Home

ThePortablePaperV2N4_48pagesJul-Aug

1. Volume 2 Number 4 The HP Portable Portable Plus Users Newsletter Portable Paper Publishers Message 2 Letters Box Cursor In Lotus 0 2 RAM Versus ROM aaa 3 Empowerer Pro and Con 4 110 Batteries And The Portables 00 5 Making Full Use Of The Format Command 6 1 2 4 Version 2 01 For Portable Plus 40 Set Leading Edge HP IL Card To C100 40 What s New At Personalized Software New 1 Meg RAM ROM Card 8 US Pricing on 2 Meg RAM Card SoftWord To Distribute P S Products In Europe 11 Portable Equipment Exchange 11 Two New Products Logitech Mouse System 12 TEP PU essre T A gu 0 R oe dh cdi SS a 12 Bugs Upgrades Fixes And Product Notes Se oe Fb ai bo Se N We ei ae 13 r RightWriter 2 1 ToDo LOOT 4 3 th ees oe Ad es oe R R WordPertect 4 2 arer eos feet eke EEE SideWinder Reduced Pricing i bles ated He dha ee ee Portable Profiles HP110 ThinkJet Make Brainstorming A Snap 1 Hang On To Your HP Total HP110 Environment A Drive T Master TI MAR CEs 500 occ grey ht Gtk A E EAN kre Soe Graphics SKC A Since hoe ear eee ne a eee Flow Charting ILY TOG OE ar toe ee rue ee bh eae RY Through The Looking Glass Wizardry oe fos cs ea ee 2 oe Classifieds se a o o o eee sesa 9 o gt o gt o gt o eee Jul
2. THE PORTABLE PAPER A Drive T Master easily produces newspaper style layouts i e snaking or parallel text columns allowing you to com pletely surround tables and bar chart graphics with text All of the text columns may be justified Furthermore the merge command can overlay a disk file upon the working area like a transparency No other word processor current ly available can so easily perform these functions although several products such as WordPerfect and MultiMate Ad vantage provide line draw and text columns T Master s elegance is in its simplicity and willingness to solve your problem Columnar layouts produced by T Master can be viewed by virtually any text editor including MemoMaker and The Editor The editor may be operated completely from the com mand menus which appear at the top of the display Users who like a clean screen will love T Master the command menus ruler line and information lines may be turned off freeing all 24 lines of the display for editing text and docu ment layout Additional Editor Features The editor features a powerful sort utility allowing you to sort columns or blocks of text in ascending or descending order based on a criterion range A sort may be alpha numeric numeric only by date or by time It is even possi ble to rearrange the sequence of columns in an active area The editor is the gateway to many of the other major program features From within the edito
3. When ordering you must specify either normal Memory or RAM Disc format custom ROM EPROM combinations ROM developers can even set a cascaded mode toemulate larger ROMs packag s by using smaller EPROMs If you prefer the RAM ROM drawer s memory as a RAM Disc Drive just specify that on your order Installation Each product comes installed in a plug in drawer ready to replace a blank drawer from your computer just undo two screws Note To expand a PLUS above the maxi mum total Main Edisc size of 2 Mb you must use a RAM Disc Config menu 2 Mb drawers are usable only on a PLUS with 512K of inbuilt memory but other sizes are usable on any PLUS computer RAM Disc Drives Similar to drive A Edisc these provide a 1 4 1 or 2 Mb fast access electronic drive To set up a drive copy a special file from the supplied 3 disc then format write and read from the drive as normal All I sizes are usable on any PLUS but RAM Disc memory cannot be allocated to Main Memory nor drive A Edisc seceeasesscocooseoreneseos Prices including postage packing amp insurance are correct at 5 June 87 but subject to change UK residents must add VAT rt orders are subject to the granting of an Export Licence For detailed specifications quantity and Portable Paper subscriber discounts contact SoftWord f For US sales contact Personalized Software SoftWord will be closed for reorganisation and annual vacat
4. wedges that provide paragraph alignment information in situations where mixed paragraph formats i e left center and right aligned right justified are required within the same document The aligning wedges are necessary only when a variety of special paragraph alignments are required For most of your work you ll probably align or justify text after you ve finished with a paragraph or page Design commands instruct the printer how to control widows and orphans page length and width page breaks line spacing hidden text multiple line headers and footers protected blocks i e tables or graphs and foot notes Several counters are provided for automatically numbering paragraphs and figures and preparing a table of contents during printing Design commands also con trol merged printing printing the time and date clean ing formulas from tables and automatically numbering pages T Master supports a variety of printers including the HP ThinkJet and LaserJet Advanced Text Formatting Perhaps the most innovative feature of the editor is the manner in which it manipulates highlighted or marked text A block is a highlighted passage of text word phrase line sentence or paragraph A zone is a text rectangle used for creating columns or tables of arbitrary dimension There is no limit to the number of text columns you can create as long as the total width of the layout doesn t exceed 400 characters
5. HP Portable HP150 e Portable Plus D IBM PC HP Vectra o LINK was written by Paul Grimmer author of SideWinder the sideways printing program and Sketch the freeform graphics program both for the HP Portables exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 word processing kernel Store data on the Edisc and use the external disk drive for most of T Maker s commands Pm not exactly sure which configuration would be the most comfortable however I m inclined to adopt the first method and reduce the disc access If neither method is suitable for Portable use consider operating T Maker in the office and using The Editor or MemoMaker in the field This is an acceptable method for creating files saving the integration for T Maker This is possible since T Maker files consist of just plain ASCII text Note The T Maker package consists of approximately 91 files nearly filling a single 3 2 double sided flexible disk T Maker runs well on the Portable Plus with at least 512K of memory Most of the integrated system can be loaded onto the Edisc However T Master the sequel of T Maker offers greater speed T Master power and a significantly better database Conclusions And Recommendations T Maker is a wonderful product and makes the most of the HP110 s tiny resources It runs on a variety of computers including the Portable Plus IBM PC and the HP150 Altho
6. HPrint can produce headers footers subscripts superscripts page numbers and time and date stamps You can easily change type styles in the middle of your docu ment from for example bold italic to normal condensed print Paul has implemented mail merge For example with HPrint you could create multiple copies of a form letter and customize each copy by merging the letter with a list of addresses from another file HPrint also has a provision that will stop the printer at any specified point in the document Once the printer stops you can change the color of the ThinkJet cartridge This allows you to produce multi colored documents Finally Paul integrates HPrint with another of his THE PORTABLE PAPER products SKETCH You can use HPrint to easily merge SKETCH graphics with a normal text file So for example you could use SKETCH to create an illustration of an idea that you were presenting and use HPrint to merge the drawing with text If all this sounds a bit familiar then you have been reading our Printerlalk ads or own Printerlalk Format110 or The Formatter The purpose of ail these programs along with HPrint is to print text files created by MemoMaker or The Editor or any other word processor capable of creating ASCII files These programs all add professional features to your printed output I wrote Printerlalk Ed Keefe The Portable Paper Looking Glass columnist wrote Format110 and Ed Gilbert The E
7. The latest version of SideWinder is 2 1 Most of you have 2 01 There is no functional difference between the two versions for Portable users However the new version is about 5K smaller a little over 23K If you want to update do it in the usual manner Send us 7 50 which includes postage or send us a formatted disk and a self addressed stamped envelope Reduced Pricing THE WORD PLUS The Word Plus retails for 150 We just reduced the Port able Paper subscriber discount price from 129 to 99 95 We feel The Word Plus is the spelling checker of choice for HP110 users We recommend Webster s for Portable Plus users Plus users who bought The Word Plus from us may still trade it in for Webster s through August 31 PERTMASTER Pertmaster is a high powered project manager with ver sions that work on both the HP110 and Portable Plus We have sold enough packages now to qualify for a bigger dis count from the publisher Pertmaster retails for 695 we will reduce the subscriber price from 545 to 499 Im portant you must specify whether you want the HP110 Portable Plus HP150 or IBM PC version of the product 101 MACROS FOR LOTUS 1 2 3 1A As of this writing we have 20 sets of 101 Macros for Lotus 1 2 3 that we purchased several months ago that retail for 49 95 The current version retails for 69 95 62 95 to subscribers The 49 95 supports only Lotus version 1A The current version supports both version 1A and 2 01
8. s fast it s friend Of all the spelling checkers I ve used I like The Word Plus best Jerry Pournelle Author of Chaos Manor column Byte Magazine THE WORD PLUS works with MemoMaker The Editor and other word processors that can produce ASCII files Our version of THE WORD PLUS includes a 3 5 disk and simple instructions for customizing the program to the HP Portables RUNS ON HP Portable TS HPIso Ts Portable Plus e IBM PC HP Vectra s 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE most of the same word replacement features as Webster s a top rated spelling checker that runs on the Plus see ad in this issue What s more THE WORD PLUS even does some WHAT IS ENVIRONMENT SPACE Briefly it is a small part of the computer s memory 160 bytes which MS DOS sets aside each time the computer is turned on MS DOS fills some of this space with variables that it uses while the computer is running You can find out what these variables are along with their default values by typing the word set and pressing the Return key Now if you issue this set command while in PAM you will make an important discovery The com puter will beep at you and give you the message path prompt and environment variables must be set using pam env file Well see what this means later Assuming that you just tried issuing the set command in PAM press any key to cancel the error message Now m
9. t get from pushing the buttons in PAM I wish there was some way to give you an Ah ha ex perience of discovery Barring that let me share with you some insights that will add to your mastery of your computer The first insight has to do with a small part of MS DOS that gets short shrift in the MS DOS Users Guide I refer to the set command and something called environment space The Word Plus A great spelling checker and more Recommended for the HP110 Portable HP110 Portable users There are several reasons why THE WORD PLUS is your best bet in a spelling checker First of all THE WORD PLUS fits into your machine Its dictionary has 45 000 words but you can use a 35 000 word dictionary instead this saves 30K of memory space On the HP110 this leaves 40K for your document The full dictionary and main spelling program take up about 165K Second THE WORD PLUS comes with a carload of useful features In fact it offers things Webster s can t do For example e It can find all the words with a given prefix or suffix or even find words that rhyme e It can do a global search and replace on multiple words in a single pass e Additional utilities within THE WORD PLUS will count the frequency of each word in a file and alphabetize the words in a file automatically If you ve ever worried about spelling errors or embarrassing typos worry no longer Order THE WORD PLUS It
10. 2 01 will soon to be available for the Plus If you have an HP110 or a Plus and no intention of upgrading to version 2 01 then you might want to pur chase the 49 95 version while they last You are probably better off ordering by phone although you can try by mail We can honor the 49 95 price only until we sell our re maining stock 101 Macros not only provides you with many useful Lotus tools it is an excellent way to learn how to use macros or to upgrade your current skill level Remember Portable users must press Shift CTRL and the macro letter rather than IBM PC invocation the Alt key and the letter Your Vigilance Will Help Us Serve You I would like your help in dealing with a delicate but vital issue that concerns the entire software industry software protection Please help us by telling any of your colleagues who want a copy of our software to purchase it from us Your support in actively discouraging others from making illegal copies of our software and newsletter will help make us stronger and better able to support your Portable needs Thank you Let us profile your or your company s use of the Portable Tell us about your interesting or unusual application of The Portable Or share a description of how you use The Portable let other readers benefit from your experience Give us a call ask for Hal or send us a draft on paper disk or via CompuServe Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA
11. I would type in the command ed sd Change Directory to SD Then I would type in the name of the utility program that I wanted to run Finally I would have to issue the ed com mand to get back to the root directory Once I discovered the path variable I saved myself a lot of typing My path variable tells MS DOS where to look for a given program In this case it tells DOS to look first in the b bin subdirectory If DOS can t find the program or command there it looks in the b directory then in the a and a sd directories Finally it looks in the e direc tory an external disk drive Of course if the program is not found in any of these locations the computer will give me the Bad command or file name error message If the ex ternal drive is not properly connected I get the Not ready error reading drive C Abort Retry Ignore message Once you have discovered the pam env file you may start experimenting with more elaborate prompts and longer path s Very soon you will make another discovery You may have finished designing a very clever prompt variable and saved the pam env file When you reset the computer you will get the error message Out of environ ment space This is an even greater problem on the Port able Plus What happened 33 MISSING BYTES Whenever you use PAM the normal environment space of 160 bytes is reduced to 127 bytes Why this happens is a mystery I have searched far and wide for the missing 33
12. No one can know with absolute certainty how reliable a new product produced by any manufacturer will be However there is a year warran ty on all parts and labor We ll work directly with any customer who orders the RAM card through us If there is a problem we will have the memory repaired or replaced _ USED HP PORTABLES AND PERIPHERALS jes USED post cok DINE D No longer using your HP Pott iude Portable or peripherals WA conte Turn them into cash HPAL 465 through The Portable Video n e Equipment Exchange yp 50 Prices fluctuate so p RONS call us for current and nore no figures W you goyie RAN gay geg guy WP enon yeh eN entra ara as soon as possible If you buy the C drive RAM Disk Card you will still have a functional Plus while your Memory is being repaired David Burch of SoftWord told me that they have sold 380 1 Megabyte RAM cards in Europe only one had any problems and it was promptly repaired Based on Soft Word s track record we feel good about distributing its memory units Some of you have also asked if the extra memory means either a slow down in RAM disk access or a greater drain on the Portable Plus battery Again according to David Burch of SoftWord they designed the cards with these factors in mind According to SoftWord s benchmark testing the cards are just as fast or faster than HP memory and they do not drain the battery faster than HP drawers If you have any q
13. Personalized Software sell software on single sided disks so that all potential users can run the software If you want to make an exact duplicate of the master disk using the DOS diskcopy com mand you will have to copy to a single sided formatted disk To format a single sided disk from DOS type format c w and press Return MORE ROOM ON YOUR 3 DISK If you format your 3 disk using the format program built into the Portable s file manager the disk will have room for 710K bytes of data But why not have more If you format the disk from DOS using the z option you will have 780K of storage That s about a 10 increase The command is format c z i4 After formatting you now have the capacity to store 780 416 bytes of data instead of the normal 700 416 bytes of data A point for technical types This command for mats the disk at 1024 bytes per sector with an interleave of 4 The built in format program uses an interleave of 8 at 512 bytes per sector An IMPORTANT word of caution if you ever plan to have an IBM PC compatible read your disk via the HP Portable to Desktop Link card The IBM PC will not be able to read from or write to a disk format ted using the z option use the normal format program The IBM PC only can talk to disks formatted at 512 bytes per sector 1 2 3 Version 2 01 For Portable Plus We have been discussing the possible release of Lotus 1 2 3 version 2 01 for the Portable Plus only for over
14. RightWriter provides intelligent communica tion feedback for business people A last utility is diskpack from the 1987 Subscriber s Disk diskpack sorts the files on any disk fixes fragmented files and packs a disk Finally I don t save MemoMaker files to subdirectories since The Word Plus and PrinterTalk can t access subdirec tories directly I make all my memo file names start with m so that diskpack sorts them automatically MY DAY I start a typical day by loading Time Mngt from the C drive I spend the first hour updating my appointments revising things to do and making phone calls If I have to write a monthly report I use tma com from the 1987 Subscriber s Disk to print all my appointments activities Next follows my writing via MemoMaker and mini Printerlalk I give my secretary all the originals to do the copies and mailing Then if any of my memos reports need RightWriter I do the following from the PAM menu Now available on ROM Backup for the Portable Plus See Rom ad in this issue Instant Access Pop Ups for the Portable Plus 8 CALCULATOR E NOTEPAD E MACROS AND MORE It s a program called Shelp shell help and it runs on the Portable Plus from within any non graphics program Here s all you do Press Ctrl Shift Extend char and up pops the Shelp menu SideKick and SuperKey are registered trademarks of Borland International Inc Choose Calculator and get a 4 function
15. Se EZ No more cutting and pasting Now ak can d a it sideways w w _s WW lt ee pe a PR ra ca gt law P es m ts w gal 7 C a a aa Mego S ae L 1 CARTA 1 TTT as s PEEBEHHUEHEEEEE SSM E Svan Qe ZS 25 IS af ts te te Gh ces ES GS ST WE TS TE BS i2 TS 32 37 IE Se gett an te ts TF 12 HR OPTIONAL EXTRAS Southern Software of New Orleans creators of SideWinder have also created two companion utilities that work only on The HP Portables SideChar lets you create your own sideways characters MRI 1319 9995949809369 L NER EEE TT 8 ta Quit P te frim L to Lost S ts Save Select te toggle b Lock fureor kase te weve RRRRRRRR NBODDPHHDnHRRRSR Simply fill in a grid on your Portable to modify SideWinder s built in characters create italics Hebrew letters integral signs whatever sideways characters you wish Sketch amp Print lets you make line drawings on your screen using the cursor and function keys It s a lot like those Etch Sketch toys you played with as a child Actually it s even better because you can draw not just horizontal and vertical lines but also diagonals with a single key Sketch amp Print also lets you print and save anything you draw on the screen 10 for both utilities when purchased with SideWinder Sketch amp Print Order form and guarantee are on inside back cover or send check
16. SoftWord has also announced a new 1 Megabyte RAM ROM card available in August This new RAM ROM card comes with 1024K Bytes of RAM and four pairs of ROM sockets i e space for eight ROM chips As mentioned in the introduction above the current HP drawer has six pairs of ROM sockets i e space for 12 ROM chips What this means is that you can purchase the 1 Megabyte RAM eight socket ROM card to replace your ex isting 12 socket ROM drawer This gives a 512K Portable Plus 1 5 Megabytes of RAM In addition you could for ex ample fill the eight sockets in the ROM part of the RAM ROM card with Lotus two sockets Reflection two sockets Webster s Spelling Checker two sockets MemoMaker Time Manager one socket and SuperROM one socket SuperROM from Personalized Software in cludes The Editor SideWinder Shelp Mini Printerflalk and Format110 7 If you already have a 384K HP RAM drawer you might want to take out your ROM drawer and insert the new RAM ROM card Then your 512K Portable Plus would have a total of 1920K of RAM 512K 384K 1024K and eight sockets for ROM chips This card retails in the U S for under 1995 Portable Paper subscribers can purchase it from Personalized Soft ware 515 472 6330 for 1695 the same price as a Hewlett Packard 1 Megabyte drawer HP82922A When you purchase your RAM ROM drawer you can trade in either your RAM or ROM drawer See immediate ly below for details TWO MEGAB
17. Vice President of T Maker Com RUNS ON HP Ponabe TS TO ORDER Portabie Pus T 5 Use postage paid order form inside back cover mag O e or send check or credit card information exp date signature to IBM PC HP vectra Personalized Software Available on EPROM ROM Typing Whiz is one of the better typing programs on the market and is priced competitively If you want to learn or improve your typing buy Typing Whiz Typing Whiz is on my highly recommended list Dave Mark L A Scrug Notes newsletter P O Box 869 Fairfield LA 52556 515 472 6330 pany tells me the database features of T Maker an earlier product and T Master have been used to maintain all of their company s database information including payroll inventory and sales prospects Unlike many other database managers T Master can relate separate datafiles to each other with common data fields The database editor Update like the word processor Edit operates on ASCII text It is used to enter revise or delete data from a database file TULY AUGUST 1987 27 At last Graphics Afa lt for the Portable and Portable Plus by Hal Goldstein President Personalized Software Paul Grimmer has done it again He s the author of two of our best selling pro grams SideWinder the sideways printng program for the HP Portables and LINK the program that lets you transfer data back and forth be tween HP hand helds and Portables printers and
18. and the sleep timeout can force the machine to sleep even though a macro is still running The Answer Is C100 A number of readers perhaps inspired by our Leading Edge ads last year have called up in a kind of embarrassed frustration They purchased a Leading Edge through their local dealer rather than through us However they or their dealer could not get the HP IL card HP82973A to work The HP IL card when proper ly installed in any IBM compatible will allow data transfer to take place easily between a Portable or HP9114 disk drive and the compatible Here is the trade secret which took many hours of testing and talking to Leading Edge Change the address in the card from 1700 to C100 and change the other files as instructed This all makes sense and is easy to do when you consult the manual Thanks to so many of you who are willing to help organize local users groups Users groups give an Opportunity to share tips answer questions discuss other products trade free software and Lotus templates and meet other professionals As you will notice some areas have more than one contact person and some major areas have none If you are in a missing area and would like to organize a group contact us If your groups combine also tell us We will publish this column each issue keeping it up to date Write Local Users Groups Box 869 Fair field IA 515 472 6330 California Southern California We meet 2nd Thur 7 9 at HP s
19. del a tm cls 4 Backup Edisc A I use the xcopy com from my 1987 Subscriber s Disk In the batch file I include a pause to re mind me to have a blank formatted disk in C drive File backup bat pause Insert FORMATTED backup disk in C drive xcopy a c 9Q 5 Day send Files A PP 2 3 1 This is a neat way to create an updated backup disk of your current work Use copynew com from Personalized Software s DOS Tools disk 6 Restore Config A PP 1 4 32 1 5 29 When I wipe out my Edisc to run a big program I copy back my custom configuration files These files include two for my DOS environment config sys and pam env and two for MemoMaker mm bat and my startup fmt This configuration makes my HP110 run faster The config sys file increases disk access speed The pam env has increased my real clock speed by an average of 10mhz I used epu com from DOS Tools to measure the actual clock speed Ed This issue s Looking Glass col umn continues the discussion of the pam env file File conf bat pause Make sure Edisc is ready pause Don t forget to reset the computer echo off cls if exist c config sys copy c config sys a 24 JULY AUGUST 1987 if exist c pam env copy C pam env a if exist c startup fmt copy c startup fmt a if exist c mm bat copy c mm bat a cls 7 Restore Edisc A This is to get back my Edisc files that I had to back up when I ran Pertmaster or a RightWriter session Here
20. to speed information to and from the office 3 HP IL interface card for the IBM PC to transfer Lotus 1 2 3 files 4 Power Cube Recharger to simplify connections 5 Two HP9114 Empowerers to avoid running out of juice and to run dBASE II from the C drive 6 Mobile Recharger to charge my Portable on the road PAM MY HOUSTON CONTROL CENTER The basic operation runs via PAM A series of simple batch files control everything As I said before the key to creating a practical system is to be able to quickly and easily back up and wipe out the electronic disk so that programs which require lots of memory to run and store e g Pert master and RightWriter are a dream to use Here is a screen dump of the items in my PAM screen with an imaginary extended screen for the purposes of this figure Hewlett Packard Battery 97 6 3 1987 M N emMove Minik ETa AT Mng Era TTI ise meena AS Lad Fn eee f i Loa ut M ei K ee A Fress T to ee More 3 Lications at aco S em BS Ba A Mma eee TEn EE The PAM screen gets generated automatically by the HP110 The HP110 is programmed to look for a file called pam mnu that I created in MemoMaker The required for mat of the pam mnu file is simple Each entry in the pam mnu file consists of two lines The first line 14 characters or less contains the name of the application that you want to appear on the PAM screen The second line is the name of the program or batch file tha
21. I also use xcopy com and a pause to make sure I have enough Edisc space File restore bat pause Make sure Edisc has enough storage space pause Don t forget to reset the computer xcopy c a 9Q 8 Wipe out Edisc A Hal Goldstein gave me this tip For matting the A disk wipes out your Edisc files including all subdirectories very quickly You need to do this to run Pertmaster loads into Edisc and RightWriter needs 228K of memory File formata bat format a 9 Format C Drive A This is to prepare your backup disk File formatc format c 10 Log gt In Out A PP 1 6 29 I keep a time log by marketing activity I also track what activities in which I spend most of my time You can use this information to charge your customers 11 Lotus 1 2 3 B This is the heart of marketing what if scenarios sales studies and finance and budget projec tions The autol23 wks file from 1987 Subscriber s Disk is a real plus Its menu gives you the flexibility to change directories and retrieve any listed file The 701 Macros soft ware takes Lotus to the limit I used 707 Macros to per sonalize Lotus for my needs A NOTE ON UTILITIES Utilities are an important element in the system The Word Plus deletes the speller from your mind The Word Plus look up function eliminates the need for a paper dic tionary This document has been processed by RightWriter several times RightWriter will make your adrenalin run for afew weeks
22. I like to be fairly consistent in my use of particular softkeys e g Help always being the same softkey and PCVIEW not only makes that easy it is FAST like God in tended and well thought out Thanks for making my job a lot easier Great product From Wes Erickson San Luis Rey CA A Thanks for the feedback If anybody would like to order the product see the answer to the next letter Q What software is available for making labels I need something that has the ability to embed escape sequences configure the number of labels across and also adjust the label widths A Other than doing it the long way using MemoMaker or Lotus I know of no product that does this Ed Condor Junior for the HP110 on our order form will do it However I wrote a label program that meets many of your needs to demonstrate my screen builder system called PCVIEW You re welcome to have this program for free THE PORTABLE PAPER send a formatted disk and self addressed stamped envelope in care of Advanced Solutions If you do any pro gramming in Turbo Pascal the source to the program comes with PCVIEW This would allow you to tailor the program to your own needs PCVIEW can be ordered by sending 24 95 plus 2 shipping to Advanced Solutions PO Box 567 Veradale WA 99037 509 928 4147 110 continued from page 6 HP150 you might need to format single sided disks Further more many software manufacturers such as HP and ourselves
23. Module Talk a comprehensive communications module for T Master has been modified tc run on the Portable Plus It works with either the internal modem or serial port is easily configurable and supports a friendly general pur pose command language for automated communications processing Conversing with Talk is very similar to working with other parts of T Master The top four lines display the con figuration parameters the communications status and a user menu that is almost intuitive to use It is possible to start Talk with customized default settings using the TALK UTL file another command file or execute instruc tions in the active workspace by typing rtalk g after the What Next prompt Although designed as a simple terminal emulator with dial up and file transfer Talk possesses many sophisticated features often found in stand alone communications pro grams such as CrossIalk XVI Several file transfer protocols are supported ASCII Binary Xmodem Xmodem CRC and Ymodem Data capture to disk is useful in situations where transaction logging is needed File transfer can be easily automated by implementing simple command language script files If you should require complete automation i e for unattended operation it is possible to load a command file that automatically loads T Master from a pam mnu file dials an information service logs on transfers files signs off and prints the reports Th
24. My experience has shown that those who have PAM often want to bypass it and those who don t have it want it badly The lack of built in flexible disk drives has always been a controversial issue To date none of the HPs feature them as a part of the main computer but offer them as an external mass storage device This may appear as an im mediate disadvantage for the HPs but I consider it a hid den advantage 1 Built in disk drives introduce mechanical components inside the body of the computer They make the computer more fragile and introduce an opening to the environment through the drive doors 2 Applications are stored on flexible disks not electronic disk or ROM If you ve ever walked through airport securi ty and forgot that your disks passed through the x ray machine you may be in for a surprise when you use them I have never lost a byte of information on the electronic disk due to airport security machines 3 Although many laptops boast long battery life 4 to 6 hours none of them can compete with the 20 hours of fered by the HP If you ve ever made use of your Portable during transcontinental or international flights you know that battery life is very important I frequently use my Portable Plus in an industrial en vironment I sincerely believe that an industry standard laptop wouldn t survive due to the fragile nature of the diskettes and the drive openings Most other laptops are well suited for the h
25. PS ROM 32 55 1 72 HP RAM Card 128 250 1 95 HP RAM 384 895 2 33 Drawer 2 Cards HP RAM 256 645 2 52 Drawer Card HP RAM Drawer 128 395 3 09 What a cost per byte analysis overlooks is the initial outlay required to obtain the memory Currently it is not possible to acquire RAM in increments without sacrificing both the ability to ful ly expand to two megabytes and the full cost advantages ROMs may be acquired as needed and need not be purchased in quantity to reach the cost per byte level of the largest RAM drawer However if one can afford the initial cost of the large RAM drawers the advantages over the long run could be appreciable I believe that either a significant drop in RAM prices or the availability of user expandable memory drawers would shift the balance in favor of RAM However cost is not the only factor and my ideal system would include both RAM and ROM drawers Perhaps someone will come up with a moderate cost user ex pandable memory drawer that holds one megabyte CMOS static RAM chips so I won t have to choose Until that occurs no one optimal configuration exists and each user need only be aware of the op tions and the increased functionality that greater storage space allows Jonathan Feinstein Ithaca 2 Meg RAM Questions I have some questions first about Soft Word s 2 Megabyte RAM disk In the ar ticle Vol 2 No 3 p 13 of The Portable Paper it states that the RAM disk wi
26. TL K OES E R a L Impartant Please read and initial already own or am ordering the disk based versions of the programs included in my ROM Sackup order If not purchased from Personalized Software have enclosed proof of purchase tawa residents add 3 tax _ O Shipping and handling see Dox at right AGM BACKUP ande front cover Initials PRODUCTS AVAILABLE ON ROM BACKUP Size of ROM Price Size of ROM Price DHCD cagida es ah aw se RE Sa ae oe Barn ee ears a wee B2K 55 Turbo PASCAL om ais 6 eek oly Gere tales Be TE T a of eth 64K 95 SideWinder bee be wot Ae A eke SERA La eS 82K 55 gX A TTT 64K 95 TO EIO 5 ht ty oe he Ae E RE 64K 95 Best of DOS Tools 0 4 a5 f 4 4 oe SG we Be a er 128K 119 PrinterTalk Farma 64K 95 D ROM cas so nna cv eh axe GE dre bE EAN BAe as aed Os 128K 149 The Editor Mini PrinterTalk gt Formatl10 Shelp and SideWinder SHEID F SideWinder ce tks Ramen ler iene awe 64K 95 Webster s Spelling Checker 256K 179 a This version of SideWinder does not gt Mini PrinterTalk is the abbreviated version included on the PrinterTalk disk include any of the SideWinder utilities It is functionally equivalent to PrinterTalk for most applications mm To order any of the following products or others described in The Portable Paper but not listed on the opposite page simply writ
27. UTILITIES to your machine just follow the simple customization instructions included on the disk Also included in our package are the standard 5 1 4 disks sold by Peter Nor ton for IBM PCs THE NORTON UTILITIES are a time saver for you and a life saver for your data Use them just once and you ll wonder how you ever did without them Order your copy at no risk today for anyone with a hard disk or for text from disks that have become NORTON UTILITIES DATA RECOVERY DISK MANAGEMENT THE NORTON UTILITIES 4 0 99 95 89 95 for Portable Paper subscribers THE NORTON UTILITIES ADVANCED EDITION includes version 4 0 150 129 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield LA 52556 515 472 6336 lt We recommend the Advanced Edition of THE NORTON UTILITIES users who want to retrieve blocks of tora N THE PORTABLE PAPER Personalized Software Products that make HP Portables smarter P O Box 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 515 472 6330 By Hal Goldstein Introduction Perhaps the most exciting way The Portable Paper and its publishers Personalized Software have evolved is to become the marketing and distribution channel for non HP products for t
28. as excellent guides The program may be complete ly operated from its menu driven interface For expert users the menus may be completely turned off Nice touch 26 JULY AUGUST 1987 What follows is a review of each of the major com ponents of the T Master system The Editor Speller File Manager Database Spreadsheet and Communications The Editor The editor is the heart of the T Master system It is the primary tool which enables you to write a letter a report create a spreadsheet a macro or design a new database What s most important about the editor is that like a chalkboard it is very easy to use The editor boasts the following basic word processing features Search and Replace Block Copy Delete and Move Single Level Undelete Table Manual Insert and Wordwrap Edit Modes Advanced Cursor Control Frame Mode for editing tables Stripe Mode for editing table formulas and Paragraph Formatting Left Right Center Justify In addition to these basic editing and formatting features the editor provides you with ten typefaces soft hyphens advanced paragraph alignment proportional pitch capability and print design commands for advanc ed formatting Several of the typefaces such as bold and underline are also displayed on the screen An invisible typeface gives you the option to leave non printing com ments within the text Align commands are special instructions in the form of aligning
29. author has not been able to be responsive in fixing the bugs or upgrad ing the product There is a chance that we may purchase from Randy the rights to Shelp That may help the situa tion and allow us to fix or enhance the product We ll see Even with these problems I highly recommended Shelp for every Portable Plus user It is easy to use Shelp is one of those programs you will use ever day and won t understand how you ever lived without it Finally we have a new improved smaller extract utili ty called ufnotes This utility extracts notes created by the Shelp notepad allowing you to append the extraction to an existing file Shelp users may obtain the program for 7 50 including shipping and handling or by sending us a formatted disk and a self addressed stamped envelope NORTON UTILITIES VERSION 4 amp ADVANCED EDITION True Story How the Norton Utilities Advanced Edition saved the T Master and T Maker reviews published in this issue from possible extinction David Hughes a regular contributor to The Portable Paper has been working on a series of articles for us He JULY AUGUST 1987 13 THE PORTABLE PAPER called shortly after he put a disk containing these articles in the mail saying that his backup disk was corrupted he wanted us to send him a copy of his disk when we receiv ed it When we got the disk it too was damaged we could not read anything on the disk I unsuccessfully attempted to read the disk using d
30. bytes and have not found where they go These 127 bytes do not leave too much room in which to maneuver However it may be more than enough room in which to create a new prompt and set up a new path variable for DOS to use Having said that let me show you how else you might use the pam env file OTHER USES OF PAM ENV The pam env or Environment Space can contain more vari ables than the usual comspec path and prompt variables For example for those of you who have been using the The Editor you know that one of the variables that may be put in the pam env file is the edconfig variable In my pam env file I have the following line edconfig sd This line tells The Editor where to look for its formatting or configuration files In this case the files will be found in the sd subdirectory on my disk Is there a way that you can use variables in the pam env file Yes there is Let me demonstrate with an example To work along with this example start your text editor running and load the pam env file into it You may have to cut out some lines from this file to keep the byte count less than 127 Type in the following lines Note that the third line is a new environment variable called alt It will become an ALTernate prompt when were done comspec b bin command com prompt e s e amp a60x0y e amp dBSt e 6D d e amp d e u p g ALT _ b cmd b _ SeA Save this pam env file and then use your text editor
31. disks 7 From Personalized Software Rainbow Pack 10 disks one each red yellow green dark blue light blue orange maroon red orange pink and beige Monochrome Pack 10 disks of same color choose from red yellow green light blue and maroon Set of 10 disks 39 95 2 or more sets of 10 disks 35 95 each Lifetime Warranty If a disk ever proves defective return it to Personalized Software and we ll send you two good ones To order Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 HP150 users Be sure to indicate single sided disks on your order form if necessary FOLD HERE NO POSTAGE NECESSARY IF MAILED IN THE UNITED STATES BUSINESS REPLY MAIL FIRST CLASS PERMIT NO 1047 FAIRFIELD IA Postage will be paid by addressee Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 FOLD HERE Name What kind of computer do you use check all that apply l L J HP110 Portable He C Portable Plus Company L HP150 touchscreen IBM PC or compatible Address C s E 1 LE 1 39 City State Zip Specify size of disk LI 3 L 51 4 Telephone IMPORTANT Check here if you require single sided 32 disk Method of payment L Check L MasterCard L VISA Card Expires Cardholder Signature wn e mnn uan ee man ma mez c c m ee ee S
32. external disk drive only to have the battery quit before you ve finished your work then you know the problem Now you need the solution THE PROBLEM The charge on your HP9114 battery doesn t last long enough for you to do all you d like to For that matter in some cases it doesn t last long enough to do half of what voud like to According to Hewlett Packard you get up to 40 minutes of continuous usage before the battery dies We ve never gotten more than 20 Just formatting disks transferring files or running disk intensive software and getting it to work can be a major triumph Plugging in the HP9114 doesn t help either That only recharges the battery it doesn t let you keep working WE HAVE THE SOLUTION The official HP suggestion is to buy another battery pack and keep both plugged in When one loses power replace it with the other This seems clumsy to us What if you want to do several hours of disk intensive work At Personalized Software we havea better solution 2 in fact Either will solve the problem SOLUTION 1 This is a special power sup ply It will allow your HP9114 disk drive to run forever Just remove the battery pack plug Solution 1 into the open slot and into your wall outlet It s that easy And lets you run your HP9114 to your heart s con tent It costs 129 if you re a Portable Paper subscriber 145 if you re not SOLUTION 2 A power supply and battery pack Solution 2 include
33. from the DOS command line You can use this technique only from within a batch program To see how you have modified the environment variables key in the command set and press the Return key You will find that prompt and alt now have the same values assigned to them Now issue the command type pam env and observe that pam env has not changed This tells us that the DOS Environment Space and pam env are not the same thing pam env is merely a text file used by pam com to set the en vironment space To switch back to the original prompt you need to reset the computer pam com will read the pam env file and will re initialize the environment space rw rew xa n r e an Ka a a e M a d THE PORTABLE PAPER WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED For all the effort that you have put into reading this arti cle and working through the examples you have gained a greater mastery Over your computer You have found how to set and access the DOS Environment variables to change the DOS prompt and the DOS path Beyond that you have discovered that you can even set up your own variables in the limited space of the Environment Block and use these variables in your batch files Until next time Happy Porting Ed Keefe is an author programmer and Computer Science instructor He is the president of The FastAid Co 314 SW Logan Ankeny A 50021 Ed s CompuServe I D is 73277 1064 Hal Sergio Biguzzi of New York City sent us a letter concerning the pam env fi
34. her own investigations and deci sions the Publisher and Editorial Staff cannot assume any responsbility or liability for the use of information contained herein Application to mail at second class postage rates is pending at Fairfield IA 52556 POSTMASTER Please send address changes to Personalized Software The Portable Paper P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52550 and on again even several times with the 9114A produced only the power light not the usual self diagnostic whir Ive come to expect Satisfied that my problem was with the drive I concentrated on whatever I could do to solve its hang Since I had two battery packs I switched them flipped the power switch on and heard the sweet relieving sound of the disk diagnostic routine My questions are Did the battery pack replacement solve the problem Has continued on page 38 J ue a Lox Batteries And The Portables HOW TO CHARGE YOUR BATTERIES The ThinkJet battery is a dry cell battery while the HP9114 and HP Portable have lead acid batteries To maximize the life of your Portable batteries you need two different philosophies for charging the two kinds of batteries Here is what HP says HP9114 HP110 Portable Plus When possible keep them charged Always keep the Portable charged on the high side of 50 Battery life for the lead acid cells is proportional to the number of times a full discharge cycle is performed The battery cannot be overc
35. ilitio iti 5 Subscriber price is 39 95 if you purchased any Norton Utilities vanced Foran p 7 150 00 129 00 other Turbo product from Personalized Software Padded Case for Printer Disk Drive p 33 39 95 37 95 6 Subscriber price for colored disks Rainbow or 2 Padded Case for HP Portable Plus p 33 59 95 56 95 heUe ie Aree for one set 1 ae Cir 5 _ Power Cube Recharger p 18 89 95 84 95 RT A A T BL er cee ma m Pe RR og T R ee E Z ES S Se w ET f A S ms or HPrint then the price for the other one is just or A a 1 yr guarantee Plus only p 1 a SS 69 95 subscribers only E 9 00 89 10 Offer good depending on availability of HP9114A Shelp works on Portable Plus only p 25 55 00 49 95 disk drives 69 95 75 959 249 95 249 95 89 95 159 95 39 95 69 95 299 00 129 00 199 179 7 SideWinder Utilities p 23 79 95 Sketch p 28 80 00 T Maker Recommended for HP110 p 30 295 00 T Master Plus only p 26 295 00 Turbo Pascal p 15 99 95 Turbo Pascal Starter Kit Pascal Tutor Pascal Programs p 15 l 189 85 Typing Whiz p 27 K 49 95 Webster s Spelling Checker back cover 79 95 WordPerfect Portable Plus only disk based p 9 495 00 The Word Plus p 36 150 00 WorldPort 1200 Portable Modem 235 199 7 FREE SHIPPING FOR U S ORDERS OVER 200 FAST DELIVERY In most cases you will receive your ship ment within 2 3 days of when we get your order cent erence teen SHIPPING A
36. implied subject Because of RightWriter s prompting I changed the form of many such passively constructed sentences Gary Goodman is going to send us a short review of RightWriter and its supplementary dictionary RightWords soon RightWords We also sell on 3 disk RightWords RightWriter s sup plementary dictionary This program allows you to add words to the existing dictionary or use one of seven aux iliary dictionaries with RightWriter These auxiliary dic tionaries contain jargon for Business Administration Computers Engineering Weaponry Navigation Ship board and Aircraft You can use a blank line on the order form if your wish to purchase RightWords from us for 2995 TURBO TUTOR II NEW PORTABLE DISK We goofed When Borland came out with the new version 2 0 of Turbo Tutor for HP machines I just assumed it would work properly on the HP Portables as did version 1 0 I was wrong Rich Burmeister our new Vice President in charge of products has just created a supplemental disk It contains versions of Tutor that will work on both the HP Portable and Portable Plus More than Read this list It may look long and boring but it can save you an incredible amount of daily effort It s a list of the more than 50 programs on Port able Utilities Disk Vol ume l DOS Tools Each program performs a spe cific task to make life with your Portable more enjoyable and productive The programs are al
37. in it To save disk space you can save just a portion of the graphics area called the ideal box which is the area defined by the memory point and cursor position When you save an ideal box you can save in normal or sideways mode with height and width multiplier fac tors To save a graphic or a portion of it for pure printing purposes appropriate options are given These printable files are compatible with word processors that can send files to the printer The loading of a normal SKETCH file is very simple and can be done overwriting the area of the old drawing will be lost or overlaying the new file will be overlaid as it was drawn on a transparent sheet therefore added to the old one If the file loaded is partial its left upper cor ner will correspond to the cursor position Other utilities accompany the SKETCH package in cluding SKDEMO TESTPORT LOADFONT and GS Graphic Screen capture I will briefly discuss SK DEMO and GS SKDEMO is a preliminary and potentially very in teresting utility that enables SKETCH to accept non graphic input directly from specially created files and translate it into graphics On the SKETCH master disk is a demonstration of SKETCH using SKDEMO and a special ly created input file A series of screens automatically get displayed to the user showing the many features of SKETCH This demonstrates one possible of application of SKDEMO creating a sort of slide show The
38. keys Also draw lines boxes circles by pressing a single key Fill shapes with light or dark solid Five character sets can be displayed nor mally sideways or even upside down Entire screen can be printed on ThinkJet at virtually any enlargement Screens can be saved for future use Screens can also be imported into Sketch from Lotus and other pro grams Only uses 44K of memory SeP 33 Soft Padded Cases Roomy rugged high quality highly padded cases to protect your ThinkJet HP9114 and HP Portable when traveling Tiger Fox A great video game of changing mazes and double pursuit First video game designed for the Portables Time Manager The highly acclaimed Portable Plus ROM based Time Manager pro gram in a 3 2 disk version for the HP110 Portable Does not run on Portable Plus Available to Portable Paper subscribers only Personalized Software Products that make HP Portables smarter PO Box 869 Fairfield Iowa 52556 515 472 6330 1k i Lh aN seep 26 T Master and T Maker T Master is a fully integrated word processor speller relational database manager spreadsheet file manager and communications package that also includes keyboard macros and bar chart graphics It runs on the Portable Plus without modification and on the HP150 with a PC emulator T Maker is an earlier version of T Master it runs on the HP110 Portable with an external disk drive T Maker does not include the communications
39. module Both programs are more integrated than any other package on the market For example the same editing com mands are used in all the modules The full featured word processor even has some features that WordPerfect lacks The spreadsheet shows the formulas along the borders clearly visible at all times The database manager is easy to use and is comparable in its power to dBase III Our reviewer says there is no other application I know of that matches the power thoroughness and simple elegance of T Master SeP 15 Turbo Pascal Starter Kit Customized For The Portables Turbo Pascal the HP Portable programming language of choice outstrips others in price performance compatibility memory con sumption and programmer environment The WordStar type editor alone is worth the price Borland has authorized Personalized Software to include an extra disk with their product customizing the Turbo editor to The Portables editing keys The Turbo Pascal Starter Kit includes Turbo Pascal Turbo Pascal Tutor 2 0 a step by step interactive tutorial on Turbo Pascal programming and Portable Pascal Pro grams a double sided disk with more than 50 program examples for the Portables Also available Turbo Toolbox includes Pascal sort and search routines that create database file management system ses p 27 Typing Whiz Better than almost any typing tutor program on the market designed specifically for The Portables and th
40. operations required To make the mouse work the user has to add the line device a mouse sys to the file config sys If you do not have such a file you have to create it Then with the mouse sys on drive A press Ctrl Shift Break to install the driver You will get the message Mouse driver installed If the mouse is not there or if the connection is not OK a second message will notify you of the absence of the mouse There is not much on which to comment on the use of a mouse I will buy one I am just waiting for the LogiTech three button mouse I plan to use it in two ap plications Lotus and SKETCH I would not recommend buying it just for FLOW CHARTING II since you cannot travel diagonally in this program But using the mouse within spreadsheets you can literally jump from one cell THE PORTABLE PAPER A Drive to the other even if far apart in no time By assigning the most used keystrokes to the two on the Microsoft buttons gt of the mouse I was able to do a good part of the work with one hand far from the keyboard The mouse is even more important for SKETCH where it allows complete control of each dot of the graphic screen The first example that comes to my mind is drawing a signature Without a mouse it is practically im possible with it although the movement is not complete ly natural it is much simpler and a matter of relatively few attempts I also enjoyed the feeling of real pai
41. operator then has each person read quickly down the list of numbered items and rank e g 1 1 2 5 3 2 and so on and writes that person s evaluation in a column to the LEFT of the items one column per par ticipant 7 The operator quickly adds two more columns once the data have been collected from all the participants an average using the AVG function and the variability using the STD or VAR functions 8 The operator then Sorts the list with a Primary Descen ding sort on the average field and a Secondary Descending sort on the variability field 9 The sorted list is then printed out again for further discussion Sorting by average simply produces a quick way of grouping points of importance so the discussion can focus on the more important issues i e those with the highest average first FOR RELEASE 1 A 2 0 AND 2 01 WHAT FOR LESS THAN 70 CENTS A MACRO YOU CAN HAVE RANGE CALC TO SHORTEN F9 CALC TIME ACOPY COMMAND THAT STAYS AT THE TO CELL MEMO TEMPLATE WITH WORD PROCESSING amp FANCY PRINTOUT V A PASSWORD MACRO TO LOCK UP YOUR FILES A MACRO DRIVEN SLIDESHOW OF GRAPHS 8 PRINT MACROS INCLUDING DBL SPACE amp SUPER TINY A POP UP CALCULATOR WITH SCIENTIFIC FUNCTIONS ums rw pe YOU CAN DO 101 DYNAMITE THINGS WITH 101 MACROS FOR LOTUS 123 ADJUST CELL DATA YEAR TO DATE FANCY EORDERS FORM LETTER MACRO DATA ENTRY MACRO COPY TO ALT CELLS ELIMINATE ERR DOCUME
42. other peripherals Now he s developed SKETCH a fab ulous graphics program designed for both the HP110 Portable and Portable Plus CURSOR BECOMES DRAWING PEN Using SKETCH couldn t be simpler Put SKETCH in draw mode and your cursor becomes a pen The pen can either be up or down When it is down it draws wherever you move it When it is up you can move it around the screen without affecting the drawing You set the cursor up or down speed in an instant The pen also has an eraser Just press E and when the cursor is down it will erase whatever it encounters DOZENS OF HANDY FEATURES But that s just the beginning SKETCH also lets you draw diagonals boxes circles and arcs each with a single key If you have a mouse you gain even more convenience Move the mouse in any way e you want and the cursor follows instantly See ad on the Logitech Mouse for the Por SATURN able Plus in this issue SKETCH also lets you fill closed shapes with light or dark solid or even invert the entire screen light areas become dark and vice versa with a single keystroke With SKETCH you can create text in any of 5 different character sets and place the text any where in your drawing including sideways or even be D Ped paad _ C THE ANSWER You can also import graphics screens into SKETCH from Lotus or any other graphics program SKETCH doe
43. principle of SKDEMO is to provide the user with a series of rules to create input files for SEDEMO a sort of SKETCH interface programming language I think the real interest is its potential for writing programs that can use SKETCH as a tool for drawing plots of mathematical or Statistical functions generated as series of data by other programs I hope that this capability gets further im plemented for the benefit of the advanced user and of the program itself I am already dreaming of plots on the Port ables like those of Lotus 1 2 3 but more refined Another extremely useful utility is GS COM which can capture any graphics screen and translate it to SKETCH format It is a resident program 13033 bytes for the 110 version and 12800 for the Plus which will temporary redefine the Shift Print key so that instead of sending the graphic screen to the printer it will send it to a SKETCH file This program is excellent and extremely useful I have captured graphic screens from applications Lotus Tiger Fox PPRLE FLOW CHARTING II and transferred them to SK files Stbt E L FLOW CHARTING II This is a 93410 bytes package that requires at least 216K of program space and works on the Plus without major modifications FLOW CHARTING is unusual because it is graphical ly limited to preselected shapes exclusively dedicated to the development of flow charts In this respect the pro gram is nice and completely fulfills its p
44. program broken into several core ap plications and many additional utility modules The core system comfortably runs on a Portable Plus with 512K of memory It is possible to keep only the word processor Edit and the associated align and printer modules on the Edisc and leave the other modules on an external disk drive The spreadsheet and database features can be add ed as you need them For field use you may consider us ing only the word processor To give you some idea of the size of the product in cluding the printer drivers batch files sample database files and dictionary T Master arrived on two 51 4 flop py disks which were nearly full T Master itself needs 256K of internal memory set in PAM s 6 System Config The Word Processing Kernel re quires 123K The speller takes up 153K The combined data base and spreadsheet occupy 104K The communica tions module Talk require 33K Finally miscellaneous other utilities such as importing data bar charts secure sorting and merging takes 63K The whole program easily fits in an 896K machine with more than 250K left for data T Master would be ideally suited for the Portable Plus if it were available in a plug in ROM format Each time I have called Hal Goldstein about the product I have ap proached him with the possibility of working with T Maker Company and making this dream a reality for Portable Plus owners Peter Roizen the author of T Master believes it c
45. prompt variable gives an interesting prompt when I am in MS DOS It shows the time day and date in the upper right of the screen in inverse video The prompt on the DOS command line shows the full path of the current directory Where did I get the secret code for the prompt variable There are a couple of places in the HP Users Manual that contain bits and pieces of the secret code for THE PORTABLE PAPER the prompt variable One of them is in Appendix D of the first part of the HP110 Users Manual The rest of the secret comes from the MS DOS section of the manual Look at the pages that deal with prompt Have fun designing your own prompt variables but first try this one prompt _ b cmd b _ eA This will create a prompt that shows a box containing the abbreviation cmd Command each time you press the Return key PATHS AND SUBDIRECTORIES My path command is also different from the default value In my HP110 I have created a subdirectory called SD as part of the A drive In this subdirectory I keep a dozen or more small utility programs They are out of sight whenever I use the dir command The use of subdirectories will become more important for Portable Plus users who have one or two megabytes of Edisc in their machines Thankfully we owners of the HP110 have been spared making the major financial deci sion to add this much memory to our computers When I first started using subdirectories
46. service center The one problem with the HP9114 is that when the disk drive is in use it discharges faster than it charges That means you can run out of juice in the middle of a disk in tensive operation In Vol 1 No 2 of The Portable Paper we discuss the problem and in Nos 3 and 4 we discuss how to build a power supply HP9114 Empowerer that connects AC power directly to the HP9114 There is another article on the subject in the HP CompuServe forum We sell the HP9114 Empowerer for 129 to subscribers see order form at end of issue Q amp A On Plus Paul Slawson of UCLA called me just as I was completing this column He told me he sat next to a gentleman ona plane that claimed he got Symantec s Q amp A to work on the Portable Plus Q amp A is one of top rated new programs for the IBM PC and compatibles It is a full featured word pro cessor database system You give it English commands and it does a good job of understanding what you want Iam looking forward to checking it out However if any of you test it please give me a call or drop me a note with your results Be sure to try setting the Plus in the Alt console mode using PAM s f6 System Config Making Full Use Of The Format Command CAUTION Formatting disks can be hazardous When you format a disk you wipe out all files on your disk The format command has a number of useful options However if you get careless it is all too easy to wipe out all the
47. simply written down without comment 8 When the first goal has been reached the facilitator asks for some more ideas say 10 more 9 When those extras have been collected the facilitator asks for a few more 10 Finally when no more ideas are forthcoming the group turns to dealing with the ideas and grouping analyzing criticizing and discussing them Portable microcomputers like the HP110 and Portable Plus are ideal tools for the analytical phase at the end of the brainstorming session The traditional problem with all those ideas on the sheets taped to the wall is that the ideas cannot easily be ranked grouped and discussed without writing them down all over again sometimes several times Here s a way to use the unobtrusive accessi bility of the HP Portables and the portable ThinkJet to solve that difficulty THE PORTABLE PAPER 1 As the facilitator writes down the torrent of ideas on paper a collaborator the operator writes them down in a Lotus spreadsheet in a single column 2 With a few keystrokes the list is automatically numbered using the Lotus Data Fill command 3 At the end of the creative phase the numbered list is printed out immediately on the ThinkJet printer 4 Each participant receives a copy of the list whose numbers make it easy to refer to any individual idea 5 Each participant evaluates each idea on a scale of impor tance from 1 not important to 5 very important 6 The
48. site acceptance testing and his personal work station He recently purchased an IBM PC compatible laptop Hang onto that old HP Portable and don t give up on the Portable Plus Although there are many other good port able computers on the market they are all missing the boat when it comes to portability and survivability I purchased the original HP Portable because of its im portant ROM based applications long battery life internal modem size attractiveness and sufficient Memory Edisc space I used the Portable for nearly a year and it never let me down never failed me nor was I ever short on memory The Portable Plus is an excellent second generation portable computer Its usefulness continues to grow as new applications and hardware are developed If the Portable can be likened to your personal secretary the Portable Plus is the entire office staff Loaded with plug in ROM and disk based applications additional memory and an inter nal 300 1200 baud modem the Portable Plus remains near ly ultimate in terms of portability despite some incompatibility with the IBM PC Although expensive the Portable Plus in my opinion represents an excellent in 20 JULY AUGUST 1987 vestment Most laptop computers on the market today feature two disk drives IBM compatibility a large memory and a 300 1200 baud internal modem Many of them boast extended battery operation Some models feature an inter nal 10 Mb fixed disk driv
49. tion seems to be pretty complicated to use Would you therefore recommend the older ROM software communication program Hal The newer version Reflection is just an upgrade of the older version PC2622 They both require the same learning time We will publish an article hopefully next issue on Getting Started With Reflection 5 Currently we have installed the follow ing ROM based software MultiMate Lotus 1 2 3 and BASIC We intend to buy MemoMaker Reflection or the older ver sion and Executive Card Manager Are there other ROM based software pro grams How much open space do we have left after we install the three additional ROM programs Hal The HP ROM drawer holds six pairs of ROM sockets Here is the list of ROM software you mentioned with the number of ROM sockets in parentheses MultiMate 2 Lotus 1 2 3 1A 2 BASIC 1 MemoMaker Time Manager 1 Reflection 2 Executive Card Manager 2 You will have two sockets left when you are done As we advertise on the in side front cover of this issue we sell several applications on ROM 6 We have an IBM compatible Sperry Corona We also have software for this THE PORTABLE PAPER computer on 51 disks We know that there is a plug in card for IBM PC and compatible computers available to transfer data between a Plus and an IBM or compatible Your catalog lists a lot of software that runs on both the Plus and on IBMs comp
50. to Mail at Second Class Postage Rates Pending at Fairfield IA best spell checker we ve seen in a long spell Henry Kisor of the Chicago Sun Times has called WEBSTER S the best proofreading software on the market We agree with them both and we think you will too Order your copy at no risk today Webster s Spelling Checker on 312 disk customized for the Portable Plus and 69 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Webster s is available on ROM backup for an additional 179 See ROM ad in this issue for important details me WEBSTER S SPELLING CHECKER works with any file produced by the Editor WordStar and MemoMaker It also works with ASCII files produced by MS Word and Word Perfect Our version of WEBSTER S includes a custom ized 3 5 disk and simple instructions for run ning the program on the Portable Plus and HP150 A special utility allowing WEBSTER S to run on the HP150 is included on the disk 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330
51. to your Think Jet or QuietJet printer SKETCH FLOW CHARTING II and HPrint are available from Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 and can be ordered from the order form at the back of the issue SKETCH and HPrint retail for 80 each 75 95 with the Portable Paper discount Subscribers who purchase SKETCH or HPrint can purchase the other for 69 95 FLOW CHARTING II retails for 232 209 for subscribers The LogiTech Mouse system for the Portable Plus mouse software and cable retails for 204 95 and can be purchased by subscribers for 174 95 This signature was created using Sketch and a Mouse By Ed Keefe GOALS FOR THIS TRIP In this article we ll go through the Looking Glass and wind up in space We ll venture where few owners of the HP Portables boldly go WORKING WITH MS DOS Most owners of the HP110 and Portable Plus start using their computers via the Personal Applications Manager PAM However users who have logged some time on their Portables or who have worked with other computers soon leave PAM behind and move into the realm of MS DOS Working with MS DOS is like working with building blocks compared to working with a finished product like PAM However working with MS DOS can produce an Ah ha experience There is much to be discovered in MS DOS There is also the feeling that you have bested the beast mastered the machine This is something that you don
52. y Tte Check one box COMPANY eee a OR ee RC 5 ce eS Meet eee PY ae O The HP Chronicle US 38 Foreign 72 Address i O HP Design amp Manufacturing Ciy ________________ State _____ Zip ______________ US 42 Foreign 78 Phone Equipment O Please send me more information on HP L Check enclosed cae R training videos O Bill me L Charge to VISA MasterCard American Express Card CC O NNUUUUU UUL Expiration Date Signature Mail to PCI Publications amp Communications Inc P O Box 399 Cedar Park Texas 78613 9987 U S A 800 531 5093 or in Texas call 512 250 9023 THE PORTABLE PAPER not only operational but unscathed you ve successfully exercised one of HP s unspoken features I remember when HP featured similar stories about the durability of their calculators The Portables are equally tough I dare say you d probably be looking for a dust pan to pick up the pieces for some of the other laptops since no durability specification exists GRiD computers are an exception If any of you HP Portable users are considering giving up your HP for a new industry standard laptop consider this When your new laptop runs out of power on a New York to San Francisco flight or you corrupt not only your data through an airport X ray machine but the application program as well or you foul the heads of your new disk drives with construction dust you ll wish you had you
53. 110 the A B and C drives and Portable peripherals The A Drive I run the whole system from a series of batch files residing on my A drive The A drive also contains the pam mnu file that customizes my PAM screen and software that augments built in B drive programs I use the PAM screen and batch files as Houston Control to run the program I want This may require clearing up A drive space and run ning a program from my C drive The B Drive The B drive contains Lotus my spreadsheet program MemoMaker my word processor and Terminal my data communications software To augment Lotus I use an auto load 1 2 3 file and 701 Macros A MemoMaker format file Mini PrinterTalk and a MemoMaker destructive backspace batch file enhance MemoMaker Finally auto answer files and a 1200 baud modem enhance Terminal 22 JULY AUGUST 1987 The C Drive I conceptually divide my C drive files into three categories Time Management Project Management and Utilities My Time Management files consist of names ad dresses phone numbers appointments to do lists and the calender printing program Project Management programs consist of Pertmaster Condor Junior and dBASE II Final ly my Utilities include The Word Plus RightWriter Nor ton Utilities SideWinder diskpack and others from The Portable Paper 1987 Subscriber s Disk and DOS Tools Peripherals 1 Two HP9114 disk drives and the HP ThinkJet printer 2 WorldPort 1200 baud modem
54. 3 HP 9114B NEW HP IL DISK DRIVE 795 00 HP 2225B THINKJET PRINTER HP 92261L THINKJET PAPER HP 92261B THINKJET PRINTHEADS Box of Ten Cartridges CALCULATOR SPECIAL Model List Special HP 11C 56 00 48 00 HP 12C 99 00 80 00 HP 15C 99 00 80 00 HP 16C 120 00 89 00 HP 41CV 175 00 135 00 HP 41CX 249 00 190 00 HP 71B 525 00 394 00 LA eackarno Authorized Dealer List Special 636 00 396 00 19 95 79 50 495 00 29 00 99 50 Our Ad was designed using Desktop Publisher by Lexisoft on an HP LaserJet Plus This Word Processing and Page Composition program is now available at Blue Chip system of cross hairs thin bisecting lines identifies the cursor position This is a very handy feature since Shrink mode still allows all the editing features The cursor can be moved with the arrow keys and the F Fast toggle will allow very fast cursor movements These and the other movement commands work very well While in graphic mode a collection of different shapes of variable proportions e g circle box and dia mond are available for fast easy access from a menu us ing a pointing cursor eliminating the need for loading files from an external drive After the selected shape has been imported the user can choose between predefined vertical to horizontal ratios The accepted shape becomes a permanent part of the chart The shape can easily be copied moved or deleted As a complement to the graphics capabil
55. 52256 515 472 6330 HP110 ThinkJet Printer Lotus Make Brainstorming A Snap The author M E Kabay is a computer consultant in Montreal Canada Brainstorming has been a popular way of generating ideas for years The basis of brainstorming is that ideas come more easily when one separates synthesis from analysis In practice this means one bars criticism of ideas until as many as possible have been written down A typical brainstorming session works like this 1 A group of people gathers in a quiet place with plenty of markers large sheets of blank paper and adhesive tape 2 The facilitator sets out the goals of the session e g Let s come up with all the ways we can improve prod uction of the elujicator framsits 3 A specific numerical goal is set and let s agree to have at least 100 ideas within the next 30 minutes 4 People propose ideas the facilitator writes them down immediately WITH NO COMMENT 5 No one is permitted to express any opinion of ideas that are proposed no encouragement praise laughter smiles discouragement disparagement groans or frowns 6 Any participant who suddenly gets an idea as a result of what someone else says can hitch hike by signalling special priority e g with a thumbs up sign 7 The facilitator tapes to the wall each sheet of paper as it fills up to allow everyone to see what s been suggested so far even repetitions or similar ideas are
56. A SINGLE SIDED DISK The original HP 3 disk drives were single sided and ran off the HP150 Consequently if you have access to an continued on page 40 It happens to the best of us One slip of a finger and a whole week s worth of text or data is past history But not if you have THE NORTON UTILITIES Just type qu for quick unerase give the first letter of the name of the file you erased and the file gets restored Miraculous as it sounds in many cases that s all there is to it How can a deleted file get unerased er for p RN O 2 a L lt K Pye Pron yw Simple The file isn t really deleted in the first place When you delete a file all that actually gets erased is part of the file s directory en try That s why it only takes an instant to delete an entire file Without a directory en try DOS can t find the file but THE NORTON UTILITIES can Now what about those cases where you can t possibly recover a file because you ve already partially overwritten it with other files Surely THE NORTON UTILITIES can t help you then Wrong they can THE NORTON UTILITIES won t recover the entire file of course but they can help you restore the portions of the file that still remain on the disk It s done with a powerful utility called nu that lets you display change and capture to a file any information on any disk In complex cases you may need to do some detective w
57. EDITOR and THE FORMATTER together Only 99 95 total Portable Paper subscribers only Note The user manual itself is a challenge and no technical support is available We therefore recom mend THE FORMATTER for strong computer users or those already familiar with text formatters If you need any of the features listed above and if you re willing to spend the time it takes to learn the commands THE FORMATTER is for you Order your copy risk free today THE FORMATTER 636 6 oe eee sees 59 95 49 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Ps fo a THE EDITOR gives you all these great text editing features and more Search and replace Just tell THE EDITOR what word or phrase to look for and it will find every place you ve used it At your option it will display each occurrence or replace the occurrences either selectively or globally Edit two files at once THE EDITOR will display two separate portions of text at the same time one above the other You can view and edit two parts of the same file or even two different files simultaneously Backspace delete You can erase the last character with a single keystroke No limit on file size If you re an HP110 Portable user you re no longer confined by MemoMaker s 819 Line limit You can have as large a file as internal memory allows File merge You can merge two or more files to gether with ease Compressed and expanded You re no longer r
58. If not for your magazine I might still be searching for a way to restart my machine Ronald K Colwell Princeton NJ Hal Anyone have any comments or ideas on how to minimize repair costs especially on older machines nt WIZA by The Wizard Cliff Looyenga Dialing Up a Portable The other day when I got to work I realized I had forgot ten to bring a file that was on my Portable at home I thought about going back to get it but decided it wasn t important enough Some time later however I thought to myself There ought to have been a way that my wife could have just connected my Portable to the phone so that I could have transferred the file GETTING THE HP110 TO ANSWER It turns out there is a way using the autoansr bat file This is a file that PAM looks for when the phone rings and if the file exists executes it I created an autoansr bat file that has the following lines in it terminal a ctty aux command terminal h The first line loads the terminal program and tells it to answer the phone The second line causes both the in put and output from the CON console device to be directed to the device AUX which in this case would be the modem The third line runs the MS DOS command in terpreter and finally the last line hangs up the phone Note that this is for dialing up an HP110 not a Portable Plus What happens when you dial up your Portable now that you have this batch file is that
59. ND HANDLING Portable Paper subscriptions Subscription prices include U S Second Class mailing Outside the U S add the following amounts Mexico and Canada 3 surface mail 6 air Other countries 6 surface 18 air U ROM Backup Product Description Size 8 Price Total Qty All other products In North America Add 4 for one item 7 for more than one item FREE SHIPPING FOR U S ORDERS OVER 200 Outside North America Add 3 surface mail 10 airmail We bill or charge non U S orders for the actual postage if it exceeds these amounts Important Please read and initial j l Subtotal already own or am ordering the disk based versions of the programs included in my ROM Backup order If not purchased from Personalized lowa residents add 4 tax Software have enclosed proof of purchase 7 Shipping and handling see box at right Initials TOTAL ROM BACKUP inside front cover X NEW July August 1987 VISA TO ORDER BY PHONE TO ORDER BY MAIL Call 515 472 6330 between l 1 Fill out your name etc on the reverse side of the 3 Fill in desired quantity of each item 9 00 am and 4 30 pm Central Time order form e Please pay special attention to footnotes lt Monday through Friday or use e Be sure to indicate your disk requirements 4 Calculate shipping and handling costs see box CompuServe EMAIL ID 72257 714 2 Locate desired items on order form near bottom of or
60. NEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 for your stand Given the state of the art in writing and test ing software there s no guarantee that every item of software works as doc umented without a hitch However most of the test ing and evaluating was done by Hal Goldstein publisher of The Portable Paper and by Gary Good man and Thomas Page Anyone who has read Gary s and Tom s articles in past issues of The Port able Paper already knows of their conscientiousness and thoroughness So look through the list If even one program proves useful DOS Tbols could pay for itself immediately With more than 50 docu mented and tested pro grams to try out and use it s the bargain of the cen tury Order yours today Portable Utilities Disk Volume 1 DOS Tools 49 95 39 95 for Portable Paper subscribers THE PORTABLE PAPER Power your Portable ThinkJet HP9114 and HP hand held froma single viron gt wall outlet To ThinkJet or 2nd disk drive To wall outlet Can t plug your Portable ThinkJet The fifth is a conventional AC cord that HP9114 and HP hand held into the same plugs into the wall and powers the other wall outlet becaus
61. NT WORKSHEET FINANCIAL FUNCTIONS NOTEPAD MACRO COMPARE VERT HORIZ SUMS ELIMINATE ZEROS SHOW LEADING ZEROS SELF NAMING CELLS AUTOEXEC MACROS TAN SIN COS TODAY IN WORDS YEAR TO DATE MACRO POP UP APPT CALENDAR INSERT ROW W FORMAT ADD TO ADDRESS DATA BASE PRUNE NO OF FILES BIORHYTHMS MACRO PRINT LABELS DATA QUERY MACRO EXCHANGE ROWS amp COLS LIST amp PRINT RANGE NAMES SWITCH PLACES MACRO HIDDEN NOTES MACRO INSERT ROW W FORMAT TEST amp REPLACE MACRO XFR eee VALUE ETC ETC ETC ASCII MACRO MEASURE COLUMN WIDTHS CHO TITLES ON amp OFF VIEW MACROLISTS XFR TO ALT MACROLIST 101 Macros for Lotus 1 2 3 69 95 62 95 for Portable Paper subscribers RUNS ON cc mne IBM PC HP Vectra s 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE To order Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 WITTY ATIGTIST 1087 10 THE PORTABLE PAPER The use of the variability field is more interesting the variance or standard deviation which is just the square root of the variance is a measure of dispersion or in more familiar terms of disagreement The more people disagree the bigger the variance So finding out which topics have the biggest disagree ment can focus the group on just why that disagreement should be In general either someone knows something the others don t someone belie
62. Note to reset the computer press the contrast key and hold it for 15 seconds This seems like a lot of steps but is worth it because of the usefulness of RightWriter the most powerful soft ware to clean up communication that I have yet seen In size share volume and spending projections financial what if scenarios home and business cash flow analysis sales tracking budgeting and projections tracking and control of marketing spending calculation of the cost of a new product introduction and the sale and purchase of real estate property None of these tasks are new the power comes from using macros Be creative It is good to note that I frequently use Time Manager during the day This tool keeps me on top of the business at all times Lastly I use daysend at the end of the day to back up my day s work This covers the marketing activities for a typical day That is it I welcome your feedback Here is my conclusion Shut down your IBM AT A versatile HP110 at 5 43 mbz is worth more than 10 mhz taking these steps you ll understand why I call the PAM menu Houston Control RightWriter needs only one command right Having run RightWriter lam finished with organiza tion and writing Next is my project management for which I use Condor and Pertmaster When I run Pert master I follow steps similar to those I described for RightWriter My final activity is business data analysis Lotus 1 2 3 gt is the softwar
63. TABLE MOUSE SOFTWARE you can assign a different keystroke to each of the buttons You can also assign a different set of three keystrokes for each of your ap plications Our PORTABLE MOUSE SOFTWARE also lets you control the distance that the cursor will move for a given movement of the mouse TRY IT AT OUR RISK Not sure you ll like using a mouse with your Portable The only way to find out is to try one Remember you can order any product from us use it for 60 days and then return it for a full refund if you are not completely satisfied you want the IBM PC compatible graphics software it comes with Order a Logitech If you already own a Serial Microsoft or Microsoft mouse mouse or would like to buy one there s for your Portable mouse to your Plus A WORD ABOUT THE MICROSOFT MOUSE The Microsoft mouse has only 2 buttons but costs 100 more than the 3 Logitech mouse Nevertheless the Microsoft mouse may be your best bet if Plus risk free today Don t forget to order our PORTABLE MOUSE SOFTWARE and cable too you ll need them to run either mouse with your Portable Plus Portable Plus Mouse Systems Logitech Mouse Portable Mouse Software Cable 204 95 174 95 for Portable Paper subscribers For pricing of individual components and Microsoft Mouse see Additional Products opposite the order form in this issue 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details
64. TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 button no need to buy the Logitech Mouse as well to use the Microsoft mouse with your Por table Plus all you need is our Portable Mouse Software and a cable to connect the RUNS ON HP Portable HP150 Portable Plus 6 IBM PC HP Vectra database as well the spreadsheet can be the perfect template for your data You can easily prepare a report by extracting data from your spreadsheet and cross tabulating the results The clean design command instructs the printer to ignore the formulas so they do not appear in the printed report Although not as large nor as fast as 1 2 3 s spreadsheet 50 columns T Master s spreadsheet is adequate for all but the most demanding business needs However the macro facility and the database manager more than compensate for this Like Lotus 1 2 3 it is possible to combine a table on disk with a table in the active workspace and to per form a variety of calculations for a series of tables Zones in the active area may be protected to prevent inadvertent transfer of data into them The BAR command prepares a bar chart based on the data in the spreadsheet The bar chart s size may be adjusted to suit your taste and then in serted into the document T Master s Talk The Communications
65. UNS ON ne porabe e Portable Plus IBM PC HP Vectra rect Sy MOUA De neva Word POS Version Portable Plus You ll need 512K of RAM in order to allow space for WordPerfect and still leave room for other files on your electronic disk To save space you can op tionally remove the the saurus and or the spelling and it just may be perfect for you Order a copy today and use it at our risk If within 60 days you are dis satisfied for any reason simply return it for a full refund WordPerfect 299 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 PUBLISHER S MESSAGE This issue puts the past and future side by side On the one hand we ll see in our Profiles column how an HP110 user makes maximum use of the original HP Port able environment On the other hand we ll look some more at 1 and 2 Megabyte RAM cards and the new 1 Megabyte RAM ROM card for the Portable Plus This greater memory capacity makes the Plus a whole new machine Plus users no longer have to wait for ROM chips in order to run larger applications internally For example in this issue we review T Master an excellent full featured completely in tegrated package
66. Using Mini Printerlalk with MemoMaker files means my memos have fancy expanded bold letters The pages are numbered JULY AUGUST 1987 23 THE PORTABLE PAPER It s the Mobile Ni CaD Recharger MNR 2 from S O S and it couldn t be easier to use simply plug one end into your car s cigarette lighter and your Portable iiti moi seman ar HP9114 The time it takes to charge a given unit is about 30 longer than with a wall charger Your car does not have to be running the unit can operate and ThinkJet overnight with no danger of running off yo u i Ca rs oe Lie car battery Seay ae aie Hage to discount this it a cigarette a Also works with HP41C CV CX HP71B and T h i HP75C D hand helds HP82143 and HP82162 ighter printer plotters HP82161 cassette drive and rechargeable reserve battery packs for all these devices and the number of lines per page is controlled The Remove option gives the flexibility of creating more room in the Edisc 3 Backup TMngt A PP1 5 27 This is a simple batch file to copy back the files Time Manager creates to the C drive allowing you to run Time Manager once or twice a day from the C drive I also use the tma com from the 1987 Subscriber s Disk to view a whole week and print a full month of Time Manager appointments Very impressive File tb bat pause Insert TMngt disk in C drive echo off cls if exist a tm nam copy a tm nam c if exist a tm tdo copy a tm tdo c
67. YTE CARDS FOR AS LOW AS 2495 Personalized Software will sell the SoftWord 2 Megabyte cards in the United States for 2995 See order form at the 10 JULY AUGUST 1987 end of the issue Portable Paper subscribers receive a 10 discount and pay 2695 You need 512K of built in Portable Plus memory to be able to use the 2 Megabyte card With a 2 Megabyte card your Plus has 2 5 Meg of RAM memory If in addition you purchase the 1 Meg RAM ROM card your Plus will have 3 5 Meg of RAM and eight sockets to fill with ROM software Furthermore since we now sell used HP Portable equipment we ll let you trade in your current RAM or ROM drawer and memory When you buy a RAM card from us we ll purchase your ROM drawer or 128K RAM drawer for 100 and 50 for each additional 128K of memory Therefore by trading in 384K worth of memory as a Portable Paper subscriber the cost for 2 Meg worth of memory will be 2495 A DRIVE VERSES C DRIVE As we discussed last issue all of SoftWord s memory cards come in two forms A drive Memory Cards and C drive Memory Cards When you order your memory cards you must specify which you prefer In most cases I would recommend the C drive Memory Card for the following reasons The C drive option gives you storage space in two in ternal disk drives A and C normally you have storage space in the A drive only The A drive memory can be con figured using PAM s f6 System Config as usual dividing avai
68. a year As of July this new version appears on the HP price list 45539K opt 400 495 It will begin shipping in mid July This software resides on three ROMs The third ROM contains help messages and may be omitted if your drawer is full An upgrade will be available for owners of Portable Plus Lotus 1 2 3 version 1A After mid August send 195 plus your local sales tax and the glossy front cover from your Lotus manual to HP s Direct Marketing Division PO Box 60008 Sunnyvale CA 94008 Ask for the 45539 64001 upgrade Outside the US contact your local HP sales office HP entities should not buy the upgrade buy the product instead Here is what Corvallis support says about the upgrade Should you upgrade Since version 2 01 files cannot be directly used on version 1A the primary reason to upgrade is for compatibility with other machines in your office Some other considerations 1 Advantages Version 2 01 has a number of improve ments in the way it consumes memory and in its macro capability It provides some new functions but is so similar to version 1A you won t have to re learn anything 2 Disadvantages The released version of 2 01 on the Portable Plus has some problems with sleep and powersave modes which may cause you to turn off powersave mode and lengthen your sleep timeout such that your battery will need more frequent charging Powersave mode can cause some operations to slow down by a factor of two
69. abase program in a version designed for the HP110 and its 16 line screen With almost no need to refer to the manual you can enter data sort search manage files print address labels and do limited report writing Memory efficient the main program is only 25K and you add individual 10K programs for each function you wish to use SeP 17 DOS Tools Portable Utilities Disk Vol 1 Well over 50 excellent public domain programs that enhance DOS all tested on The Portables Documentation has been rewritten for clarity and ease of use and includes examples index and table of contents Seer 9 The Editor The Formatter separate packages The Editor Many features not in MemoMaker including search replace embedded printer codes up to 255 columns per line Also does word wrap right justify Easy to use Uses less than 40K Ver sions for HP110 Plus IBM PC HP150 all on master disk The Formatter Sophisticated text formatter for large reports program documentation etc Multiline headers footers page numbers table of contents glossary capabilities and more Works with almost all printers Note Documentation is in draft form no technical support available seer 39 HP9114 Empowerer A hardware product that prevents the HP9114 disk drive from running out of juice in the middle of your work Plug Empowerer into your HP9114 and a normal wall outlet and you can run your HP9114 forever ses P 33 Flowcharting II This program creat
70. ales office 5161 Lanker shim Blvd North Hollywood Request PORTOVEC Notes Newsletter Dave Mark 818 794 4969 San Diego Stephen L Eyre 619 452 8530 San Mateo Santa Clara Counties San Francisco Bay Area BAYCHHU HP Lap tops amp Handhelds meet 2nd Sat of the month Contact Jim Horn 707 523 4890 eve or Michael Felsenstein 415 564 8279 eve Herbert L Hamerslough D 415 340 8811 E 415 323 9618 Los Altos Mountain View Marge Sutton D 415 949 0509 E 415 948 0627 Colorado Colorado Springs Dan Ritt 303 528 8080 Denver Call Bob Pressey 303 777 0326 Georgia Atlanta Call Brian Walsh D 404 394 2500 E 404 399 6842 Hawaii Honolulu Rodney Y Fukuya if interested 808 945 3111 Indiana Indianapolis Bob Glass 317 638 2326 Iowa Mid Iowa Ed Keefe D 515 964 6644 E 515 964 7064 Southeast Iowa Hal Goldstein 515 472 6330 Minnesota Minneapolis St Paul John Ferman 612 822 1372 Maine Yarmouth Every last Tue 6 30 US Route one Yarmouth ME 04096 846 5497 North Carolina Charlotte and surrounding area John Jacob 704 334 3468 Texas Houston Thomas R Page D 713 759 4259 E 713 528 7138 Utah Utah County Donna Hoover D 378 4421 E 375 4812 Washington Eastern Washington Northern Idaho Western Montana and possibly Western Washington Bob Sandberg 509 466 4999 Eastern Washington Stephen S Warner D 509 534 1588 E 509 535 3322 Washington D C Greater Washington D C Area 8 00 PM Third Monday of Each Month B
71. alized Software we have that in our records If you purchased a product elsewhere you must show us proof of purchase before we can sell you the ROM Backup Also it is important that you read and adhere to the licensing agreement that comes with the disk based version of the software you buy because the same agreement applies to the cor responding ROM Backup In most cases this means you may use the software on only one computer system Remember you are buying a SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON ROM Here are the programs we re offering on ROM Backup For product details see individual ads elsewhere in this issue Note that in many cases you can save space in your ROM drawer by buying two or more programs on the same chip All our ROMs come with complete easy to follow installation instructions You must own or order the disk versions of any products you buy on ROM Backup To order use order form inside back cover Product Notes Size of ROM Prices Shelp Includes improved version of note 32K 55 extraction program E SideWinder Does not include any of the utility 32K 55 programs that come with the disk based version of SideWinder The Editor 64K 95 Printerlalk Format110 64K 95 Shelp SideWinder Same versions as on 32K ROM chips 64K 95 see above Turbo Pascal Includes RUN COM which can save 10K 64K 95 of disk space from any program you compile with Turbo i Typing Whiz 64K 95 Best of DOS Tools Contain
72. allston Tower 1 800 N Quincy St Room 519 Call to confirm and to say Hi William F Cross D 202 696 4112 E 703 845 9508 Australia 8 Avoca St S Yarra Victoria Australia Nigel S Ball 03 267 8344 England Trafalgar House Grenville Place Mill Hill London NW7 3SA England Tim Cullis 01 959 4359 Netherlands Mr R M Franquiner Menthenbergseweg 13 NL 6816 PR Arnhem The Netherlands Spain Club de usarios HP 110 Pont Reyes S A A la atencion de D Enrique Serra Ronda Universidad 15 08007 Espana 40 JULY AUGUST 1987 Hign quality 372 Disks at a Discount Colored Disks L Ever find yourself hunting through disk Regular Disks _ _ Why pay 69 for 10 disks in a fancy shrink wrapped box with lots of artwork We ll sell you quality Sony disks without the Sony labels or Sony boxes packaged instead in an ergonomically designed library case at no extra charge 4 95 value Portable Paper subscribers pay only 39 95 for 10 unlabelled disks Price to non subscribers 64 90 Now only 29 95 after disk reading label after label just to locate the one you re looking for Ever wish the right disk would just pop up and identify itself Now there s a solution COLOR CODED DISKS from Personalized Software They re high quality C ITOH disks and we re offering them at the following dis count prices to Portable Paper subscribers non subscriber price is 44 95 per set of 10
73. ams on f Turbo Pascal Programs For The Portables p 19 order form Write your ROM backup order disk Turbo Pascal Starter Kit Pascal Tutor Pascal Programs p 19 in the ROM Backup section at the bot Turbo Pascal COO TOE ID B gt Typing Whiz p 27 POM OT Pie OISE tore The Editor te Webster s Spelling Checker works on Portable Plus only p 14 J Printerfalk l WordPerfect Portable Plus only disk based o _ Step 4 Be sure to initial the statement on Formatt10 The Word Plus p 15 k the order form just beneath the ROM ackup section _ WorldPort 1200 Portable Modem p 21 To order the ROM Backups you want you would first have to order the disk 32K and 64K ROMs will be shipped to you ben S of ea you do by June 1987 128K ROMs by August If Ot yet Nave on disk Namely you pay by credit card we will not bill you ira spelling Checker for the ROM Backup part of your order eip until we ship If you pay by check you can SideWinder or SideWinder Utilities send a separate payment for the ROM Step 3 See sam i R sample at right for how Backup part of your order we will hold der form should be filled out in this that part of your payment until we ship example assuming you are a subscriber to The Portable Paper MISC ROM Backup Product Description l j TUR DG PASCAL
74. arge level To resynchronize the remaining with the actual battery charge you must recharge your unit overnight PREVENTING MEMORY LOSS Can you lose memory Yes but you must deliberately ig nore several warnings First always keep the Portable charged on the high side of 50 According to HP the bat tery cannot be overcharged Next use the Power Save Mode and Display Timeout System Config f6 from PAM Power Save mode actually THE PORTABLE PAPER Making More of Your HP Portable by Hal Goldstein stops the CPU clock after one second of waiting for a key to be pressed If a program is running but is not waiting for keyboard input the CPU continues to run Put the Port able next to a radio and you ll hear the on off circuit noise Finally the Portables all have an analog warning in dicator Low Battery that will show up in the lower left hand corner of the screen It will appear at about 20 of charge left Since this is a voltmeter reading the fuel gauge may or may not be quite the same This warning will ap pear every eight minutes in this condition When this happens you have about three hours left of continuous use or 30 days of non use screen off power save On If you continue to ignore the low battery warning the voltmeter then forces the Portable to turn off and stay off In this mode you still have between a week and two months to get it charged before memory is finally lost As you can
75. ata structures within the same database file Although this may seem complex it is an amazingly easy and flexible way of creating a data structure If your database requires the identification of numerical relationships between data fields within the structure you may define rules and global definitions Printed reports are easily formatted directly with the database by implementing report definitions Reference definitions direct T Master to locate retrieve and relate data from a designated disk file Like the record and screen definitions T Master allows multiple rules reports and references Indexing a database saves time searching the entire disk file for reference definitions Many of these features are available from the What s Next command prompt However some of the features like Process are available from within the database editor Update There are several advanced functions which make data manipulation more productive and less cumbersome Process executes the rules reference and report defini tions as they appear in the datafile Order arranges the records in ascending descending alphabetic numeric date or time order Individual records or a range of records can be selected from a datafile Finally records can be added together and cross tabulated Writing a database application with T Master can be 28 JULY AUGUST 1987 SKETCH lets you save part or all of any drawing for future use or you can pri
76. atibles If we order soft ware from you can we have both a 3 and a 51 4 disk Hal For an extra 7 50 we will include an extra disk on some of our products However please be careful to honor the license agreement Even the most liberal of license agreements will not allow more than one person to be using the same piece of software at the same time You would need to order an extra copy of the entire package if you had that in tention 7 We have many Lotus version 1A worksheets that contain numerous finan cial formulas These worksheet files are stored on 5 disks Can we easily transfer some of these files to the RAM disk of the Plus If we have some space in the ROM drawer available we would con sider having some of these files converted to EPROMs What would be the cost for this Hal You should really see if the HP IL card HP82973A that seems to work in most compatibles will work in your Sperry Corona If it does it will be a sim ple matter of putting it into RAM The cost of putting your spreadsheet in ROM is 135 per 64K Write us for details 8 Are there aviation programs like the one for the HP41 available for the Plus Hal I recently received a review copy of a piece of Navigation software that works on the HP110 and Portable Plus Its name is PC Navigator from Pacific Marine Corporation 2410 E 5th St Long Beach CA 90814 213 433 7815 It retails for 69 I hope I haven t mis
77. ave your work in any applica tion before using the Shelp OFF feature Secondly Bernard Sudreau of France reported a major problem He says I put my Portable Plus to sleep with the OFF function of Shelp when in DOS Then I received an incoming call through the built in modem The result was a corrupted disk and the message Press F1 to reformat I do not know if this problem is specific to my 128K Plus recently upgraded to 512K Please warn your readers It is of course also possible that the corruption had to do with the incoming call or what was already on his disk but I would not chance it We also hear that some of Shelp s features do not work correctly on non U S keyboards I don t have any more details than that Finally as we indicate in our advertisements Shelp will not work with graphics screens Therefore it does not work with MS Word SKETCH FLOW CHARTING II or Tiger Fox THE Intelligent Grammar and Style Checker RightWriter is a new tool to help you produce lean powerful BUSINESS WRITING RightWriter uses advanced artificial intelligence technology to flag errors in GRAMMAR STYLE USAGE and PUNCTUATION RightWriter is the first office auto O mation package aimed at e producing better writing not more writing Messages are Inserted directly into text to point out possible errors and problem areas Easy to Use onlyone command to learn your word processor does the rest Works wit
78. calculator that works just like a pocket calculator with memory You can E save results in ten E paste results at the different storage cursor location in registers and retrieve whatever application you them again with two were using when you quick keystrokes invoked Shelp Calculator ESC to exit Choose Notepad and a scratch pad pops up on your screen Type whatever you want into it exit to your application and then recall the notepad whenever you want No more having to scribble notes on paper to remind you of phone numbers things P to do or bright ideas RL Choose Key Macros and you can assign strips of up to 31 typewriter characters to any of the 26 letters in the alphabet This saves you having to type the same phrase over and over again Shelp Call Pers Softw 515 472 6330 4 15 mtg w Alice Example f you type United States a lot you could assign the entire phrase to the U key Just move the cursor to U in the Keyboard Macros menu and type United States To recall United States simply press Ctrl Extend char then U Presto United States appears at the cursor location in your application Keyboard Macros TOs United States Nex Ed R ESC to exit Choose Off and your Portable Plus turns off without having to return to RA M and without having to save your application file When you turn your computer back on you
79. ce and 216K of internal memory HP110 users will have to run the program off an external drive Plus users with lots of memory can run it internally We have now customized the 3 disk that we send with RightWriter so that it automatically installs into the HP Portables and HP150 We also include instructions for running the program on HP machines If you are having trouble with the version of RightWriter you purchased from us send us your disk or 7 50 to receive this new disk If you run RightWriter without difficulty you don t need this disk I must say I was initially skeptical about Right Writer I had enough positive feedback from readers to put it on our price list I finally tried it When I used it it definite ly helped my writing I m just a little lazy to use it all the time What RightWriter does is insert comments within your word processing text Very few of Right Writer s com ments really made much of a difference to me when I tried it However two of its less sophisticated features forced me to examine my sentences again and again First of all it flags any sentence longer then 22 words It also flags com plex sentences About 80 of the time when I found one of these long sentences I was able to cut it down The other helpful feature for me is its flagging of passive voice For most kinds of writing the only time a sentence should be in passive voice is when the object is clearly more im portant then the
80. ch Mouse for the Portable PLus A 3 button mouse for the Portable Plus bundled with our proprietary Portable Mouse Software and special connecting cable Using the mouse instead of arrow keys to move the screen cursor makes using your Plus easier and more fun You can assign a different keystroke to each of the mouse s buttons for each of your applications Lotus word processing etc The Logitech mouse was rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine seP 19 101 Macros for Lotus 1 2 3 Useful in themselves and also as learning tools for novices and experts alike these macros include recalculating ranges double spacing spreadsheet prior to printout hiding notes next to data cells addressing form letters and printing labels automatically Customized for Lotus 1A and Lotus 2 01 seep 24 Mobile Recharger Lets you recharge your Portable ThinkJet HP9114 HP hand held com puter etc from your car s cigarette lighter ses 6 7 The Norton Utilities Customized For The Portables Allow you to recover deleted Portable files and organize your electronic and external disks Peter Norton has authorized Personalized Software to include an extra 34 disk formerly available only on 54 disk with each package sold The disk includes The Norton Utilities additional utilities and instructions for running The Norton Utilities on the Port ables and the HP150 Both version 4 0 and the Advanced Edition are now available 1987 Portable Paper S
81. containing a word processor speller database spreadsheet and communications module The whole program fits quite nicely on a machine with a 1 Megabyte RAM card T Master in 1 or 2 Megabytes of inter nal Portable Plus RAM space represents an evolutionary Hal Goldstein its ROM and RAM based machines the future of Portable computing The prototype of it all the outdated HP110 continues to be an incredibly useful machine The computer industry press hints that HP may bow to market pressures and soon release a Toshiba style port able luggable with built in mechanical floppy and hard disk At the same time it is equipping thousands of its sales force and field service engineers with Portable Plus s Therefore I hope that HP has the good sense to continue in parallel its original Portable strategy of creating truly rugged portable self sufficient ROM and RAM based machines My bet is that HP will eventually do it right In the short term HP will come out with a Portable like the rest of them However in the long term HP will be in an excellent position to marry the two current portable technologies IBM compatibility two 5 or 10 Megabyte independ ently powered electronic RAM drives a faster processor a better screen and keyboard all in eight or nine rugged pounds that is truly the machine for the rest of us step in what an eight pound machine can do I hope Hewlett Packard values what it has
82. created with Box Cursor In Lotus When using the edit function to change the contents of a window in Lotus I find it difficult to locate the cursor Is it possi ble to get the box cursor to work in Lotus Jim Keersemaker Livingston Manor NY Hal Use the same trick that works in MemoMaker and The Editor to get the block cursor Press Extend char fl That will give you the block cursor on the Lotus editing line By the way we figured out why CTRL Select turns on the block cursor in WordPerfect When Console Mode in PAM s 6 System Config is set to ALT according the Portable Plus Technical Reference Manual CTRL Select toggles the block cursor Some Questions And Answers I have some questions in regard to the Portable Plus 1 Our Plus is a D Model with 256K of RAM memory We installed the 128K RAM drawer plus two 128K RAM extension boards which gives us a total of 640K RAM How can we have the additional 256K internally installed and what would the cost be Hal Call HP Corvallis for an upgrade appointment The cost to upgrade until July 1 1987 was 1100 whether you cur rently have 128K or 256K When we con 2 JULY AUGUST 1987 tacted Corvallis at press time all they knew was that they would continue up grading Portable Plus s The price may change up or down but they would not say If you are able to spend that kind of money for an upgrade I suggest you look into either HP s 1 Megabyte me
83. d You ll find these ROMs to be fast reliable and eo an incredible boost to your productivity lt Whatever your reason to free up valuable memory space to minimize the need for an external disk drive or for sheer convenience order one or more of our best selling programs on ROM Backup today Complete ordering instructions are inside the back cover WE CUSTOM ROMS You may have some programs or data of your own that you would like to put on ROM either a single copy for yourself or in quantity for others Important you may not copy off the shelf software onto ROM chips without per mission of the publisher We are happy to offer our same high quality ROM Backup Service on a custom basis at the following prices Note Programs can span two or more 64K ROMs 32K ROM 123 for first ROM 32 for each additional ROM 64K ROM 135 for first ROM 54 for each addditional ROM 128K ROM Minimum order 100 units Please call for prices For details call or write for our free information sheet How To Order Custom ROM Backup Further discounts are available for orders of 10 or more identical ROMs ABOUT ROMS A ROM Read Only Memory is a microelectronic chip that stores programs or other data Once informa tion is burned in to a ROM it cannot be altered A different form of ROM called an EPROM can be altered once information is burned in EPROM stands for Erasable Programmable Read Only Memo
84. d Software PO Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 your own preferences You can do this by issuing the set path lt new path gt and set prompt lt new code gt com mands I recommend that you do not change the value of the comspec variable MS DOS needs the current value to find its way to the command com file THE PAM ENV FILE Now before trying out the set prompt and set path com mands let s take a look at how the HP Pcrtables handle en vironment space This is one of the better features of the HP Portables operating system HP lets you work with a text file called pam env PAM s Environment instead of forcing you to use the set commands To create new values for the path and prompt variables you may use a text editor such as MemoMaker The Editor or even EDLIN Simply create a file called pam env with your favorite editor Then type in the name of the environment variable an equal sigri and your preferred values When you have typed in the new values save them as an ASCII file on the Edisc Finally reset your computer by pressing the CTRL Shift Break keys Rather than give you a step by step procedure to follow for creating new values for pam env variables let me show you what my own HP110 pam env file looks like comspec b bin command com prompt e s e amp ab0x0y e amp dBSt e 6D dfe amp d elu p g path b bin b a ja sd e Notice that my comspec variable is the same as the default value The
85. der form N e Subscriptions are at the top e Shipping is FREE for U S orders over 200 e Products are next and are alphabetized 5 Calculate total s The blank lines near the bottom labelled MISC are B If paying by check or money order for you to write in special instructions or to order e Make payable in U S funds to PERSONALIZED miscellaneous products not listed on the form SOFTWARE e The last section of e Place check and order form in an envelope and a the order form is for mail ordering software on e If you d rather have us pay the postage Personalized Software ROM backup See e Fold order form so panel addressed to Personaliz special instructions ed Software is on the outside below e Tape shut and drop in mail e ORDERING PRODUCTS ON ROM BACKUP Step 1 Select the software programs for Example which you want ROM Backup from the list Step 1 Let s say you wish to purchase below the following ROM Backups C2 Step 2 If you do not own the disk version Webster s Spelling Checker a tf 9995 of each program you have selected deter Super ROM The Editor Mini PrintefTalk S Shsin works on Portable Plus only p 28 __SideWinder Utiities p 31 mine which disks you will need to order Formatt10 Shelp and SideWinder Step 3 Enter your disk order in the Step 2 And let s assume that you Turbo Pascal p 19 alphabetical Products section of the already own the following progr
86. ditor s author wrote The Formatter If what Paul says about his program is true I think HPrint may emerge the clear winner Paul tells the program is finished and the manual will be printed by the time you receive this issue My only concern is the clarity of the manual There are many features in the program I hope Paul does a good job explaining them Iam going to send copies of Printerlalk Format110 The Formatter and HPrint to David Hughes for an impar tial judgment Hopefully we will have his review for next issue HPrint should be available in July from us It retails for 80 Portable Paper subscribers pay 75 95 If you own Sketch or order HPrint with SKETCH the cost becomes 69 95 for HPrint Bugs Upgrades Fixes and Product Notes SHELP NEWS Several users have reported problems with Shelp Shelp available for the Portable Plus only contains a popup calculator notepad keyboard macro generator and system off facility So for example within Lotus you can pop up your notepad to make notes or turn the system off It is a most useful product that even with the problems de scribed below I would recommend without hesitation First Gerald Fuller and several other readers have reported a significant bug using the OFF function within MemoMaker Sometimes when you turn MemoMaker off with Shelp in the middle of an editing session you will lose your current work The best workaround and a good idea anyway is to always s
87. e I recently purchased an IBM compatible laptop com puter in lieu of buying a more expensive desktop model due to the relative age of the 80286 based computers and the introduction of the newer 80386 technology This other laptop features 640K of memory an internal 300 1200 baud modem and two 3 flexible disk drives After using my new industry standard IBM compati ble laptop for nearly a week Id like to share with you some of my first hand impressions of why the HP is still my favorite Most Portable users take the features of their computer for granted In order to start my new laptop I must place a DOS system diskette in drive A and turn the unit on Once DOS is active my next mission is to find the disket tes that contains my application and data insert them in to the appropriate drives and load the application With the HP I just depress any key to wake the unit from sleep move the cursor to the desired application and depress the Return key There are no disks to fumble with Many users complain about having to deal with PAM It is an excellent user interface especially if your HP runs as an applications engine It s always possible to bypass PAM by loading DOS commands as an application The competition s interface is still the DOS A gt PAM resides in ROM and immediately appears when the Portable is turned on PAM keeps life simple for the novice and can be easily bypassed by the advanced user
88. e HP150 Immediate numeric and graphic feedback of your progress seep 11 Used HP Portable Equipment The Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personalized Soft ware buys and sells used HP Portables Portable Pluses HP9114s HP ROMs and RAMs for the Portable Plus Because of HP quality used HP products are a great buy 30 day return policy on all used equipment we sell Back cover Webster s Spelling Checker Rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine this spelling checker packs a hef ty 110 000 word dictionary into just 207K of disk memory Webster s shows you incorrect spellings in context and suggests corrections also lets you preview questionable words before you edit Excellent user interface exceptionally easy to learn and use Customized for the Port able Plus and HP150 SeP1 WordPerfect 4 2 Disk based Portable Plus version of the best selling word processing package Includes spelling checker and thesaurus seep 36 The Word Plus An excellent spelling checker with a choice of two dictionaries 45 000 words and 35 000 words plus the ability to input additional words and abbreviations of your own Also does word counts Customized to the HP Portables WorldPort 1200 Portable Modem A battery powered highly compact 4 x 2 x1 lightweight 6 5 02 full featured external modem that transmits data at 1200 baud four times the speed of the internal modem that comes with the HP110 Port able Also ideal fo
89. e I use I won t go into the details However here are some comments The autol23 wks from the 1987 Subscribers Disk is a must this utility provides the loading flexibility you need And 101 Macros customizes your spreadsheets These macros have helped me set up the following types of spreadsheets market of MultiMate and Lotus 2 01 Corporate Users Corporate users let us send a Portable Paper to all your company s Portable users Contact us for special corporate rates JULY AUGUST 1987 25 THE PORTABLE PAPER A Drive Application Software in R T Master ae By David Hughes Introduction Brilliant and innovative products are often known for their ability to solve complex problems with a singular unifying theme T Master is an example of such brilliance because it consistently solves your problems in the same manner whether it involves writing a letter designing a complex spreadsheet model or managing a multi file database T Master is a friendly fully integrated business applica tion from T Maker Company Designed primarily for the IBM PC it runs on the Portable Plus without modification and on the HP150 under the PC emulator The program logically integrates a full featured word processor 55 000 word speller relational database manager spreadsheet bar chart graphics keyboard macros and file management In addition the T Maker Company has customized its com munications module so that it runs on th
90. e Portable Plus The Intelligent Chalkboard T Master s approach to integration is amazingly simple and straightforward Unlike other integrated software products that require you to memorize different work environments word processing spreadsheet database T Master begins to solve your problems with the editor or Intelligent Chalkboard It is quite surprising how easily problems can be solv ed by using a chalkboard It promotes freedom of expres sion yet always enables its viewer to maintain a good perspective of the developing solution T Master s editor is remarkably like a chalkboard be ing 400 columns wide and very very long The active area is defined from the current cursor location to the end of the file The editor isn t particularly concerned whether you re working on a document a spreadsheet a database or a graph since all files created by T Master are just plain ASCII text Just as it is possible to express ideas relation ships calculations and concepts in the form of notes graphs and tables on a chalkboard T Master is quite capable of handling text tables database and bar chart graphics all within the same disk file Integration is as simple as What Next This familiar prompt appears in the lower left hand corner of the display Most functions are performed with easy to remember English like commands If you can t remember the commands the help facility and command menus serve
91. e SKETCH this package is surely recommend ed for the professional who frequently prepares seminars or presentations In fact the printouts of these flowsheets can be easily photocopied onto transparent sheets to give excellent charts projectable with a diascope And as I mentioned earlier FLOW CHARTING could be very easily expanded to a wider audience if more shapes were included However the creation of some of these shapes would be virtually impossible for the user because of the lack of diagonal cursor movement SKETCH is a growing program that needs in my opi nion some final additions even at cost of increasing its size to allow one to move and to copy portions of screen to other locations A status line s the correction of minor bugs and possibly a Shrink feature would be desirable Although I would like to see the above additions made to SKETCH I feel it is a superb package The excellent GS COM utility provides a means to import graphics screens from other applications The versatility of SKETCH and its potential ability to accept inputs from specially defined files using SKDEMO should allow Southern Soft ware to produce separate additions to the package Addi tions could include new fonts creation of libraries of icons and interfacing with programs able to generate plots Finally Paul Grimmer s new HPrint program easily allows SKETCH sketches to be integrated with the text created in your word processor for output
92. e ee rana m ma ms s ee a Wn i an LUIUPGaGH UUSWWHITIS Beginning August 1st for faster 4 delivery and lower shipping costs P er sonalized please order all products directly V Software from our European distributor EE ARE eee ae eng een eR oe eee SoftWord Products that make HP Portables smarter Prices guaranteed through Astage Rectory Lane PO Box 869 Fairfield Iowa 52556 515 472 6330 ORDER FORM aucust3i 1987 a BUDO SBW England Retail Subscriber see Product ee o Price rice Qty Total In England Bagshot 0276 75440 In Europe 44276 75440 for all details please contact SoftWord after August ist 139 001 99 001 The Portable Paper Check one L New subscriber Renewal N A N A 3 Year Subscription 2 Year Subscription Seas aa la E Jan 1986 OJan 1987 C Current issue 1 Year Subscription 55 00 N A A Q Back Issues indicate numbers 9 20 N A RRRR RR Time Manager Pack HP Calculator 2 N A 7 504 amp 6U DAY 1987 Subscriber Disk 7 504 MONEY BACK 99 95 9 95 35 956 9 95 35 956 64 90 44 95 44 95 10 unlabeled Sony disks and case 10 colored disks Rainbow Pack 10 colored disks Monochrome Pack Specify color lf within 60 days you are dissatisfied with a subscrip DISKS p 411 SUBSCRIPTIONS GUARANTEE x T Condor Junior HP110 Portable only 99 95 89 95 tion or product for any DOS Tools Portable Utilities Vol 1 p 17 49 95 39 95 rea an ou may K it for a
93. e length and line lengtheautomatic page numbering tables and charts Stable of contents generation and more THE FORMATTER works by imbedding special for matting codes into your EDITOR MemoMaker or other ASCII text files You can customize THE FOR MATTER for almost any printer ie 2 THE EDITOR creates ASCII files which means you can send your files to and from almost any other program or computer without special formats or codes 3 THE EDITOR will automatically back up your files to protect you against mistakes When you save a file THE EDITOR saves not just the current version but the previous one as well 4 THE EDITOR takes up less than 40K of memory 5 THE EDITOR loads and saves files and HP150 executes commands IBM PC HP Vectra exceptionally fast Even in the desktop market it is dif ficult to find a word processor with this many useful features at this low a price For the Portables THE EDITOR simply can t be beat See for yourself Order your copy risk free today THE EDITOR 99 95 79 95 for Portable Paper subscribers RUNS ON HP Portable Portable Plus 0 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 615 472 6330 Special combined offer SAVE S30 THE
94. e line In addition there are several options that allow you to darken or erase an entire enclosed area regardless of the shape All that has been said so far applies not only to the screen different on the Plus and HP110 but also to the global working area of 640 x 256 dots equal for both machines The global working area that is your total drawing area is twice the screen size of the HP110 and 27 larger than the Plus ALPHA MODE The alpha text mode is very easy to use and allows one to utilize the different fonts hidden in the Plus which are also available to the 110 as external files Notably it is possible to mix bold thin mathematic and IBM character sets on the same Plus screen All 255 characters of each of these fonts can be entered and mixed with the graphics Characters can be displayed and printed in different directions standard left to right up to down down to up and upside down You can automatically create different spacings between characters resulting in either 60 or 80 column screen lines Finally the characters can be normal that is dark on a light background or inverted You can overwrite or overlay screens with other screens In alpha mode you determine exactly where the character will be printed horizontally and vertically The space backspace and Return keys moves the cursor as in a regular word processor The arrow keys allow you to finely position the cursor one graphic dct a
95. e ll see how committed you are We will definitely put SKETCH on ROM We are think ing of offering SKETCH alone on a 64K ROM and SKETCH HPRINT the Mouse driver and a screen extraction graphics utility that comes with SKETCH on a 128K ROM HP Calculator without its help file might barely make it on a 64K ROM If HP Calculator on ROM interests you tell me By the way the HP Calculator program becomes much more usable and enjoyable when using a mouse Finally we ll look into putting Milestone and Private File on ROM In the meantime please keep telling us what you want on ROM 12 TULY AUGUST 1987 Two New Products LOGITECH MOUSE SYSTEM Bill Saltzstein has completed writing mouse software for the Portable Plus The serial version of both the LogiTech and Microsoft mice will work with the Portable Plus and Bill s software Last issue s The Portable Paper Vol 2 No 3 p 29 discussed using the mouse with the Plus We also mentioned that the LogiTech mouse contains an extra programmable button and costs 100 less then the Micro soft Mouse See also this issue s review on SKETCH for more discussion of using a mouse The LogiTech mouse retails for 99 95 the software for 70 and a custom cable for the Portable 35 The subscriber price will be 89 95 60 and 25 respectively or 174 95 for the mouse system HPRINT I haven t had a chance to play with Paul Grimmer s new est jewel HPrint Paul Grimmer through hi
96. e the ADDITIONAL P RODUCTS product name and price on one of the blank lines in the MISC section near the bottom of the order form Product Retail Price Subscriber Price Retail Price Subscriber Price oOmpuServe Starter KIL 39 95 35 95 Private File 2 s ack cw she BA hte en aaa 39 95 34 95 HP9114 Empower with Battery Pack p 39 225 00 199 00 RightWords dictionary extension POR GLO Patent tS cet ed E Ons 39 95 35 95 for RightWriter De l ria EN T Gud HE BOO REEE SH 29 95 Mouse Logitech p 29 oana datas mentee 99 00 89 95 SideWinder without utilities p 23 69 95 59 95 Mouse Microsoft p 29 0 40 RE EE 174 95 Viger FOR ERE gees oe had hres SeH A AR T 29 95 Mouse Software p 29 0 005 TOO te 3 ob oak a 60 00 Turbo Pascal Programs for Portables 49 95 44 95 Mouse Cable p 201 BOO E 25 00 Turbo Toolbox p 15 0 000022 20005 09 9925 R w K 62 95 PERU E ns Dore athe RRR R eh eer 695 00 499 00 Turbo Tutor OAD a R acute os Bh aed A 4 BO ID A dos Pred 34 95 vom Our Products in Brief CompuServe Starter Kit Gets you started on the Electronic Information Service CompuServe which includes the HP Forum Includes 25 worth of free time com plete Users Guide permanent user ID number and preliminary password and CompuServe s monthly magazine Online Today Condor Junior An easy to use dat
97. e the recharger cubes are four too big Here s the solution Get rid of that tangle of extension cords The Model 110A Power Cube Recharger power strips or whatever else you ve been from Summit Concepts putting up with Order a Model 110A Power The Model 110A has five power cords Cube Recharger today Four are HP cords that plug into your HP Model 110A Portable ThinkJet HP9114 disk drive s or Power Cube Recharger 89 95 HP hand held HP41 71 75 series 80 etc 84 95 for Portable Paper subscribers We mailed out free disks to all those who ordered Turbo Tutor after January 1 If you ordered Turbo Tutor 2 0 from us and did not receive the disk drop us a line or call us and we ll send you the free disk If you ordered the older version and upgraded through Borland by sending an old master disk and 10 then you can get the sup plemental disk from us in the usual manner Send us 7 50 or a formatted blank disk and a self addressed stamped envelope with proof of upgrade DISK STORAGE CASES A number of you who have ordered disks from us pack aged in book like storage cases have asked how to obtain empty cases We ll sell them to you for 5 95 each Just use the MISC field to write in storage cases on the order form at the back of the issue WORDPERFECT Version 4 2 of WordPerfect for the Portable Plus has been available for several months now Regular Plus WordPerfect users Chuck Carpenter and Paul Grimm
98. eds to issue the type command to type the file needed The typed file should be captured through the software in the calling computer When the caller types exit the MS DOS input and output are reset and the phone is hung up The other two files have the modem commands necessary to answer and hang up the phone Here are the contents of answer ATA ATO Of hangup ATH The line ATQI causes the modem not to print status messages Also System Config must have the datacom interface set to MODEM And in Datacom Config be sure to have the modem s baud rate set correctly The Wizard Responds Q I have been using PCVIEW for a couple of weeks now and I am very impressed I have been following your Wizard column in The Portable Paper and I am con stantly amazed at your technical knowledge of the Port ables and of MS DOS PCVIEW was the best news Ld heard in a long time My personal units are HP150B and HP110 but we use a Vectra and NCR micros at work Oceanside Fire Department I had spent much of my spare time over the last year puttering around with specific include files for each machine the NCRs are really Convergent Technologies so not compatibles Thanks to PCVIEW I am able to write Turbo Pascal programs that will run on all units Before PCVIEW I was forced to re compile on each machine I am especially pleased that you implemented the softkey menu at the bottom of the screen for the com patibles
99. ems the formulas are written along the borders of the sheet in calculation lines and stripes This visual approach has an advantage over Lotus style spreadsheets since all of the formulas are plainly visible You may compute the whole file or from the cursor position forward A spreadsheet may be created within a word process ing document or written separately and merged into the document later If you need to use information from a R 7 Z K Top rated mouse adds convenience and fun Move a mouse around on your desk and the cursor moves around the screen It s easier than cramping your fingers on the arrow keys especially if you move the cursor around a lot with Lotus say or with your word processor For creating freeform graphics a mouse is a must The best mouse we know of is also one of the least expensive EDITOR S CHOICE It s the LOGITECH MOUSE model C7 from Logitech Inc and it runs beautifully on the Portable Plus when coupled with a PORT ABLE MOUSE SOFTWARE program devel oped exclusively for us by Bill Saltzstein The LOGITECH MOUSE was rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine January 27 1987 3 BUTTONS EASY TO CUSTOMIZE The LOGITECH MOUSE offers high resolu tion precision tracking and a convenient 3 button design The Microsoft mouse which See ad for Sketch the graphics program for the Portable Plus in this issue sells for 100 more only has two buttons With our POR
100. endly Like T Master it is possible to have text data bar charts and a spreadsheet within the same file Headers footers and footnotes are supported Paragraph alignment is spe cified by aligning wedges allowing for ragged or left right justified text Printer enhancements automatic page numbering horizontal scrolling protected blocks and keystroke macros are fully supported T Maker s database is quite versatile allowing flexible forms and record definition A form is used to create a Attention users of the HP41 71 75 and series 80 computers Transfer data both ways between your HP hand held and your P Portable or HP150 IBM PC printer modem and more Hewlett Packard s HP IL interface lets you transfer data from certain HP IL devices to certain other HP IL devices for example from hand held computers to printers and disk drives or from your HP Portable to an IBM PC Unfortunately the HP IL interface does not allow all possible combinations notably missing is the ability to transfer data from HP hand held computers to MS DOS com puters like the Portables the HP150 and the IBM PC Now all that is changed thanks to a soft ware program called LINK LINK lets you transfer data from any HP IL device to any other HP IL device This means for example PC This gives your hand held direct access to your MS DOS machine s com putational power and unlimited storage capabil
101. ep in We have to proof each arti cle at least three extra times after the final proof It is hard to make last minute changes Batch files commands and Lotus macros do not lend themselves to typeset pro portionally spaced characters Besides it is expensive I think it inevitable that we go desktop probably starting with our 1988 issues Who knows maybe we will be able to put out more Portable Papers a year We certainly have enough material to do so I d love to hear your thoughts about us publishing The Portable Paper using a PC and a LaserJet The other major project requested by many of you is to set up a computer bulletin board here with several phone lines That way you can talk with us and each other answer each others questions submit articles upload and download files and get the latest information on our prod ucts I am open to suggestions as to how we can set up such a service so that it is economical for you and profitable or at least not a financial pinch for us New 1 Megabyte RAM ROM Card U S Pricing on 2 Megabyte Card INTRODUCTION TO RAM ROM Personalized Software will distribute England s SoftWord memory cards in the U S and outside of Europe The higher memory capacity of the HP 1 Megabyte Memory Drawer HP829224A the SoftWord 1 Megabyte RAM ROM card and the SoftWord 2 Megabyte RAM card changes the nature of the Portable Plus The Plus now becomes capable of running larger software applicati
102. er have promised to send us their comments on using the product in the Plus environment for a future The Portable Paper Although WordPerfect 4 2 adds features not in version 4 1 like the new Norton and RightWriter it increases significantly in size It seems the Portable user must decide whether all the new bells and whistles of a new version of a product is worth giving up the extra memory The philosophy in the software industry is that most IBM PC compatible users do or will soon own a hard disk so disk space is not that critical as it once was The equivalent in the Portable Plus environment is the new memory capacity A 1 5 or 2 5 megabyte RAM disk would make a nice WordPerfect environment room for the whole program the speller and the thesaurus You can still operate WordPerfect off the C drive with a minimum of 324K internal memory set from PAM s f6 System Config Memory Edisc If you want to put Word Perfect into the A drive you will need 268K for the main WordPerfect program and 13K of miscellaneous print files So if you leave the WordPerfect speller off WordPerfect will fit quite nicely in an 768K machine The speller in RAM costs you another 290K of disk space and the 18 JULY AUGUST 1987 thesaurus file takes up another 363K Therefore to run all of WordPerfect from the A drive will take 324K of inter nal memory and 934K of Edisc space or 1258K total Ready for that 1 or 2 Megabyte memory card yet SIDEWINDER
103. es professional looking flowcharts and organiza tional charts using 26 flowchart symbols in 95 sizes Wide variety of text fonts for creating labels both inside and outside the shapes Easy to add and delete lines without disturbing the rest of the flowchart Shrink Screen feature lets you view up to 14 x11 chart on 25 line screen Runs on Portable Plus only seP 12 HPrint A multi featured program that takes text ASCII files you ve created with MemoMaker The Editor or other word processors and prints them on an HP printer Comes with italic type font for ThinkJet Also allows bold underline compressed expanded subscripts superscripts headers footers page numbering double space and much more all of which you specify from a simple men or by means of sensible control codes For example U toggles underline H lets you specify a header L toggles 6 8 lines per inch etc There s no need to know your HP printer s less obvious control codes because they re already programmed in HPrint also does mail merging and it lets you create your own graphic characters integral signs Greek alpha etc soe p 31 LINK HP IL Connector A software program that lets you transfer data from any HP IL device to any other HP IL device Now you can access your main computer HP Portable HP150 or IBM PC its unlimited storage capability and all its peripherals from your HP41 71 75 or series 80 hand held seP 29 Logite
104. estricted to bold and underline You can imbed control charac ters in your text to tell your printer to print all or part of your text compressed expanded bold underlined or whatever else your printer can handle Unlimited line length Your files are no longer limited to 80 characters per line This means for ex ample you can print 132 character lines on your ThinkJet printer in compressed mode Lines per page You can specify the number of lines per page using the control codes required by your printer Easy in easy out You can exit from THE EDITOR run another program then type a one word command and be back in THE EDITOR in a flash exactly where you left off This includes exiting and returning from DOS which means you can delete copy and rename files while running THE EDITOR Right justification and automatic paragraph indent A simple command right justifies your text and at the same time automatically indents your paragraphs however many spaces you wish Undelete Erased something you want back No problem A simple command will un delete the last word line or block of text deleted Upper lower case conversion Another simple command lets you change upper case to lower case and vice versa without having to retype anything In terms of useful features per dollar and in terms of the convenience and in creased productivity you gain I feel that THE EDITOR is a truly exceptional buy I ur
105. eview SKETCH and FLOW CHARTING in this issue and leave the discussion of PPRLE to a future issue I will also comment on a Mouse driver that Bill Saltzs tein has recently written for the serial port of the Plus not for the 110 which definitely changes the feeling for creating graphics on the Plus SKETCH I really love this program which I have seen grow from its first appearance as a freebie together with SideWinder to the current just released Version 2 11 I have been in touch with the author Paul Grimmer who has always pa tiently taken into account my repeated requests of addi tional features The package is not difficult to use It may take a cou ple of days to get accustomed to all the different features but from the start one can rely on the fl help and Print Enter status keys SKETCH runs equally well on the 110 and the Plus it can be easily run from the external drive since drive usage is limited to the time to load the program 17 seconds and to load and store any SKETCH files if the C drive is chosen for this purpose The Help screen pops up when you load the program Alternatively you can easily install and run this 43K program in your A drive from PAM SKETCH operates in two modes drawing mode and alpha text mode TheSelect key used as a toggle It is possible to change freely from one mode to the other so that graphics and text can be easily mixed on the same display GRAPHICS MODE The graph
106. ext file on your electronic floppy or hard disk but you can t remember which file it was or even which directory How to find it No problem Just type ts for text search specify the phrase and the program will display every occurrence of the phrase iden tifying each occurrence by directory and file Or let s say you can t remember which sub directory you put a given file into Instead of hunting for the file manually just type ff find file and specify the name of the file and the directories to search through The program does the rest Other useful features include the fa com mand which lets you change file attributes for THE NORTON UTILITIES are among the most helpful utilities ve run across I use them myself every day and in my opinion they re a must Here s why By Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable Paper example to make erasable files unerasable or vice versa and the fs command which tells you the total file size of a group of files I often use it to find out the total disk space occupied by my Lotus worksheet WKS files or by all my text files from a given project Because of their great helpfulness and ease of use THE NORTON UTILITIES are already a best seller in the IBM PC market Personalized Software is authorized to distribute them on 3 1 2 disk for users of the HP110 Portable Portable Plus and HP150 All it takes is a few keystrokes to customize THE NORTON
107. files on say your electronic disk I NEVER use the format command directly either on my Portable or on my hard disk PC systems I always put format commands in batch files The following are examples of several batch files I use The meaning of the format commands within these batch files will be discussed in more detail in this article DOS Command formatl Batch File Name formatl bat 6 JULY AUGUST 1987 Contents of batch file format c w Meaning Format single sided disk Equipment HP110 with utilities disk format com program or Portable Plus HP9114 disk drive DOS Command format2 Batch File Name format2 bat Contents of batch file hpilfor c Meaning Format double sided disk Equipment IBM PC compatible HP IL card HP9114 disk drive DOS Command formate Batch File Name formatc bat Contents of batch file format c c Meaning Clear all files from disk in C drive Equipment HP110 or Portable Plus HP9114 disk drive CLEANING UP DISKS Rich Burmeister who just joined us showed us a most useful trick for clearing the files off a disk Suppose you want to clear all the files from an exter nal disk in order to put some new files on it One way to do this is del However if you have any subdirectories on the disk they will NOT be deleted For example if you have one subdirectory named subdir you need to change directories with ed subdir then del then go back to the root directory with ed then remo
108. fined words will have to reside in RAM Letter Quality Printer Suggested In response to your request in the last issue for names of good letter quality daisy wheel printers I suggest the Brother EM100 configuration 300 baud 7 data bits 1 stop bit even parity XON I have used it for three years and think it s great Michael Goergen Washington DC Empowerer Pro And Con EMPOWERER CON Late last year I ordered the HP9114 Em powerer and battery pack The equipment has since arrived and I was disappointed as the presentation and quality was much below the standard I have enjoyed from your organization This was based on 1 The shape size and general layout of the Empowerer is quite different from the neat cube advertised 2 No attempt has been made to color coordinate the device with the disk drive ThinkJet and computer 3 The poor installation of the new exter nal male plug on the battery pack leaves the outer protection case both split and distorted 4 The device arrived with an unusable continental plug I am returning the Empowerer and battery pack I have found the above both frustrating and cost ly and believe with a little more effort all would have been well I do repeat that I am totally enthusi astic and satisfied with The Portable Paper and other products purchased through your organization C David Gamble Dunedin New Zealand Hal I am sorry for all the difficulty you e
109. full refund Should you The Editor p 9 99 95 79 95 become dissatisfied with a The Editor The Formatter p 9 159 90 Flowcharting Il Portable Plus only 232 00 99 95 209 00 subscription after the 60 day period we will refund the unused portion of your RRRRRRRRRK The Formatter p 9 99 95 49 95 subscription HP9114 Empowerer Power Supply p 39 145 00 129 00 Q HP9114 Empowerer with used HP9114A Disk Drive 1 N A 595 00 VUMVYBVY zl me 3 2 T Includes free 1987 Subscriber Disk Link HP IL Connector p 31 80 00 75 95 Z Available only t sab ctibers taf Logitech Mouse System for Portable Plus mouse software cable p 29 204 95 174 85 3 Available only to those whose subscriptions include 101 Macros For Lotus 1 2 3 p 19 69 95 62 95 at least one 1987 issue Milestone 99 95 89 95 4 The 7 50 includes shipping Alternatively you may Printerlalk Printerlalk Format110 89 90 Project 8 9 10 99 95 1 Meg RAM 8 Socket ROM Card 1 yr guarantee Plus only p 1 1 995 00 49 95 44 95 59 95 89 95 1 695 00 7 Lower price is without cable for connecting to HP Portables Circle price that applies 8 Indicate 32K 64K or 128K or 2x128K for Webster s Spelling Checker 9 If you already own or have ordered either Sketch S The S iss shipping NBE you may amp Mobile Recharger p 24 29 95 29 95 stamped envelope to receive the software at no m Norton Utilities Version 4 0 p 7 99 95 89 95 charge
110. ge you to try it Order yours today THE PORTABLE PAPER Until now Portable Plus buyers normally purchased one HP ROM drawer and one HP RAM drawer The ROM drawer contains 12 empty sockets for ROM based soft ware Each socket can contain a maximum of 128K of ROM software So for example the new version 2 01 of Lotus 1 2 3 will take 3 sockets Five programs offered by Per sonalized Software sold as SuperROM will occupy one socket The original HP RAM drawer contains 128K of RAM Versions of the Portable Plus come with 128K 256K or 512K already built in Therefore a 512K Portable Plus with an HP RAM drawer becomes a 640K machine The HP RAM drawer has room for two additional 128K cards A completely filled HP RAM drawer holds 384K of RAM 128K 2 x 128K Until recently a fully loaded Portable Plus consisted of 896K of RAM 512K 384K and as many software applications as would fit in the ROM drawer s 12 sockets What follows is a discussion of new Plus configura tions In an attempt to minimize the confusion all of Soft Word s products will be refered to as Cards Both the SoftWord 2 Megabyte RAM Card and the new 1 Megabyte 8 socket RAM ROM Card consist of a drawer and memory The HP 1 Megabyte Drawer also consist of a drawer and memory RAM ROM CARD 1024K RAM 8 SLOTS OF ROM Last issue we announced the new Megabyte memory drawers available from England s SoftWord for the HP Port able Plus
111. gs B Enter the correct spelling manually RUNS ON HP Portable HP150 e Portable Plus e IBM PC HP Vectra e Available on EPROM ROM The Portable Paper Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield lowa 52556 B Add the word to an auxiliary diction ary of frequently used words S Replace all other occurrences of the word B Look up the spelling of any other word at any time WEBSTER S also lets you mark in your text any spelling corrections that change length of a word this lets you quickly locate portions of text that may need refor matting WEBSTER S will automatically locate double repetitions like and and It can correct transpositions itme becomes item missing apostrophes dont becomes don t and typos of all kinds spellling becomes spelling etc If you re not sure of a word you can even spell it the way sounds and chances are WEBSTER S will supply the correct spelling Fenomenon gets corrected to phenomenon for example In addition WEBSTER S will let you preview a list of all questionable words before displaying them in context this saves you time because it lets you eliminate words from the questionable list or add them to your auxiliary dictionary before you begin the editing pass John Dvorak writing in the San Fran cisco Examiner called WEBSTER S the Application
112. h Leading Word Processors including MemoMaker The Editor MS Word WordPerfect MultiMate and WordStar Readability Index RightWriter is an j is long epee gt aN idea whose time eps Phil Wi RightWriter is ane swell PC Magazine i xcellent low ent OW Cost Ye opening software package X Inside Word Ma na Aue documentation is among th gin est have seen g the measures the reading grade level of the docu ment using the D O D standard Flesch Kincaid formula Uncommon Word List lists misspelled slang and uncommon words Jim Pile Soft Sector amp RightWriter 89 00 for Portable Paper subscribers RightWords Dictionary Extension for RightWriter 29 95 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details RUNS ON TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield LA 52656 515 472 6330 Recommends never decides RightWriter is a es T writing aid The final iam PcrHP vectra decision is always left to you RightWriter is a trademark of DecisionWare Inc WordStar is a trademark of MicroPro International Corporation MultiMate is a trademark of MultiMate International MS Word is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation WordPerfect is a trademark of WordPerfect Corporation Unfortunately Randy Salo the program s
113. harged HP ThinkJet Recharge the battery pack only when it is nearly discharged as indicated by the printer power light Approx imately 11 hours is required to recharge a battery pack ful ly The battery pack may be charged in or out of the printer For either type of battery never let them fully S discharge Doing so shortens or completely destroys their life Both types discharge at the rate of a few percent per day when left standing at room temperature So if you are not using them if you don t keep them charging you risk an early death Do not incinerate or mutilate the battery pack it may release toxic materials or burst under extreme heat It is possible to charge any of the batteries in your Portable system from the car or other battery You can purchase the six ounce Mobile Recharger which plugs both into your cigarette lighter and into the HP battery for 29 95 from Personalized Software using the order form in back of this issue FUEL GAUGE The fuel gauge indicator for the battery upper right corner on PAM is updated by keeping track of actual Port able usage It counts CPU Central Processing Unit and I O Input Output time and then uses a formula to compute the amount of battery charge remaining Therefore the is not an exact measure of the state of your battery This simulated approach was taken because as with all rechargeable batteries the actual voltage does not in dicate the ch
114. have good news Now there s an easy to use text editor that runs on the Por table and Portable Plus that will satisfy almost every item on your wish list And the program comes with a built in bonus It also runs on the HP 150 IBM PC and HP Vectra which means that now you can use _ the same program and files on your desk top that you use on your Portable The program is called THE EDITOR It does everything MemoMaker does plus a heck of a lot more And you don t have to go to the expense of buying WordStar for the Portable or MS Word for the Plus to go beyond MemoMaker s capabilities THE EDITORS s most valuable features are listed on the chart to the right It s quite a list isn t it To me THE EDITOR is a real blessing I use it daily instead of Memo Maker and I ve silently given thanks to its author Ed Gilbert many many times Just a few minutes with THE EDITOR that s all it takes to be up and running and I think you ll be a fan of his too In addition to the many great features listed to the right there are five more I especially want to emphasize 1 THE EDITOR s Lotus like menus make it incredibly easy to use n TAL Beyond MemoMaker Part Il THE FORMATTER gives you advanced formatting capabilities that even THE EDITOR can t handle like multi line headers and footerseautomatic hyphena tion you can even add your own words to the built in dictionary user specified pag
115. he HP Portables Without The Portable Paper few of the products on our order form in the back of the issue would exist or be known to the vast majority of Portable users l Each issue we add more and more of our product discoveries onto our product list With so many offerings we Personalized Software need one central place within The Portable Paper to talk about ourselves Such a section is in line with the purpose of The Portable Paper to help you get the most out of your Portable We will use your comments and questions to discuss new Personalized Soft ware products upgrades bugs tips and tricks and back orders We look forward to your feedback on this new regular feature of The Portable Paper Personalized Software Our Staff Grows We recently hired our first technical employees besides myself Rich and Frances Burmeister Rich and I were both in the Masters in Computer Science program at the Univer sity of Illinois in the early 1980s Rich went to work for Texas Instruments and I went to Hewlett Packard His wife Frances has gobs of M I S Management Information Systems experience They both moved from Dallas to join Personalized Software and be part of the Transcendental Meditation Program world peace project here in Fairfield Iowa of which I am also a part The Burmeisters join Fran Kempton and Glen Frank Fran and Glen have put order into our office They are responsible for taking your orders and shipping your prod
116. ics mode allows total freedom meaning that one has access to i e can turn on or off every single dot on the Portable s screen This creates the possibility of 32 JULY AUGUST 1987 drawing anything from simple lines to complex portraits The only limitation in terms of free form drawing is that precise manual control of the cursor at the level of single dots is difficult However using a mouse helps solves this problem While drawing one may think of the cursor as a pen eraser which can be Up just moving around without leaving any mark or Down leaving a trail dot by dot or erasing pre existing trails if the Erase function is on Also one can count on a reference point called Memory point which can be fixed in any part of your screen This point is essential to the automatic drawing of geometrical forms For instance after setting the memory point somewhere on the screen when the cursor is moved by 10 dots a circle will automatically be drawn by the function C By moving the cursor farther from the M point a concentric larger circle can be drawn and so on Similar principles apply for boxes and lines You can ex change the positions of the cursor and memory point with X Another very nice way of drawing lines is the rubber band option R The rubber band is a temporary line that connects the memory point and the cursor as the cursor moves At any time you can sop the cursor and per manently leave th
117. if ferent disk drives and computers I kept getting a Non DOS disk error Then I ran the 4 0 version of The Norton Utilities nu exe to look at the disk but it couldn t read the disk either Then I remembered that the new Advanced Edition of The Norton Utilities nu exe can read disks even with a damaged directory When a disk suddenly becomes unreadable usually the disk directory has been damaged The directory con tains the information about where a file physically resides ona disk Therefore if a directory is damaged it normal ly becomes impossible to find a file even though the file is fully intact on the disk I put my copy of the Advanced Norton Utilities nu exe file into my Leading Edge and I attached the HP9114 to it using an HP IL card I ran the nu program with the m op tion This option tells nu to ignore the directory and just look at the raw material on the disk Without reading the manual thanks to the Norton menu system I figured out how to write the entire contents of the bad disk in the HP9114 to a new 720K file on the Leading Edge hard disk I could have accomplished the same end using the Port able Plus putting pieces of the data of the bad disk on to A and then to another drive I knew that David s articles had to be somewhere in that 720K file Soon after I got a hold of David Fortunately one of his articles reviewed MultiMate He therefore wrote all his articles using the MultiMate documenta
118. iles and thus saves disk storage space and disk access time SQPC COM Squeezes files to make them take up less space Unsqueeze with TY TEE COM Causes a program or file to be output to both the screen and a file or printer TJETA COM Configures ThinkJet printer easily from the HP Portable TOWS COM Converts ASCII document files to WordStar and Portable Plus MemoMaker format for editing and reformatting TRANSLIT COM Converts one or more characters of one file to different character s and copies result to second file TREEDIR COM Displays names of all files in each directory along with date time and file size TRIM COM Extracts selected columns from a file TY COM Unsqueezes files squeezed by SQPC VDL COM Allows user to selectively delete files from a group of files Program lists files one by one and asks user whether to delete WAIT COM Delays execution of a batch file until specified time WD COM Saves and restores the working directory WHEAROUT COM Gives percent of wear on disk in HP 9114 disk drive WHEREIS COM Searches disk to find the specified file APPENDIX A Describes the contents of subdirectories HP110 SOURCE 123DEMO found on the DOS Tools disk UTILS DOC Reprints on disk The Portable Paper Vol 1 Issue 4 Utilities article Gives practical examples of many of the files on the DOSTools disk RUNS ON HP Portable Portable Plus HP150 IBM PC HP Vectra Available on EPROM ROM 60 DAY MO
119. ination disk Also backs up whole directory structure creating matching subdirectories CPU COM Displays computer s clock speed CVTBIN COM Converts files from ASCII to binary when downloaded with CompuServe READ command CYPHER COM Enciphers and deciphers a file to keep it confidential DIRALL COM Displays attributes and pathnames for ALL files on a disk DIRS COM Gives total disk space occupied by a set of files DUMP COM Dumps and edits a disk or file in hexadecimal and ASCIl FDATE COM Changes the time date stamp on a file FDUMP COM Lists a file in hexadecimal and ASCII FF COM Sends a form feed to the printer FGREP COM Searches a group of files for a specified string HC COM Converts binary files to from hexadecimal ASCII files HP IBM COM Does a best fit translation from HP ROMAN 8 character set to IBM PC Line Draw character set IBM HP COM Does a best fit translation from IBM PC Line Draw character set to HP ROMAN 8 character set INSTALLP COM Automates installing an application program on RAM disk the HP Portable Portable Plus Install Utility Program LABEL COM Labels or changes the label name on a disk LC COM Counts lines in each file useful in determining amount of paper needed to print LF COM Sends a line feed to the printer LJET COM LaserJet pronter configuration program for the HP Portable Makes selection LaserJet format easier MMTOP COM Causes Portable Plus MemoMaker to print w
120. ion during July Orders and telephone enquiries will be processed upon our return Telephone National Bagshot 0276 75440 International 44276 7 SoftWord Astage Rectory Lane Windlesham Surrey GU20 6BW England In the United States all SoftWord Prices are as follows aoe na products are available exclusively from Personalized Software PO Box 869 2 Meg RAM Card 4 564 506 oes tole ae 6G OR a eek 2995 ES 2695 Fairfield A 52556 515 472 6330 1 Meg RAM 8 Socket ROM Card 1995 1695 To order use order form in back of issue or call 515 472 6330 Perfect for the Plus WordPerfect It s the best selling word processor for the IBM PC Ac cording to many reviewers it s the best word processor on the market Now there s a version for the checker from RAM and run them from your HP9114 WordPerfect s powerful yet easy to use features have made it a best seller It s perfect for the Plus Portable Plus the full blown Ver sion 4 2 complete with compre hensive thesaurus and 115 000 word spelling checker This means that if you already have WordPerfect for your PC you now can freely transfer text files to and from your Portable Plus The same WordPerfect features and commands work on both machines The only difference is the Plus s function key lay out which is simple for most PC users to adjust to As always you have to plan memory space in the HP150 R
121. is automatic procedure can of course be implemented for any number of unattended sessions Communications parameters are specified as SET TINGS from within Talk via the menu Using the terminal and transferring data is called an ACTION The user is in direct control of modem Serial port power since the desired device is turned ON only when a CONNECT com mand is issued and turned OFF when a DISCONNECT oc curs Therefore it is possible to maintain a connection with the host computer and resume work elsewhere in the program Talk complements T Master with a comprehensive communications suite Although equipped with many options protocols and a rich command language Talk appeals to the novice user as well It makes T Master one TITI ATTELTICT 1027 3 THE PORTABLE PAPER A Drive of neatest programs available for the Portable Plus and even a better reason for obtaining a copy since it supports virtually all of your business needs Integrated Applications for T Master Since T Master is so versatile it should be able to satisfy vir tually all of your business needs If your application demands close integration of data calculations and reports then this product is ideal for you If you need to create a small database application but don t have the time to invest in learning a programming language or a database language T Master may be the tool You rc looking for Operation on the Portable Plus T Master is a large
122. isk drive or communications but this is dependency that neither RAM nor ROM can avoid This flexibility might go a long way toward shortening the time between upgrades becoming available for fully compatibles and becoming available for the Plus More overall storage capacity is another advantage available with RAM Another more minor advantage is that RAM is between two and four times faster than ROM The primary disadvantage of RAM is its volatility Most Portable owners have probably lost some work on their Edisc after having to reboot their machine fol lowing a system lockup With an expand ed RAM drawer the potential for loss is increased Frequent backups will reduce the magnitude of the problem but access to a drive and disks will be required At first glance it appears that cost is the deciding factor in favor of ROM However when one analyzes the cost per byte this advantage narrows considerably The lowest cost per byte ROM 128K is only 23 less expensive than the lowest cost per byte RAM 2024K And the next lowest cost ROM is 19 higher than that same RAM drawer I have worked out the cost per byte of all memory alternatives see chart below Comparison Of RAM and ROM Cost Per K Byte Type Capacity Cost Cost Kbyte PS Personalized Kbytes Software PS ROM 128 119 0 93 PS 2 Meg RAM Card 2048 2 695 1 32 PS ROM 64 95 1 48 PS 1 Meg 1024 1 695 1 66 RAM ROM Card HP 1 Meg RAM Card 1024 1 695 1 66
123. ithout usual 5 line top margin MOVE COM Moves one file to another directory without copying MOVEALL COM Moves aset of files to another directory without copying the programs them and plenty of examples in included with the disk The manual is conve niently indexed by subject so all you have to do is look up the name of the task you want done You don t have to selves so they work better and so their message displays are easier to under Contents of Portable Utilities Disk Vol 1 DOS Tools remember the names of the programs And we ve even changed some of OFF COM Shuts off the HP Portable from DOS PACK COM Packs a disk Does not have subdirectories bug of earlier version PC EXE Allows somes IBM programs to be run on HP150 PCBOSS COM Fle n manager for IBM PC and compatibles only PRINTIT COM Print formatting program simple but effective PRNCONF COM Allows ThinkJet printer to function as Epson printer also sends escape se quences to the PRN device RAMDSK ARC Archived utility for HP150 only creates internal RAM disk RENDIR COM Renames subdirectories RNGNAME COM Displays and restores range names for Lotus worksheet ROMANS8 WKS Provides ability to enter any Roman character into Lotus worksheet SDL COM Produces directory listings sorted by name size date or extension SEPARATE COM Breaks large text files into smaller files for MemoMaker SM COM SpaceMaker Converts EXE files to COM f
124. ities lines can be easily drawn through the Line option FLOW CHARTING provides different line styles and functions selectable with f9 Menu key for the Plus Lines are drawn by moving the cursor horizontally or vertically no diagonal movement is allowed and no pro vision is given for lines between two selected points ALPHA MODE The alpha mode is a solid part of this program It features different fonts pleasing visual presentation on the screen and in the printout large characters for titles normal or bold extra large tall and slim characters and super and subscript sets Also a Greek character set is available Several very useful functions are provided including auto centering inversion of a part of a chart and auto 34 JULY AUGUST 1987 matic recognition by the program of the font beneath the cursor I have found only a minor bug In the MICRO font the numbers as well as the space keys generate a 6 instead of the proper character This feature works correctly on the IBM PC Mouse Iam currently using a Microsoft mouse with a prototype of Bill Saltzstein s Mouse Driver installed in my Plus It is avery easy combination that works wonders with some limitations due to the prototype nature of the driver It is enough to say that despite the fact that I do not have manuals for the driver or for the mouse everything works smoothly Actually included on the disk is an Install utili ty that automatically does the few
125. ity e You can control your HP hand held from your HP Portable or desktop computer keyboard e You can use your Portable or desktop computer s video screen to display entries made on your hand held e Your hand held can access and control any peripheral device that connects to your Portable 150 or PC including modems printers plotters mainframes graphics tablets and more In short without adding a single piece of RUNS ON hardware LINK extends the power of your hand held to include a whole world of peripherals and capabilities And it does so for less than the cost of a single peripheral Order this breakthrough in hand held computing power today LINK HP IL Connector 80 75 95 for Portable Paper Subscribers 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information You can transfer data both ways be tween an HP41 71 75 or series 80 com puter and your Portable HP150 or IBM provided your 150 or PC is equipped with an HP IL interface card available from Hewlett Packard simple data entry screen that has meaning for the user A record is a data template used to define the data file It is easy to create a relational database by writing rules which relate the individual fields T Maker s spreadsheet allows you to visualize what s going on because the formulas are placed a
126. l in the public domain which means that if you search ed long enough you could find them for free on var ious electronic bulletin boards in magazines and in the archives of local user groups But consider this Even if you had the time to track this many programs down what about evaluating them and making sense of the documentation It would be a formidable task but we have good news You don t have to do it we ve already done it for you That s right we ve combed through hundreds of public domain utility programs that run on the Portables and HP150 and have selected only the best ones for inclusion in Portable Utilities Disk Volume 1 DOS Tools We ve not only made sense of the document ation but in many cases we ve actually rewritten it A printed 65 page user manual con taining program documentation ADDCOL COM Joins two files horizontally by appending corresponding lines ARC512 ARC Archived ARC file compression and library utility ARCE COM Extracts ARChive files from ARC 5 12 and previous versions ASK COM Adds interactive capability to batch files Prompts user with message and waits for yes no response BEEP COM Makes a beep sound CHANGE COM Changes or displays file attributes read only archive system hidden CLEAN COM Converts WordStar HP150 or Portable Plus MemoMaker document files to ASCII and removes control codes COPYNEW COM Backs up files if no identical file on the dest
127. lable memory between system memory and electronic disk The size of the C drive memory is fixed either 2 Meg or 1 Meg depending on which SoftWord card you buy If your A drive gets corrupted you have not lost any files on your C drive Thus you have a built in safety feature if you keep your most important files on both drives One other point in favor of the C drive option If you purchase a 2 Megabyte card for your A drive you are restricted to at most 2 Megabytes for your electronic disk which means all your 512K of built in Portable Plus memory required for the 2 Megabyte card must be devoted to internal memory Please note that these RAM cards will not have the bat tery that was mentioned last issue If the system is reset using the button on the Portable s battery all information on both disk drives will be lost Therefore you will want to regularly back up your A drive and C drive In my opinion the ideal configuration would be a RAM ROM card in A and a 2 Megabyte RAM Disk Card in C That would give you 3 5 Meg of RAM and eight ROM sockets Substituting the RAM ROM card for the HP ROM drawer means you lose four ROM sockets 512K max imum in order to pick up an extra 1024K of RAM As Jonathan Feinstein of Ithaca NY pointed out to me the cost of a byte of RAM is much cheaper than the cost of a byte of ROM HOW RELIABLE ARE THE CARDS In talking with many of you a major concern is the reliability of the SoftWord cards
128. le In the letter Sergio states There ts a description of the pam env file in section 10 of the Portable Plus Technical Reference Manual When PAM is started it builds an MS DOS environment setting COMSPEC PATH BUFFERS FILES and PROMPT The default environment includes BREAK off BUFFERS 2 FILES 0 SHELL b bin pam com COMSPEC b bin command com PATH a b lt ROM names gt b bin b bin etc 7he PATH varies according to the number of application ROMs present PROMPT t h h h h h h p s letters continued from page 4 anyone else had such an experience with the HP9114A What resources are there for third party computer crisis counseling My experience with HP during this crisis was not only disappointing but downright frustrating One of the primary considerations that led me to pur chase the Portable was quality of engineering and con struction I am a student on a budget in keeping with that vocation so I need reliable equipment with reasonable repair costs With the Portables and associated peripherals getting older service is bound to become more and more an issue As a devoted and appreciative reader I would re quest that more attention be paid to issues such as repair are there self serviceable problems in the Portables HP9114s and ThinkJets and service is HP the only one who can fix its machines are there service contracts worth the money etc 4 Thank you for a fine publication
129. ll be used as drive C unless there is an external drive installed and then the RAM disk becomes the last drive in the loop Is there a way to make the RAM disk always be drive C for ease of making useful batch files Also what is the potential for bugs and how will Softword deal with problems I know from experience that HP will stand behind its products If Webster s Spelling Checker takes 207K what does the rest of the 256K of ROM space get used for and where do you put extra user defined words Gerald Fuller Culbertson MT Hal You will just have to create a batch file for your most common con THITV ATTELTICT 1027 2 THE PORTABLE PAPER figuration since the name of drive will change depending on how many devices you have in the loop However with that much memory I would imagine most of the batch files will stay constant you will know when you will be using an ex ternal drive The other solution is to use the DOS assign command assign a c fools the system into thinking the A drive is the C drive A DOS dir a will list the files of the C drive if the DOS com mand assign a c has been given There is a year s warranty on the RAM disks sold through SoftWord We will stand by any such card we sell If you can afford to purchase a SoftWord card we certainly do not want to lose you as a customer We may put extra utilities on the empty ROM space in the Webster Spelling Checker but no promises User de
130. ll be in the same place in the same application with no data lost All the capabilities of IBM PC programs like Borland s SideKick and SuperKey Certainly not but Shelp s the only such program for the Portable Plus It s a clean easy to use and highly useful helper you ll want at your fingertips always Shelp runs on the Portable Plus only It works with Time Manager MemoMaker Reflection 1 Lotus and any other non graphics program Shelp does not run with MS Word Shelp was written by Randy Salo the former HP engineer who authored MemoMaker on the original HP Portable wee ee ee ee G55 49 95 for Portable Paper subscribers 60 day no risk trial f after 60days you are dissatisfied with this product for any reason you may return it for a full refund To order use the postage paid form at the back of this issue or send check or credit card number to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 SP ET SS RRC A a EL 1 Format backup diskette in C drive 2 Backup Edisc to C drive 4 Wipe out Edisc 4 Reconfigure the memory to 228K 5 Restore the system configuration Restore Config and reset the computer 6 Copy the file s to be right written from C to A 7 Run RightWriter from C drive use c right a filename 8 Copy revised files back to the backup diskette in the C drive 9 Wipe out Edisc and reconfigure original set up 10 Restore Edisc and reset the computer
131. long the border of the spreadsheet Like T Master the formulas are cleaned from the document when printed T Maker s spreadsheet is sufficiently large for most users with fifty computable columns Bar chart graphics are easily produced and displayed either as characters or graphic symbols and can be placed anywhere within the work area Although flexibility is limited to horizontal bars it adds a nice touch to a report Operation On The HP110 T Maker is a relatively large program divided into many smaller modules Although it doesn t completely fit on the HP110 it is possible to successfully run the product Some modification is necessary to get T Maker to accommodate the HP110 s 16 line display Note that the help system is de signed for a 25 line display and is not easily modifiable by the users However the user can see most of the help in formation The core system consisting of the word processing kernel requires a Memory Edisc configuration of 128K 144K and approximately 69K of storage Printing and alignment modules add an additional 18 5K of overhead Update the database editor and Compute use for computing spreadsheets add 26 7K bring the total for the basic system to approximately 113 5K There are two alternatives for running the program 1 Divide the Memory Edisc in half 128K 144K and copy the basic system to the Edisc Use the external disk drive for data storage and additional T Maker commands
132. mory or our 1 Megabyte RAM ROM drawer or 2 Megabyte RAM drawer A further discus sion is contained in the column about Personalized Software and page 13 of last issue Vol 2 Issue 3 2 Our Plus has no built in modem We know we can buy one from our local HP dealer but he is not able to install it Do we have to send our computer to HP Do you know what the cost is for such an in stallation Hai My understanding is that an HP dealer is supposed to be able to install the internal modem and the installation cost is included in the pricing You might contact HP for another dealer I think if you call 800 538 8787 they should be able to tell you where you can go 3 Somebody told us that a built in modem draws a lot of power from the in ternal batteries and shortens the usable time between charges We heard that an external portable modem like the new Midged etc not only runs on its own battery but is also less expensive How can such a modem be connected to the Plus Hal I think you are right about the power draw of the internal modem However I do not know how significant it is See our review of the WorldPort 1200 modem p 26 and our ad p 21 in the most recent issue of The Portable Paper Vol 2 No 3 We sell the WorldPort Portable modem and cable for 199 95 to subscribers see order form in back of issue 4 HP sells two ROM based communica tion programs The newer version Reflec
133. nced Edition includes all the programs and features of version 4 0 plus two new programs Speed Disk SD and Format Recover FR Speed Disk is a disk pack program similar to what we offer subscribers free on the 1987 Subscriber s Disk Format Recover allows hard disk users who mistakenly format their hard drive to recover their file if an initial precautionary step is taken In addition The Norton Utilities main program NU offers Directory FAT and Partition Table editing Also as described at the start of this section it contains a maintenance mode that allows nu to repair disks that are so damaged that DOS rejects them Recommendations and Upgrade Information I strongly recommend The Norton Utilities to any user with a MS DOS system including all Portable and HP150 users If your system includes a hard disk I suggest The Advanced Edition Since the HP150 lends to damage disks I would also recommend The Advanced Edition to any HP150 user In general version 4 0 might suffice for Port able users However if you transfer disks between different computers and disk drives or if you want to do some ex ploring with the nu program or if you have corrupted disks in the past with your Portable then you should opt for The Advanced Edition If you own version 3 1 of The Norton Utilities and you are an HP110 user you probably don t need to upgrade If you are a Portable Plus user there are probably enough new features to make the 25 u
134. nclude the 3 1 version of the nu Norton Utilities program which runs fine on the HP110 on our supplemental 312 disk The increase in size of some of the programs is signifi cant For example my favorite DS Data Sort triples What follows is a list of some of the additions in the new versions 1 All programs have help available by typing after the command name For example ds gives the syntax anda brief definition of the different options available in the ds command 2 Four new programs are included a ASK for making interactive batch files Turbo Pascal Customized To Your HP Portable or Portable Plus at No Extra Charge Turbo Pascal is clearly the Portable and Portable Plus pro gramming language of choice Hal Goldstein Publisher The Portable Paper THE ENTIRE SYSTEM INCLUDING EDITOR CONSUMES LESS THAN 40K Turbo Pascal is superior in terms of nice EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT A performance PROGRAMMER THE WORDSTAR TYPE portability to other machines EDITOR ALONE IS WORTH THE programmer s environment PRICE OF TURBO PASCAL memory consumption When You Buy From Personalized Software L You Receive S 10 Subscriber discount Other Borland Additional disk developed with permission of Turbo Pascal _ Borland International that customizes the products qa Turbo editor so it can use the normal Portable Extend Char editing keys The disk includes programs
135. nd IBM PC Project 8 9 10 a Lotus template helps you manage small to medium projects Milestone is also for small to medium projects On HP110 you need to scroll to see entire Milestone screen Pertmaster is for medium to large projects specify which machine All three are reviewed in Vol 1 Issue 6 of The Portable Paper Seep1 2 Megabyte RAM card A giant leap in memory size for the Portable Plus Simply remove your existing RAM drawer and replace it with this card You ll have enough internal memory to run the largest application and still have lots of E Disk storage for other programs and data Works with any Portable Plus with 512K of built in memory We will accept your old RAM drawer and any extra memory as a trade in towards purchase See P 1 RAM ROM Card A megabyte of RAM plus four pairs of ROM slots The ROM drawer that comes with the Plus has six pairs of ROM slots Add the RAM ROM card to your Portable Plus and you have a megabyte of extra RAM in addition to space for Lotus 2 ROM slots Reflection 2 slots Webster s Spelling Checker 2 slots MemoMaker Time Manager 1 slot and SuperROM The Editor SideWinder Shelp Mini Printerfalk and Format110 all in one ROM slot Webster s and SuperROM are available from Personalized Software We will accept your old RAM or ROM drawer and any extra memory as a trade in towards purchase seep 13 RightWriter Flags errors in grammar style usage and p
136. nt directly from the screen onto your ThinkJet or QuietJet pages Remember with our money back guarantee if you are not completely satisfied with SKETCH within 60 days you can return it for a full refund Why not order a copy today SKETCH graphics program 80 75 95 for Portable Paper subscribers RUNSON HP Portable Portable Plus Available on ROM both fun and rewarding Although planning an application is always preferable it is possible to design a complete database application for T Master in an afternoon Once the application has been designed and debugged it may be automated with keystroke macros In fact your applica tion may be so complete that you may forget you re run ning T Master The Scratchpad And The Spreadsheet While most word processors feature columnar addition or four function calculations for table cross tabulation T Master possesses a unique scratchpad and a unique spreadsheet The scratchpad is a zone which contains mathematical formulas It is available from within the editor Once the formulas have been written and the zone has been defined the scratchpad may be calculated by simply depressing f8 Z Evaluation proceeds from left to right top to bottom It is far handier to use than BASIC or even Lotus 1 2 3 The spreadsheet is both powerful and elegant fully integrated with the database manager and the word pro cessor It is unique in its approach to solving your prob l
137. nting with it I could move the pen cursor up and down left and right in an almost natural manner exactly as I would have done with a coarse chalk if not with a precision pencil In par ticular the erasing with back and forth short movements was very natural With three buttons Up Down Erase on off I could draw elaborate free form sketches These possibilities have been immediately picked up by Paul Grimmer with the current new version of SKETCH 2 2 SKETCH not only takes full advantage from the mouse but for 900 extra bytes includes a routine for defin ing the mouse parameters and controlling the Plus power to the serial port The equivalent routine RAT EXE which accompanies the mouse driver occupies 12442 bytes In conclusion the mouse driver which only works with the Portable Plus serial port not the HP110 is a very promising tool It works fine in all applications It is especially recommended for graphic packages with full graphic access and for extensive use of spreadsheets Summary We are finally seeing graphic programs for the Plus and the HP110 Plus users can now access the Run Encoded Length system and share images available to the large communi ty of PC users Ed Information will be published in a future The Portable Paper about this public domain pro gram available on CompuServe FLOW CHARTING is a good program exclusively designed for flowsheet charting Although it costs more than doubl
138. oblems shipping our products overseas such as unreasonable tariffs high shipping charges time delays communication problems and so forth All details will be published in the next issue of The Portable Paper In the meantime begin ning August 1 you could contact SoftWord at Astage Rectory Lane Windlesham Surrey GU20 6BW England 44276 75440 Get Your Portable Equipment From The Portable Equipment Exchange We at Personalized Software are constantly hearing of peo ple who want to buy or sell HP Portable equipment We decided to open a new division of Personalized Software to handle this need If you have HP110 or Portable Plus equipment to buy or sell give us a call We already have a number of HP110 systems for sale and a few Plus s If you want a new Plus you can work through us We will be working with an HP dealer to fill your needs To bring down the cost we can use memory or ROM drawers that other customers have traded in when they purchased the RAM ROM card or 2 Megabyte RAM card from us We can certainly bundle in a RAM ROM card or a 2 Megabyte card with your purchase If none of this drawer card business makes any sense we ll configure a system to meet your needs Again if you have Portable equipment to sell for cash or trade give us a call The Latest News on ROM Backups If everything goes as expected we should be shipping the 32K and 64K ROMs about the time you receive this issue As mentioned in our adve
139. ome or the office but can t take the torture of an industrial environment Another HP feature that is often overlooked is the dur ability specification If you ve ever accidentally dropped your Portable or 9114 disk drive and found the unit PCI delivers the news The HP Chronicle The only newspaper devoted exclusively to HP 3000 computer users Each monthly issue includes the latest news productivity tips new products help columns and y classifieds v Chronicle launches electronic publishing HP HRM BRS 52 aut ohtogether nee CPU shy HP Design amp Manufacturing The journal for scientists engineers CAD system and others who use from Std Qelimensions HP technical com puters Each monthly Vertra s Enhanced A includes Graphics Obplay programming agad lt MAP Hines fou min rrn wi seca ues tutorials new product updates applications features and technical trouble shooting and Training SVP Software Video Productions USING ee WALKER RICHER Training courses for paused the HP computer user ee EXECUTIVE Software Video Productions MEMOMAKER offers USING EXECUTIVE FORTHE HP 150 MEMOMAKER for the HP 150 and USING WALKER RICHER amp QUINNS REFLECTION SERIES for the HP 2622 and 2392 Communications Up to date training techniques and individualized instruction at affordable prices SUBSCRIPTION MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Name gt
140. on Utilities from us you will also receive two additional single sided HP formatted disks containing The Norton Utilities along with instructions for running the various Norton Utilities on the HP110 Portable Plus and HP150 The manual itself is clear well written and contains many examples In addition with The Advanced Edition you ll receive a second booklet that gives a lucid explana tion about everything you could want to know about the way DOS stores information on a disk One important difference to HP users between the old 3 1 and the new versions is that many of the utilities in part or whole take over the screen These utilities include DS Data Sort NCD Norton Change Directories LD List Directories FI File Info TS Text Search NI Norton Integrator NU The Norton Utilities Plus users need to run these screen mode utilities in Alternative mode set from PAM s f6 System Config HP150 owners need to run the PC emulator included on our 3 2 disk HP110 users will find the screen options of these utilities awkward at best and most of the time unusable However even HP110 users unable to run some of the utilities in screen mode will gain in overall functionality from the older version to the newer versions The excep tion to this for HP110 users is that the new nu programs described at the beginning of this article will NOT run on the HP110 but will run on the Plus and HP150 To rectify this situation we i
141. ons and manipulating bigger data files internally without the aid of an external disk drive In order to understand the new offerings you must understand the nature of the Plus HP designed tremendous flexibility into the Plus by creating space for two separate memory drawers On the bottom of the Portable Plus there is space to install these two drawers The HP110 has no such space Currently most Plus owners fill this space with one drawer that holds software in ROM such as Lotus 1 2 3 and one drawer that holds RAM memory In the HP110 and Portable Plus memory or RAM can be arbritrarily divided between electronic disk and internal memory using PAM s 6 System Config For example the memory of a Portable Plus containing 512K of RAM can be parti tioned into 200K for internal memory and 312K for elec tronic disk You won t believe all the word processing features this 99 95 program contains and it takes up less than 40K of memory only 79 95 for Portable Paper subscribers by Hal Goldstein Let s face it MemoMaker is an adequate word processor but it has its limits No search and replace No simple way to merge files No destructive backspace key To delete the last character you have to use the left arrow key and the deletion key s No compressed or expanded printing No but why go on If you use Memo Maker you probably have your own list of things you wish it could do Well we
142. or credit card number to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 diog Juaudojaaaq Sno jo syzewapes 0212151991 aie Z pue sno 105 rows for QuietJet Printer Personalized Software 7 50 or by mailing a self addressed 39 stamped envelope and the SideWinder master disk tb Backup Edisc backup Day send Files daysend Restore Config conf Wipe Out Edisc formata Format Cdrive formatc Log gt In login Log gt Out log out As you will see what I have done is to pull together much of the information found in past issues of The Port able Paper To save space and avoid redundancy I reference past issues For example a discussion of creating a destructive backspace key for HP110 MemoMaker is found in Vol 1 No 1 p 2 of The Portable Paper or PP 1 1 2 Below is a discussion of what each of the PAM ap plications in the above diagram do and how they do it In cluded are the batch files that have not been published They all have one thing in common they are simple 1 MemoMaker A PB1 1 2 Writing is my most frequent marketing activity This application runs MemoMaker first redefining the H key as destructive backspace backspace then delete character 2 MiniPrnTalk A Remove MiniPT A PP1 3 21 All my MemoMaker work prints via Mini Printeflalk a streamlin ed version of PrinterTalk less space virtually the same functionality that comes with the PrinterTalk disk
143. or operation of 32 to 122 degrees F 0 to 50 degrees C Operation beyond these limits is not recommended since both the battery and the display will be affected At colder temperatures the display is much slower to change states while warm temperatures will cause the display to darken Note that keeping the Portables in a car during the winter or summer months TULY AUGUST 1987 5 THE PORTABLE PAPER may cause serious problems since temperatures can easi ly exceed these limits in many locales HP9114 DISK DRIVE BATTERY Both Tom Page of Houston and Kenney Whitright of Dallas advised me of the following If you have a dead battery pack and you don t mind a little unscrewing you can save yourself around 40 Rather than getting a the entire replacement battery pack from HP for 55 you can pur chase the battery itself for 16 25 You need a T9 Torx Tool to remove the cover spade terminals connect the battery You can pick the Torx screwdriver at your hardware store or order it for 4 with the battery replacement You can order from EduCalc at 1 800 633 2252 or for faster service 714 582 2637 The battery replacement is part LCR 226P the Torx Tool is T9 Dennis Guthals of Los Angeles told us that his HP dealer was still able to upgrade the ROM on his HP9114A for free If you have an early HP9114 purchased before 1986 and your HP9114 runs out of gas with only 10 to 20 minutes of continuous use you might take it to an HP authorized
144. ork but nu will help you find whatever remains on the disk thereby saving you from countless hours of retyping lost data In my opinion the ability to recover lost files alone makes THE NORTON UTILITIES well worth the price But there s even more to the pachage THE NORTON UTILITIES RUNS ON HP Portable Portable Plus HP150 IBM PC HP Vectra Erased your files Get them back with The Norton Utilities Version 4 0 and Advanced Edition are also an excellent disk management sys tem Here are some examples of what you can do Z Let s say you want to sort directories and files physically on disk either by name ex tension size date time or by any combina tion of these Just use the ds disk sort com mand I use this one to sort my electronic disk files by size all the time Then when I display the directory the larger files come at the end of the list and I can see at a glance which ones to move elsewhere to free up any needed amount of disk space Or let s say you remember putting the Indispensible PC Magazine Don t compute without it The New York Times You ll bless this disk Peter McWilliams The Personal Computer Book Personalized Software is authorized to distribute THE NORTON UTILITIES on 312 disk customized for users of the HP110 Portable Portable Plus and HP150 phrase a penny saved is a penny earned into a t
145. ould be accomplished with minor program modification The program would occupy four ROM 4 sockets in the software drawer but could potentially replace every application you re currently using T Master Wish List T Master is so complete that you ll probably use it for all of your needs It is very difficult to criticize the product because if there s a will to accomplish a task there s pro bably a way to do it with T Master However there are a few desirable features that T Master doesn t currently possess A print queue would be of great value to the user who has heavy word processing requirements A line draw mode similar to WordPerfect or MultiMate Advantage would give users the ability to enhance the appearance of tables and titles within a document Independent win dows or file buffers would be very useful for multi file editing and viewing Although the bar charts are quite suf ficient and very flexible a variety of charts line X Y pie 30 JULY AUGUST 1987 exploded pie would give some variety to the presentation of tabulated data Recommendations T Master is an innovative exciting product It is easy to become a fanatic about it The integrated features are delightful to use Fully integrated communications would make T Master the most versatile product available for the Portable Plus In order to take advantage of the system you should have at least 512K of memory T Master could easily replace all of
146. ove the pointer to the DOS prompt and press the Return key to move into the MS DOS mode of operation Now type the word set lower case letters will work as well and press the Return key This time HP110 users should see the following three lines comspec b bin command com path b bin b prompt d h h h h h h h h h h t h h h h h h p s HP110 users If you don t see these three lines you have already discovered how to set the path and prompt variables Plus users Your path will inevitably be longer a subdirectory listed for each application comspec path and prompt are the names of the three variables most commonly used in environment space Notice that the names of the variables are linked to their default values by an equal sign MS DOS gives these variables the default values shown on the right side of the equal sign However in this case the default values come from the HP Portable s operating system rather than from MS DOS alone You may change the values of these variables to suit 36 JULY AUGUST 1987 ly and it never forgets a spelling S EEEE Bs 150 124 for Portable Paper subscribers Special price 99 95 Portable Plus and HP 150 users Also see ad for WEBSTER S SPELLING CHECKER in this issue THE WORD PLUS ee order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalize
147. pgrade to version 4 0 or 39 upgrade to The Advanced Edition worthwhile Unfortunately The Peter Norton Company won t let us upgrade your disks for you You must contact Peter Norton Computing 2210 Wilshire Blvd Santa Monica CA 90043 213 453 2361 You can order the upgrade by phone and according to reader Peter Brandenberg of Armonk NY they will take your word that own version 3 1 If you still need a 3 disk then send us 7 50 or send us a double sided format ted disk and a self addressed stamped envelope along with proof of purchase RIGHTWRITER 2 1 For those of you who ordered RightWriter 2 0 from us we ll send you the new manual and disk for 2 1 in the usual manner Send us 7 50 ora 6 x 9 self addressed stamped envelope and a formatted double sided disk If you didn t order RightWriter from us then send us 29 95 to up grade We are handling all HP upgrades for RightSoft The new version has over 800 new rules There are 12 new rule classes including checks for balanced punctua tion and unusual capitalization RightWriter flags 16 JULY AUGUST 1987 sentences by inserting comments in the middle of the text The new version works with MemoMaker The Editor WordPerfect MultiMate and MSWord and supports DOS paths Version 2 1 of RightWriter will work on both Port ables However whereas the old version 2 0 required 231K of disk space and 204K of internal memory the new ver sion needs 341K of disk spa
148. r Portable Plus owners who do not have an internal modem The WorldPort 1200 is fully compatible with the industry standard Hayes AT Command Set and with both the CCITT and Bell communications standards Portable Plus users At last A great spelling checker available on ROM Webster s web stars n The spelling checker rated Editor s Choice by PC Magazine Dec 24 1985 and now available from Personalized Software for the Portable Plus and HP150 Customized on 312 disk by special arrangement with Simon amp Shuster Inc PC Magazine rated eight leading spell ing checkers for ease of use flexibility speed overall program size thoroughness and accuracy WEBSTER S NEW WORLD SPELLING CHECKER came out on top for a number of good reasons First there s sheer size WEBSTER S contains over 110 000 words in its dictionary five times the number in Hayden s Speller 24 times as many as in The Word Plus yet WEBSTER S dic tionary and main program take up only 207K of disk memory Second WEBSTER S isn t just easy to use it s positively a pleasure It reads your files at high speed then displays every questionable word in context highlighted At the same time in a window off to the side it gives you a list of possible correct spellings A simple menu gives you the following options B Accept the word as is B Replace the word with one of the sug gested spellin
149. r it is possible to define keyboard macros use a zone as a scratchpad calculator compute tables perform a spelling check and create bar chart graphics The Speller The speller is activated from the What Next prompt or from within the editor Once the spelling check has been completed T Master prepares a correction list a statistical report and flags all unfamiliar words The user then edits all unfamiliar words and depresses f6 C Correct to cor rect all of the errors in the text The statistical report tells you the total number of words present in the active area the average number of words used in a sentence the average number of characters in a word and the total number of unique and unfamiliar words File Management amp Utilities In addition to a highly competent word processing en vironment T Master provides a comprehensive file management facility Once loaded there should be no fur ther need to return to DOS except to format disks make new directories or to copy files from one diskette to another The file maintenance utilities include rapid cursor positioning file creation deletion merge view rename search replace password encryption cleaning the pro cess of removing spreadsheet formulas and changing the supported printer The Database Manager The database manager is quite complete and powerful enough to compete with dedicated database products like dBASE III Sonja Roizen
150. r ol reliable HP The Total HP110 Environment The author Juan Melendez is a chemical engineer with 12 years of international marketing management ex perience He has worked for such companies as Seagrams General Foods and Campbell Soup He cur rently beads all the Hispanic marketing efforts of Camp bell Soup reporting to the president His hobbies include wind surfing and computers OVERVIEW Marketing centers around communication analysis and project time management In this article I ll share how I structure the HP110 environment to fit my daily marketing activities First TH show you my selection of software and peripherals and an overview of the whole system Then TIl discuss how I operate the environment from my PAM menu the Houston Control Center of my operation As you will see there is nothing really new in this con figuration what is unique is how I have combined many diverse elements into a coherent whole creating a system that quickly and easily backs up and wipes out the elec tronic disk so I can run and store programs requiring lots of memory such as Pertmaster and RightWriter I have put together many of the products and ideas from past issues of The Portable Paper to make a powerful system that works for me Most of the products I mention can be ordered directly from Personalized Software publishers of The Portable Paper THE COMPONENTS OF THE SYSTEM The five basic elements of my system are the HP
151. romises however it could be very easily expanded to a wider audience if more shapes were included For instance formulas of organic chemistry could be very easily assembled by the user if only different polygons were offered among the selectable geometric shapes On the other hand the crea tion of such shapes would be virtually impossible for the user since diagonal movements of the cursor are not allowed The program is easy to run shows very few bugs and leaves only some minor problems for Plus users It sup ports the ThinkJet but not the QuietJet At start a customization menu is offered to adjust different parameters selection of printer model printer port paper size page width mouse response and beep The parameters will be remembered by FLOW CHARTING for future use A nice feature is that the program senses the Plus presence the ThinkJet is among the selectable options GRAPHIC MODE From the main menu the user can enter graphic EDIT mode to find himself in a virgin screen or he can load a chart file The block cursor is large and visible and status lines with different useful information are provided Several graphic commands are assigned to standard keys For instance 5 will shrink the global graphic area to fit into the Plus screen and a precise and visible grid TTT ATTCTICT 1007 22 BLUE CHIP computer systems 17958 Ventura Blvd Encino CA 818 996 3132 9701 West Pico Blvd Los Angeles CA 213 553 339
152. rtisements we will not be ship ping the 128K ROMS until August or early September However your commitment in ordering these ROMs we ll bill you or charge your credit card upon shipment will be most helpful TITY ATIGTICT 1027 11 THE PORTABLE PAPER Here is our situation Normally we must order a minimum of 500 128K ROMs made for each product In the case of Webster s which takes two 128K ROMs we have to have 1000 total ROMs made There is no such limit with 64K or 32K ROMs which are actually EPROMs or PROMS Therefore if you feel you are going to order 128K ROMs it will help us if you tell us so ahead of time We are waiting a bit longer before burning the DOS Tools ROM I am still open to your feedback as to its con tents Call as soon as you read this if you have strong feel ings In particular we are thinking of substituting diskpack for arc520 From talking with several of you it seems that squeeze sqpe com unsqueeze ty and de arc arce com are the ones needed for condensing and un condensing files We will also include line feed lf and form feed ff which let you adjust ThinkJet paper from your Portable Another possibility for storing large data or program files should be available in August in the form of 128K PROMS If 128K PROMs do become available soon at less than outlandish prices we would not be forced to order 500 chips to produce 128K ROMs Here are some of the other programs that you ha
153. ry Although blank ROMs are in general less expensive than blank EPROMs the initial burn in costs for ROMs ME F a GS iape 1 N are much higher ROMs also require a much longer lead Ay R time to produce than EPROMs Currently EPROMs that Se a RENOIR A nng LABEL FDUMP can be run on the HP Portables come in 16K 32K and DUMP TMA OFF TEE WAIT BEEP and more 64K sizes ROMs are 128K Note ii En jaa ape guid We use EPROMs for our 32K and 64K backup chips ARC520 is shareware the author normally requests a 35 contribution However you do not need to send any money We ve already and ROMs for our 128K packages paid your user fee A choice more or Well now you can have both Responding to your requests for even more facilities we ve now integrated 1 Megabyte of user memory plus four pairs of application ROM sockets into the same Portable PLUS drawer i RAM ROM Drawer Price List Sterling Memory Drawers Usable on any PLUS the 1 Megabyte of 384K Memory Card weceessssssssssssssesssee 575 Available in 384K 1 or 2 Megabytes memory is allocated to Edisc or Main via Megabyte Drawer s 110111191001 800 memory is partitioned between Main PAM System Config Switches configure Upgrade to 1 Megabyte ereer 500 max 512K amp Edisc via PAM s System eight ROM sockets to accept various HP or 1 Megabyte Drawer 8 rear 1200 1 Megabyte RAM ROM Drawer 1200 2 Megabyte Drawer 1800
154. ry high quality inkjet paper were from a a prototype that was subse quently excluded from the market because it was too expensive Therefore HP is supplying only one type of inkjet paper in different cuts In searching for heavier better and possibly cheaper paper I have found the following suppliers 1 United Paper 1 800 526 2364 One type of paper in one single Z type cut It is heavier than HP s and the printouts have a better appearance It is somehow unpleasant at the touch leaving a dusty feeling The perforations are better mark ed in the HP paper which is important at the moment of stripping off the page from the printer At United Paper they are very friendly and will send a free sample They will accept small orders and the price is surely competitive 2 Hammermill 1 814 456 8811 Avail able only through major computer stores no direct shipments unless for huge quantities I have just seen it without us ing it it seems somehow intermediate bet ween HP and United Paper 3 Beckman Astra Systems Part 669957 At my hospital for the several ThinkJets they use inkjet paper from Astra Systems It is heavy of good quality and without the glossy appearance of the other brands The one I saw is a con tinuous roll without perforation I will try to get in touch with a representative to find out availability in different cuts and costs I ll let you know Sergio Biguzzi New York City An Inexpen
155. s Solution 1 and a modified HP battery pack you can substitute for yours How many times have you wished you had a 2nd external disk drive Personalized Software is selling for a limited time complete HP9114A units including power supply at a substantial discount Call Our special battery pack lets your Portable run directly off your wall outlet You can plug in the regular HP charger at the same time so your battery pack always stays completely charged Solution 2 sells for 199 to Portable Paper subscribers other wise it s 225 Both solutions are custom made Both solve the HP9114 battery prob lem And both will let you finish your work 1 60 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE See order form for details TO ORDER Use postage paid order form inside back cover or send check or credit card information exp date signature to Personalized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield 1A 52556 515 472 6330 Please allow 3 4 weeks for delivery 515 472 6330 for details You will need three files autoansr bat answer and hangup autoansr bat should have the following lines in it copy answer aux copy aux con pause lt aux ctty aux command ctty con copy hangup aux The first line answers the phone the next two lines provide a delay to allow a connection to be established We then re direct the MS DOS input and output to the modem and run command to prompt the caller Now as in the case of the HP110 the caller ne
156. s company Southern Software has written SideWinder for sideways printing to the ThinkJet Link for data transfer and control between all HP IL devices and SKETCH for free form drawing Ironically Paul just moved to Alaska He ll retain the name of his company I guess since he is still South of the North Pole All of his products including HPrint may be purchased from Personalized Software using the order form in back of the issue By the way support using any of Paul s products can now be obtained from Southern Software 215 Hawthorne Houston TX 77006 713 522 6220 What follows is a summary of HPrint s features based on the introduction of a draft of the HPrint manual HPrint is a text file printing program that gives youa broad range of control over your HP printer With HPrint you can insert HPrint codes in your MemoMaker Editor or ASCII file print the file and get your HP printer to do most anything For example you can easily design your own special character or character set using an HPrint utility Suppose you need a Greek alpha and a Calculus integral sign In the HPrint utility you could create the alpha and integral sign and assign it say to characters and If you tell HPrint to do so when HPrint comes to a and in your text it will print an alpha and integral sign on your ThinkJet Paul includes an entire italic character set with HPrint that you can easily use with your ThinkJet or QuietJet printer
157. s selected utilities from Portable 128K 119 Utilities Disk Vol 1 DOS Tools Super ROM Mini Printerlalk is the abbreviated version 128K 149 The Editor included on the Printerlalk disk it is Shelp functionally equivalent to Printerfalk for SideWinder most applications Shelp and SideWinder Mini PrinterTalk are the same versions as on the 32K Formatt10 ROM chips see above Webster s Spelling Checker 256K 179 Two 128K ROMs Utilities included in the Best of DOS Tools ROM Backup are as follows For program details see Portable Utilities ad in this issue ur best selling Portable software now on ROM backup copy of your software not a second Copy Having to buy both the disk version and its ROM Backup is not without advantages For one thing many disk products include extra utilities that have to be deleted from the ROM chips in order to save space Also if your ROM drawer gets full you can remove a ROM chip and still run the corresponding program off your disk drive LIFETIME MONEY BACK GUARANTEE Our ROM Back Up Service comes with a lifetime guarantee If a ROM proves defective at any time as long as you own the computer in which it is installed we will replace it at no charge In addition our regular 60 day guarantee of satisfaction also applies If within 60 days you are dissatisfied with a ROM Backup product for any reason you may return it for a full refund However we don t think you ll be dissatisfie
158. sed the boat with this answer 9 Are there any other disk drives for the Plus available that are smaller than the original HP version and also run on battery Hal No I wish there were less expen sive disk drives that ran off AC current 10 In our offices we use mainly Macin tosh and Macintosh XL computers Can we transfer files between the Plus and these computers in both directions Would we need additional hardware Hal See Vol 2 No 2 p 4 Crista Mettner Winthrop Harbor IL Errata I noticed in the latest Portable Paper that you listed me as from Lynchburg but The Portable Paper comes to me at my correct address in Fredericksburg Also a couple of errors crept into my letter printed on p 40 Vol 2 No 3 1 ASCII UPLOADING is done with Proto cols Off This was my error 2 MODEM7 Uploading transfers data at 236 Char Sec at 9600 baud I wonder if you could have an ER RATA section to publish corrections for such errors It would make it easier to find them In answer to Rolf Schmitt s letter on page 40 about transferring files at 19200 baud with a null modem cable SmartCom only goes up to 9600 baud but CrosslIalk goes to 19200 I had no trouble connecting at 19200 baud or uploading from the HP110 using XMODEM but I could not download at higher than 9600 baud Let me remind you that these high baud rates do not result in significantly higher file transfer rates Gary Goodman Fredericksb
159. see you really have to work at losing memory on the Portables DEAD UNIT You hit a key and the screen is dead Not even the contrast key works Were you last using the Portable as a terminal either directly or through the modem You probably left the Portable in the terminal mode Or you ran HPLink and forgot to exit Not good Have you lost everything Not yet You ve probably got a few more days before everything is gone The dead screen is the comatose mode and is the Portable s way of saying FEED ME Just plug it in and in a few minutes it will spring to life Exit out of the terminal mode and back to PAM and tell it to turn off 8 Leave it overnight and all will be well again Why did terminal mode kill the battery In other ap plications such as Lotus or MemoMaker only the CPU and screen are used However in the terminal mode the RS 232 port or modem are powered on both take a lot of power and cannot be turned off by the screen timeout value So the Portable will indeed turn off the screen if display timeout is not off but not the serial port This is by design since a user might walk away for a few minutes while logged onto a system If the serial port turned off along with the screen it s not predictable what effect this might have on the remote end so the serial port stays on until told to turn off Exiting terminal mode will turn off the serial port TEMPERATURE LIMITS Both Portables have a limit f
160. sive Way To Repair HP Equipment Recently I came to near panic when my HP110 and HP9114A disk drive jammed while saving a file from MS Word After a contrast key reset the computer worked fine but the diagnostics routine still showed a broken loop error on the HP IL interface Turning the power switch off THE PORTABLE PAPER Volume two Number four July August 1987 Editor Publisher Hal Goldstein Department Editors Ed Keefe Cliff Looyenga Editorial Consultants Steve Cooperman Edward Goldfinger Contributing Editors Sergio Biguzzi David Hughes M E Kabay Juan Melendez Art Director George Foster Typography The Word Form Corporation Circulation Rita Goldstein Frances Kempton Glen Frank Advertising Manager Hal Goldstein The Portable Paper ISSN 0886 9138 is published bimonthly by Personalized Software at R R 4 Box 310 Fairfield IA 52556 Sub scription rates one year U S and U S posses sions 55 Canada Mexico add 3 surface mail 6 air other countries add 6 surface mail 18 air Please allow four to six weeks for receipt of first issue Executive Editorial Circu lation and Advertising Offices PO Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 Telephone 515 472 6330 Copyright 1987 Personalized Software all rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission Reasonable efforts are made to provide accurate and useful information but the reader must make his or
161. sn t limit the size of your dreawing area to the size of your screen The total drawing area is 70 bigger than the screen on the Portable Plus and more than 150 bigger than the screen on the Portable As you move the cursor past your screen s borders SKETCH automatically shifts you into the areas that were off screen Now you might be expecting that all these great features come at a high price in terms of memory space But they don t The entire program takes up only 44K As I said Paul Grimmer has done it again USING IS BELIEVING No matter how fired up you might get by reading about SKETCH or looking at the few samples we ve shown of what it can do there is no substitute for actually getting your hands on this wonderful pro gram and trying it out for yourself This Shows that Hodo simply by pressing upside down s n U or D You also S m can set the cursor oS HIN a 1 speed and can tog a YS a gle between a faster LC UO T 395 J TB AUE aptam speed and a slower OU art a U A database file s definition or structure is first created by T Master s editor and consists of several format defini tions A record definition defines the structure and field names of the data A screen definition defines how the data will be presented on the display A single data file may con tain more than one screen or record definition Multiple definitions are very useful for working with different d
162. t a different location from the file I was able to recover The nu program in all three of the latest Norton Utilities versions 3 1 4 0 and The Advanced Edition would have done the trick 14 JULY AUGUST 1987 What s New About Norton For those of you unfamiliar with The Norton Utilities I strongly suggest you read the Vol 1 No 2 Portable Paper review of The Norton Utilities or at least our ad on The Norton Utilities in this issue I believe every HP110 Port able Plus HP150 and IBM PC compatible user should own them Briefly The Norton Utilities consists of over a dozen file management and data recovery programs Many of them are so simple to use that you do not need the manual We originally sold version 3 1 Recently versions 4 0 and The Advanced Edition became available The Advanced Edition contains all the functionality of 4 0 along with additional utilities and capabilities If you own version 3 1 you ll probably want to up grade to either 4 0 or The Advanced Edition but in my Opinion it is not an absolute necessity In some ways the 3 1 utilities are better in the HP Portable environment then the newer versions since the newer versions although faster with new options take up more disk space This is especially the case for HP110 owners as we will see below Both new versions of Norton 4 0 and The Advanced Edition come with a new manual quick reference card and two 5 1 4 disks If you purchase The Nort
163. t the time Single characters or entire sentences can be saved as partial files that can be enlarged automatically with dif ferent height width ratios for future use When you enlarge characters 3 to 4 times their normal size the result is plea sant and gives good flexibility However if you go much further the quality of the printout will not be as good THE PORTABLE PAPER A Drive Highest quality f soft padded cases for your ThinkJet and HP9114 Field Pro cases safe convenient way to carry your portable printer disk drive and computer Rugged lightweight roomy fully padded abrasion resistant washable Stylish soft blue grey color The Printer Disk Drive Case holds your ThinkJet or 9114 you may want to buy two The Portable Case holds your HP110 or Portable Plus has more room and better padding than HP s case plus it can carry the smaller Printer Disk Drive Case piggyback Printer Disk Drive Case 0 ccc cece eee eens 39 95 each 37 95 for Portable Paper subscribers Portable CABO stp esate te end Ua A RR E ARTN AR 59 95 56 95 for Portable Paper subscribers since it will result in characters that are too coarse made up of a too few very large dots FILES AND PRINTER MANAGEMENT The options to store graphics are numerous handy and well designed You have the option of saving the entire working area which creates a file of size 20480 bytes no matter how many dots are
164. t you want to run when the application begins Here is the pam mnu file I created in order to generate the PAM screen illustrated above The PrinterTalk lines in pam mnu are created automatically when I install Printer Talk from a copy of my PrinterTalk master disk MemoMaker mm MiniPrnTalk minipt Remove MiniPT remove minipt ir Backup TMngt At last Sideways printing for the HP Portable Portable PLUS and Thi nkj et And the HP150 Vectra IBM PC MS DOS computers and most HP graphics printers s called SideWinder and it s perfect for Lotus 1 2 3 print files MemoMaker files or any other text ASCII file that s too wide for a normal page Just type in the file name and SideWinder does the rest printing up to 53 rows sideways for as long as your paper supply lasts You ll never need to cut and paste again SideWinder s high quality graphics characters are indistinguishable from ordinary characters and SideWinder prints just as fast as your ThinkJet can In addition a built in mini text editor lets you get inside your print files and easily create double width characters and underlines SideWinder 2 969 95 59 95 for Portable Paper subscribers SideWinder 1 01 owners may upgrade to current version 2 01 which supports 8 chars inch by sending E Bie HiHIER EHH 7 SE Ig SS SE 32 fe EZ 8S SS Et ic SH ie ie EE ZE SF Jt BE EE EE ES EE EE ME iaf EF en Bh TS ZS 82 as tS Z oe
165. tion system Each file began with the words DOCUMENT SUMMARY SCREEN Also fortunately David had just formatted the disk he sent me so each file in theory would be a con tiguous block of data Unfortunately David formatted the disk using DOS 3 2 on the HP9114 that seems to have caused the problems in the first place Without having to consult the manual the process of isolating the files took only a matter of minutes The nu menu system guided me in my search for DOCUM in the Leading Edge 720K file Once found I could determine quickly what parts of that large file to save in the form of Dave s articles I was able to do so because Norton show ed me the actual contents in English not hex of any physical disk sector such as one containing DOCUM The next day The Norton Utilities saved me again I read an important file into my word processor I then absentmindedly cleared the workspace created a four line batch file and saved the new file Unfortunately I had not bothered to change the name of the file so I saved the file under the same name as the original important file I used The Norton Utilities once again to search fora phrase located at the beginning of my lost document on erased disk space Sure enough it found the phrase almost instantly and once again I was in able to resurrect the whole file in a matter of minutes Apparently when DOS saved the misnamed batch file it put it physically a
166. to create a batch program called chp bat CHange Prompt bat Here is what the chp bat file will look like echo off cls if not x l xyes goto end if x l xyes prompt alt end Save this file then reset the computer with the CTRL Shift Break keys This will put you back in PAM From there point at the DOS Command box and press return When you are in the MS DOS mode on your com puter you will see the time day and date in the upper right corner of the screen On the command line key in the command chp and press the Return key Nothing should happen When the chp bat program runs it will look for the full command chp yes The third line in the chp bat program says If the first additional word in the command line is NOT YES then skip to the END of the batch program When you issue the command chp yes and press the Return key here is what will happen The fourth line of the chp bat program will sense the yes and will extract the value of alt from the environment space It will then assign this value to the prompt variable Now when the chp bat program ends you will see a new DOS prompt This is surely a trivial example of what you can do However it illustrates a couple of features of the pam env file and the DOS Environment Space Notice that when you want to refer to an environ ment variable you must put a percent sign on both sides of the variable name Also note that you can t access environment variables
167. to access Portable graphics Turbo Pascal Starter Kit Includes Turbo Pascal Turbo Tutor and Pascal Programs for Portables TURBOPASCAL Pena Retail subscribers a Turbo Pascal 99 95 89 95 Ri Toolbox oe Turbo Tutor Ses Gee ere data m a Turbo Toolbox 69 95 62 95 management system Pascal programs for Portables 49 95 44 95 Starter Kit 189 85 159 95 Turbo Tutor Disk and manual for learning Turbo 39 95 for Portable Paper subscribers if you purchase any Turbo product from Personalized Software Pascal Includes many features for experienced users Order form and guarantee are on inside back cover of this issue or send check or All Borland products are supported by Borland Technical Support 408 438 8400 credit card to Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 THE PORTABLE PAPER b File Info for attaching up to 65 character comments to each file name c Norton Integrator an on line reference and central command post for all the utilities d Norton Change Directory shows structure of directory graphically and lets you traverse subdirectories with many less keystrokes 3 There are additional features added to almost all the utilities The speed of many of the utilities has increased 4 The menu system in the main NU program is easier to traverse and contains context sensitive help screens In general it easier to find and extract data 5 The Norton Adva
168. ubscriber s Disk Software on disk includes 1 DISKPACK a pack utility that can work with subdirectories usable with Edisc external disks hard disks Com mercial equivalent sells for 50 2 Time Manager s Calendar Utility Prints WEEK AT A GLANCE calendar from Time Manager s appoint ments list to the ThinkJet 3 HP Calculator program 4 C Drive Copy Utility Copies file from one disk to another WITHOUT having to copy file first to your Portable 5 Other suprise goodies including game and Lotus templates seep 18 Power Cube Powers and recharges up to four HP devices HP Portable ThinkJet HP9114 HP hand held etc from a single wall outlet PrinterlTalk and Formati10 MemoMaker Enhancers These two independently developed programs expand the formatting capabilities of MemoMaker With PrinterTalk you can change type styles in the middle of a document change number of copies and lines per page do automatic page numbering and much more Formati10 lets you format headers footers and page numbers chain or merge documents compensate for widow and orphan lines and much more Purchase both products at the same time and receive a 33 dis count subscribers only Private File Protects your confidential letters documents spreadsheets programs and data communication files Private File scrambles your file so on ly you can understand it 4 Project Management Packages All 3 work on the HP110 Plus HP150 a
169. ucts Rich will be in charge of the development support and maintenance of our products He will help us continue and improve upon our high standards for products we ship Much of what you will read below about tips and upgrades is due to Rich s initial efforts Frances now spends half her time filling orders manually in order to really understand our needs She is responsible for automating our whole order processing system into a network I would like to tie in PC compatibles a Laser printer backup systems along with HP110s Portable Plus s with peripherals into this network If any of you have such a 8 JULY AUGUST 1987 setup please give Frances a call or drop us a note Assum ing that we can tie HP Portables into such a network we will publish our results for your information The Burmeisters will also help me with two other pro jects I have had in mind for a long time I originally plan ned to publish The Portable Paper from my HP LaserJet However my wonderful graphic designer George Foster and typesetter Ron Flora keep talking me out of it They argue that the look of a typeset publication at the resolu tion of 2800 dots per inch is far superior to the 300 dots per inch that the LaserJet affords Furthermore this higher resolution means that the current Portable Paper page can comfortably hold many more words than can a LaserJet page However typesetting means we have less control over the output Mistakes cre
170. uestions contact us Personalized Software at PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 or David Burch SoftWord Astage Rectory Lane Windlesham Surrey GU20 OBW England 011 44276 75440 INSTALLATION David Burch of SoftWord assured me that it is easy to in stall these cards He sent me a copy of his clear well written manual that contains installation instructions You will need a torque screwdriver which you can purchase at a local hardware or discount store If you do not want to do it yourself I have two sug gestions You could take it to your local computer store preferably an HP dealer and pay for somebody s time Alternatively you could send your Plus here and we ll do it for 95 and send it back overnight Call for an ap co pointment SoftWord To Distribute Personalized Software Products In Europe SoftWord makers of the 1 Megabyte RAM ROM Drawer and 2 Megabyte RAM drawer will beginning August 1 as Webuy them We sell them We guarantee them Buying used HP Any used item you buy from us can equipment makes sense be returned within 30 days for a full You know HP quality refund Even used HP machines can serve you well for years Call for current prices cal 515 472 6330 The Portable Equipment Exchange a division of Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 distribute all Personalized Software products for us in Europe This should cut down on many of the pr
171. ugh it is not a portable program i e suited for field use unless you carry an external disk drive it turns the HP110 into an integrated work environment An exter nal disk drive is required and an Empowerer is highly recommended Both T Maker and T Master products of T Maker Com pany 1973 Landings Dr Mountain View CA 94043 415 962 0195 are available from Personalized Soft ware PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 for 295 or 249 for Portable Paper subscribers T Maker is recommended for HP110 users T Master for Portable Plus users THE PORTABLE PAPER A Drive 110 Plus Sketch Flow Charting II pius Mouse Plus By Sergio Biguzzi MD Until recently no serious packages except Lotus 1 2 3 have taken advantage of the remarkable graphic capabilities of the HP110 480 x 128 dots and Plus 480 x 200 dots Finally several programs have became available for HP110 Plus users The first of these is the free form draw ing program SKETCH from Southern Software for HP110 and Portable Plus users This SKETCH has very little to do with the sketch program offered as a freebie with SideWinder Secondly for the Portable Plus only there is FLOW CHARTING I from Patton amp Patton which allows the easy creation of flow and organizational charts Finally there is PPRLE available in the public domain from the CompuServe HP and PICS Forums that allows the display of pictorial images We will r
172. unctuation inserting com ments directly into your document Also produces overall critique of document strength of delivery use of jargon grade level Uses more than 2 200 rules and a 45 000 word dictionary and works with most word processors Also available RightWords dictionary extension utility for RightWriter it has 7 auxiliary dictionaries including business computers and engineering and also lets you add words of your own to RightWriter s built in dictionary inside front cover Software on ROM Many of our best selling programs are available on ROM chips via our ROM Backup service Portable Plus only Saves valuable electronic disk space minimizes need for disk drive Custom ROMs also available See D 25 Shelp Whether you re in a Lotus spreadsheet a MemoMaker memo or almost any program Shelp gives you immediate access to a notepad and calculator and lets you define up to 26 keyboard macros that is assign up to 31 characters to a single keystroke Written exclusively for the Portable Plus SeP 23 SideWinder This program written specifically for the HP Portables the HP150 and the ThinkJet printer allows you to print your spreadsheets or any other text file sideways This means you can print your 60 column by 53 row spreadsheet on the ThinkJet from your Portable as one long printout without cutting and pasting Seep 28 Sketch A graphics program for the HP Portables Lets you draw free form using cursor
173. urg VA RAM Versus ROM Last summer I had a conversation with an HP engineer that opened my eyes to a conception of the ideal Portable Plus dif ferent from the one promoted by HP in its literature What the engineer pointed out was that with the exception of Lotus 1 2 3 and one or two other packages the software available for the Plus in ROM has to be copied from ROM into RAM each time it is used Therefore having the soft ware in ROM was only a convenience feature and does noi result in a more ef ficient overall use of memory He thought that a machine fully configured with RAM 1 28 Megabytes were available at the time would give much more flexibili ty to the user Now that larger capacity memory drawers have become available it is time to re evaluate the ROM software strategy The advantages of ROM software are non volatility no current memory require ments although they do require the use of one of the drawers speed compared with any mechanical drive and true portability The disadvantages are the limited availability of software on ROM currently being remedied by Personalized Software cost and the difficulty and cost of upgrades MS Word Large capaci ty RAM drawers provide a remedy to some of these difficulties Perhaps the greatest advantage of RAM is its flexibility It is possible to quickly reallocate storage space to either documents or other software The input of other software would require a d
174. ve written or called to say that you would like on ROM Word Perfect The Norton Utilities RightWriter Sketch HP Calculator from the 1987 Subscriber s Disk Private File and Milestone We have contacted WordPerfect about the possibility of putting everything but the Thesaurus on four ROM chips HP and WordPerfect discussed the possibility at length but nothing came of it Maybe with our approach of providing ROMs only as a backup we can work some thing out with them Write M Daniel Lunt VP Marketing WordPerfect Corporation 288 West Center St Orem UT 84057 to express your interest in having this ROM backup service provided by us The Peter Norton Company originally refused our re quest of putting some of The Norton Utilities in ROM However we have written Brad Kingsbury again to ask for permission Again if you want to urge the company on write Brad and Peter Norton at The Peter Norton Com pany 2210 Wilshire Blvd Suite 186 Santa Monica CA 90403 requesting that they let us back up their software on ROM Many of you really seem to like RightWriter a lot Yc gotten quite a few ROM backup requests The problem is that the latest RightWriter version 2 1 has grown awful ly big We would need three 128K ROMs to accomplish ROM backup If we can put the program on PROM or if enough of you can convince me to order 500 sets of them we ll do it It may cost you between 200 and 300 for a set of three 128K ROMs so w
175. ve the subdirectory with rd subdir And it gets even worse if the subdirec tories have subdirectories or if you have a multitude of sub directories Formatting the disk easily removes all files and sub directories but takes a long time to do on an external disk drive and wears down the HP9114 battery However the HP version of DOS that is built into both the HP110 and Portable Plus has a format option designed to clear all files without actually reformatting the disk First enter DOS from PAM Then to clear files from the C drive type format c c where c is the drive to clear and c is the option The c op tion clears the disk of all files and subdirectories without formatting the disk And it is very quick To clear a disk on an external HP9114 from an IBM PC compatible with an HP IL card use this syntax instead hpilfor d c The hpilfor com program is included on the floppy disk that comes with the HP IL card If you want to delete the files from your A drive on ly just type format the process takes seconds GETTING PREPARED FOR DISK FORMATTING TRICKS Portable Plus owners all you need is built into your unit and you can go onto the next section HP110 owners in sert your utilities disk into drive C From PAM or from the DOS A gt prompt type copy c format com a and press Return This copies the formatting program onto A The format program built into the HP110 is sufficient for many purposes but incomplete CREATING
176. ves something others don t or people are using different rules of reasoning or have different values In all of these cases it is very prod uctive to explore the differences people become aware of factors they had not thought about Sometimes people even change their opinions or come up with better ideas Although the technique could be used with a non portable computer and printer there are clear advantages to the Portables 1 The Portables and ThinkJet require no power cords so setting up is easy and quick reducing distraction and bother 2 Portables require no special arrangements they take up a small amount of space on a table or in a pinch ona lap 4 The Portables are completely silent unlike some non portables with their audible fans 4 The Portables are small and unobtrusive they do not impede the view of the operator 5 The ThinkJet is quiet people can continue to converse while copies are being printed 6 The ThinkJet is sufficiently quick that copies can be made quickly even without a photocopier use the MS DOS PRINT command to set up as many copies as re quired in the print queue I use this technique in my consulting practice and I assure you that my clients and I have much appreciated the power provided by those quiet helpers the HP Portable Marvels Hang On To Your HP The author David Hughes works for KW Control Systems as a field service engineer He uses the Portable Plus in the field for
177. xperienced I cut some of the gory details from your letter For the time be ing we will make only Empowerers for normal U S AC current By the way given that we are not hardware manufacturers I like the look of the Empowerer and thought we did a pretty good job with it Frankly if we didnt feel it was such a service to our customers we would take it off the price list We have had almost no complaints or problems once we have sent Empower 4 JULY AUGUST 1987 ers out However as many of you who have patiently waited for months to get your unit may have surmised it has been more trouble than it was worth for us We will keep manufacturing them and by the time this newsletter comes out we may even have some in stock EMPOWERER PRO Let me tell you that the HP9114 Em powerer is one piece of equipment that anyone with an HP110 can t do without It surely makes a world of difference in the usefulness of the 110 John G Sibley Westport CT Paper Jetline I hope to see resident in The Portable Paper an updated list of InkJet paper sup pliers The contribution of the readers would be essential I will start with a note When I bought a QuietJet I received 50 sheets of very high quality fancy looking inkjet paper The reorder number was the same as the standard HP inkjet paper which is quite different much lighter and not so fancy looking Somebody at HP Corvallis explained to me that the 50 sheets of ve
178. y August 1987 ie gt Portable page 19 Great news for Portable Plus users Pack your favorite programs into just a few slots in your ROM drawer B Save valuable memory space B Eliminate need for disk drive Custom ROMs available too Now you can simultaneously free up memory space in your Portable Plus and save yourself the trouble of using a disk drive How It s simple Some of our best selling soft ware products are now available on ROM Backup as many as five products per chip In sert one or more of our ROM Backup chips in your ROM drawer and you ll never have to load those programs again It s the ultimate in convenience It s much faster than running programs off a disk drive And it leaves your computer s internal memory free for data and other programs ROM BACKUP HOW IT WORKS Before we could offer software on ROM to our customers we thoroughly researched the field 1 S locating the most reliable sources of Roms and ROM services In addition we have formed special ROM agreements with our leading software suppliers including Borland International Turbo Pascal Simon amp Schuster Webster s Spelling Checker and Southern Software SideWinder For numerous legal economic and logistical reasons we offer ROMs to you as a Backup Ser vice This means you may purchase a product on ROM provided you already own the product on disk If you purchased a disk product from us Person
179. you receive an A prompt This allows you to do all MS DOS commands You can even run programs as long as they read and write on ly from and to the CON device e g BASIC or EDLIN Now we can consider my original scenario but with this autoansr bat file on my Portable I would call my wife and have her hang up the phone and connect my Portable to it I would then call up my Portable and use the type command to have the file shown to me Then I would cap ture the file with the terminal emulator that I was running It is true that I wouldn t be able to transfer a binary file us ing this method CALLING UP A PORTABLE PLUS To be able to dial up a Portable Plus is a bit trickier PII tell you the way I got it to work but it may not be the best way of doing it For Sale HP110 Excellent condition with HP ser vice contract 2 6 88 and software 800 384K Drawer for 110 Plus new 595 Call Henry Warren 305 832 6904 We Convert Disks We will convert your 5 1 4 disks to 3 1 2 or vice versa Send us formatted disk and source disk 9 50 per source disk Add 4 for second day delivery Personal ized Software P O Box 869 Fairfield Iowa 52556 515 472 6330 CLASSI 384K Ram Memory Drawer For Sale Portable Plus owner wants to upgrade to 1 Meg Perfect condition 495 Call Neil Henderson 916 624 4170 38 JULY AUGUST 1987 THE HP9114 EMPOWERER If you ve been frustrated trying to use your HP9114
180. your existing soft ware If it were available in ROM format it would be an ap plication without equal If you re interested in such a program in ROM format consider calling or writing Hal Goldstein of Personalized Software and tell him It is an Opportunity that Portable Plus owners have all been waiting for Both T Maker and T Master products of I Maker Com pany 1973 Landings Dr Mountain View CA 94043 415 962 0195 are available from Personalized Software PO Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 515 472 6330 for 295 or 249 for Portable Paper subscribers T Maker is recommended for HP110 users T Master for Portable Plus users By David Hughes Introduction If you thought there would never be hope for an integrated program that would run on the HP110 T Maker may be the kind of solution you re looking for Designed to operate in a minimum of 128K of user memory T Maker logically in tegrates word processing relational database spreadsheet bar charts and spelling verification into a single work en vironment T Maker is the forerunner of T Maker Com pany s latest product T Master T Maker runs well on the HP110 The Portable Plus can run both T Maker and T Master T Maker Highlights If T Master is the most versatile and most interesting prod uct I ve ever seen then T Maker would qualify as the only product to do so much with so little T Maker s word pro cessing environment is relatively fast and very fri

Download Pdf Manuals

Related Search

ThePortablePaperV2N4_48pagesJul Aug

ThePortablePaperV2N4_48pagesJul-Aug

Contents

Download Pdf Manuals

Related Search

Related Contents