earlier or later than the hours currently being displayed One can scroll through the weeks by using the right and left arrow keys You can also press WEEK and enter a number 1 52 to go to a specific week in the year You can also easily insert appoint ments With the cursor positioned on any date press and you go to HP s built in APPT application daily view positioned on that date Press INSERT to insert an appoint ment for that date WEEKABK does not have an ap pointment editor but links to APPT for daily views and for inserting or editing appointments When you are done editing simply press CTRL again to return to WEEKABK Any changes you made will be dis played WEEKABK lets you notify your self of pending yearly appointments You enter a yearly appointment in the APPT as you normally would except that you put a v heart at the beginning of the appointment text press ALT 3 Then you have to use MEMO to modify WEEKABK ENV and select the number of days prior to and after the appointment date that you want it displayed in the pending list When you place the cursor on a day 14 days before
65. AY JUNE 1993 Order Information ACT 99 SWITCHable contact management soft ware CONTACT Contact Software intema tional 1840 Hutton Drive 200 Carrollton TX 75006 USA Phone 800 365 0606 or 214 919 9500 Fax 214 919 9750 Pocket Sales Force 99 95 System Manager compliant contact man agement software CONTACT CM Software Unit 3 Ash croft Close Botley Oxfort OX2 9SE UNIT ED KINGDOM Phone 44 0865 864844 Fax 44 0865 864856 Health amp Diet 19 95 Food tracking program for DOS computers Requires 500K System RAM and 1 2MB disk space you will need a RAM card Health amp Diet Pro and the Windows ver ions do not work on the 95LX or the 100 LX CONTACT Digest Systems Research Inc 10085 Scripps Ranch Court San Diego CA 92131 USA Phone 619 695 3598 Also available at other retail outlets such as Sears Walmart Egghead Comp USA etc NOTE Price listed is suggested retail price not including shipping and handling You may be able to purchase the product for less from a software retailer Shareware Freeware Mentioned in This Article On the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK cis SHR TRAVELWARE M J 93 CIS WEEKABK N D 92 MOVIE WK1 M J 93 cis Also available in the HP Handhelds forum of CompuServe of curs IF ROA AA ANAG Sane A ORCUN charge for e tion purposes only If you decide to use it you must pay the author the shareware fee This goes for any share
66. B protocol support Welcome to fastCOMM 1 8 for the HP 95SLX P ine atch batch modem dem G ompuServe B fastCOMM Features Full featured Communication Software for HP 95LX High speed dota transfer of up to 14 4k boud T i1 Hern Interna Interna nterna nterna erlay SwitCHable Pop up Window for File transfer Easy to use Pop up Menus For more information Call Comprehensive Macro Language capability allows users to develop custom applications Built in ANSI and VT 102 Terminal Emulation Fully SWITCHable with built in applications fastCOMM version 1 0 C1085 800 825 9977 ACE ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zonker Road Suite 103 Son Jose Collomia 95134 USA Dealers amp Distributors welcome MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 51 Order Information AWK 1 4b n a AWK 2 03 249 Powerful pattern matching utility CONTACT Thompson Automation 5616 SW Jefferson Portland OR 97221 2597 USA Phone 800 944 0139 503 224 1639 503 224 3230 Swift BASIC 159 95 BASIC programming language designed for the HP 95LX USA CONTACT EduCALC 27953 Cabot Road Laguna Niguel CA 92677 USA Phone 800 677 7001 or 714 582 2637 Fax 714 582 1445 TurboPascal 3 02A 90 The following individual has been licensed to distribute this older version of TP that works well with the 95LX CONTACT Joe Wright 711 Chats worth Place San Jose CA 95128 USA
67. CGA Many of the third party applications written for the 95LX assume MDA mode and will launch with a blank screen Fortunately the graphics display mode can be switched by either the DOS MODE command or a small utility called MONO8025 COM PALMTOP DATABASE WANT THE RIGHT SOFTWARE Now An alternative to the currently available database products for your HP 95LX PALMTOP DATABASE We build THE solution your way Custom applications rapidly developed by Lighthouse Software will have you realize increased productivity Which is your best source for greater efficiency and profits Custom projects as low as 350 For Free Consultation Call or FAX ee Software Inc 714 850 1767 FAX 714 850 0843 3001 Red Hill Ave Bldg 4 Ste 213 Costa Mesa CA 92626 MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 9 NEWS HP 100LX DOS 5 0 is provided in ROM but only a small subset of the external utilities are included Fortunately the DOS desktop 5 0 utilities work fine The D drive now contains the ROM files CONFIG SYS and AUTO EXEC BAT startup files are now included in ROM In addition the 100LX has the ability to select the boot drive on startup This eliminates the problem encountered on the 95LX where you needed to reinitialize the RAM disk if the start up files become corrupted There appears to be a high level of compatibility between the 100LX and 95LX system compliant software However if the 95LX softwa
68. Category Menu Stopwatch and World Time These two applications were part of APPT on the HP 95LX They are now separate 100LX applications My fa vorite new Stopwatch features are the Alarm and Repeat Timer I can set an alarm quickly for any time in the day I can also have my 100LX beep at me every half hour World Time includes a database of 478 cities For each city you can find an area code international access number the longitude latitude and world time City Country Kextes Int l Recess SF J City Prefix BE HO C Custew Lint Cotegery EO Tine Offset Fron Daylight Savings Hours CEDEO Sveten Universal D Yes Ne sineain 3 Mutopatic Wane E Latitude 6 57 Longitude GFE y Hote a ee ee World Time City screen display World Time s list function auto matically computes and displays the current time in the cities listed FOR HP 9YSLX Made in U S A DUAL BATTERY LIFETIME GUARANTEE KS Irvine California U S A 714 453 0100 FAX 714 453 0114 et 6 On Oss CN a ee Local City field If a All Cition Iran Ivery Coast t pr R of 4 09 pr Abu Dhabi United Arab Enirates 6 09 pr Acapulco Hexion 10 09 an Accra Ghana 4 85 prn Addis Ababa Ethiopia 7 09 pa Adelaide Australia 1 39 an Aden Yaron A R 7 09 pa World Time All Cities List screen Macros The HP 100LX comes with macro function User Def
69. DOS BACKUP TRICK described a file backup solution on page 26 of the Jul Aug 92 issue It involved using ZIP and a batch file named BKUP BAT Here s a tip that can be applied to various backup strategies and save some disk space The first time that you run BKUP BAT it backs up every file in every directory Some of those files like COMMAND COM TF COM and all the WK1 worksheets are in ROM and don t need to be backed up To save space go to the direc tory on your BACKUP MEDIUM where those files are located and issue the following DOS com mand s press after each command rem gt command com rem gt chkdsk Exe rem gt tf com etc Continue listing in the rem gt filename format all files built into the 95LX C drive These commands create empty files with the filenames listed Since these files were created after the original files with the same name were created they will have more recent dates BKUP BAT will see this and not backup the origi nal files These empty files you ve created have 0 bytes so you ll save about 50K of disk space Ed Keefe CompuServe ID 75300 3667 EHP Calc CALCULATE IN HP CALC S LIST MODE HP Calc s List mode lets you keep a running list of numbers and add them up e g a shopping list etc From HP Calc press MENU List then key in a number Every time you press ENTER the cursor moves down one line The list total appears at the bottom of the screen
70. Fax 412 422 4135 Change APPT alarm MYBEEP ZIP Bytes 3 279 Lets you replace the standard APPT alarm sound with a sound of your choice as many notes as you want File Repair Service This service re quires that you send in your 95LX to recover corrupt ed Appointment Book or Phone Book files e COMMERCIAL File Flecovery Services 665 N E Conifer Bivd Carval lis OR 97330 USA Phone 503 757 0044 HP Connectivity Pack This PC file transfer program comes with a APPLICATION BUILDER FOR THE HP 95LX With QAPalm you can create custom data collection and viewing applications for your palmtop on your PC without programming Uses an easy screen painting approach Transfers data to dBase and Lotus 123 formats Demo avail able QA SYSTEMS INC 220 East 42nd Street New York N Y 10017 1 800 945 1717 212 599 1717 Fax 212 599 2614 merge utility that lets you combine two ABK or PBK files It also comes with a translate utility that you convert Appoint ment Book or Phone Book files to the formats of Lo tus Metro Borland Sidekick Central Point PC Tools Desktop or Con ventional Data For mat COMMERCIAL AP Dealers or EduCALc 27953 Cabot Road Laguna Niguel CA 92677 USA Phone 800 677 7001 or 714 582 2637 Fax 714 582 1445 95LX Appointment Book File Format FORMAT ABK Bytes 12 176 Lib 8 95LX APPT file format IntelliLink XLT IntelliLink for Windows Intelli
71. Fob Ff Utility Print Sereen Lo P 95P5 EXE eb Se f a graphles wilh Print Sere 95 GAR ZIF lan COH dan tw ety Hine Stamina 00S a AR BAT Jan Feb 92 Utility Batch file to awitch betes Selich bat is ST 7 ABKASC ae t Translates PRH files into a ARKAPT Z Sep Oct J2 Utilitu Translates r filsa inte B ACCIS nce dan Fob 939 Application Updale of CompuServe sacce tACEIS ZIP dulfug 32 Application Rutiniaie CompuServe acces Database Index Screen 12 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER s Custom databases and Fields 10 Field Types predefined Power Subset language for sorting and reporting Fully customizable display a 5000 record limit with 99 fields DATA COMM a Xmodem YModem ZModem Kermit and Text Protocols E Programmable Function Keys FILER Can Display File Tree Display Filter display select files Backup Function Text Search of files Go to file by typing its first letters HP CALC Statistics Mode a Technical math 30 built in functions u Uneven cash flow analysis Expanded Conversion Mode Custom Solver Application with up to 256 variables 69 built in functions Function Graphing LOTUS 1 2 3 Compatible with version 2 4 Add in Capability Graphics and Database Commands Backsolve 1 2 3 values with Calculator No WYSIWYG Mouse Access or Macro Library Manager No Smartlicons Backsolver Viewer or Auditor Add ins MEMO J hen al conmente s feature gverushere a
72. HONE AVAILABLE ABKTool Version 2 0 ABKTool ABKTL EXE il is a stand alone viewer and edi tor of ABK files created by the 95LX APPT program Fore more information see page 25 this issue Availability 000 Now Medium Shareware Runs under SysMgr Yes Min file size uncompressed 58 5K RAM occupied when running 130K PR aise saaits lence yale serene 30 CONTACT Available on PTP ON DISK or from library 7 of the HP HAND forum on CompuServe Also available directly from au RECEIVE WIRELESS ELECTRONIC MESSAGES amp FILES ON YOUR HP 95LX Company City Send me a demo disk Motorola NewsStream Receiver amp EMBARC software 483 00 Monthly EMBARC subscription 15 00 FROM MOST E MAIL SYSTEMS Stay one call ahead of your competitors with EMBARC Electronic Mail Broadcast To A Roaming Computer an advanced messaging service from Motorola Computer users on most public and private e mail systems can send spreadsheets database updates and other important information to computers in the field at a fraction of the cost of a long distance telephone call Messages and files are transmitted in native mode to a hub where they are translated and passed off seamlessly to EMBARC Your message is sent over radio waves to a small receiver that attaches easily to the HP 95LX using a snap in cradle Sales reps and management receive last minute updates service personnel can be dispatched t
73. IRD FARTY PRODUCTS New Products Designed to Work with the HP 95LX In the first nine issues we listed over 325 hardware and software products and other 95LX related services already available from third party manufacturers and develop ers We will continue to list 95LX hardware software books videos training and services as we discover them Vendors of 95LX related products should send us information NOTE Prices listed are suggested retail Sometimes you will be able to get a better price from a third party vendor or discount catalog source Starting next issue we will also list 1OOLX software and peripherals as they become available By Richard Hall and Hal Goldstein signed for office executives and frequent flyers See Advertising page 8 Availability lt a Now WLLL eee ee ee eee 69 95 CONTACT E amp B Company 1013 McRae Way Roseville CA 95678 USA Phone 916 782 9219 Leather Case and Organizer Leather cases for the 95LX 100LX combine features de Serial to Parallel Converter Cable This cable allows you to con nect the 95LX up to a parallel printer It has a 4 pin serial plug on one end and a serial PALMTREE Fits Like A Glove Palmtree Products Presents Carrying Cases for the HP 95LX and HP 100LX They fit like a glove because they re designed perfectly For ease of portability For durability For protection and good looks Each case has space for IC cards
74. Link XLT adds additional ABK translation support to the 95 LX s Connectivity Pack IntelliLink for Windows is a file transfer program that provides the translation utilities of IntelliLink XLT COMMERCIAL nieih Link 98 Spil Brook Rad 12 Nashua NH 03062 USA Phone 603 888 0666 Fax 603 B88 9817 Mac Hypercard stack prints calen dar from ABK file MACABK SIT Bytes 35 516 Upgraded Hypercard 2 X Stack which reads ABK file and cre ates a monthly cal endar MacLink Plus Connectivity Pack with Phone Book Translation Macintosh to 95LX connectivity package with Ap pointment Book to Mac file translation utilities COMMERCIAL see page 61 this issue Print ABK report with start end times ABKRPT ZIP Bytes 33 200 Prints 80 col umn reports from ABK file with starting ending times and Notes data Program runs on PC written in Quick Produce Daily Weekly Monthly reports using 95LX ABK file CALTR EXE Bytes 79 931 CALTRV Ver 1 05 produces for matted Daily Weekly Monthly calendar reports to Screen Printer and File from ABK files converted to Side Kick Plus format using the 9SXLAT Utility APP Fea tures include Notes NEW Print Next Day Week Month Translate ABK to from Text File ABKCVT ZIP Bytes 16 768 ABKCVT con verts ABK files to from tab delim ited text format for easy mass editing and use with other appointment cal endar programs suc
75. Mentioned On the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK cis sHR 123DLM M J 93 cis sHR 95Buddy J A 92 cis 95PS EXE J F 92 cis Free DIRLIS EXE M J 93 _HPWK1 ZIP WJ 92 cis Free MACBAK MJ 93 cis TIMEOUT J F 92 CIS Also available in the HP Hand helds forum of CompuServe SHR SHAREWARE is software distributed free of charge for evalu ation purposes only AOL many of these files may be found on American Online in the Palmtop Library keyword Palmtop MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 59 HOW TO CONTACT US There are a number of ways to get in touch with The HP Palmtop Paper staff You can write mail us a disk with your comments send Compu Serve mail fax or call Our address is Thaddeus Computing Inc The HP Pal p Paper PO Box 869 or 57 E Broadway Fairfield IA 52556 U S A Fax 515 472 1879 Phone 515 472 6330 or 800 373 6114 CompuServe ID Hal Goldstein 75300 2443 To advertise in The HP Palmtop Pa per contact Brian Teitzman or Mar garet Martin To subscribe RERE address or clear up any problem with your subscription contact our subscrip tion department Director Sharon Dilmore Technical Support HP Technical Support HP offers these options m FREE TECHNICAL SUPPORT is offered to all Palmtop users and is available EELER 3 757 2004 FREE AUTOMATED SUPPORT is offered 24 hours a day by calling 800 443 1254
76. O Manager database into your 95LX for portability and upload any changes to your desktop PC when you return to the office The 95LX version is system compliant your INFO Manager data file will have the same size limitations as the built in applications approximately 50K of data qaPalm 1 0 a Screen Generator gaPalm lets users create a customized screen for collecting data However you must export the data file to another database program if you want to sort it or generate reports Therefore qaPALM can not be used as a stand alone database program qaPalm is a program that lets you design a data entry screen qaPalm is actually two programs a screen gen erator and a run time module The screen generator runs on a MS DOS desktop computer gaPalm displays a region 40 characters wide by 14 lines long in the middle of your PC s dis play Creating a data entry form is as easy as moving the cursor to a spot on the screen typing in the label of the field and setting the attributes and field types with the Field Op tions menu and submenus qaPalm comes with an emulation feature that lets you test the data entry screen on your PC before transferring it to the 95LX After you have created the data entry screen you desire the screen generator creates a data entry run Product Disk Space Notes95 fastNOTES Pocket Sales Force Info Manager 450K to install removed time program that you transfer to the 95LX
77. RAPH _STAT WK1 is one of the built in Lotus worksheets found on the English language version of the 95LX Also archived in _HPWK1 ZIP E it can display a graph of the data with a least squares regression line plotted into it This easy graph is not easy to do from scratch It is invoked from the worksheet by pressing ALT P Unfortunately the graph disap pears if you press any key found that a simple edit of the Lotus ALT P macro keeps the graph from disappearing allowing you to edit save or print it The macro is located in cell IB7045 of _STAT WK1 Change the macro by deleting the following 24 characters from the macro R 2 re END D grgq This sequence of characters ends 25 characters from the right end of the macro Since _STAT WK1 is written in ROM you cannot save this change to it You may however save this new version of _STAT WK1 to the C drive Paul Swadener Eugene OR USA Appt FIND NEXT PREVIOUS APPOINTMENT You can use the following trick to quickly go to the next appointment in APPT Every appointment usually has two or more words in it with a blank space in between the words e g Call Bill re Lunch For some reason when you press E7 E7 the 95LX takes you to the next blank space between words in the appointment If you enter a single word appointment i e Exercise you should insert a blank space after the word so that the search still works You can search back
78. SRAM technology When compared to Flash SRAM s has much faster write cycles and requiring less power from your HP 95LX Palmtop Paper Lifetime Warranty Demonstrating our confidence in this new technology we are extending DoubleCara s Lifetime Warranty policy to all DoubleFiash products As with all ACE memory cards your memory investment is protected for life How do I use DoubleFlash The same plug n play capability of DoubleCard has been brought to DoubleFlash A ROM card is provided to allow you To install the DoubleFlasn software in a matter of seconds BATTman built in DoubleFlash comes with built in BATIman battery management software optimized for use with Flash technology Now you can use all battery technologies with DoubleFlash Additional Features DoubleFlash and DoubleCard include the DoubleRAM utility DoubleRAM compresses your internal RAM disk in SWiTCHable TH SWITCH Companale your HP 98LX DoubleRAM uses the same data compression driver as DoubleCard and therefore requires no additional memory Additional software includes Pass word CardCopy Unmount and a collection of HP 95LX shareware programs DoubleFlash and DoubleCard DoubleCard 1M upto 1MB A2001 DoubleCard 2M up to 2MB A2002 DoubleCard 4M up to AMB neiss A2004 DoubleCard 8M up to 8MB A2008 DoubleFlash 10M up to 1OMB A3010 DoubleFlash 20M up to 20MB
79. Solver equation May Jun 92 Note taking program 92 Subscribers Disk newer version N D 92 on disk Free Shareware amp amp SESBSunSaVaGas From Palmtop to Desktop Non Stog Freedom to Use The File You Choose Highest Quality File Translations MacLinkPlus HP 95LX converts HP 95LX s native Phone Book Appointment Book Memo and Lotus 1 2 3 files to and from over 25 popular Macintosh applications such as AddressBook Plus Dynodex Excel Lotus Microsoft Works Microsoft Word MacWrite WordPerfect etc It also supports a number of industry standard formats such as SYLK DIF CSV Tab Text etc which allows users to exchange their HP Palmtop files with numerous other Macintosh applications including FileMaker Pro and TouchBASE Easy File Transfer and Backup Connect the two computers with the included serial cable and with just a few mouse clicks you can transfer files between the Palmtop and the desktop and selectively backup and restore files And much more MacLinkPlus HP 95LX also includes Phone Book and Appointment Book equivalent Macintosh file templates for common Mac applications such as Microsoft Works Excel and FileMaker Pro Sparcom s DataExchange Users Want to REALLY use your HP 95LX files on the Mac Now with our special Competitive Upgrade you have the opportunity to get the MacLinkPlus HP 95LX software for just 49 00 This special offer expires on Ma
80. Stream are registered trademarks of Motorola Inc All other product and company names are the property of their respective owners 1993 Motorola Inc NEWS HP 100LX HP 100LX Built In Applications and Some of Their More Important Features APPOINTMENT BOOK eee ee p i fe Ma Tu Me Th Fr ta ii FERR patin Sr Eliete Tie Company magt ing 4 Jones George a G s _ d LPer Paa AD LD Main Appointment Book Screen perdor A month OWE a Time line display with bar Repeat Appointments by Dey Week Month Year or Custom u archive Feature for Appts To do ists u Launch Programs by Time Ee Automatic conversion of 95LX files Customizable Alarm Sound u File Auto Save APPLICATION MANAGER z BeEegras amp mas7 ath ee toe W ae oe El A pis Svelor Hanaper Goma Hicros Select with the arrue keys and Enter or Pruan the underlined letter Frossa Es t quit Application Management Screen e Allows Launching both system com aes and DOS programs Icon selection of application a Status of application and memory consumed Manages APNAME LST applications Terminate System Manager Selection CC MAIL u Subset of cc Mail Remote u E mail Management Requires cc Mail Server CLIPBOARD a Single key Copy Paste Cut function z PETEERE i for quick clipping of mul iple fields E Clipboard capacity to 10K DATABASE E KE DDY 2IP MowsDec 52 t vorsilon fives problens S51HP ZIP dan
81. TODO PBK W and set up a macro User Key to take me to this file from within PHONE see User Keys in the HP 95LX User s Guide I have another macro to take me to my regular phone book PHONE PBK I keep TODO PBK as the default file so that every time I press PHONE the to do list comes up The macro to switch from TODO PBK to my regular phone book is as follows assumes that both files are in C DAT MENU fs ENTER y MENU fo phone pbk ENTER PHONE has three fields for informa tion Name Number and Address Even though HP chiseled those field names into ROM you can put any information you want into them The current version of 95Buddy lets you change field names In my PHONE to do list I enter the task in Name a reference in Number and any other information about the to do item in Address Edit card Enter the marmi get a table at elty call resesboer 4 at tab the window ulth tA orf the ahead te order pecial wine o that it can be chilled Card view of Phone Book to do entry The index view only shows the first 19 characters of the Name and Num ber fields in PHONE although each field allows 30 characters to be en NOW AVAILABLE SUNDISK Software Upgrade for PAMCO CD3568 Card Drives Use SUNDISK SDPL5 XX flash cards in your CD3568 Card Drive UPGRADE is only 20 00 includes postage and handling Call to order by VISA Mastercard or send check or money order to
82. Tom Williams Redmond WA USA We do list complete contact information for commercial soft ware However shareware and freeware is a different matter Shareware and freeware au thors attempt to provide quality software at as little cost to the user as possible These authors distribute evaluation copies through bulletin boards and other sources to keep the cost of their software down The evalu ation copies have more complete contact information in case the user wants to register his copy of the software Authors of these kinds of programs normally operate out of their house and don t have the resources or time to answer requests for evaluation disks However when authors provide us with additional contact information we ll publish it Individual issues of the PTP ON DISK are available for 33 Rich HP 95LX Widower Dear Abby Yesterday I made a mistake of catastrophic proportions I showed my wife how to use HPTetris fg on the 95LX Since that moment she has become another person She has her hands on that darned little machine every waking moment She no Electronic Pop Up Notes for HP 95LX Introducing fastNOTES Resizable and Overlapping Windows Imports and Exports Memo ASCII files Easy to use Pop up Menus fastNOTES Features ANED P SS i 1 yeno_fallahan 999 5788 Create organize and access information as pop up notes on your HP 95LX Automatic time stamping and te
83. X My tests revealed a 66 reduction in power consumption which should effectively TRIPLE its battery life as compared to the 95LX The 100LX can also internally charge NiCd bat teries Nickel Metal Hydrides are not recommended but this pertains to charging them onboard not in using them Lithium batteries are also not recommended but can be used Re member that lithium batteries last a long time but once they start to die they die quickly With lithium batter ies once you get a low battery warn ing it may be too late to save files you are currently working on Memory Card Slot and Other Hardware Features The single memory card slot has been retained but it is now PCMCIA 2 0 compatible This means that the 100LX will be able to use RAM cards up to 64MB when they are devel oped In addition I O cards such as modems and LAN adapters cards can be used with the 100LX if the card is rated at 150ma or less Because of the power drain of such devices the 100LX should be connected to an AC Adapter when they are being used Another surprise is that the 100LX provides built in support for the Sundisk flash cards You no longer have to install drivers Just slip the cards in the slot and you re ready to go In fact HP is offering both a 5M and 10M Flash cards as accessories HP will sell 512K and 1MB RAM cards until current supplies run out These are 12V cards and cannot be used on the 95LX However owners of the older
84. ake short work of repeated database operations with one keystroke Configured for most printers including the HP Laser Jet and the 82240 A Infrared Printer System Requirements PC Version MS DOS 3 0 or higher 640K RAM 95LX Version HP 95LX Palmtop with 512K RAM MAY JUNE 1993 Finally a Database With a Difference Info Manager the free form database is also available for your desktop PC SPECIAL OFFER Buy the DOS and 95LX versions and get an Extra program FREE For information about the dealer in your area contact Channel ReSources Inc Toll Free 800 947 6872 In CA 800 368 7999 Fax 818 363 5779 Outside the U S contact 4 You Software Griegasse 14a A 4910 Ried im Innkreis Austria Tel 43 7752 81711 37 Fax 43 7752 81744 Dealers Welcome THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 35 REVIEWS Database Programs INFO Manager has other power ful features including the ability to edit your data create macros for repetitive key strokes print reports and transfer information between the program and other software applica tions The current version of INFO Man ager has problems installing with a data compression program loaded in the 95LX This makes it difficult to use with Stacker 2 0 or ACE Double Cards I did install it successfully on my SunDisk 10MB Flash ROM card INFO Manager comes with a desktop PC version and a system compliant 95LX version that share features You can download the IN F
85. anual The files deal with System Manager Program ming They may be freely distributed but are copyrighted by HP and Lotus If you re registered as an ISV you already have these files in printed form HP offers these files as is They will not offer any support on them unless you are in their ISV program CLP C Bytes 5 001 Sample code provid ing a working set of functions that will let you implement the clipboard cut and paste functions in sysMer This file will save you headaches E2MTC ZIP Bytes 11 012 A Borland C version of the program that contributor to support publications for HP computers He is the president of the FastAid Company 314 S W Logan Ankeny IA 50021 Ed s CompuServe ID is 75300 3667 MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 49 HOW TO USE Programmer s Tools is needed to convert EXE files to EXM files E2M ZIP Bytes 8 801 An update to the conversion program version 4 3 fixing a bug that was found in the original program EDIT C Bytes 10 112 Shows how to use the built in SysMgr edit ing functions It takes a little of the mystery out of the ISV docu ments TC2EXM 95 Bytes 5 573 A small text file 5K bytes describing how to write SMC pro grams using Borland s C compilers C Programming Tools for Specific Tasks At the beginning of 1992 several more tools and code sam ples appeared on CompuServe provid ing work arounds for
86. apparent that the preferred language for writing Sys tem Manager Compliant programs was Microsoft C The final step in making a program System Manager Compliant involved converting an EXE file to an EXM file one that could be loaded and run by the SYS MGR program The conversion pro gram supplied by HP worked only with programs written in Microsoft C Those who preferred Borland C were temporarily out of luck In addition information was scarce on graphics communications scan codes for the keys and the unique serial port Fortunately help was on the way in the form of text files and utilities that began appearing on CompuServe in late 1991 listed below Unless otherwise indicated these files are in PRGTOOL1 ZIP amp PRG TOOL2 zip H on the May Jun issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ed Keefe is an author programmer computer science instructor and long time Programming Tools and Tips Files on PTP ON DISK Unless otherwise indicated each of these files can be found on the May June 1993 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK or in 95LX rogrammers section of the HP Hand orum of CompuServe Lib 15 Issues of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK can be obtained individually or as a subscription from Thaddeus Computing Phone 800 373 6114 or 515 472 6330 Fax 515 472 1879 System Compliant Examples 95SMT ZIP Bytes 154 565 Source files and documentation taken from the HP 95LX ISV m
87. ark Twain Rich A Case for No Case Who needs a case The dang thing is bulletproof I dropped mine out of my pocket while riding a motor cycle It bounced around the pavement a while A car went over it it ricocheted off a tire and bounced a few feet I retrieved it It had minor cosmetic damage but worked perfectly Hal Wyman CompuServe ID 73517 2754 Needs to Read Large Text Files on the 95LX I am an active researcher and author of scientific monographs who uses the HP 95LX for word process ing and note taking I am working on a 400 page monograph mainly us ing my Macintosh Power book However it would be handy to edit documents on my 95LX I bought the 10 MB Sun disk flash card on which I was able to install some larger chunks of my book Unfortunately there is no way to access these large text files MEMO and RE EXE amp have a limit of about 48K I contacted ACE and learned that fastWrite not yet available has a limit of 80K It seems strange that there is no way to be able to open up long files merely to read them Please advise me what to do Professor Bela Julesz Rutgers University Piscataway NJ USA Letters continued page 56 Checkbook Credit Card Management Introducing QuickView Your Perfect Companion for Quicken Supports multiple Account Files Checkbook interface Instant Accounts Summary On line Help ae Ce j Ge THO hoy C a Qu
88. chool d PBK 60 69 D Re read the back issues of The HP Palmtop Paper and 15 Is G BABY NEEDS A take the test again NEW PAIR O SHOES a legal workable file name in the 95LX S M a Yes Jeujo aq ew syj p ersul UBYM S AUP 5 L IEMYOS b No o z puegeaiqnog seiGojouyse Joy pue sEevug s woweds eB G e tl Your 95LX 1 Q qe El The answers are listed at the end of aeaa this article Determine your Palmtop OF Percentile Ranking PPR by adding petri 3 up your total number of INCOR BOSB FZ RECT answers by commission or ice ava taie Oa Ne aes iyi omission multiplying that number CX1S6 by 1 72 and subtracting it from 100 SUL U SPAMAT peo yore 5 The Solver equation would look like ira Lae g Mi this 100 Incorrect 1 72 Correct q Bi 2 vepy ayu sasn e Ajjeas s4 NG wajshs Gunesedo ue pas ap suos q pinoo 1 euew was s p q L SJ MSUY Compare your score to the ranking list below and bask in the glory of your achievement 90 100 A 95LX genius 80 89 B 95LX sub genius BEST PRICES Memory Cards Modems Serial to Parallel Cable Printers All HP 95LX Monia Supplies Express FAX 310 370 3265 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 Runs Even Better On The New HP 100LX FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION t s What Your Palmtop Was Made For You can throw away your electronic dictionary or hard copy phrase book Th
89. cted times in un expected places A successful sales professional does his or her home work and is prepared to take advan tage of opportunities wherever or whenever they arise Then came the mobile office ASCERTain 1 2 3 Add in Automatically convert 1 2 3 spreads sdsheeta i nto fuzzy scenarios that incorporate world uncertainties Use it en 4 Budgets 4 Estimates a Scenarios A great tool for ers that want to evaluate the effects of the variability of input data 95 00 including S amp H S amp H Septima international 382 Chicopee Row Groton MA 01450 508 448 2761 FAX 508 448 5246 User Profiles The 95LX in Sales Take a look at how this group of sales professionals uses the HP 95LX to manage their time better and increase sales Sales and other professionals were no longer tied down to a desk in a building on the third floor They began to carry all the necessary infor mation and capabilities with them wherever they were Sales profession als have always carried samples of their wares but soon they were car rying portable computers lightweight printers modems and cellular phones The office may have been mobile but it was also getting crowded And still the mobile office was big enough that they had to leave it in their car or motel room when they went on sales calls Enter the 95LX Finally HP 95LX came along with HP CALC and Lotus to crunch num bers Phone Book to organize co
90. data from the Notes field to the appropriate fields in your 100LX data base or to create macros to do this Hopefully by the next issue some clever programmer will come up with a less time consuming solution More about HP 100LX Phone PHONE lets me display any data field in its Phone Book List view called the Index view on the 95LX It also lets me select how much of each field I wart to display and in what position I want to display it Furthermore I can sort this list by any field For example if Company is one of the fields in my list I could sort by Company I reconfigured the 100LX default Phone List to display the Name Busi ness phone Home phone and Fax fields displayed in next graphic rarat r Baa 227 Giz l 3 458 EJA Rlaxander Bem ay 304 DIBE x Pi 514 655 8883 514 258 4967 egon 2458 5040 S13 758 3399 rege Mo sfederseon Rick 383 336 8745 356 8514 sano rcher Bichard 213 750 5560 213 780 2692 AGCHURE AUST BO 583 758 2000 ECalkinson Fred gaz 271 EJHA J2 291 6163 Cedar Computer 319 353 7362 f Ce Hood B22 3351 SS See see a Phone Book List view One other powerful feature of PHONE is the ability to easily print your Phone Book to a file or printer in a format of your choosing For example you can use the new Smart Clip feature to print address labels The Data Base Program A secret of much of the 100LX s pow er flexibility and relative ease of use is Data Base
91. database for a contact Input new sales leads lets you add records Process new sales leads finds and displays contacts that have not been assigned a date for next action Setup lets you create a new database configure the program and change the names of the user defined fields in the data base Export to 1 2 3 puts the database into a Lotus format so that it can be imported into 1 2 3 ea Record CHASI lt i gt Company Hanse Xerex Corp 12 gt Address 154 Suite 203 East Patonmac Blwd Washington BC iu iira 215 258 S478 Joe Jacobcon S gt Pos itian UP Market i ing 6 gt Hest Action Call Pocket Sales Force PSF starts out with a big plus it is System Manag er compliant PSF EXM the main program file is transferred over by an installation program It took me about five minutes to install the pro gram and then another 20 seconds to start SWITCH 2 0 from ACE Tech nologies and assign the program to ALT APPT If you don t have SWITCH check the PSF user manual for APNAME LST installation in structions More information on us ing the APNAME LST file can be found on page 9 of the Mar Apr 1992 issue The 32 page user s manual was helpful but hard to understand at times I ended up just going into the program and entering data There were some small quirks that I ran into One problem was saving a new entry The documenta tion says that you need to press to save a record I had to p
92. dition de pending on which printer driver you have selected and which printer you are using it may not print many international characters use the HP DeskJet 500 with my 95LX and found that could only get interna tional characters to print i e the German diphthongs 4 6 B etc if selected the IBM Proprinter driver press Printer Config Name 3 use PS COM archived in 95 PS EXE E to print graphic screens both pictures and graphic representations of text It is particu larly useful in saving proof of some of the unbelievable end games I ve had with Chess Gomoku and other games found that selecting the HP LaserJet option in Set Up produced the best results with this program Press Printer Config Name 2 did notice that after activating PS COM from the DOS prompt my EXM programs could not be evoked even with SWITCH However if ran PS COM from SWTICH could evoke the EXM programs Therefore don t evoke PS COM from my AUTOEXEC BAT file anymore Hermann Schmitt Winnweiler GERMANY Ei Misc ALTERNATIVE SPELLING CHECKERS FOR 95LX was wandering around the local WIZ electronics store and came across an electronic Roget s The saurus and Spell Checker made by Seiko Instruments This little 4 x 2 5 x 3 8 computer cost 35 and has a miniature QWERTY keyboard and a 10 character display scrolls to 20 It has 80 000 words for spelling and 500 000 cross references in the Thesa
93. e Globalink IC Translation Card converts your HP 95LX or 100LX into a full sentence idiomatically accurate foreign language translator It simplifies business or personal travel quick phrase s or sentence look ups and even language learning for you or your family i m With the same dictionary and translation algorithms as Globalink s s POWER TRANSLATOR the leading machine translation soft ware for the PC you can be confident that the Globalink IC Translation Card is the right one for your palmtop Se s Just enter a sentence from the keyboard foreign accents are accessible on your English keyboard and obtain an idiomatic translation almost instantly You can also Identifies multiple translations of a single load a text file from your PC and receive a word in a sentence based on the part of speech grammatically correct translation in minutes e g noun verb adjective ready for your review Ideal for business or personal Comprehensive 60 000 term dictionary travel academic studies production or home use There Input of foreign accents on English keyboard are dozens of ways that instant translation capability can he Bo make your business dealings more profitable and your On screen editing with HP memo text editor personal endeavors more satisfying Order Any 2 Languages Get a 3rd Language Free 1 800 255 5660 NOW lobalink JUST 9302 Lee Highway Fairfax VA 22031 G Q
94. e is that some com munications programs may not run while System Manager is present The IR port has been enhanced to support high speed communications While it allows for 115K baud selec tion the actual transfer speed I at 8 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 tained was closer to 9600 as opposed to 2400 baud on the 95LX New Better Built in Applications Not only has HP improved the built in applications but they ve also dou bled the number of them See end of article for a listing of built in applica tions and their features HP carefully compiled thousands of customer re quests and then wrote most of the software themselves The best of the new application in my opinion is the new Database program This flat file database is very flexible and a breeze to set up In fact it s the foun dation for Appointment Book Phone Book and Note Taker DOS and System Features Data safety and security is more emphasized in the 100LX Most appli cations automatically save your data as you are entering it While the Global Password function is gone PC Memory Cards Since many of our readers will be using RAM cards with their 100LX we thought it would be useful to summarize the different types supported and their compatibility between the 95LX and 100LX One important rule to adhere to with all memory cards is to not insert or remove one in your 100LX while the power is on The built in applications are constantl
95. e ll tell you if we think HP met its goal Many of you have asked how The HP Palmtop Paper is going to cover these new machines You have also asked whether we will continue our HP 95LX coverage Our current subscriber base is made up primarily of 95LX users HP will continue to sell the HP 95LX As long as we have HP 95LX subscribers we will continue our coverage of the HP 95LX We formally begin coverage of the 100LX next issue Fortunately many articles naturally relate to both the 100LX and 95LX Even though this issue was designed for 95LX users HP 100LX users will find the majority of the material relevant to them When 95LX users finish reading about the new HP products they should check out the reviews on Appointment Book enhancers page 25 and databases page 32 The products discussed in these categories address major limitations in the 95LX and represent a good alternative to upgrading to a 100LX We will cover the HP OmniBook 300 superportable PC in a separate quarterly publication HP OmniBook World Expect the first issue this Winter We always appreciate your feedback on how to best serve HP Palmtop users in The HP Palmtop Paper If you have ideas please drop me a line or send me CompuServe E mail 75300 2443 Wal Lrlhtc Hal Goldstein MAY JUNE 1993 The HP Palmtop Paper Volume two Number three May June 1993 Executive Editor Publisher Hal Goldstein Managing Editor Richard Hall Technical Editor
96. e of the macro Don t forget the leading apostrophe Do the same for any other macros that you want to put in your macro library When you ve got all you macros lined up along with their names put your cursor on the cell containing the first macro name A1 contains F in this example and press Range Name Labels Right Move the cursor down to the last macro name in the list A5 or what Bi rfes HEY 1 2 3 screen with macro entered ever and press ENTER This associ ates the names you ve listed in the A column with the macros in the B column Save this new worksheet to a file called MACRLIB WK1 press File Save macrlib ENTER This is your Macro Library Worksheet You can copy individual key stroke macros over from this macro library worksheet to any worksheet you are working on For example from a new worksheet you would put your cursor in an unused cell and press File Combine Copy Named Specified Range Next you would type in to the name of the macro F or whatever and press ENTER Finally you would select MACRLIB WK1 your macro library file and press ENTER The macro would be copied to the cell I ll give some specific examples of Lotus keystroke macros later in the article All these tips and techniques will work on any PC that runs Lotus 1 2 3 The 95LX s User Defined Keys The 95LX s User Keys system mac ros have several advantages over 1 2 3 macros they don t take up a
97. eatures Context sensitive holp Pao out dine b cub and paate 4 are a il bir tras ii Can erm ap fran eres AenUS b end cate c Gan hae clock ar ca Mutt Ladia 4 MALF 8 52 pa slampa Memo Pad Outline Option File size limited to available disk memory Built in Outliner Bold and Underline displayed 40 64 80 character displays Insert Headers and Footers Search and Replace functions Timed backup of editing session NOTE TAKER a Database of Notes indexed by Titles Categorize and Search capability a 5000 Notes up to 32K each per file MAY JUNE 1993 PHONE BOOK Phone Jusingns m mena _ Wane 7 Bltornata nan Hele oe irezpersive TAT LA th E me oa speci aliz u N Phone Book Screen Full Entry Multiple Phone Numbers 5000 record limit Search and sort on any field Attach 32K note Automatic conversion of 95LX files File Auto Save Flexible printing capability i e labels SET UP 8 Level battery indicator m Serial Port power control m Memory and Disk Setup Communication and Printer Setup m Redirector Control STOP WATCH TIMER ALARM CLOCK m Simultaneous operation of all three functions Repeat Timer capability SYSTEM MACROS 10 macros of up to 256 keys per file Chaining of macros within a file Macros can access macros in other files Operates across all system compliant applications WORLD TIME World Map Screen World wide t
98. ers may find the dis play too small or the menus not as efficient overall the 100LX is a much more capable and easy to use prod uct The 95LX is not being discontin ued and I am equally looking for ward to what HP may have in store for it Run don t walk to your local HP dealer for a test drive N martDock docking stations Instantly link your palmtop to your desktop PC or Macintosh optional inter portable disk drive electronic bulletin board electronic information service E mail network or fax machine Vv The Leader in Palmtop Connectioms 1 800 827 8416 FAX Machine E mail Sparcom Corporation Cables Games Accessories Sparcom Corporation 897 NW Grant Avenue Corvallis Oregon 97330 503 757 8416 FAX 503 753 7821 10 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 Order Information HP 100LX Palmtop PC 749 HP 100LX ACCESSORIES ri a i 512K RAM Card 299 95 HP F1003A Battery backed RAM card works with 100LX amp 95LX limited supply 1MB RAM Card 599 95 HP F1004A Battery backed RAM card works with 100LX amp 95LX limited supply 5MB 12v Flash Card 499 HP F1012A Solid state mass storage card with Stacker 3 0 data compression software to double the capac to approxi mately 10MB not for the 95LX 10MB 12V Flash Card 879 HP F1013A Solid state mass storage card with Stacker 3 0 data compression software to double
99. es Mercury w Clock in Palmtop can be used to time and record sex tant sights New and unique Gets Long or L O P from sunrise set Not sextant needed All input and output data is saved in a file which can be viewed or printed at a later time Gives exact direction of north star so a telescope can be aligned to true north NAV95 is designed ex pressly for the HP 95LX but works on any PC compatible computer Availability i i cian naa Now Medium a a4 pae Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr No PGI ating atom aus aana tn 99 Plus shipping and handling 3 00 US 5 00 outside US CONTACT Louis Valier 2969 Kalak aua Ave 505 Honolulu HI 96815 USA Phone 808 924 7155 T Star Aviation related Lotus add in designed for the 95LX and 100LX Provides pilot with information needed for flight planning and in flight calcu lations Program includes a multi leg planning chart fuel and useful load requirements for each selected flight leg waypoint library capable of storing 500 waypoints capa bility of generating geograph ical coordinates from any known location specific weight and longitudinal bal ance limitations for selected aircraft calculator section which provides normal E6B functions plus winds aloft wind chill factor basic weight and balance and con version calculations T Star is menu driven with a filer section to reduce pilot workload both on and off the ground Additio
100. es buyers three ways It pre qualifies maximum allowable loan amount when sale price is not known When the price is known it computes required income and maximum allowable debt and ratio computation The program now will print to the HP infrared printer Availability 2 00 cee eee Now Medium Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr No Pricing NEW ee eee 295 Upgrade en ne eee 40 CONTACT Pocket Computer Sys tems 505 S E 15th Street Gresham OR 97080 USA Phone 503 665 6990 Mileage Log Upgrade Japanese Version Also Available This database program tracks car mileage remembers pre vious routes and keeps a run ning total of mileage and ex penses New version lets you track up to ten expenses ho tels meals etc Expense ac count names are now user definable A Japanese version is also available which prompts for kilometers rather than miles and uses the yen currency symbol in displays and reports See Advertising page 32 Availability 04 Now Medium Floppy Disk Runs under SysMgr Yes Lexington 606 269 0496 GRAPHICS IN BASIC 5S95 LIB is the only graphics library with sound support designed for BASIC programmers that allows you to draw lines boxes amp fills print text in graphics mode set and reset individual pixels at assembly speed 95 LIB 50 00 5 00 S amp H Snappy Software Box 731 KY 405
101. est number of people but will most likely be in either the San Fernando Valley or the Torrance South Bay area I would also like to hear from anyone who would like to volunteer to help get the Southern California group organized I would also suggest that any other readers who are interested in setting up a user s group in their area contact The HP Palmtop Pa per Perhaps your paper can provide hints on organiza tion and meeting topics to help get things started All interested readers can contact me see below David Shier CK Technologies Inc 1033 Business Center Circle Newbury Park CA 91320 Phone 805 498 6787 Fax 805 498 8174 CompuServe 75030 3374 Prodigy CXBG88A The HP Palmtop Paper would be happy to assist in the formation of HP Palmtop users groups around the world If there is enough interest we could publish contact informa tion and meeting dates each issue If any reader would like to form a users group in their geographic area please write HP Palmtop Users Group Thaddeus Computing PO Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 Please include your name and any contact information you would like to publish Hal List contact information for software A suggestion When provid ing information about soft ware please include a source of information other than CompuServe AOL and the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Only occasionally do you provide the name and ad dress of the author
102. esteent gcoup Ll ESS eee a te ey eR i Multiday weekly display Fast HP 95LX Outliner and Text Processor Introducing fastLINE Supports up to BMBytes per Outline Up to 32K per entry ew Cook ie Re secret ne T0 10 0 b Fatent Imports ASCII file for Text Retrieval applications MEDICRE R Osteochondrosis 61 11 93 8i l Premature r SCA Ae H drocorti pause dst fastLINE Features brns ew Diet i ie 26 92 17 67 nel rents nlication cles Focus on the Family Parentin i Soar Todaurtiesions 4 TES MEMOS SWITCHable i Auto Time and Date Stamping Context sensitive Help Easy to use Menu Interface e effect Supports up to 8MB Outlines and can be used for Text Retrieval with global searching Auto date and time stamping for PIM functions Built in File Manager with extended filenames Exports in Legal and Roman outline structures Requires less than 200KB of RAM and is fully SWITCHable with built in applications fastLINE Version 1 0 C1105 we eceeeeees For more information Call 800 825 9977 A CE ACE Technologies Inc 2480 Zanker Rood Suite 103 San Jose Coifornia 95134 U S A Deoles amp Distibutors weleome Multi Macro Manager Break through the 10 User Defined Key barrier Manage up to 200 User Defined eys System Macros Run any one macro immediately Create delete and swap Macro Files Move copy and delete
103. fers a wide selection of peripherals for your 95LX Call for a free catalog HP user special IM DataBoost card only 115 00 Affordability Selection 1 800 949 7256 Quality ORDER TOLL FREE Memory Card Assoclates 1600 Wyatt Drive Suite 9 Santa Clara CA 95054 36 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 The runtime program will work on the earlier 512K Palmtop but a 1MB 95LX with a RAM card is rec ommended for serious use Other Database Programs These additional database programs were not tested for this article ACT a powerful popular contact management program built around a database See page 5 May Jun 1992 issue for more information EFMS Hi Everyone s Information Management System is a simple flat file database with user defined screens indexes and simple report generation capabilities See PTP Sep Oct 92 page 46 InfoSelect a random information processor that makes it easy to save and later find odd pieces of informa tion that never seem to fit into a regular database See page 35 Jan Feb 93 issue for using it on the 95LX Lotus 1 2 3 built into the 95LX Can be used as text database See HP 95LX User s Guide page 5 2 for more information KIV Keep In View is a cross between an outliner and a free form database See PTP Sep Oct 92 page 48 Shareware Freeware Mentioned in This Article On the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK cis sHA NOTES95 ZIP Mar Apr 1993
104. gement The only func tion that does not meet my needs is APPT s built in To do list F10 from the main Appointment Book screen What To Do with To Do The built in to do function has sever Double Your Pleasure DuBLHDR DublHdr adds an extra PCMCIA slot to your HP95LX Now you can have your favorite application with that additional memory card IL Adapter This adapter adds HPIL to your HP95 ee without Ae your PCMCIA slot or your RS 232 interface Now ao can use those IL Printers and Disk Drives on a desktop LAN Data Acquisition amp Control Robotics Motion Control interloop inc 706 Charcot Avenue San Jose CA 95131 Tel 408 922 0520 Fax 408 922 0545 al problems which make it impracti cal for me to use as a comprehensive task oriented reminder system I have a substantial number of to dos and find scrolling through the list item by item cumbersome I also find doing searches difficult I could use the Find F7 function but only if I al ready know what the to do is Final ly the built in to do list has internal ly separated priorities but the soft ware does not provide a way to go directly to a given priority without scrolling through every item listed in every previous priority In addition to the above deleting a single to do within a long list of to dos was incredibly inefficient Lets say you have a list of 60 to dos and decide one morning to clean out the list
105. gy Inc P O Box 82034 Batton Rouge LA 70884 2034 USA Phone 504 292 2292 Health Related Food Features a database of over 1 500 foods with the ability to add edit or delete food items Program designed to aid in the tracking of various vitamins cholesterol calories and other dietary concerns Also included in this package is a food calculator for sum ming up various dietary in takes for meals Requires around 30K for programs plus space for database Availability wear fbisa cae Now Medium caosas aamue Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr No Min file size uncompressed 30K Plus database size EE AA devs ge eats gee 50 plus 5 S H 10 S H overseas CONTACT Snappy Software P O Box 731 Lexington KY 40586 USA NAV95 This software turns the 95LX into a navigational aid for sailors pilots and astrono mers Features include the following u Determines rising meridi an and setting times for sun moon and other heavenly bodies for a given lat long Gives altitudes and azi muths for all planets moon and stars at any given hour e Telbs which body constellation is highest in the sky e Determines new lat long if given starting lat long com pass direction and number of miles traveled Gives distance in miles if two different locations are known m Gives Long or Line of Position for sun moon or any planet or star at the ime the body is observed by a sextant includ
106. h as Calendar Creator Plus v 5 0 Translate ABK to Organizer format 952ORG ZIP Bytes 14 075 Converts ABK and PBK files to an ASCII format that is suitable for direct import into Lotus Organizer for Win dows This release converts the Todo list as well as ap pointments and phone records and supports 24 hour clock format Translate ABK to Sun Open Windows Calendar Manager SUNCAL 95 Bytes 3 329 Program to transfer ABK files to Calendar Manag er format for Sun workstations and compatibles Re quires Open Win dows version 3 and SunOS 4 1 1 Solaris 1 0 or higher This is NOT a Sun Micro systems product use at your own risk Translate Windows Calendar to ABK format CALABK ZIP Bytes 9 720 This program will convert Win dows Calendar CAL files to ABK format Pro visions are includ ed for specifying end times and alarm lead times in the Windows Cal endar Translate ABK PBK files to ASCII THOR ZIP Bytes 26 299 Contains THORABK EXE which converts ABK files to ASCII files and THORPBK EXE which converts PBK files to ASCII and back a CIS ON DISK M A 93 in FREYJA ZIP Translate ABK files to comma delimited ASCII ABKASC ZIP Bytes 32 624 Single step conver sion of ABK files into comma delim ited records suit able for database applications The notes section is parsed into 80 char acter fields Cus tomer and Job type fields are support ed for
107. he 10MB Flash card version uses one card slot leaving two slots free The OmniBook comes with 2MB s of RAM and the memory expansion slot will take an optional 6MB RAM board The optional Fax modem card provides complete send receive capa bilities and fits inconspicuously into the Fax modem slot When HP pro vides developers with additional information many expansion prod ucts could be developed MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER HP OmniBook World Thaddeus Computing Inc is proud to announ ce a new quarterly publication dedicated to supporting users of the HP OmniBook 300 Like The HP Palmtop Paper HP OmniBook World will bring together under one cover all the essential information on how to get the most out of the OmniBook Issues will include the following sections News Reviews How to Use Getting Started Quick Tips and User Profiles We ll give special attention to maximizing the usefulness of the HP OmniBook 300 ver sions of Windows 3 1 MS Excel and MS Word for Windows and Utilities We will also cover the latest develop ments for the OmniBook in PCMCIA cards E Mail CompuServe and Connectivity When you subscribe to the HP OmniBo ok World you will also receive two special re ports The Best Tips and Tricks for the HP OmniBook a treasure trove of short cuts and time savers and PC Card Review a refer ence guide to help you sort through the multi tude of PCMCIA cards available Also with your s
108. he memory available ABKTool significantly improves upon APPT Multiday fi This daily or weekly list style viewer has excellent find capa bilities including a Free Time finder to locate open spots of a specific duration in your sched ule Multiday also lets you view past and future to do lists You must access APPT to insert or edit appointments While not quite as feature rich as ABKTool Multiday is fully system compliant using about 70 80K of System RAM Multiday 3 01 provides a continu ously scrolling view of the Appoint ment file This view indicates where notes are attached to appointments and permits viewing those notes by placing the cursor on that line and pressing F5 Editing is accomplished by pressing F3 which takes the user into the edit function of APPT 1LiDa aS 25 S33 7 15 ps UMMEG ASTENED AUGUST 14 1493 Fr 38 a S aninvest Hgt Clace 1A RAs Finance Clase quiz Hebe Trinsthernt geaup Tuwneh a Sfp iConputer lab tutoring B 68 p karate clase AUGUST 1993 SAE yeu Multiday continuously scrolling display The user can also select a weekly two column view as well In the Week view the user is presented with two columns listing the days of the week the time and a brief 16 character appointment description Mull ides 57275753 3 28 pr UNHEGISTENED JULY sb 143 uh if 4 eS es ee pamm T a e a aa Invest Myt C Aa a lass i a Finance Class igplinv
109. he same place as the program file To run the program press FILER highlight NOTES95 EXE and press If you loaded NOTES95 ACC in the same directory it will automatically load into Notes95 when you start fastNOTES Freeform database thai lets you create organize and edit notes and display them on the screen as overlapping windows FastNOTES can be used with SWITCH 2 0 to pop up over the built in applications or run from DOS FastNOTES is a full featured note taking program storing information in screen windows These windows can be moved around the screen set up to overlap and increased or de creased in size you can expand a hote to take up the whole screen Think of fast HOTTES me bering a blank Ped ipnt to nliike paper notes FastHOoOTEst op shefjcan be renized Tf you have m not already done wo ing roil Leck again and ciregizing thie note ar ERD fastNOTES screen Notes are numbered as they are cre ated Each time you make a new note the number increments by one You can add a description to each note that briefly describes what the note is about press in Edit mode For example you could enter TODO1 for your first priority to dos or you could enter Miller for notes relating to a client named Mill er FastNOTES can import and ex port text files allowing you to con solidate multiple files into one place I imported all of my MEMO text files into one fastNOTES data
110. he still loves you Soon this infatuation with Mr Tetris will wear off and after she comes back to you your relationship will be that much better for it If you need someone else to talk to there is a program in the library section 7 called PKSL95 ZIP W which has a file inside it called ELIZA95 EXE and support file RE SPONSE DAT The program was specially designed to deal with emotional problems related fo the 95LX and will run on a PC A final bit of advice DO NOT show your wife Sokoban i Abby Stanley Dobrowski CompuServe ID 71031 2162 Use PHONE to create a Japanese English Dictionary As an expatriate business person living in Tokyo find PHONE serves as a great Japanese language dictionary particularly for business specific words which often aren t in the dictionary enter the Japa nese word under Name and the corresponding English word phrase under Number I also code word groups with key words such as sushi Thus when I am in a sushi restaurant where you order by item at the counter I press type in sushi and press to get a list of sushi dishes Ray W Swanson Baxter MicroScan Tokyo JAPAN Albert or Mark I believe that the picture file ALBERT PCX M in the 1992 Subscribers Disk is not Al bert Einstein but Mark Twain Please let me know if this is the case Rich Wille Lancaster PA USA ALBERT PCX does look like one of the classic pictures of the American author M
111. hone number in the U S is 714 582 3976 Mobile Computing Forum Three day conference sched uled for June 21 23 1993 at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas TX USA The conference is designed to provide attend ees with hands on demon strations of the technology available to implement and support corporate wide mo bile computing applications Attendees will receive an HP 100LX to use during the forum and will actively par ticipate in live real time wireless network demonstra tions with the ability to com municate via RadioMail with all in attendance The event is sponsored by Dataquest Inc in conjunction with leading mobile comput ing vendors including Hew lett Packard Ericsson GE RAM MobileData and PC Computing Magazine Availability June 21 23 1993 Conference fee 1 396 1 195 if registered before May 31 CONTACT Dataquest Inc Phone 800 457 8233 or 805 298 3261 Fax 415 968 2201 Upgrades Updates and Corrections Correction on IntelliLink Reference IntelliLink for Windows and IntelliLink XLT were re viewed in the article Transferring Files Between the 95LX and a PC or MAC page 12 19 of the Mar Apr 1993 issue The comparison chart listed JI LEXM the main program file as occupying 115K of disk space It actually takes up 11 5K IntelliLink prices were also incorrect IntelliLink XLT retails for 69 95 and IntelliLink for Windows for 99 95 We apologize for the mistake
112. ickView Features Instantly keeps track of your Checks Deposits Cash Credit Card charges and Investments as transactions are made Simple checkbook user interface with On line Help Cotegorzed transactions show where your money is spent impor and exports dota with Quicken Managing Your Money and other programs that support SF and WK files Creates WK files for analysis with Lotus 1 2 4 e Con be used as a stand alone program on 95LX 100LX or PC Fully SWITCHoble with built in F5L applications he a SK E icky iew 17 e BANKAMER et 1 6 Baby Bell Telephone Co S Long distance calls Telephone West Side Utility Co November electric bill Utilities 15 Ajax Manufacturing Co lart 2 Gross salar pene QuickView version 3 0 C1205 HP 100LX Compatible SWiTCHable Y Supports Bank Checks Credit Cards Loans etc Running Bolance Search for Transaction For more Information Call 800 825 9977 ACE ACE Technologies Inc 25680 Zonker Pood Suite 103 Son Jose Codfernia 75134 U 54 Dealan A Distributor welecme MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 5 The HP 100LX More Than An Upgrade The new HP 100LX is a fully PC compatible palmtop computer with an improved library of built in applications a CGA compatible display a 9 pin serial port and longer battery life By Mark Scardina After waiting two years for the palm top
113. iff wd CALL Johnson re Johnson case arrange 6 20 meet Note that the order in which some of the items appear has changed be cause PHONE is now alphabetizing the entry based on the task key word I mentioned earlier that only the first 19 characters each of the Name and Number fields are displayed in PHONE s Index view You can put different information in each of those two fields or structure your entries in those fields so that they read as one continuous sentence when they are displayed use the former approach In the Name field I put the group letter p or w the priority 1 9 fol lowed by a space and the task cate gory CALL MEET etc In the Number field I would put a word or two to remind me about the purpose of the to do For instance in the Name field I might have p4 CALL Mark Scardina In the Number field I might have re SWITCH I might then place specific questions for Mark in the Address field which would be hid den in PHONE s Index view but would appear by highlighting the entry and pressing ENTER Displaying To Dos PHONE s F6 Only function lets me display only those to dos which con tain a certain word I use this to list subsets of my to do list For example if I only want to see my w1 priorities I press f6 type in w1 and press EN TER If I want to see all of my phone calls what ever the priority I press F5 type in call and press ENTER I don t use key words cal
114. ight 1 4 kg or 3 0 lbs We ll give you our hands on im pressions of HP s newest arrival in the next issue based on a thorough test drive The Hardware Superportability does not compro mise its performance The OmniBook comes with a full sized keyboard pop up mouse and an imbedded numeric keypad It operates like any Windows 3 1 desktop system There are two versions of the OmniBook One with a 40MB hard drive HP F1032A retail 1 950 and another with a 10MB flash card HP FIO31A retail 2 370 Microsoft s DoubleSpace disk compression soft ware is included and can effectively double the capacity of either drive to 80MB and 20MB respectively The OmniBook uses a recharge able nickel metal hydride battery pack or four AA batteries One charge or one set of batteries will last up to five hours in the hard disk sys tem and nine hours in the flash disk system The battery pack quick charges in about an hour and a half The built in power management fea ture preserves power and prevents draining the batteries The OmniBook provides some interesting possibilities for future expansion Not only does it have all of its system software on a removable ROM card it comes with a memory expansion slot a fax modem slot and four PCMCIA card slots One of the PCMCIA card slots is used for the system software The hard disk version of the OmniBook uses two slots for the hard drive leaving one free for additional cards T
115. ils start time and end time along with the contents of any at tached note Pressing ESC takes you back to your previous view You cannot change the contents of your Appointment Book file from Every week this number increases as we find new software hardware and accessories Just one idea from our 72 page catalog could not only expand your HP 95 s capabilities it could help ease your busy workday too You ll see the latest collection of productivity help organizational and entertainment products including the new leather organizer case from EduCALC pictured below for only 64 95 All this at our everyday discount prices with our guarantee of satisfaction and full technical support Call today to receive your FREE catalog 1 800 677 7001 ext 104 At EduCALC we pride ourselves in offering you gt Free technical support w gt 24 hour toll free order line gt personal customer service gt 30 day money back guarantee gt deep discount prices gt overnight shipping available EduCALC 27953 Cabot Road Laguna Niguel CA 92677 714 582 2637 HEWLETT PACKARD i Leather Case Stock 2764 MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 29 REVIEWS APPT Add Ins within ZApp You must toggle to the built in APPT to make changes ZApp is the smallest of the appli cations here requiring only about 5K 95Buddy E Not strictly an APPT utility 95Buddy significantly improves the performance of Appoin
116. ime for over 450 cities World Map with city indicator 5000 custom city limit International and City Prefix codes 32K Note field NEWS User to User The HP 100LX First impressions of the HP 100LX First Impressions More than just an upgrade the new HP 100LX provides robust organizer capabilities a database program greater ability to run DOS programs and built in cc MAIL By Hal Goldstein I visited the HP Palmtop division in Corvallis Oregon shortly before the HP 100LX was introduced Tim Wil liams the R amp D lab manager for HP Palmtops was most enthusiastic about HP s new palmtop According to Tim The HP 100LX is truly a second gen eration product After using the 100LX extensively for the past three weeks I agree The 100LX has opened up a whole new world of possibilities for palmtop users There are so many features packed into this unit I can only give you a flavor of the HP 100LX Where the HP 95LX Wins Before launching into my rave review about this new product l ll give you a couple of reasons to stay with the 95LX First of all the 95LX is zippier I can do an Only F6 search in the 95LX PHONE application on HP contacts or people with a 415 area code and in stantly have a list displayed Doing the same thing on the HP 100LX takes more keystrokes and might take 10 or more seconds to produce the same results However if you intend to do the same search more than once you can set u
117. ince the dealer must make the venture profitable for himself street prices for a brand new 512K 95LX may be less than 400 Remember the used equipment dealer must pay his marketing and operations expense so don t be shocked by what he offers you Currently am aware of four such avenues a Classic Computers is a company formed by former employees of mine It deals in used HP PC equipment HP Portables HP150 s and now HP Palmtops Classic Computers phone number is 515 472 0383 They are open 10 to 4 CST Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday a SupplyLine the UK distributer of The HP Palmtop Paper has set up a system to trade in your HP 95LX For more information contact David Snellard SupplyLine Unit A 75 South Western Road Twickenham TW1 1LG UNITED KINGDOM Phone 44 81 744 0022 Fax 44 81 744 0045 CompuServe 100064 1525 u The Boston Computer Exchange purchases and resells used computer equipment For more information call 800 262 6399 or 617 542 4414 Fax 617 542 8849 a Thaddeus Computing that s us can always use extra palmtops for various projects including possible resale Please don t call If you want to mail in your Palmtop equipment and manuals to us here is what we will pay for equipment in good working order and good shape 512 95LX with manuals 100 1MB 95LX with manuals 120 HP Connectivity Pack with cable and manual 20 95LX Serial Cable 10 Misc RAM cards software and othe
118. ined Function Keys If you remember when I translated the 95LX Phone Book file to the 100LX format all the information in the 95LX Address field was dumped into the 100LX Notes field I created some macros to transfer information from the Notes field to the newer fields in the 100LX Phone Book I haven t tried chaining macros yet a new feature we ll leave for a future column from Ed Keefe How ever one change I like in the 100LX is 16 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 theability to delete previously defined macros on the fly For instance if I try to assign a macro to and it already has one the 100LX will ask me if I want to delete the old macro to create a new one Also the macro edit screen is much faster to get into and out of Running DOS applications HP hired an independent lab to verify 100LX s PC compatibility The 100LX runs everything from Microsoft Flight Simulator to Quicken IBM PC pro grams with large memory require ments or sophisticated graphic requirements won t run However the HP 100LX is quite successful running CGA compatible software with nor mal PC memory needs I find the ability to run off the shelf PC software adds another di mension to the HP 100LX DOS is more accessible on the HP 100LX than on the 95LX You can even open a DOS application and be able to switch back and forth between any of the built in applications such as PHONE 1 2 3 or APPT as long as too much memo
119. ing a Lotus Macro Library Here s another time and keystroke saver that will keep you from having to type your macros into the next spreadsheet you develop The procedure for doing this is a little more complicated than creating a single macro It assumes that you ve created several such macros and want to gather them together so that you can easily retrieve them The process involves creating a separate spreadsheet with all of your keystroke macros in it After opening a new blank worksheet use the following procedure to copy individ ual keystroke macros to it Press File Combine Copy Named Specified Range You re then asked to key in the Range name or address Reply by typing in the name you ve given to your keystroke macro F in the above example and press ENTER Then you re asked to supply the name of the worksheet file that contains this macro High light the filename and press ENTER The macro appears in the new work sheet You ll repeat this procedure to copy your other macros to this work sheet Before you do here s another tip to organize your macro library and make it look like it was done by a pro Copy each of your macros to a separate cell in column B of the spreadsheet You must leave at least one blank cell between each macro In the cell to the left of the macro type in the name of macro For exam ple suppose you have rfc2 in cell B1 Then in cell Al you might type F which is the nam
120. it with the proper back up battery a 3 volt CR2025 coin cell for HP cards Make sure the positive side of the battery is sitting up in the tray For more on changing card batter ies see page 1 10 of the HP 95LX User s Guide Dave Snellard CompuServe ID 100064 1525 CATEGORIES INSTEAD OF PRIORITIES IN TODO LIST have a number of standing cate gories in my Todo list One of these UOME You Owe Me is for people who have agreed to get back to me on something or do something for me Let s say chose to use 1st Priority for this standing category The first 1st priority entry is the category name in caps i e UOME place all You Owe Me s in the Todo list as 1st priorities indent them a couple of spaces so the category name stands out Standing Categories in a Todo List use the F6 feature on 95Buddy 2 3 to link a note UOME TXT to the Todo list for all the tasks due Each item in UOME TXT is date stamped as to when it was agreed to and when it is due have addi tional categories all in 1st priority The category headings are always in CAPS and never indented En tries within each category are al ways indented Single items due well in the future are entered in on the dates they are due or a few days earlier if they need prior re view use the other priorities for addi tional categories The 2nd priority list ongoing projects related to work e g HARDWARE UPGRADES etc 3rd priorit
121. l letter etc anywhere else in the card entry be cause it can throw off the Only search If I want to list all to dos relating to a specific person for example Hal Goldstein I press F6 type in Hal Goldstein and press ENTER PHONE lists all to dos that have Hal s name in them If I forget to put his name in the to do or misspell it I m out of luck When the Hal Goldstein to dos are displayed they remain divided by group priority and task To go back to the complete to do list press ENTER Finally PHONE lets me tag to do items I highlight the desired item and press Tag I use it to em phasize immediate daily to dos Each morning I will tag items that must be done that day Other Features and Benefits of PHONE To Do List The phone book also eliminates the delete problem described earlier Highlight the item to be deleted and press F3 Cut The to do is deleted the cursor moves up to the previous entry and centers it on the screen The PHONE to do list also lets you get more information on a given screen APPT s to do list takes up an entire line at the top for the date and an entire line for each priority title At the extreme if you have five pri orities with only one entry per priori ty the entire screen will be taken up by just five to do items By contrast you will always be able to display 11 PHONE to dos on a single screen Additionally APPT s to do screen only shows 27 characters
122. le Save then type in the file location and filename e g C PROJECTS FILENAME DELETING A DIRECTORY When you want to remove the directory you must delete all files from it Then position the cursor on the directory press F3 Delete and answer Yes If you get the message Cannot delete directory when DIRS is disabled Press ESC to continue you must do the following Press ESC to go back to FILER Press MENU Options Dirs and Yes at the Use subdirectories question Go back to FILER and delete the directory To protect yourself from accidentally deleting other directories go back into FILER press MENU Options Dirs and select No at the Use subdirectories question This will protect you from accidently erasing a directory full of information HP Calc USE HP CALC FOR QUICK CALCULATIONS LIKE A REGULAR HANDHELD CALCULATOR As powerful as HP CALC is it s really just as easy to use for the simple calculations you do with inexpensive handheld calculators If you want to add 5 and 2 go into HP CALC and make sure you are in the Calculator Arithmetic screen Press 5 2 and 7 appears at the bottom right of the screen If you want to divide 66 by 3 press 66 3 and 22 appears The memory functions MC MR M and M that you typically find on the right side of a calcula tors keypad are activated by the 95LX function keys F7 F8 F9 and F10 respectively F7 clears the memory F8 recalls the number in memory F9
123. le computing Andrew Seybold Industry Expert February 1993 99 95 IntelliLink XLT HP Connectivity Pack Add in 69 95 Lotus 1 2 3 SUPPORTED SOFTWARE ACTI for Windows Calendar Creator Word for Windows Plus WordPerfectfor WordPerfect Windows Office All products listed are trademarks or trade names of thelr respective entities To order or for more info contact IntelliLink Corp 98 Spit Brook Rd Suite 12 Nashua NH 03062 Tel 603 888 0666 Fax 603 888 9817 MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 17 NEWS 100LX First Impressions What to do with your old HP 95LX HP looked into the possibility of providing a 95LX to 100LX upgrade However it proved economically unfeasible since the 95LX and the 100LX are made up of different parts the 100LX is a completely new machine lf you purchase a 100LX what do you do with your 95LX Here are some options Sell your 95LX Locally Put an add in a paper or sell it to a friend This solution may require the most time but it will probably be your best financial option Put a For Sale notice on an electronic bulletin board Most private and commercial electronic bulletin boards allow you to put up for sale notices Unfortunately you may meet with a lot of competition depending on where you advertise Sell your 95LX to a dealer in used equipment This approach minimizes time and hassle However it also minimizes what you will receive for your HP 95LX s
124. m bers various ranges Here s a typical answer The following equation _should_ come closer to getting six numbers between 1 and 49 Lottoliotto 1E1 IP MOD RAN 100 48 1 1E2 IP MOD RAN 100 48 1 1E4 IP MOD RAN 100 48 1 1E6 IP MOD RAN 100 48 1 1E8 IP MOD RAN 100 48 1 1E10 IP MOD RAN 100 38 10 The following System Macro works with English punctuation CALC MENU s F7 lottof ENTER ESC F9 F2 F2 Ctr F2 MENU q MEMO Ctrl ENDENTER F4 HOME F7 ENTER F9END F3 LEFT LEFT LEFT BACKSP LEFT LEFT LEFT BACKSP LEFT LEFT LEFT BACKSP LEFT LEFT LEFT BACKSP HOME Your lotto picks are RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT ENTER Line 4 the period after F7 may need to be changed to comma for French punctuation Also the last series of commands are five pairs of RIGHT RIGHT with a space between each pair fol lowed by three RIGHT s and ending with an ENTER Best of luck Ed Keefe Shareware Freeware Mentioned On the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK cis sHR PTPDISKS PBK M J 93 cis sHR SOKOBAN ZIP N D 92 cis sHrn DIVDISK Fall 91 HPTRIX ZIP J F 92 PKSL95 EXE in DIVDISK UFK ZIP WA 93 On the 92 Subscribers Disk ALBERT PCX RE EXE ciS Also available in the HP Hand helds forum of CompuServe SHR SHAREWARE is software distributed free
125. market to catch up Hewlett Packard has sprinted back into a comfortable lead with the introduc gAn tt A amp seeggges tion of the 100LX Palmtop PC HP positioned the 95LX primarily as a Lotus companion and organizer HP does not consider the 100LX as a replacement or upgrade to the 95LX but is touting it as a fully capable palmtop PC HP will continue to dis tribute the 95LX as it has in the past but will distribute the 100LX through HP s PC dealer network Retailing at 749 HP is aggressively marketing this ground breaking product T STAR om FLIGHT PLANNING PROGRAM e Route planning Flight calculations e 500 waypoint library Provides normal E6B functions Many other features SOF plus S amp H Teague Aviation od 213 Shekel Drive Lafayette LA 70508 oe Phone FAX 318 989 8700 ws NEW HP 100LX 695 99 a w E e o w w w 100LX Keyboard Physical Size and Keyboard Layout I was grateful to see that the strengths of the 95LX have carried over The 100LX is the same pocket size as the 95LX and boasts the same robust construction The most notable visual improvement is the keycaps black letters on light gray tops This change significantly improves read ability of the keys Users who do a lot of text entry may bemoan the retaining of the numeric keypad An embedded key ABOUT THE AUTHOR pad could have meant larger keys and easier typing However the keyboard
126. me out to half a second when there s no AC adapter for miles Manager SupplyLine_ ACE Series ACE Technologies Inc Sparcom Corporation HP Palmtop Paper Binders Protect your investment and your HP Palmtop Paper in our luxurious binders that will build into a valuable reference collection These custom binders are finished in deep blue Leathertex and are generously padded Flexible metal fixing mechanism holds issues securely without punching holes and allows easy removal of individual copies if required Each superior quality binder hold a years issues of the HP Palmtop Paper 1992 and 1993 binders are now available individually at 14 00 US319 00 or as a set for 24 00 US 32 00 plus shipping FAXman For users of the Worldport Palmtop and Worldport 2400plus modems this automated fax software makes it EASY to send faxes from your HP9SLX and offers Fully System Manager Compliant Integral fax number directory Create and store multiple fax cover sheets Configurable for fax speeds of up to 9600 FAXman is available from ACE Technologies and SupplyLine at 49 00 US349 00 plus shipping Unit A 75 South Western Road Twickenham TW ILG UK Telephone 44 81 744 0022 Fax 44 81 744 0045 CIS 100064 1525 The Premier European HP9SLX Reseller 52 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 SECOND ANNUAL July 27 28 1993 Santa Clara Convention Center SHOWCASING THE LATEST IN PC CARDS AND RELATED PRODUCTS
127. movie reviews 1 2 3 WK1 with keystroke macros SETUP ENV with User Keys Programming Programmers tools Programming Programmers tools Utility Creates directory listing of 95LX drives Utility Print 95LX output to an HP infrared printer Utility Mac hypercard stack for doing 95LX backups Utility decompresses ZIP files Text Descriptions of files in all HP forums of CompuServe Text in depth descriptions products advertised this issue Text The HP Palmtop Paper May Jun 1993 Text cover letter for HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Type Shareware Shareware Share Free Shareware Shareware Free Free Free Free Free Free Share Free Share Free Free Free Free na na na na SE SRS22ESSnEB 3 w Software mentioned and included in other issues of The HP Palmtop Paper On Disk or the 1992 Subscribers Disk _HPWK1 ZIP 95BUDDY ZIP UFK ZIP UNO ZIP WEEKABK 60 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 May Jun 92 Built in 95LX spreadsheets Nov Dec 92 New version of a popular utility Jul Aug 92 Graphics utility 92 Subscribers Disk Graphics file of Albert Einstein ns 92 Small flat file database Jan Feb 92 Tetris game for the 95LX graphics Mar Apr 93 Database program for taking notes Fall 91 in DIVDISK with other games Mar Apr 93 Text editor MEMUTIL amp THOR included 92 Subscribers Disk View file and search for text Nov Dec 92 Maze game of logic Jan Feb 92 Reset timeout Mar Apr 93 Lotto
128. n applications fastWRITE version 1 0 C1075 seessiisrsss ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zonker Rood Suite 103 on FD Son Jose California 95134 U S A Decale amp Distibutons welcome MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 37 Order Information ACT for the 95LX 99 Contact manager for the 95LX CONTACT Contact Software Interna tional 1840 Hutton Drive 200 Carrollton TX 75006 USA Phone 800 365 0606 or 214 919 9500 Fax 214 919 9750 EFMS 39 Everyone s File Management System a flat file database CONTACT Charles Kingston Box 564 Elmsford NY 10523 USA Phone 914 949 7870 fastNOTES 69 nas electronic pop up notes for the 95 CONTACT ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zanker Road Suite 103 San Jose CA 95134 USA Phone 800 825 9977 or 408 428 9722 Fax 408 428 9721 Info Manager Call Free form database program that integrates text oriented and structured data US CONTACT 4 You Software 20527 S Vermont Ave Suite 8 Torrance CA 90502 USA Phone 310 323 7740 Fax 310 538 8968 infoSelect 149 Random information processor CONTACT Micro Logic Corp P O Box 70 Hackensack NJ 07602 USA Phone 800 342 5930 or 201 342 6518 Fax 201 342 0370 Keep In View 69 96 Database information organizer CONTACT Lucid Corp 101 W Ren ner Rd Suite 450 Richardson TX 75082 USA Phone 800 92LUCID or 214 994 8100 Fax
129. n programs for the HP 95LX s applications IS95LX ZIP Bytes 1 747 A PCC C program that sets the DOS Error Level It lets your batch file know whether a program is running on the 95LX or a standard desktop machine Support for Other Languages Eventually 95LX programs were imple mented in other lan guages As mention ed we ll discuss these languages in more depth in future issues Assembler Eventually most programmers bite the bullet and start pro gramming in assem bler Here is just one must have file from a master at bit twid dling 95ASM ZIP Bytes 6 827 Text file for those who want a head start in writing an assem bler System Manager Compliant programs It s from Everett Kaser of HP Corvallis and it s the next best thing to having Ever ett write your pro gram for you UTIL Forth Some programmers prefer the Forth Lan guage for quick proto typing and design of programs UTIL Forth from Essex Marketing is one of the best implementa tions of Forth around It was designed to work in a palmtop environment and is very well supported by Essex Over the past couple of years Chris Smith has con tributed lots of sam ple code and has even published a Forth NewsLetter All of the exemplary Forth code that I ve seen is in cluded in the com mercial package See page 31 Jan Feb 92 GRAPH U Bytes 8 320 UTIL Forth Graphics words for the 95LX to load and save a g
130. nal aircraft center of gravity envelopes are available at extra cost See Advertising page 6 PEERING ais esc ono 9 eisea s Now Mediun 3 5 Floppy Disk Runs under SysMgr bape wes Lotus add in Min file size uncompressed 68K PAGING e aitasin atg nalala i 100 CONTACT Teague Aviation 213 Shekel Drive Lafayette LA 70508 USA Phone amp Fax 318 989 8700 _ Programming A Neural Network Shell for the HP 95LX NN95 is a three layer back propagation neural network shell that can be used for the development of trading sys Fax me information tems for the analysis of trends in stocks futures and options prices as well as for other neural network applica tions NN95 uses a hotkey inter face and all text is displayed in the 40x16 window of the 95LX NN95 requires less than 80K of storage space on your C drive Installation of help files is optional NN95 also requires some smail data files the size of which depend on your application The package also comes with NNET a desktop PC version Technical support for this program is provided free of charge for 90 days via the CompuServe address below Availability Chea ited Now Medium ries cee ees Floppy Disk Runs under SysMar No Pricing oceans erry ee ee 49 NEW THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS plus 5 S H 2 day air CONTACT Jim Michael P O Box 941124 Atlanta GA 30341 USA Co mpuServe ID 70304 3567 NO P
131. nd a mo dem to communicate with my office to send and receive E mail and up date my contact database If want a hard copy I have my E mail appli cation access the Fax modem on the network file server and send me the selected messages I don t bother carrying forms for customers to sign anymore Instead I merely dial up our network and have the modem server send the exact forms I need to the fax machine at the clients office LOTUS Our client contact data base is in UNIX It can be translated to an ASCII format that can be used as a Lotus database This allows me to download client contact informa tion to Lotus on the 95LX or transfer my files from Lotus to the client database on the network I use the break even analysis pro gram from page 34 of the March April 1992 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper to cost justify my pro jects I create a MEMO file that de scribes the project and use the same name for the Lotus file except with a WKI1 extension I put them in my 123 directory for easy access APPT I use the timer function as an alarm clock I am a light sleeper and have no problem hearing the speaker If you want to make it a little louder set it on a hard surface like wood or metal PHONE I do all the purchasing and negotiating with vendors I enter codes on the last line of the Address field and use the Only function to search my phone book database for exact matches Below are a list of the codes I use
132. nd even erase a forgotten password SWITCHI s control panel allows you to set the auto power off timer displays digital battery levels turn off serial port to save power change alarm tone and level No more re booting and closing built in applications Get SWITCH and enjoy instant access to your programs SWITCH version 2 C1055 occ 909 e ee Product of the Year by Palmtop Paper Call Jen ersi ae 409 999 S7re SWITCHable fostNOTES Electronic p pop up niola software with full searching capabilities Single Key multi tasking Instantly switch back and forth between these programs and your 95LX built in applications I TETEN a TT day J Faswreritel R nurenotel fast linet H Fastnces_ SWITCH Multi tasking software for your 95LX with control panel including Direct Launch SwapAPP Caps display Block cursor and more For more information Call 800 825 9977 ACE Technologies Inc ee SWITCH SWiTo Hobie foshVTATE fostSPELL fest COMM tast NOTES fostlie mr REMOTE one frodemons of ACE Techiologies ing ACT bo trademark of Contact sawon Porm feference Palm Dotoboam ore hadena of Lighihrouse Software Permonal Food Analyst to todemnark of Migo Cerponction HP FSLe b ao hoger ol Hokdatt Pockord Cemmany SPECIAL LETTER FROM HAL GOLDSTEIN PUBLISHER OF THE HP PALMTOP PAPER YOU LL NEVER GET A BETTER CHANCE Use the o
133. now more closely resem bles a standard PC compatible AT keyboard The amp keys are now in the shifted positions above the fifth row of keys In fact any key that can be generated on a standard PC compatible AT keyboard can be generated on the 100LX The Shift keys are in the same locations but the CHAR key is gone In its place is a more traditional func Mark Scardina is the author of an upcoming book on the HP 100LX Plamtop PC He is a computer consultant based in San Francisco specializing in palmtop based applications He can be reached on Compu Serve at 76711 732 for commercial projects 6 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 tion key Fn which is used to ac cess dual key functions such as HOME END INS etc the 95LX used the SHIFT key for this Finally the Fn key is used to access some new shortcut keys for the CUT COPY and PASTE functions as well as new current DATE and TIME insert keys New More Readable Display The new display is the 100LX s next most noticeable change The 100LX has a 640x200 CGA compatible screen different from the 95LX s non standard screen HP engineers have totally rewritten the software to take advantage of the screen Instead of the Lotus 1 2 3 based menu system the 100LX has a more Windows like graphical user interface complete with pull down menus and dialog boxes The higher screen resolution lets the 100LX display more charac ters and rows The buil
134. nt any kind of output you wish If you use a program that inserts control codes into the text these will be sent to the printer along with the text allowing you to print graphics change tab and margin settings and other printer functions Avallability cap eae ce ee aes Now Runs under SysMgr Yes PUE Se oO ee t Freeware CONTACT Library 7 of the Compu Serve HP HAND forum Also available on the May Jun 93 The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Entertainment Match Up Poses revealing questions on opinions attitudes values and feelings about Politics Romance and Spiritual Be liefs Like having dating ser vice software on your 95LX Includes a challenging takeoff on the Prisoners Dilemma Game Availability Now Medium Floppy or r ROM card Runs under SysMgr No Pricing Floppy disk oara 59 95 ROM Gard 89 95 CONTACT EduCALC 27953 Cabol Road Laguna Niguel CA 92677 USA Phone 800 677 7001 or 714 582 2637 Fax 714 582 1445 Sketchit This 95LX specific game se lects words to be sketched maintains score and keeps time Similar to Pictionary MAY JUNE 1993 but in the palm of your hand Availability 0005 Now Medium s cece vege acs Floppy disk Specify size Runs under SysMgr Yes Min file size uncompressed 38K RAM occupied when running 25K r ee eee 25 plus 5 shipping handling CONTACT Lagniappe Micro Technol o
135. ntact information Appointment Book to schedule time COMM for mobile communications and MEMO to jot down quick notes Best of all it was in your pocket when you needed it Although many sales profession als use contact managers like Pocket Sales Force and ACT they still give the built in applications a real work out They use the PHONE application extensively to keep track of custom ers vendors prospects products voice mail extensions and personal contacts They use APPT to schedule meetings sales calls appointments call backs and travel schedules They use MEMO for letters and notes during meetings They use Lotus and HP CALC for budgets comparison of cost and performance of competitors products tracking orders commis sions quotas personal stocks car service records and oil changes Here are some of the unique ways in 38 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 which they take advantage of the 95LX Trade billions at dinner David J Pierce Jones Director CS First Boston Japan Ltd Tokyo Japan I am a banker who trades options in Tokyo Japan Each evening I download a full option pricing sys tem written in Lotus from my networked desktop PC to the 95LX with the latest interest rates volatil ities and market prices By having all this information in my pocket I can trade forms outside the office with clients in Europe or the USA This works so well that while having dinner at a Tokyo restaurant I
136. ny space in a worksheet they re easier to launch and you don t have to search for a blank spot in the work sheet to put the macro In fact you can replace many Lotus keystroke macros with User Keys Let me give you an example of how to do this and then discuss some of the advantages and limitations of this approach We ll create a User Key to perform the same currency formatting operation as we did with the RFC2 keystroke macro There are two ways to create User Keys The Learn Mode lets you enter WE BUY AND SELL USED HP 95LX S Sell us your old 95LX Purchase used 95LX s at great savings Products available for both the 95LX amp 100LX Classic Computers P O Box 499 Fairfield IA 52556 T 515 472 0383 FAX 515 472 0393 Tuesday Thursday 10am 4pm Central Time the macro on the fly recording into a user key each keystroke as you make it The User Mode lets you enter and edit user key commands individually much like writing a line of code in any programming language For more on the Learn Mode see page 21 17 of the HP 95LX User s Guide I ll use the User Mode for this example Press lt Shift gt FILER to enter the User Key Setup screen Move your cursor down to an empty User Key slot and press I ll use F7 in this example In the Comment field type in 123 Currency and press ENTER In the Contents field type in MENU ric2 ENTER You can key in MENU and ENTER by pressing first and
137. o job sites immediately And youre one call ahead of the competition To learn more about EMBARC and how to send wireless electronic messages from your e mail system call 800 333 6200 or fax this form to 800 388 4147 State Zip Call me right away Phone EMIA ADVANCED MESSAGING BY MOTOROLA thor Paul Kramer One Linden Place Woodland CA 95695 USA Compu Serve ID 72276 3602 NO PHONE AVAILABLE For orders direct from author add 5 8 for overseas ad dresses shipping and handling Spe cify 5 25 or 3 5 DOS formatted disks sorry Apple Macintosh format is not available Alarm Package contains an analog clock a digital clock a count down timer and an alarm clock When the clock is uti lized the 95LX sleep mode is deactivated making the 95LX an ideal travel alarm clock Availability aeaa Now Medium sons arenas Floppy dis Runs under SysMgr No Min file size uncompressed 25K PACE or Ae parea Ke KENE 10 plus 5 S H 10 S H overseas CONTACT Snappy Software P O Box 731 Lexington KY 40586 USA MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 23 NEW THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS Publications and Services EduCALC NewsLINE EduCALC a discount catalog reseller of the 95LX and 100LX related products has started a news line that you can call for information on the latest 95 100LX related products You need a touch tone phone to navigate the system The p
138. o remind me to follow up on customer requests Very few things have fallen through the cracks since the 95LX arrived The priority rank ings really help my organization too TRAVELWARE 1 4 E written by RSE first described on page 42 of the Fall 91 issue This fantastic travel record keeper can be configured to fit the 95LX s screen I record all my flights hotel stays rental cars and miscellaneous expenditures for a month with this program I retain a copy of each month s record on my desk top computer when I backup my files HEALTH and DIET My most recent purchase is a food tracking program for DOS based computers It is written for an 80 X 24 screen but seems to center the proper area of the screen on my 95LX The program comes with a database of several thousand food items and allows adding to that database Be sure to buy the regular Health and Diet program not the Pro version for Windows No more forms to carry and a 35 increase in sales A Greg Outlaw computer hardware and software sales P3 Corporation Greenville SC It is my brain life saver crucial deal closer remote office and Don t leave home without it tool I never knew how easy my job could be until I bought the 95LX I have increased my actual sales by over 34 since my purchase of the 95LX I believe this is directly related to the fact that I am so orga nized I no longer miss a crucial sales opportunity COMM I use my 95LX a
139. om feature toggles you between a 40x16 64x18 and an 80x25 display Here are exam ples of the same outline screen from Memo using the different 80x25 and 40x16 sizes Hg ON SP mi Hesse ron ateglance memas 4 iat ia ith todos 7 quotes ptp tips books movies a EPET aes sei vi curse Fitting a ai te ae 80x25 Display of Outline iJ Uv v 1 th n daya from ataglance te assignments xe lock By al oal with t ate o ek Shon Tdeas quotes ptp tips boo stock idea employee to dos J ons Teuezcens b w i UNA Le 40x16 Display of Outline The cut and paste features are useful in MEMO and extend across all the built in applications To mark a sec tion of text hold down and move the ArrowKeys Once the text you want copied or cut is highlighted hold down and press keypad period to Cut or to copy the marked text Then move the cursor to another spot in MEMO or any other built in application and press keypad plus to paste HP Calc and 1 2 3 In future issues Ed Keefe and others will discuss the newer versions of HP Calc and Lotus 1 2 3 v 2 4 My favor ite addition to HP Calc is its expanded List function now called List Stat List Stat now offers two columns for two separate lists The sum of each list is automatically displayed You can also view the following statistical opera tions on each list mean value stan dard deviation minimum maximum median weighted
140. ombines an executive organizer with an attractive protective top grain leather case for your Palmtop HP 100LX or a HP 9SLX You can work with your Palmtop in the case or easily take it out It comes complete with note pad pockets for credit cards pocket for a RAM software card pocket for paper money a pressure sensitive mechanical pencil and a monthly yearly calendar that you can change with your check book The popular DayRunner and DayTimer organizers fit as well Power has never been so exclusive and portable Connection Point Inc TimeBoss MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 15 NEWS 100LX First Impressions found in Phone Book and Data Base makes it easy to organize these notes I assign one or more categories to every note In the examples above I have the following NoteTaker catego ries Palmtop Paper quotes books investment and travel I can easily list only those notes that deal with books the Palmtop Paper etc Once you enter a category the HP 100LX remembers it The next time I enter a note on a book I m interested in I press a couple of times to get to the Category field and press and a menu of categories pops down I type the first letter of the category or cursor down to my choice and press ENTER The category name is entered in the field Print phone pt Category Title wy Use arart clip and you can print labels figlds any way you wish NoteTakef Screen with
141. on utility UNO Useful Notes database ATO Automates CompuServe activities GRAPHI Graphics program PHONE Databases TV guide New and Old Testament quotes special character set area codes 1 2 3 file and many more PLUS Solver equations Lotus Spreadsheets latitudes and longitudes translation utilities a travel organizer language compilers screen printing utilities and much much more The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK is a goldmine of useful software for the HP 95LX and can help you turn your palmtop into a more powerful and productive machine The HP Palmtop Paper gives you the information you need to get the most out of your HP 95LX The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK gives you the tools Sincerely Hal Goldstein Publisher P S Subscribe today You have nothing to lose with our full money back guarantee At 159 for 2 years 13 sets The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK comes to a mere 12 25 per set Offer expires June 30 1993 Go Mail in Registration Special Goodies Offer details inside box YES I d like to order Item LJ Send me IMB EgoRAM for HP95LX for only 179 Send me 2MB EgoRAM for HP95LX for only 279 Send me IMB EgoRAM amp ACT 95 at a low Bundled price of 249 4 Send me 2MB EgoRAM amp ACT 95 at a low bundled price of 349 Send me ACT 95 at 99 limited supply 4 Send me ACT 2 1 at 179 limited supply Name Shipping Address City State Zip Country Phone FAX
142. onalized form etter Find File feature to help locate and preview files before opening them Houghton Mitflin spell checker and database Text converters text only text only with line breaks DOS test DOS text with line breaks RTF Microsoft Windows Write WordPerfect 5 1 5 0 Excel Worksheet Graphic filters Microsoft Windows Metafile PCX TIFF DrawPertect Word specific fonts Dialog box font MS Word components not in HP OmniBook Microsoft Draw Graph Equation Editor Word Art some proofing tools text converters fell filters Word specific fonts add ins ordPerfect Help some templates tutorial README files and examples Microsoft Excel Ver 4 0 Spreadsheet graphics database functions Autofill Autoselect Autosum Best fit column width Cus tomizable Toolbar Drag and Drop Most recently used files recall Shortcut Pop up menus View manager Scenario manager Auditing tools Data consolidation Database support Goal seek On line help Auto Save add in 5 i Microsoft Excel components not in HP OmniBook Some add in components and compatibility fea tures macro development tools product support seniors tools tutorial README iles and exam ples MS DOS Version 5 0 Batch files Device drivers Format flash disks and RAM cards with FORMAT command _ MS DOS components not in HP OmniBook MS DOS Shell Editor and QBasic tutorials README files and some MS DOS 5 0 external commands
143. or after the yearly appointment and press PEND the appointment will show up For birthdays you can add the birth year and the program will calculate the age and display it in the pending list ZApp amp This easy to use appointment book viewer lists multiple days appointments together with To Do s It also provides a quick way to view notes For those who want a simple system compliant appointment viewing program using only about 5K of system RAM ZApp is a small fully system compli ant add in that provides a graphical scrollable list of your appointments and to dos with an indicator for attached notes It displays a month at a time and you can move to the pre 147 WAYS YOUR HP 95 CAN HELP YOU vious or next month with the left and right arrow keys Each days entries are separated by a heavy bar making it easy to view the different days commitments You can view appointments only by pressing Todo suppress 23593 Avril 4 22 53 3 33 jim t fu amp 82H eee ling wilh Hal gi be call Hark 11 38 call re APPT articla 1G et we Rinhard ic F aAA Wml art ing LA Hece 14 g J30 Hecd norcting ig Tu 2B 16515 temach clesc J 2 J0 Hed mescting Lupyeeade Por WoeedPrerfectS Z i plpa weet oul LL re 14 2 plet prewt arlicl da is 2 pil eS blLipes oul iine dA EL Zapp display screen In the Scroll mode pressing with the cursor positioned on an appointment or a to do will display the deta
144. or or the flash disk OmniBook only four 1 5 volt alkaline AA batteries Operating Requirements Operating temp 0 40 C 32 104 F Spey with data retention 0 55 C erating and ay humidity 90 relative humidity at 40 C 104 F maximum Available versions of mass storage 40MB hard disk approximately 80MB with file compression software 10MB flash disk approximately 20MB with file compression software System RAM 2MB expandable to a total of 8MB with op tional RAM expansion ca Input Output 9 pin 115K baud RS 232 port with hardware Fale le 25 pin parallel port 9 pin to 9 pin serial cable included 115K baud bi directional infrared port EE ETE port for optional fax modem ca Keyboard and mouse 85 keys Touch typeable keyboard industry standard full sized key spacing Embedded numeric keypad t9 keys Built in pop up mouse Expendability Add mass Hate or communications capabili jos using PCMCIA Type Il Version 2 0 card slots Two slots available with the 10MB flash disk version One slot available with the 40MB hard disk version Built in Software in ROM Microsoft Word for Windows Ver 2 0 Toolbar provides 22 common commands at the top of the screen Drag and Drop for moving text Table button on Toolbar allows insertion of tables Envelope button on Toolbar allows easy cre ation o eee he Merge Helper to create pers
145. ormat to the 100LX format Once the translation is done you can open the file from the 100LX When I first en tered the 100LX APPT application a file called APPT ADB was opened I then issued the command to translate my 95LX APPT file The 100LX asked me to supply a new name for the translated 95LX file and I gave it the name APPT ADB I received a file creation error message because that name was already in use I gave the file a different name APT ADB and the translation worked perfectly I immediately tried the Week at a glance and Month at a glance features of the 100LX Phone Book and viewed all my appointments instantaneously Monthly View of Appointment Book Print to Parallel Printers from the HP95LX Paralink 3 is for those times you need to rint to a parallel printer from the HP9S5LX ust connect one end of the Paralink 3 adapter to your printer s 36 pin female parallel port and the other to the 95LX via the serial cable from the Connectivity Pack Paralink 3 is battery powered and works with most parallel printers It s light small and easy lo carry Paralink 3 retails for 80 00 or equivalent of 49 95 To Order Call 011 44 438 815444 Fax 011 44 438 815222 AmEX VISA MasterCard accepted SOFTWARE 121 London Road Knebworth Herts SG3 6EX United Kingdom MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 13 NEWS 100LX First Impressions I use to denote birthdays As you can see
146. ous columns 1 2 3 Macro WCCR System Macro Version Comment 123 Multi Column Reset width Contents MENU wcecr Currency 2 range format This is the macro we played with at the beginning of the article It sets a eh adi cells to currency format with 2 digits after the decimal point The macro will we prompt you to select a range of cells to oma Use the arrow keys to highlight a range or key one in e g D1 E15 Then press ENTER 1 2 3 Macro RFC2 System Macro Version Comment 123 Currency Format Contents MENU rfc2 ENTER Column Sum This macro will add up a column of numbers Enter a column of numbers and put the cursor on the cell below the last number Then activate the macro and see the sum pop into place 1 2 3 Macro DOWN SUM UP END UP END DOWN System Macro Version Comment 123 Sum Colum Contents ENTER DOWN sum UP END UP END DOWN ENTER Zip Codes Enter a five digit zip code into a cell and you notice that it s treated like any other number It s automati Cally right justified and if it happens to be a zip code with a leading 0 e g 00256 the zeros are automati cally satel by Lotus This macro converts a five digit zip code into a label i e it s treated like text instead of numbers It even replaces leading zeroes 1 2 3 Macro EDIT HOME RIGHT STRING END 100000 0 5 CALC HOME System Macro Version Comment 123 Conve
147. p priority However the 12v FlashRAM cards are closing fast individual files can be password protected One caution is that if the application is editing a file stored on a memory card don t pull the card or you may lose data DOS compatibility and its accessi bility has been greatly expanded on the 100LX Besides the keyboard and display enhancements discussed above HP has provided no less than seven ways to access the DOS prompt I will be discussing this in more detail in future issues but three of those ways are as follows You can launch a program in a pre defined partition i e set aside a specific amount of system RAM for the pro gram to run in you can run the program from System Manager like you did with the 95LX or you can exit System Manager completely and launch the program from DOS With the first two methods you can still access your built in applications without quitting the DOS application One downside is that the new and improved System Manager is a larger program taking up twice as much system RAM when running and leaving about 420K for DOS pro grams However because the 100LX only loads small portions of its data files at a time the size of Phone Book Appointment Book and other built in application data files are only limited by the amount of disk space available maximum of 5 000 records One other concern for 95LX users is that when a DOS application is launched the default mode is
148. p the 100LX to do it more quickly Another plus for the 95LX is that it s easier to read in poorer light ing situations Having mentioned these points I ll now try to give you a flavor of the 100LX by describing how I ve used it these past few weeks As you ll see for me there s no turning back I ma confirmed HP 100LX user Translating HP 95LX files The first thing I did was move my key PHONE APPT 1 2 3 and MEMO files over to the 100LX I did this by copying HP 95LX files onto a 1 Meg RAM card I then inserted the RAM card into my 100LX and copied those files to my HP 100LX C _DAT subdi rectory using FILER Alternatively I could have transferred files using my IR port or by transferring files to a PC and then back to the 100LX The HP 100LX Connectivity Pack probably won t be available until mid summer However you can purchase the 100LX connectivity cable HP F1015A 24 95 that plugs into the 100LX 9 pin serial port You can transfer files using the 95LX Connectivity pack software or by using your favorite communica tions or PC to PC transfer program The HP 100LX reads 95LX MEMO TXT and 1 2 3 WK1 files with no problem The 100LX default MEMO extension name is DOC rather than TXT The default easily can be changed back to TXT if you wish TRANSLATING APPT FILES I had a minor problem moving my 95LX APPT file to the 100LX You see the 100LX translates the HP 95LX PHONE and APPT files from the 95LX f
149. per entry while the PHONE index display shows 38 PHONE to do lists are also easier to review The Phone Book has the ability to scroll by page This feature is lacking in APPT s to do Second PHONE very quickly lets you know if it can t find a word you re looking for APPT will spend minutes look ing years into the future for a word or phrase PHONE Does it Better PHONE lets you create an effective prioritized to do list divided into topics and tasks You can display two fields of information and have more information hidden and available in the card view Deleting and scrolling Attention VARs are more efficient and the Only and Tag functions add flexibili ty to the system Finally you can move between specific priorities groups and tasks easily Best of all it s built in You don t have to go out and buy someone else s software Its amazing try it Bahn Shareware Freeware Mentioned in This Article On the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK TODO PBK MiJ 93 cis sHR 95Buddy N D 92 cls Also available in the HP Handhelds forum of CompuServe SHA SHAREWARE is software distributed free of charge for evaluation purposes only If you decide to use it you must pay the author the shareware fee This goes for any shareware found on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK or CompuServe AOL many of these files may be found on American Online in the Palmtop Library keyword Palmtop OEMs
150. puter Instructors 95LX Lotus ACT Training Classes Connection Point css Memory Card Associates Palmt ical C na Miri New Media New Visions Inc On Site Info Palmtree PSI Internet QA Systems Septimia Si Supplyline rear Thaddeus Computin Widget puting Leather Case Environmental Case Memory Card Drive MacLink Plus UTIL Forth Programming Multi Macro Manager tie Mileage Log Language Translation Software Serial to Parallel converter M Cards indows 9 Connecti Softwa Double Header HPIL Interface PalmData Personal Food Analyst Pam Mod Month EMBARC Motorola sories E mail software QA Palm custom database builder ASCERTain 1 2 3 Add in Accessories Binders f 95LX 100LX accessories HP re Paper ON DI Paralink 3 Serial Parallel Adapter Software on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK May June 1993 Product TRVLWARE ZIP ABKTL EXE APPTBOOK ZIP MULTIDAY ZIP ZApp TODO PBK PTPDISKS PBK 123DLM ZIP MOVIE WK1 TLG ZIP PRGTOOT1 ZIP PRGTOOL2 ZIP DIRLIS EXE PTP9 ZI README ZIP Function Application Travel record keeper APPT Stand alone Appointment Book viewer editor APPT Misc Appointment Book add ins APPT Version 3 01 of the daily or weekly list view of ABK files APPT Appointment Book viewer PHONE A sample to do list in a PBK file PHONE A PBK file listing of ON DISK files 1 2 3 Add in that outputs WK1 for input to database 1 2 3 WK1 database of
151. pwatch function it s really pretty easy to use From the APPT main screen press Watch and F4 Reset to clear the clock Press F6 to start the timer and again to stop it You will see the time elapsed displayed to the 100th of a second You could also use Stopwatch to time phone conversations sales presentation or anything that you can rehearse and that needs to fit into a specified time slot MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 57 AAA QUICK TIPS aaa H Lotus 1 2 3 INPUTS AND OUTPUTS IN DATABASE FORMAT There is an add in over on the lotus forum go lotus called 123DLM E It does a slick job of outputting comma delimited files and reading them Since most database pro grams import and export data in comma delimited format this makes it easier to exchange data between an HP Palmtop and a desktop PC This add in works fine for me on the 95LX The zipped file size is 6 621 but the actual add in takes about 10K of disk space The only other alternative is to create a bunch of string formulas Ron Viecell CompuServe ID 73310 3663 PRESS lt TO BRING UP MENU IN LOTUS The less than symbol lt is a valid way to bring up the 1 2 3 menu 95Buddy may interfere with this if you unload BUDDY and press you ll get the Lotus menu While your are entering a value into a cell lt MENU or will not bring up the menu Ted Dickens HP Forum Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 BUILT IN WORKSHEET G
152. qaPalm creates a data collection program not a true database You use it to collect data qaPalm s own file format You can then download the file to a dBASE file format for use with another dBASE compatible data base qaPalm does not have report generating searching or sorting capabilities However while running a qaPalm application on the 95LX you can press ALT Lotus to create a Product Comparison Chart 160K after install files at a as a Te System RAM SysMg sMgr Compliant With SWITCH Yes Lotus 1 2 3 file same filename WK1 extension You can then use 1 2 3 to analyze sort or develop reports After you have created the run time module you can use DOS Con nect and qaPalm to transfer the data entry program from your desktop to the 95LX qaPalm automatically cre ates a subdirectory to hold the pro gram a subdirectory to hold related files and a batch file to run the pro gram on your 95LX The data collec tion program is not system compliant and must be run from FILER Just 49 Doubles the Capacity of All Your Memory Cards If you have one or more 512K 1 MB or 2 MB memory cards you can double the capacity of all of them using DataBoost compression software from Memory Card Associates DataBoost Auto installs on your HP 95LX amp Compresses files automatically as they re added to the card amp Is completely safe for your data Memory Card Associates also of
153. r your favorite DOS programs m Create System Manager compliant applications Access the built in graphics func tions of your 95LX Includes Forth compiler decom piler 8086 assembler disassembler User s Guide source code examples Here s what users say about UTIL Excellent product Fine program Worth it for the examples alone Great software package Thanks The 95LX loader is a real bonus UTIL s price is just 70 80 outside USA and Canada VISA or Mastercard accepted To order your copy call or fax today iw Essex Marketing Services TBIMIS 272 Old Farms Road Simsbury CT 06070 Phone 203 651 8284 Fax 203 651 7926 Add Assets to Appointment Book Better manage your appointment schedule with software that lets you see more than one day s appointments at a time view appointments to dos together and more APPT is one of the more widely used 95LX applications How much you like it depends largely on how you organize your day For some APPT fits the bill For others it needs a little improvement Many former users of pocket day planners are accustomed to the week at a glance format Four of the programs reviewed attempted to provide a graphical view of the week or month and the ability to review more than one day s appointments at a time lacking in APPT In addition some improve the display of notes and to do lists ABKToo l E Perhaps the most complete of all
154. r items we ll look things over but we won t be able to offer much if anything Send equipment to HP 95LX Used Equipment Thaddeus Computing 57 E Broadway Fairfield IA 52556 USA Include a note mentioning this offer with your phone and fax number You will receive reimbursement within three weeks after we receive the equipment You can request credit for renewals to The HP Palmtop Paper or credit towards The HP Palmtop Paper on disk if you prefer Give your 95LX to a friend family member or colleague What a great present to pass along If you really want to give them a good start order them a set of back issues to The HP Palmtop Paper Donate your 95LX to charity Check with your accountant to see how much you can deduct as a charitable contribution Universities make natural recipients If you like the idea but don t want to spend the time finding a recipient here are two suggestions Send it to the Cristina foundation The National Cristina Foundation is a not for profit organization that shares computer and high tech applications to help people in need lead productive lives For more information contact NCF 42 Hillcrest Drive Pelham Manor Ny 10803 USA Phone 800 274 7846 or 914 738 7494 Send it to us marked HP 95LX Donation we ll see that the equipment is donated to our local university Maharishi International University MIU specializes in research in conscious ness We will make sure that MIU
155. r nearest HP dealer checkbook in hand I asked Tim Williams the HP lab manager how many of the new ma chine s features came from user feed back The HP Palmtop Paper Compu Serve letters internal users 95 Buddy Tim estimated between 50 67 It shows Order Information See the Order Information box on page 10 for prices and part numbers for the HP 100LX and its accessories HP OmniBook 300 Superportable PG HP announces the OmniBook 300 Superportable PC We ll Support it With a New Newsletter HP s light weight sub notebook PC comes with Microsoft Windows 3 1 Word and Excel built in It has four PCMCIA slots and a fax modem slot and has options The HP OmniBook 300 for 80MB of hard disk space and 8MB of system RAM memory By Robert Roney It looks like Hewlett Packard has done it again On the heels of its May 5 introduction of the HP 100LX Palm top PC HP unveiled the big brother to the LX series The HP OmniBook 300 Superportable PC On June 7 at the Spectrum Gallery in San Francisco Lew Platt the CEO of Hewlett Pack ard and his special guest Bill Gates the CEO of Microsoft Corporation held a news conference announcing a major advance in portable personal computing What they described was a Windows based superport able PC computer that can fit easily into any briefcase without displacing other items 16 3 x 28 2 x 3 6 cm or 6 4 x 11 1 x 1 4 in and it s l
156. raphics screen In cludes programming guidelines to create clean screens in the graphics mode PYG ZIP Bytes 63 424 A small Forth pro gramming language compiler w CIS ON DISK JF 92 TSTCOM U Bytes 5 363 UTIL Forth serial communication words that use SYSMGR services on the 95LX Test code is included for the 95LX to sever as dumb terminal for a Forth microproces sor single board com puter UDFORT ZIP Bytes 126 945 A small Forth pro gramming language compiler a CIS ON DISK JF 92 UNEWS4 95 Bytes 19 868 Issue 4 of the Forth Corner Newsletter includes Forth words to handle SysMgr graphics on the 95LX a updateof the Meta compiler for double numbers bounds checking with arrays and more UTIL ANN Bytes 6 568 An announcement and description of UTIL Forth a System Manager compliant Forth programming system for the 95LX Basic Several people have successfully used BASIC and Quick BASIC to write 95LX programs If this is your preferred lan guage then the fol lowing will give you some valuable tools 595 ZIP Bytes 26 867 Add in library for QuickBASIC that will let you do graphics programming on the 95LX The file con tains demo program source code The library is shareware QBCOMF 95 Bytes 2 764 A text file containing QuickBASIC routines that will let you use the 95LX s serial port Swift BASIC It is the only language that will let you wri
157. rder card enclosed in The HP Palmtop Paper to take advantage of this limited time offer or call 800 373 6114 or 515 472 6330 or fax 515 472 1879 today Offer expires 6 30 93 Publisher of The HP Palmtop Paper Thaddeus si Computing INC Dear Subscriber We know many of you want to receive The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK So at a special price until June 30th you can collect all the disk sets we ve produced from 1991 through 1993 The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK is more than its name implies Yes it contains all the text from The HP Palmtop Paper in an easily topic searchable format And yes it contains in depth information from our advertisers to help you more informed buying decisions but 1t also contains all the best freeware and shareware available for the HP 95LX as we discover it Here is just a sample of the great software subscribers to The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK have received with each issue 9ISBUDDY 1992 Product of the Year SPEL95 Spell Checker for the 95LX OUTLINE PLUS Outliner and text editor FINISH Completes words you type UMA Useful Macros MULTIDAY Week at a glance GAMES Chess Space Invaders Tetris Othello Mastermind Worm Checkers Go Moku Klondike Adventure Sokoban Poker and many more VDE Compact powerful text editor VDE LX Makes VDE work like WordPerfect COMMO Robust communications program DIET File compressi
158. re was written to directly access information in specific locations of the 95LX s built in software there may be prob lems running it on the 100LX For example myRemote writes directly to the registers that control the 95LX s Infrared port While these registers exist in the 100LX they are in differ ent locations Similarly 95Buddy written for the 95LX will not work F T a f Me B W 1 ab A j F s EFi 4 Mra p ear ea s hal i T bod y oe eai Y nn e T i x 2 a he aie a SmanDack Stanen Pictured witi the AP poalnnap in place Desktop Computer Parallel Printer Also available for the palmtop from Sparcom Ram Cards Software Portable Disk Drives v7 The complete connectivity system for the HP 95LX from Sparcom on the 100LX Users should contact the software developer for help The only 95LX feature that has been eliminated is the digital sound capability PC sound is still available The Connectivity Pack should be available in late June Until then the 95LX version can be used if you have the 100LX cable Included with the Connectivity Pack will be a Redirec tor application to allow the 100LX to access a desktop PCs peripherals and drives Expanded conversion and reconciliation utilities are promised Palmtop Tour de force The HP 100LX once again demon strates Hewlett Packard s technologi cal superiority in the palmtop arena While some us
159. ress two or three times before a record was confirmed as being saved Also TECHNOLOGY N CORPORA ATED The Simple Solution to More Memory 34 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 Lifetime Warranty Same Day Shipping VISA Mastercard accepted 1801 E Edinger Suite 255 Santa Ana CA 92705 714 558 1120 FAX 714 542 8615 I was confused when the record entered did not automatically appear in the Action Today list I figured out that you had to go to the Process New Sales Leads option and assign an Action date to the record before it would appear in Action Today Other than those small problems PSF is a great program If you are handling a lot of information on your contacts and need something more feature laden you also might take a look at ACT by Contact Software see page 5 May Jun 92 issue INFO Manager Combines a simple free form approach to storing information with powerful search features Particularly useful for people who need to store different types of data freeform text contact information numerical data in one database A first glance INFO Manager ap pears to be a simple three field data base like the 95LX s built in Phone Book Instead of Name Number and Address each INFO Manager entry stores its data in Author Date Headline and Information fields Info Hanager 95 C Default EDITOR LZ co I Peh i71 z a deccription pe nagar e Ferns allow Field
160. roy Ballman amp Dameron of Gaithersburg MD USA He specializes in commercial litigation and uses his 95LX extensively in his work Glenn says that his own PHONE to do list is several hundred items long 42 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 all or part of an entry and automatic alphabetization of its entries With a little experimentation PHONE turned out to be the solution to my to do list problems Phone Book Basics PHONE looks like an electronic Rolodex It s a simple flat file database program with three fields Name Number and Address Open PHONE and press to insert a new card into PHONE Press Insert to enter another card Press Done to go back to the Index screen When first opened PHONE dis plays an index view to give you a summary of the information stored on each card You see a single line for each card Each line has the first 19 characters in the Name field fol lowed by the first 18 characters in the Number field Move your cursor to any line and press ENTER or Card and you see the Card view a complete dis play of all the information on the card While in Card view you can edit any information on the card using the arrow keys More on the basics of PHONE can be found on page 6 1 of the HP 95LX Quick Start Guide There have been many articles on using PHONE in past issues of The HP Palmtop Paper Phone Book To Do List I created a separate PBK file for my to do list
161. rt ZIPCode Contents EDIT ee ee ee string END 100000 0 5 F9 HOME ENTER Goto named range As described earlier 1 2 3 lets you assign a special name to a range of cells press MENU Range Name Create This macro presents a list of existing range names in the form of a pick list To go to the beginning of a named range move the cursor to the desired range name and press i If there are no named ranges the macro does nothing 1 2 3 Macro GOTO NAME NAME System Macro Version Comment 123 Goto Named Range Contents F5 F3 F3 Review of Programming Tools HOW TO USE Programmer s Corner Programming Tools for the HP 95LX Ed summarizes the programming tools available for the 95LX including C languages Assemblers BASIC and Pascal He also looks at more specialized tools relating to 95LX system compliancy graphics the keyboard clipboard and four pin serial port By Ed Keefe In the last issue of The HP Palmtop Paper we described Craig Finseth s collection of programs for the HP 95LX Freyja ll Memutil and the Thor amp file conversion utilities are all useful in and of themselves But what makes Craig s package valuable to programmers is the wealth of C source code and tutorials it includes See page 25 Mar Apr 93 issue Until the release of this package if you wanted to learn the secrets of System Manager Compliant SMC programming you either registered with HP a
162. ry is not being consumed If you are serious about running DOS applications you will probably need more disk space hence a mem ory card luse my HP 95LX SunDisk 5 Meg Flash ROM card in the 100LX Thankfully the HP system software now recognizes the SunDisk card which HP and ACE will market un der their own labels That means you can use a SunDisk card on the 100LX without installing a special software driver as you do on the 95LX Two of the DOS programs I ve run are Traveling Software s LapLink If and Banner Blue s Movie Guide As reviewed last issue LapLink II can be compressed down to around 50K The nice thing about this well known PC to PC file transfer program is that it can copy itself from the 100LX onto a PC terminate applications first This means that wherever you are all you need is a 100LX and 100LX serial cable to transfer files back and forth be tween a PC The new 9 pin HP 100LX serial port also helps speed up file transfers quite significantly I have also tested ZIP COM s ZIP DUP program from the Mar Apr 92 On Disk and it too can copy itself from the 100LX onto a PC As discussed in the Jan Feb 1993 having a Palmtop Movie Guide is a great way for selecting a movie at the video store The full DOS screen and a 5 or 10 megabyte flash card makes the software more practical to use on the 100LX than on the 95LX Many practi cal and fun DOS programs that fit well in the 100LX environment will be
163. s an Independent Software Vendor ISV or you networked with other SMC programmers on Compu Serve and tried to pick up their dis coveries During the past two years HP and other people on CompuServe have offered sample code and de tailed explanations of the inner work ings of the 95LX This has helped the rest of us learn the nuances of 95LX programming This article summarizes some of the best tools and other resources available to 95LX programmers If you combine the information in these files with Craig Finseth s collection you should have a very complete textbook on programming the 95LX Hopefully it will get you looking in the right direction The files mentioned in this article are freeware or shareware In future articles we ll look at commercial pro gramming aides If you re aware of any other resources please let us know As you ll see most of the code samples are written in C Undoubted ly this is because all of the 95LX built in applications were written in C Programs have also been imple mented in Assembler Pascal BASIC Forth and AWK A future article will discuss the pros and cons of each of these languages as they relate to the 95LX In the section titled Support for other Languages we ve included sample code or resources that support these other languages Writing System Compliant Programs in C With the initial release of HP s Inde pendent Software Vendor ISV docu ments it became
164. se of information con tained herein Please send any changes The HP Palmtop r Attn Thaddeus Computing Inc Box 869 Fairfield LA 52556 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 3 ON DISK Index in PBK File I have your bi monthly mag azine The HP Palmtop Paper and The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK They re GREAT However I now have a lot of disks to handle Therefore I have made an HP 95LX PHONE PBK file describing the contents of the disks from Fall 91 to Jan Feb 93 So now it s easy to find where programs are located If you like it you have my permission to include PTPDISKS PBK W on the next disk Once again thanks Stefan Karlsson SWEDEN E Mail sk177 lu erisoft se Great idea We will update your Phone file each issue and include it on each issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK 95LX and 100LX subscribers can use it Hal Wants to Start Southern California User Group I am interested in starting a HP Palmtop 95LX and 100 LX user s group in Southern California While all topics related to the palmtops would be discussed major emphasis would be placed on power users providing help to new users I am open to any and all suggestions regarding the locations for the meetings and organization of the group I would like to sched ule the first meeting around the middle of July perhaps the 23rd The location will be determined later in order to make it as convenient as possible for the great
165. se te ap at is rik e T hale popular ity as water ect nansing met fosfWRITE Word Processor with built in n 100 000 word fasfSPELL checker fastCOMM Full featured Communication Software up to 14 4K baud New Features Provides SWITCHable Environment Direct Launch DOS applications e Customize your Blue keys Block cursor and Caps Lock display Typewriter style SHIFT Caps keys Start up DOS shell option Customize your HP 95LX Version 2 now includes multi tasking capabilities that allow SWiTCHable DOS applications to run simultaneously with MEMO PHONE LOTUS 1 2 3 etc Now you can swifch between programs with a single key In addition SWITCHI s SwWapAPP feature allows you to assign any SWITCHable applications to your Blue keys and still gives you access to the built in applications SWITCH Menu and Control Panel In addition a menu driven user interface gives you instant access to any of 48 DOS and EXM programs Create single key loaders for your ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zanker Road 103 San Jose CA 95134 U S A 408 428 9722 FAX 408 428 9721 fastLINE QuickView myREMOTE Londer peee ad ACE TECHNOLOGIES ACT for 95LX CONTACT SOFTWARE Palm Reference Palm Database LIGHTHOUSE SOFTWARE Personal Food Analyst MIRICAL CORPORATION SOKOBAN with 300 undo s favorite DOS programs change your default C _DAT directory a
166. sends you a receipt which you can use for your taxes Send equipment to HP 95LX Donation Thaddeus Computing 57 E Broadway Fairfield IA 52556 USA Context Sensitive Help The HP 100LX context sensitive help feature is much more useful and ex tensive than the 95LX help function With this help feature always avail able you will only need the 100LX manual for occasional reference Conclusion If the 95LX built in applications and add on products are sufficient for your needs there is no need to pur chase a 100LX Also if you have eye problems you should see the screen and the 100LX font size before pur 18 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 Easy Printi asya ng Your Palmtop The GA935 Printer converter lets you print directly from your HP 95LX 100LX on vir tually any parallel printer It uses the standard HP cable The Printer Converter is bat tery powered and totally portable Completely automated with auto on off fixed baud rate at 9600 and supported by Xon Xoff protocol For a limited time only 89 Mention this ad and get free shipping amp handling in the U S GREENWICH INSTRUMENTS USA Tel 704 376 1021 Fax 704 335 8707 Toll Free 1 800 476 4070 chasing it If possible test it in differ ent lighting conditions On the other hand if you would like more robust organizer capabili ties a data base program greater capability to run DOS programs or cc MAIL then run to you
167. ser to that used in the ISV manual Written for Turbo Pascal versions 4 and 5 the source code may be recom piled to work with versions 6 and 7 AWK Originally a UNIX pattern matching utility AWK grew into a powerful pro gramming language eventually ported to the PC environment GCAWK1 ZIP Bytes 7 129 A collection of useful AWK programs for the HP 95LX includ ing code for an Editor a couple of different ways to do MORE a 40 column formatter FMT AWK a Hex Decimal Octal cal culator and file man agement utilities DU and WC Miscellaneous Files Several files have come to our attention that do not fit in any of the above catego ries FIXUP ZIP Bytes 10 867 This file gives all the details of the FIXUP problem in the 95LX along with suggested work arounds see page 5 Jan Feb 93 issue Also included is a utility that shows if your program con tains any fixups FORMAT PBK Bytes 2 503 CIS ON DISK MA 93 FORMAT ABK Bytes 12 176 These two files con tain descriptions of the file formats for the Phone Book and Ap pointment data files SERVER ZIP Bytes 30 971 Text file containing tips on how to access the 95LX s undocu mented SERVER command SERVER is supposed to do a binary dump of the C drive over to a disk Full Featured 95LX Communications Software Introducing fastCOMM Transfers up to 14 4k baud Full Macro Programming Language CompuServe
168. sionally falling behind desks and getting lost The 95LX s built in APPT PHONE and MEMO were a god send But I always thought it would be nice to have just one program handle all of this In past issues of MILEAGE LOG Release 2 0 Track your car mileage and 10 expenses parking meals lodging etc to 9 9 mill for se ursement or your tax return mitening es compliant allows one switchin HP and other app s Remembers 100 prior routes to save you time and keystrokes e User definable expense ca mileage rate and input prom ories e Shows running total of miles mileage expense and other expenses Automatic creation of new data file at beginning of each year e Prints prior or current mileage amp ex pense report to formatted text file Small efficient fast hot keys friendly 79 including S amp H Check or money order foreign 7 50 Upp as 29 Genus Software oon 1625 Richard Salt Lake City UT 84115 The HP Palmtop Paper we ve seen the remarkable flexibility of the PHONE application It has been used as a phone call tracker a cut and paste database medical information library and much much more Page 42 of this issue shows how a subscriber uses PHONE as a to do list PHONE is indeed a simple but flexible data base program that can be used cre atively to handle many PIM func tions But it is not the only database program available for the 95LX This article will look a
169. t Lauderdale Florida USA Telematics is an international supplier of Wide Area Networking hardware software and support services Bob has been a 95LX user for a year and a half For those who wish to contact him his CompuServe ID is 71431 2703 MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 25 REVIEWS APPT Add Ins allow viewing the Appointment Book ABK file However you must go into APPT to make changes to that file ABKTool displays and edits the ABK file You don t have to use APPT with ABKTool ABKTool has a full suite of conve nience functions missing from APPT including a very flexible date entry feature The user can key in a date in MM DD YY format or in MM DD format year implied You can even key in MO for Monday TU for Tuesday for the next occurrence of that day In addition you can key in Y for Yester day TM for Tomorrow or the specific number of days from the current date i e 10 for ten days in the future 21 for twenty one days previous This really helps when someone says Let s get together in 12 days for a follow up meeting Geto dateT CFS calendar PI arliule Ape 1993 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa VR oa 7 ie 14 415 16 17 41 2e 3 lt 4 ne Yee d Per fects 27 es eu ja installatio a y ABKTool s pop up calendar ABKTool also provides the user with a pop up calendar that shows the current month or any past or future month as well Position the cursor on the
170. t and use any symbol Prioritizing Group Entries PHONE s automatic alphabetical sequencing of the list also allows you to both prioritize to dos within any group and to create task oriented categories within any group or priori ty Prioritize an entry by adding a priority number after the group letter In my system 1 is the highest priority and 9 the lowest So my highest priority personal to dos begin with a p1 my second priority person als with a p2 and so on PHONE automatically alphabetizes and lists the pi priorities first p2 priorities sec ond and so on I do the same with my work related to dos wl w2 etc A to do list displayed from PHONE s Index view might look something like this re IRA Status Jons wedding yleen Pauls Auto reservations at Hyatt case with Schwartz motion Chine case re Noland case ol Contact broker pl Order tux tor p2 Pick up gift for p3 Setup oil change p4 Make dinner wl Go over Flander wl File discovery wl Write to Carson we Write to City re Bowes case W3 Contact Sheriff re Johnson case wi Make 6 20 meeting with Johnson Each group remains separated and priorities remain intact within each group To go to a specific group priority I press the group letter and the priority number i e p3 for third level priority personal to dos This PHONE to do list system as it stands goes beyond the APPT s to do function It can organize many separate to do groups by
171. t four data base programs and one screen gen erator for the 95LX I ll briefly de scribe how each works and it s main features I ll also look at how easy it is to get up and running on each product and who should use the product Pll also discuss how each can be used as a PIM So let s see how to get organized Notes95 ki If all you need is a quick and easy way to organize the odd notes and other information you jot down during the day check this program out Not system compliant This program lets you take down and quickly organize notes important ideas to do lists etc The notes are sorted by the date they were entered but you can do searches on key words and create subsets of the notes relating to a specific topic It s main goal is to make taking notes easy Notes95 accomplishes that goal If your needs are not demanding Notes95 could be used for the to do and daily notes functions of a basic PIM Each entry could serve as a note appointment or to do item Notes95 has a command menu similar to the 95LX s built in applica tions You can access the program s commands by pressing MENU high lighting the command and pressing ENTER Or press and the first letter of the command For example to find a note with a word or phrase in it press Find To sort the notes in your file by the date they were entered press MENU Date You can also assign an Urgent status to notes and then display all your
172. t in applica tions now function in a standard 64 column by 18 row mode At this size the characters look smoother than the 95LX characters due to their 8x12 pixel bit mapping They are also half the size of the 95LX characters Fortunately the display mode MEMO and text based DOS applica tions easily toggled to a 40x16 with the Zoom key press Fn lt Spacebar gt This is especially handy for applica tions requiring extended text entry The 100LX characters have greater resolution However because the pixel ratio is different on the two palmtops the characters on the 100LX appear squattier with greater character separation In addition you can press the Zoom key combination again Fn lt Spacebar gt to toggle to a standard leer r prot ile SALES Previous isau ee have ha nbrigsfrom the nse Car te aL iiai FSaunder rs pugliai His boeenable bo publish threo of L lheur Dee GEY dohn Chiaita Farner ldan Fob 93 Gi Ibert E y lHar Apr EEE Thore wre so arent inu rias se nuch useful inforaalion Lhak a E it iling one pa aon wa sould like to g ate 5 ine shined a Pen dacia Since t mi Ga tferent applicalion e ided Lo grow then by fesnioan wl Lihis wee bs wani aosi of Lhe profgasi v airte saloa tell pou the a3tk sank ies Liar Licie wo it ee pay reat eniginaering redicine oat tr kii m nLicned p riphoral thal sale BT Mial ranat e nan a ata 100LX 64x18 display mode in MEMO HEET NI
173. te SMC programs out of the box It is the pre ferred version BASIC for this small ma chine Swift BASIC is designed exclusively for the HP 95LX It also handles the 95 LX s graphics and sound functions Here are some files that relate to this fine commercial product See review page 32 Jul Aug 92 issue FILEMN ZIP Bytes 1 556 Example of Swift Basic allowing file selection using Sys Mgr file menu system calls S IB_DE LZH Bytes 25 049 EXMs written in Swift Basic Includes ASCII source codes SBASIC ANN Bytes 2 899 An announcement and description of Swift Basic an imple mentation of BASIC for the HP 95LX Palmtop Computer that generates system compliant programs Pascal Turbo Pascal runs on the 95LX Version 3 02 is preferred for its small size about 40K bytes compressed If you want Object Ori ented Programming OOP you will need to use Borland Pascal 5 0 or later TP95 ZIP Bytes 6 937 Text file telling how to get Turbo Pascal 3 02A to run on the HP 95LX It includes a sample Pascal pro gram of Conway s Game of Life which may be loaded into the 95LX and run using the Turbo Pas cal compiler The graphics part of TP 3 02 does not work on the 95LX TP5GRF ZIP Bytes 2 793 Contains the source code for a Turbo Pascal unit to inter face to the HP 95LX graphics routines HPGRAP ZIP Bytes 8 192 More graphics inter face source code but the coding is clo
174. the capacity to approxi mately 20MB not for the 95LX Dictionary Thesaurus Card 149 95 HP F1005A Includes over 116 000 words and word forms and over 500 000 synonyms works on 100LX and 95LX AC DC Adapter HP F1011A 39 95 TiN ter ont ABA Europe Opt ABB Australia Opt ABG United Kingdom Opt ABU South Africa Opt ABQ PC Connectivity Cable 24 95 HP F1015A Connect 100LX to DOS compatible PC Adapter allows it to connect to the 95LX 4 pin port rouiga F1023A for modem printer hookup MAC Connectivity Cable 24 95 HP F1016A Connect 100LX to hpp PCs MACs Adapter allows it to connect to 95LX 4 pin pon requires F1023A for mo dem printer hookup Connectivity Pack 119 49 HP F1021A Connect 100LX to DOS compatible PCs includes file transfer soft ware translation utilities connectivity cable and modem printer and 95LX serial port adapter Connect Adapter Kit 24 95 P F1023A Four adapters for connect ing the 100LX to modems printers and PCs Accessory Cradle 70 HP F1027A Connects the 100LX to U S Robotics WorldPort V 42bis Modem okytel pager and other products CONTACT Authorized HP computer dealers worldwide i e the same place you can purchase an HP LaserJet To locate an authorized dealer in the USA call 800 443 1254 You can also purchase the 100LX and its accessories from EduCALC Phone 800 Bre or 714 582 2637 Fax 714 582 44
175. the serial port bug and giving program mers access to the built in graphics func tions Graphics GRAFIX 95 Bytes 29 618 A 30K byte text file from Everett Kaser of HP Corvallis It de scribes everything you wanted to know about the graphics capabilities of the 95LX It includes C and assembler code to get at the built in graphic functions It s must have file for graphics program mers 95CGL ZIP Bytes 40 926 Graphics source code from Jerry Wassinger who did some very nice work with the graphics screen of the 95LX Although he discontinued his work on the 95LX the file is a valuable resource Communications 95TRM1 ZIP Bytes 48 394 Contains more materi al from the ISV manu al In particular it ad dresses the issue of writing programs that use the serial port Once again HP offered this file as is and will NOT support it unless you re registered in their ISV program COMFIX 95 Bytes 3 889 A text file that deals with the 95LX serial port and how to work around it 95SER C Bytes 3 566 A small text file of Turbo C code that shows six ways to do polled serial 1 O on the 95LX IR 95 Bytes 12 843 Text file giving you information on how the 95LX IR port works and how to program it Keyboard Issues The keyboard on the 95LX is in reality an enhanced keyboard This stumped a lot of programmers at first Severa programmers have shared their findings with others
176. then pressing or ENTER Press to leave the macro input screen and press to return to the main SET UP screen Note the difference between the System Macro and the 1 2 3 macro MENU replaces the foreslash and ENTER replaces the tilde Now press to activate Lotus Activate the User Key by pressing CHAR F7 or whatever F key you ve chosen The Range to format mes sage will appear on the prompt line Use the arrow keys to highlight a range and press ENTER If needed press ESC prior to using the arrow keys to move the cursor to a new location and then press period key to start highlighting MAY JUNE 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 47 HOW TO USE Macros in Lotus Transferring Keystroke Macros to User Keys Here s a process for transferring your favorite Lotus keystroke macros to User Keys Open the worksheet that has the keystroke macro you want to trans fer Press CTAL F2 specify the range that contains the macro and press to copy the macro to the clip board The range may be one cell Z1 Z1 for simple macros or a large block of cells Q1 Z10 for complex macros Activate MEMO and press to Paste the macro there Change all foreslashs to MENU and replace tildes with ENTER In addition if you use the DEL or ESC commands in your macro you ll have to replace the left and right French brackets and with LBRACE and RBRACE respectively When you have made the neces
177. tment Book and integrates well with MULTIDAY and WEEKABK 95Buddy s contributions include m Lets user select Daily Calendar or Todo list view to come up when starting APPT A GOTO timer to limit the amount of time spent on any Find F7 command Prevents long APPT PHONE FILER searches m Auto updating of ABK file prior to entering WEEKABK Keeps files in sync Automatically positions cursor on first appointment of the day not first hour of the day Summary The degree to which any one of these programs is a good fit for you will depend on your specific needs ABK Tool improves on APPT by adding many features and can augment or replace APPT Multiday with its list style display gives you a number of different views of appointments and Paul Kramer 72276 3602 Ehood Baratz Hewlett Packard 11 Hashlosha St Tel Aviv 67060 Israel MultiDay C E Steuart Dewar 11622 W 87th St Burr Ridge IL 60521 USA CIS 71165 1115 Z Syst c o Santa Monica Software 28818 Selfridge Drive Malibu CA 90265 USA P O Box 45282 Madison WI 53744 USA CIS 71044 2356 95Buddy Jeffrey Mattox Classic Lunar Lander Game Real time Engine Status Synchronized Horizontal Velocity Screen Score _ ships AR Super aanne See Thrust an to dos along with search and find capabilities Week at a Glance has a unique graphic display of a weeks appointments and adds a yearly pending list ZApp is an
178. top Current File System Source Share Version ee ware fee Required 2 1 gt ON 30 00 oie gt f ra SK driver 30 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 Other Shareware Freeware Programs for Appointment Book We have also discovered these Appointment Book enhancing products Unless otherwise indicated they can be found on the May June 93 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK in APPTBOOK ZIP I or in Lib 7 of CompuServe s HP HAND forum Calendar Reporting Program using ABK file CALRP EXE Bytes 77 851 CALRPT Ver 2 51 produces for matted calendar reports to Screen Printer File from ABK files convert ed to SideKick Plus format using the 95XLAT Utility APP Features in clude Notes Re minders Searching Look Ahead Task Notes Many Op tions Calendar Supplement for the HP 95LX Utility that pro vides a simple to use menu interface for selecting re moving and merg ing Phone Book and Appointment Book entries This supple ment to Appt s calendar lists holi days and important dates worldwide lunar solar and time zone days national holidays for over 150 coun tries religious holidays for 6 ma jor religions zodiac days and more Includes system utilities for battery life file protection and more See page 46 of the Sep Oct 92 issue for more on Calen dar Supplement COMMERCIAL ASP P O Box 81270 Pitts burgh PA 15217 USA Phone 412 422 4134
179. topic and prioritize within each of those topic groups Note that you are not limited to nine priorities You could easily have 100 priorities 01 99 Just make sure you list priorities 1 9 as 01 09 so that PHONE will alphabetize the list properly Creating Task Oriented Categories I create task oriented sub categories within both personal and work relat ed to dos For example in to dos where I need to call somebody always follow the group letter priori ty number and space with the word CALL The entry might look some thing like this pl CALL Lunch 12 45 Joyce If I need to write a letter I always begin with the word LETTER meet ings begin with MEET etc By adopt 44 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 MR FOSTER S TWISTERS Pete s Palmtop plopped on top of Pat s potted palm ing this convention PHONE creates task categories within each group and priority All personal CALLs with the same priority are listed together all LETTERs with the same priority are listed together etc The sample to do list above would now look something like this displayed in the Index view TRA Status for Jans Wedding for Ayleen arrange il change dinner reservations pl CALL broker re pl CALL order tux p2 PICK UP gift p3 CALL Pauls auto p4 CALL Hyatt Wl FILE discovery Chine case wl LETTER Carson re Noland case wl MEETING Schwartz re Flander case w2 LETTER to city re Howes case Wa CALL Sher
180. ubscription you ll receive the HP OmniBook PowerDisk a selection of the best freeware and shareware applications utilities and games specially for the OmniBook 300 The subscription 39 for 1 year or 69 for 2 years starts Winter 1993 Canada Mexico add 3 to 1 year and 6 to 2 year subscriptions Other non US orders add 12 to 1 year and 24 to 2 year subscriptions To order contact Thaddeus Computing Inc P O Box 869 Fair field IA 52556 USA or Phone 800 373 6114 outside the U S phone 515 472 6330 Fax 515 472 1879 19 NEWS OmniBook Superportable PC HP OmniBook 300 Technical Specifications Hardware Size closed 16 3 x 28 2 x 3 6 cm 6 4 x 11 1 x 1 4 in Weight 1 31 kg 2 688 3 with flash disk 1 36 kg 2 998 Ib with hard disk Traveling pie d includes adapter and power cable 1 70 kg i B with flash disk 1 74 kg 3 84 Ib with hard disk Processor 986 SXLV CPU Displa dO x 480 dot VGA 9 inch diagonal LCD 16 shades of gray Power 48 volts DC rechargeable battery pack with nickel metal hydride cells Battery pass recharges in less that 1 5 hours using AC adapter Low battery warning when approximately 2 minutes of operation remain Battery life up to 5 hours with hard disk 9 hours with flash disk AC adapter 100 to 240 volts AC 50 to 60 Hz input 12 volts DC output Backup power option battery pack can be re pla by four 1 5 volt lithium AA batteries
181. uide IE Memo SAVE TIME WRITING MEMOS OR LETTERS CREATE A TEMPLATE lf you find yourself entering the same information time and again when you write memos or letters you re wasting time It s easy to create a template or setup a standard form to use in MEMO For example you could set up a thank you note form Start MEMO and type in the following From the desk of John Smith Director of Marketing To Thank you for Sincerely John Smith Press File Save and type in a filename such as THANKU TXT The next time you want to send a thank you note you can start MEMO press MENU File Open select THANKU TXT and press ENTER press MENU File Save and give the file a new name i e ROGER TXT and press ENTER Then fill out your thank you note and save it again You re ready to print or transfer the file to your desktop for printing Phone CUT AND PASTE ADDRESS INTO MEMO Instead of typing the name and address into the above template or any MEMO document you can cut and paste them in from your Phone Book Open PHONE and move the cursor to the name you want Press Copy go back to MEMO and move the cursor to the To line and press Paste The name number and address will appear in your memo and you can edit or change it to complete the note Set Up STOPWATCH EASY TO USE Whether your timing the length of a presentation or how long it took you to run that two kilometer race you might try the 95LX s Sto
182. urus It also has a calculator and a tiny memo memory debat ed the merits of this over the HP Dictionary Thesaurus Card The 35 Seiko is slightly less conve nient but a RAM card spell checker would cost manytimes more bought one and would recommend it for the price Stanley Dobrowski CompuServe ID 71031 2162 PROGRAMMING TIP RECOGNIZE THE 95LX Sometimes a program needs to identify that it is running on the 95LX and not a desktop PC This is so it can adjust to the unique envi ronment of the 95LX There are programming routines to determine this Below are two examples ASSEMBLER ROUTINE is_hp proc push ax bx cx dx mov ax 4DD4h int 15h cmp bx 4850h jnz not_hp cmp ex 0101h jnz not_hp mov rom_version dl jmp end_is_hp not_hp stc end_is_hp pop dx cx bx ax ret is_hp endp The above routine sets the carry flag if an HP95 is not found DOS v3 22 is a ROM version and may have appeared in early laptops or portables C LANGUAGE ROUTINE The C language version is directly usable for Borland C compilers You might have to adapt for Micro soft C to make this work finclude lt dos h gt jn Check if running on HP95 return 1 if so else return 0 int IsHPS5 void union REGS r r X ax Ox4dd4 int86 0x15 amp r r return r x bx Ox4850 amp amp r x cx 0x0101 Mark Scardina CompuServe ID 76711 732 Gilles Kohl CompuServe ID 100114 3146 Shareware Freeware
183. ware found on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK or CompuServe AOL many of these files may be found on American Online in the Palmtop Library keyword Palmtop PCMCIA Credit Card Size Format Integrated Terminal and Facimile Software lt Compatible with CompuServe Genie Dow Jones and MCI MOU i Baud Rate Data Bit oS Parity Odid Stop Bit 0 Protocol Terminal Type None BS sends BS destr Ymacton ATIOGeM Answer Back P 95LX PALM MODEM 2400 1200 and 300 Bit sec Data Rates 4800 2400 Bit sec PalmFax Lifetime Guarantee Low Power Over 15 Hours of Operation CompuServe Genie Dow Jones and MCI are trademarks or trade names of their respective entities Kod 9 AJ SS oO 15375 Barranca B 101 Irvine CA 92718 TEL 714 453 0100 FAX 714 453 0114 Pray 58 OOS AR D co ae HOW TO USE To Do or Not To Do Try Using Phone Instead Not satisfied with the Appointment Book s To Do list function See how this user created a versatile easy to use to do list using Phone Book Although this article was written for the 95LX the tips given should be useful to users of the new HP 100LX Palmtop PC Editor By Glenn C Etelson CompuServe ID 70550 1074 The HP 95LX s built in applications DOS capability versatility and porta bility make it one of the most signifi cant products recently produced for personal mana
184. xt formatting Provides free form database with global search capability Instantly zoom any Note to full screen Fully SWITCHable with built in applications fastNOTES version 1 0 C1095 4 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1993 SWITCHable Global Searching of Note contents Index allows fast access For more information Call 800 825 9977 ACE ACE Technologies inc 2880 Zanker Rood Suite 103 Son Jose Colifornia 95134 U S A Deolers amp Distributors welcome longer pays attention to what I say She ignores the household and seems im mersed in a world of her own Occasionally she will ex claim nonsense such as GOT IT and Beat this score sucker but will not allow me to get close to it She wanted to cancel out a long standing dinner invita tion we had tonight so she could stay home and stare at that nasty little screen for hours on end The NMH batteries died and she de manded an AC adapter Then went back to it How could anyone be so attached to a little electronic gadget Abby please give me some advice 95LXless and Distraught Ygal Giramberk 71332 1470 Dear Distraught My advice to you would be to stay by her side This affair will be brief and when it is all over she will need you to help her pick up the pieces of her life again Be her rock in these turbulent times She may be using you only as her battery supplier right now but deep in her heart s
185. y s Only feature lets you select a specific subset of your ap pointments For example you can do an Only search on staff if you want to see appointments relating to Staff Meetings As mentioned Multiday lets you view APPT s to do list You can do this in two ways List future to do s with their priorities and start dates by pressing ToDo List all to dos that have already been checked off by pressing MENU selecting ToDo and pressing ENTER View to do s for the current day by pressing i to access APPT and pressing to display the to do s Euluce TuDu u Pri Slearl ilea O 4rZZ2 95 3 30 pr Pi Prog on d a Bicep De iiag HAr AR 1 Php a qtips nru tips A i PRBR Inttieers i test i Ba 4 28a So ter Loum stete Ems a EiL ADI BnL NEE ia e EEN Multiday viewing future to dos Multiday can be configured to handle small or larger ABK files and pro vides the user with numerous other configuration options For instance you can make Multiday Buddy aware so it takes advantage of 95 Buddy s features you can set the number of days to load from the appointment book file and you can specify the European date format DD MM YEAR I reviewed Multi day v 3 01 As the article is being edited C E Steuart Dewar announced that v 3 04 is in beta testing This latest version lets you specify up to three separate search arguments For example you could display appointments containing the
186. y 31st 1993 Call 800 733 0030 Includes Serial cable to connect a Mac to the HP 95LX Software for the Mac and the HP 95LX e Reference Manual Trumbull CT 06611 DATA EZ penen THE DATABRIDGE SPECIALISTS Fax 203 268 4345 55 Corporate Drive Ni All product are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders HP 100 users call for The best name in Macintosh file transfer and translation is now the besi source of Macintosh connectivity for your HP Palmtop 1 800 733 0030 DoubleCard and DoubleFlash Now store up fo 20MB on your HP 95LX amp 100LX Nominated for Product of the Year by Palmtop Paper fhe same DoubleCard data compression is now available as DoubleFlash high capacity Flash Memory Card The real beauty of using DoubleCard is that it is truly plug n play Introducing DoubleFlash DoubleFlash combines the success ful DoubleCard data compression software with the latest in Flash Memory Technology DoubleFlash is the result of joint development between ACE Technologies SunDisk and Stac Electronics What is Flash Memory Flash Memory is a non volatile solid state storage technology that does not require batteries to retain its contents DoubleFlash functions much like your PC s hard disk drive except there are no moving parts Why still offer DoubleCard All ACE s DoubleCards are manufac tured with ultra low power
187. y communicating with the card whether you re actively entering data or not It is possible to lose data if the card is removed while this is happening SRAM Memory Cards SRAM memory cards are completely compatible and interchangeable between the 100LX and 95LX However do not reboot your 100 Ix within 2 seconds of turning it on or inserting a card There is a card sizing routine that performs test writes to the card whenever it is inserted with the machine on or the 100LX turned on with a card in the slot If this is interrupted by pressing either CTRL ALT DEL or lt Shift gt CTRL ON the original bytes will not be restored and the card will be corrupted It will also make the card unreadable on a 95LX DoubleCards ACE DoubleCards will work fine on the 100LX providing the software needed to read the card is updated You must have ACEDRV SYS version 2 12 installed on your 100LX This driver is available from ACE directly or on CompuServe in Library 14 of HP Handhelds forum If your DoubleCard has a SHELL C COMMAND COM P statement and you wish to make it bootable on both a 95LX and 100LX you should edit it to read SHELL COMMAND P Make sure there is a space before the You will not be able to see the uncompressed portion of the card on the 100LX as you can by going to B drive on the 95LX SunDisk SDPL 5 FlashRAM HP95 Flash Disk Cards SunDisk FlashRAM cards designed for the 95LX may be used on the 100LX providing these
188. y gets home related projects Greg Alter CompuServe ID 70412 2041 Connectivity AUTOMATED MACINTOSH BACKUP wrote MACBAK 1 01 E a MAC Hypercard 2 x stack that uses the 95LX s built in COMM application to automatically copy any and all files from your HP to the Mac This Hypercard program features an exclusion list TTY emulation backup statistics single file send and receive and gives color icons to the HP files when they get to your Mac You can use the exclusion list to exclude the ROM files like _CFLOW WK1 COMMAND COM etc from being backed up A small 5K DOS companion program DIRLIS EXE E creates a directory listing of all files on all volumes A and C on your 95LX This will also be of interest to DOS users even if you don t use the backup stack Although it is a Hypercard stack it is not much slower than running the Connectivity Pack software under SoftPC on the Mac R David Mitchell CompuServe ID 76067 1121 ACOUSTIC COUPLER A LOW COST ALTERNATIVE TO WIRELESS COMPUTING An acoustic coupler costs around 150 A pay phone with an acoustic coupler is an economical way to send and receive E Mail as op posed to more expensive wireless services Most people have heard from report that 300 bps is the fastest reliable transmission speed they can get out of a acoustic coupler Still a reliable regular 300 bps is much better than nothing Robert Williams CompuServe ID 76167 2773

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