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1. Order Information Useful Notes UNO 20 documentation 5 per copy Small fast freeform database PC shareware version available on Serve in Library 7 of the IBMSYS Compu forum UNO13 ZIP PC version also avail oea bd earache issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK 95LX version available directly from Useful Software 340 Dale Circle Waterloo Ontario N2J 3 3 CANADA UMA Macros amp This program lets you record and play back key sequences on your 95LX You can create as many of these macros as you need and assign them to any key combination you like By Mark Scardina Entering a lot of keystrokes on the 95LX s small keyboard is annoying and sometimes tiring The ability to re PC compatible version on The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk May June 92 JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 11 REVIEWS Useful Software Some Sample Macros Listed below are some sample macros you can create using UMA These can also be created using the 95LX s User Defined Char acter Key function 1 Generic Default File Open if files use default extensions and are in the same subdi rectory Menu F O BKsp times 9 A DATA Enter 2 Backup Macro for APPT file Filer F5 c _dat daily abk Esc F2 a data Enter y Menu q 3 Startup Macro Phone Menu foctient pbk Enter Appt Menu fodaily abk Enter 4 Update Macro and Switch to Weekabk Appt Menu fs Enter y Alt Appt 5 Confi
2. PackRat Current Excel Word for Windows 1 2 3 for Windows IntelliLink Inc 98 Spitbrook Rd Suite 12 Nashua NH 03062 Tel 603 888 0666 Fax 603 888 9817 low battery warning is set to This means that the actual battery life you get in the 95LX is about 70 of what you would expect based on the battery s milliamp hour rating Battery T Capacity 95LX Cos Blues imh r Avg Life pair ae Battery Comparison Table The figures above reflect a constant drain on the battery under test with one recovery period at approximate ly the 50 point in the test The recovery period involved stopping the test and turning off the 95LX for approximately one hour This was done to simulate the way the 95LX is actually used Lithium batteries remain above 2 0 volts for virtually their entire life Once the low battery warning appears you should change them as quickly as possible because the drop off to 1 8 volts will be very quick WARNING The following warning should be heeded when using alternative battery types on the 95LX There is an internal cir cuit to protect the 95LX against backward batteries however this circuit was designed for alkalines NiCds and NMHs will overload that circuit and damage the 95LX if put in backwards Since you will be changing rechargeable batteries more often set up the habit of al ways holding the 95LX in left hand bottom up with battery opening on right Insert th
3. eee BASIC TIPS eee This section focuses on the 95LX s built in applications giving tips of a more basic level We are interested in your feedback on this section Is it useful Do you have any tips Please write The Editor The HP Palmtop Paper Thaddeus Computing 57 E Broadway Fairfield IA 52556 Appointment Book IMPORTANT KEYS F10 F8 and ESC are the most important and most used keys within APPT F10 switches toggles you between your schedule of appoint ments and your to do list Press F8 to insert new items in your to do list and your appointment list Press to see a calendar DP eosG ments Book 67 67 ic 12 54 PM rich abk Tuesda July Ft lst Priority 7 K nE 1992 1 itis a a a Lock quote pee agenda for meeting 2nd Pr sor ita list of Ap o over list o Gall Robie for tickets APPT s Todo list Insert Tod Enter the i 67 87 92 12 55 pm odo item a a ae lst Carry forward yes Date Item Priority F 67 1992 Todo list insert screen Appointment Book ich abk rich a qe Hha 1992 July APPT s Calendar screen HP Calc FIGURING A 20 DISCOUNT Suppose you walked into a store that advertised that all items could be sold for 20 off its sticker price Rather than trying to compute the new price in your head pull out your trusty 95LX and go into HP CALC Now press MENU Bus Business FS Percentages and use the up arr
4. 128 West Boxelder Place Suite 10 Chandler AZ 85224 Bicom Epson Grdpad HP9SLX IEM PCAadio WOR 3125 Palmcom Pogat PC Samsung Penmaster Sharp PC 3000 JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 27 COLUMN Looking Glass Save your customized batch file as B BKUP95 BAT This file will drive one or both of the BKUPC BAT and BKUPA BAT files It will pass the names of your directories to the other two batch files which will use them to trans fer the files from your 95LX to the appropriate hard disk directories Testing Out The Setup Once all the files have been in stalled you re ready to test them Before running the backup routine for the first time make doubly sure that the batteries in your HP 95LX are fresh or connect your 95LX to its AC adapter The file transfer process eats batteries during the first run of the program Depending on how many files you have on your 95LX the initial backup may run for several minutes When you re ready run ZIP on the HP 95LX Once it is running press V to put the program in serVer mode The word Waiting should ap pear on the screen Log on to your desktop s B drive issue the DOS command bkup95 and press ENTER If all is working correctly you should see a series of messages appear on the screen of your desk top Backing up C Backing up C _DAT etc On the 95LX you should see the names of the files being transferred The last line of the BKUPC BAT
5. rE EE ace oo beeen 3 Reviews Useful Software 95Buddy Switch UNO UMA cover 6 Best Batteries RA i User Profiles Physician Keeps On Top Of Practice 4 2 2 case ars News From HP From the Factory 19 Free RAM Card for Stores seasea 19 13 Hard DIV sese earra 20 SkyStream Receiver HP 95LX Support HP Handhelds Forum Thaddeus Computing News User to User What we ll BRE SOON 5 3 lt 9 0Stinatsleaia coed Columns Looking Glass Backing CII ZIP inire s 26 Savvy User New Solver to 1 2 3 ANSE 6 secereacs 30 Programmer s Corner Swift Basic 2 2 0406 32 Getting Started ONEONE u i o s asis a 3 Third Party 95LX Products SANA POWANEE h ira ae res iai 38 Sowab sciciisirrsirs Basic Tips 5 via Fae 02 tt 45 Quick Tips ow wee cee Palmtop Paper On Disk Advertiser s Index U 5 7 95 Four Extraordinarily Useful Software Packages each under 50 95Buddy and Switch add a number of useful features to the HP 95LX and make it easier to run system compliant and DOS programs Useful Notes adds electronic post its to your Palmtop and Useful Macros greatly expands the 95LX s macro capabilities Introduction by Hal Goldstein During the last few months four inexpensive yet well conceived and useful programs have come to our attention Two of these programs 95Buddy and Switch
6. Editor Another Way to Automatically Access CompuServe Saving Time and Money By Thomas Rundel AcCIS amp is a powerful freeware tool for automated CompuServe Infor mation Service access Editor s Note AcCIS is similar to the MES SAGE program described on pages 14 16 of the May June issue AcCIS allows you to download CompuServe Mail and forum mes sages read and reply offline send binary mail scan forum libraries browse catalogs offline mark files for download at next session Ses sion activities can be fully control led AcCIS runs external macros Up to 39 DOS programs can be invoked with a single keystroke A battery gauge is always visible AcCIS re quires COMMO and an editor Thaddeus Computing News User To User User To User Small Companies Produce Exciting New Products By Hal Goldstein The Palmtop marketplace is provid ing new opportunities for creative engineers throughout the world Interestingly enough it is the smal ler companies coming out with most of the exciting new hardware and software for the HP Palmtop Perhaps it s easy to understand Larger more established software companies already have their re sources stretched to the limit They must decide whether to write their applications for DOS Windows OS 2 or Unix To allocate further resources to modify their software to run under the 95LX s sparsely docu mented HP Lotus System Manager may be low on their priorit
7. OR type functions on these fields In addition the product allows you an area for brief annotation This product requires 70K disk space and 100K of RAM Both a PC and 95LX version are provided with order The HP version uses 100K of System RAM AVADE i i tirkama Faa we NRO NOW Medium ROM card or Card and floppy disk Runs under SysMgr 5 No Pricing Floppy disk only 95 00 ROM Card amp Floppy 149 00 CONTACT Lighthouse Software 3001 Red Hill Avenue Building 4 Suite 213 Costa Mesa CA 92626 USA Phone 714 850 1767 Fax 714 850 0843 Personal Food Analyst Consumer oriented software program that helps you track analyze and modify your eating habits Create your nutritional profile based on your age height activity level sex and desired weight Records what you eat during the day and continuously re calculates how many calories and nutrients your have remaining Personal Food Analyst uses a database of 4 127 food items to ana lyze what you eat It lets you preview food for nutritional content before you eat analyzes food for 27 different nutrients including calories protein fats carbohydrates and cholesterol Availability i165 5594505 se0pae NOW Ee ra re ROM Card Runs under SysMer Lees No PPG oi EA Le se aed and 289 CONTACT Mirical Nutrition Corp 4606 Northpark Drive Colorado Springs CO 80918 USA Phone 800 732 7707 or 719 598 5276 Fax 719 598
8. lines If you get the opportunity to use these batteries keep a spare set handy since you may get little war ning that they are near failure Tom works for a natural gas pipeline company in Houston Texas and was one of the first to use PC s in the natural gas industry He has been a regular contributor to sup port publications of Hewlett Packard computers for many years Tom s CompuServe D ts 76011 3655 256 KB 99 FAX 310 370 3265 800 462 4309 JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 31 COLUMN Programmer s Corner Swift Basic Programming Language for The HP 95LX Ed gives a brief overview of BASIC and then reviews Swift BASIC a programming language developed specifically for the 95LX By Ed Keefe Swift BASIC We ve discussed Swift BASIC from Zemanek Weber Vienna Austria in previous editions of The HP Palm top Paper page 47 of the Mar Apr issue and page 34 of the May Jun issue Swift BASIC is now being sold in the USA by Sparcom 800 827 8416 This article presents a closer look at Swift BASIC along with a general overview of BASIC Hope fully with this information you ll be able to make a more informed decision about getting and using Swift BASIC on your HP 95LX Swift BASIC Its Historical Context BASIC was created in 1964 at Dart mouth University The first version of BASIC was very limited in what it could do But because it was easy to learn and very f
9. s Guide only recommends the use of alkaline batteries There is a sound reason for this The battery management software in the 95LX is designed to give you a warning when the charge on the two batteries decreases from 3 0v volts to 2 0v and to shut down the machine at 1 8v This fea Bo It indos re ue 18 Lb De aan 7 Rd e succory a TF Thate successfu provides an average user with a wide operating range and time to respond to the low battery warning before the machine shuts down Testing Batteries in the 95LX In order to examine other battery alternatives we must first get an idea of what the current usage bat tery drain is while using the 95LX This is not as easy as it sounds because there are a wide range of operating conditions on the 95LX While it is off the 95LX consumes approximately 0 7 0 8 milliamps of current If it is turned on but not performing any operations it con sumes 30 40 milliamps when the serial port is off and 40 50 milli amps when the port is powered While the 95LX is actually comput ing the current consumption jumps to 100ma 200ma The exact amount depends on whether the 95LX is performing memory only operations or disk access operations Since this represents quite a range of values AN HP 95LX HELPS YOU KEEP UP WITH YOUR BUSINESS ADD SKYTEL NATIONWIDE MESSAGING AND YOUR BUSINESS CAN KEEP UP WITH YOU With SkyTel s SkyStream service your HP 95LX palmtop PC can rec
10. which predicts the drop off point long before this happens This allows users ample time to save their work and replace their batteries Once BATTman is installed a pop up window appears every time you power up your 95LX The pop up window reports your real time battery status BATTman also monitors your backup batteries both inside your HP 95LX and on your RAM card In addi tion BATTman s PDA supports Ni Cds NiMH Nickel Metal Hydride Alkaline and Lithium batteries See Advertising page 5 Availability 2 00 62c ec cee ce ieees NOW Medium 0 6044 0550003 Floppy disk Pricing BATT inet 6 26 3 22 5083 ic te eae 49 With 2 NiCds and Charger 59 With 2 Nickel Metal Hydrides 49 CONTACT ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zanker Road San Jose CA 95134 USA Phone 800 825 9977 or 408 428 9722 Fax 408 428 9721 QAPALM A database application builder for the HP 95LX and other DOS compatible palmtop computers The system con sists of an application generator which runs on a PC and a runtime program for the 95LX Once installed the runtime module can run any num ber of QAPALM custom applications QAPALM files can be translated into Lotus file format at the touch of a hotkey allowing you to use the 95LX s built in version of Lotus to analyze data collected with QAPALM applications ANBUADIGEY 4 56 5 d 0 ncn adits Baca NOW Medium aps 2 0 0ncem eee Floppy i Runs under SysMpr te hee T Pei Th
11. Le HEWLETT BACKAARD 123K RAM Card F1002A Te SS _ st First 50 stories get FREE 128K RAM Card With Hal Goldstein s help we ll choose three stories for publication in The HP Palmtop Paper AND send their authors a free HP 1MB RAM card HP F1004A We are especially interested in HP 95LX applications in these fields small business insurance medicine health care law veteri nary medicine management sales service support real estate and education including students Here s the format to follow Name and mailing address Profession Industry Why I bought the HP 95LX How I use my palmtop Ways that I or my business has benefited from the HP 95LX DOV po NO ps JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 19 News from HP 7 How I describe my palmtop to friends and associates Send us your story today A free 128K RAM card for the first 50 that we receive one per person one per address We can t wait to read Tales of the Palmtop Send your story to Rhonda Rick Palmtop Profiles Hewlett Packard Mailstop 5UP5 1000 NE Circle Blvd Corvallis OR 97330 Hewlett Packard Develops A maaaee 1 3 Hard Disk Drive By Richard Hall Hewlett Packard has introduced the world s first 1 3 hard disk drive a device the size of a small matchbox The initial version of what HP is calling the Kittyhawk Personal Storage Module PSM has a for matted capacity of 21 4 MB equiva l
12. ly retired BASICA in favor of Quick BASIC and Visual BASIC source code examples 95LX explore memory and much more 10 say about UTIL 32 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 UTIL Forth Version 2 4 The 95LX Toolkit For Programmers And Non Programmers Harness all the power of your 9SLX with UTIL a System Manager compliant implementation of the Forth language Even if you are not a programmer you ll make use of the sample programs that include games music and useful utilities Create System Manager compliant loaders for your favorite DOS programs or shell to DOS with a hot key using the UTIL EXM loader The easy to use patching tools let you set the Alt Arrow and Cursor Tracking functions for the loaded program The package includes a comprehensive User s Guide and many UTIL includes a Forth compiler 8086 assembler decompiler and disassembler to turn your 95LX into a portable software development system Create compact System Manager compliant executable applications and standalone COM programs Or use the tools to access the built in graphics capability of your Here s what a few of the current users who can upgrade to Version 2 4 for only The loader capability is a real bonus on the 9SLX Good job Worth it for the examples alone Thank you for a fine program I love this package Great software package Thanks UTIL is a perfect match for your 9SLX and at a list price of just 70 it
13. public has been a part our operating style This is some of my personal inter pretation of why HP takes that position If we talk about a fu ture we may jeopardize our patent position alert our competitors and set the stage for serious customer satisfaction issues There may be SEC issues as well I m not sure Another issue is who has authority to speak for the company on unreleased products Legal ly it may be only an officer Practically it may be any employee who may not have the complete story or under stand the uncertainties We have major accounts who sometimes commit their future strategies based on our product plans We do discuss our plans with them face to face usually in one of our facto ries with confidential dis TAKE CONTROL and CUSTOMIZE YOUR HP9SLX Introducing SWITCH Now take complete control of your HP95LX The HP95LX Program Launcher and Control Panel Look at these Features ss Launches any DOS program er directly without closing system manager applications tm Allows you to assign additional programs to your Blue Applica tion keys e amp Allows single key access for additional DOS and EXM programs from a menu m Run DOS shell immediately from a single key E A Menu driven and easy to use user interface gives you instant access to all your HP95LX programs plus a powerful control panel SWITCH allows you to run DOS programs using the Blue Application keys Pop
14. 01 does not work on 486 machines The simplest solution is to run INSTALL on a non 486 PC Alternatively see manual page 16 or mail us your disk with your name and address stating 486 machine and we ll mail you back a updated version of the disk Hal Goldstein if Phe vel ALL program does not work for you follow instructions on page 16 in the manual which still greatly facilitates installation if you are still unsuccessful you will have to study the documentation in DOCS ZIP the normal resource users have to make use of these programs Countless hours went into our efforts to facilitate installation of these programs We simply to not have the manpower to provide additional support to over 10 000 users on the installation and use of the 34 free programs that came on the disk We truly regret any inconvenience this has caused you 2 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 The HP Palmtop Paper Volume one Number four July August 1992 Executive Editor Publisher Hal Goldstein Managing Editor Richart Hall Department Editors Tom Page Ed Keefe Mark Scardina Contributing Writers Ma i Leary Lot it owitz Robert Williams Ted Dickens Copy Editor Margaret Martin Advertisin keting Brian Teitzman Peder Sweeney Circulation Kelly Johnson Rene LaReau Marni White Signe Wilson Diane Wimett Executive Advisor Rita Goldstein The HP Palmtop Paper is published bimonthly by Thaddeus Comput ing Inc at 57 E
15. 15K and 95Buddy needs 6K In addition these programs take up some disk space when Dieted the minimum required is UMA 15K UNO 380K 95Buddy 7K SWITCH requires a RAM card and about 65K of disk space The nice thing about all four programs is that you start being productive with any of them in less than an hour in some cases fifteen minutes and that includes instal lation time 95Buddy amp This small utility adds a number of useful features fo the 95LX allowing you to launch an application from file in FILER close and save all your built in applications at once change your default directories and much more By Marty Mankins From the first day I used it I knew the 95LX was something that would change the way I worked lived and thought It had many features that made it perfect for keeping my life in order and its size let me take it wherever I went It appeared to be a perfect relationship Well there were a few things I wanted to change I wanted to de lete the WK1 Lotus files from the root directory I also wanted to be able to choose the default directory for my MEMO files It looked like the only thing I could do was to put in an enhancement request to HP 6 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 and wait for HP amp Lotus to update the ROM software That was before I discovered 95Buddy a new pro gram that corrects many of the 95LX problems without having to wait for a ROM update 9
16. 5790 Thoroughbred Handicapping on the 95LX PONIES WK1 H is a 95LX Lotus 2 2 worksheet for handicapping thorough bred horse races Input raw data from the Daily Racing Form in less than five minutes between races Pro gram outputs an odds line which you use to select profitable betting oppor tunities Registered shareware version includes detailed hardcopy documen tation advanced handicapping advice and telephone support Available in Library 7 of Compu Serve s HP Handhelds forum or di rectly from the author Availability s eeremascresssas NOW Medium issassrsenane Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr 0 000 Yes Shareware registration fee 25 Add 5 if you need a disk CONTACT David Marans 877 NE 195 Street 218 Miami FL 33179 USA Phone 305 651 2580 l Utilities myREMOTE This software program lets you use your 95LX as a universal remote con trol for infrared controllable audio and video equipment MyREMOTE re On The HP Palmlop Paper on Disk Jul Aug 92 allows your 95LX to memorize and store commands from any compatible remote MyREMOTE s programmable macro commands allow you to operate many components with a single key press A built in timer function pro vides for unattended operation Availability 3 i5 siscaeacew sen ws NOW RANGE st ald teen a be Floppy disk Frin 6s imac oti ho rida ete Se 29 CONTACT ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zanker Road San Jose C
17. I have never enjoyed edit ing the APNAME LST file 4 A great feature is the ability to create a Loader for any DOS pro gram by just pressing a couple of keys This will allow your DOS programs to pop up over any of the built in applications usually with the exception of Lotus 123 After you create a new Loader for your DOS program you can use SWITCH to assign it to a hot key so you can run it without having to call SWITCH first 5 SWITCH allows you to view and change important system parame ters A menu at the bottom of the screen shows you which function keys to press to do the following Palmtop Training Classes Learn HP 95LX tips techniques and short cuts in 1 day hands on seminars HP 95LX A Vision of Possibilities System Manager SetUp Appt watch Phone Memo Lotus basics HP Calc Connectivity Pack SkyStream pager Lotus 1 2 3 for the Palmtop Spreadsheets formulas what ifs databases graphs and macros ACT for the Palmtop Contact amp client management HP 95LX beeps to remind you of calls meetings and things to do Custom Executive Training available Sales Force Integration Workshop Using ACT to act as a company Bring your own 95LX or test drive one purchasable after class HP related products will be available to try out Intro to HP 9SLX Seminar Schedule Aug 24 Washingon DC Sept 7 Boston MA Aug 26 Baltimore MD Sept 9 Orlando FL Aug 31 Philadelphia PA Sept 14 Chicag
18. SHIFT IF NOT 1 GOTO AGN GOTO EXIT I ECHO Argument Error GOTO EXIT 2 ECHO Out of memory too many files GOTO EXIT 4 ECHO Connection error GOTO EXIT 8 ECHO Transmission error GOTO EXIT 16 ECHO Disk error full GOTO EXIT 128 ECHO At user s request exit ECHO Communication halted set E c QOOOKzip u gt nul ECHO Server is unlinked I ll briefly explain what s going on at the end of the article It s not as complicated as it looks The second batch file is similar to the first and only needed if you are using a RAM card A drive To save yourself some typing make a copy of the first BKUCP BAT file and modify it At the DOS B gt prompt issue the DOS command copy bkupc bat bkupa bat Then use a text editor to modify the BKUPA BAT file Modify as follows Line 2 change BKUPC BAT to BAUPA BAT Line 5 change C to Ail Line 6 change C to A and change B C to B A Line 10 change C 1 to A 1 Line 11 change C to A and change B C to B A DELETE last three lines MODIFY new last line Change ECHO Communication halted to ECHO Communication interrupted Mobile Data ar S IN THE CARDS Today s personal computers notebook pen based and palmtop depend on credit card sized RAM memory cards For these new machines Adtran s RAM cards offer the low power high per The third batch file will be used to drive one or both of
19. Subotrectory MEMO ENV COMMAND COM N APPTBK ENV CHKDOSK EXE can tae toe TF COM l MAIN ABK T 4 ESAD We NOTES TXT i more files imore files i Path Structure showing C Root Directory with files DAT subdirectory and its files So what All this may seem a bit tedious and confusing but it s worth knowing Actually once you get used to the whole notion of a tree structured directory the whole thing is really quite simple When you develop a filing sys tem for your filing cabinet two important considerations predomi nate First you want to make sure the information you store in your file cabinet is safe and secondly you want to be able to find it quickly We are taking this journey into 36 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 APPLICATION BUILDER FOR THE HP 95LX With QAPalm you can create custom data collection and viewing applications for your palmtop on your PC without programming Uses an easy screen painting approach Transfers data to dBase and Lotus 123 formats Demo avail able QA SYSTEMS INC 220 East 42nd Street New York N Y 10017 1 800 945 1717 212 599 1717 MS DOS directory structure for exactly these same two reasons Understanding how files and direc tories are named and how they relate to each other greatly increas es your ability to safeguard your data and how to find it Safeguarding your data The best way to safeguard your data is
20. a zip lock bag to protect the 95LX while in the Operating Theater Provides a clean less con taminated surface and protects the unit from blood fluid splashes etc I suppose it would be possible to render the 95LX surgically sterile if a sterile plastic bag was used I can think of many neat things that could be done if the IR Port was used for two way transfers via a PC two way interface Too bad there isn t a little interface unit on the market that plugs into a desktop and talks to the 95LX s IR port Conclusion Each of the applications can be used by a busy clinician to improve effi ciency by handling data and infor mation better In order to reduce the amount of time spent getting the 95LX customized for clinical work David E Goodman and I have put together a set of files to instant ly implement the above applica tions These files are freely avail able from Compuserve in the HP Handhelds forum Library 7 95LX Users and the MEDSIG forum Li brary 12 under the name MEDSTF ZIP E Included in this archive are the laboratory database one with USA normal values and one with UK units three spreadsheet tem plates an equation file with 25 commonly used formulas and a blank history and physical text tem plate As improvements are made to these files I will regularly update the archive This collection should serve as a foundation to get other busy physicians up and running on the 95LX Robert S Will
21. and 300 bit sec Data Rates O 4800 2400 bit sec PalmFax QO Lifetime Guarantee CompuServe Genle Dow Jones and MCI are trademarks or tradenames of their loan amount as well as buyer s costs and seller s net proceeds LoneSTAR produces reports on Buyer Qualifica tions VA Prequalification FHA Pre qualification and Qualifying Income The program also compares Rent vs Purchase price Fixed vs ARM loans and Amortization schedules A demo disk for desktop PCs is available free of charge Availability 2 0 0e400e0v008 NOW Medium 02364 422058005 CORRY disk Runs under SysMgr 05 No ayie i ci aralt stds cepts ate oly ets stele 295 CONTACT Personal Computer Systems 505 S E 15th Street Gresham OR 97080 USA Phone 503 655 6990 Lane Bond Trader Provides professionals access to the tools needed to calculate bond prices and yields and manage portfolios Availability ETE AA NOW European version end of third quarter Medium RAM Card Runs under SysMgr No ETOD eai a ick Gale gn asad Roar sas 399 CONTACT Lane Business Systems 87 Hiber nia Ave Rockaway NJ 07866 USA Phone 800 444 5263 or 201 586 9760 Fax 201 586 0929 Property Mate This software program can hold full information on all properties listed by an agency as well as a listing of po tential buyers The listings can be searched and selected according to a combination of criter
22. and charger C1006 esre 59 Two 1100maH matched Ni metal Hydride batteries C1015 eerren 18 Two hi capacity Millennium NiCad batteries with quick charger C1016 a 12 JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 5 Continued from front cover applications makes _ WK1 disap pear from your directory and allows you to choose the default directory you want for MEMO 95Buddy lets you go into FILER put your cursor on a TXT or WK1 file and press a couple of keys to be editing that file in MEMO or 1 2 3 SWITCH helps you with new DOS and system compliant pro grams Let s say you ve got a RAM card and a growing number of DOS programs and System Manager compliant programs You are frus trated by the 95LX s limitation of 8 installed system compliant pro prams you can t remember the hotkeys you assigned to the system compliant programs you can t re member the names of all your DOS programs or where they re stored With SWITCH you no longer have to fool around creating the undocu mented temperamental APNAME LST file to install your hotkeys You also don t have to remember where your DOS programs are or be limited to 8 system compliant pro grams Start SWITCH and immedi ately you have access to any DOS or System Manager compliant program on your A drive SWITCH also in cludes utilities to check your bat tery turn the Serial Port on and off set the 95LX s auto time out feature and much m
23. automatically when batteries are low es Prevents sudden data lost and allows you to use rechargeable batteries with your HP95LX er Pop up battery status every time HP95LX is turned on Predictive Algorithm BATTman uses ACE s proprietary real time Discharge Predictive Algorithm DPA to automatically turn off your HP9SLX before your 3 4 fx a 5 p 2 Houle BATIman software only C1005 BATIman with two matched 1100mAh Ni metal Hydride Batteries C1007 59 batteries sharp drop off see chart below No more application crashs and data lost when your batteries go low The powerful DPA algorithm works with any rechargeable alkaline or lithium battery Nickel Metal Hydride Batteries ACE introduces rechargeable NiMH AA batteries that last almost as long as your alkalines on every charge They can be recharged up to a 1 000 times and unlike NiCads are non toxic and does not have Boffay caeonage curves of 1002 using HPVSLX mo f 2 13 14 BATT Man is o tracdemork of ACE Technologies inc Copyright 1992 ACE Technologies inc PETER EETROTREEREEERERR eee e tatna any memory effects Start using NIMH batteries fo save money and help preserve the environment For your nearest dealer or order direct call 800 825 9977 ACE ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zanker Rood Sulte 103 Son Jose Collomia 95134 U S A 408 428 9722 FAX 408 428 9721 BATIman with two 650mAh Millennium NiCads
24. morning 16 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 PHONE Keeps Addresses and Lab Test Information My Phone Book application serves double duty I use it as it was in tended to keep my address book In addition I keep a mini database of laboratory test results I have entered the names of about 60 different lab tests in the Name area of the Phone Book card In the Phone Number area I have entered the Normal values for each lab test Finally in the ad dress slot I put a list of possible causes for abnormal values I saved the whole collection under the name LAB PBK now when I want to transform the 95LX s Phone Book into a diagnostic tool I just load LAB PBK into PHONE This kind of information is par ticularly important to a physician We occasionally see patients whose charts have several unexplained unusual lab tests attached to them With this database I can instantly know what the lab study was about HP 95LX Palmtop Software Pocket Sales Force A powerful flexible and interactive database program Simple to use Pocket Sales Force will instantly control and plan the vital areas of sales activity lead and enquiry main tenance contact follow up dates letters and mailshots Improves customer ser vicing reporting and strategic marketing 20 fully user definable fields plus full contact history Sophisticated single and multiple criteria search filters Hot key access comp
25. my whole system froze and had to be turned off to get it working again would recommend experimenting with your own system to see what will work for you and what will not Larry Lefkowitz CompuServe ID 76137 155 MOVING CONNECTIVITY PACK S MERGE TO YOUR 95LX Go to the directory on your desktop PC where you installed the HP Connectivity Pack Find MMERGE EXE and MERGE_US HLP and transfer them to your 95LX Ted Dickens HP Forum Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 TURNING SERIAL PORT OFF The new 1 MB units will always tum the serial port on when ANY pro gram is executed from within the FILER highlight and press F4 If you go to DOS run SERCTL O to turn the serial port off So it seems that now can no longer run any program directly from within the FILER without first turning the serial port off In other words it is now necessary to execute all programs from within the FILER with batch files that begin with SERCTL O Michael Ashman CompuServe ID 76010 543 IE Memo LINE DELETE MACRO FOR MEMO MEMO is one of my favorite func tions of 95LX Since am using it frequently need the standard function of a word processor Line delete is one of the most usable functions of a word processor How ever in MEMO there is no line delete function wrote a small macro by using the MARK and CUT functions of MEMO It works well Whenever you need to delete a line just place the cursor on the line and press th
26. of portable use AC adapter serial cable and software are included More Software PodiumPal Automated speech and presentation software for your 95LX DataExchange Macintosh connectivity kit Five challenging games Chess Checkers Tetris Space Invaders amp Backgammon For more information call 800 827 8416 Dealer Distributor inquiries welcome We deliver Swift Basic Quickly enter and run system compliant Basic programs on your HP 95LX wift Basic is a modern and structured programming language that was especially designed to meet the needs of the HP 95LX users It is fully integrated in the System Manager environment and has the same well known user interface like the internal applications Even for the inexperienced user the handling is simple and easy to learn The built in editor assists with its automatic check of the syntax and makes programming the HP 95LX a joy ae J Globalink PocketSalesForce ExecutiveDataManager Information management software for the HP S5LX ampe to use Pocket Sales Force will instantly control and automate the vital areas of your sales activity or any other generic data Features include e Twenty fully user definable fields plus full contact history e Single and multiple criteria search fields e Generic database option e Lotus 123 interface e PC emulator included Developed in cooperation with CM Software Foreign languag
27. of using DOS programs has been partially circum vented by the development of Load ers Loaders were originally de veloped using the Util Forth devel opment package marketed by Essex Marketing Services Inc A Loader On The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK KLONDIKE EXM on the Mar Apr 92 issue On The HP Palmtop Paper SUBSCRIBERS DISK WEEKABK EXM on the 1992 issue makes a program System Execut able which means you can assign the DOS program to a hot key and run it without first closing the built in applications By pressing the hot key combination the DOS pro gram pop ups over the internal programs You do however lose access to the built in programs until you quit the DOS application Loaders are a great step for ward in convenience for those who need to run DOS programs Howev er there are some drawbacks For example a Loader may not be avail able for your favorite DOS program Additionally Loaders must be set up in the APNAME LST file just like the System Manager programs mentioned above And remember there is a limit of 8 programs that may be set up in APNAME LST Loader Menu95 E also averts some of this difficulty However Menu95 must be custom configured for each DOS application you use Challenge 3 Setting system options and getting system information Most computers allow the user to change important internal settings that affect the systems functions The HP 95LX is no exception It comes
28. p 36 Issue 2 p 43 Issue 3 p 44 Issue 4 p 48 and Issue 5 p 48 for complete listings Customers outside North America Please add 30 shipping for a one year subscription 60 for two years Add 5 shipping for each issue ordered individually You may pay by credit card check or money order Check or money order must be in U S dollars drawn on a U S bank Or order from one of our European distributors Contact them for pricing in local currency HOW DOES IT COMPARE WITH THE SUBSCRIBER DISK The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK is not to be confused with the Subscriber Disk that you receive free in June with each year s subscription to The HP Palmtop Paper The annual Subscriber Disk is one or two 360K floppies containing some of the best freeware for the HP 95LX no shareware Phone Fay Luxembourg amp Belgium BYTECOM France PalmSof Germany W amp W Prods 0 22 02 42021 Netherlands ELDATA 31 0 20 6247284 31 0 206325111 32 0 10 223455 32 0 10 241730 1 44 76 11 00 1 40 26 94 32 0 22 02 32794 UK Supplyline 081 744 0022 081 744 0045 HP is a regisiered Irademark ol ine HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY Al oiher trademarks are recognized 1992 Memory inc MEMORY SAVE YOUR VALUABLE DATA WITH AN ACTIVE DATA MEMORY CARD Memory cards for the HP 95LX are our specialty We have cards ranging from 128K to 2MB in stock now With a memory card from Active Data you won t have to worry about losi
29. post it notes The number of notes you can create is limited to 64K Each time you want to make a note about something you grab the top sheet and jot down the information Unlike paper post its UNO lets you easily edit index and search through the notes This gives you better access to the random pieces of information on your notes UNO is provided in three forms UNO95 the stand alone ver sion that can be launched from FILER or from the DOS prompt with all the other applications closed UNORES95 the TSR termi nate stay resident version that can be launched by the AUTO EXEC BAT file prior to the built in applications This version of UNO is always running in the background and can be popped up on top of the other applica tions as well as any DOS appli cation UNORUN95 this version is de signed to launch itself and a companion program as a child I find UNORUN9Q5 of little use on the 95LX The version I find most useful is UNORES95 I include its start up command in my AUTOEXEC BAT file prior to launching System Man ager This allows instant access of UNO by pressing CTAL ALT N dur ing PHONE Lotus or any built in application or any DOS application UNO employs pop up menus to maximize screen usability Most menu commands use mnemonic letters to access them i e press C for Copy Q for Quit etc If you for get them press to bring up a list of menu commands Multiple not
30. processing and transmitting software 128K of on board RAM is available on PalmModem for conver sion of text to fax transmittable data without using the 95LX s resources Availability 0 0009 e0e508 Sept 1 1992 Medium 04055 di awaacle Memory card Pri 6 o s Se 2 a56 mS een 50m eae 269 Ing CONTACT New Media Corporation Irvine Spectrum 15375 Barranca Pkwy Building B 101 Irvine CA 92718 USA Phone 800 453 0550 or 714 453 0100 Fax 714 453 0114 DataPulse Wireless financial market monitor with automatic graphing trending Automatically tracks incoming news and financial data and displays it DataPulse includes the Motorola NewsStream receiver a IMB HP 95LX the HP Mobile Data Link cra dle the DataPulse software and a subscription to the Global24 wireless computing network Availability aa de ete dia g Aug 1 92 Runs under SysMgr No Yes Pricing With 95LX 40 ee ee es 1 695 Without ISLE ass xrcaaticies Call Leasing option Call CONTACT Metriplex Inc 25 First Street Cambridge MA 02141 Phone 617 494 9393 Fax 617 494 8735 GPS Pac Global Positioning System GPS transforms the 95LX into a portable satellite receiver for the GPS system allowing the user to determine posi tion direction speed anywhere in the world GPS includes complete satellite receiver with own antenna and batter ies The GPS software integrates with the built in applications of th
31. s a real bargain 80 outside U S A and Canada To order your copy call today Essex Marketing Services Inc 272 Old Farms Road Si Phone 203 651 8284 Fax 203 651 7926 All of these modern BASICs have many of the same language capabilities as Pascal and C They all allow the competent programmer to write structured code with nary a single GOTO Swift BASIC is in a class with True BASIC and QuickBASIC Like other versions of modern BASIC it supports the use of functions and procedures All functions and proce dures use local variables Swift BASIC also contains several types of loops WHILE WEND RE PEAT UNTIL etc and even a CASE control structure Here are some of the other fea tures of Swift BASIC Most of these features have positive aspects Some of them have side effects that are not so positive Swift BASIC Strictly a 95LX Programming Language First and foremost Swift BASIC is System Manager compliant It can pop up on top of all the built in applications FILER MEMO etc If CT 06070 U S A Swift BASIC is loaded prior to 1 2 3 it s possible to switch back and forth between these two applications at the touch of a hot key The only drawback to this fea ture is that Swift BASIC cannot be run from the DOS command line Nor can it be run on a desktop PC It s strictly an HP 95LX develop ment tool designed for the 95LX and meant to be used exclusively o
32. sas c0i6s basen aac 249 00 CONTACT U S Robotics 8100 N McCorm ick Blud Skokie IL 60076 2999 U S A US phone 800 342 5877 or 708 982 5010 Fax 708 982 5235 44 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 The following products are available in non English form only They are described in the language in which they are available ADFIN French financial functions for Lotus 1 2 3 ADFIN est un biblioth que de fonctions financi res pour Lotus 1 2 3 qui permet aux professionnels des march s financiers de r aliser des calculs sur les obligations et les op tions ADFIN est op rationnel sur une large gamme de supports financiers francais et europ ens et propose les m thodes de calcul les plus utilis es CONTACT Marvin S A 3 rue Mont auban 75015 Paris France Tel 33 1 42 50 34 34 Fax 33 1 45 30 19 33 E On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Jul Aug 92 PALMTOP DATABASE Improve your productivity with palmtop software built to satisfy your specific needs We create database solutions for the tracking of products people and resources on the HP 95LX Our relational database is so small you won t need a RAM card We provide Rapid development usually under a month Custom reports User documentation Training amp support For a free demo disk call or FAX LIIIGIHI TIHIOLUISIE Software 714 850 1767 FAX 714 850 0843 3001 Red Hill Ave Bldg 4 Ste 213 Costa Mesa CA 92626
33. the first two batch files This batch file will be somewhat unique to your individual situation and you will have to write it yourself Use the following BAT file as a template when writing your own BAT file It must be modified and will not work as is ECHO OFF REM BKUP95 BAT CLS CALL B BKUPA DIR1a DIR2a DiRna B BKUPC DAT DIR2c DIR3c DiRnc Replace DIR1a DIRna with the full names of the directories on the A drive of your 95LX Replace DIR2c DIR3c DIRnc with the full names of the directories on the C drive of your 95LX If you don t have an A drive on your 95LX delete the fourth line in the batch file If you re using MS DOS 2 1 or earlier the CALL command should be replaced with COMMAND C in the above batch file SOLVING YOUR MEMORY CARD SYSTEM NEEDS formance data storage you need for your state of the art personal computer in sizes from 64 KBytes to 2 MBytes For even greater convenience Adtron s SolidState Data Drive easily transfers dala stored on RAM cards to your home or office PC The SolidState Data Drive reads and writes dala and program files directly just like a floppy disk drive You ll never again have to fumble with cables and there s no new data link program to learn SolidState Data Drive models connect directly to the serial port printer port or internal bus slot of your desktop computer To place your order or obtain free literature call today ADTCION CORPORATION
34. view of the appoint ments which have been entered into the built in APPT program KLONDIKE EXM G a game of solitaire similar to the one pro vided with Windows The challenge with using System Manager programs is in proper setup Before the program can be run an undocumented file called APNAME LST must be created and edited by the user The entries re quired for this file are rather cryp tic and if not entered properly can cause the HP 95LX to freeze and even lose data Additionally System Manager limits you to assigning 8 System Manager programs to hot keys at any one time If you have more than 8 System Manager programs on your HP 95LX at one time you must shuffle them around in your AP NAME LST file before you can use them CHALLENGE 2 Running DOS Applications In addition to the built in applica tions the HP 95LX is capable of running certain standard DOS pro grams These may be the same DOS programs which run on your IBM or compatible desktop system Or they may be DOS programs specially written for the HP 95LX To run a DOS program on the HP 95LX you must first close all built in applications except FILER then launch the DOS program using FILER s RUN command F4 The requirement of closing all built in applications to run a DOS program can really disturb the rhythm of using the 95LX The more fre quently you need to run a DOS pro gram the more inconvenient this is The inconvenience
35. were written specifically to remedy some of the limitations of the HP 95LX The other two programs Useful Notes UNO and Useful Macros UMA are programs originally written for the IBM PC but adapted to the 95LX 95Buddy fixes many of the awkward keystroke combinations and inconsistencies of the HP 95LX For example It automatically saves and exits built in applications when going from FILER to DOS It lets File Open do the same thing across all built in Continued on page 6 Thaddeus Computing Inc P O Box 869 Fairfield Iowa 52556 Forwarding and Address Correction Requested NOW DOUBLE YOUR CAPACITY with DoubleCard Introducing DoubleCard 2 0 RAM Memory Card NEW DoubleCard 2 0 now doubles both your standard RAM cards and your HP9SLX internal RAM disk Now up to 5 MegaBytes on your HP95LX DoubleCard 2 0 ACE Technologies introduces DoubleCard 2 0 with its unique new DoubleRAM feature DoubleRAM together with the patented Stacker LZS data compression technology now doubles both the capacity of your RAM cards and your HP95LX s internal RAM disk How does it work DoubleRAM compresses your internal RAM and creates a new RAM disk as G drive in any IMB version HP95LX With at least 800KB capacity this new RAM disk is 100 compatible with all your HP95LX and DOS applications Additional Support DoubleCard 2 0 is now fully compatible with all other DOS Palmtops such as the Sharp PC3000 POQET an
36. window pops up and you can enter the date there Descrip tions can be searched for as text Example Using UNO as a phone message pad You can create a form or template as the first note in your file using a colon wherever you want to input data This allows you maintain a consistent structure to your notes You can even enter lines to prompt you for specific information After you create the template note it has the properties of LOCK and NOWRAP which prevent it from being changed It now becomes your blank form To enter a new note or message you simply go to note 1 press C to create a copy of it A blank copy appears on your screen ready to input information Pressing or moves between the data areas you created in the note using the colon L Tress c t t nis oOckKed motes then use the Tab E acktab keys to move between items while entering the data OWLnNce Postal NOTES uno i Line 5 Col 12 Copying a locked note to use as a template Other Examples Based on a CompuServe note from Fred Kaufman Uno is great for grabbing quick notes of any kind and retrieving them as needed with a simple search routine not available under MEMO and available in a more limited form in PHONE For exam ple you can keep track of ideas from a meeting for play back at a later time product comparison description and pricing information for bicycle helmets for when you go shopp
37. would result in the loss of all open files I tried very hard to trip up BATTman and the only way I dis covered was to put a set of weak NiCds into a 95LX with BATTman configured for NMHs This caused BATTman to turn the machine off every time I turned it on because the NiCds voltage was below the threshold set for the NMHs Every other combination worked flawlessly and I never once lost data as long as I replaced batteries when the warning and shutoff came If you are tired of throwing away batter ies BATTman will allow safe has sle free use of rechargables on your 95LX Order Information BATTman a battery software utility from ACE Technologies BATTman comes with a pair of nickel metal hydride batteries and retails for 59 For more information see display ad page 5 Alkaline Batteries are quite common and available at most convenience stores Radio Shack sells a 4 pack for 2 89 Lithium Batteries will be marketed in the USA by Eveready under the Energizer name Look for them in September in the camera departments of discount stores such as K Mart for around 5 7 a pair International users may also find these marketed under the LithEon product name Nickel Metal Hydride NMH Recharge able Batteries a pair from ACE Technolo gies retails for 18 A company called Real Goods also sells them Nickel Cadmium NiCd Rechargeable Batteries are commonly available with va
38. 0 battery reps and other professionals A Box for More Products Hewlett Packard designed a cradle to allow Motorola s SkyStream re ceiver to attach to the 95LX see below We understand that Sparcom is developing a generic box designed to fit in that cradle Developers can use their creativity to come up with devices to go in that box One obvi ous possibility would be HP s new Kittyhawk 20MB hard drive des cribed elsewhere in this issue Other companies could put a fax modem or other wireless units in the box There are lots of possibilities and if you re a developer and have an idea for the box contact Sparcom at 503 757 8416 Satellite Tracking Palmtree is another company work ing on becoming a major distributor for HP Palmtop products They will be the US distributor of the GPS Pac satellite system Greg Brasso President of Palmtree tells me his company will be soon releasing additional products for the 95LX See page 39 for more on GPS Pac From High Tech to Low Tech A 95LX Nameplate One of my greatest fears is that I will absent mindedly lay down my Continued on page 26 JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 23 You wa More connections More convenience Stationg5 Pocket Professional Organizer More memory RAM Cards Garcons Ii Sparcom Station95 links your HP as from fine leather Sparcom s Pocket battery backed 95LX to your de
39. 0 file formats for the Mac and IBM PC compatibles It even allows you to share your files with PC users by accessing DOS disks in your Mac FDHD SuperDrive LIKE ALL GOOD THINGS THIS SPECIAL OFFER WILL NOT LAST LONG Order your MaclinkPlus for the HP 95LX today at a SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE of 99 00 shipping included if within the US You ll get the award winning tried and proven MacLinkPlus technology with the additional HP 95LX connectivity capabilities We accept Visa MasterCard or Check All checks must be in US currency and drawn on a US bank Just fax or mail us your order MacLinkPlus for the HP 95LX includes Direct connect cable for the HP 95LX to the Mac Direct connect cable for the Mac to the IBM Software for the HP 95LX and Macintosh Software for the IBM and the Macintosh THE DATABRIDGE SPECIALISTS DOS Mounter software for the Macintosh e aee _ L r 55 Corporate Drive Trumbull CT 06611 USA Telephone 800 733 0030 or 203 268 0030 Fax 203 268 4345 All product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders THIRD PARTY What s New TV VCR Stereo Introducing myREMOTE Audio Video Remote Control Software For your HP95LX Features er Let your HP95LX replace all your remote controls er Creates multiple remote control files with up to 100 commands per remote Programmable macro command
40. 50 50 G0 oe NOW Medium oiane Shoe As 40a es Floppy disk Runs under SysMpr No Pricing License only PEETER 35 License and disk 40 Printed manual license and disk 53 CONTACT Fred Brucker P O Box 9103 Santa Rosa CA 95405 USA Phone 707 573 1065 Fall HP Handheld Users Conference Confirmed The Fall 1992 Anniversary Confer ence will take place in London Eng land on the weekend of September 19 and 20 Conference fee will be 35 for two days and 20 for one day See page 44 of the Jan Feb 92 issue for more information CONTACT Handheld and Portable Computer Club c o Dr Wlodek Mier Jedrzejowicz Space amp Admospheric Physics Imperial College London SW7 2BZ United Kingdom Pocket Sales Force Looking for VARs CM Software is looking for specialist Value Added Resellers to work with them in devel oping specific project oriented solutions involving their sales management software CM is currently working with a number of international corporations in this capacity CONTACT Richard Hill or Andrew Cook CM Software Business Unit 1 33 Sanford Littlemore Oxford OX4 4XT UK 44 865 748875 Fax 44 865 748873 WorldPort Palmtop Fax Data Modem Now Shipping We described this portable battery powered modem on page 43 of the Mar Apr 92 issue U S Robotics in forms us that it is now shipping Availability s c0c05 ETTET Pricing Mia s
41. 5Buddy Installs Easily 95Buddy is a small approx 7K device driver that links itself to all of the built in programs and adds a number of much needed features that make using the 95LX easier than we imagined Installation is easy Simply copy 95BUDDY SYS the main Buddy file to your C drive and add the following line to your CONFIG SYS file device c 95buddy sys Save the CONFIG SYS file reboot by pressing CTRL ALT DEL and 95 Buddy is installed If you don t have a CONFIG SYS file you ll have to create a two line file Tour of 95Buddy We start our tour of 95Buddy by opening FILER The first thing we notice in the middle of the top line of the screen is the serial port indi cator ser on or ser off telling us if the port is on or off This fea ture will save battery life by telling us if a program or action left the serial port on by mistake Cursor down to the bottom of the FILER screen and you ll notice something missing the WK1 Lotus files By default 95Buddy will blank out those annoying files that we all have tried to delete at one point The files are still there as when we cursor down each file shows up as it is highlighted ser on Filer ar Ze Local Dirs MAFRA RTRT pm Cis i U 50UNDS COM 264 03 WEEKABK EXM ii 7 3513 13 8 1B 530 op ZIP COM 5 5 12a lt 1PPER COM 11964 Sras 2 ii dee EH on The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Jul Aug 92 7 716792 8 53 pm rs 2a pP
42. A 95134 USA Phone 800 825 9977 or 408 428 9722 Fax 408 428 9721 Other Products and Services The Forth Corner The UTIL Newsletter This newsletter provides a forum where UTIL users can find answers to everyday questions and other useful information about Forth in general and specifically UTIL Forth on the HP 95LX and Atari Portfolio palmtop computers Text will be uploaded from MAIL ORDER MEMORIES Guaranteed Lowest Prices MOM will beat any documented price by at least 5 and still provide E NAME BRAND CARDS FULL HP9SLX COMPATIBILITY E LASTEST REVISION LEVEL E ALL CARD TYPES AND SIZES E FREE BATTERY E ONE PRICE CASH OR CREDIT SATISFACTION GUARANTEED CALL 800 497 9152 ALL MAJOR CREDIT CARDS HONORED HP ua a registered trademark of Hewlett Packard Company JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 41 THIRD PARTY What s New time to time on CompuServe at no charge Library 7 of the HP Handheld forum issue 1 is UNEWS1 ZIP A printed subscription is also available Availability v 05 0s0s nae Issue 1 NOW Pricing on CompuServe Free Hard copy per year 10 CONTACT Uri Thier or Chris Smith Essex Marketing Services Inc 272 Old Farms Rd Simsbury CT 06070 USA Fax 203 651 7926 CompuServe 70413 2546 EMBARC This is a nationwide wireless infor mation transmission service that provides data delivery via a Motorola NewsStream Receiver to remote lap top
43. AUGUST 1992 and CTRL to emulate the full VT100 keypad Victor D Roberts CompuServe ID 70413 1423 USING DCS95 TO TRANSFER FILES BETWEEN A COMPUTER WITH WINDOWS 3 1 My favorite file transfer software for the HP 95LX is the DC95 DCS95 software that comes with the HP Connectivity Pack have recently started using DC95 along with Win dows 3 1 This allows me to trans fer files from the 95LX to my PC or vice versa using the Windows File Manager program The way do this is to run DC95 on the PC and DCS95 on the 95LX in the normal manner as if was going to conduct a normal file trans fer session from DOS then run Windows on the PC and bring up the File Manager program The HP 95LX A and C drives appear as the D and E drives within the Windows File Manager can then transfer files using the normal File Manager techniques or even use the Notepad to examine files on the 95LX However there are a couple of caveats Some people have report ed having trouble making this DC 95 Windows combination work at all Some have had success only when Windows is running in Stan dard mode startup Windows by typing WIN S but not Enhanced mode Enhanced mode works only on 386 and higher machines and allows multiple DOS sessions and background processing have had good luck using the above mentioned procedure with the Windows File Manager but when tried accessing a file on my 95LX with Microsoft Word 2 0
44. AUGUST 1992 fewer key strokes than their deci mal equivalents For example using the HP Calculator in RPN Reverse Polish Notation mode keying in 30 416666 and pressing re quires 10 key strokes Keying in 365 pressing ENTER and then keying in 112 requires 7 keystrokes Of course the computer is going to turn the fraction into a decimal but it will be stated to the maximum accuracy possible of the computer Turn the 95LX Off and Put On Your Thinking Cap Computers cannot replace a human brain Often the best way to use 95LX is to first turn it off and take a look at what you want to accom plish Although I have on more than one occasion received valuable in sight from solving the wrong prob lem the fact is that solving the wrong problem usually is a big waste of time A little time spent thinking about a problem pays for itself Transferring Solver Equations to 1 2 3 1 2 3 s named range feature makes transferring equations from Solver to a 1 2 3 spreadsheet pretty sim ple Equations may be imported into 1 2 3 one at time from the Solver catalog using the 95LX s clipboard An entire equation file may be im ported into 1 2 3 by pressing File Import Text filename eqn and pressing ENTER Be sure to state the EQN extension of the Solver equa tion file If you don t 1 2 3 will as sume the extension is PRN and tell you that the file does not exist Now that your equations are in 1 2 3 examine them to d
45. E Ba aga g sce EE SURRE FILER without Buddy WKI files show There s one more feature of the FILER that will make loading files easier than ever Before you could view a TXT file by moving the cur sor to it and pressing ENTER With 95Buddy installed move the high light bar to the filename press ENTER to view the file Press W again and 95Buddy automatically starts MEMO with the highlighted file loaded This is one of the more powerful features of 95Buddy I use it quite often now Similarly highlight a WK1 PBK EQN or ABK file press ENTER and then press the appropriate application button LOTUS PHONE HPCALC or APPT and 95Buddy starts the application with the file loaded Let s look at 95Buddy s effect on SET UP First of all you don t have to take the usual route to get to SET UP Just press again from within FILER instead of pressing lt Shit gt FILER 95Buddy causes the FILER key to act as a toggle switch ing back and forth between FILER and SET UP You ll notice that the screen has more options than be fore EEI D te Internat iona rinter her Ouner wide Sea 5 anes Total Nemos S RAM sk 6 Susten RAM 456 are 6 92 75 ninutes ed Time oee timer lug in device Pover gauper patter ae 1 8a BS F A new timer adjustment lets you increase F8 and decrease F3 the time before auto shut off Also the current voltage of
46. FREYJA Jul Aug 92 ON DISK ZIP COM 1992 Subscribers Disk get the full package of ZIP files The directions for using ZIPCFG will come with the package On the other hand if you have version 1 51 of ZIP COM the ZIPCFG COM file from that version will also work with the newer version of ZIP COM that came on the Subscribers Disk Even without ZIPCFG COM you can still run ZIP COM on your PC The batch files in this article con tain a command line option which will tell ZIP to use a particular COM port BKUPC BAT and BKUPA BAT Use a text editor on your PC to key in the following batch files In these batch files you should replace any occurance of XXX with the name of the directory on your PC where you ve put ZIP COM The n in the same line of the batch files stands for 2 3 or 4 where 2 3 or 4 is the number of the PC serial port you are using Eliminate n if you are using COM1 Here is the first batch file As you key it in make the necessary changes indicated above and save it as B BKUPC BAT Any indented line is a continuation of the previous line NOT a separate line ECHO OFF REM BKUPC BAT CLS SET E AGN ECHO Backing up C C YOOCKZIP C In FT BAC gt NUL FOR E IN 148 16 128 DO IF ERRORLEVEL E SET E E GOTO E AGN ECHO Backing up C 1 CAXXXXIZIP C 1 In FT B AC 1 gt NUL FOR E IN 0148 16 128 DO IF ERRORLEVEL E SET E E GOTO E 0
47. Filer that are used by Connectivity Pack Rick Kapur DataViz Publishers of Macintosh to 95LX Connectivity Software Yeah you and all of us pro grammers whose heads are now sore and flat from the stonewalling Dave Goodman Software Engineer Psion hampers its users and developers by sharply limit ing the available tools Unfortunately HP and Lotus are nearly as bad They hamper us by sharply limiting the available infor mation There should be no restrictions on who has access to the technical ref erence manual and the technical reference manual needs to be complete Ted Dickens HP Forum Sysop Thank you for recently speaking out more strongly about the Lotus HP failure to make available to talent ed programmers the infor mation they need to write applications which make this little machine even more valuable JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 37 THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS What s New New Non HP Products designed to work with the HP 95LX By Richard Hall and Hal Goldstein In the last four issues we have listed over 130 hardware and software prod ucts and other 95LX related services already available from third party manufacturers and developers We will continue to list 95LX hardware and software as we discover it Ven dors of 95LX related products should send us information about their prod ucts and services Hardware Accessories TimeBoss Leather Case Exclusive leath
48. I have found no way around this except to use manual scaling and select a range that makes the labels far enough apart to read which probably doesn t suit the real data range Is there a way around this problem which I guess disappears on a full size screen Don t think so but may be a reader can help Hal John Garrett Ipswich ENGLAND Do Security Devices Damage the HP 95LX Thank you for your excel lent publication I have a few questions for you First is anyone planning on starting an HP 95LX forum on America Online I don t have the patience necessary to find my way around CompuServe whereas AOL is very easy to get into move around find what you are looking for Next in APPT s To Do list is there an easy way to put the items within a giv en priority level in a specif ic order I usually have five to ten items at each priority level and would like to arrange them better The only way I have found to do that is to decide what order I want them and then cut and paste each one in that order This is rather clum sy I have heard rumors that security devices used in airports stores etc may damage electronic devices such as the 95LX Is this the case Does it make any difference wheth er the applications are suspended or completely turned off What is a safe distance I should keep my HP and diskettes from these devices When leav ing our local library I hold my HP up in the ai
49. M memory technolo gy is new cheaper and due to decline in price even further at a very rapid pace The current prob lem with flash memory and the 95LX is that in order to write data to the flash card you must have access to 12 volts the 95LX is a3 volt system At this time the only way to use flash in the 95LX is if the card has been programmed with data by some other system The flash card is then a read only card you can not add data to the card In the future next year you will see 3 volt flash cards at a premium price to start out with Your choice of technologies de pends on what you will be using the card for but a card that is read only seems like a real waste Tim McCloskey CompuServe ID 75230 1026 NO REASON TO USE A RAM CARD S WRITE PROTECT SWITCH There is not a compelling reason to leave the switch on write protect as the only threat to the security of the card dead battery would not be avoided with the switch Nothing that have ever done on the 95LX and have digitally abused it has ever caused data to be lost that a write protect switch would have prevented Mark Scardina CompuServe ID 71551 467 Ka On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Jul Aug 92 JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 47 HOW TO CONTACT US There are a number of ways to get in ues oun The HP eel Pap r Swit staff You can write mail us a dis Software with your comments send Compu Sie Monica Serve mail fa
50. N VERSION OF POCKET SALES FORCE have used a German language version of Pocket Sales Force for more than 5 months now and love it have over 900 addresses in it Even on my 1MB Card with Stacker compressed files a search through the 250K file is very fast A main advantage for me is that it s in German See Pocket Sales Force review page 8 May Jun 92 issue PSF is available in English and German Tom Bergemann CompuServe ID 100034 3643 KdMemory STORING FILES ON THE A DRIVE If you like to push your 95LX to the limit the A drive Memory Card is a lot safer place to store files have never lost a file on the A drive It is easy to have a 40K phone book and 40K Appt book if you use the To Do list and Note function extensively What I ve done so far is Move my data over to A Set up macros to automatical ly open files on A From SET UP increase Sys tem RAM leaving room for ENV amp CNF files on C Mark Scardina CompuServe ID 71551 467 DIFFERENT MEMORY CARDS The 95LX can read write to SRAM RAM cards just like you would write information to or retrieve information from a floppy disk SRAM cards have batteries inside of the card that apply power to the memory circuit Power a small amount must be applied to the memory cells in order for the cells to retain the data written to them SRAM technology has been around since the beginning of time well maybe not that long Flash RO
51. Sleep Copy None 0 7 30 37 HP 512K 0 7 3240 130 ma ACE 1 5MB 0 7 36 42 142 ma Sparcom 2MB 0 7 32 39 130 ma Victor D Roberts CompuServe ID 70413 1423 CHANGE MAIN BATTERIES WITHOUT BACKUP BATTERY You can accomplish this without losing the contents of your C drive Just keep the 95LX connected to an AC adapter and the AC adapter plugged in while you change the batteries Matthey Lieff American Society for Testing and Materials Philadelphia PA USA AVOID OVERNIGHT BATTERY DRAIN The 95LX turns itself on momentari ly every night at midnight to do some internal housekeeping chores It will automatically tum itself off when finished with these chores except in one case if you were running a DOS pro gram earlier and did not exit the program prior to pressing OFF the 95LX might fail to turn itself off If this happens your 95LX will run all night draining the batteries in the process Larry Lefkowitz CompuServe ID 76137 155 Connectivity BETTER VERSION OF KERMIT When using COMM s built in VT 100 emulation the terminal cursor keys are provided by through F10 Strange but true If you need better VT 100 emula tion download KERM2 ZIP E from Library 7 of CompuServe s new HP Handheld forum HPHAND This is Kermit 2 29 from Columbia It has VT102 emulation uses the cursor keys to control the cursor how novel and allows you to use FT to in combination with 46 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY
52. This feature allows all functions within Filer to be used across phone lines Making the connection is surprisingly easy but requires that your PC to be left on running AP P95 On your PC do the following 1 With a communications pro gram put your modem in the auto answer mode 2 Start APP95 on your PC and enter FILER 3 Press ALT F10 Remote Set Config and set the port and baud rate to your modem 4 Press and return to FILER Perform the following steps on your 95LX 1 Hook up 95LX to a modem 2 Open FILER press Remote Set Config Baud 3 Set the baud rate of your 95LX s modem the same as your PC s Enter the telephone number that your PC is hooked up to Set Tone Pulse as applicable and return to FILER Press F7 to split the screen Press F 6 Remote You will connect in about 20 seconds ee ae At this point your PC will be in Server mode and you can perform all of FILER s tasks except remotely running a program Please note if you use FILER later in a direct connection mode don t keep a number in the DIAL option This will increase the time to make a connection Mark Scardina CompuServe ID 71551 467 HP Calc ADDING NON CURRENCY FACTORS TO CURRENCY CONVERSION The 95LX is weaker at converting technical units than the HP 485X Calculator However you can im prove the situation by using HP CALC s Currency Conversion func tion Insert your favorite non curren cy c
53. ake a walk The effect of computers on our lives is no better and may be a little worse The very structure of a com puter affects our approach to solv ing problems Sometimes because we have a computer on our desk or in our shirt pocket we may overlook a more effective way of solving our problems Brute force computing capability is often substituted for critical insightful analysis I am guilty of this sometimes It is easy to substi tute different values in a computer model until one is found that pro duces the desired result Unfortu nately this kind of number crunch ing often obscures important rela tionships between variables in a system Lotus 1 2 3 encourages ledger like rows and columns thinking This works fine if you re balancing a checkbook but often there are better approaches to solving prob lems Some of these approaches re quire thinking in a different way with a different medium Alternative approaches can actually improve the usefulness of the 95LX A more efficient way of representing a problem can produce results in 10 seconds instead of 10 minutes The key to quick results is understanding the problem and there is no method better for ana lyzing a problem than reducing it to an algebraic equation and solving analyzing the equation Try Algebra First I know I used the A word Alge bra conjures up the horrors of high school and college math classes However the benefits of
54. another application that does not have any built in macro capability I use the UMARUN 95 program to launch the application and attach to the al ready running UMA a new set of macros specific to that application These new macros override the general macros I originally loaded with UMARES95 until I exit the application Doing things this way allows me to keep a number of smaller macro files instead of a single huge one It minimizes the amount of memory used when UMA is running In addition it also lets me use the same key combinations to activate macros for different programs and allows me to develop a more consis tent interface UMA has the powerful ability to create macros that can work across both System Manager and DOS applications It can vastly increase the efficiency of moving between programs updating files and auto mating routines UMA includes an auto start macro capability for ini tializing your applications One such use would be to configure the display of a DOS program for the 95LX on start up Additional features include programmable delays shift key status support and synchronization with on screen events All in all UMA is as full featured a macro program as I have seen and a steal at its 10 price Order Information Useful Macros UMA 10 Printed documentation 5 per copy Record and playback key sequences on the 95LX Create as many macros as you need PC shareware version
55. another disk not your backup disk 6 Format the RAM card using the Format command in SETUP or use the Format program that came with your RAM card Then restore the A disk from your backup disk and add any new or changed files from the other disk For the Interminably Curious Just in case you re curious here s a brief explanation of what the BKUPx BAT batch files do Line 6 in each of the BKUPx BAT files backs up the 95LX s C or A disk root directory The FT Fetch Timed option ensures that only those files with a later date than similar files on the backup disk will be transferred The second time ZIP is called in line 11 of the batch files it gets the 0 name of a directory from BKUP95 BAT and transfers the files in that directory It then shifts to the next directory in BKUP95 BAT and re peats the process until there are no more directories The FOR E in DO state ments are designed to pick up any error codes from the ZIP program and to display an error message on the screen of the desktop The final time that ZIP is called it Unlinks the ZIP program on the 95LX This kicks the ZIP program out of server mode A Companion Restore Routine The flip side of the Backup files is a set of Restore Files You will find these with an explanation in BACK UP ZIP amp on the Jul Aug 92 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Ed Keefe is an author pro grammer computer science in
56. ants to use CompuServe to provide technical support will be able to use this section and library for that need to subscribe to SkyTel s na tionwide and regional text messag ing service Then you can receive messages and electronic mail voice mail notification database informa tion file updates and travel infor mation at any time in thousands of cities throughout the USA The SkyStream receiver with its 32K of RAM memory lets you receive and store messages even when it s not connected to your 95LX SkyStream s blinking green light alerts you that messages are waiting Call HP s automated informa tion service at 800 443 1254 to find out which retailers will carry the SkyStream Receiver purpose Users should benefit from this one stop shopping approach to product support The complete list of sections is given below CompuServe veterans will recognize that we have a num ber of unused sections Rather than start out with all sections used only to have to reorganize after a few months I m holding some sections back so we can more easily adapt to the changing needs of forum mem bers Note too that the forum in cludes support for the HP calcula tors and other handheld computers Below is a list of sections in the HP Handhelds Forum General Business calculators Scientific calculators Advanced Handhelds HP 41 42 48 71 75 and 94 calculators 95LX New Users 95LX Datacomm 95LX Users 95LX Programm
57. appointments with me At the end of day she downloads my APPT file to her desktop computer merges her schedule with mine and con sults me as necessary to resolve any time conflicts I then upload a copy of the reconciled schedule This procedure lets me keep a running record of all my activities for future planning purposes and ensures that I am aware of all ap pointments scheduled for me It works so well I ve thrown away our old paper appointment book with all of its erasures and illegible scrib bles I also use the prioritized to do list function of APPT to make sure I Pr Robert Williams no longer forget little details that pop up throughout the day Use MEMO for Editing Correspondence and Referencing Patient Data I use MEMO to edit outgoing letters and record entries transcribed from microcassette tape by my office My office downloads all the documents I need to review approve into my 95LX before printing I save money and both my secretary and I save time I can review the documents at any time and at any location dur ing the day At the end of the day I hand the 95LX to my secretary and she retrieves all the documents for final printing in addition to recon ciling our APPT files My office also keeps patient records on computer I can down load and carry around the records for each patient I must visit ensur ing that I have all the reference facts I need when I walk into the hospital each
58. ard conforms to PCMCIA JEIDA specifications Dealer inquiries welcome Stacker L75 is a trademark of Stac Electronics DoubleCard is a ACE Technologies Inc ACEcard is a trademark of ACE Technologies gq SIALS 3 JJALS sSvVud d NHOF SALV 1d NOILVOISILNACI SS VUd MITOS ZLZL 999 716 HLIM S1001 SSANISNE YNOA SZIIVNOSH3d ANV SYNSNI m O 720 AN SNIV1d SLIHM AZIS WNLOV 3AY V SALV IdSANVN 11V ANNAAV LSSYOTIIH 9 O 08720 AN SNIVId SLIHM ANNAAV LSJY TIH 9 Sovdg d NHOP gt O D lt ge C 1D gt mj gt zE ee Bs O J nir pA O O Qo po O O U an ur m D GYVMau SLSL SSs vL6 TIVO SSvud d NHOP g SIALS SOLID BRASS HAND FINISHED PERSONALIZED IDENTIFICATION PLATES 1 10 95 ea style 2 for 19 95 INSURE your investment against loss and enhance it s beauty by having a personalized SOLID BRASS Identification Plate permanently affixed to your equipment Plates easily and securely fasten with it s self adhesive backing to your equipment It permanently attaches to plastic metal vinyl leather and most other non porous surfaces SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR YOUR MONEY BACK INSTRUCTIONS Indicate whether you want the self adhesive D plate Styles B which can be ordered with 1 to 4 lines OR the I D plate with strap Style C which can be ordered with 1 to 3 lines up to 24 letters including spaces amp periods per line OR o
59. as these and A number of you have written asking lt about battery alternatives for the HP 95LX Mark Scardina did his usually thorough and to the heart of the matter job in researching and writing about this subject Mark compares four types of double As two rechargeables an alkaline and a lithium based battery Ed Keefe reviews Swift Basic a programming language for the rest of us that allows programmers in BASIC to create graphics and system compliant applications for the 95LX At the same time we have not forgotten novices as you will see with our new Basic Tips page Basic here means fundamental Finally both Thaddeus Computing The HP Palmtop Paper and Hewlett Packard have small favors to ask both with rewards to you If you like The HP Palmtop Paper and Subscribers Disk and plan to renew please take a minute and fill out the enclosed card or call in your renewal You ll avoid getting any of those annoying renewal notices and we ll avoid the time and expense of sending them If you appreciate your HP 95LX see page 19 and tell HP how you use it As a thank you HP will be giving away RAM cards to both the earliest and the best responses Yal Lrlliltc Subscribers Disk Users Based on initial feedback most of you appreciated and were able to instal Subscribers Disk programs However others of you had problems Please note the following 486 owners The INSTALL program on the 1992 Subscribers Disk Version 1
60. ast Broadway Ave nue Fairfield IA 52556 Second class postage pending at Fairfield Iowa Subscription rates payable in U S dollars checks drawn on a U S bank or by credit card one year 39 two years 69 Postage U S and U S possessions free Canada Mexico add 6 per year other countries add 18 per year Please allow four to six weeks for receipt of first issue Executive Editorial Circulation Marketing and Advertising Offices P O Box 869 Fairfield A 52556 Telephone 515 472 6330 FAX 515 472 1879 Copyright 1992 Thaddeus Computing Inc all rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permis sion Reasonable efforts are made to provide accurate and useful information but the reader must make his or her own investigations and decisions the Publisher and Editorial Staff cannot assume any responsibility or liability for the use of information contained herein POSTMASTER Please send any address changes to Thaddeus Computing Inc Attn The HP Palmtop Paper P O Box 869 Fair field IA 52556 Some User Problems 1 I have had to change batteries twice On each occasion the 95LX locked up and I had to reformat the internal RAM drive I m not sure if I have done the wrong thing or whether there is a bug in the low battery warning system You should definitely send your unit in to HP for repair This problem showed up on some of the early units produc
61. at you can store your files in two different places If you don t have a RAM Card you re miss ing a file drawer File drawers in a cabinet are analogous to the disk drives on a com puter If we have a file cabinet with two drawers we could label one drawer C and the other drawer A Likewise the 95LX has an internal disk drive labeled C and a RAM 34 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 you ll undoubtedly consider Swift BASIC a wise investment In and of itself Swift BASIC is a remarkable product for the HP 95LX It works as advertised and is a good value for the money As with any new language prod uct using the first edition is some what risky Undiscovered bugs may lurk somewhere in the program These are the kind of bugs that show themselves only to early users of the language However if enough people learn use the language it will grow and mature through sev eral revisions Hopefully you ll find yourself growing along with it Order Information Swift BASIC 179 95 BASIC programming language designed for the 95LX Available in the USA through Sparcom ral 897 NW Grant Ave Corvallis OR 330 Phone 800 827 8416 or 503 757 8416 Fax 503 753 7821 Available in Europe through Swift sse 56 A 1070 Vienna AUS TRIA Phone 43 222 526 12 71 Fax 43 222 526 12 72 See Ed s bio at the end of Looking Glass page 29 card slot labeled A If we store files in a
62. available on CompuServe in Library 7 of the IBMSYS forum UMA10 ZIP PC version also avail able on the May June 92 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK 95LX version available directly from Useful Software 340 Dale Circle Waterloo Ontario N2J 3 3 CANADA gt ECIAL Batteries _ Which Batteries Are The Best Mark Scardina compares the life and cost of Alkaline NiCd NMH and Lithium AA batteries and gives you other information to help you decide which batteries are best for you Mark also reviews BATTman a utility that monitors your batteries no matter what the type By Mark Scardina There appear to be two main camps of opinion concerning 95LX batter ies One side used to working with calculators feels that the battery life is too short The other side familiar with portable computers is amazed by the battery life provided by the 95LX The fact that there are a number of different types of AA batteries for the 95LX further com plicates the discussion This article explores the battery types and provides test results that you may find useful in determining the respective uses of the different How about pst radat x Ted types of batteries There are four different types of AA batteries that can be effectively used in the 95LX alkaline nickel cad mium NiCd nickel metal hydride NMH and lithium The latter two are brand new and represent some exciting possibilities The HP 95LX User
63. ave any search and replace func tion It does have the ability to jump to a specific line and to search for labels Swift BASIC has its own menu system available at the touch of The menu system is simple It lets you load and save files creat ed with Swift BASIC It also lets you import and export files in ASCII format If you have BASIC files created in another form of BASIC you can convert them to ASCII files and import them into Swift BASIC You ll still have to modify imported programs to make them run correct ly under Swift BASIC Due to memory limitations there is no on line help function in Swift BASIC However this short coming could be overcome by creat ing a PhoneBook file containing a list of BASIC commands Since both PhoneBook and Swift BASIC are system compliant a home made help file would only be a keystroke away Anyone who wants to create such a feature will get lots of key board practice there are 77 pages of BASIC commands in the Swift BASIC Users Manual Accessing the Hardware and Firmware Swift BASIC lets the experienced programmer extend the language by making calls to the operating sys tem of the computer The SYSTEM command in Swift BASIC is very well implemented and easy to use The downside to this is that you need to know exactly what you re doing A good book on MS DOS in ternal functions interrupts will help get you started It will take some trial and error and severa
64. better than the English version because it has the special characters described on page E 3 of the HP 95LX User s Guide indi cated on the keyboard above the appropriate key Jay Siena Japan Pacific Environment Monitor Miyagi JAPAN LEFT HINGE LOOSE If you open the 95LX and wiggle the display screen you ll notice that the left side seems looser than the right This is normal Larry Lefkowitz CompuServe ID 76137 155 MAKE YOUR OWN LOADER A loader is a program that lets you run an EXE COM or BAT file while the 95LX s built in applications are open You cannot use a loader to run a program on top of Lotus and you may not start one of the built in applications on top of a loader run program You can make your own load er by using LoadMaker by David Goodman Download LDRMKR ZIP ia from Lib 7 of CompuServe s HP Handheld forum used Dave s program to make a loader to run Infoselect from MicroLogic My loader calls IS BAT instead of IS EXE directly This batch file then calls Infoselect The contents of my IS BAT are as follows dispctl c a cd is isn cd dispel c The loader is created as an EXM file named the loader IS EXM and put it in the C DEV subdirectory The line in my APNAME LST file reads c deviis exm 2400 infoselect 2400 is the scan code for ALT J so starting Infoselect is as simple as pressing the ALT J hotkey Victor D Roberts CompuServe ID 70413 1423 LIKES GERMA
65. both the main and backup batteries are now dis played to help you keep track of your battery life Press to display the key code value of any single key or key combination a must for those who edit their APNAME LST file to in stall system compliant applications Too good to be true Well there s more One of the most diffi cult tasks on the 95LX is saving MEMO files to or retrieving them from any place other than the dreaded C _DAT default directory 95Buddy makes this task a whole lot easier First of all when in MEMO you can now press once more to pop up a list of files in the MEMO default directory This will save you a few keystrokes when youre looking for files More impor tantly you can change MEMO s default directory Let s say you want to get your files from and save them to A TEXT the TEXT subdi rectory on your RAM card Just change the 95BUDDY SYS line in the CONFIG SYS file above to read device c 95buddy sys mdef a text and reboot A TEXT becomes the default Attention VARs directory and you save tons of key strokes There s a more direct way to specify a new default directory path and or file name for MEMO follow these steps 1 Press to automati cally take you to MEMO s file open menu 2 Type in your new default direc tory and or file name You may use wildcards where appropri ate For example try C 3 Press lt Shift gt lt Tab gt to save your new spe
66. bugger work hand in hand to give immediate syntax checking If you type in a line of incorrect code and press ENTEA the line will start to blink and the computer will beep twice You can t proceed until you correct the mistake This is great for catching typing mistakes or misused BASIC commands How ever if you don t know BASIC you could be very frustrated No error message appears on the screen and the cursor does not always move to the place where the error occurs The debugger also detects run time errors It has the usual trace on and trace off functions of other BASICs but since there are no line numbers in the code the display of a series of line numbers on the screen is less than helpful On the other hand the debugger will let you single step through a program Error messages are displayed on the screen and when you enter the editor the cursor moves to the line that has the error Beyond this Swift BASIC s de bugger will also let you do remote debugging All you need is another HP 95LX With the two palmtops connected you can watch your pro gram execute on one while you observe the BASIC code on the oth er The same thing can be done with a 95LX connected to a desktop PC However 95LX graphics commands will not display properly on the desktop computer Swift BASIC s built in editor is very functional although limited It lacks any ability to move copy or delete blocks of code It does not h
67. ch alligator clips to the wire ends One person also suggest ed that I consider bringing a second modem as a back up Good idea if you have the money Same thing goes for the spare RAM card for back ups Bill Noseworthy Conception Bay South Newfoundland CANADA Connecting the 95LX to Prodigy Please advise me of the steps involved and the hardware and software necessary to connect my 95LX to Prodigy There s plenty information for con nection to CompuServe but none to Prodigy Dave Miller Goodlettsville TN USA Prodigy requires a stan dard PC compatible graph ics display Therefore the HP 95LX cannot directly make use of the Prodigy service However if any PC prodigy user wants to send us a note about HP 95LX activity on this popular commercial bulletin board please do so Hal Displayed Time Out Of Sync with Internal Time If the 95LX is on for any ex tended period of time by using the AC adapter the time displayed on the screen gets out of sync with the internal clock time By turning it off and on the screen 1 adjusts the time to that of the internal clock There must be a way to write a program to require the screen time display to update itself on a continu ing basis without having to turn the 95LX off and on to get the correct time Judson Freeman dr Jacksonville FL USA Future HP Products For as long as I ve been with HP 22 years not talking about the future in
68. cification You can still press MENU File Open to get the C _DAT directory of files ene MEMO MEMO takes you to C 95Buddy gives you a quick save option and exit keystroke Press to save your file and close the current application This works great unless you have another application open If you want to exit all applications press DEL OEMs Call Us for Factory Direct OEM Pricing rA HP 95LX Palmtop 1 MB Personal Computer HP 95LX Accessories e HP ork atible 3 in to 9 pin Serial ae SPARCOM Drive95 3 5 External 0 HEWLETT PACKARD HP 485 5X scientific Expandable Calculator HP 485 5X Accessories HOE 2k 1 eats Fon on Call fo Information amp Pricing on SPARCOM El Dorado Trading Hy amp TRIPOD DATA SYSTEMS CALL TOLL FREE 1 800 227 8292 24 Hour Phone Fax Message Center 415 494 1995 JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 7 REVIEW Useful Software This will save all open files and take you to the initial Topcard screen There s also a similar function in FILER for the times you want to quickly exit all built in applications and run a DOS program When you try to start the DOS program by pressing youll get the usual Cannot launch file message but with 95Buddy installed there will be an option to press again to mass exit all programs and launch the DOS program Press F4 to MassExit Cannot launch file message The list of improvement
69. could have happened if the backup of the bad RAM card files had corrupted my desktop s hard disk If I had backed up my 95LX onto my hard disk instead of a mi cro disk No I don t even want to think about that Preventing the Gotcha The next day I called the RAM card manufacturer to complain The technician could not tell me why a battery that was supposed to last for a year died after only three months of use He did offer the information that the battery warn ing device in the 95LX was set too low By the time LOW CARD BAT TERY appeared on the screen the A drive had already lost data I asked what I could do to pre vent such a gotcha from happening again Here are the instructions as I recall them 1 If you see a LOW CARD BAT TERY message on the 95LX believe it It s no joke 2 If or when the message ap pears do NOT turn the 95LX off Keep it on The main batter ies will supply enough electrici ty to the card to prevent any further damage 3 Do NOT remove the card from the 95LX Do NOT perform a backup or any other operation that drain the main batteries 4 Replace the RAM card battery ASAP with the 95LX still ON 5 Once the RAM card battery is replaced test all the files on the A drive For a quick test use the DOS command COPY filename NUL to see if each file can be copied to the NUL device com puter nowhere land Delete any files that don t copy Copy the remaining files to
70. ction Free Text in depth descriptions products advertised this issue na Text The HP Palmtop Paper May Jun 1992 na Text cover letter for HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK na UNZIP EXE HPSL14 LIS HPSL15 LIS ADVERT ZIP PTP2 ZIP README ZIP How to submit an article The richness of The HP Palmtop Paper comes from the contributions of 95LX users We and your fellow users wel come your submissions We do not offer payment for articles your reward is knowing that you ve helped others If you have a good idea and want to go for it send it in via Compu Serve EMail or send disk or hard copy to Hal Goldstein or Rich Hall at the above address Alternatively you can Bi BSSBSR SonStS3S SE 2 Software mentioned in this issue and included in other issues of The HP Palmtop Paper On Disk or the 1992 Subscribers Disk KLON ZIP Mar Apr 92 7 pile Klondike solitaire MENU95 92 Subs Disk run DOS programs without Shareware Shareware send an outline of your idea We will try to guide you as to when and whether we would use the article and contact you if we need clarification or have any suggestions We may want to use an article but for a variety of rea sons you may not see it for many months Also please understand that we cannot promise to run any article If you can especially if you write a Palmtop Profile send us a black and white photo of yourself UMA10 2ZIP UNO13 ZIP WEEKABK EXM ZIP COM exiting built in applicat
71. d even DOS compatible memory card drives DoubleCard is the first and the only memory card with built in data compression and to provide 100 transparent data exchange across a wide variety of computers AC ACE 2 oon me IMER sae S Extra Software included DoubleCard comes bundled with DoubleRAM B Cursor Block Cursor CardCopy our Universal Card Format utility and a diskette full of shareware pro grams for the HP9SLX Lifetime Warranty We believe in the quality and reliability of our products so much that DoubleCard now comes with a lifetime warranty In addition you will recieve five years of free card batteries from ACE directly Upgrade now available If you own any RAM cards for the HP9SLX we now offer DoubleCard 2 0 and DoubleRAM as a software upgrade To Order call ACE TOLL FREE 800 825 9977 DoubleCard 2 0 with DoubleRAM DoubleCard 1M upto 1MB A2001 DoubleCard2M upto 2MB A2002 DoubleCard 3M upto3MB A2003 DoubleCard AM up to 4MB A2004 Standard RAM memory Cards PCE EB isiriesriivan ian A1003 ACEcard IMB cseeseesrerseesreres ATDA ACEcard 1 5MB sessur Ae A1005 ACEcard 2MB socscsarossrens A1006 Software Upgrades DoubleCard 2 0 Upgrade C2200 B Cursor Battery Block Cursor C1011 CardCopy Card to card copy C1012 Universal Card Format Utility C1013 AGE ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zanker Road San Jose CA 95134 408 428 9722 FAX 408 428 9721 ACEc
72. d party products to back up your files You could use the Kermit communications software and a serial cable to back up to a PC You could attach a portable disk drive like the Sparcom Drive 95 to the 95LX and back up direct ly to a floppy disk Or you could connect a RAM card drive to your PC and transfer files from your 95LX to your PC via a RAM card You really have lots of flexibility in choosing a back up regime that works for you A Common Back up Regime You can protect yourself and your data by using both the Connectivity Pack and a RAM card back up re gime You can back up files using the Connectivity Pack regularly perhaps once a week Then you can group your weekly backups by month and store the files on flop pies This establishes a record of what you did and when you did it Because you can keep a RAM card in your 95LX you can back up important files several times a day or more often if what you re working on is critical A prudent guide is to back up your 95LX as often as you would your desk top PC if you where carrying it around with you Sound simple It is And it s insurance well worth buying Free RAM Card Just Tell HP Your Story Hewlett Packard would love to hear how you ve benefited from your 95LX Send your 800 to 1500 word story to HP address below post marked no later than Oct 15 1992 To the authors of the first 50 stories we receive we ll send a free HP 128K RAM card HP F1002A
73. d sleep modes HP believes that the tech nology developed for Kittyhawk will allow the HP Kittyhawk PSM to reach up to 200 MB of capacity by the middle of the decade Potential Applications Its compact dimensions allow the device to be used as a modular removable data storage medium for wide range of applications including subnotebook and palmtop comput ers font cartridges for printers medical patient monitoring systems scientific instruments cellular telephones and replacement memory for high cost solid state circuitry in video game cards The HP Kittyhawk PSM also may be used as a smart storage card that carries operating systems as well as application software for use in new stand alone public com puter systems designed into the backs of airline passenger seats hotel rooms and computer booth kiosks For example a user could simply take a loaded HP Kittyhawk PSM on a plane and activate their seat back computer using the soft ware programs brought on board An HP Kittyhawk PSM also can be integrated into a range of other portable scientific data gathering instruments where large amounts of data can be collected daily and analyzed in the field immediately or brought back to a central system for analysis Subnotebook computers will reach even lighter weights and retain the power and functionality found in notebook and laptop com puters The size of the HP Kitty hawk PSM allows for multiple mod ules to be
74. d that the print range was not proper and I turned off the printer in order to reset it I pressed CTRL lt Break gt immediately after turning off the print er but the WAIT massage on my 95LX did not disap pear I tried CTAL C and ESC with no success Finally I disconnected the AC adapter and while the backup batteries were in the computer I removed the MAIN batteries As a result the system reset itself causing loss of every thing Now the 95LX is working perfectly again but I could not understand what caused this paralysis and I really want to know whether it will happen again or not and was there a way of saving the files in the system Ahmet G OZISIK Istanbul Turkey I m not sure why it locked up but if it happens again press CTAL lt Shift gt ON for a hard reboot instead of pulling the batteries Be sure and answer No when the hard reboot asks if you want to reinitialize the disk This should get you out of a lock up without loosing your files Also there is no reason to disconnect the AC adapter when changing batteries Hal Complete Travel Kit My ideal North American travel kit is by no means the solution for everyone Yours may vary with the type of work you want to do with the 95LX the length of your trip and the amount of money you want to spend The items listed below are best packed in two separate locations 1 a briefcase or carry on lug gage for those thing
75. e 95LX to display the signals received For marine aviation surveying and expe dition application In development for GPS Pac is mapping integration software that will allow you to graphically display a map on the 95LX screen and show your current position on the map PalmTree will customize product for specific uses Availability G lt o7 endel eames NOW Runs under SysMgr 5 no PUNE co Sore yates a badd bed BROOD CONTACT PalmTree Products Inc 145 Washington Street Norwell MA 02061 USA Phone 617 871 7050 Fax 617 871 6018 EUROPEAN CONTACT Gessa 45a route des Acacias 1227 Gen ve SWITZERLAND Phone 41 22 42 78 06 Fax 41 22 42 78 05 RAM Card Drives MEL PCJ Station MEL PCJ Station is a universal card drive for PCMCIA standard 68 pin memory cards It may be used to read from or write to RAM EEPROM and Flash EPROM cards and can be used for data exchange between the 95LX and a desktop PC computer The data transfer takes place via standard RS 232 interface with 115 000 baud The MEL PCJ Station comes with software that allows it to be installed as an additional DOS drive for the PC or the 95LX CONTACT CSM GmbH M rikestrasse 58 7024 Filderstadt GERMANY Phone 49 711 773071 Fax 49 711 7776666 Voice Recognition MicroDyn II This small stand alone voice recog nition and synthesis system provides voice recognition of 1 000 words with better than 98 accu
76. e CD C and press ENTER and then make a subdirectory 26 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 called _DAT key in MD _DAT and then press ENTER If you have any other subdirec tories on your 95LX create dupli cate directories on your backup disk Note that you don t have to create a subdirectory for the files in the hidden C _SYS directory since they are permanent ROM files If you have created the optional A directory change to that directo ry on the floppy disk type CD A and press Create matching directories for any subdirectories on the RAM card of your 95LX Install ZIP COM On Your Computer and On Your HP 95LX If ZIP COM is not on your 95LX transfer it to the Palmtop using the INSTALL program from the Sub scribers Disk or use APP95 from the HP Connectivity Pac In any case ZIP COM should go in the root directory of the C drive Also copy ZIP COM onto the hard disk of your desktop PC ZIP COM must be configured to use the correct serial port on both machines The Subscribers Disk version of ZIP COM is configured to use COM1 as the default serial port However if you re using COM1 on your PC to run a mouse then ZIP must be told to use COM2 or COM3 Ordinarily ZIP COM comes with a companion program ZIPCFG COM that lets you configure ZIP COM so it will use COM 2 COM3 or COM4 automatically every time it is run If you register ZIP COM you ll k On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk
77. e SkyTel ad page 13 EA AN a TENET AREE ar n TETTEN ee ats oe EA re ES 525 CONTACT Hewlett Packard Co Phone 800 443 1254 Palmtop Training Classes Learn 95LX tips techniques and short cuts in these compact one day seminars Introduction to the HP 95LX Overview of System Manager APPT PHONE MEMO Lotus HP CALC and connectivity Lotus 1 2 3 for the Palmtop Create spreadsheets what if scenar ios formulas graphs databases and macros Want to connect your HP 95LX to a Macintosh A 4 m Macintosh SE 30 wl Cnt _ MacLinkPlus for the HP 95LX makes file transfer between the machines trivially easy and includes all the regular DataViz translators David Ramsey MacWEEK 6 29 92 automates conversions of 95LX Lotus 1 2 3 WK1 and Memo TXT files to and from a number of Macintosh Mean including MacWrite MS Works MS Word WordPerfect and Excel Once connected your 95IX appears as if it were another MAC drive and with a few clicks you can back up transfer and translate files Hal Goldstein Executive Editor The HP Palmtop Paper May June 92 NOW WITH NEW TRANSLATORS FOR HP 95LX PHONE AND APPOINTMENT BOOK FILES MacLinkPlus for the HP 95LX is the complete solution for backing up transferring and translating files between your 95LX and the Macintosh It provides conversions for your 95LX Lotus 1 2 3 MEMO APPT and PHONE to and from over 4
78. e batteries with tip plus sign up I used Eveready and Toshiba brand alkaline batteries The lithi um batteries were manufactured by Eveready The nickel metal hyd ride s were by Harding both lithi um and NMH batteries are available through ACE 800 825 9977 and many retail outlets The NiCds were by Millennium The way you use your 95LX probably differs dramatically from the way the 95LX was used in the test Hence you would probably get different usage figures The figures above should be viewed as relative readings A pair of lithium batteries may not last exactly 52 hours for you but they should last almost twice as long as a pair of alkalines In the coming months I shall be reporting on the results of specific brands of batteries in an effort to find the best for use on the 95LX BATTman During my battery tests I was given a new 95LX battery utility BATTman from ACE Technologies is a much more sophisticated bat tery life management tool than the 95LX s built in system BATTman which runs as a memory resident TSR program is installed with a command line in your AUTOEXEC BAT file It is pro vided with an automatic installation program that runs on an IBM Com patible PC and transfers the neces sary files to your 95LX Only a seri al cable is required Once you ve transferred the files you run a set up program on your 95LX to create or edit your startup files The set up program asks you whic
79. e defined CHAR F key You can place the cursor wherever you like on the line and you can assign this function to one of the ten macro keys Here is the procedure 1 Enter into SETUP and then CHAR 2 Choose one of the functions keys my preference is F9 3 Fill the COMMENT line with a descriptive information such as MEMO LINE DELETE 4 Write the below macro to the CONTENTS HOME F9 END F3 5 Exit with INDEX and quit the SETUP menu 6 Enter into MEMO to use your new function 7 Write or retrieve a text and choose a line to delete Carry the cursor to that line Simply press the defined macro key combination such as CHAR for line delete in MEMO The line is deleted isl On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Jul Aug 92 Since the CUT function of MEMO is used you can paste the deleted line to somewhere else afterwards lf the cursor is at the first column a beep sound will be sounded indicat ing the border of the screen Ahmet G Oezisik Istanbul TURKEY WORDSTAR 4 0 WORKS ON THE 95LX I m running Wordstar 4 0 on my 95LX Leave off the print overlay to Save space keep the dictionary Victor D Roberts CompuServe ID 70413 1423 Filer USING FILER WITH MODEM TO COMMUNICATE WITH PC RUNNING APP95 A little known and even less docu mented capability within FILER is the ability to use a modem to com municate with a PC running the APP95 software contained in the HP Connectivity Pack
80. e translator on an IG card for the HP 95LX mpossible that s the reaction from virtually everyone But it s true Fully automated grammatical translation capability comparable to mainframes or PCs all in economical IC cards designed for the HP 95LX palmtop The Globalink Translation System gives you sentence by sentence translations with up to 90 accuracy Target language output may be post edited one sentence at a time or after an entire file has been translated a Spanish to from English NEW French to from English LOWER German to from English PRICES Sparcom lt lt lt lt Sparcom Corporation 897 NW Grant Ave Corvallis OR 97330 e 503 757 8416 e FAX 503 753 7821 CompuServe 75320 2440 User To User Continued from page 23 95LX at some conference or show and forget where I put it So instead of putting my company on my Top card screen I have If found call 515 472 6330 Unfortunately if I misplace my 95LX and am lucky enough to have a good samaritan find it there s no guarantee that he will be able to bring up the Topcard screen When Bernie Sadow of IBB Limited told me that his company made nameplates for the 95LX I was a bit skeptical But he sent me one of his black and gold labels for the back of my 95LX and I really like it It looks very sharp and I no longer worry about someone locat ing my name and address if they find my 95LX see ad page 1 S
81. ed Hal 2 I keep nearly all my data memos etc on a RAM card in the A drive and I would like to find a way to set the default direc tories for all of the built in applications 1 2 3 handles this OK I ve tried using an AUTOEXEC BAT file but it seems the System Manager overrides it Check out reviews this issue on Switch and 95 Buddy Also use User De fined Function Key see FALL MEMO Quick Tip or your manual Hal 3 I need a database other than the standard Phone Book PHONE would be more useful if it was more flexible and let you rename fields and modify the for mat to suit other purposes Check out UNO review this issue or Pocket Sales Force reviewed last issue Hal 4 I use the Only function in PHONE to select a sub set of the entire Phone list However when I select Print File All the whole Phone List is printed not the subset I just selected Why does this happen and what do I have to do to print the subset After using Only tag those entries Then do a File Xtract and send those en tries to a new file Retrieve the new file to do what you wish with that subset Hal 5 How about developing a Tag that steps down auto matically I agree Maybe Jeffrey Mattox the 95Buddy author is listening Hall 6 Graphs displayed in 1 2 3 suffer from the small size of the screen that limits the Y axis length and causes the scale labels to overwrite each other
82. efect is that it doesn t insert items in lexicographical order I solve that by put ting a header on all items that begin with the same letter for example HHH as header for all items that be gin with H Then do my own insertions Inserting roughly in order is all that one needs to do since the Find key lets one find what ever one wants anyway After you pointed out that LOTUS might be a good place to put large files in order to have a single PhoneBook I imported my files into a spreadsheet and discovered that 75K of text files turns into 93K of spreadsheet A major annoyance with HP 95LX pany toa paren printer from Just connect one Paralink 3 adapter to your in SOLX via lel po e9 and easy to To Order WID Print to Parallel Printers from the Paralink 3 is for those times fe nada to or ne 36 ther to ane serial cable from the ered and works with most parlors It s fight small Paralink 3 retails for 59 95 Call 011 44 438 815444 Fax 011 44 438 815222 AmEx Visa MasterCard Accepted SET SOF TWARE 121 London Road Knebworth Herts SG3 6EX United Kingdom a spreadsheet of this size smaller spreadsheets are better is that it takes 17 seconds to save it and 12 seconds to retrieve it On the other hand the 8 sec onds that it takes to find an item is relatively accept able A wonderful thing about the spreadsheet be sides the very important fact that i
83. eive important information in seconds Like a Lotus 1 2 3 spreadsheet update from the home office A message about last minute changes to an important presentation Or good news about winning a big order So no matter how fast you re moving your business can keep up To learn more about the HP 95LX and A SkyStream Nationwide Messaging call 1 800 456 3333 ext 0125 i _ A subsidiary of Mtel JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 13 Reviews Batteries the determination of an absolute battery life figure is impossible Since we are looking at the suitability of various technologies we are really only interested in their relative performance There fore for the purpose of this discus sion I have picked 50 milliamps as an average consumption figure for a RAM card equipped 95LX In order to provide a repeatable test for the different battery types I used a program that caused the 95LX to consume a relatively con stant amount of current Further the program tracked results by monitoring the 95LX s internal bat tery management system and writ ing data to a file any time there was a change in battery level The 95LX has an Analog to Digital convertor built into its battery management system This convertor divides the 0 to 5 volt charge up into 256 dis crete voltage levels The ability to detect when the battery charge decreased one level and then write the results to a file allowed me to create a test that cou
84. embedded within a note book in an array fashion or as a multiple module card that appears as a single storage device to the system Used in Future 95LXs The HP press release did mention palmtops as a potential use for the Kittyhawk It must certainly be something that HP is considering but there are some problems to overcome The first version of KittyHawk requires a single 5 volt power sup ply and the 95LX is 3 volts Others have speculated that Kittyhawk might drain batteries quickly un less power saving software was developed for the 95LX See User to User page 23 for one suggestion on how Kittyhawk might be used with the 95LX soon HP 95LX SUPPORT CompuServe CompuServe Section for Kittyhawk Drive Comments and further information on Kittyhawk will be available in the Mass Storage section of the HP Peripherals Forum of CompuServe type go hpper at the opening CompuServe prompt SkyStream Receiver HP introduced the SkyStream Re ceiver with Mobile Data Link part HP F1009B July 1 1992 It in cludes a cradle software and re ceiver The 95LX slides into one side of the cradle and the SkyStream receiver into the other Once you have SkyStream you CompuServe Opens New HP Handhelds Forum The success of the 95LX and the general popularity of HP handhelds has prompted CompuServe to create a new forum for HP Handheld devices By Ted Dickens CompuServe in early July started a new f
85. ent to 14 389 typed pages HP hopes to begin shipping the Kitty hawk to OEM clients in August OEMs use HP and other manufac turers parts to make their comput ers Although the Kittyhawk looks like a conventional hard disk its small size and durability make it an attractive alternative to the more expensive solid state technology Those of you who have purchased Kittyhawk PSM Hard Drive RAM cards realize that solid state memory technology is expensive approximately five times more ex pensive than the rotating disk tech nology used in the HP Kittyhawk PSM Twenty MBs of solid state memory currently has a minimum OEM price of about 1 000 or 50 per MB The HP Kittyhawk PSM offers an initial OEM cost of about 12 per MB OEM clients will be able to purchase the initial version of the Kittyhawk in quantity for around 250 per drive The HP Kittyhawk PSM can be used in many applications includ ing palmtop pen based and sub notebook computers printers fax machines medical equipment and communications and digital imaging devices It also can be used in con sumer products such as cartridges for video game machines and in mobile products such as on board voice imaging mail for cellular phones and office products like digital copiers Development The module was developed with the cooperation of several companies including AT amp T Microelectronics and the Citizen Watch Company of Japan HP and AT amp T engi
86. er 5 it costs so little The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK consists of 2 4 360K floppy disks that you will receive along with each printed issue of your regular subscription to the newsletter The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK does not include printed issues A year s subscription to The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK 6 issues is just 139 Shipping is included for North American customers That s less than 24 per set of disks It s a great buy even if you only use one program per disk Individual issues of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK are 33 within North America so a year s subscription saves you 92 b 7H You can save ah addi onal 49 by subscribing for two years c TREMENDOUS VALUE Each issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK contains the complete editorial content of the printed issue descriptions of advertised products and virtually all the freeware and shareware mentioned in the issue To give you an idea of the tremendous value this represents here are just a few of the highlights of the software included in recent issues of The HP Patntep Paper ON DISK Instructions and utilities for accessing all programs are included on each disk WORD PROCESSING VDE Compact powerful text editor a great alternative to MEMO VDE LX ZIP Makes VDE work like WordPerfect COMMUNICATIONS COMMO ZIP Full featured communications program richer scripting language than the 95LX s buil
87. er case for your HP 95LX Palmtop PC from TimeBoss includes HP 95LX case with Velcro TM fastener Note pad TimeBoss pencil Three packets for credit cards Pocket for HP 95LX card Pocket for paper money Availability oeeo oun 6 eg nae te oS PPI Fe he ob ERAS Call CONTACT Libro Forlag A S Sinsenveien 47 C P O Box 110 Refstad 0513 Oslo 5 NOR WAY Phone 47 2 710200 Fax 47 2 7710480 Name Plates These solid brass personalized iden tification plates securely fasten to your 95LX with a self adhesive backing Plate can have up to 4 lines of information Availability VidaretGi Caceres keane NOW Pricing One pl t gis 45 562 iloik as erand 34 10 95 Two plates 0005 19 95 CONTACT IBB Limited P O Box 568 Chappaqua NY 10514 0568 USA Bar Code Readers ScanPlus Bar Code Scanner ScanPlus attaches to the 95LX serial port allowing users to enter sales or ders inventory control information time and attendance data and other bar code data Comes with 9 volt battery box special serial cable software and users manual Availability End of July 1992 Pricing 990 CONTACT United Barcode Industries Inc 12240 Indian Creek Court Beltsville MD 20705 USA Phone 301 498 5400 Fax 301 498 6498 Nickel Metal Hydride Batteries for the HP 95LX Nickel Metal Hydride NMH batteries stores twice the capacity of standard NiCd batteries does not have a memory problem and is
88. eration Model TMD 500 reads and writes SRAM cards a TMD 550 SRAM amp FLASH cards Fully PCMCIA JEIDA compatible with the industry s broadest range of card gt lt supplier and platform support It s quick and easy Isn t it time baa you put one on your expense report EDan TA ThincardDRIVE i a trademark of Databook Inc 38 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 Call 716 889 4204 for further information OEM Dealer inquiries welcome capacity of a standard memory card Also with version 2 0 s new Double RAM feature 95LX users can now compress their internal RAM disk in addition to doubling their RAM card capacity See DoubleCard Software page 40 for upgrade information See advertising inside front cover AVR s c rriren fe oe NOW Medium RAM Card Pricing DoubleCard 1M w Double RAM 299 DoubleCard 2M w Double RAM 469 DoubleCard 3M w Double RAM 599 DoubleCard 4M w Double RAM 749 CONTACT ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zanker Road San Jose CA 95134 USA Phone 800 825 9977 or 408 428 9722 Fax 408 428 9721 Modems PalmModem 2400 PalmF ax This PCMCIA compatible 2400 baud modem card fits in the card slot of the 95LX Resident in the PalmModem is PalmTerm a terminal emulation pro gram optimized for palmtop computer use A variety of upload and download protocols are provided with the termi nal emulation program PalmModem comes with resident facsimile
89. ers Third party products for HP handhelds If you are already a CompuServe member stop by and check out our new home There may be a few unpacked boxes left sitting in the corners but by the time you read this we should at least have all the furniture in place If you arent a CompuServe member there s no time like the present to join Subscribers to The ot pam oo anen JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 21 HP 95LX SUPPORT CompuServe HP Palmtop Paper can get a free introductory subscription just by calling 800 848 8199 or 614 457 0802 and asking for operator 231 That will get you an account and 15 of free access time See page 15 of the May June 92 issue for a more com plete listing of CompuServe interna tional numbers New Tiny Hard Disk Drive From Hewlett Packard In other news I have actually held the Kittyhawk Personal Storage Module that s the official name for HP s new 1 3 hard disk drive Pll freely admit that this is one product that is just plain exciting It is going to show up in places that will surprise us all The product manager for Kittyhawk will be on line on July 8 and 9 to answer questions from forum members While it s too late for readers to participate be sure to look for the transcript of all the messages The initial thread will be KHAWK THD in the Mass Storage library 2 of the HP Peripherals Forum GO HPPER See page 20 this issue for more on Kittyhawk
90. es can be displayed at one time with the note you re Ei PC compatible version on The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk May June 92 working in indicated as white text on a black background While a single note can hold any amount of text the window it is displayed in can be re sized from a small box to the full 95LX screen The text wraps within the box like most word processors to keep all of the text visible All notes are time and date stamped automatical ly Text can be imported and export ed in ASCII format easily Notes can be formatted and cross referenced to allow for an intelligent grouping of data eder atas on b s 7 7 3 shning wrap inion r Uparades Stp igde LLP commo ole de apas card e raises ig NOTES uno 94 Line 1 Col 3 Note windows can vary in size The other side of a note consists of an automatic date stamp and its de scription which you can enter by pressing F7 The other side of the note is not visible SR tg on b s Y F Kei ucts 01 Produ Wed pog j Shrink wrap j imr u Frevious Description 2 PTP4 new product S635 3 NOTES uno 94 Line 1 Col Date stamp and description You can search notes for text pat terns within them or by description across your entire database Notes are time and date stamped automatically and can be ordered by date Unfortunately you cannot search by stamped date However by pressing F7 the de scription
91. etermine if each equation occupies a single cell There is a good chance an equation will be split on two lines If this happens make a copy of the EQN file and use MEMO or another text editor to edit the copy and remove the characters causing the equa tions to break and occupy more than one line Then import the edited copy not the original EQN file 30 416666 approx 365 12 the number of days in a year divided by the number of months or the approximate length in days of a month 0 03287671 approx 12 365 the reciprocal of the number of days in an average month This fraction is common in time series analysis If you are using the clipboard be sure to put the edited equation on the clipboard After importing equations into 1 2 3 named ranges identifying the equations variables must be created An efficient way to do this is to list the variable names in a column and use the MENU Range Name Labels Right command to assign each vari ables name to the cell on its right Now go to the cell containing the equation Assuming you have the result on the left side of the equation remove the equal sign and everything to its left including the label prefix character If you have assigned a named range to each of the equations variable you should now have a working 1 2 3 formula If you re getting an error and cannot get out of edit perhaps you have not assigned a named range to ev ery variable in the equatio
92. file cabinet we can put them in either drawer Files on the 95LX can be stored on either the C drive or on the A drive if we have a RAM card When you store a file in a file cabinet you give it a name i e you put a label on the file folder In the same way when you store a PHONE MEMO APPT or 1 2 3 file you give it a name As we discussed in the last issue DOS lays out strict The file storage capability of the 95LX is like a two drawer file cabinet FOR THE HP 95LX o Contact and client tracking e Calendar management e Expense tracking e PC Connectivity Cable included for easy data integration e Report generation e ZAPCARDS wireless business card exchange International versions available The Portable Way To Control Your Day CONTACT SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL 1840 Hutton Drive 200 Carrollton TX 75006 214 919 9500 or Toll Free 1 800 365 0606 214 919 9750 Fax InterSystems House Tangier Lane Eton Berkshire SL4 GBB ENGLAND 1992 Contact Software International 44 0 753 830727 Fax 44 0 753 833317 ACT for the HP 95LX lets you take control of your day while you re on the go This powerful contact manager keeps all the details about your contacts and your calendar at your fingertips ACT even tracks and reports your expenses The innovative ZAPCARDS feature lets you exchange business card and other contact information wirelessly with other ACT HP 95LX users And it s all
93. file will run ZIP one last time to break the connection with the ZIP program on the HP 95LX Incremental Backups Once you ve completed the initial backup of the 95LX subsequent backups will take place much more quickly Only those files that are new or changed will be transferred The whole process should take less than a minute When you want to do a backup just run ZIP COM on your 95LX and put it in serVer mode Then change to the B drive on your desktop PC Type bkup95 press ENTER and watch the backup process zip by The use of the B drive for back up may seem strange Why not backup to the hard disk For the answer to that question let me tell you about an experience 28 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER from my 95LX Gotcha annals Gotcha A gotcha in computer speak is a surprise event perpetrated by a computer in full accordance with Murphy s Laws This Gotcha happened because I began to trust the process of back ing up my 95LX too much I d been using a 1 MB RAM card for about three months during which time my 95LX had crashed on several occasions More than once I had to completely reformat the C drive Thank goodness I d written those backup routines Not once in all that time did the A drive ever lose any informa tion so I began to put all my criti cal files on the RAM card This included all the grades for the six courses I was teaching Of course being a believer of Murphy s Laws I
94. fully integrated and easy to use Based on best selling ACT contact management software this powerful version was designed specifically for HP 95LX users like you And it s easy to upload and download information to and from your desktop version of ACT with the included PC connectivity cable Take control of your day with ACT for tbe HP 95LX Order your copy risk free for only 99 and save 50 off the retail price Simply mail the coupon below or call us toll free at 1 800 365 0606 E E EE EE EE EE EE E E HE EE EE EE H Res me q i Di the i l for ars h 149 y To order ACT for the HP 95LX at this discount price complete coupon and mail to Contact Software Int l ACT E HP Offer 1840 Hutton Drive 200 Carrollton TX 75006 J i Allow 2 3 weeks for delivery _ Name i LO a Z Z E Ciy Oe if J Zip _ Daytime Phones g i Payment By E Visa o MasterCard _ American Express i 2 lt M Exp Date z Signature O La i BJ Check Enc payable to Contact Software Int l ACT E Discount Price 99 00 am Doma i Shipping amp Handling 5 50 p ae E TX residents add 8 17 sales tax _ l E gt Total i Please Call for International Orders a COLUMN Getting Started rules governing legal file names A file name consists of 1 to 8 charac ters followed by an optional period and 1 to 3 more characters These characters can be numbers letters and many of the special symbols suc
95. ges bug fixes AcCIS maintains its own tele phone list now which can hold an unlimited number of entries They contain phone number comm pa rameters modem init string and log on macro So you can have the setup for different modems and different CompuServe nodes always ready for use In Setup you specify which entry is to be used Nice for people who travel a lot or use sever al modems kal On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Jul Aug 92 Paper is the leading way to get the word out However probably 10 at most of the world s 95LX users subscribe or have access to The HP Palmtop Paper We are making a concerted effort over the coming months to increase that number Word of mouth advertising is the most effective way and we appreci ate your help This still leaves the developer with the challenge of reaching his end user In the U S market two companies seem to have invested the most time and effort in develop ing and distributing products Spar com and ACE Many developers have arranged to have these two companies distrib ute their product For example Sparcom is now distributing the Globalink foreign translation cards the Austrian originated Swift Basic programming language reviewed in this issue and Pocket Sales Force discussed in the last issue ACE not only distributes its Stacker based Double Card and regu lar RAM cards it is selling software like the BATTman and Switch utilities discussed
96. get the LOW CARD BATTERY message on your HP 95LX By Ed Keefe Backing Up The HP 95LX Among the many programs on the 1992 Subscribers Disk ZIP COM gets my top honors If you used the automated IN STALL program on the Subscribers Disk you ve seen a small sample of what ZIP COM can do Hopefully the following instruc tions will give you more ideas on how you can benefit from ZIP COM They describe how to use ZIP COM and a couple of batch files to make backing up your 95LX almost fun Automating Backups To automate the backup process you ll need to spend some time key ing in two or three batch files de scribed in this article The batch files are available on the July August issue of The HP Palm top Paper ON DISK You may have to spend some additional time fine tuning these batch files for your machine Give yourself about an hour to get up and running First create two new directories on a blank formatted floppy disk in your desktop PC create one or two new directories I ll use the B drive designator B in these instructions to indicate the floppy drive You may change this to A if you wish 1 Insert the floppy disk and switch to the B drive Use the DOS command MD C to create the C subdirectory on your floppy disk This will hold the files from the 95LX s C drive 2 Optional use only if you have a RAM card on the 95LX Key in the DOS command MD A 3 Change to the C subdirectory typ
97. gure Datacomm for Xmodem transfer Comm Menu scpilpb3ps 1ppnpc8qq Menu txs 6 Move a Todo from the current position to the bottom of a priority FS F8 Space F 10 F4 Up F3 Home create macros a recording of re petitive keystrokes assigned to a single key or key combination is very important in that it speeds up your work and reduces fatigue HP recognized this and provided the 95LX with 10 CHAR Function Keys for that purpose see page 41 Mar April 92 issue Although the User Defined Function Keys work well you only have 10 of them and they cannot be used outside of System Manager UMA Useful Macros is from Mike Gardi the author of Useful Notes reviewed above UMA is a 1 memory resident macro program originally designed for the PC but at my urging adapted to the 95LX and its unique keyboard UMA works across DOS and the System Manager and can store up to 64K of macros in one file Macros can be stored under any key combination and can contain all of the 95LX keys including the blue application keys Keystrokes can be recorded live from within any application or en tered into a text file to be converted to a macro file with TXT2UMA a utility supplied for that purpose The ability to convert from a macro to text file is also supported for ease of editing Creating and Playing Back Macros UMA lets you create a macro from within any application by first pres sing CTAL ALT M A menu bar at
98. gure sharply re duces the 95LX s operating range The lithium technology is brand new to AA size batteries It has advantages over alkalines in terms of capacity weight shelf life and operating temperature range Its in creased capacity is the advantage most relevant to 95LX users 52 hours of use as compared to 30 hours for alkalines This is a major increase in performance but it does come at a price The batteries will cost 5 7 a pair and be made avail able in the USA by Eveready under the Energizer name previously re ferred to as LithEon batteries Considering that alkalines are ava ilable at less than 1 a pair there is no financial advantage to using lithiums yet However their greater life makes them more convenient to use If this is important to you they are definitely a good value Nickel Cadmium and Nickel Hydride Batteries The operating characteristics of rechargeable batteries make them more difficult to evaluate Not only do they start out at a lower voltage but they die very rapidly at the end of their charge My tests show that NiCds start at 2 5v and very rapidly fall off below 2 2v This can cause a significant problem for the battery management circuit It was not unusual for me to never see the low battery warning My 95LX would drop right into the backup mode which means that I would lose any files that had not been saved This is why HP does not recommend rechargables However by fa
99. h as underline or dash Subdirectories We can put a file in the A drawer or C drawer of our file cabinet Similarly we can store a file on the 95LX in the A or C drives We store them in the root directory designated as A or C note the backslash We can create in a file cabinet a thick file with a number of differ ent but related files in it The fat file has a name and each of the related files have their own name We can do the same thing in DOS by creating a subdirectory some times simply referred to as a direc tory A subdirectory is like the fat file among the normal files in our file cabinet Subdirectories are given names under the same conventions as a regular file That means that a directory can have up to 12 charac ters including a period and a 3 character extension In practice you will seldom find directories more than 8 characters long The 95LX comes with a built in C drive subdirectory with the name _DAT This is an arbitrary name HP seems to have named many of the HP 95LX s built in files with the _ symbol as the first character For example if you look in FILER at the bottom of the list of files you ll see _STAT WK1 This tells you that it is a built in spread sheet that Hewlett Packard included as an unadvertised extra We can assume that _DAT simply stands for data Whenever you save a MEMO APPT PHONE or HP CALC equa tion file by default you save it to the _DAT subd
100. h of four battery types NiCd alkaline lithi um or NMH you normally use Once set up is completed you reboot your 95LX and the opening BATT man screen appears providing your battery status as well as some set up options Every time you turn on your 95LX you will be greeted with a pop up BATTman window showing the type of battery selected as well as its voltage You may change the battery type at any time from the main BATTman menu Type battman from the DOS command line and the menu will reappear BATTman works both in System Manager and DOS applications BATTman takes 5K of disk space BATTman s real value becomes apparent when your batteries begin to get low Contained within the BATTman program is a predictive formula unique to each battery type This formula lets BATTman correct ly judge when a pair of batteries are going to fall below the 1 8 volt bat tery level that puts the 95LX in backup mode As the steep voltage fall off is about to occur BATTman pops up a warning and turns off your 95LX You then should do one of two things change your batteries or JULY AUGUST 1992 plug in the AC adaptor Do either one of these and you will not lose any files When you turn on the machine you will be right back where you were The instructions warn you to not attempt to save your files before taking action Writ ing a file to disk is battery intensive action that may cause the 95LX to go into backup mode This
101. ia Property Mate lets you cross link buyers to proper ties and vice versa Property Mate uses about 214K on the C drive and a file of about 300 properties and 40 potential buyers occupies another 128K Property Mate works on the 95LX or a desktop PC Availability oe aS hae odie CPR A NOW Medium isrrsisiirs ressesie Floppy disk Runs under SysMpgr 0005 No PAROW onerati raina aa kn Call AUSTRALIAN CONTACT John Thompson c o Tarion Agencies P O Box 1632 Cabo olture 4510 AUSTRALIA Phone 074 958 131 Fax 074 958 633 HP Calc Related My Best Solvers amp A Solver EQN file containing what the author considers the missing fi nancial functions from the HP 19BII financial calculator The functions include cash flow analysis deprecia tion calculations bond yield and price calculations and temp conversions This is a shareware program available on CompuServe in the 95LX Library of HPSYS Availability 5 o s Gegtes yx Gamal Dew pisos NOW Medium ook 0 pe ert aioe Floppy Disk Runs under SysMer Mea esis El Yes Prinia Teer incre Salers Bore Re 25 CONTACT Dr Richard L Taylor 3505 Old Post Drive Baltimore MD 21208 3012 USA Specialized Palm Reference Journal reference tracking for medical professionals Palm Reference is a full fledged relational database which organizes articles for instant retrieval and allows a search by any field The search feature allows you to select AND amp
102. iams received his M D in December 1991 after medi cal training at Medical College of Virginia The American University of the Caribbean Oldchurch Hospi tal an affiliate of The London Uni versity School of Medicine and Eastern Virginia Medical School He is currently looking for a Residency position while doing part time work as a Medical Systems Consultant with Technology Consulting Ltd in order to stay out of trouble He also holds a BS in biology from Virginia Commonwealth University and spent six long years as a Hospi tal Corpsman in the U S Navy His CIS ID is 76167 2773 and Internet address is jwill cabell vcu edu EA on The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Jul Aug 92 Think Of It As A Turbo i b f tine Bl ee WmATwWOG oo yo a Do lt OvzonooDn J eTOOW i eget ec m TF ae ee eee Aen Sau ratios amp Fercents OS Print Leave or Values Any machine runs stronger when you give it an extra boost So does your body The Personal Food Analyst the first professional level nutritional software for the consumer will give you that boost PFA was designed exclusively for the HP95LX With a built in database of over 4 000 foods and 27 nutrients the Personal Food Analyst will record and analyze your daily food intake to help you modify and improve your eating habits PFA will display the nutritional and caloric values of your f
103. ilable to software manufactures and others needing to store large amounts of data on me mory cards These custom Flash RAM cards come with advanced data com pression decompression technology allowing them to store up to 100 MB of data on a single card Publish Cards are configured at the factory utilizing the optimal compression algorithm based upon the type of data it will store See Advertising page 40 Li li o Aan ak ave aeres s NOW Meditim iiiitirinsisess Memory cards PEIOUN Saep iiA Daea bau Varies Call CONTACT New Media Corporation Irvine Spectrum 15375 Barranca Parkway Build ing B 101 Irvine CA 92718 USA Phone 800 453 0550 or 714 453 0100 Fax 714 453 0114 SkyStream Receiver and Mobile Data Link SkyTel s new wireless data receiver bundled with HP s Mobile Data Link 42 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 PALM REFERENCE PHYSICIANS amp MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS Now There is a tool that control of youmreferences today for onl 95 disk version it 149 ROM version To order call or FAX LIIIGIHI TIHIOLUISIE 714 850 1767 FAX 714 850 0843 3001 Red Hill Ave Bldg 4 Ste 213 Costa Mesa CA 92626 cradle and software For a more thor ough description of the receiver take a look at page 4 of the Fall 1991 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper Once you have SkyStream and Mobile Data Link you have to sub scribe to SkyTel s nationwide messag ing service Se
104. in this issue According to Andy Fu President of ACE and Steve Bares President of Sparcom both com panies are planning to broaden their HP 95LX line of products in the coming months In the meantime EduCALC a mail order retailer has the most complete range of products for the 95LX user in the U S International distributors of The HP Palmtop Paper England France Germany The Netherlands and Belgium are another possible distribution chan nel for 95LX related products We welcome Supplyline as our new U K distributor Phone 081 744 0022 Fax 081 744 0045 The New PCMCIA Standard Contributing editor Mark Scardina and I attended a PCMCIA conference several months ago in the San Francisco Bay Area PCMCIA is a nonprofit group that sets standards for RAM cards and other devices that fit in the 95LX slot Fortunate ly for the industry Hewlett Packard and other progressive vendors real ized several years back that stan dards were necessary if these cards were to ever catch on In the next few years you will see an increas ingly number of computer and con sumer based products that use the PCMCIA standards The HP 95LX conforms to PCMCIA level 1 standard Recently specifications for level 2 PCMCIA compatibility were published This standard will make it possible to not only to include RAM memory cards ROM cards and other memo ry cards in devices sporting a slot but will also allow the development of device
105. ing battery replacement information the symphony schedule agreat recipe for Lokchen Kogel found in the Tucson newspaper m your new car s gas mileage great quotes from the Duke of Wellington A strategic with drawal is often the first step toward a forward thrust of re newed vigor In other words a myriad of unrelat ed tidbits Publisher of The HP Palmtop Paper Hal Goldstein uses UNO to keep track of what he asks the different members of his staff to do The possibilities are really endless More Features UNO also lets you import a file directly into a note For example if you have multiple Phone Books you can print one to a file from within PHONE by pressing Print File Then you can import that file into an UNO note This allows pop up access to as many Phone Books as will fit into memory Finally when in DOS you can execute a DOS command from within UNO by inserting the DOS command line as the note s descrip tion Whenever you want to run that command you simply make that note active and press ENTER UNO will shell to DOS and execute the command The ability to have instant ac cess to UNO does not come without a price I have to devote 98K of System Memory to it when using it as a TSR Those who do not require pop up capability can run the stand alone version UNO95 from FILER or DOS and only use the memory when they load it The programs themselves can be DIETed down to around 30K
106. ions May June 92 Macro key program May June 92 Database program 92 Subs Disk gives weekly view of APPTs 92 Subs Disk file transfer program Shareware Shareware Freeware Shareware The Fall 1991 HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK consisted of over 20 files including those mentioned on page 36 of the Fall 1991 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper The January February 1992 HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK consisted of over 24 files including those mentioned on page 43 of the January February issue of The HP Palmtop Paper The March April 1992 HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK consisted of 28 files including those mentioned on page 44 of the March April issue of The HP Palmtop Paper The May June 1992 HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK consisted of 29 files including those mentioned on page 48 of the May June issue of The HP Palmtop Paper 48 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER MAY JUNE 1992 You ve read it in print now get it on disk SS The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK great benefits even the printed 5 version doesn t have Now you can receive The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK with every printed issue Here are the benefits 1 Locate items of interest fast Each issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK contains the entire editorial content of the corresponding printed issue The text is stored in ASCII format and is readable by any word processor To locate an item of interest just do an automated search for any keyword The information you re looking for will a
107. irectory That means all your MEMO TXT files unless you otherwise designate are auto matically saved to your _DAT direc tory Similarly your PHONE and APPT files will be found in this subdirectory If you had a RAM card you could choose to store 1 2 3 MEMO APPT or your PHONE files on to the A drive The PATH Suppose we saved a MEMO file and gave it the name NOTES It turns out that although we just gave it the name NOTES the real name of the file is C _DAT INOTES TXT This gives you complete information about the name of the file and its path where you ll find the file stored In other words the whole file name of any given file consists of the 8 char acter name you gave it plus its 3 character extension TXT in the case of MEMO files plus its loca tion or path The path describes how you would get from the main or root di rectory to the file The main or root directory of a disk is designated with a backslash symbol There fore the main or root C drive direc tory is designated as C and the A drive root directory is designated as A Sometimes DOS lets you abbre viate So at times you could desig nate the root C drive as simply C and the root drive as simply A but until you understand how to use these abbreviations it is much safer to use the actual names A or C when referring to a directory The path traversed to get to NOTES TXT is C _DAT Root Directory _DAT
108. is because he saw Phone Book as a generic data base program not a single purpose telephone directory I was really pleased with the preview copy I received of the Sub scribers Disk I think you will find it interesting and educational Ed Keefe s Menu95 program itself is worth the price of admission From me that is quite a complement I generally don t like menu programs but this really simplifies the process of accessing DOS programs on the 95LX Now if Ed will just create a companion menu program to load EXM programs I ll be satisfied for a while This is something really needed I can remember only so many hot keys and a decent menu program might be a way around the limitations of APNAME LST See page 8 this issue for a review of SWITCH Editor Prices Torrance CA Lower MEMORY CARDS Ima Su lies Express ging an wear Lithium Batteries I installed a pair of lithium batter ies in my 95LX on April 9 I re placed them 18 gruelling days later Almost every day I checked the fuel gage and never saw a reading of less than 100 I wondered if these batteries would last forever they didn t On day 18 they went down like a one egg pudding Editor s Note Other 95LX users have report ed that the Lithium batteries drop very rapidly at the end Since the time I used the lith ium batteries was punishing I can confidently say they will last two to three times as long as regular alka
109. ish to find all appoint ments relating to Victor press FIND type in vm and press use the Note F6 fea ture to provide further details on the item have found that this approach eliminates the need to use the in built priority system to track to do s Vincent Vanderpool Wallace Nassau BAHAMAS iS Lotus CHANGE 1 2 3 DEFAULT DIRECTORY To stop those built in Lotus spread sheets from showing up every time you are in Lotus 1 2 3 move your spreadsheets to the C _DAT subdi rectory Then go into Lotus and issue the following keystrokes to change the default directory for Lotus files Press Work sheet Global Default Directory Type in _dat and press Quit From then on Lotus will only see the files in the C _DAT subdi rectory that have WK1 extensions Robert S Williams MD CompuServe ID 76167 2773 Battery WHAT RAM CARDS DRAW FROM THE MAIN BATTERIES recently examined a number of RAM cards to see the amount of current being drawn from the 95 LX s main batteries Data was taken in 3 modes Off Lite sleep and during a file copy from C to A A large file was used to allow the ammeter measuring device to stabilize The 95LX does not power the RAM cards when it is off The other data showed that the three different cards were very similar and only had a small effect on battery con sumption in the 95LX Power Consumption Comparisons all measurements in milliamps Card Off Lite File
110. ithful ly adhering to a regimen of swap ping batteries at 2 3v you can safe ly use them The new high capacity NiCds such as the Gates batteries marketed by Millennium tested to 12 hours of useful life on the 95LX The hottest rechargeable tech 14 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 nology on the market is nickel metal hydride These batteries are rated at almost twice the capacity of NiCds 1100 milliamps hours and a 0 1 volt higher average operating voltage Unfortunately NMHs also have a very steep fall off rate below 2 3 volts They did yield 21 hours of average life which provides a good compromise since they can be charged 500 times Even though they have a high initial price of 18 per pair that translates into 0 2 cents per hour compared to 3 cents per hour for alkalines Battery Test Results The following chart represents a summary of my findings Capacity is rated by the manufacturer in milliamp hours mhr A rating of 2200 mhr means that a device oper ating on an average of 2200 milli amps would deplete the batteries in one hour Unfortunately as mentioned earlier most manufacturers consid er batteries dead at a lower volt age than the 2 0 volts the 95LX s IntelliLink Not Just File Transfer Data Translation amp Reconciliation Windows 3 x 99 95 HP Connectivity DOS Pack Add In 69 95 99 95 Sidekick 2 0 Word Perfect Office dBase Paradox Calendar Creator ACT
111. kept a backup of this information Then on the last day of the semester just as I was about to enter the last set of grades I turned on my 95LX and was greeted with the following message CARD BATTERY LOW That was hard to believe After all the battery was supposed to last for a year I ran the BATTCK COM program available on the Subscrib ers Disk and sure enough the voltage on the RAM card showed 0 7 volts I ran DOS ChkDsk utility on the RAM card type chkdsk a from the DOS prompt and press ENTER The disk seemed to be working fine I turned the 95LX off and went to class Before going across town to get a new card battery I took the extra precaution of turning the 95LX on and backing up all my files to a micro disk The Card Battery Low message did not appear this time and the backup proceeded normally I was able to find a replacement battery and a clerk with long hard fingernails Together we were able to extract the old battery and re place it with a fresh one Once the new card battery was installed I ran BATTCK and found that the RAM card was now operat ing at full voltage I started to run my 1 2 3 Automated Gradebook Program and the gotcha struck JULY AUGUST 1992 Lotus reported that there was some data missing from its files I pressed ESC to override the error message and saw an empty gradebook I ran chkdsk a again and was presented with a series of messages telling me that ever
112. l system crashes before you get the hang of this feature In addition to DOS the HP 95LX has another operating envi ronment SYSMGR Swift BASIC handles calls to this operating envi ronment as adroitly as it handles calls to DOS and the BIOS Howev er the same admonition applies you ve got to know exactly what you re doing You must also have the HP Independent System Devel opers Manual to incorporate such features as clipboard and menu in your programs See sidebar page 43 of the Fall 91 issue for more information For really experienced BASIC programmers there s nothing like the thrill of POKE ing hex numbers into memory This is the way to get the computer to sing and dance or crash and burn quickly Swift BASIC provides this capability as well It is one of the more dangerous capabilities of any BASIC interpret er and should only be used if you ve backed up everything in sight Who is Swift BASIC For Swift BASIC appears to be aimed at two categories of HP 95LX users It is designed first and foremost for the casual programmer This might be someone who has pro grammed in BASIC in the past someone who has a desire to write one or more programs for the HP 95LX but who doesn t have the time to learn C or assembler If you fit into this category JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 33 COLUMN Programmer s Corner Swift BASIC will let you write pro grams for your 95LX using onl
113. ld be reliably repeated with the various battery types Since the low battery warning appears at 2 0v this voltage repre sents the end of the useful life of batteries on the 95LX This is a significantly higher value than is commonly used in the battery in dustry for comparison testing therefore some of the battery life estimates you ll see are not always relevant to the 95LX An example will help clarify this A typical 1 5v alkaline battery is rated at 2200 milliamps hours This means that if you were to run a 3 0v device that consumed 2200 milliamps it would run for an hour before the two batteries it required would be considered dead Using our average consumption figure for the 3 0 volt 95LX of 50 milliamps this means that the Palmtop would run for 44 hours on a pair of 2200 ma batteries Unfortunately most battery companies consider a pair of batteries dead at approximately 1 4v instead of the 2 0v used by HP In my tests this decreases the bat tery life estimate of a pair of 2200 ma batteries to approximately 30 hours at the 50 milliamps rate Alkaline and Lithium Batteries Given this baseline let us look at the various battery types The alka line and lithium are non recharge able while nickel cadmium NiCd and nickel metal hydride NMH are rechargeable Another important distinction is that the alkalines and lithiums are 1 5v batteries while the NiCds and NMHs are only 1 2 volts This latter fi
114. le backer uppers are usu ally people who understand comput ers very well or who have suffered a great loss The good news is you can easily protect yourself from being in this unenviable situation by backing up your data HP provides two ways to back up the HP 95LX the Connectivity Pack and RAM cards Each method has its advantages The Connectivity Pack Using the Connectivity Pack is an inexpensive way to back up an un limited amount of data The Con nectivity Pack includes an RS 232 serial cable an adapter and floppy disks The software included is for your desktop PC It duplicates the FILER and PIM software found on the HP 95LX After you install the Connectivity Pack it is quick and easy to transfer files between your desktop and the 95LX A common way to copy files from the HP 95LX to a desktop PC is to move the highlight bar to the remote side of the display highlight the file you want to copy or tag several files you want to copy and press F2 COPY Once the files have been copied to your desktop PC you can trans fer them to floppy disks More expe rienced users can copy files directly from the HP 95LX to a floppy auto matically by using DOS Connect and a batch file on the PC RAM Cards A RAM card is the quickest most portable way to back up data You simply insert a formatted RAM card in the 95LX and copy highlighted or tagged files to the a drive There are additional ways you can use thir
115. liant with 9SLX built in applications Lotus 1 2 3 interface Available Now TO ORDER or for more information contact C M Software Business Unit 1 33 Sandford Road Littlemore Oxford OX4 4XT U K Tel 44 865 748875 Fax 44 865 748873 Also when faced with several slightly abnormal lab values on a single patient it s helpful to be able to flip from one laundry list to another looking for some disease common to the abnormal lab values I have more than once caught a diagnosis early this way even be fore the classical serum abnormali ties and symptomatology emerged It works a lot faster than my memo ry too Finally there are times when you have a patient who is not re sponding to treatment With the push of a few buttons you can have a short list of other possibilities When using this scheme the quickest way to look up information on a particular lab test is to type in the first three letters of the lab test name The cursor will automatically jump to that section of the lab name list Then I just press twice and use the cursor arrow keys to move the highlight bar to the lab test of interest Then I press for the full display of possible caus es If I want to view the next full display without returning to the index I just press the Page Down key press lt Shits lt Down gt SMA 6 Plot over 7 days Value 16 Jul 2 Jun 18 Jun 16 Jun 21 Jun 19 Jun 17 Jun 0 Na
116. luding WordPerfect Quick en Foxbase Plus PFS Professional Write dBASE III Plus DAC Easy Light Grandview PC Anywhere Microsoft Works Turbo Pascal MCI Mail ACT HP version pop up Memory Mate and more Users are required to send their original disk to Palmtop Resources and the program is customized and placed on a RAM card One Time Programmable ROM card Flash card or a floppy disk with instructions on copying the program to the internal RAM disk or memory card Many older versions of popular software work better on the 95LX Palmtop Resources works with a deal er of pre owned older versions of many software programs If the pro gram you want is not available call us and we will try to locate it for you The price of the service varies but listed below are the base prices Customizing DOS program 159 00 returned on floppy disk Customized DOS program With ater oo Siys es craw yrste 199 00 pop up and or 80 x 25 driver 1MB OTP Program Card 195 00 Allows loading up to 1MB program ROM 1MB Flash Card 349 00 Pricing and availability subject to change without notice probably lower Palmtop Resources is also a dealer of floppy disk drives Memory Flash card drives serial printers fax modems software and books CONTACT Palmtop Resources 5910 North Central Expwy 1000 Dallas Texas 75206 USA Phone 214 891 2218 Publish Card This service is ava
117. ly it is available directly from the author CONTACT Jeffrey Mattox P O Box 45282 Madison WI 53744 5282 USA SWITCH A utility that makes it easier to run system compliant and DOS programs on your 95LX set up system options and get system information By Larry Lefkowitz SWITCH is a utility program that introduces a new level of flexibility and ease of use to the HP 95LX How can SWITCH make working with your HP 95LX easier A short background will clarify this System Manager When you purchase an HP 95LX you receive a suite of built in appli cations and System Manager the glue that ties them together Sys tem Manager allows the built in applications to be open at the same time and enables you to switch ef fortlessly between them This makes using the built in applications very convenient but it also presents challenges to users in three areas CHALLENGE 1 Running System Manager Compliant Programs A programmer can create custom System Manager compliant pro grams that work in concert with the built in applications Just like the built in programs these custom System Manager programs are run by pressing a hot key and can switch back and forth with the built in programs Several of these programs are available on CompuServe s new HP Handhelds forum library 7 Type go hphand Two examples are 8 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 WEEKABK EXM E gives a weekly
118. n If this is so add a label identifier at the beginning of the equation to turn it back into a label Finish naming ranges and re edit the formula If you are still having difficulty make sure the equation is valid in Lotus For example HP CALC al lows extra spaces between operators 3 4 but 1 2 3 does not If an equation starts with a variable e g FEET put a plus sign in front of the variable FEET Using the 95LX to Develop Lotus Spreadsheets for My Desktop PC Now that I ve had my 95LX for over a year I find that I m using it dif ferently than how I had initially expected to do Originally I thought I d download to the 95LX spread sheets developed on my desktop PC Now I find that I m using the 95LX as scratch pad to develop spread sheets for the bigger computer This is one of the more interesting fea tures of hardware software develop ment the actual use of the product is often different from the planned use There is absolutely nothing wrong with this in fact sophisticat ed users are always finding differ ent ways to use their machines Subscribers Disk The 1992 The HP Palmtop Paper Subscribers Disk contains some excellent examples of how the 95 LX s features and programs can be combined in extraordinary ways One of the most interesting of these developed by Ed Keefe uses the Phone Book program to implement a pop up help function for HP CALC s Solver Ed was able to do th
119. n this palmtop Swift BASIC takes full advan tage of the HP 95LX s graphics and sound capabilities It also uses the serial printer port for the LPRINT command If you try GWBASIC or QuickBASIC on the 95LX to do graphics sound or printing you ll lock up the computer very quickly The down side to using a lot of graphics in a Swift BASIC program is that the program will run slowly But this is true of most forms of BASIC and is not peculiar to Swift BASIC In a Class by Itself The one feature that puts Swift BASIC in a class by itself is its ability to create system compliant programs automagically Once you ve written and saved a Swift BASIC program you merely press ALT MENU to save the pro gram as an EXM file On the disk will be a program that you can add to your APNAME LST file Once you reset the 95LX you can press the hot key and watch your program pop up on top of the other built in applications What could be simpler The user s manual states that this whole process is automagic I believe it However not everything is magic You won t find a simple command to help you design func tion key menus such as those used in SOLVE or PhoneBook Similarly there s no simple command that will let you add a clipboard feature to your program You ll have to write these yourself Swift BASIC s Integrated Development Environment Swift BASIC comes with its own menu system and its editor and de
120. neers worked together to reduce the num ber of integrated chips used to con trol the Kittyhawk to just seven A typical 1 8 disk drive has 20 to 30 chips The reduced number of chips created a less expensive module that was lighter 1 oz or 28 grams and used less power than conven tional 2 5 and 1 8 drives Citizen Watch Company was chosen as a partner because of their experience in manufacturing disk drives and very small high quality watches Citizen has the technology to drive screws you can t even see with the naked eye and this minia turization capability was needed with the Kittyhawk The HP Kittyhawk PSM is housed in a rugged package measur ing 0 4 x 2 x 1 44 inches It is less than one half the size of 1 8 disk drive The PSM s rugged design modeled after the HP 95LX can withstand an operating shock of 10 times that of the larger disk drives HP developed a technology that acts much like an air bag collision sen 20 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 sor on an automobile It detects impending impact and causes the drive to revert instantly to a mode that protects against data loss This technology increases the impact the HP Kittyhawk PSM can take while in operation The Kittyhawk PSM was de signed to provide a minimum of 5 years of operation in the harshest climate The storage device offers 21 4 MB of storage with an 18 milli second average seek time and sup ports active idle standby an
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122. nontoxic to our environment NMH batteries can be recharged over 1 000 times and provide up to 80 of an alkaline s capacity on every charge With ACE s BATTman battery management software a pair NMH batteries provides you with years of use on your 95LX Availability 555 35 48 chat ad Re wae a Pricing pair lt aaow ad 1 1 me oan ed 18 CONTACT ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zanker Road San Jose CA 95134 USA Phone 800 825 9977 or 408 428 9722 Fax 408 428 9721 Memory Cards __ Dual Battery Memory Cards SRAM memory cards for the HP 95LX manufactured by Magic RAM Cards come with dual battery protection preventing loss of data during replace ment of the primary battery In a one battery card system in correctly inserted or defective batter ies can cause the loss of data This dual battery card system allows checking of the new battery without fear of data loss Available in 256K 512K and 1MB capacity Availability 2 352 058 pag se dis a bes NOW Pritme foe acdodeb aac Call for price CONTACT Magic RAM 1850 Beverly Blvd Los Angeles CA 90057 USA Phone 213 413 9999 Fax 213 413 0828 DoubleCard RAM Memory Cards DoubleCard memory cards use a built in Stacker LZS data compression algorithm to provide users twice the The desktop ThinCardDRIVE transfers data effortlessly between Palmptops and MS DOS or MS Windows PCs Plugs right into the printer port Pass thru feature retains printer op
123. notebook or palmtop personal computers located within an EMBARC service region To receive messages on your HP 95LX you will need the EMBARC subscription package which includes a Motorola NewsStream receiver HP s Mobile Data Link cradle HP F1006A EMBARC software on RAM card an EMBARC User s Manual and a cable In addition you will need the basic EMBARC subscription which costs 15 per month This allows you to receive unlimited E mail Usage fees for sending messages are billed on a monthly basis and vary depend ing on number of messages you send priority and length of message num ber of receivers message sent to and requested geographic coverage As an example a 300 word message sent nation wide in the USA within 3 hours would cost approx 2 00 Infor mation Services may be added to the basic service at fixed monthly rates EMBARC is available in over 70 market areas including most major cities and metropolitan areas in the United States Available vit ea DL bakin Fall 92 Pricing Basic package 458 CONTACT For more information contact Brad Davis Strategic Marketing Manager EMBARC Motorola 1500 N W 22nd Street Boynton Beach FL 33426 U S A 407 364 2000 Fax 407 364 3683 Palmtop Resources Palmtop Resources provides a service to convert standard DOS applications to run on the HP 95LX and has achieved varying levels of success with close to 100 of the top DOS pro grams inc
124. nt You could name each file with the patient s initials so you can find it again in the future You can use the template over and over again each time you get a new patient Each day you should enter a new column in the spreadsheet This is done using the menus in the spreadsheet and automatically time and date stamps the new column DRUGINTR WK1 This spreadsheet allows you to enter a list of up to 20 drug names and then search for matches in a database of 812 different known drug interactions It is handy to do a quick check The search is case insensitive so capitalization of words won t upset it The program will automatically shuffle your list into all possible combinations of two drug pairs The database contains the generic and the single most popular trade name of each drug DRIPS WK1 Yet another spreadsheet This one lets you determine the drip rate in cc hour for a given dose in mg min of a variety of cardioactive drugs Just use the arrow keys to steer through the columns and rows It is very easy to USE LABUSA PBK and LABUK PBK These are files to be loaded into the Phone Book application They give you the handy lab reference that men tioned in the article The USA version contains over 100 common lab studies H amp PTEMPL TXT Here is the History and physical form use to do my initial patient work up To Print a nice 1 5 page summary just set the wrap to 80 columns and then print it after loading the document into MEMO It is p
125. nto my PHONE file I may get nice outputs with the names on the first line addresses on the second line postal code and country on the next lines Any of your readers succeed with this A shareware program called PRT95 E by Todd Cary does a nice job print ing the PHONE book out in a variety of formats Hal 3 Is it possible to add some functions such as line de lete to MEMO Use User Defined Func tion Keys see reference in User s Guide or the UMA program reviewed in this issue to extend MEMO s capabilities Hal 4 When I run PC version of Lotus date or file name information is seen on bot tom left of the screen How ever this is not the case with the 95LX version Can I make use of this ability on the 95LX Don t think that is pos sible One of the sacrifices of a smaller screen Hal 5 How can I assign LICS characters to the keyboard without using Alt decimal value For example I want to assign Turkish O to the O key of my 95LX so that when I press O I get O Also how can I create the Turkish characters G I 1 S and s on my 95LX Ahmet G Oezisik Istanbul Turkey Maybe other readers can help Hal Continued on page 37 Gi On The HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Jul Aug 92 SAVE DATA SAVE SAVE EARTH Introducing BATIman Battery Management Software and Nickel Hydride rechargeable batteries for your HP9SLX Features ex Turns off HP9SLX
126. o IL Sept 2 New York NY Sept 16 Dallas TX Classes 9am Spm Sept 21 San Francisco CA Tuition per student per day 295 AmEx MC Call for additional dates or Custom Group Sessions Computer Instructors Company 202 829 4444 202 722 5195 Fax 800 487 5040 JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 9 REVIEWS Useful Software w Change the default directory for the built in MEMO PHONE and APPT programs Now you can choose which directory these applications will initially search for files in This is most useful in the MEMO program Many 95LX users have requested an easy way to do this View voltage level of the main and backup batteries Turn the serial port on off Set the alarm sound level Set the serial port to wired or infrared m View free system memory with or without SWITCH loaded View the free disk space avail able on both the A and C drives Allows you to erase the HP 95LX password even if you don t know what it is When operating on batteries the 95LX turns itself off after 3 minutes newer units SWITCH lets you specify the length of time from 0 to 60 minutes Turn on off cursor tracking and alt key scrolling when DOS applications run 6 SWITCH comes with an updat ed version of SYSMGR EXE original ly included in the 1992 Subscribers Disk This version of SYSMGR is almost worth the price of SWITCH by itself With SYSMGR installed the user can run any DOS program f
127. onversion factors into the cur rency conversion menu of HP CALC From HP CALC press MENU Conv Currency Then press F2 to Edit the list and F10 for More You can add up to 5 more conversion factors to the list If you still want to add more conversion factors you can replace some of the existing ones that you don t use e g Peseta Yen etc Editor s Example like to be able to convert the number of words in a submitted article to the number of formatted pages the article will take up in The HP Palm top Paper This lets me keep a run ning count of how much material we have for each issue The normal 3 column layout for the majority of the newsletter has an average of 850 words per page The 4 column layout for the Letters and Quick Tips sections have an average of 1 170 words per page have added the following three conversions to my Currency Conversion screen Pages RATE 1 00 3 Column RATE 850 00 4 Column RATE 1170 00 When get an article use my word processor to do a word count and enter the number of words in the 3 or 4 column items to see how many pages have Some meaningless conver sions take place with this arrange ment 850 words equals one page but according to the conversion table it also equals 2 45 US Rich Hermann Schmitt Winnweiler GERMANY EJ Misc INTERNATIONAL 95LX EASIER TO GENERATE SPECIAL CHARACTERS like the international version of the HP 95LX
128. ood intake throughout the day numerically or graphically and compare it to dietary goals created specifically for you The user friendly software also enables you to print reports for a permanent record of your progress 4 Give your body what it needs to operate at peak Call for a free demo video today F Z efficiency Available September 1 1992 3 S 18 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 800 732 7707 or 719 598 5276 MIRIC amp L CORPORATION X NEWS FROM HP HP News HP Tech Support gives you some tips on backing up your files We take a look at HP s new 1 3 inch 20MB hard drive it s sure to set standards for size power con sumption and economy but will we see it in a 95LX any time soon The new SkyStream Mobile Data Link Receiver is shipping And you can win a FREE RAM Card by telling HP your story By HP Palmtop Support From the Factory Backing Up Your Files An Insurance Policy In technical support our least fa vorite calls are from customers who have lost data It doesn t happen often but on any product that has memory it s possible to lose your data And if it does happen it can be devastating The HP 95LX is a PC and all PCs are subject to crashes power losses drops or bumps If you ve backed up your data you can take memory loss in stride maybe even congratulate yourself on being well prepared We ve all lost data The most diligent fi
129. or copied material or until you reboot the 95LX press CTAL ALT DEL To retrieve that buffer of text simply move the cursor to where you want to put that information contained in the buffer and press F4 to PASTE it back into the document As long as you do not quit MEMO or cut or copy again that same text remains in the buffer That means you can press F4 to PASTE the contents of the buffer into the current file into another MEMO file or in a new MEMO file You can paste the contents of the buffer as many times as you wish by pressing F4 again and again win pe tgs 1ST BSE J MECEE S CER POTUIT pon the MEMO LL can JAE the toT ang PASTE fun tions ee aie ae a Brit in applic ation to ae ay how T 1 oa E e the CUT and FAS TE maene pats Wis 3 AER Memo TEST txt FF a cum AS es ee a slicati lon of he you can use the CUT and kre a his is a aii pipet for the MEMO built in how how Cutting and pasting in MEMO JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 45 444 QUICK TIPS 444 Appt FINDING APPOINTMENTS QUICKLY This technique lets me quickly find APPT items relating to a specific individual Whenever enter an appointment end it with a fol lowed by the initials of the individual the appointment relates to For example if had to review a mar keting plan with Victor Matkins might enter the following Review Marketing Plan vm Whenever w
130. ore Useful Notes UNO addresses the need of 95LX users to easily store and retrieve information UNO is a free form database That means you put whatever information you like in computerized post it like notes A file created in UNO consists of a pile of these notes You can link these notes and access what information you need Finally there s Useful Macros UMA Suppose you feel limited by the HP user defined function key macro capability This capability is good as far as it goes However suppose you would like a user de fined function key to move you from one of the built in applications to a DOS program or for another to work in a DOS program or for another to take you from a DOS program back to say MEMO Suppose you need more than 10 keys defined and want to use different key stroke combinations like AU P for the macro key Suppose you would like the macro to pause to let you type in some information and then con tinue when you tell it to The solu tion is UMA a powerful easy to use macro program for the diminutive 95LX keyboard UMA lets users avoid typing repetitive key strokes All four programs are inexpen sive The real price must be mea sured in terms of the amount of system resources used UMA UNO and 95Buddy normally stay resident in the background That means in order to run these programs you will have to increase System RAM from SET UP Uno demands almost 100K whereas UMA needs roughly
131. orgiving of errors it became the favorite computing language at many universities I got my first taste of BASIC in 1968 The experience of interacting with a computer was so addictive that I actually dropped a graduate physics course so I could spend time on an old teletype machine learning this great new way to program With the arrival of microcom puters BASIC became popular with hobbyists and professionals alike Many people had their first taste of programming with Apple BASIC MBASIC on CP M computers or later BASICA on an IBM PC or GWBASIC on an IBM clone Along the way however BASIC got a bad reputation Since BASIC programs could be written and test ed one line at a time they tended to be written in a haphazard fashion Programmers didn t have to think a program through They could start throwing BASIC code at their com puter If the code didn t work they could erase it or use a GOTO com mand to jump over the faulty code Programs might work once and then crash for no apparent reason Try ing to fix such programs was nigh unto impossible Many programmers switched to Pascal or C to insure better program design Programs written in these structured languages ran faster and were easier to maintain However the authors of BASIC couldn t let their language die Pro fessors Kemeny and Kurtz the original authors of BASIC com pletely rewrote the language and called it True BASIC Microsoft final
132. orum just for HP palmtop and handheld users There has been so much 95LX activity on CompuServe that HPSYS was bursting at the seams The new HP Handhelds Forum which opened in early July gives HP handheld users some elbow room To enter the new forum type GO HPHAND New Forum Sections for the HP 95LX CompuServe still has a general 95LX section and a separate section for programmers but now its added three other sections The first is for new users CompuServe members new to the 95LX were getting overwhelmed by the number and complexity of mes sages posted in the old section When you re new and trying to figure out how to set up a repeating appointment all those messages about modifying APNAME LST and creating loaders can be daunting The new user s section is set aside for those who are just getting their feet wet The accompanying library will have only those files that forum members think will help new users get up to speed quickly and easily The second new section focuses on data communications issues Based on current forum traffic datacomm is a hot topic FAX mo dems cellular modems the Moto rola NewsStream pager GE Mobi dem and packet radio are all being used with the 95LX This section will support the 95LX s use with these devices as well as more basic modem and PC to 95LX communica tions The third new section is for 3rd party products Any company that sells products for HP handhelds and w
133. ow key to move the cursor to Percent of total the last me on the screen Type in 100 20 and press ENTER Percent of total find 80 of the marked price to determine the sale command or the will now 80 You want to price Move the cursor two lines up to Total amount Type in the total say 97 dollars and Now simply press F8 PART and press you ll see that the part of the total the actual sale price is 77 60 Try another item Say the original price is 52 95 Type 52 95 in at the Total amount line and again press F8 You ll see the new total 42 36 If you don t have two decimal points showing press Options Format Fix 2 Business Percentaces OLD 250 0 sis ji Sm a ET cup TOTAL FA TOTAL Figuring a discount in HP Calc M Phone KEY WORD IN ADDRESS AREA HELPS FIND INFORMATION When entering new names and addresses in your Phone Book be sure to include a key word or two in the address area This is an especially good idea if you feel you might forget the name of the person or company For example su you were shopping for a new automobile You could enter the contact and his phone number and company and put the word CAR in the address field Edit card 67 67 92 12 22 Enter the name eS Hames Number Address CAR Put key word in Phone address area Similarly suppose you did a lot of business with Hewlett Packard Eve
134. per ON DISK July August 1992 by calling 503 757 2004 a FREE AUTOMATED SUPPORT is Product Function Type o red anonra a ence ang G09 COMMOZIP Application latest PC version of this Shareware a 6 M l Sn small robust communica Ps dias vad ete Latinos aretherena COMMO0 ZIP Application Latest 95LX version of COMMO Shareware 6 months of unlimited support Call FREYJA ZIP Application UNIX based EMACS type editor for the 95LX Free 800 443 1254 with 650K of C source code and tools a e200 NUMBER SUPPORT available KERM2 ZIP Application Comm program with VT 102 emulation Shareware ay as you go basis first minute BACKUP ZIP Batch Files Backup routines i Free Fea s 9 2 00 per minute thereafter Call SOLVERS ZIP HP CALC Files Solver equations Shareware 900 288 0025 MEDSTF ZIP Spreadsheets and PhoneBook Medical related Free PONIES ZIP spreadsheet Thoroughbred handicapping Shareware PTR95 ZIP 95BUDDY ZIP The HP Palmtop Paper js not staffed HP Palmtop Paper is not staffed Utility Prints out Phone Book in variety of formats Shareware to ur uestions LDRMKR ZIP Roden ee ean r ae deni SIT REA STS a Utility Fixes problems adds useful functions Shareware Utility Run EXE COM or BAT files without Shareware ing your panien we may publish and closing built in applications respond to it Utility decompresses ZIP files Free Text latest HP 95LX CompuServe library files listing Free Text latest library listing for programmer s se
135. plied Speed Factors Components CPR PSA FHA amp Tech Hackers Inc 50 Broad Street New York NY 10004 212 344 9500 HP and Lotus Should Publish 95LX Specs I wish HP and Lotus could be a bit more responsive to the specific requests and feedback of end users I would like to see more coor dinated efforts between HP and Lotus to support their proprietary command inter preter system SYSMGR I don t have any scoop on either company I am just a regular user who needs a good sysmgr compliant Editor and can t get no satisfaction Programmers can t get the info they need from Lotus and users get caught in a run around be tween Lotus and HP R Williams MD The reason why there are few System Manager appli cations available is the lack of support that HP and Lotus has shown to SYS MGR since the 95 came out I thought HP and Lotus would push developers to create system compliant programs by giving them whatever tools needed to make it happen The 95LX is so similar to the HP 110 in terms of concept hardware and now support that it scares me Bob Berardino Materials Engineer I have run into a stone wall trying to get specs for the Store up to 2 MB of data on your HP95LX with High performance credit card sized Static RAM IC cards available from 64KB to 2 MB Call or FAX ADTLION CORPORATION 602 926 9324 FAX 602 926 9359 CARDS built in communications capabilities of the
136. ppear on your screen instantly But fast access to items of interest is only the beginning because you also get 2 Access to almost every freeware and shareware program mentioned in the printed issue That s right virtually every freeware and shareware program mentioned in each printed issue is included in the corresponding HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK along with documentation These programs are useful Many of them have been written or specially adapted just for the HP 95LX To give you an idea just how useful these programs can be we ve summarized the contents of recent issues see box at right Please note l If you decide to use a shareware program you are required to pay the shareware author his fee Fees usually range from 5 to 45 a fraction of the FREE BONUS cost of equivalent commercial programs 2 We are unable to support you in using The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK software 3 Saves you time and money Dozens of man hours go into collecting organizing modifying and documenting the programs in each HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Having the disks saves you the time and expense of doing all this work yourself 4 In depth descriptions of advertised products Each issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK also includes detailed descriptions of some of the products advertised or listed in the printed issue This helps you learn more about products of interest without having to call the manufactur
137. r while I walk through the detector Is that adequate Is any of this necessary As more people start carrying palmtops I wonder if it would be appropriate or necessary to ask store man agers to make the detectors more obvious or to put up signs to warn people about potential damage Earl Morton Colorado Springs USA I know nothing about America Online Compu Serve becomes easier if you use an automated program like MESSAGE for the HP 95LX reviewed last issue or any of the PC programs mentioned on page 28 of the Mar Apr issue although it still takes some patience I don t have any APPT sug gestions except to use User Defined Function Keys to speed up Cut and Paste operations See example 6 page 12 For years I have heard discussions about the poten tial of security devices harming data on RAM drives such as on the HP 95LX There have been all sorts of opinions However in all these years I have never heard of anyone los ing their data We ll see what response this comment evokes Despite this knowl edge I always hand my HP 95LX to the airport security guard why take chances Hal 95LX Locks Up In Lotus While Printing I was working with Lotus and decided to retrieve a file make some modifica tions and print it I pressed Print Printer Align Go While I was viewing the WAIT massage on the top right corner of the monitor the printer started to print the file After some time I realize
138. racy and unlim ited text to speech synthesis Micro Dyn II connects to the 95LX via the serial port It listens to command or data input and sends keystrokes to the 95LX and text to an on board synthesizer for audio prompting veri fication or other user specified action MicroDyn II can be battery powered or operate off a standard AC adapter Availability TAA TTo NOW Runs under SysMgr Tr EERIE na Pring ao elo o a ins0 89 5 10 ns BA ls 1 995 CONTACT Voice Dynamics Corporation 17835 Skypark Circle Suite C Irvine CA 92714 USA Phone 714 252 1211 Fax 714 261 8563 SOFTWARE l Battery Utilities BATTman Battery Management Software BATTman 1 1 is a real time battery management software for the 95LX that will safely turn off your 95LX when your batteries are low This prevents sudden data loss and allows users to use rechargeable batteries in their 95LX Rechargeable batteries Protective Cocoon for the HP95 Neoprene amp Nylon e Belt Loop Security Strap w Velcro Closure The Pouch 535 Suffolk Dr Tucson AZ 85704 1 800 727 6824 JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 39 THIRD PARTY What s New have a very sharp drop off at the end of their discharge cycle As a result the 95LX does not have enough time to provide warning for the users to save their work before valuable data is lost BATTman uses a proprietary Predictive Discharge Algorithm PDA
139. rder both Once you have decided completely fill out the coupon below and send it along with your check or money order to B B Ltd TO ORDER Fill out form detach and mail with check or money order Sorry no C 0 D s SEND FULL COUPON CUT HERE TO IBB LIMITED P O Box 568 Chappaqua N Y 10514 0568 This offer is made available by B B Ltd to owners of H P Products 1 B B Ltd is the supplier of the I D Plate and assumes all responsibility for the product NAME ADDRESS PHONE NO OR MESSAGE Please Print tot ett B ld OA ed Pah A ET Hd A A Fk Mea ony el SA a sss ot ett tothe llld l Pa EE Sa Is Wes he ee ap es rere tor Del ore i sh iad vis N Y State Residents Add Applicable Sales Tax Ww ays for Delivery For differen ional engraved plates prin information on plain white paper and attach POSTAGE amp HANDLING EA PRINT CLEARLY THE FOLLOWING IS YOUR MAILING LABEL lei TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED Name The product am personalizing Address and insuring is City State Zip R HP 1 PLEASE COMPLETE ORDER FORM We Reserve the Right to Abr Addresses PN TCADZ2003CCZZ Publisher s Message a Every month the usefulness of the HP 95LX increases To see what I mean just read the lead story about four software packages check out the User to User column about hardware advances see this issue s New Products listing and study the advertisements We re all in for atreat these coming months
140. re formatted for neat results Each time you save an edited version rename it to the patient s name for later reference LABREAD ME This is the documentation for the collection A simple text file for reference Please read it MED EQN HP CALC equation file containing about 25 medical formulas used in a clinical setting Robert S Williams M D EB Available on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Jul Aug 92 Also available in Library 7 of the CompuServe HP Handhelds forum and Library 12 of the MEDSIG forum JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 17 User Profiles estimate body surface area by typ ing in height and weight Gestation al age and due date for deliveries can be rapidly calculated The last variable will be calculated for me by the Solver All formulas are saved in a file for future reference at the touch of a button Datacomm to Link with the Office No matter where I am as long as I am near a telephone I can get data and exchange files with my office I purchased a cheap pocket modem and use it with the 95LX to dial up my office computer and send or receive files over the phone lines This lets me get my office work done whether I m waiting around for a lab test or for Admissions to finish their registration procedures I go to the nearest phone plug in my modem and link up with the office computer Then I can send or receive any files I like without wasting any time In The Operating Room I have used
141. rom FILER without having to quit the other built in applications More About SWITCH SWITCH is distributed on a floppy disk and you will need access to a desktop or laptop PC to install the program on your HP 95LX You will also need a cable to connect your PC to the HP 95LX The cable that comes with the HP Connectivity Pack is the one most people will have The installation program provided with SWITCH makes it easy to get going with simple on screen instructions SWITCH re quires that you have a RAM card installed on your HP 95LX SWITCH is the first major pro gram written in Swift Basic a ver sion of the Basic programming lan guage designed specifically for the 95LX Programs written in Swift Basic require the presence of the Swift Basic run time module which takes up 40k of disk space The SWITCH program itself takes up about 23k for a total of 63k This may seem like a lot of space for a utility program but it must be kept in perspective I have been able to replace several other menu and utility programs from my 95 and replace them with one program I deal with one interface and gain valuable capabilities that I didn t have before The only other down side is that SWITCH takes a few seconds to load and a few seconds to find and list all DOS programs Overall SWITCH garners high marks in installation ease of use and features SWITCH was authored by Palmtop Paper Editor Mark Scar dina who has crea
142. ry time you entered an HP name in your Phone Book you would be sure to include HP in the address field Now you could use either the FIND ONLY command to find instances of what your looking for If you typed HP you would find all instances of Hewlett Packard employees If you typed F7 CAR you would find the first car salesman you encountered in the data base To find the next one just press again or F5 ONLY to find all in stances of CAR ES Lotus PRESS F1 FOR HELP You should really get used to pressing FT to use the help facility built into Lotus 1 2 3 Once you have learned the Lotus basics Help will enable you to accelerate your speed of leaming Pressing F1 not only gives you immediate specific help but it also exposes you to Lotus capabilities you might not have known were there Press F1 for help Hishlioht tp ORAC ang To ex press ENTER press Betis F1 Help screen Memo Pad CUTTING AND PASTING Copying or cutting text in MEMO is easy Simply move your cursor to the point right before the beginning of the text you wish to cut or copy and press to Mark the beginning Now move the cursor down to the point right after the end of the text you wish to cut or copy When you have found that spot press F2 to COPY or to CUT the block of text The text that you just cut or copied remains in the 95LX s memory in an area called a buffer until you replace it with other cut
143. rying retail prices Radio Shack sells a pair for 4 69 CONTACT INFORMATION ACE Technologies 800 825 9977 or 408 428 9722 Fax 408 428 9721 Real Goods 800 762 7325 Fax 707 468 0301 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 15 USER PROFILES Physician Keeps On Top Of Practice With The HP 95LX This doctor uses APPT to schedule MEMO fo edit correspondence and reference patient data PHONE to keep track of lab text information Lotus to track patients in Intensive Care and HP CALC to use 25 common medical equations By Robert S Williams MD Many doctors see the general ad vantage of having a palmtop com puter but have a difficult time inte grating one into their daily activi ties It s yet another thing they have to spend time learning and the mostly general applications that come with the computer don t ap pear to be immediately useful in a clinical setting Here are some of the ways I discovered to use the 95LX s built in applications to make daily clinical practice a little easier Effortless Scheduling with APPT My secretary receptionist uses the HP Connectivity Pack software on the office PC to help me maintain an up to date schedule I enter changes in my 95LX s Appointment Book as the day progresses and set aside specific times for my personal activities Since my secretary has a copy of my APPT schedule file on the office PC she can update it at any time as people call the office to schedule
144. s FAX Modems Scanners and Wireless devices that will fit in a PCMCIA defined slot Speakers at the conference were very excited and optimistic about the future of this card based tech nology For example in the future you ll be able to take your PCMCIA card out of your Palmtop stick it in a public phone automatically dial a number which connects you to a computer and have the data you need put on that card You then can make use of the updated data in your Palmtop Or you might be able to go to an ATM machine stick in your PCMCIA card withdraw your money and have a data file updated that you can access in your Palmtop about your current balance The possibilities are really endless New Products Coming Our Way The bad news for 95LX users is that the current version of the 95LX was created before this level two stan dard was published The good news is that certain hardware manufac turers decided not to wait Fax Modem Card Fits In 95LX Card Slot Due out by the end of this summer is a fax modem card that fits into the 95LX slot This fax modem card from New Media works in conjunction with its own communications and fax software Not only will a 9600 baud fax 2400 baud modem fit in the card slot but you can order additional RAM for the card espe cially useful for downloading lots of data Stock Quotes Wherever You Go Metriplex is taking advantage of the SkyStream receiver which we re viewed as the Mo
145. s It is quicker than doing it by hand too I have just finished a third use for Lotus It is a drug interaction database that will find conflicts when I type in a list of patient med ications I have the data imported on over 810 different drug inter actions but still have the program ming and macro automation to do Using Solve in HP CALC I have a set of about 25 common medical equations for instant use with HP CALC For example I can About MEDSTF ZIP There are seven files archived in MEDSTF ZIP Each is designed to make life easier for doctors who want the power of the 95LX but don t want to spend a lot of time programming the 95LX or learning Lotus 1 2 3 LABTEMPL WKi All you have to know about Lotus is how to load the file with the 1 2 3 sequence Once loaded use the arrow keys and select the Josito you want f File Retrieve command the custom menus To enter your patient lab data highlight the word ENTER and press ENTER the cursor will pop down to the column where the data should be entered When finished entering lab values press ren graph the entered values by highlighting GRAPH and pressing ENTER This will give you another You can set of menus to yealect the study you want graphed to take you back to the menus Be sure you change the file name to something new when you exit the spreadsheet This is so you won t overwrite your empty template with the data You should keep one file for each patie
146. s Timer control for unattended operation Works with a wide variety of remote controls ACE ACE Technologies inc To Order call Toll Free 800 825 9977 myREMOTE Remote Control Software C1045 29 ACT for the Palmtop Track your contacts and clients Inte grate your sales force using ACT Beeps to remind you of calls meet ings and things to do Bring your own 95LX or try one out at the seminar purchasable after class if you desire Classes run 9 a m to 5 p m with one hour for lunch Customized training classes avail able for your company upon request See Advertising page 9 Availability Aug 24 Washington DC Sept 7 Boston MA Aug 26 Baltimore MD Sept 9 Orlando FL Aug 31 Philadelphia PA Sept 14 Chicago IL Sept 2 New York City Sept 16 Dallas TX Medium isshi o we aa eg Seminar Pricing per day 0006 295 CONTACT Computer Instructors Company Phone 800 487 5040 or 202 829 4444 Fax 202 722 5195 Upgrade Update Information Special Notices COMMO 5 3 i New Version This full featured communications program is described fully on page 24 of the Jan Feb 92 issue New features in this release in clude Ymodem Batch and Ymodem G internal protocols swapping to disk more macro control during dialing improved screens for the HP 95LX and many other new features and improvements Specify 95LX version when ordering Ayailability 5 oo 3
147. s goes on 95Buddy creates sticky CTRL and ALT keys press and let go instead of holding down just like the SHIFT key When you open CALC 95Buddy automatically selects the Math menu option and advances to the trigonometry functions You can specify other menu options as the default 95Buddy will correct some of your mistakes For example to create one of the symbols imbedded in the numeric keypad you have to press first If you accidental ly press and then one of the grey keys 95Buddy knows what you really meant to press and turns the MENU you entered into a sas 95Buddy also adds features to 1 2 3 and DATACOMM making them easier to use It also adds an option to disable the Print Screen function lt Shift gt ESC to avoid the temporary lockup when the 95LX is not connected to a printer Most options can be turned on or off with command line arguments in the CONFIG SYS making 95Bud dy even more flexible The docu mentation that comes with 95Buddy is very informative and gives some examples of how you modify 95Bud dy to work the way you want it to Order Information _ 96Buddy 36 Shareware utility that fxes some of the problems wih the 95LA and adds some useful functions The current version only works on HP 95LXs with English language displays 5Buddy is available on the HP Palm top Paper ON DISK July Aug 92 issue It is also available in Library 7 of Compu Serve s HP Handheld forum Last
148. s you may need frequently or ina hurry and 2 checked in luggage for the items that you may only need at your destination My travel kit includes the following e 2400 baud GVC Pocket Modem Homemade 9 pin to 25 pin cable for above modem RAM card for back ups modular phone jack adapter 2 from 1 a 25 foot modular phone cable phone jacks are sometimes far from the power source if JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 3 LETTERS Continued you are running on AC 8 foot extension cord Plug in adapter for the modem and an adapter for the 95LX 95LX serial cable and DB 9 male to DB 25 female pin adapter Spare batteries for the 95LX modem battery back up and the RAM card DB 9 male to DB 25 male adapter DB 9 male to DB 9 female null modem adapter Back up disks and Eric Meyer s ZIP file transfer program from the Subscribers Disk Con nectivity pack disk Swiss Army Knife for getting into places you really shouldn t A 4 pin to modular adap ter cable with alligator clips on wires attached to the base of the two wider spaced pins Use the modu lar adapter to connect to modular jacks Otherwise attach the alligator clips directly to the handset microphone spring contacts or to the phone wall jack in unfriendly hotels Solder two short lengths of hook up wire to the base of the pins marked red and green so you can still plug it into a socket if need be and atta
149. sktop PC for instant Professional Organizer has been carefully RAM cards give communication This compact palmtop designed to carry and protect your HP 95LX your palmtop docking station replaces the usual web of The Organizer has fourteen pockets for the memory and loose cables and plugs with a storing RAM cards capability of a permanent 4 pin serial program cards or credit cards a desktop PC They give connector Saves pen holder checkbook holder you the power to run battery power and a special zippered pocket additional software store entire data too Simply slide for keeping documents The bases and improve speed and your palmtop onto Pocket Professional Organizer performance Long life lithium batteries the Station95 it clips makes the portability of your palmtop protect data and will deliver the durability securely into place and ultimately convenient and reliability necessary for the most you are instantly in demanding palmtop applications Available touch with your PC DB 9 serial in 2Mb 1Mb 912K and 256K connector and AC adapter are included More portable Driveg5 sa the portable floppy disk drive for the HP 95LX provides a new method of communication and data transfer storage Read write and Store data execute applications and save money by using standard DOS format 3 1 2 diskettes 720K or 1 44Mb with your palmtop computer A single charge powers the Drive95 for up to 15 hours
150. struc tor and long time contributor to support publications for Hewlett Packard computers He is the pres ident of the FastAid Company 314 S W Logan Ankeny IA 50021 Ed s CompuServe ID is 73277 1064 El on the HP Palmtop Paper on Disk Jul Aug 92 EduCALC Your 1 connection for HP 95LX acces es EduCALC has everything you need for your HP 95LX Whether it s a double RAM card the latest software disk drive or a carrying case for your 95 you ll see it in the EduCALC catalog All products at Deep Discount Prices And in our catalog you ll see the latest from suppliers featured in The HP Palmtop Paper PACKARD S as For THE HP OSLX ee es ee NT h Oo 3 DAT Sparcom ee ene eee A Withee Ee oe oe FREE Catalog ING ACE Technologies Inc EduCALC UPS yain 27953 Cabot Rd nEXTDAY Laguna Niguel CA 92677 Nisvot eb 800 677 7001 EXT 102 AVOTS OnE qmm a 714 582 2637 SA Ronson ge FAX 714 582 1445 JULY AUGUST 1992 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 29 The Savvy User Tom talks about when not to use the 95LX describes a clever way to transfer Solver equations to Lotus and relates his experience with the new lithium batteries By Tom Page Modern technology affects the way we live our lives and sometimes results in actions that do not make a lot of sense For example many people hop into their cars and drive to the park so they can t
151. such an analysis will more than compensate for any minor discomfort you may feel One of the nice things about algebraic equations is that they can be simplified by identifying and canceling out nonessential vari ables are simplifies to 1 A short formula is better than a long one they are easier to enter into 1 2 3 or Solver equations they calculate faster and they use less memory Another event that can occur as you simplify an algebraic equation is that related terms will tend to combine 2N 3N LN combines to 1 This will help you identify key sub components of an equation Algebraic manipulation of equa tions is an essentially fractional process Computers and calculators decimalize fractions and this can hide the true relationship of num bers To understand this concept take a look at the following num bers 0 5 0 3333333 30 416666 0 03287671 The first decimal is pretty obvious 0 5 1 2 Even 0 3333333 is recog nizable as approximately 1 3 You may be saying Wait a minute what s the deal Consider the third and fourth examples What does 30 416666 and 0 03287671 repre sent In the first example the frac tion and decimal are exactly equiva lent However in the remaining examples the decimal does not express with 100 accuracy the exact fraction There is another advantage to thinking fractionally Often frac tions can be entered with many 30 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY
152. t K Cl a CO2 x BUN F Glu PHONE Lab Reference Lotus 123 for Doctors I have discovered a couple of uses for Lotus First I keep a spread sheet for each patient I have in Intensive Care The spreadsheet has places to enter all their lab test values and this allows me to follow trends in electrolytes and fluid balance A plot of selected ranges in the data can be most enlightening for planning the course of treat ment and trends developing over weeks can easily be detected and corrected before they reach critical proportions For example slow al terations in potassium levels and LVO can be easily seen when plotted as a graph yielding a better under standing of the patient s status Edit card rr 16792 10 25 pr Enter the name um Ss H J micromol Address increasedi gout renal failure leukemia anemias chemotherapy toxemia of pregnancy diureticsslactic ease parathyroid disease disease parathyroid diseases ecreased uricosuric rey salicylatesprobenecid allopurinol Wilson s 1 2 3 Lab Test The second use for Lotus is as a look up table for drip rates accord ing to dosage for a variety of cardio active drugs It is easy to make a simple mistake in arithmetic that would be trivial in another profes sions but disastrous or even fatal when you re dealing with critically ill human beings This spreadsheet allows me to be confident even at two a m that I am not making any stupid mistake
153. t ically appears on the SWITCH menu Also SWITCH has a menu selection that allows you to drop to the DOS command line without first closing the built in applications 2 SWITCH displays a menu of all the System Manager programs programs that end in EXM that reside on your A drive RAM card SWITCH can launch up to forty eight System Manager programs on your A drive Since SWITCH will not recognize or launch any System Manager programs that reside on your built in C drive all System Manager programs you want to access with SWITCH should be moved to the A drive SWITCH Menu of Programs From the displayed menu of System Manager programs you can run any of them at the press of a key Once a System Manager program is load ed by SWITCH you can normally move freely between it and the built in applications This menu selection feature of SWITCH means you DO NOT have to first create an APNAME LST file Any time you add a System Manager program to your 95LX it will immediately appear on this menu and be available to run without further action on your part 3 SWITCH allows you to EASILY assign six System Manager Compli ant programs to hot keys so they can be run at any time just like the built in applications This saves you from the arcane task of editing the APNAME LST file SWITCH creates APNAME LST for you automatically and places it on your A drive RAM card I personally love this feature because
154. t can hold all my data in one single place is that it can be pro grammed and I find that very useful I originally tried to figure out how to divide the PhoneBook infor mation among the columns in order to make proper use of LOTUS and it took me a while to realize that it s okay just to put all the data into cells Al A2 A3 in order and not to use any other cells for data Most people use Lotus 1 2 3 as a data base by allot ing 1 row of cells per record So for example you might set up your phone book as follows Column A Last name B First name C Company D Address E ZIP F Country G Codes H Comments Using the Menu Data Sort command one could sort the names by any field such as Last name ZIP Country or Codes Hal Manuel Blum U C Berkeley California USA Bouds bond nalyst options nalyst American amp European options on stocks futures com modities foreign exchange amp bonds Black Scholes amp Binomial Models Holding cost amp dividend adjustments Sensitivities Historical amp Implied Volatilities Custom Speeds Options MBS Analyze Investments on Your Palmtop with Function Add Ins for Lotus 1 2 3 US and Foreign Bonds Bills amp CD s Price Yield Duration Convexity Accrued Val32 ValBP CBOT FINEX Factors Carry Forward Tails Strips Date and After Tax Calculations MORE SIA amp AIBD Compatible Im
155. t in program easier to automate your activities UTILITIES 95BUDDY Lets you launch an application by selecting its data file in FILER change default directories and more OUTLINE PLUS Outliner and text editor LOADMAKER Run EXE COM or BAT files while in a built in application FINISH ZIP Completes word after you type first few letters ATO Automates CompuServe activities Allows you to perform functions off line saving you line charges for 259 190 Satisfaction guaranteed Should you ever become dissatisfied with The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK just let us know The unused portion of your payment will be promptly refunded TO SUBSCRIBE USE THE ENCLOSED CARD OR CALL US TOLL FREE 800 373 6114 Thaddeus Computing Inc P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 800 373 6114 515 472 6330 FAX 515 472 1879 Each 1992 subscription to The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK includes Issue 1 Fall 1991 absolutely FREE lf you have already purchased Issue 1 you may deduct 33 from the price of your 1 year or 2 year subscription Outside U S and Canada deduct 38 GAMES AG ZIP Chess and Space Invaders good graphics KLONDIKE 7 pile game of Klondike Solitaire DIVDSK Checkers Go Moku Tetris Othello Mastermind Adventure and 9 other games Enjoy Plus travel organizer language compilers screen printing utilities other games and lots more See Issue 1
156. ted several other important and popular utilities for the HP 95LX SWITCH comes with installa tion programs for Drive95 and non PC compatible computers It also supports G and H drives for DOS menus Order Information Switch 49 00 Makes it easier to set up and run system compliant and DOS programs on your 95LX CONTACT ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zanker Road Suite 103 San Jose CA 95134 USA Phone 800 825 9977 or 408 428 9722 Fax 408 428 9721 UNO Database amp This small fast freeform database lets you create notes that can be edited searched and indexed at any time whether in DOS or the built in applications By Mark Scardina While the 95LX comes with a suite of applications one that is certainly missing is a database for quick information gathering and note taking MEMO of course can be used at a minimum cost of 512 bytes per file but doing so does not give you cross file searching capabil ity Some have used the PHONE application for a structured data base but there are obvious limita tions in field size and selection For more on using PHONE as a data base see May June 92 page 36 10 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 This brings us to Useful Notes UNO a flexible database custom ized for the 95LX Description of UNO UNO is a small fast freeform data base similar in presentation to Info Select by MicroLogic Using UNO is like having a blank pad of
157. the top of the screen is displayed Press ing R for record starts the process whereby UMA memorizes the key strokes you enter First you are prompted to enter the hotkey by which you would like the macro activated You are returned to the application you were originally in and the recording of keystrokes begins Enter the keystrokes you want memorized You can enter a se quence of commands or text Press CTRL ALT M at any time to pause the recording process From pause you can restart recording or stop it completely Additional functions from the main menu include Clear Load and Save To play back your macro press the hotkey s you assigned to it Each keystroke or command you entered will be carried out starting at your current cursor position Loading UMA UMA comes in two forms UMA RES95 and UMARUN 95 The first is a TSR version always resident and the second an application launch version of the same program This gives you quite a bit of flexibil ity in using UMA I used the following strategy to maximize memory efficiency when using UMA on the 95LX In my AUTOEXEC BAT file I included a command to start the TSR version UMARES95 This command loads UMA with a specific macro file that defines all the general macros I use i e all of my cross application and 12 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 System Manager macros Be sure to use the F command line switch Then if I want to start
158. the best computer I think HP has done some nice things in the upgrade world The 512K to 1MB is one example It s not possi ble to guarantee upgrades in the high tech consumer market again my opinion It sometimes simply doesn t work financially When I buy I look at the cost benefit trade off and realize something may change after my purchase Tom Anderson Sunnyvale CA USA Excel to Lotus I use my 95LX mainly with Lotus 1 2 3 I run complex computer modeling applica tions that were originally developed under EXCEL 3 0 Windows 3 0 and convert ed to LOTUS Using SAVE AS under Excel The con verted sheets were then downloaded to my 95LX with the connectivity pack They all work without any problem under the 95LX s Lotus and they produce the same result as EXCEL Olivier SOKAL France Some Questions 1 Why is it not advisable to use rechargeable batter ies The maximum battery life for me is two weeks not two months as in the user s guide and using an adapter is limiting the portability in some cases The only reason is that the battery low mechanism is designed for alkalines Also be careful that you insert the batteries in the correct direction See battery article this issue Hal 2 Is it possible to create a user definable format for PHONE menu I tried to use my PHONE file as a data file for a BASIC pro gram but the result was annoying If I can define fields or variables i
159. to create backup copies of your files For example you could back up your phone book from the _DAT subdirectory to either the root C directory the RAM card A directory or a hard or floppy disk on your desktop computer To back it up you have to know where to find it You have to be able to tell the computer where you want to send it And you have to understand file naming conventions Even before backing up a file you must understand the necessity of saving your work to a file as discussed in these past columns Finding data FILER provides an excellent means for finding renaming and backing up files You can also use FILER s MENU Directory Create command to create new subdirectories Once created you can store files in the new subdirectory Next time we ll go more deeply into FILER s capabili ties and we ll see how to better organize and safeguard our precious data with FILER Letters continued from page 5 Using MEMO as a Phone Book My heart went out to the cop who wrote in asking how to break the 47K PhoneBook limit His expe riences were mine exactly I would never have switched from my CASIO to the 95LX if Pd known about this limit and that would have been a shame My own solution to the PhoneBook limit has since been to use MEMO instead of PHONE I would have had to break PHONE into at least 3 or 4 parts to ac commodate my info Using MEMO I only have to break it in 2 Its only d
160. torola NewsStream receiver in the Fall 1991 issue For a subscription price of 300 a month you can have instant access to stock prices wherever you are 20 MB Flash ROM Memory for the 95LX At the PCMCIA show we saw the demo of a SunDisk 20MB Flash ROM card that will work inside the 95LX card slot At the time of the show it was only possible to read information stored on the card To change data on the card you need a RAM card drive that attaches to your PC like the ones produced by Databook or Atron Since then SunDisk has appar ently developed a technology which will allow users of the 95LX to write directly to Flash ROM This is an incredible breakthrough for 95LX users It will mean that you can have 20MB worth of data on your 95LX There are some limitations which we will be discussing in fu ture issues read and write time will be slower than with a RAM card and the number of times you can write to the Flash ROM card is limited One ideal application for Flash ROM technology is databases needed by physicians lawyers sales Easy Printing From Your Palmtop The GA935 Printer Converter lets you print directly from your HP 95LX on virtually any parallel printer It uses the standard HP cable The Printer Converter is powered and totally portable Available from most HP dealers For your nearest dealer contact GREENWICH INSTRUMENTS USA Tel 704 376 1021 Fax 704 335 8707 Toll Free 1 800 476 407
161. ular DOS programs like ACT can be launched directly with a hot key without closing other HP95LX applications like memo calculator etc SWITCH lets you change your default C _DAT directory clear a forgotten password customize your HP95LX and much more In addition SWITCH comes with easy installation and installs on your HP9SLX automatically Change default directories of memo phone book etc Allows you to set auto power off timer from 0 to 60 minutes Displays digital battery levels Allows you to turn off serial port to save power And much more In addition SWITCH is a fully system manager compliant program For your nearest dealer or to order direct call 800 825 9977 NCE ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zonker Road Sulfe 103 San Jose Colifornio 95134 USA 408 428 9722 FAX 408 428 972 SWITCH 1 0 HP95LX Launcher and Control program C1055 eee 49 SWITCH is a trademark of ACE Technologies Inc Copyright 1992 ACE Technologies Inc 4 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 closure agreements and an understanding that we are talking about goals not commitments Pretty tough with consumer products Here is my own personal philosophy about buying high tech stuff and I buy more than most people I know You don t buy tech nology you rent it Your monthly rental is what you paid divided by how long you used it my personal opinion Others have said you can wait until you die to buy
162. ve eile pb aoa wie 495 CONTACT QA Systems Inc 220 East 42nd Street New York NY 1001 7 USA Phone 800 945 1717 or 212 599 1717 Fax 212 599 2614 File Compression DoubleCard 2 0 Software This software allows users of the 95LX to upgrade their RAM card to a DoubleCard providing them twice their original storage capacity QO PCMCIA Credit Card Size Format a Integrated Terminal and Facsimile Software a Compatible with CompuServe Genie Dow Jones and MCI 15375 Barranca B 101 Irvine California 92718 In addition users will also be able to double their 95LX s internal RAM disk with the unique DoubleRAM feature For example users of a 1MB 95LX with a standard 1MB RAM card will be able to store up to a total of 3MB of data on the 95LX and memory card See advertising inside front cover Availability 00000uvees NOW Medium 0 0 c ee eanaas Floppy disk Pricing Retail 5c EEEE EES E E Upgrade 5 lt 5 Fo fo eo mete e 89 If you already own an n ACE card CONTACT ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zanker Road San Jose CA 95134 USA Phone 800 825 9977 or 408 428 9722 Fax 408 428 9721 Financial Real Estate LoanSTAR This mortgage finance program for mortgage originators or real estate sales personnel sets the 95LX up to do a number of useful loan calculations LoanSTAR calculates total monthly payment and maximum allowable 40 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 a 2400 1200
163. wift BASIC programs Without it your program won t work The positive aspect is that several Swift BASIC programs can all use the same OVL file Even though there are no royal ty payments for the distribution of the SWIFT OVL file there s the hassle of designing an installation routine The installation routine will have to make sure that the SWIFT OVL file resides in the root directory of the A or C drive on the 95LX A Question of Value If you re looking for a quick way to create system compliant programs DOS Fundamentals Directories By Hal Goldstein We mentioned in the last issue that the HP 95LX is an MS DOS ma chine This means that it functions similarly to an IBM PC compatible computer in that many of the same programs will run on both ma chines and the file structure on these machines are the same This article will continue our discussion of file structure from last issue see pages 39 41 May June 92 issue Remember when you save information created using a built in 95LX application such as PHONE APPT or MEMO that infor mation is stored in files Learning how a DOS machine deals with files is really learning how to intelligent ly and efficiently store and safe guard your data The analogy we made last issue page 41 between a file cabinet and a DOS directory structure is a good one The 95LX with its built in C drive and RAM card slot is like a two drawer file cabinet in th
164. with a simple built in pro gram called SET UP that lets you change selected system settings including changing the alarm vol ume and setting the baud rate of the serial port However certain important control functions can only be accom plished from the DOS command line which is not available unless all built in applications are closed Other important settings cannot be changed at all unless you are an experienced programmer Several utility programs have been written by programmers which allow users to view and or change these system settings on the 95LX Enter SWITCH SWITCH presents a solution to the above three challenges in one pro gram It is presently the closest thing available to an all in one utility for the HP 95LX SWITCH is a System Manager program which means it is called fal On the 1992 HP Palmtop Paper Subscribers Disk up with a hotkey and you can move between it and the built in pro grams with one keystroke SWITCH has these features 1 All DOS programs stored on your HP 95LX are automatically listed on a menu up to 48 on each drive You may run any of these DOS programs without closing your built in applications first You do have to close 1 2 3 When running your DOS application takes over the HP 95LX which means you can not use the built in applications until you exit your DOS program When you copy a DOS program any file ending in EXE COM BAT to your HP 95LX it automa
165. x or call Our address is RAM Memory Cards tort Dive RAM M Momar Cards Thad el E E o a Mg psix Lotus ACT oT traning Classes Contact M t Software cc ceeeeeeee a te ane 35 PO Box 869 or 57 E Broadway aE arpaan pl ieee aot DE R 3 Fairfield IA 52556 U S A Products Advertised in The HP Palmtop Paper Product MacLink Plus 43 x ADAG neh REEERE S EAA nine naha En Fax 515 472 1879 EduCAL Accessories Catal i Phone 515 472 6330 HE S5LX and Accossoriss Nameplate for 95X Eae Er AT E EA OA EAE eeey 1 CompuServe ID AAEN SAS Hal Goldstein 75300 2443 Palmtop Database Palm Reference per con advertising sales director Pouc ing Case Brian Teitzman up any problem with your subscrip tion contact our subscription depart or 800 373 6114 Serial to Parallel converter 0 0000p cece cece eee eee eee eee dd Windows 95LX Connectivity Software ccc0ceeeeees anes 4 To advertise in The HP Palmtop Pa lirica ar een Fon Analyst Software To subscribe change address or clear ment Director Kelly Johnson RAM may za SkyTel Wireless Information Service ATGA AE RAM Memory Cards software amp hardware 24 a Investment Analysis Software ie a7 The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK Paralink 3 Serial Parallel Adapter Technical Support HP offers these options 90 DAYS FREE SUPPORT is of fered to all 95LX users and is available Software on The HP Palmtop Pa
166. y list That leaves a vacuum for smaller companies to fill and a platform for them to express their creativity The small software developer even without access to Lotus HP System Manager specifications is already coming up with many inge nious applications for the 95LX Take a look at the four products we review in our lead story and you ll see some prime examples of this Also expect to find many new hardware products supporting the 95LX Hardware development has always led software development and this is especially th case with the 95LX given its new System Manager software platform Analysts agree that the palmtop market will be huge The 95LX is the first really successful palmtop and the way third party developers contribute to and profit from this success warrants close and careful scrutiny by the computer industry How to Get the Word Out One of the challenges for developers of 95LX related products is how to reach the end user The HP Palmtop 22 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JULY AUGUST 1992 The next release which should be ready before the beginning of Au gust has several enhancements including More setup options clock display ability to send mail and binary mail to several users with only one upload multiple mails the ability when replying to a fo rum message or writing a new fo rum message to choose to post the reply either public or private or send it via E Mail return receipts for E Mail messa
167. y other file was cross linked to some other file Oh oh I tried the DOS Copy command copy nul and was immediately told Data error reading drive A Abort Retry Ignore I switched to the C drive and then tried to switch back to the A drive and was told that A was an Invalid drive designator Say what The only way to recover was to reformat the A drive and start over I thought to myself thank good ness for backups I tried to use APP95 to transfer the files from my backup disk to the A drive of the 95LX That s when the gotcha landed on me like a Sumo wrestler All of the files on the backup disk were corrupt the File Allocation Table of the disk had been blown away APP95 could not transfer the files Apparently my last backup had transferred files that were already corrupt The backup disk was cor rupted and unusable All the pro grams that I been working on for the past three months were lost Worse yet the entire semester s grades were blown away That s tantamount to a banker losing the combination to the safe After recovering from a panic attack I spent a sleepless night reconstructing all the grades I won t go into the details but it involved some tricky operations with DEBUG and the Norton utili ties and digging through printouts of midterm grades I consoled myself with the thought that I had only lost 1 44 MB of files Disastrous as that was it was better than losing 40MBs which
168. y the palmtop No other computer is need ed You ll even be able to create system compliant applications and add them to your APNAME LST file You can write quick and dirty hacks or elaborate structured pro grams take your pick The only limitation is your imagination and a 60K limit on the size of your code Swift BASIC may also prove a useful tool for professional system developers It s a great way to proto type single small applications or parts of a larger application It might be especially useful for trying out 95LX function calls to see how they will behave before implement ing them in C or assembler Since Swift BASIC is an interpreted lan guage you can go directly from coding to testing without compiling On the other hand I would not normally recommend Swift BASIC for beginning computer users For one thing the Swift BASIC manual is more of a reference booklet than a user s guide You can t use it alone to learn how to write programs in BASIC However with COLUMN Getting SY 7 Te Getting Started persistence and a good BASIC pro gramming book Swift BASIC could become your first programming lan guage If your plan is to write pro grams that may be distributed to other users you should also be aware of one of the restrictions of Swift BASIC With any program you distrib ute you ll need to include the 44K SWIFT OVL file This rather large file contains the run time library for all S
169. ystem Compliant MEMO Substitute Craig Finseth author of Subscribers Disk MEMUTIL has written a UNIX based EMACS type editor FREYJAM for the HP 95LX FREYJA is free takes about 40K contains a full slate of word processing features and works well in conjunction with the built in applications Unfortunately the user interface leaves much to be desired unless you are familiar with the editor The good news is that Craig tells me he is working on a MEMO like interface for a future update destined for the 1993 Subscribers Disk We have included with the current FREJYA version 650K worth of C source code and programming tools from Craig on this issue s Palmtop Paper On Disk Contact information Globalink SWiftiBasic Pocket Sales Force Custom Box call 800 827 8416 or 503 757 8416 fax 503 753 7 DoubleCard 821 BATTman Switch ACE tall 800 625 9977 or 408 426 Card New Media 0550 or 714 453 0100 Fax 714 459 0114 Metriplex call 617 494 9393 Stock Quotes Fax 617 494 8735 RAM Card Drives Databook call 716 889 Adtron call 602 926 9324 fax 602 926 GPS Pac Paimtree Products 617 871 7050 fax Hd ha he 8 i FRESA Jug 92 Painio Paper COLUMN Looking Glass Through The Looking Glass Ed automates file backup and restoration using ZIP COM from the 1992 Subscribers Disk and some clever batch files He also gives advice on file backup and battery replacement when you

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