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1. 6 Shareware Freeware Mentioned in This Article On the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK ais sha 95Buddy Nov Dec 92 issue cis sHR LDRMKR May Jun 92 issue IS BAT Jan Feb 93 issue IS EXM Jan Feb 93 issue On the 1992 Subscribers Disk Full featured Word Processor for HP 95LX Imports and Exports WordPerfect MSWord WordStar and standard ASCII formats Complete control of style fonts and formats Supports multiple printers and proportional fonts Complete Macro commands for customization Fully SWITCHablel with builtin applications ais Timeout 800 825 9977 ACE Technologies Inc ciS Also available in the HP Handhelds forum of CompuServe SHR SHAREWARE is software distributed free of charge for evaluation purposes only If you decide to use it you must pay the author the shareware fee This goes for any shareware found on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK or CompuServe 2880 Zoran Food Suite 103 Son Jose Coffornio 95134 U S A fastWRITE version 1 0 C1075 Deolen amp Diatributors welcome JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 37 HOW TO USE Support Answers to Most Common Questions Received by HP Technical Support Staff 1992 Mast Common Questions Once again we thank the Hewlett Packard Technical Support staff for providing us with the following information By HP Technical Support I ve turned my HP 95LX on but the screen i
2. By Larry Lefkowitz Many HP 95LX owners are success fully using the palmtop as a portable communications platform to stay in touch with their office or on line service while traveling The 95LX with a battery powered pocket mo dem is an excellent light weight alternative to a notebook system However there are several im PRES HP 95LX tips techniques and short cuts in 1 day hands on seminars HP 95LX Overview Workshop System Manager SetUp Filer DOS Appt Phone Memo Lotus HP Calc Connectivity Pack Back up amp Safety Overview of 95LX Share Software 95Buddy Switch VDE FastComm etc OTHER TOPICS AS REQUESTED Lotus 1 2 3 for the Palmtop Functions database graphics macros ACT for the HP 95LX Contact calls meetings things to do Custom Consulting amp Solutions Help with your specific objectives Bring your own 95LX or test drive one purchasable after class HP related products will be available to try out SkyTel EMBARC Drive95 RAM Cards Intro to HP 95LX Seminar Schedule Tuition 295 day For other cities or dates give us a call We can hold a class wherever we get 3 5 people Computer Instructors Company AVENIR 800 487 5040 ia _202 722 S195 Fax 14 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER portant points to consider if you want to use a portable battery operat ed modem with the 95LX What works on your PC or laptop may not work with your HP 95LX This article highlights some of these differ
3. Furet on plotting Y Sin x Res 193 How do you like that N 189 or 193 Try to plot y sqrt x sin x and see what happens when you change XMAX F6 and or FI 0 Find your own formulas For those of you interested in theory of mathematics Be cause of the wide range of the x axis values for the y axis are calculated not from one and only hill and valley as usual but are collected jumpwise from hills and valleys set widely apart but still follow ing strict mathematical rules and thus not allowing for a smooth connection of all points Hermann Schmitt Winnweiler GERMANY Linear Programming In Through the Looking Glass pages 33 35 Sep Oct 92 Ed Keefe wrote about linear programming not to be confused with computer pro gramming He mentioned the no longer available Eureka program in this regard I ve found a better solu tion for Linear Programming problems It s currently available easy to use handles up to 50 constraints and 25 variables And best of all it s free The number crunching program is called LINSOLVE E It s written by Timo Salmi who has placed it in the public domain The ver sion to look for is number 2 8 or later I found my copy of LINSOLVE on disk 1536 from the PC SIG Library Although LINSOLVE is not designed for the HP 95LX it works well on the Palmtop PC I use MEMO to create input files and examine out put files Most of the results appear i
4. Most Common Questions 38 Continuation of last issue s answers by HP Technical SUB POH to the most common questions they receive on the 95 ADVANCED TOPICS SIGMA It s a Wonderful Function 43 Solver s SIGMA function can be used to porom many complicated calculations including calculus BEGINNING TOPICS Quick Review of the Basics 47 Understand files bytes RAM disk System RAM and directories and you ll get more out of your 95LX Basic Tips ET dan ete de 53 Introducing Nominated for W IT H Product of the Year S C 8 version 2 by Palmtop Paper Multi Tasking Software for 95LX onal ch vice residint ernal Affairs Lion en your promotion AR TUM airstr ma L PRES fonat ton are ter For popularitu Ee ater clos ning y ngfinine Hi fastWRITE Word Processor with built in 100 000 fastNOTES Electronic pop up notes software word fasfSPELL checker with full searching capabilities single Key multi tasking aa Instantly switch back and forth between these programs and your SWITCHable 95LX built in applications fastCOMM Full Featiree TEENETE software up to 14 4K baud j J Fasurvts R UT L jagdial d ropan i lo Sul fastcomm H ka eid y switch i Ear el lnem ACT CONTACT SOFTWARE New Features fastLiNE ACE TECHNOLOGIES s Provides SWITCHable Environment MERETE
5. This selects the range A2 D6 for the Data Range and brings you back to the screen that says Sort Settings Now select the field you want to sort by Press Primary Key move the cursor to D1 and press ENTER Press D for descending ENTER Go The 95LX screen will look something like this Worksheet sorted by outstanding balance column D descending order We could look at the same data sorted alphabeti cally by creditor name monthly payment or day of the month due To sort by a different column select a different cell after you press Primary Key i e A1 B1 or C1 Caution Make sure you set the Data Range for all columns If you set it to one column i e D1 D6 only that column will be sorted de stroying your database In the example above the outstanding balances would be associated with the wrong creditors Use 1 2 3 and the sort feature to keep track of your music collection recipes stamp collection or any other list that you might want to sort and view from different perspectives For more on LOTUS sort see page 5 29 to 5 34 of the HP 95LX User s Guide Phone FIND THAT NAME QUICKLY You can really put your electronic HP 95LX phone book to work if you enter information with a little forethought Planning ahead will mean that you will be able to find names even those whom you forgot easily First off most people find it better to enter last name first in the PHONE Name field Even if you en
6. Cabos PSE expr evalua ed stored in the appr ale d amp the Speci of the ou Vire cell is rehuroec or neitner Saia Speci Pu reup cit Solve Help File Full Card View The information on category in the name field lets you search for and create a list of the functions in a specific category For example you can press ONLY type 123 and press to get a list of the func tions related to Lotus 123 The number field lists the com plete name of the function Notice that the more important mnemonic abbreviation is placed in the name field so that it is always visible The address lines are used to provide a description of the function Phone Call Tracker The following is based on using Phone Book along with some User Defined Keys also known as user keys or macros to create a phone call list and follow up log This idea was first brought to my attention by a detailed tip posted on Prodigy by Russ Fitzgerald Russ uses this meth od to track his call schedule The name and number fields are used normally The lines of the ad dress field contain a list of phone call dates If the date is proceeded by a character then the call has not yet been made Once a call has been made the date entry is followed by a brief record of the conversation dit card Bivb4 93 3 03 pr nier the name Hame SE paa Humber fe ae checked on status of article reo ed in Final corrections 3701793 C Call with
7. I ve been viewing the CompuServe weather maps on my 95LX You ll need two shareware programs GIFPCX ARC Ki Forum GRAPH SUP Lib Format Conversion Li brary 4 and PCXVIEW EX avai lable in HPHAND forum GIFPCX is used to convert the downloaded map in the GIF graphic format into a PCX file recognized by the 95LX PCXVIEW is used to view the PCX files on the 95LX Download the maps you wish to view from GO MAPS use option 4 into GIF files e g M1 GIF Then create the following batch file echo off for f in gif do gifpcx f rem use gifpcx f v if you want reverse video diet pcx rem Skip the DIET step if you don t run DIET as a TSR poxview mapname1 mapname2 etc This will convert all of the down loaded maps to PCX Diet the re sults and display the map M1 PCX that you downloaded as M1 GIF Each map will take 3 5 to 5K in GIF and 4 to 7K in PCX GIFPCX Diets to 20K and PCXVIEW to 5K Conversion takes 30 sec per map WARNING Executing GIFPCX will interfere with 95Buddy double click application keys will not work etc You will have to reboot after executing GIFPCX to restore 95 Buddy functions This procedure is a good one for all the pilots and others who would like to view weather maps and oth er GIF files on their 95LX Richard T Due CompuServe ID 70544 3665 TIGHTEN LOOSE HINGE ON THE 95LX As your 95LX gets older you may find that the cylindrical hinge be
8. appear Assuming that the regions will perform proportionately as well next year what profits should each region show to make the total profit equal 500 000 00 The solution to this puzzle lies in the word proportion ately To see what this means per form the following operations in 1 2 3 Begin by copying cell A10 to B10 Put the cursor on A10 and press Se ELE Lander Game Real tine Engine Status Synchronized Horzantal Velocity Screen Score Ships AR Copy ENTER move the cursor to B10 and press ENTER Also copy the formula in cell A14 to cell B14 Cell B14 will act as the Formula cell for Solver Cell B10 will act as the Solve Cell Remember it has to be a value and not a formula The rest of the data items must be formulas if this example is to work as advertised Key into B11 the formula A11 B 10 A 10 This gives us a BONUS Features Over 40 levels of play SWITCHable Score 2000 pts and receive a 10 discount Coupon on ANY ACE products SWiftHaobla To Order 800 825 9977 Lander ic2001 u 519 CE ACE Technologies lac number in B11 that is based on the value in B10 I ve rearranged the terms slightly The actual computa tions might look like 102000 150000 102000 The signs force the cell references to be absolute rather than relative When you key in the cell references just push and the signs will appear automatically Now copy this formula from cell B11
9. ratings and cautions about adult content country of origin black and white or color year made length in minutes and whether or not it s available on video Movie Guide also contains information on over 8 000 movie stars and over 4 000 awards and nomina tions including actors who have won or been nominated for an Academy Award Cannes Film Festival win ners Golden Globe winners and more Movie Guide s menus are intu itive and you can search for movies in a variety of ways For example you can locate movies by title by year by rating 1 to 4 stars director academy award winners actor and more I thought what a great use for the 95LX when I go to the video store I received a copy of Movie Guide cleared off a 1MB RAM card and put on 800K of files making up the Mov ie Guide software Using DIET from the Subscribers Disk saved me an additional 50K I tried running Mov ie Guide and found it required 512K of System RAM configurable in SET UP Press System which means Movie Guide requires a 1MB 95LX In order to run Movie Guide on the 95LX I had to free up another 80K of System RAM by disabling System Manager See DOS tip in Today s personal computers notebook pen based and palmtop depend on credit card sized RAM memory cards For these Fall 1991 issue or page 8 in the Sub scribers Disk manual for how to disable System Manager Once all those system resources are devoted to Movie Gui
10. then you need to put the SYS MGR command in AUTOEXEC BAT to launch SYSMGR Note that this is NOT an external command it s an internal command on the 95LX SYSMGR EXE by Mark Scar dina is an alternate way of getting SYSMGR running from AUTO EXEC BAT Mark has just uploaded a new version of SYSMGR ZIP EX a System Manager replacement he created This program is for those who have problems keeping their hotkeys functioning This new ver sion eliminates the need to load an extra copy of COMMAND COM saving 1700 bytes of memory It consumes zero memory once Sys tem Manager is launched saving another 900 bytes It also provides startup access to DOS eliminating the need to put a PAUSE command in your AUTOEXEC BAT file There s no trick to using CON FIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT Ted Dickens HP Forums Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 Mark Scardina CompuServe ID 76711 732 CONNECTING THE 95LX TO A MODEM OR ANOTHER PC The 95LX by itself is a DTE Data Terminal Equipment All DTE s are designed to connect to a modem a DCE or Data Communication Equipment without having to switch pin positions in the connec tion The HP cable that everyone uses switches the TD RD pins and lets the 95LX plug right into to an other DTE your desktop PC The adapter used to connect the serial cable to a modem cancels the TD RD switch done by the HP cable Stanley Dobrowski CompuServe ID 71031 2162 Shareware Freeware Mentioned
11. use the COM2 serial port To change COM ports from FILER on the PC press ALT and select from the top menu Remote Set Config Interface COM2 Quit Quit On the HP 95LX the port should be set to COM1 Another cause of difficul JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 ty in making a remote con nection is that another pro gram running in the back ground on your PC has con trol of the COM port that the Filer is trying to use To fix this move the serial cable to another port and update the Remote settings configura tion To update the Remote settings use the same proce dure as in the previous para graph After the port has been changed try again to get the Filer to establish a remote connection If you don t have another port examine your system to find the source of the conflict You can most easily do this by booting the system from a floppy disk with the mini mum possible CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT files Reboot the system start APP95 and then try to estab lish remote connection If it works then something in your more complete system set up is in conflict To find it systematically add to the CONFIG SYS and AUTO EXEC BAT files on the floppy disk each item that may be causing the conflict Each time you add an item to the AUTOEXEC BAT or the CONFIG SYS reboot the PC start APP95 and try to estab lish a remote connection When the connection fails again you have found the conflict have set a passw
12. 20 Specify disk size lowa residence please send additional 5 lowa Sales Tax CONTACT Alex Patterson 1203 S Main St Fairfield IA 52556 3847 Also available in Library 7 of CompuServe s HPHAND forum or on the Jan Feb 93 issue of The HP Palm top Paper ON DISK Wireless Communications AS 400 Automated Message Paging The ACO Pager 400 software installs on the IBM AS 400 mid range computer system NEW THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS It allows the AS 400 system to automatically send any wireless messages to the 95LX via Skytel s SkyPage system The 95LX must be equipped with a SkyStream Wireless Receiver Availability Now Medium 9 Track Tape Runs under SysMgr No Runs on AS 400 system not 95LX PORT EE be eee 1200 CONTACT DDL Systems Consulting Inc 184 Wexford Rd Valparaiso IN 46383 USA Phone 219 465 7333 Fax same call ahead before faxing Publications and Services Application Development Essex Marketing Service Inc has a group to develop cus tom applications for the HP 95LX System Manager com pliant or DOS programs can be developed This service is designed to provide custom solutions tailored to the unique requirements of spe cific applications CONTACT Essex Marketing Services Inc attn Chris Smith 272 Old Farms Road Simsbury CT 06070 USA Phone 203 651 8284 Fax 203 651 7926 New Bulletin Board for HP Handhelds A f
13. 213 Costa Mesa CA 92626 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 17 Modems That Work with the HP 95LX The following modems are known to work with the HP 95LX Some modems require modification to work properly and are so noted Most modifications are too detailed to reproduce here Files detailing the modifications are available on the CompuServe Information Service in the 95LX Communications Library 95LX send the AT amp D0 amp W command to the modem see article Designed with the 95LX in Mind PalmModem 2400 PalmFax Fits in 95LX Memory Card Slot This PCMCIA compatible 2400 baud modem card fits in the card slot of the 95LX Resident in the PalmModem is PalmTerm a terminal emula tion program optimized for pee computer use A variety of upload and download protocols are provided with the terminal emulation pro ram PalmModem comes with resident facsimile processing and transmitting software 128K of on board RAM is available on PalmModem for conversion of text to fax transmittable data without using the 95LX s resources SPECIFICATIONS Baud 2400 List price 269 CONTACT New Media Corporation Irvine Spectrum 15375 Barranca Pkwy Buildin B 101 Irvine CA 92718 USA Phone 800 453 0550 or 714 453 0100 Fax 714 453 0114 WorldPort V 42bis Modem Fits in HP Mobil DataLink Cradle The V 42bis is a 2400 baud modem that slides directly into the DataLink cradle The modem runs off of either its own 9
14. 2MB The cards will be cheaper than their ATA coun terparts due to less hardware being required for use within REVIEWS RAM Cards the card ACE Technologies has an nounced the availability of these cards later this Spring FAX Modem on a Card At the top of this article I mentioned that there was one exception to the storage only use for 95LX cards New Media has recently begun ship ping its PalmModem card a PCM CIA 1 0 device which works on the 95LX by virtue of a special device driver The New Media PalmModem is a fully functional 2400 bps modem and facsimile machine The card contains both fax and modem circuitry as well as communications and fax software in ROM The PalmModem needs only to be inserted into the HP 95LX One end of the PalmModem cable plugs into the PalmModem A standard telephone cord plugs into the other end PalmModem modem fax card Is Compression Software Desireable ACE DoubleCard The answer seems to be an obvious Yes The additional cost of such software has been reduced of late and and the software has become very reliable However CPU process ing time is an important consider ation Compression software such as DIET ACE Double Card software and Stacker can on average double the amount of storage space available on your RAM card These programs have been discussed in past issues of The HP Palmtop Paper A program like Stacker has to do a lot of CPU processin
15. CT 06611 Phone 203 268 0030 Fax 203 268 4345 All product are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders The best name in Macintosh file transfer ee u YE and translation is now the best source of Macintosh connectivi for your HP Palmtc 1 800 733 0030 DoubleCard and DoubleFlash Now store up to 20MB on your HP 95LX Nominated for Product of the Year by Palmtop Paper the same DoubleCard data compression is now available as DoubleFlash high capacity Flash Memory Card The real beauty of using DoubleCard is that it is truly plug n play Introducing DoubleFlash DoubleFlash combines the successful DoubleCard data compression software with the latest in Flash Memory Technology DoubleFlash is the result of joint development between ACE Technologies SunDisk and Stac Electronics What is Flash Memory Flash Memory is a non volatile solid state storage technology that does not require batteries to retain its contents DoubleFlash functions much like your PC s hard disk drive except there are no moving parts Why still offer DoubleCard All ACE s DoubleCards are manufac tured with ultra low power SRAM technology When compared to Flash SRAM s has faster write cycles and requires less power from your HP 95LX Palmtop Paper Lifetime Warranty Demonstrating our confidence in this new technology we are extending DoubleCard s
16. It s light small and easy Lo carry r 80 00 PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT The Povch PROTECTIVE CARRYING CASE FOR HP95LX Paralink 3 retails aintin approach or equivalent of 49 95 screen P amp app Transfers data to dBase and Lotus 123 formats Demo avail able Neoprene amp nylon Sturdy belt loop RAM card pocket on rear To Order Call 011 44 438 815444 Fax 011 44 438 815222 AmEX VISA MasterCard accepted WIDSEL 121 London Road Knebworth Herts SG3 6EX United Kingdom QA SYSTEMS INC 220 East 42nd Street New York N Y 10017 1 800 945 1717 212 599 1717 Fax 212 599 2614 14 95 plus shipping 800 677 7001 FAX 714 582 1445 27953 Cabot Rd Laguna Niguel CA 92677 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 49 LETTERS Continued Way to get Worksheet Macros to Work on French 95LX 1 My French language 1MB 95LX is equipped with an opposed to a KWERTY lay out and works in either French or English However the built in Lotus worksheets _CFLOW and STAT work in English only because the macros in them have not been translated into French Is there a way I can get these macros working in French Pierre Arnoldi Lausanne SWITZERLAND The _CFLOW and _STAT are in the built in ROM so there is no way to change them to French or anything else Howev er if you copy them to another file name you will be able to edit anything in the spreadsheet in c
17. KEEP UP WITH YOUR BUSINESS ADD SKYTEL NATIONWIDE MESSAGING AND YOUR BUSINESS CAN KEEP UP WITH YOU With SkyTel s SkyStream service the HP 95LX palmtop PC can receive 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 SkyStream Nationwide Messaging call 1 800 456 3333 ext 0224 Skyiel JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 A PN A subsidiary of Mtel THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 11 the need of additional software This is a distinct advantage on the 95LX as it is possible to lose the data and programs on your C drive Since a SRAM card can always be read you can keep your startup files CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT on it and boot from the SRAM card to recover from a C drive crash in sert the SRAM card in the slot and press CTAL ALT DEL Finally SRAM cards can be easily interchanged among other computers with RAM card slots that support any level of the PCMCIA standard Memory Card drives are available that connect to your desktop or portable computer and allow them to access your card s data quickly The largest SRAM or ROM cards available are 2MB ACE Technologies has incorporated software into their SRAM cards and increased this limit 8MB though the price per megabyte is
18. Lifetime Warranty policy to all DoubleFlash products As with all ACE memory cards your memory investment is protected for life How do I use DoubleFlash The same plug n play capability of DoubleCard has been brought to DoubleFlash A ROM card is provided to allow you to install the DoubleFlash software in a matter of seconds BATTman built in DoubleFlash comes with built in BATIman battery management software optimized for use with Flash technology Now you can use all battery technologies with DoubleFlash Additional Features DoubleFlash and DoubleCard include the DoubleRAM utility DoubleRAM compresses your internal RAM disk in SWITCHable SWITCH COMPATIBLE your HP 95LX DoubleRAM uses the same data compression driver as DoubleCard and therefore requires no additional memory Additional software includes Password CardCopy Unmount and a collection of HP 95LX shareware programs DoubleFlash and DoubleCard DoubleCard 1M up to IMB sess A2001 DoubleCard 2M up to 2MB A2002 DoubleCard 4M up to 4MB A2004 DoubleCard 8M up to 8MB A2008 DoubleFlash 10M up to 10MB A3010 DoubleFlash 20M up to 20MB A3020 For more information Call 800 825 9977 AAC ACE Technologies Inc ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zanker Road 103 San Jose California 95134 U S A Tel 408 428 9722 Fax 408 428 9721 Stacker LZS is a tradema
19. On the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK 123 FUNC PBK J F 93 cissHR GIFPCX ARC J F 93 cis sHA PCVIEW J F 93 cis Free SYSMGR ZIP J F 93 cis sHA 95Buddy N D 92 Free COMMO J A 92 CIS Also available in the HP Hand helds forum of CompuServe SHR SHAREWARE is software distributed free of charge for evalu ation purposes only JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 55 HOW TO CONTACT US There are a number of ways to get touch with The HP Palmtop staff You can write mail us a isk with your comments send Compu Serve mail fax or call Our address is Thaddeus eue Be The HP Palmt PO Box 869 or 57 pelt Fairfield IA 52556 U S A Fax 515 472 1879 Phone 515 472 6330 or 800 373 6114 CompuServe ID Hal Goldstein 75300 2443 To advertise in The HP Palmtop Pa per contact Brian Teitzman or Marga ret Martin To subscribe change address or clear up any problem with your subscrip tion contact our subscription depart ment Director Sharon Dilmore Technical Support ASK THADDEUS Thaddeus Com pu fing Inc Call 800 767 4795 or 15 42 7584 or fax 515 472 9595 the publishers of The HP Palmtop Paper your HP 95LX problem Rates are 2 00 per minute plus an addition al charge for non U S callbacks to cover the cost of international long distance rates HP Technical Support HP offers these options 90 DAYS FREE SUPPORT is of Prei to all 95LX us
20. Ov on Shareware Runs under SysMgr No POEM Ets arn aSa Free AVAILABILITY On the Jan Feb 93 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK or in Library 7 of CompuServe s HPHAND forum Shareware Mentioned in Third Party Products On the Jan Feb 93 HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK cs SHA Remote Commander CIS ACGIS cis SHA WORM CIS ZIP 1 6 cts Also available in the HP Handhelds forum of CompuServe SHR SHAREWARE is software distributed free of charge for evalua tion purposes only If you decide to use it you must pay the author the shareware fee This goes for any shareware found on The HP Palm top Paper ON DISK or Compu e HP 95LX PALM MODEM PCMCIA Credit Card Size 2400 1200 and 300 Bit sec Format Data Rates Integrated Terminal and s 4800 2400 Bit sec PalmFax Facimile Software Lifetime Guarantee Compatible with Low Power Over 15 Hours CompuServe Genie Dow S CYSerati peration J ones and MCI CompuServe Genie Dow Jones and MCI are trademarks or trade names of their respective entities 15375 Barranca B 101 Irvine CA 92718 TEL 714 453 0100 FAX 714 453 0114 a 80 0 CAN A U By Mark Scardina One year ago we looked at RAM cards for the HP 95LX Due to the many developments of this past year I believe it s time that we re examine this area The HP 95LX was designed prior to the development of uniform stan dards for RAM
21. PUS ES RE Le Mr George McDonal Allen Bright i Tice OF In ti onaratulation on your promotion he 1993 X si rnal Affairse Split Window Easy to Use Pop up Menus terms for J Repeat replace For more information Call tional input This puts the 95LX into its Light Sleep mode where the pro cessor slows way down to conserve battery power There is a two part work around for this problem First keep typing your search string even if InfoSelect has not completed its search for the characters already entered Second if you have entered your complete search string or as much as you think you need press ENTER This switches off keyboard polling since InfoSelect knows it does not need to check for more keyboard input When keyboard polling stops the 95LX will switch the processor back to full speed and the GET search will zip along at normal speed for a 4MHz V20 processor That s all folks Have fun with InfoSelect on your 95LX Please send me any suggestions for improving this set of instructions Address them to the HPHAND forum on Compu Serve to my CompuServe ID or to my Internet address shown above Order Information InfoSelect 2 0 149 A free form database that captures random informaton such as lists contacts and schedules CONTACT Micro Logic Corporation Attn Bennie Henderson P O Box 70 Hackensack NJ 07602 USA Phone 800 342 5930 or 201 342 6518 Fax 201 342 0370
22. Rood Sulla 103 Son Jose Colfernio 75134 0 5 4 Decor amp Disiibulas welcome JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 5 New Products Designed to Work with the HP 95LX In the first seven issues we listed over 285 hardware and software products and other 95LX related services already available from third party manufactur ers and developers We will continue to list 95LX hardware software books videos training and services as we discover them Vendors of 95LX related products should send us information By Richard Hall and Hal Goldstein Hardware Hanging Bracket Bracket for HP 95LX Con structed of electrostatically coated aluminum hangs on most surveying tripods Availability Now PRONG yes Ph ede putea es 32 50 CONTACT Field Designs 5013 Mo zart Drive Richmond CA 94803 USA Phone 510 222 9999 Fax 510 222 0770 Memory Cards and Card Drives 20MB Flash IC Memory Card This PCMCIA 1 0 memory card is available for OEM only in capacities up to 20MB 40MB with data com pression The HP 95LX can read write to the entire 20MB and the card features high read write speeds Card uses 5 0 volts from 95LX for read and write operations A 3 3 volt read write option is also available Cards have an average sector endurance of 200 000 write operations 6 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER Cards available in 1MB 2MB 4MB 8MB 10MB and 20MB Availability OEM
23. Understand these concepts and youll get more out of your 95LX By Hal Goldstein Last year this column discussed files directories bytes RAM disk System RAM and other behind the scenes concepts Users need to understand these concepts to get the most out of their HP 95LX Hours of confusion and frustration can be avoided if the beginning user understands the fun damentals necessary to perform any activity on the 95LX Because these concepts are so important we will take another brief look at them and bring our new subscribers up to date This time rather than giving a long abstract explanation I ll cover the applied value of each concept briefly For a more in depth treatment of each look at past Getting Started columns consult the HP 95LX User s Guide or pick up an introductory book on personal computing Files This is the single most important concept you should understand Your PHONE book MEMO notes APPT book 1 2 3 spreadsheets and HP CALC equations are all stored in separate files When you save a file in any of these applications the in formation contained in the file is accessible upon demand In addition you can transfer such files to other computers CAUTION Remember that when you add something to any of these files Le a mew address to your Phone Book the addition does not become a permanent part of the file until you save the file In MEMO PHONE and APPT you save a file by pressing Fi
24. Y 0 gets filled Z is just a variable that can be toggled from positive to negative numbers Z s initial value will be whatever is in memory when the plotting starts We don t care what the value is just so it s not zero To cover this rare case we use 1 to insure that Z never starts with 0 Something Fishy This technique can be used to plot the area between two curves as well Enter the following equation in the SOLVE Editor FISH IF L Z Z 1 gt 0 X 2 X 2 36 46 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 Press GRAPH and set XMIN 6 XMAX 4 3 and RES 300 Press F3 AUTO and watch a silhouette of a fish appear on the screen Function plotting Fish Graph Here s another plot from Jeff Mattox the author of the HP 95LX add in program 95Buddy Key in the following equation in the Solve Edi tor SORT x 2 x 10 74 Press Graph set XMIN 125 XMAX 125 and RES 300 Then press F3 AUTO and with a little patience Jeff claims that you can see a butterfly I see a bow tie Function plotting Butterfly or Bow tie For more of this stuff I refer you to a Rorschach ink blot test Until next time Happy Programming Shareware Freeware Mentioned in This Article On the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK KEEFE EQN on Jan Feb 93 SHOW roue Genin sais Reviewlal Basics Quick Review of the Basics Files bytes RAM disk System RAM and directories
25. Zanker Road 103 San Jose CA 95134 U S A 408 428 9722 FAX 408 wey SWITCH SWITCHobel fost WRITE fostSPELL tostOOMM fast NOTES fostliNE myREMOTE ane trocemarnks of ACE Technologies Inc ACTI aa Iroademeark of Contoc Software Pom Reference Palm Gotobose ore hodemorks of Lighthouse Sottware Personal Food Analyst ls o trocemark of Midcol Couporotlon HP HL aa tocdemork of Hewlett Pochard Company Foreign Language TRANSLATION on an IC CARD for the HP95LX IMPOSSIBLET That s the reaction from virtually everyone But it s truel Fully automated grammatical translation capability comparable to mainframes or PCs all in economical IC Cards designed for the HP 95LX palmtop computer or compatible The Globalink Translation System gives you sentence by sentence translations with up to 90 accuracy You can even load a file of 5 or 10 pages and have it translated while you read a book or watch a movie Target language output may be post edited one sentence at a time or after an entire file has become trans lated Some of the many amazing features the Globalink translation IC Cards include e Handling of idiomatic expressions e Multiple translations of a single word in a sentence based on part of speech noun verb adjectives e Comprehensive general dictionary of over 60 000 terms Input of foreign language accents on the English keyboard e On screen editing with 95LX Memo text editor e Interlinear
26. aa SWITCH Multi tasking software for your 95LX Direct Launch DOS applications cir rear E telecon Customize your Blue keys a ACE onana Block cursor and more Block cursor and Caps Lock display z nr ass od the Typewriter style SHIFT Caps keys Palm Reference Palm Database Start LIGHTHOUSE SOFTWARE e Sfart up DOS shell option E SOKOBAN with 300 undo Customize your HP 95LX Version 2 now includes multi tasking capabllities favorite DOS programs change your hs that allow SWITCHable DOS applications to run default C _DAT directory and even erase For more information Call simultaneously with MEMO PHONE LOTUS 1 2 3 a forgotten password etc Now you can switch between programs 800 825 is 99 7 7 with a single key In addition SWITCH s SWITCH s control panel allows you to set the SwapAPP feature allows you to assign any auto power off timer displays digital battery SWITCHable applications to your Blue keys and levels turm off serial port to save power still gives you access to the built in applications change alarm tone and level No more re booting and closing built in SWITCH Menu and Control Panel applections Set eWTEHL anat enay instant QiZ access to your programs E 1 In addition a menu driven user interface gives you instant access to any of 48 DOS and EXM ACE Technologies Inc programs Create single key loaders for your SWITCH version 2 C1055 s 69 ACE Technologies Inc 2880
27. allows the unlimited creation of custom reports The Macro Recorder helps make short work of repeated database operations with one keystroke Configured for most printers including the HP Laser Jet and the 82240 A Infrared Printer System Requirements PC Version MS DOS 3 0 or higher 640K RAM 95LX Version HP 95LX Palmtop with 512K RAM For Information contact 4 You Software U S and Non European inquiries call Kristin J Libby International Marketing Director 20527 S Vermont Ave Suite 8 Torrance CA 90502 U S A Tel 310 323 7740 Fax 310 538 8968 European inquiries call Mr Graham Mills Griesgasse 14a A 4910 Ried im Innkreis Austria Tel 7752 81711 Fax 7752 81711 6 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 27 2 2 RAM you can atta HY strings na Dr l T B T Loue oil VEN eeg 200 WY ks LL and Wireless E mail use E Mail with HP 95LX users can now have wireless E mail With RAM Mobile Data s wireless networks you can use a variety of commercially available E mail services while on the go Imagine using E mail practically anywhere you are no wires or hook ups attached for about the price of a postage stamp A All it takes is a wireless b 2 data modem and access software to your E mail Now you re free You don t have to tell RAM s networks where you are or where you re going next Messages find you o
28. enter the interest rate Key in 8 100 12 and press ENTER You should see 0 006666 the monthly interest rate Next move the cursor in cell A7 and key in 30 12 and press to get 360 Go to cell A8 key in PMT A5 A6 A7 and press ENTER The answer to the monthly payments will be 917 2057 To find the total principal and interest go to cell B8 and key in 360 A8 The cell displays 330194 0 Now go to cell B6 key in 12 100 A6 and press to see 8 the annu al interest rate Just out of curiosi ty what kind of interest rate would bring the total principal and interest down to a nice round number say 300 000 00 To find the answer press 1 2 3 F8 Form When the worksheet appears move the cursor to cell B8 and press ENTER This will be the formula cell for this example Back in the Solve 1 2 3 screen key in 300000 press VALUE and Solve In 1 2 3 move the cursor to cell A6 and press ENTER The Solve 1 2 3 screen will appear and you ll see a message E Z Arithmetic A comprehensive course for students parents and adults Learn review or drill all aspects of arithmetic for math tests and courses e Easy to use manual and software e Amiga Atari ST Apple HP 48SX HP 95LX IBM Mac TI 85 versions Concepts definitions methods and terminology fully explained with lots of model problems and exercises Includes detailed course outline For complete information write EZ Software De
29. erase the old month and date 5 Enter the new month and day for the call in mm dd format How to take these Phone examples one step further The newest version of 95Buddy 2 3 amp adds some useful features to PHONE First it lets you change the names of the data fields in the PHONE cards You can change Name Num ber and Address to anything you want Sec ond 95Buddy lets you assign an associated MEMO file to a particular PHONE entry All you do is press while you re in a specific PHONE card and the associated TXT file will load into MEMO and display For more on these features see the 95Buddy Documentation For more on the new 95Buddy see pages 18 and 37 of the Nov Dec 92 issue 30 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 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 operation Model TMD 500 reads and writes SRAM cards lt TMD 550 SRAM amp FLASH cards Fully PCMCIA JEIDA compatible with the industry s broadest range of card ra f Car ThinCardDRIVE is a trademark of Databook Inc 6 Press to complete the edit 7 Finally press to end the user key recording Use this user key as follows Place the cursor on the index entry you wish to change and press CHAR F8 to change the date Do this for each entry remaining on the list After you are done you can re turn to the full
30. feedback on issue Phone Call Tracker card view What makes this Phone Book so useful are the user keys macros that are used to maintain it Below is a summary of those keys followed by an explanation of how to create them FOR HP 95LX 512KB 115 Ment LEMUR SOA Made in U S A see pages 21 14 to 21 19 HP 95LX User s Guide for more information on Creating and Using User Defined Keys CHAR F9 is used to schedule a call to be made on a given date usually today or tomorrow This user key macro inserts the and date on the first address line All other informa tion in the address field is bumped down one line CHAR F5 is used when making a call The user key macro opens the card so that you can see all the rele vant information It then erases the in front of the date and moves the cursor to the end of the line so that you can insert a brief note about the call If the call is not completed such as when you are connected to an obnoxious voice mail system press ing the ESC key will cancel the changes made by the user key mac ro so that you can try the call again later 26 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 DUAL BA TTERY n LIFETIME a _GUARANTEE r i Wy ag 1 0MB 180 2 0MB 340 INI Irvine Califomia U S A 714 453 0100 FAX 714 453 0114 CHAR F8 is used to reschedule the call for another day This user key macro replaces the current date
31. file on your RAM card because you re going to remove that to insert the modem card or whatever This is not much of a problem unless the file is large and you don t have enough room on your 95LX s C drive One final point You can use PCMCIA 2 0 memory cards in a 95LX PCMCIA 2 0 I O cards mo dem wireless ect will not work Order Information Memory Cards The following companies carry memory cards compatible with the HP 95LX For more information see display advertise ments or product description on page indi cated if other issue date indicated Company Page AGES lt r nis rriat outside back Active Data Adtron Other Products Mentioned The following software products were men tioned as being available on ROM card See display advertising or product descrip tion on page indicated if other issue date indicated Product Page ACE Gamecard Mar Apr 92 pg 3 ACE DoubleCard Software outside back Personal Food Analyst Dictionary Thesaurus Card HP dealers PalmFAX Modem Card 9 Jan Feb 92 pg 43 Shareware Freeware Mentioned in This Article On the 1992 Subscribers Disk TIMEOUT COM BATTCK COM DIET EXE JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 13 How to Get Battery Powered Portable Modems to Work with the HP 95LX A portable modem expands the utility of the 95LX tremendously Here s a little advice on using and choosing modems for the Palmtop PC
32. if you go to anoth er day and then come back a If you set an appointment alarm mode to enable and later change the setting back to disable the alarm will still go off as originally scheduled Scheduling a later ap pointment will sometimes correct the problem or you can reboot u f you use the Appointment Book s Remove function to clear out old appointments press MENU Remove the 95LX does not think you have modified the file This means that if you quit APPT press MENU Quit MENU q MENU or MassExit you will not be reminded to save your file and thus will not update your ap pointment file When you do MENU remove change insert an appoint ment to mark your file modified f you try to open a MEMO file that has no file extension you get a file not found error 9SBUDDY fixes this problem Sometimes after exiting from DOS the Filer display will look like an elevator that got stuck between floors The Filer data is in the cor rect place it s the display window that s too low Close the Filer and your display will correct itself a The HP 95LX real time clock is much more accurate than the Sys tem Manager clock The clocks are controlled by different internal oscil lators The low frequency oscillator for the real time clock is more accurate When the HP 95LX is left on the System Manager clock drifts The SysMgr clock is reset whenever power is cycled Because the error is
33. is receiving the signal The hardware modification gen erally provides voltage to the DTR pin on your modem connector pin 20 This voltage can be borrowed from another pin on the modem that has power during normal operation in the accompanying list which re quire modification are noted One other thing to keep in mind if you artificially supply the DTR signal in order to turn a modem on you must remember to remove the signal so the modem can turn off Otherwise your battery will drain very quickly Software Command Sometimes Eliminates the Need for the DTR Signal Some pocket modems will power on without the DTK signal but WILL NOT function properly without it Until the modem receives the DTR signal it will remain in command mode and not pick up the phone line Luckily this problem can be over come by sending the modem a sim ple software command When this command is received the modem will no longer require the presence of the DTR signal to function normally Tel 704 376 1021 Fax 704 335 8707 Toll Free 1 800 476 4070 wires 9 pin or 25 pin that carry additional signals to your modem Figure 1 below lists the pins and sig nals carried on them Figure 1 Pin Name purpose 2 TAD Transmit data signal from computer to modem RXD Receive data signal from modem to computer RTS Request to send signal computer to modem CTS Clear to send from modem to computer DSR Data Sel Ready from mod
34. list by pressing DET Modifying User Keys for Future Dates The next morning you can modify the Call and Rescheduling user keys for the correct dates Press Char highlight and press or Fi0 to edit the user key Press and move the cursor to the date Delete it and type in the next day for calls Then press F10 to return to the index Do the same with the F9 User key JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 supplier and platform support It s quick and easy Isn t it time you put one on your expense report Call 716 889 4204 for further information OEM Dealer inquiries welcome Schedule any new calls for today using the CALL F5 user key Then press ONLY to display the day s calls The examples above show that with a little ingenuity the built in applications may provide far more versatility than HP and Lotus ever imagined CL Shareware Freeware Mentioned in This Article On the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK cissHR 9SBUDDY on Nov Dec 92 CIS DIALCODE PBK on Jan Feb 93 On the 1992 Subscribers Disk HPSOLVE PBK cis Also available in the HP Handhelds forum of CompuServe cis SHA SHAREWARE is software distributed free of charge for evaluation purposes only If you decide to use it you must pay the author the share ware fee This goes for any shareware found on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK or CompuServe HOW TO USE Advanced Looking Glass Backsolving in 1 2 3 Lotus 1 2 3
35. lt Down gt to move the cursor to the first line of the ad dress field Next type the date you wish to schedule the call say 01 01 93 space after 93 and press ENTER The 01 01 93 above is just a sample You can enter any date you wish but you must maintain a consistent format for the date The total number of characters used to enter the date must be the same so that subse quent user keys will work Note that you precede the date with the pound sign so the date is identified as a call to be made Press F10 to exit editing process 4 The user key is now complete so press lt Shift gt CHAR F9 again to end the learn mode To schedule another call move the cursor over the name of the person to be called and press CHAR F9 The down side of this method is that you are creating a user key that schedules a call for one specific date only If most of the calls you will schedule are for that date this solu tion is fine However if you need the flexibility of entering a different date each time follow the steps above modifying step three 3 Press to open the card then press lt Down lt Down type in the pound sign a lt Spacebar gt and a Go to step four This creates a user key that types in the and lets you enter the date remember the importance of a con sistent date format After you have typed in the date press to move the rest of the line down and press to go back to
36. phone book file is stored in temporary System RAM When you add a new phone number the temporary copy of the file is updated Saving the phone book file by pressing File Save ENTER Yes makes the updated tempo rary PHONE file the permanent file On a 512K unit there is a total of 512K of RAM that gets divided be tween System RAM and RAM Disk If the RAM disk has 254K then Sys tem RAM contains 258K Similarly a 1 Meg unit contains 1024K bytes of RAM Initially that gets divided 398 RAM Disk 626 System RAM You can change the System RAM RAM Disk ratio by closing all ap plications and pressing Shift FILER System Memory Then use the left or right arrows to adjust the ratio and press ENTER to set the change The greater the size of the RAM Disk the more space you have to permanently store files The greater Serial and Parallel Connectivity Kit for HP 95LX The choice is yours BSE Connects HP 95 to a Any PC b Serial Printer c Parallel Printer d Portable hard disk Other Connects HP 95 to a Any PC b Serial Printer No Installation No Batteries No Hassle Costs less No kidding At HP dealers everywhere Ask for the BSE Connectivity Kit The BSE Company 602 527 8843 FAX 602 527 1540 2152 North 4th Street Flagstaff AZ 86004 Available at EduCALC 714 582 2637 FAX 714 582 1445 the System RAM the more applica tions PHONE MEMO etc you can run at the same time A larger Sys tem RA
37. programs make sure you run them one at a time closing each one before opening another If you don t remember and close one by mistake simply re boot This will clear the memory and prevent poten tial data loss 3 Do not close any previous ly opened applications while using one containing fixups Mark Scardina CompuServe ID 76711 732 Handheld Digital Multimeter Case It s not very elegant but HP s Handheld Digital Multimeter case works pret ty well It can hold the 95LX and a pocket modem and has enough room for a cable Continued on page 49 Control your TV VCR Stereo with the 95LX Introducing m yREM OTE Cr 2 0 Multiple files for differentremotes Up to 100 commands User programmable Macro commands ne Po T Channel Down P Volume Up DN Volume Down single Key access fo your Remotes functions New Features x T ka U Recall wick View nyre Sound sleep limer OFF On se ARROW keys to select item ENTER Now you can control your 95LX with IR remotes great for presentations demos and fun e SWITCHable with built in applications New improved algorithms supports more remotes Allows time delayed operations with built in macro commands myREMOTE version 2 0 C1065 SWiTCHable 1 Universal Train mode Send Edit D gt elete Insert Train For more information Call 800 825 9977 ACE ACE Technologies Inc 2880 fonker
38. terday and showed MUS95 E toa guy on the plane For some reason the William Tell Overture went so fast it was almost unrecognizable It returned to normal when I re booted Has anyone expe rienced this and is there some speedup patch floating around in my 95LX Bob Denton CompuServe ID 72130 3233 A Little Humor Please You ought to start a humor corner All your articles have been serious I believe and it may be a lot of fun for peo ple to read and maybe even contribute It seems there are several out there with a sense of humor Jeff Zorn CompuServe ID 71165 1650 Check out our new cartoon Mr Foster s TWISTERS page 7 Hal 95LX Helps Surgeon I am a practicing Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon in Richmond Virginia and have been computer resistant until recently The purchase of an HP 95LX has literally changed my life This small portable power house has enabled me to track my patients practice figures payroll employees medications investments personal accounts etc In short this computer has made me a better busi ness man and a better doc tor I have the information I need constantly available at my fingertips and I have used the 95LX in the hospi tal in the middle of the operating room in the mall and in the car Had I known about this when I went through my oral surgery training I think I would have been a better resident also Thanks again to HP for such a wonderful pro
39. the new window Next press X tra F rame and choose option 1 Answer Y es to the Are You Sure question Then press D isk S ave to save the adjustments You can then T hrow away the new window and do another D isk Save Reduce Time for Activation of Screen Saver Function InfoSelect interferes with the opera tion of the 95LX s auto shutoff timer This feature automatically shuts down the Palmtop after three min utes of inactivity to save battery life 95Buddy ff or Timeout will let you to change this default setting When InfoSelect is displaying a note the 95LX apparently thinks the pro gram is active and will not automati cally shut down to save batteries InfoSelect has its own screen saver function with a default setting of 10 minutes The 95LX auto shutoff timer does not start running until the Info Select screen saver cuts in So if your 95LX is set to shut off after three minutes of inactivity it will take 10 minutes for InfoSelect to go into its screen saver mode and another three for the 95LX to shut down After InfoSelect shuts the screen down you can bring it back by pres sing lt Spacebar gt After the 95LX shuts down you have to press both and Css The EDIT mode of InfoSelect does not enable the screen saver and does not disable the 95LX timer so if you are editing a note your 95LX will shut down in the normal time Set the InfoSelect screen saver to its minimum value of one minute
40. 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 1 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 Each new subscription to The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK includes one bonus issue absolutely FREE Customers outside North Amarica Please add 24 for a one year subscription 48 for two years 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 County Phone Fax Luxembourg amp Belgium BYTECOM 32 0 10 223455 32 0 10 241730 France PalmSoft 1 44 76 11 00 1 40 26 94 32 Germany W amp W Prods 02202 42021 02202 32794 Netherlands ELDATA 31 0 20 6247284 31 0 206325111 UK Supplyline 081 744 0022 081 744 0045 cost of equivalent commercial programs 2 We are unable to support you in using The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK software 3 Saves y
41. transfer a LP odem batch modem G batch CompuServe B protocol support Help DialDir Macro fastCOMM Features Full featured Communication Software for HP 95LX High speed data transfer of up to 14 4k baud Easy to use Pop up Menus For more information Call 800 825 9977 Comprehensive Macro Language capability allows users to develop custom applications Built in ANSI and VT 102 Terminal Emulation Fully SWITCHablel with built in applications fastCOMM version 1 0 C 1085 36 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 CE ACE Technologies Inc 2850 Zanker Road Suite 103 Son Jose Cofiforna 98134 USA Dealers amp Obtribulors welcome screen It also makes sure that the Alt Arrow function is turned on Next it switches to the directory where you keep InfoSelect and starts InfoSelect with the N option to run non resident Finally when you exit InfoSelect it switches cursor tracking back on The commands in the batch file look like this dispctl k c d cd is 15 n cd dispctl k c I keep IS BAT in C I close all the built in applications highlight IS BAT in FILER and press F4 and run Info Select A more convenient way to run InfoSelect is to use a loader pro gram to call IS BAT for more on loaders see page 19 Jan Feb 92 is sue A loader lets you use a hotkey to start up InfoSelect The loader lets you start InfoSelect on top of other
42. translation file These and many more There are dozens of ways this low cost high quality translation system can be useful to you either for production informational or educational purposes Whether you are at home on an airplane in a hotel on vacation in a meeting or in your office high quality foreign language translation is available to you in minutes lo bal n k Spanish to from English 119 95 9302 Lee Highway Twelfth Floor French to from English 119 95 Fairfax Virginia 22031 Telephone 703 273 5600 Toll Free 1 800 255 5660 Fax 703 273 3866 SAVE Buy two or more products 99 95 German to from English 119 95 You ve read it in print now get it on disk The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK 5 great benefits even the printed 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 appear 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
43. typically solves its problems from left to right and from the top down There are times when you might want to solve a problem in the reverse direction By Ed Keefe Suppose you use Lotus 1 2 3 to com pute a twelve month financial projec tion In the last row and last column of the spreadsheet you arrive at the bottom line the yearly profit It s a lot smaller than you anticipated 60 000 rather than the 100 000 you had hoped for You wonder how much capital you should start with to reach your goal of 100 000 The best you can do is to repeatedly adjust your capital investment figure to seek the goal of 100 000 a tedious task to say the least It would be great if 1 2 3 had a goal seeking function built into it As this article shows HP CALC can be used to perform such goal seeking It makes 1 2 3 appear to be solving the problem backwards Backsolving as it s called gives added power to the what if capabilities of 1 2 3 We discussed the power of back solving in the last issue of The HP Palmtop Paper page 52 Nov Dec 92 Solver s CALCCELL function lets you run the Lotus spreadsheet in reverse to do goal seeking The Lotus spreadsheet used in the last issue INSURE WK1 lM compared the value of whole life vs term insur ance The example given showed you how to use backsolving to find the annual premium for term insurance that gave a savings loss figure exact ly equal to zero It turns out th
44. 0 acCIS SM is a powerful CompuServe access manager specially designed for use on the HP 95LX Palmtop PC It allows downloading of mail and forum messages reading and processing them offline forum library management etc acCIS SM is System Manager compliant so other applications may be used be sides acCIS at the same time The HP 95LX clipboard fea ture is fully supported so messages can easily be pasted into other text files For writ ing messages MEMO or any other DOS editor can be used Availability NOW MACHU e d s aera Disk Runs under SysMgr Yes Pricing wey a ue st els a Free AVAILABILITY Library 6 HPHAND forum or Jan Feb 93 issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK COMMOS ZIP Removed from the HPHANDHELD forum COMMOS9 the general pur pose communications pro gram for the HP 95LX has been removed from Compu Serve in anticipation of the release of fastCOMM 1 0 a commercial version of COMMO for the HP 95LX fastCOMM will be available in early 1993 from ACE Tech nologies of San Jose CA ACE can be reached at the following phone numbers 800 825 9977 or 408 428 9722 Fax 408 428 9721 For more on fastCOMM see page 14 of the Nov Dec 92 issue Users who can t wait for the release of fastCOMM may still obtain a copy of COMMO9 direct from the author when registering the PC version release 5 3 of COMMO Be sure to specify that you want the 95LX ver sion The auth
45. 0 338 4331 or 503 754 0583 It has too much on some topics but it helped a bit with the solver Fred Kaufman CompuServe ID 72560 36 B Memo EDIT TWO FILES AT ONCE lf you have the HP Dictionay card this includes a new copy of MEMO which appears as a file in the A 54 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 drive You can copy this into you C drive and assign it a new hot key such as ALT MEMO in your AP NAME LST file This procedure allows you to hot key back and forth between two copies of MEMO that way two files can be edited at once lan Powell EA Misc PROTECTIVE PLUGS FOR AC AND SERIAL PORTS It bothered me that HP didn t supply plugs to cover the AC and Serial ports so one night settled down with my 95LX and a Magic Rub eraser not crumbly like the others an X Acto knife and a pencil rubbed the pencil around the outline of the AC jack then pressed the white eraser against it leaving the outline of the port opening on the eraser then set upon it with the knife carving away until had a nice plug with a rim around it repeated this process with the serial port and colored the erasers with a black permanent marker These plugs keep dust and other contaminants from entering the 95LX through the two openings and helps prevent the serial port pins from getting bent by pens and other tools of destruction Dave Goodman CompuServe ID 72330 130 WEATHER MAPS ON THE HP 95LX
46. 1 ldumy stepi niriai 24 Let CurrentVal be the same as initial I GirrentVal iinitia l 44 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 600 Wyatt Avenue Suite 9 Santa Clara CA 95054 The two additions 0 CurrentVal and O L CurrentVal initial put the value of initial in CurrentVal and display it on the Solve Calc screen Neither expression will affect the operation of the program since they re both multiplied by zero The phrases in between the excla mation points are comments They don t hurt the equation and can be helpful when you re trying to make sense of the equation later on The factorial of any number N is the product of the whole numbers from 1 to N So for example the factorial of 5 is 1 2 3 4 5 120 To get Solver to calculate the factorial of N just change the fifth argument initial 2 to FACT initial and change O L initial initial 10 to O L initial initial 1 After you ve made the changes press Yes to return to the Solve Calc screen There set initial 0 and press answer repeatedly The number you are taking the factorial of is displayed on the CurrentVal line Numerical Integration Using SIGMA One of the classic problems in calcu lus is finding the area under a curve The procedure for doing this is called definite integration and is represent ed by the following symbol J Fix dx 1s some function and a and e lower and upp
47. 534 1019 BBS 801 487 2778 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 41 HOW TO USE Frequent Questions or in a directory other than CPACK This is okay if the APP95 program can find where you ve put the Con nectivity Pack modules To find them it looks to the DOS environment for a variable named PIMS which should be set with the path to the Connectivity modules The command to define this vari able is the following SET PIMS C CPACK replace C CPACK with your instal lation location To display the current values of the DOS environ ment file type SET at the DOS prompt PATH and PIMS should both contain the path to the Connectivity Pack software The SET PIMS command should be in the AUTOEXEC BAT file The problem may be that the SET PIMS com mand is not executed during the start up process because it is preceded by the execu tion of another program To fix this put the SET PIMS command closer to the begin ning of the AUTOEXEC BAT file After this is changed save the AUTOEXEC BAT file and reboot the PC After rebooting type APP95 and press ENTER When translating my CD1 Conventional Data file into the HP 95LX Phone Book format get 99 complete and then the Translation utility stops and displays the message INVALID FILE FORMAT What s wrong Some programs attach an End of File marker when they produce an output file To fix this start the Memo applica tion and open the CD1 file Page down to the end of t
48. 95LX If you don t have Buddy GET IT Buddy adds dozens of features and keystroke shortcuts to the built in applications see page 6 Jul Aug 92 and page 18 Nov Dec 92 issue One feature that I have found incredibly helpful is that 95Buddy lets you attach a text file to each entry in a Phone Book database This lets you keep more in depth informa tion on an entry Another feature lets you change the data field headings in Phone Book Name Phone Ad dress I have used these two features to create a database of the farmland I use The Phone Book database con tains basic information about a spe cific plot of land I press F6 and Buddy loads a text file containing more information including data on the Landlord production and mainte nance records and physical struc tures on the property This gives me one comprehensive resource for in formation on land and takes much of the paper shuffling memory strain ing and guesswork out of my day to day decision making Conclusions Mobile communications and data availability as provided by the HP 95LX are invaluable to me They allow me to stay in touch with the necessary decision support informa tion while remaining active in the day to day rigors of producing quali ty food for the American consumer The quality and value inherent in the Hewlett Packard name are evident in the way the 95LX stands up to 24 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 Double Your Plea
49. AUTOEXEC BAT file should contain the name of the TSR you want to run followed by the line SYSMGR which will start the built in System Manager These files should be put in the root directory of your RAM card if you have one They will also work in the root directory of the internal RAM disk These files are executed whenever the sys tem is rebooted Before re booting the system quit all of your open applications mak ing sure to save files that you have modified Then press CTRL ALT DEL to reboot the system During the pro cess of restarting the system your AUTOEXEC BAT and CONFIG SYS files will be executed The User s Guide contains instructions for the SHELL command on page B 24 WARNING These com mands represent a serious modification to your HP 95LX You should be expe rienced with the use of CON FIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT files If you make a mis take in these files you may not be able to reboot the system Therefore you should only install these files on a RAM card If there is a problem you can remove the RAM card and the system will boot up in the normal way Can do programming on the HP 95LX The HP 95LX is a computer that can execute compiled code written in many lan guages The easiest way is to develop programs on your HP 95LX Palmtop Software Pocket Sales Force A powerful flexible and interactive database program Simple to use Pocket Sales Force will instant
50. Buddy ii to accomplish this Lotus 1 2 3 Office Data on the Road Lotus is a versatile data storage and evaluation program that I have adap ted to many uses I use Lotus to keep product inventories to calculate crop costs and to make production fore casts The various data I accumulate can later be easily downloaded to my desktop machine and imported into a variety of other programs and re ports By using Lotus as well as the other 95LX applications mentioned I am better prepared to make the quick informed on site decisions necessary to keep employees and equipment moving with a minimum of downtime Editor s Note A num ber of John s spreadsheets can be found in FARM ZIP B HP CALC Solver Quick Calculations I use HP CALC and its Solver func tion to get quick answers to impor tant mathematical questions I can quickly and accurately figure water deliveries tank mixes application rates and temperature conversions vital to the job at hand Its The Cheapest Health Insurance You Can n Buy Best Third Party Enhancements The preceding dealt with the built in functions of the 95LX Every issue of The HP Palmtop Paper or every visit to the HP Handhelds forum of CompuServe yields a bounty of new ideas and enhancements for the 95LX Below are the tools that I have found most useful Framework III Quick Information Access I also use Framework II on my HP 95LX loaded onto a 2MB RAM card This in
51. Circle Blvd Corvallis OR 97330 USA Fax to Mary Moore at 503 750 2192 Patient Manager Upgrades Version 2 of this patient data base now contains a custom ized demographics section medication record and vitals spreadsheet as well as a pa tients notes module lab spreadsheet and to do list PC version included Availability February 93 Medium ROM Card amp Floppy Disk Runs under SysMgr 4 N Pricing te sm ae 25 TNTE 399 CONTACT ComputerBooks 20321 Irvine Ave Suite 2 Santa Ana Ca 92707 USA Phone 800 848 2023 or 714 966 2023 Fax 714 966 0117 PAMCO Closes Doors PAMCO the manufacturer of a small external card drive see page 38 Fall 91 issue is no longer in business We have no additional informa tion at this time WORM Arcade Game Upgraded This updated version of WORM for the 95LX features 10 skill levels 40 different playing screens tunnels save and restore capabilities and more Availability Now Medium Shareware Runs under SysMgr No AVAILABILITY WORM ZIP lal can be found in library 7 of the HPHAND forum of CompuServe or on the Jan Feb 93 issue of The HP Palmtop Pa per ON DISK ZIP 1 6 ai File Transfer Utility ZIP the file transfer utility found on the 1992 Subscrib ers Disk has been upgraded The ZIP 1 6 upgrade has new directory log and com pare features Availability Now Medium 6 20225
52. D command before SOUND 200 0 you ll lock up the 95LX Pablo Miras Buenos Aires ARGENTINA ast Bake RG INSTANTLY BACK UP YOUR O SMB AND IMB HP95SLX Irvine California U S A 714 453 0100 FAX 714 453 0114 Le c6 O10 CARDS 242 U 50 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 Making the 95LX Work Faster with Drive95 You mentioned on page 13 of the Sep Oct 92 issue that the 95LX seems to work slowly when Drive95 from Sparcom is connected I have also noti ced this phenomena and dis covered the following solu tion Before leaving either DOS or FILER make sure that drive G does not remain the current DOS drive Reset the current drive to C before exiting DOS or FILER Under DOS type C at the DOS prompt In FILER press F5 Goto and switch back to drive C When you reset the cur rent drive to C DOS will not try to go to drive G all the time which causes the delay Oliver Sokal CompuServe ID 100013 1142 Shareware Freeware Mentioned in This Article On the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK cis sua MUS95 ZIP N D 92 as sr LINSOLVE J F 93 On the 1992 Subscribers Disk as WINSISYS as DIET EXE as STICK COM cis Also available in the HP Handhelds forum of CompuServe SHR SHAREWARE is software distributed free of charge for evaluation purposes only If you decide to use it you must pay the author the shareware fee This goes for any share ware fou
53. EMBARC and how to send wireless electronic messages from your e mail system call 800 333 6200 or fax this form to 800 388 4147 Company City State Call me right away 34 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 Stay one call ahead of your competitors with EMBARC Electronic Mail Broadcast To A Roaming Computer an advanced messaging service from Motorola Computer users on most public and private e mail systems can send spreadsheets database updates and other important information to computers in the field at a fraction of the cost of a long distance telephone call Messages and files are transmitted in native mode to a hub where they are translated and passed off seamlessly to EMBARC Your message is sent over radio waves to a small receiver that attaches easily to the HP 95LX using a snap in cradle Sales reps and management receive last minute updates service personnel can be dispatched to job sites immediately And you re one call ahead of the competition Zip Fax use backsolving to find the square root of a negative number In the 1 2 3 worksheet go to cell B18 and key in the formula A18 2 and press ENTER Press and in the Solve 1 2 3 screen press to make B18 the Formula cell Type in 10 and press to set the Formula value equal to 10 Press to Solve and make cell A18 the Solve cell Watch the numbers roll On my 95LX the Solve result 0 000000003 Is this a bug or has HP CALC just backsolved itse
54. JAN FEB 1993 U S 7 95 NEW MED COTE OR AT ices HPAS5 Lx Le if j 4 AL VE i y GAMEcard VOLUME 1 a z PERSONAI Fo JOD ANALYST MIRIC Al PC Cards A BOON TO YOUR PRODUCTIVITY Page 10 Publisher s Message 3 Letters to the Editor 053000000n0s 4 New Products and Services 6 REVIEWS RAM ROM Card Update 10 es used to cost a lot and not hold ry much Now you can get wi to 20ME of Soraga or as little as per megabyte How to Get Battery Powered Modems Working on YOUR Pou rei ahi re use 14 Good advice on using and choosing a battery powered portable modem Modems that Work with the HP 95LX cccsscerees 18 A list of modems and related products that work with the 95LX User To User ccsccesesssenenes 19 Movie Guide turns your O5LX into a portable movie reviewer Find answers to frequently asked 95Budd RATE Nominations for Product of the Year Te Wy cope USE Profile HP 95LX on the Farm 22 The Palmtop PC earns its keep around this farm More PHONE Databases 25 Use phone and these User Defined Keys as a phone call tracker Backsolving in Lotus 1 2 3 31 Use Lotus and HP CALC to solve simple and complex business problems backwards How to Get InfoSelect Working on Your HP 95LX 35 Use this random information processor to save and later find odd pieces of information
55. JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 Personal Information Manager for the HP 95LX first dose cab En Manager PIM specifically for the HP 95LX KIV is a combination of an outliner and a free form data base It is only PIM that is fully system manager compli ant which means that you can switch between KIV and any of the other 95LX applications 69 95 S amp H Call to order your copy TODAY Lucid Corporation 101 W Renner Rd Suite 450 Richardson TX 75082 Tel 214 994 8100 Fax 214 994 8103 Toll Free 800 92LUCID the modem and computer at speeds up to 57K baud which may overload the computers ability to process it Flow control allows the computer to signal the modem and in essence say Hey wait a minute I can t take any more data right now Conversely flow control permits the modem to temporarily stop data coming from the computer This may be necessary if the modem is encoun tering poor line conditions and needs to resend data more than once While it is resending data it cannot accept any more from the computer Not supported on the 95LX is the fastest most reliable way to enable flow control This method utilizes two special wires on the modem cable so that the Palmtop and mo dem can signal each other when they are or are not ready RTS Request To Send and CTS Clear to Send signals are sent on pins 4 and 5 of the cable see figure 1 A common PALMTOP SPECIALIST PALMTOPS a
56. M also means that you can open bigger files ie larger 1 2 3 worksheets Therefore if you want to switch back and forth between large PHONE APPT 1 2 3 and MEMO files you might need to in crease the size of the System RAM Directories When you save a file you save it into a directory The HP 95LX comes with the C directory built in In addi tion there are two subdirectories built into the C directory DAT and _SYS If you open up FILER you ll see DAT but not SYS That s be cause SYSisa hidden subdirectory more on this below PHONE COMM APPT and HP CALC files are automatically saved to the C _DAT directory 1 2 3 files are saved into the C directory The simplest way to get a practical under 48 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 standing of this is to go into FILER If the top line says C you can press to see the names of all the files in C To move to C DAT directory put the black cursor line on _DAT and press ENTER To go back to C put the cursor on the line that says View Up and press ENTER Remember the hidden SYS direc tory It doesn t display in FILER as a subdirectory of C but it s still there and you can go to it and view it s contents With the cursor in the C directory press F5 Goto type in _SYS and press ENTER You should get a listing of the files in the SYS directory These files are in perma nent ROM They can be copied else where but cannot be eras
57. Medium Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr Yes Piong Et cote dot 49 95 CONTACT EduCALC 27953 Cabot Road Laguna Niguel CA 92677 USA Phone 800 677 7001 or 714 582 2637 Fax 714 582 1445 PhoneBook File Repair Software that helps you re cover PhoneBook files that have been corrupted Use when you see the File I O error or RAM Disk Corrupt messages Availability Now Medium Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr No PHORM soc cours Wee ange ee 95 CONTACT File Recovery systems 665 N E Conifer Blvd Corvallis OR 97330 USA Phone 503 757 0044 Palmtop Pets Tips on cases useful spread sheet templates and macros Budget with forecaster Time Tracker phonebook grade book and more 32 pg booklet included no programming experience required Availability Now Medium Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr na PONV Srssssvas saines 14 95 19 95 outside U S A CONTACT Picosoft 11385 Carmel Min Rd Suite 1304 172 San Diego CA 92128 USA Remote Commander Remote Commander is a fully System Manager compliant program to turn your 95LX into a universal learning re mote control for your TV stero Supports up to 55 keys per screen file Availability Now Medium Shareware Runs under SysMgr Yes Registration fee 15 lf ordered directly from author
58. Mentioned in This Article On The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK CIS SHR 95Buddy Nov Dec 92 CIS SHR SSIRP ZIP Jan Feb 92 CIS SHR 95PS EXE Jan Feb 92 CIS Also available in the HP Handhelds forum of CompuServe SHR SHAREWARE is software distributed free of charge for evaluation only If you decide to use it you must pay the author the shareware fee This goes for any shareware found on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK or Compu SIGMA _ HOW TO USE Advanced Programmer s Corner _ It s a Wonderful Function Solver s SIGMA function can be used to perform many complicated calculations including calculus By Ed Keefe This article explores SIGMA the summing function in HP Calc s Solv er SIGMA is one of the more pow erful features of Solver Let s see it in action before we try to describe it Press MENU Solve Move the cursor down to an empty line and press Edit Then key the following lines into SOLVE s edit screen The acts like a car riage return in the Solve Editor You can indent terms using lt Spacebar gt I ve laid the formula out in this line by line fashion because I think it s easier to read You don t really need to put carriage returns or indents for the formula to work Also the an swers in this article assume that you have HP Calc set to display four decimal places press Options Format Fix 4 AMORTIZATION For anyone selling big tick
59. Only Medium Flash ROM Card Dil eae oe rie ue s OAI CONTACT Magic Ram 1850 Beverly Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90057 Phone 213 413 9999 Fax 213 413 0828 Software NAVMAP Moving Map Program NAVMAP is a moving map display program for DOS PCs and the HP 95LX Palmtop It displays maps of where you are and where you are going and supports most LORAN GPS receivers Includes inte grated flight planning featur ing great circle routing using either high altitude jet routes victor airways RNAV or VOR VOR Automatic Flight Progress Monitoring updates flight plan enroute Database of over 18 000 airports and 5 000 navaids 15 800 intersec tions Availability _ Now JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 MODNI reg miss 0 moe wn Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr No PRICING is tee caveats od 6405 with 6 months of updates CONTACT Paragon Technologies Inc P O Box 273511 Boca Raton FL 33427 3511 USA Phone 800 255 9411 Voice Fax 407 369 7118 Opti Bet Compilation of routines for managing bankroll to give largest return from modest investments based upon user stats odds and money pools for para mutual wagering Availability 56 2 56e crue Now Medium Floppy Disk Runs under SysMgr No PROING se tortas ee 5 40 129 CONTACT Cartmill Fischer Software 1911 Fairway Drive Lagrange KY 40031 USA Phone 502 222 8887 Health Care Patient Histor
60. Phone Book Databases PHONE ple as I learn more about them For example Hal Goldstein s entry looks like this dit card nter the name a Da TR rr Hame Number Address HP utg Paper 95LX Newsletter ormer HP Engineer 81 84 93 3 83 pm Sample CompuServe Database A Database of Functions Available in HP Solve An example of a PBK file that has nothing to do with names and phone numbers is the HPSOLVE PBK i written by HP Palmtop Paper contrib utor Ed Keefe This file contains a listing of all the functions available in the Solve feature of the HP CALC application The name field in this database contains the abbreviated name mnemonic of the function and a list of parameters The category to which the function relates and the F key you press to access the function is also found in the name field spaced over to the right ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Shier is Director of Marketing and Sales for CK Technologies where he promotes a line of circuit board and wiring harness testers and writes user specifications He can be reached at CK Technologies Inc 1033 Business Center Circle Newbury Park CA 91320 USA CIS ID 75030 3374 Prodigy ID CXBG88A JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 25 HOW TO USE Phone Databases dit card Bi vG4 93S 3 06 pm nter the name Hamet Ee TLSE Number oute range w c BSS IHF List or more inputs to 123 of the Form exprer For each input
61. S5LX from Sparcom v v v wv Also available for the palmtop from Sparcom Ram Cards Software Portable Disk Drives Cables Games Accessories Sparcom Corporation 897 NW Grant Avenue Corvallis Oregon 97330 503 757 8416 FAX 503 753 7821 Fax 44 865 748873 40 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 4 4 4 select Printer in the displayed menu This displays the settings that the HP 95LX is using Select the appropriate setting for your printer Use the Serial Cable part number HP 82222A and the Serial Cable Adapter Kit part number HP 82224A to connect the HP 95LX to the serial printer Next check to see that hardware handshaking is disabled on the printer This is often done with DIP swit ches on the printer Look in your printer manual for in structions Hardware hand shaking is usually done with pins 4 5 and or 20 These are not available on the HP 95LX serial port By disabling the use of these pins printers are forced to look to pins 2 and 3 for software handshak ing communication with the HP 95LX Finally check to see that aha docking Stations instantly link youi palmtop to your desktop PC or Macintosh optional printer portable disk drive electronic bulletin bourd electronic information service E mail network or fax machine v The Leader in Palmtop Connectioms 1 800 827 8416 Sparcom Corporation the printer is set up to re ceiv
62. X computer with all the extras you need in an executive organizer monthly yearly calendar note pad pencil plus pockets for additional computer cards money and credit cards Power has never been so exclusive and portable TimeBoss JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 45 HOW TO USE Sigma Function to the exact value of 72 00 You ll also find that the calculation takes a little longer Refine the solution Press E2 and modify the formula to read Area SIGMA x a dx 2 b ax x 2 dx Adding dx 2 to the value of a has the effect of using the average height of the rectangle Press F9 set dx 0 05 leave a 0 and b 6 and press F2 to find that Area 71 9988 Adding dx 2 makes the answer more accurate Finally make the solution more general and force SOLVE to compute the width for us Press ESC and modify the formula like this Area O Lidx SIGMA a b resi a G ax 2 b Gicx ie G dx The expression 0 L dx a b res forces SOLVE to compute the width dx of the rectangles provided we tell it how many rectangles we want res abbreviates resolution Using dx as the first argument in L and using it only inside G everywhere else hides dx so it won t appear in the menu See page 27 of the May June HP Palmtop Paper for more on the L and G functions When you re ready press Calc set a 0 b 6 res 100 and press to find A
63. ack Add In 69 95 99 95 SUPPORTED SOFTWARE Lotus Organizer Lotus 1 2 3 PackRat Excel Commence dBASE Current Paradox Sidekick 2 0 Calendar Creator AmiPro Plus Word for Windows WordPerfect WordPerfect for Office Windows All products listed are trademarks or trade names of their respective entities To order or for more info contact IntelliLink Inc 98 Spit Brook Rd Suite 12 Nashua NH 03062 Tel 603 888 0666 Fax 603 888 9817 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 47 Bytes The number of bytes in a file is a measure of the size of the file Each byte contains approximately one character i e a letter number punctuation mark etc worth of information One kilobyte refers to 1024 bytes and is abbreviated by the letter K So a 12K file has roughly 12 000 characters worth of informa tion RAM Disk The HP 95LX comes with a built in RAM Disk designated as the C drive When you save a file by default you save it to the C drive onto the built in RAM Disk The double A batteries and if they fail the backup battery provide the ener gy needed to maintain your files in RAM If all batteries go dead you lose the files on your RAM drive On a 512K 95LX you start with 254K of RAM disk On 1MB unit you start with 398K of RAM disk The size of the RAM disk can be increased or decreased as described in the next section System RAM When you run an application such as PHONE a copy of your
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65. and press to put the value in A6 Return to Solver and press F10 and ENTER The Solve result will be 0 0059 Push 33 and see that the monthly interest rate is 0 005850 and the annual interest rate is approxi mately 7 02 We didn t backsolve for the annu al interest rate APR because it does n t work If you try converting B6 the APR cell to a value and using it as the Solve cell Solver will try to backsolve and fail However if you really want to backsolve on B6 here s how to modify the worksheet to make this happen In 1 2 3 put the value 8 in cell B6 In cell A6 key in the formula B6 12 100 and press ENTER Repeat the backsolving operation using B6 as the Solve cell This time the Solve result will be 7 0203 the APR What The Manual Doesn t Tell You Solver can only backsolve on one value at a time It can only find a single goal However you may want to see the effect that backsolving would have on many values at the same time Here s an example of how this might work Suppose you re running a small company that has four sales regions The sales regions report the following year end profits North Fast 100 200 00 South West 150 000 00 North West 50 000 00 South East 78 000 00 To find the total profit for the compa ny use the same 1 2 3 worksheet as before and enter the data in cells A10 through A13 Put the formula SUM A10 A13 in cell A14 You should see 378200
66. and would be closer to the NmH The NmH last about a week for me so that s what plan to use in the future Larry Finch CompuServe ID 73677 3414 DOS DISABLING CURSOR TRACKING When DOS applications are run ning the ALT shifted cursor keys scroll the display in all four direc tions You can thus bring any por tion of the 80x25 logical display into view on the 40x16 physical display Normally the 95LX automatically scrolls the display to keep the cur sor visible This feature is called cursor tracking For some pro grams cursor tracking is great for others it s lousy Many programs turn off the cursor and then move it to the bottom of the screen that really looks odd when done on the 95LX the screen keeps jumping to the bottom It s easy to disable cursor tracking so that the display only scrolls in response to the ALT shifted cursor keys Close all appli cations but FILER and press MENU System to get to a DOS prompt Then type dispctl c to disable cursor tracking You can also include the command in a batch file to launch your DOS pro gram or put it in your AUTOEXEC BAT file For more on DISPCTL see the HP 95LX Users Guide page B 16 Ted Dickens HP Forums Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 HP Calc USING HP CALC S SOLVER HP CALC is modeled after the HP19BIl Calculator A good re source reference on using Solver is An Easy Course in Using the HP 19B l by Grapevine Press 80
67. at Fix 4 Equation Y 2 MI bi Ni te wad RRS RES 3 7282 Solve Calc Screen Now let s see how to do the same thing using Lotus 1 2 3 Press the blue key to call up an empty worksheet If Lotus is already up with another worksheet save the worksheet press File Save lt filename gt ENTER and then erase it MENU Worksheet Erase Yes Put the cursor in cell B2 and key in the formula A1 A2 and press ENTER This is just another way of writing ZX except that the variables Al and A2 reference spreadsheet cells Cell B2 contains the formula and is used as a Formula cell in this example Don t worry about the ERR that appears in B2 Put the cursor in cell Al Key in the number 4 32 and press ENTER ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ed Keefe is an author programmer computer science instructor and long time contributor to support publications for HP computers He is the president of the FastAid Company 314 S W Logan Ankeny IA 50021 Ed s Compu Serve ID is 75300 3667 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 31 HOW TO USE Backsolving Now press to return to the Solve Calc screen If you ve closed down HP Calc prior to this you ll have to press Menu Solve move the highlight bar to Y Z X and press Calc Press ESC to go to the Solve 1 2 3 screen and again press the Form key to bring up the worksheet Posi tion the cursor in cell B2 and press ENTER Key in the val
68. built in applications except 1 2 3 You have to exit InfoSelect before you can go back to the built in appli cations I created my loader IS EXM E with a programming language called UTIL Forth see page 31 Jan Feb 92 issue but you can also use Dave Goodman s LDRMKR W to make your own loader Remember that the loader should call IS BAT not Info Select itself Watch Out for These Glitches When you start up InfoSelect it stops at the Welcome to InfoSelect screen Version 1 05 hangs up indefinitely Version 2 0 hangs up for 10 20 sec onds depending on whether you are operating on battery power or AC power With either version of Info Select you can clear the Welcome screen immediately by pressing any key The second problem is that the GET function runs very slowly when you are operating on battery power When executing GET InfoSelect con stantly polls the keyboard for addi HP 95LX Word Processor and Spell Checker Introducing fastWRITE User programmable Macro commands Edit multiple files Ems Roji Pa e January 26 Built in 100 000 word Spell Checker i EVs m Sie Duruieus Spell fast WRITEI Features nalde ls President AQUARIUM T TA IS SS Er rotein skimming 31rs ci pings an foam fractionation are a the same basic process that is gaining popularity as water cleansing method for marine aquar Lums Ete JdHe lp irii SWiTCHable Status Line SRECONGRAT D O CO CN 25 CR
69. cards The develop ment of these standards was the responsibility of a nonprofit group called the PCMCIA Since HP is on this committee the 95LX ultimately was compatible with the initial uni form standards PCMCIA 1 0 stan dards released in 1991 Since then there has been a release of updated specifications PCMCIA 2 0 The new standards allow for the development of card based modems network adapters and wireless links The 95LX is not able to use the new PC MCIA 2 0 cards The PCMCIA standard number should not be confused with the type specification which refers to the thickness of a card Initially RAM cards were 3 5mm thick These have been given the designation of Type 1 There now are two addi tional types Type 2 5mm thick and Type 3 10mm thick Your 95LX can physically handle Type 1 and 2 sizes not Type 3 Remember Type 2 can be used on the 95LX PCMCIA 2 0 cards cannot With one exception which I will Thanks for the Memory Cards get to later the only function that you can use PCMCIA 1 0 cards for on the 95LX is file storage There are currently three technologies available that can be used by the 95LX These are Read Only Memory ROM cards Static Random Addressable Memory SRAM cards and Flash Random Addressable Flash RAM cards There is another type of memory card technology call Dynamic Ran dom Addressable Memory DRAM DRAM cards are used on many lap top and notebook compute
70. ces sary software protocols of XON XOFF This also works when copying to LPT1 Enter DOS using the FILER WENU I find it very interesting that software handshaking XON XOFF protocols would be supported for the LPT1 PRN device but not for the COM1 AUX device As far as I know this is not docu mented anywhere and the HP support personnel seemed interested Sheryl Hansen Spring TX 77379 Some System Compliant Programs Can Cause Data loss As more system compliant software becomes available users should know about a bug in the HP 95LX that could cause data loss Sys tem compliant software as chronicled in past issues of The HP Palmtop Paper are programs with an EXM extension that must be in stalled using an APNAME LST file Once installed a system compliant program can be opened with a key stroke and work in conjunc tion MEMO PHONE or any of the built in applications The 1992 Subscribers Disk contains a number of such files Only CMCALC has the problem discussed below later versions of CM CALC do not have the problem Last issue page 55 a programmer s note was published warning that 5ys tem Compliant EXM pro grams must not contain relocations or fixups Since then we have received nu merous requests to expand upon that warning to allow programmers to have a bet ter understanding of the problem and its solution Many users have also ex pressed concern as they do not know whethe
71. ch are used as Receive Transmit and Ground wires Using only three wires helps to conserve valuable battery power In contrast your desktop PC s serial port has several additional ABOUT THE AUTHOR Larry Lefkowitz is a regular contributor to The HP Palmtop Paper He has been an Allstate Insurance agent for the last six years Previous to that he was a programmer analyst and computer retail direct district manager Larry s CompuServe ID is 76711 731 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 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 bat tery powered and totally portable Completely automated with auto on off fixed baud rate at 9600 and supported by Xon Xoff protocol For your nearest dealer contact INSTRUMENTS USA DTR The Missing Signal The DTR Data Terminal Ready signal is one of the signals not pro vided by the 95LX that is particularly important for some portable battery powered modems Designers of por table modems were interested in conserving battery power Many portable modems use the DTR signal coming from the computer to turn the modem battery power on and off A modem waiting for the DTR signal from a 95LX will never receive it and never turn on Such a modem will generally not work with the 95LX unless you can modify the hardware and fool the modem into thinking it
72. cting the Basic inter preter output GWBASIC gt PRN under DOS Olivier Sokal France More on GWBasic I have found that GWBasic is a very good alternative for BASIC programming on the 95LX It only uses 80K of disk space and you can DIET it to 62K You can also benefit from GW Basic s abbreviated typing and press and a letter to obtain a whole word ie ALT P Print ALT I Input This feature is much easier to use if you have the STICK COM F4 utility I expanded the size of my blinking cursor by typing LOCATE 0 in GW Basic direct mode You can also include this command in your programs I also found that GWBasic s sound com mand works differently on the 95LX For example if you type SOUND 200 2 in direct mode you cause a tone to NAV 95 For Navigators and Astronomers COMPACT amp COMPLETE Times and records sextant sights Built in almanac for 58 stars Sun Moon and planets except Pluto Does all navigation routines Finds Longs amp L O P s sunnse sunset Finds Easter date Julian day For astronomers gives info for orienting telescopes and finds angular distance between bodies Creates a file keeping all input and computed data for later view On 3 5 or 5 25 disks 99 00 plus 3 00 S amp H 5 00 outside U S Order from Louis Valier 2969 Kalakaua Ave 505 Honolulu HI 96815 sound that continues until you type in SOUND 200 0 If you enter any other SOUN
73. currently higher Flash Random Addressable Sundisk Flash RAM Card The third type of memory card tech nology is Flash RAM Flash RAM has the ROM advantages of not needing a battery to retain its data and the SRAM advantages of being writeable The implementation of different Flash RAM cards vary Sundisk was the first company to introduce a writeable Flash RAM card for the 95LX These cards conform to a sup plemental PCMCIA ATA standard that allows them to appear as more conventional IDE hard drives to the 95LX or a PC This has the advantage of raising the upper limit on capacity to the full 32M available under DOS 3 22 on the 95LX Due to physical constraints the maximum size cur rently available is 1OMB 20M using compression software This yields the cheapest cost per megabyte for high storage capacities While Sundisk has achieved a tremendous technological feat its cards have some disadvantages First the card is not readable or bootable without a device driver small soft ware program already running on the 95LX This is not much of a prob lem unless your 95LX s C drive corrupts or is otherwise lost Sundisk users might want to carry an addi tional SRAM card with the files nec essary to reinstall the Sundisk device driver just in case Sundisk provides a serial cable and software to transfer the device driver software between a desktop or portable PC 286 or better no Macs and the 95LX The Sundi
74. data fax modem works right out of the box with the HP 95LX The fax feature will not work with the HP 95LX SPECIFICATIONS Baud 9600 List Price 595 CONTACT Macronix Inc 1348 Ridder Park Drive San Jose Ca 95131 USA Phone TER 408 453 8088 Fax 408 453 Practical Peripheral Pocket Modem 2400 This popular line powered modem requires a hardware modification to work with the 95LX See the files PM2400 95 E and TINYMO 95 E on COMpUsenE PECIFICATIONS Baud 2400 List Price 159 CONTACT Practical Peripherals Inc 375 Conejo Ridge Ave Thousands Oaks CA 91361 USA Phone 800 442 4774 or 805 497 4774 Fax 805 374 7200 Telebit Qblazer This 9600 baud modem works right out of the box with the HP 95LX The modem received a PC Magazine Editors Choice recommendation in a comparison of high speed portable modems Good results have been reported when used with the HP 95LX SPECIFICATIONS Baud 9600 List Price 299 CONTACT Telebit Corp 1315 Chesa peake Terrace Sunneyvale CA 94089 1100 USA Phone 408 734 4333 Fax 408 734 333 Cables Couplers and Adapters Connectivity Pack HP F1001A Retail 99 95 Transfer files between 95LX and PC Includes software serial cable 9 pin to 25 pin adapter Serial Interface Cable HP 82222A Retail 35 Serial cable only Serial Cable Adapter Kit HP 82224A Retail 15 Kit includes two 9 pin to 25 pin adapters one for connecting to modems and ano
75. day k A Better View of the Appointment Book This utility displays the appointments of a designated period chronological ly without all the dead space in between In my business many of tomorrow s decisions are based on yesterday s events MultiDay lets me quickly scan past present and future appointments giving me a better grasp of events intments in this Section _ FEBRUARY a CG Meetin ee jop ti U 9 6 Wel 6 0 MultiDay Appointment Screen For example each time I treat a field with a pesticide I have to be aware of when the last spraying was how long I have to wait before I can go back in the field and how long be fore I can harvest the crop Multiday lists my appointments by the screen full making it easier to keep track of all these variables Switch Automatic Menuing System This menuing system lets you put up to 48 System Manager executable EXM files and 48 DOS executable EXE COM or BAT files per drive in an easy to use menuing system For more on Switch see page 8 of the Jul Aug 92 issue and pages 25 and 54 of the Nov Dec 92 issue Switch lets System Manager and DOS programs peacefully coexist on the 95LX The newest version Switch 2 0 lets developers turn any DOS program into fully system com pliant SWTICHable programs This will allow you to turn your 95LX into a customized Personal Info Manager 95Buddy E Add New Features to the HP
76. ddress fields delimited by quotes and separated by commas Use the translate utility in the Connectivity Pack to convert this CD1 formatted file into the HP 95LX phone book format See the Connectivity Pack manual page 4 9 for in structions What other programs will run on the HP 95LX Some programs that run on the IBM PC XT can be run on the HP 95LX The program must be able to work with an MDA display no graphics The program must be able to execute within the available system RAM A program that uses the serial port may not Get more out of your HP 95LX by getting more Into IC SOLID STATE MASS STORAGE SYSTEM SUNDISK e a treet Santa Clara CA 95054 ion AD oder traubemarks work depending on the spe cifics of how it accesses the serial port You may need a RAM card for more file stor age If the program meets these criteria it is worth a try Back up your files before you experiment Note that all programs that run on the HP 95LX may not be easy to use The screen 16 lines by 40 columns may require extra scrolling The display is moved around the 25 line by 80 column screen memory by pressing and an arrow key at the same time What is the recommended allocation for RAM disk and System RAM RAM disk is the area of inter nal RAM where your files are stored System RAM is the area of internal RAM where your programs are executed The default on the 512K ver Solid sta
77. de it runs reasonably well from the DOS prompt You need to use the ALT Arrow keys to traverse the Movie Guide screen Run it first SOLVING YOUR MEMORY CARD SYSTEM NEEDS new machines Adtron s RAM cards offer the low power high per formance data storage you need for your stale of the art personal computer in sizes from 64 KBytes to 2 MBytes For even greater convenience Adtron s SolidStale 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 intemal bus slot of your desktop compuler To place your order or obtain free literature call today AUL ON CORPORATION 128 West Boxelder Place Suite 102 Chandler AZ 85224 602 926 9324 FAX 602 926 9359 Bicom Epson Gridpad HPOSLA IBM PCRadio NCR 3125 Palmeom Pogei PG Samsung Penmaster Sharp PC 3000 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 19 REVIEWS User to User on a PC to get familiar with the pro gram Once I set up the program and got used to its interface it didn t take long I found Movie Guide quite useable on my HP 95LX I use it at the video store in two ways If I am browsing and see a title that interests me check its rating d
78. don t panic Cut as big a hunk out of your file as MEMO will allow then save what s left it should work Then press MENU File New PASTE and save that piece as a second file u After deleting text in MEMO you may see some little square symbols with holes on the middle appear in your text where some other charac ters used to be Usually they show up at the beginning of lines This is not a major problem Mistakes in your APNAME LST file can cause all sorts of weird behavior such as beeping when you push a blue key or very slow operations Lotus 1 2 3 reminds you to save your work if you quit without saving a modified file However if you call up another worksheet Lotus will dump the one you are working on without saving it Actually this is not a bug it s a Lotus ism f you set the Appointment Book default leadtime to other than 5 minutes press MENU Settings Leadtime an alarm with a leadtime of exactly 5 minutes will not sound an alarm A particular use of the Appoint ment Book Find function can scramble the display of appoint ments Specifically if you have more than one appointment sched uled in a day position the cursor at midnight or very close thereafter and search for one of the appoint ments in that day using the find function the appointments may get scrambled Some appointments may disappear or be moved in from other days This effect is temporary and will clear up
79. duct Dr Joseph Niamtu III Richmond VA USA 95LX Printing Solutions I have experienced some printing problems and felt that your users might have an interest in the solutions I have found My troubles first occurred when trying to print a small file which contained line draw characters to my HP Deskjet 500 printer Using the print command from MEMO caused the line draw characters to print as blanks When I tried the print com mand under FILER it yield ed the same results This is apparently a prob lem with the print command so instead I used the DOS COPY command to copy the file to my printer Since it was attached to the serial port I used the following command to copy file MAP TXT to the printer attached to the serial port of my 95LX COPY MAP TXT COM1 This worked great at first However when I tried to print a long documentation file which contained line draw characters I discovered another problem The copy command does not support software handshaking That means that the printer has no way of signaling the 95LX when its the printers mem ory buffer is full Since my file was longer than the 16K buffer of my printer the file printed several pages before the buffer overfilled and the output became garbled I decided to call HP for help on both of these prob lems Unfortunately they in formed me that copy under DOS does not support the software XON XOFF proto cols Nor did they have an ans
80. e data in the format that the HP 95LX sends it 8 bits 1 stop bit 1 start bit and no parity bit How can print to a parallel port printer from my HP 95LX You can send the files to your PC and print from the Connectivity Pack applica tions Or you could purchase a serial to parallel converter These devices convert the serial signals from the HP 95LX into a parallel format that the printer can interpret at its parallel port Before you purchase one of these devic es be sure that you can dis able hardware handshaking on the converter There is also the JetEye infrared to Parallel converter Extended Systems which connects to a LaserJet printer and lets you print from the 95LX via the I R port Now you can securely store large spreadsheets extensive databases and complete client records all on your HP 95LX Introducing SUNDISK SDP Storage Cards the only hi a million years SUNDISK SDP Cards meet tough PCMCIA ATA standards density low cost solution that s so reliable your data can survive over Capacities range from 1 MB up to an astonishing 10 MB of data storage Start getting more from your HP 95 Storage Card products please call EduCALC 800 677 7001 Z SUNDISK SUNDISK Co ToorderanyofourSDP F ration 3270 How can I convert my database of customer information into an HP 95LX Phone book From your database print out a file with the name phone number and a
81. e earliest reen try date when workers can go back in the field and the minimum num ber of days to harvest Harvest dates are entered in the scheduler along with other production specific notes for that harvest This provides a valu able historical reference that allows me to accurately track what was done and how effective in terms of production returns those actions were Sample Appointment Book file in FARM ZIP W Tracking Maintenance with To Do Lists The To do list adds further function ality When an employee mentions that a particular piece of equipment or property needs repairs I make an immediate entry into the to do list I note the needed repairs and their priority and schedule appointments if necessary This technique keeps essential repairs from being forgot ten and saves time on multiple trips to town for parts I check my to do list while I m in town and make sure I get everything I need for the farm in one trip PHONE Multi Purpose Database of Vendor Buyer Information When I need to contact a vendor to order some merchandise or when I need to contact a prospective buyer I have the contact information I need in PHONE Not only do I keep ad dress and phone numbers but I use PHONE to keep other useful data I have one Phone Book file that contains the names of major pieces of farm equipment and their serial num bers EQUIP PBK f The address section of the cards in this file lists co
82. e sitting in some room Our offices have four wheels and a mo bile phone After a failed attempt with a lap top computer that proved neither efficient nor portable enough I stum bled across a review of the HP 95LX in a PC Magazine roundup of palm tops I was impressed enough by their comments to get one I continue to find new and valuable uses for this splendid machine Here are some valuable uses I ve discovered so far APPT An unbelievable asset Agriculture is a maze of schedules including planting dates watering dates chemical application dates harvesting dates and employee work schedules Timing is all important and mistimed irrigations or chemical applications can mean the difference between a reasonable profit and a complete loss I use my HP 95LX to Beating the 95LX Into a Plowshare Farming in the 90 s is a far cry from the mule and plow of 100 years ago This farm owner finds that if harnessed properly the HP 95LX pulls its own weight around the farm keep track of when the last irrigation of each crop was how much water was applied which fertilizers or herbicides were incorporated with the water and which employee was assigned to watch that application then plan the next irrigation and make a note on the appropriate date to recheck the field moisture level State regulations are strict about the application of chemical pesticides and fertilizers I use the 95LX sched uler to keep track of th
83. ectangle above the curve However if we make the width of the rectangles very very thin the triangular areas won t mat ter that much 6 36 Area under curve approximated by thin rectangles of uniform width Here s a SOLVE equation that will compute the area under the parabola Again the words between the excla mation marks are comments and not needed for the function to work Area SIGMA x a Istart D lend ax iwidth x2 height dx width The SIGMA part of this equation finds the sum of the heights from point a to point b along the x axis The value of x is incremented by dx until point b is reached At each point the height is computed from the formula height x 2 Finally the sum is multiplied by the width dx to give the Area To see what kind of result you get key the above formula into SOLVE s editor and press CALC F9 Set a 0 b 6 and dx 0 5 Press and you should find that Area 81 25 If you set dx 0 05 and solve for Area Area 72 90 This is closer Finally a HP 95 LX Palmtop PC carrying case and executive organizer all in one After a tremendous success in Europe TimeBoss the portable office in your pocket is now available in the U S This contemporary top grain leather organizer combines both a sturdy protective case for your palmtop Order 24 hours a day FAX 608 755 1744 Phone 608 757 0673 Distributor and retailer inquiries welcome HP 95 L
84. ectivity solution is available from a company called Intel lilink How can connect my modem to my HP 95LX Use the serial cable HP 82222A included in the Con nectivity Pack and the mo dem adapter plug included in the Serial Cable Adapter kit HP 82224A to connect the HP 95LX to your modem See the 1 0 Application Note included in the HP 95LX package for more details You will need to disable hardware handshaking on the modem The HP 95LX only supports software handshak ing Check with the modem additional costs your palmtop manufacturer for instructions on disabling hardware hand shaking See modem article page 14 this issue for more information Can send a fax from my HP 95LX Several fax data modems are now available for use with the HP 95LX See modem article page 14 this issue for more information Can change the default directory in the Memo application from C _DAT to a name like better No The default directory for Memo cannot be changed That is also the default direc tory for the Appointment Phone Calculator and Data comm applications To override the default you can record a user key macro to go to a different DIALUP INTERNET E MAIL SER VICE FOR THE HP 95LX Send and receive electronic mail to subscribers of Internet CompuServe AT amp T Mail MCIMail and all other connected networks in the global messaging matrix 4 19 per month flat rate
85. ed free __ of charge for evaluation purposes only Ifyou decide 4 ee it you must pay the author the shareware fee goes for any shareware found on The HP Paimiop P aper ON DISK or CompuServe HOW TO USE More Uses for PHONE The Phone Book database can keep track of more than phone numbers Here are some examples along with instructions on creating User Defined Keys to assist a phone call tracker By David Shier Although the titles of PHONE s data fields are written in ROM and un changeable there s no law that forces you to enter names phone numbers or addresses in these fields With this little shift in perspective PHONE becomes a remarkably flexible data base Many HP 95LX users have discovered this entering the data they find useful and ignoring the field titles This article explores a few more examples of useful databases that can be created using PHONE International Dialing Codes Database The Phone Book which comes with the 95LX C _SYS _1 PBK lists 20 commonly used international dialing codes The name field contains the country name and the number field Calendar Supplement for the hp95 Important dates worldwide Lunar Solar and Time Zone days National Holidays gt 150 countries e Religious days 6 major religions e Holiday details Traditions gifts e What s closed National facts Database and Utility Functions e Merge Select Files Records Calendar amp Phoneb
86. ed or modi fied and resaved to the SYS subdi rectory Spending the time needed to understand these concepts will make your HP 95LX computing simpler and more effective Continued from page 4 and card or two According to HP s catalog blurb its conve nient to carry on your belt and has plenty of room to stow accessories Its made of gray tear resistant nylon with a strong commercial grade zipper It has a water resistant polyurethane coating and closed foam padding protects the contents from damage Order the Handheld Multi meter Case HP E2304A form HP Direct 800 452 4844 for 19 Stephen Thomas CompuServe ID 7022237 Create HP CALC Graphics The 95LX offers you an easy and inexpensive way to create your own graphics from with in HP CALC by using simple mathematical formulas For example consider the well known formula y sin x and start Function Plot ting press Graph set the RAD option press Options Radians set XMIN O XMAX 10 100 YMIN 1 2 YMAX 1 2 and XVAR X Now your parameter to play with is the Resolution E0 the number of points to be calculated for a curve As you vary from 179 to 195 or over as I did you can watch how dramat ically curves will change their character You will receive the most beautiful patterns worth studying in a time of leisure and relaxation In case your boss wanders by It s all mathematics Furet Le Piti inp Y sin x Res 189
87. eet Norwell MA 02061 ee Phone 617 871 7050 Fax 617 871 078 SWITCH Version 2 0 69 Menuing system for 95LX CONTACT see ACE below ACE DoubleCard varies 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 PalmModem 269 Modem that fits in 95LX memory card slot CONTACT New Media Corporation 15375 Barranca Irvine CA 92718 USA Phone 714 453 0110 Fax 714 453 0114 Shareware Freeware Mentioned in This Article On the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK cis SHA 95Buddy Nov Dec 92 issue CIS ACCIS Jan Feb 93 issue CIS CMCALC Nov Dec 92 issue as VDE Fall 91 issue cis SHR FINISH11 ZIP Mar Apr 92 cls Also available in the HP Handhelds forum of CompuServe SHR SHAREWARE is software distributed free of charge for evaluation purposes only If you decide to use it you must pay the author the shareware fee This goes for any shareware found on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK or CompuServe JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 21 By John K Chimits Modern day agriculture is a logistics headache Our factories are thou sands of acres of farmland scattered across hundreds of square miles Just driving past each field can take up wards of eight hours and that s with out doing anything With this much territory to cover there s no time to wast
88. em to computer GND Signal ground CD Carrier Detect from modem to computer DTR Data terminal ready from computer to modem m tn S Ga po D These signals are provided by the HP 95LX The remaining signals would normally be provided by a standard desktop laptop system Most of these additional wires are not critical to the operation of the modem However some portable modems require at least one of these additional signals to function proper ly That is the Data Terminal Ready DTR signal or may be provided by an external To send the command follow power source battery The modems Memory Cards Modems Serial to Parallel Cable Printers All HP 9SSLX Support Products fnisse Supplies Express FAX 310 370 3265 3 1 8 O O 62 ns Fe Sn eres E E ieee eae eho ants i 4 a F ahata pa ie aa ee eee nee DER bat ba ee ee os se menera my m Te me Se ene 9 ee a aaa a a ean nanana aSo ana a Eea aaea aaae naaanod MGM sos seem oe oe ee ee ee oe ee ne ee ete a ete E E ee JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 15 REVIEWS Modems these instructions It is recommend ed you issue this command to any pocket modem used with your HP 95LX With your modem connected to the 95LX go into the COMM pro gram and press MENU Connect then type AT amp D0 amp W and press ENTER If the modem receives the command properly it will respond with OK The AT tells
89. enarios A great tool for managers that want to evaluate the effects of the variability of input data 95 00 including S amp H Septima International 382 Chicopee Row Groton MA 01450 508 448 2761 FAX 508 448 5246 ry chips used in the cards and soft ware incorporated to detect failing sectors Claims have been made that a typical user need never worry about losing data due to a write life problem However think that un less the card supplier is willing to back up this claim with at least a five year warranty SRAM cards may be safer At the time of this writing Sundisk provides a one year warran ty which they may revise upwards ACE has announced a lifetime war ranty on its Flash RAM card Finally it takes a little bit longer to write to a Flash RAM card than it does to a SRAM card This is because it takes a small amount of time for a Flash RAM card s write circuitry to come out of its sleep mode neces sary to allow the card to have similar power consumption as a SRAM card I did not notice this additional write time in my daily use Flash RAM will shortly be avail able in a SRAM type configuration This will allow the Flash RAM card to be readable and bootable without installing additional software on the computer The required device driv er Will reside on the card itself in stead of the 95LX s C drive These new Flash RAM cards will suffer the same storage capacity limi tations as SRAM
90. ences and presents a list of modems known to work with the HP 95LX If you own a modem not mentioned on the list the information presented here will be especially helpful Connecting Modem and 95LX You must correctly connect your modem and 95LX before you can determine whether or not they will work together Assuming that your pocket modem has a female 25 pin connector a typical connection re quires the following parts 1 HP Serial Interface Cable HP 82222A 35 Also available as part of the Connectivity Pack HP F1001A 99 95 2 9 pin to 25 pin Modem Adapter Comes with the HP Serial Cable Adapter Kit HP 82224A 15 Modems and th 95LX WorldPort Modem Fits into HP Palmtop Cradle The 95LX connects to the serial cable which connects to the modem adapt er which connects to the modem If you don t have access to the HP modem adapter you ll have to sub stitute three other adapters The 9 pin to 25 pin adapter that came with the Connectivity Pack a 25 pin male to male gender changer and a 25 pin male to female null modem adapter Again you must properly connect your modem to your 95LX None of the suggestions in this article will work unless a proper cable connec tion is first established The Unique HP 95LX Serial Port Compare the serial port on your 95LX to one on a desktop or laptop PC and you ll notice that the 95LX s port is smaller and simpler It only has four pins three of whi
91. er bounds of To see how SIGMA can approxi mate definite integration let s use a simple function f x x 2 Press a couple of times to get back to your Solve Catalog Go to a blank line at the bottom of the catalog press Edit and enter the equa tion y x 2 Press Graph to get a graphical idea of what the function looks like Press Erase Data and then press AUTO You should see a parabola that stretches from x 5 00 to x 4 94 It touches down on the x axis at x 0 and y 0 Next we ll compute the area un der this curve and above the x axis from the point where the curve touches the x axis x 0 y 0 to the point where x 6 00 and y 36 00 We begin by dividing the area under the curve into a set of thin rectangles of uniform width We ll use dx to represent the width of the thin rectangles Function plotting J3 6 36 30 25 20 5 area under in turve Area under the curve The problem becomes one of summing up the areas of all the thin rectangles But instead of multiplyin the height of each rectangle by t width dx and then adding up the areas we ll find the height of each rectangle add all the heights and then multiply that number by the width to get the area This will give us a close approxi mation to the total area It s an ap proximation because the rectangles overfill the area under the curve There are extra small triangular areas on the top of each r
92. ere s an easier way to get 1 2 3 to backsolve a way that doesn t involve writing Solver pro grams The recipe for doing this is well documented in the Users Manu al In my edition of the manual the recipe starts on page 28 20 The subti tle is Using the Solver in a 1 2 3 Worksheet Please read or reread that section of the manual for a thorough expla nation of the procedure I won t re peat what the manual says Rather I ll show you a few more examples and point out a couple of the gotchas that I ve discovered A Simple Example of Backsolving One of the problems that occurs in many algebra texts goes something like this Given that Y 4 32 X find the value of X which will make Y equal to 234 That is to say if 234 equals 4 32 raised to some unknown power X what s the value of X To find this value by hand you d need to know something about loga rithms However with your HP 95LX in hand you can skip the logs and go directly to a solution in one of several ways You can solve the equation by using Solver alone On your 95LX simply press Solve then move to an empty line and press Edit Key in the equation Y Z X Press the Calc key and key in 234 and press F2 Key in 4 32 press F3 and then solve for X by pressing F4 The answer is 3 7282 GoalSeeking Using Backsolving LOTUS RE HP CALC This assumes that Solve is set up to display four decimal points press Options Form
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94. es came from the book 123 Release 2 3 the Complete Reference by Mary Campbell use this file rather than the built in help in Lotus since there are real examples better descriptions and can modify the file anytime Reeves Byrd Gainesville FL USA MACRO MANAGER ADD IN WORKS ON THE 95LX have been using the Macro Man ager add in for about one year without any problems Mark Horvat ich former HP sysop and former World of Lotus sysop tested it on the 95LX and found that it caused bad system crashes However try as might could not get Macro Manager to crash the 95LX don t know if Macro Manager is available separately anywhere got it from a PC copy of Lotus 123 Ver 2 2 that had Ronald Vieceli CompuServe ID 73310 3663 Batteries BATTERY LIFE COMPARISONS After months of experimentation and thanks to 95BUDDY E have a reasonable handle now on average battery life for different cell types My results are as follows Primary cells Standard Alkaline 16 hours Eveready Lithium 41 hours Secondary rechargeable cells Radio Shack NiCd 7 hours Green Power NmH 11 hours Since the Eveready Lithium a k a LithEON cells cost over 3 times as much as alkaline it is clear that they are not as cost effective They are convenient however and they create 2 5 times less toxic waste The Radio Shack NiCd 650 MaH may not be the best NiCds Millenium are rated at 800 MaH for example
95. escription and so forth on my HP 95LX Alternatively I use the guide to search for possibilities For exam ple I might look up the 3 4 star mov ies in 1985 movies with Dustin Hof fman or academy award winners in the 1940 s to choose a movie some Parallel Devices Don t Work with the 95LX There are an increasing number of products designed for the computer s parallel port other than printers These include hard drives floppy drives tape backup units and even removable hard disk systems We unsuccessfully tried connect ing a parallel floppy drive and a Ber noulli Transportable Drive to the 95LX using serial to parallel converters made by Widget and Palmtree The problem is that these type of parallel drives use software called device drivers to teach the system to communicate with the new device attached to its parallel port When we attempt to attach these drives to the 95LX s serial port via a serial to parallel converter the device driver gets stumped Unless an inge nious solution is found it may not be possible to attach these parallel de vices to the 95LX New Corvallis General Manager HP Corvallis Oregon the home of the HP 95 has a new division man ager Dan Terpack former General Manager took a position with Tek tronix Inc in Wilsonville Oregon Terpack is replaced by Frank Cloutier a 19 year veteran of HP Cloutier led the original development activities for HP s thermal inkjet tech
96. et items or doing financing Delermine what you or your customer can afford to buy given your their budget and current interest rates Determine exact interest rates DOS program for HP 95LX amp IMB PC Calculates any amortization variable e Quick what if analysis Compounding daily through annually e Principal to 999 billion 999 payments Calculates 6 standard TVM factors Displays scroling amortization schedule amp TVM schedule a Prints schedule table to printer or file Friendly convenient user interface 29 00 including S amp H Check or money order foreign 7 50 10 00 upgrade to system compliant version when available Genus Software Co rporation 1625 Richards Street Salt Lake City UT 84115 answer SIGMA Counter init ial F final step counter 2 When you re ready press to leave the Solve Editor screen press to Save changes before ex iting Then press Calc to go to the Solve Calc screen Solve Cal SimpSigmal answer SIGMA nk Solve Calc Screen for SIGMA Set initial 1 final 3 and step 1 Press answer and see below answer 14 0000 Editor s Note All the formulas in this article are found in KEEFE EQN E What SIGMA Does SIGMA turns out to be a looping routine built on the ability to add the results of successive mathematical operations to an accumulator The ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ed Keefe is an author programmer computer sc
97. etween different notes It can print one or many copies of any note Infoselect supports a maximum of 32 000 characters per note and 10M per database Since the whole data base is kept in system RAM includ ing EMS the maximum size of a ABOUT THE AUTHOR Victor Roberts is an Electrical Engineer who manages an R amp D group working database on the 95LX will be about 500K I don t use databases greater than about 30K I have used both InfoSelect 1 05 and 2 0 on my 95LX Except where indicated the comments in this arti cle should apply to both versions Minimum Disk Space Requirements The minimum installation of Info Select requires the following seven files IS EXE MENU WD USER WD BASE WD SCREEN NORM LA and GLOBAL GA You can use DIET or PKLITE to compress the IS EXE file I used DIET 1 20 ij Later versions of DIET are available and may give different compressed file sizes With IS EXE compressed a minimum in stallation of InfoSelect 2 0 requires 113 152 bytes of disk space plus room for your BASE WD data file Info Select 1 05 needs 104 960 bytes of disk space plus room for the BASE WD file I attempted to Diet BASE WD but got very little com pression Editor s Note BASE WD is the data file that gets loaded automatical ly when you start InfoSelect All Info Select data files have the WD extension If you intend to edit and save your BASE WD file or any other WD file you will need free disk s
98. for dialup access in most major U S cities A U S two way wireless access is available for 69 per month flat rate for six months through RAM Mobile Data if you sign up by June 30 1993 4 Canadian European and Mexican dialup access is available at If you are an HP 95LX owner contact PSI to sign up for PSILink the most versatile Personal Network Access Service available for PSilink PERSONAL NETWORK ACCESS PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL INC Suite 1100 11800 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston VA 22091 Phone 1 703 620 6651 E Mail psilink info psi com FAX BACK INFO 1 800 79fax79 directory at the touch of the Char key Instructions for creating user key macros are found in the User s Guide on pages 21 14 through 21 20 You can change the de fault directory in Lotus 123 See page 13 8 in the HP 95LX User s Guide There are also commercial shareware programs such as Switch and 95BUDDY that will allow you to define your own default directory for the built in applications The CompuServe Information Service is a good source of shareware programs What can do with the HP 95LX s I R port You can transfer files be tween two HP 95LXs by us ing the Filer application You can transfer files between an HP 95LX and an HP 485X using the Datacomm applica tion You can print the cur rent screen to the infrared p rinter part number HP 822 40A using the Print Screen
99. g the serial port Con tact Home Automation Labs in Atlanta GA or Alpha Products for suggestions on this 4 Add a fax modem and printer to your 2nd unit and leave it at home as a small fax machine Dave Goodman CompuServe ID 72330 130 RECOVERING FROM A TRASHED RAM DRIVE The messages RAM disk corrupt and Data error indicate that your RAM drive has been trashed This means that some files can no lon ger be read If you do not have a backup of your files you should first try to transfer all files that are not corrupt ed to your desktop PC using the HP connectivity pack or some other file transfer software Then do a hard reboot press CTAL lt Shift gt ON and an swer Yes when asked if you want to initialize the RAM disk This will reformat your disk ERASING ALL DATA The disk is no longer cor rupted but your files are gone You can then transfer your backed up files from the desktop PC to the HP This should solve your problems with data errors Thomas Rundel CompuServe ID 100023 2477 SYSTEM MANAGER System Manager SYSMGR is the application program interface API used by the internal applications It lets the 95LX do task switching SYSMGR applications make calls to the SYSMGR kernel which in turn perform specific tasks on behalf of the application In the absence of a CONFIG SYS and AUTOEXEC BAT file SYSMGR is launched automatically lf you create a CONFIG SYS file
100. g to copy and save files On most desktop comput ers you don t notice this because the CPU on a 386 or 486 is faster than the hard drive you re writing to The 95LX is an XT class machine with a slow CPU However its RAM disk is extremely fast compared to a hard disk compression program like Stacker on the 95LX slows down the access time to a RAM card as compared to an un Stacked card The result is that if you routinely save large 100K files on a Stacked RAM card your save times will increase by a factor of 10 You should also realize that the advertised doubling of disk capacity is only an estimate If you are plan ning on storing large numbers of program files EXE or COM you will probably see only a 50 in crease On the other hand large worksheet or text files are highly compressible and a threefold increase is not uncommon when compressing these Conclusion PCMCIA 2 0 is the new standard for memory cards Future PCs with card drives including any successor to the 95LX will most likely have PCMCIA 2 0 drives The PCMCIA 2 0 standard allows the development of modem network or wireless link cards and many may consider upgrading to any 95LX successor to access these op tions One small point to remember is that the 95LX has only one memory slot If you want to send a file using the New Media fax modem card mentioned above you first have to copy the file to your 95LX s C drive You can t have the
101. h the HP 95LX Line powered modems do not re quire a battery because they derive their power from both the phone line and the serial port of the computer they are connected to While these modems work well with most desk top and laptop systems the 95LX cannot provide them with the power they need to operate There are a couple of line powered modems however that can be made to work with the 95LX through hardware modification See the modem list at the end of this article If you are so inclined you may find that you can modify your line powered modem to work with the 95LX Get Information on 95LX Communications on CompuServe The 95LX Datacomm section 6 on CompuServe s HP Handhelds Forum GO HPHAND is an excellent place to share information on HP 95LX communications If you have a ques tion on getting your modem to work with the 95LX there may be other users who can share their solutions with you 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 LIIGIHIT HIO U ISIE ware 714 850 1767 FAX 714 850 0843 J 3001 Red Hill Ave Bldg 4 Ste
102. haddeus Computing Inc P O Box 869 Fairfield IA 52556 800 373 6114 515 472 6330 FAX 515 472 1879 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 pahig hts of the software included in recent issues of The almtop Paper ON DISK Instructions and utilities for accessing all programs are included on each disk WORD PROCESSING VDE Compact powerful text editor great MEMO alternative SPEL95 Spell Checker for the HP 95LX VDE LX Makes VDE work like WordPerfect COMMUNICATIONS Done an bet oe j in u s built in program _ Aare Arr ro yoer activities dd UTILITIES 95BUDDY Lets you launch an application by selecting its data file in FILER change default directories and much much more OUTLINE PLUS Outliner and text editor LOADMAKER Run EXE COM or BAT files while in a built in application FINISH Completes word after you type first few letters acCIS Automates CompuServe activities from the 95LX Allows you to perform functions off line saving you line charges GAMES ENTERTAINMENT AG Chess and Space Invaders good graphics KLONDIKE 7 pile game of Klondike Solitaire DIVDSK Checkers Go Moku Tetris Othello Mastermind Adven
103. he file There you should find some special characters after the last record These charac ters will look like one or more horizontal arrows Control Z Use the DEL key 42 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER to remove these characters Save the file Run the correct ed file back into the translate utility With these EOF mark ers gone the translation should complete successfully What is the required voltage and current for the AC adapter The adapter should output either AC or DC at 9 volts If the output is AC then the minimum current is 350 mil liamps If the output is DC then the minimum current is 175 milliamps The DC out put plug can be either polari ty The AC adapter made by HP is the same one used for the HP 82240A Infrared Print er Different versions of this adapter are made to accom modate the AC power in various countries HP 82241A for USA and Canada 110v 50 60Hz HP 82241AB for Eu rope 220v 50Hz HP 82241AU for UK 240v 50Hz HP 82241 A for Japan 100v 50Hz and HP 82241AG for Australia 240v 50Hz get CANNOT ESTABLISH A REMOTE CONNECTION when trying to transfer files from my PC to 95LX with FILER Both systems must be run ning the Filer application for the connection to be estab lished The most common cause of trouble is that the Filer on the PC is trying to communi cate through COMI and the serial cable is plugged into COM2 To test this change the PC s Filer Remote Set to
104. he unit and were not at all im pressed Palmtop Paper contributor Mark Scardina reported the following The computer was made from inex pensive looking plastic had an unus able keyboard feel and a barely read able display The kicker is that the CGA screen only displays the upper left 40 x 16 portion of a DOS pro gram s 80 x 25 screen display No scrolling function is supplied and there s no way to view off screen data Product of the Year In my last column I nominated 95 Buddy and Ace s SWITCH 2 0 and Dou ble Card as HP 95LX product of the year A number of people had other suggestions at least for honorable mentions Modem on a card Many users are pleased with New Media s PalmModem designed to slip into the 95LX s memory card slot It comes with communications software and required RAM built into the card PalmModem has a small plug in cable and pod for the RJ 11 jack It draws power from the 95 batteries and can operate online for approxi mately one hour It includes a 2400 baud modem and 4800 send fax acCIS Larry Tachna CompuServe ID 76520 1630 writes Hal don t miss the new release of acCIS for inclusion in Product of the year It is available in the CompuServe HPHAND fo rum Library 6 under the filename ACCIS9 ZIP i acCIS is System Man ager compliant and has a clipboard and memo integrated into it acCIS is a real nice piece of work It does need Commo or FastComm as the commu
105. highlight cell B10 and press ENTER Solver will backsolve and come up with 132 469 5928 Switch to 1 2 3 and see that all the other numbers in column B have changed as well g 311 If you get the drift of how this works you should be able to extend the capabilities of Solver further Fax me information Send me a demo disk Motorola NewsStream Receiver amp EMBARC software 483 00 Monthly EMBARC subscription 15 00 Remember to make Solve 1 2 3 work you need one Formula cell and one Solve cell The Solve cell must be a value not a formula The other data items can be formulas which somehow relate a data item to the Solve cell In this example the other three data items are proportional to the value of the Solve cell However you don t need to use a simple pro portional relationship You could make the formulas in cells B11 through B13 as complicated as you like Go for it Use With Care Here s an oddity an example that should fail but doesn t In the 1 2 3 worksheet go to cell B16 and key in the formula SQRT A16 square root of cell A16 Put the cursor in cell A16 and enter the value 10 ERR appears in cell B16 because Lotus 1 2 3 can t find the square root of a negative number But suppose you forgot that 1 2 3 had a SORT function and tried to RECEIVE WIRELESS ELECTRONIC MESSAGES amp FILES ON YOUR HP 95LX FROM MOST E MAIL SYSTEMS To learn more about
106. hnical Support HP Palmto Paper C ON DIS GPS Navi e Software on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK January February 1993 Product ACCIS ZIP LINSOLV ZIP REMOTE ZIP ZIP ZIP IS BAT IS EXM PROCESS PBK AE GIFPCX ARC PCXV ee IP UN BUDDY FAQ HPALL ZIP ADVERT ZIP PTP7 ZIP README ZIP Software mentioned and included in other issues of The HP Palmtop Paper On Disk or the 1992 Subscribers Disk 95BUDDY ZIP SSIAP ZIP O5PX EXE BATTCK COM CMCALC EXM DIET EXE GVCMOD 95 INSURE WK1 LDRMKR ZIP MULTIDAY ZIP LUS at TIMEOUT COM TINYMO 95 VDE WINSI ZIP Function Application Update of SOPIDUPSTE access manager Application Linear problem solve PRET Update of Sp ke TVNCR remot remote control ica Belch alo to ren IS EXM Into Sec loader InfoSelect Loader Built in U S area codes and country codes PBK file Built in Profile related PBK TXT and WK1 files esate CALC EQN file related to SIGMA function Gam Utility PCX utility Us PCX rat ee Utility ne te ZIP files Text Frequent 95Buddy ques Text D AR a files in si HP forums of CompuServe Text inden ptions products advertised this issue Text The HP Pai Pe Paper Jan Feb 1993 Text cover letter for HP F imtop Paper oN DISK Jan Feb 92 IR port print screen utility Jan Feb 92 Print screen utility 92 Subscribers Disk Batt monitor i Nov Dec 92 New version Computer Math Calculator 92 Subscribers Disk File compression utility Fal
107. how to make popular DOS programs run on the HP 95LX Victor Roberts tells us how to get InfoSelect a popular random note database program working Also included are the usual assortment of letters new product announcements and advertisements to complete the issue Our common interest in the 95LX unifies us Let us trust that in this time of change in the United States and around the world the human race can see the fundamental unity of life that underlies the cultural diversity in mankind Wal Lerlhtc Hal Goldstein The HP Palmtop Paper Volume two Number one January February 1993 Executive Editor Publisher Hal Goldstein Managing Editor Richard Hall Department Editors Ed Keefe Mark Scardina Contributing Writers John K Chimits Larry Lefkowitz Victor Roberts David Shier Advertising Marketing Brian Teitzman Peder Sweeney Margaret Martin Circulation Sharon Dilmore Cindy Ericson Rene LaReau Diane Wimett Executive Advisor Rita Goldstein The HP Palmtop Paper ISSN 10656189 is published bimonthly by Thaddeus Computing Inc at 57 East Broadway Avenue Fairfield IA 52556 cond class postage paid at Fairfield Iowa ubscription rates payable in U S dollars checks drawn on a U 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
108. ience instructor and long HR CALC SIGMA Function accumulator is a memory buffer that SIGMA stores its results in Here s a step by step description of what SIGMA does when you press the answer key 1 SIGMA clears out the accumula tor like pressing the C CE key on a pocket calculator 2 SIGMA assigns the value of ini tial 1 to counter 3 SIGMA checks to see if the value of counter is less than or equal to the value of final If it is SIGMA performs the following calculation loop a compute counter 2 i e square the present value of counter b add this result to the hidden accumulator c add the value of step to counter d Go back to step 3 above When step 3 above determines that the value of counter exceeds the value of final SIGMA ceases to per form the loop calculation copies the value from the hidden accumulator to the answer line and quits Some Features of SIGMA SIGMA is very much like BASIC s FOR NEXT STEP loop in that it time contributor to support publications for HP computers He is the president of the FastAid Company 314 S W Logan Ankeny IA 50021 Ed s Compu erve ID is 75300 3667 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 43 HOW TO USE Sigma Function uses four arguments 1 a counter 2 an initial value 3 a final value and 4 a step value However unlike the FOR NEXT loop SIGMA takes a fifth argument a funct
109. ingle pass through the loop by setting the second and third 512K RAM Card IM RAM Card 2M RAM Card 119 179 329 Memory Cards for Less IM DataPak Card 2M DataPak Card 4M DataPak Card 169 249 399 Memory Card Associates carries a full line of memory cards for your HP 95LX at the lowest prices you ll find anywhere For maximum storage at the lowest price choose our DataPak upgrade DataPak cards are pre loaded with SuperStor data compression software which doubles the storage capacity of these cards We also carry a full line of peripherals from modems to software all custom configured for your 95LX Quality Affordability Selection Don t pay more Call our toll free number today 1 800 949 7256 Order Toll Free mamo A arguments to the same value The fourth argument step is not needed but it must be given some value One works as well as any number We expanded the fifth argument by adding a Let function The ex pression O L initial initial 10 adds nothing to the value of initial 2 because it is multiplied by zero However it does increase the value of initial by 10 each time you solve for answer Let s make a slight modification to the program so that the value that is being squared is displayed in the Solve Cale screen Press ESC F2 Edit and add a couple more lines to the equation file answer U CurrentVal SIGMA counter initial initial
110. ion or expression that is evalu ated and added to a built in hidden accumulator The HP 95LX User s Guide page 29 22 doesn t mention this but the values for initial final and step can be any numbers The numbers can be positive or negative whole or frac tional For example in the above SIGMA function example change the value of step to 2 and press to find answer 10 SIGMA summed up 1 3 1 9 and then quit The next run through the loop would have made the value of counter ex ceed the value of final 3 so SIGMA quit before doing that To see the effect of using a nega tive fractional value for step try this Set initial 3 final 1 and step 0 5 Press F2 answer to see that the answer 22 5 In this case SIGMA accumulated 3 2 2 542 242 1 542 1 2 and then quit Note that the value of the first argument counter never shows up in the Solve Calc menu A Neat Trick Create a loop with a built in pause Return to the Solve Editor screen and modify the equation like this answers SIGMA counter initial initial 1 dummy step i initial 2 0 Liinmtsinal snitiai 10l Press YES to save changes and Calc to display the Solve Calc screen Set initial 0 and press answer to see answer 0 Naw press again to see that the answer 100 Press F2 again and the answer 400 Each time you press F2 a new answer is calculated Here we ve forced SIGMA to perform a s
111. issue Executive Editorial Circulation Marketing and Adver tising Offices P O Box 869 Fair field IA 52556 Telephone 515 472 6330 FAX 515 472 1879 Copyright 1993 Thaddeus Comput ing Inc all rights reserved No part of this P lication 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 toya ress changes to The HP Palmtop Paper Attn Thaddeus Com uting Inc P O Box 869 Fairfield 52556 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 3 LETTERS 95LX in Romania MyRemote Mischief and a Very Fast William Tell Overture We introduced the 95LX at The Bucharest International Fair and it was a crowd stopper There were 2 000 4 000 people per hour pass ing the booth and I had to hold the 95LX over my head with the demo running I got 12 minutes on Romanian national Television I had a lot of fun with MyRemote at the airport lounges I inconspicuously borrow TV s remote unit to program the 95LX and then the fun began I tried to act as surprised as anyone when the ball game changed to something else or the vol ume started changing It would be very useful to have a library of IR files I was in Switzerland yes
112. keys and a special program that you run on the HP 95LX The program 95IRP ZIP E is a TSR Terminate and Stay Resident program that pro vides access to the Infrared printer How can print graphics screens developed in HP CALC and 123 Using a TSR program 95PS EXE W available on CompuServe or the PTP on Disk you can print graphics that are in the display by pressing PRTSC How do run a TSR Terminate and Stay Resident program on the HP 95LX Use the Memo application create two files CONFIG SYS BoxScorer REALTIME Attn Baseball Fans Little League Coaches and School Coaches Take me out to the ballgame and forget your scorebooks pencils and the tedium of compiling year to date stats BoxScorer Real Time is the mobile software tool that will turn your palmtop into a computerized scorebook and compile all the stats you need to track the performance of your players and team You get everything from eight in depth statistical reports to automated labels for your team mailings BoxScorer Real Time is the complete solution for coaches and fans Give us a call we d love to tell you more about our extraordinary baseball product 800 282 5657 SportsWare Solutions JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 39 HOW TO USE Frequent Questions and AUTOEXEC BAT The CONFIG SYS file should contain the following line SHELL COMMAND P with a space between COMMAND and P The
113. l 91 ON DISK Instrictions GVC modem Now Dec 92 Insurance wo May Jun 92 es to create loaders Now Dec yr PN view of appointments 92 ON DI ying for PP Modem 2400 1992 Subscribers Disk Sticky key util 92 ibers djust auto af Fall 92 ON DISK Word Processi rocessing 1992 Subscribers Disk Altemate ANSI SYS file Nov Dec A New version of a popular utility Page Baha Ss fPobSRIGa ise S From Palmtop to Desktop Non Stop Freedom to Use The File You Choose Highest Quality File Translations More than 75 translation combinations for word processing spreadsheets databases and PIM applications for the Mac and the HP 95LX Translate files between HP 95LX s native Phone Book Appointment Book Memo and Lotus 1 2 3 and equivalent applications on the Macintosh including Dynodex Address Book Plus Microsoft Excel Microsoft Works Microsoft Word WordPerfect MacWrite and many more Easy File Transfer and Backup Connect the two computers with the included serial cable and with just a few mouse clicks you can transfer files between the Palmtop and the Desktop and selectively backup and restore files And According to Mac WEEK 6 29 92 The product makes file transfer between the machines trivially easy Includes e Serial cable to connect a Mac to the HP 95LX e Software for the Mac and the HP 95LX e Reference Manual DATA SSeS Se THE DATABRIDGE SPECIALISTS 55 Corporate Drive Trumbull
114. le Save Yes When you save a file for the first time you are asked to give it a file name between one and eight charac ters long filenames may not include blank spaces Examples of some legal file names include BUDGET YEAR END and SAM MEMO The 95LX automatically completes the name by adding a three character extension to the filename MEMO adds TXT PHONE adds PBK 1 2 3 adds WK1 APPT adds ABK and HP CALC adds EQN When you go into FILER and look at file names you can easily identify the applica tion the file was created by from its three character extension IntelliLink The Intelligent Link Transfers Translates important data between your HP 95LX and desktop PC Reconciles data notifying you when conflicts are found Controls what data is transferred how it s formatted and where it s transferred Keeps your HP 95LX and PC data in synch IntelliLink for Windows IntelliLink WPO IntelliLink is a major step forward in the effort to make your palmtop and desktop machines a smoothly functioning team PC Magazine April 28 1992 IntelliLink removes the user from the complex ities of accurately translating data between file formats March April 1992 IntelliLink is the most important ingredient in combining PC personal information producis amp hand held electronic datebooks Andrew Seybold Industry Expert February 1992 99 95 IntelliLink XLT HP Connectivity P
115. lf into a corner Who knows I wouldn t trust the answer Shareware Freeware Mentioned in This Article On the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK INSURE WK1 Nov Dec 92 Phone EMAR ADVANCED MESSAGING BY MOTOROLA HOW TO USE How to Get InfoSelect Working On Your HP 95LX InfoSelect Freetorm Database This random information processor makes it easy to save and later find those odd pieces of information that never seem to fit into a regular database By Victor Roberts Infoselect is an easy to use informa tion storage and retrieval program for MS DOS computers Billed as a random information processor InfoSelect stores data of any kind in windows which appear on your screen in the form of Post it type notes Using InfoSelect s GET com mand information can be retrieved simply by entering any character string that appears in the note Let s say you have the following note entered in InfoSelect The HP Palmtop Paper Thaddeus Comput ing Inc P O Box 869 Fairfield You can find this note by entering Thaddeus or 52556 or Palmtop etc You can find all notes containing fax numbers by entering FAX MILEAGE LOG Track your car mileage and other trans portation expenses for reimbursement or for your income tax return This is the application that HP forgot Runs under System Manager Remembers 100 previous routes to save you keystrokes Shows running total of miles and expense
116. luding the MACROS Bob Text Based Adventure Games for the 95LX I recently discovered 20 30 text based interactive adven ture games that will work on the 95LX There are two vol umes The Lost Treasures of Infocomm retail 69 and Additional Lost Treasures of Infocomm 49 95 A setup utility lets you set screen size for the 95LX You have to run WINSLSYSKY and ANSI SYS emulator on the 95LX before running the games The game programs are text based and DIET i down 80 to save space The packages are dis tributed by Activision 11440 San Vincente Los Angeles CA 90049 USA Phone 310 207 4500 Fax 310 820 6131 Eric Thorson Menlo Park CA USA GWBASIC Works on the 95LX I have installed Microsoft GWBASIC on my HP 95LX and it works use some cal culation programs asking input from the screen and replying to the screen This works fine However I no ticed that the following GWBasic statements don t work correctly a All graphical functions CIRCLE LINE return an Illegal function call message a BEEP behavior is very strange The first time it is called the beep will sound for 8 sec approximately The sec ond time it will beep forever The system will hang and need to be rebooted on any attempt to use the serial port OPEN COM1 HP support in France say this is a known problem but they do not have a fix for it But it is pos sible to print screen output by re dire
117. ly 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 Snart Doch Sri pictured with the HP palmtop in place Hot key access compliant with 9SLX gt 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 Li L 4 v g PC and download the exe cutable files to the HP 95LX Also you can load your preferred compiler or inter preter onto the HP 95LX If it is compatible you can devel op as well as run your pro grams on the HP 95LX BA SIC and C are the languages most often used in this man ner Be advised that most compilers and interpreters require a large piece of your RAM disk What s wrong if my printer isn t responding correctly to the HP 95LX print commands First make sure that the HP 95LX and the printer are both set to the same baud rate Then check that the HP 95LX printer driver being used is one that the printer is able to emulate To check this on the HP 95LX start the SET UP application by pressing SmartDock The complete connectivity system for the HP
118. m of the screen Last press to Add or LIST to subtract the number from your running total You cannot copy individual items from LIST to another function If you press COPY when you are in LIST the 95LX copies what ever total is in the Calc line at the bottom of the screen below the horizontal line and above the menu For more on LIST see page 23 7 of the HP 95LX User s Guide or Basic Tips page 49 of the Sep Oct issue of The HP Palmtop Paper ie Lotus SORTING A LOTUS LIST DATABASE Lotus 1 2 3 is ideal for making simple list type databases where you might want to look at the list from different perspectives As an example let s create a list of your debts including the creditor amount of monthly payment day of the month payment is due and outstanding balance Open LOTUS to a blank spreadsheet In cell A1 put the label Creditor In B1 put Monthly In C1 put Day In Di put Outstand In cell A2 enter the first creditor Citibank In cell B2 put the monthly payment say 54 30 In cell C2 put day of month it s due say 23 23rd of each month In cell D2 put the outstanding balance say 1756 25 In each of the subsequent rows follow the same pattern Enter about five examples Let s sort the list of creditors from greatest outstanding balance to least outstanding balance Press Data Sort Data Range ENTER Move the cursor to cell A2 and press the period key Then move the cursor down to cell D6 and press ENTER
119. mmon parts in the equipment and their part numbers ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Chimits and his father farm 2 800 acres of land in Southern California primary crops are wheat and alfalfa John also majored in Electronic Computer Engineering in college His CompuServe ID is 70760 5001 22 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 Edit B1 23 93 4 18 pm Enter t e name Name PCR ER Numbers ress OTT eliter PH 3429 Alt Be it G T 135 t 74 ates mog Belt 7 59 0 Belt 338 r Equipment Phonebook Card view I use a Lotus spreadsheet with this database A User Defined Char acter macro accessing the Cut and Paste facilities lets me copy the infor mation about a piece of equipment from the PBK database to Lotus F6 Goto 123 F2 124 CTRL F4 ALT Z ENTER The spreadsheet truncates the entry creates a filename and loads another spreadsheet that contains the com plete service record for the requested piece of equipment Repair dates part numbers vendors and tractor hours are all kept track of in these sheets If I modify the spreadsheet I use another User Defined Character macro to automatically save the spreadsheet and return me to the equipment database F7 Back Phone MENU FS ENTER R MENU j OY PHONE I used this technique to keep my Ranch File a Phone Book database of where records on ground prepara tion crop variety acreage and pro duction are kept I now use 95
120. mp ACCESSORIES HI SPEED POCKET FAX MODEM PORTABLE PRINTER PROFESSION SPECIFIC SOFTWARE ON MEMORY CARDS QUALITY MEMORY CARDS SRAM FLASH OTP EEPROM LOW COST CARD DRIVES SERIAL PARALLEL amp ISA BUS OMPONENTS FOR DESIGNERS SINGLE CHIP CONTROLLER IC PCMCIA CONNECTORS Call 602 721 7211 1 Fax 602 721 7212 824 South Mill Ave Y Suite 301 term for this technique is hardware handshaking A flow control method supported by the HP 95LX is accomplished through software The computer and modem can send each other special characters called XON XOFF in the normal stream of transmitted data When using a modem that supports error correction data compression with the HP 95LX you must either enable XON XOFF software flow control or disable the error correc tion data compression features of your modem ENABLING SOFTWARE FLOW CONTROL ON THE 95LX To enable software flow control XON XOFF on your HP 95LX make a change in the configuration of your communications software If you are using the built in COMM program follow these directions 1 Press on the 95LX to bring up the COMM program 2 Press Settings Config Other Flow XON XOFF Enable Save these configuration changes with the Save option on the Settings menu If you are using the COMMO shareware communications program you must change two lines in your COMMO SET file You can use the built in MEMO program or other text editor to make the change
121. n the modem looks at the Transmit Data signal TXD see figure 1 in article as an on off switch There fore to insure the modem is off after use you must disconnect the modem cable Modems with an earlier serial number will work with the HP 95LX but on AC power only Note The Worldport 2400MNP version of this modem will only work with the HP 95LX on AC power SPECIFICATIONS Baud 2400 List Price 229 CONTACT See contact above Other Modems That Work with the 95LX 9624 VAP Pocket Fax Modem Compact uy Hayes compatible 9600 bps send receive fax amp 2400 bps data modem Connects to standard 9 pin RS 232C connector and runs on external adaptor or internal 9 volt battery Comes with BITFAX BITCOM software user manual 9 volt battery AC adapter and phone cord SPECIFICATIONS Modem baud 2400 Fax baud 9600 List Price 199 CONTACT Neutek Intemational COP 824 South Mill Avenue Suite 301 Tempe AZ 85281 USA Phone 602 731 7211 Fax 602 731 7212 GVC Mini Modem model MM24 This modem may require a hardware modification depending on the chip set used in the modem This generally requires connecting pins 5 and 20 on the modem side of the cable to force DTR high See the file GVCMOD 95 amp on Compu serve for details on how to perform this modifica tion Some of these modems will work right out of the box with the HP 95LX so try it first before starting modification Because of its low price this m
122. n the first 40 columns of the screen LinSolve takes up 103K bytes of disk space and can be run from FILER close down other applications highlight and press F4 Run The program prompts for the names of the input and output files It asks you if you want to maximize or minimize and then crunches away LinSolve makes Linear Programming a delight rather than a headache It may not satisfy everyone s need but it has handled all the problems I ve thrown at it while work ing on my MBA Tom Tache Norfolk VA USA Don t Have to Exit FILER to Save Batteries on Newer 95LXs Congratulations on the Nov Dec 92 issue An answer to a frequently asked question page 62 of the Nov Dec 92 issue advises exiting FILER when not in use because of battery drain I think that advice is obsolete and applies only to the old pre March 92 512KB models Ted Dickens HP Forums Sysop CompuServe ID 76701 272 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 Print to Parallel Pri niers from the HP95LX Paralink 3 is for those times you need to print to a parallel printer from the HP95LX ust connect one end of the Paralink 3 we to REX teers s 36 pin female other to the 95LX via the oar cable nde the Connectivity Pack Paralink 3 is battery powered and works with most parallel printers
123. nd on The HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK or CompuServe Easy Data Acquisition and Process Control u lt erT eMonitor and control temperature pressure flow humidity etc eAnalog Digital and Digital Analog converters for your HP95LX Multi channel high resolution input and output Battery operated compact and rugged Import data directly into Lotus 123 or ASCII files A portable economical solution for data logging and control Available early 1993 Systronix Inc 555 South 300 E Salt Lake City UT 84111 TEL 801 534 1017 FAX 801 534 1019 BBS 801 487 2778 just got personal just got person How Make world leaders in GPS and computer technologies work together The GPSpac from GESSA integrates the most powerful Palmtop PC on the market the HP 95LX from Hewlett Packard with Rockwell s NavCore V state of the art five channel GPS receiver Simple but functional COMPLETE SYSTEM LIST HP 95LX Palmtop PC 699 GPSpac w transit case 1290 Battery pack 195 Software on 2 Mega SRAM Card 799 CALL OR FAX PALMTREE FOR SPECIAL PRICING MME So pspuc ee PRODUCTS INC 145 Washington Street Norwell MA 02061 Phone 617 871 7050 Fax 617 871 6018 HP el hp eed some with your almtop Yow re not alone Thaddeus Computing Inc publisher of The HP Palmtop Paper now offers ASK THADDEUS Your HP Palmtop Helpline Available to all HP P
124. nications engine acCIS allows users to automati cally log onto CompuServe and download mail and forum messages using a modem and the 95LX This process saves quite a bit of on line time and expense VDE MASM CMCALC Programmer Tony McNamara 76702 1454 writes If not for the current versions of VDE Ii and MASM I would probably only barely tolerate the 95LX MASM Microsoft Assem bly Language clearly won t win product of the year partly because it s old and partly because it has limited appeal However I write 95LX programs using MASM and use VDE as an editor review of VDE on pages 27 28 of the Jan Feb 92 issue Too bad Finish Line Hi isn t out for the System Manager yet that would have gotten my nomination but not until it works in MEMO review on pages 31 32 of the Mar Apr 92 issue As it is the single program I find most useful on the 95LX other than those I ve written and VDE is probably Gene Dorr s CMCALC A I only wish it included ASCII as a base Order Information Movie Guide 44 99 CONTACT Banner Blue Software P O Box 7865 Fremont CA 94537 USA Phone 510 794 6850 Fax 510 794 9152 Paralink3 80 Serial to parallel adapter CONTACT WIDGET Software 121 London Road Knebworth Herts SG3 6EX UNITED KINGDOM Phone 011 44 438 815444 Fax 011 44 438 815222 Palmprint 159 oerlal to parallel adapter CONTACT Palmtree Products 145 Washington Str
125. nology and has been the manager of R amp D for inkjet printer technology at HP s facilities in Singapore There have been other changes throughout the division and this is not surprising as HP Corvallis ex pands into a new marketplace Poten tial customers of HP palmtop com puters are quite different from those who benefited from HP Corvallis premier calculators 95Buddy Frequently Asked Questions For those who responded to my enthusiastic recommendation of 95 BUDDY version 2 W check out BUD DY FAQ E in Library 7 of the HP HAND CompuServe forum If you use the 95LX s built in programs a lot 95BUDDY is a must It saves many keystrokes and makes the user interface much more intuitive BUD DY FAQ is a text file of frequently asked questions and includes details of 22 patches that fix bugs or modify features of 95BUDDY The file also includes operating tips My favorite patch is one that allows me to press FREE EduCALC CATALOG ACCESSORIZE YOUR 95 EduCALC 27953 Cabot Road Laguna Niguel CA 92677 Just look at a few of the products and ideas you ll find at EduCALC all at our deepest discount prices Accessories Hard Disc Drives RAM Memory Cards Wireless Communication Modems Leather Cases Printers Connectivity Kits Language Translation Software Flight Packs Medical Software Games Packs Tutorial amp Reference Books Flash Drive And many more Manufacturers BSE Databook S
126. odem has been fairly Opa among HP 95LX users who report good results after modifications are made if necessary This modem used to be available from CompuAdd for 69 According to GVC it is no longer being manufactured but still may be available from some sources There have been some reports of this modem being available under different brand names The manufacturer states that this modem has been replaced by a series of pocket fax modems The GVC technical support department told me that these new modems would work with the HP 95LX without modification The fax fea ture of these new modems will not work with the P 95LX SPECIFICATIONS GVC Mini Modem MM24 Baud 2400 Price N A GVC Pocket FaxModem SMM 9648 24 Price 159 GVC Pocket FaxModem SMM 9696 24V Price 249 CONTACT GVC Technologies Inc 376 Lafayette Road Building B Sparta New Jersey 87871 USA Phone 201 579 3630 Fax 201 579 2702 Hayes Pocket Edition 2400 This line powered modem requires a hardware modification in order to work with the HP 95LX See the file HAYPKT 95 amp on CompuServe SPECIFICATIONS Baud 2400 List Price 179 CONTACT Hayes Microcomputer Prod ucts Inc Phone 800 635 1225 18 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 6 of the HP the Handhelds Forum GO HPHAND Specific filenames are mentioned in the modem list Before using any of modems listed below with the Macronix MaxLite 96 PC This 9600 baud
127. ols to access the built in graphics capability of your 95LX explore memory and much more 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 95LX e 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 95LX and at a list price of just 70 it 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 Simsbury CT 06070 U S A Phone 203 651 8284 Fax 203 651 7926 ent Your PC or laptop can provide the DTR signal while your 95LX cannot Connect the modem to your PC using a standard modem cable Then using a communications pro gram on your PC send the command as detailed above The modem should now work properly with your HP 95LX Using Modems that Support Error Correction and Data Compression with the HP 95LX Some modems support error correc tion protocols to insure the accuracy of data If your modem supports MNP 2 4 or V42 error correction and MNP 5 or V42bis data compression you will need to enable flow con trol between your computer and the modem Flow control allows the computer to regulate how much data is coming from the modem Today s sophisticated compression technolo gies allows data to stream between 16 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER
128. ook Databases Battery voltages and left Change file and directory protection e Many other built in functions Small and easy to use e Menu driven user interface e Usually lt 20K on line 135K max 25 includes floppy disk on line manual l year of calendars and database program with built in system utilities Visa MC US412 422 4134 Made in the USA by ASP is the country code The address field contains the international access pre fix used in that country to make direct dial international calls This PBK file is written in ROM and cannot be modified However if you have a use for such a database it s possible to edit it and add additional countries or city codes to it Simply copy _1 PBK to another directory call the copy up and modify it I have created such a file DIALCODE PBK H and modified it for English speaking users I think it is easier to find Germany in my list than Bund esrepublik Deutschland in the origi nal _1 PBK The original is still in ROM so you don t have to worry about losing it A CompuServe User Profiles Database I have another Phone Book in which I list the people I communicate with on CompuServe The name field lists their name the number field contains their CompuServe ID number and the address field lists biographical information such as forum member ships requests for information occu pation and hobbies This helps me write more personal messages to peo
129. or s phone number is 707 573 1065 Mon Fri 9am 5pm Pacific time Also note that there will be a generous fastCOMM upgrade offer to registered COMMO users when fast COMM is released the up grade will be available until June 30 1993 HP 95LX HP 48SX Developer Program Registration Form To apply for registration as an HP 485X or HP 95LX de veloper please answer the questions below on a sepa rate piece of paper and send or fax it to the contact listed below The program is for software and hardware devel opers not end users 1 Your Name 2 Company Name 3 Address 4 City State Zip 8 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 5 Daytime phone 6 Other phone optional 7 Fax if available 8 HP Product you are de veloping software hardware for HP 485X HP 95LX 9 Product s that you will be developing 10 Current products on the market 11 Area of expertise e g electrical engineering survey ing data collection etc 12 Type of computer s used for software development 13 Estimated Size of applica tion s Number of K bytes 14 Type of media used to distribute software ROM RAM Disc 15 Bundled with product Yes No 16 Estimated volume sales of your applications number of applications you expect to sell per year 17 Estimated intro date 18 Where did you hear about the developers program CONTACT Mary Moore Hewlett Packard Company 1000 NE
130. ord in my HP 95LX and it won t work now What s wrong The password function is case sensitive If you original ly set up your password while the CAPS lock was on you will need to turn it on again when entering your password Be very careful that you are entering your password in the correct case You may want to change your password to all lower case If it still doesn t work you must take out the main and backup batteries to ini tialize the HP 95LX You will lose all your data but the HP 95LX can be used again I ve transferred my files from my 95LX to my PC using CPACK but can t find them on my PC There are several places you can look In the Filer on the Local side using split screen look in the root di rectory and any other direc tories you may have trans ferred the files into To change directories in the Filer highlight the directory you want and press ENTER You can also look at a file on the application screens For instance to look at an ap pointment book file in the ap pointment book application you can press ALT 3 to bring up the appointment book screen Press ALT Fi0 to bring up the menu Select File Open If your file appears on the screen highlight it and press ENTER If it doesn t appear on the screen high light and press to move up a directory Then look for the file you want or select another directory where you think the file might be Shareware Freeware
131. ou 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 manufacturer 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 y VAs You can Save subscribing fo r two years for 25 Satisfaction guaranteed su 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 T0 SUBSCRIBE USE THE ENCLOSED CARD OR CALL US TOLL FREE 800 373 6114 T
132. pace equal to the size of that file InfoSelect Adjustments Make the following adjustments to InfoSelect and it will be easier to use on the 95LX on high performance gas discharge light sources Vic s CompuServe ID is 70413 1423 his Internet ID is roberts crd ge com and his Prodigy ID is DXXPI8A JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 35 HOW TO USE InfoSelect Display One Note at a Time From within InfoSelect set the num ber of windows displayed by press ing A djust W indows Then press twice until the Max Windows screen is displayed Press 1 one and then ENTER Finally press ESC to return to the main display Note According to PTP sub scriber Wingfang Li the thick line current window frame doesn t display well on the 95LX He suggests changing that to either the single or double line option He also suggests using Info Select s SETUP EXE program to change display colors to find the best combina tion for the 95LX Change Window Size to Fit 95LX Display Change the default size for the new windows so it matches the 40 col umn by 16 row screen on the 95LX To set the default size of new win dows press N to create a new win dow Then press 12 times 13 times in Version 1 05 and press any regular character to mark the end of the window Then press and use the Right Down and Up Arrows to adjust the size of the new window to fit the 95LX screen Press ESC again to set the size of
133. parcom ACE Sparcom Natl Calc Hewlett Packard Motorola US Robotics EduCALC EduCALC Palmtree Sparcom Kodak Canon CMT EduCALc Intellilink Globalink Paragon Technologies Computerbooks Macromed ACE Sparcom Grapevine Richard Harvey Sundisk Call today and ask for your FREE 68 page EduCALC Catalog 1 800 677 7001 ext 108 or FAX 1 714 582 1445 SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OVERNIGHT SHIPPING AVAILABLE 20 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 Multi Macro Manager Break through the 10 User Defined Key barrier Manage up to 200 User Defined eys System Macros Run any one macro immediately Create delete and swap Macro Files Move copy and delete Individual Macros Written by Ed Keefe Contributing Editor The HP Palmtop Paper 25 00 includes S amp H check or money order international orders add 10 The FastAid Co 314 S W Logan Ankeny IA 50021 most any key rapidly twice in succes sion to get its shifted value For ex ample 3 pressed quickly twice pro duces a question mark h pressed twice creates a capital H Company to Clone 95LX Copam Inc demonstrated a prototype of a palmtop PC similar to the HP 95LX The palmtop they showed at the November 1992 COMDEX com puter show had system manager type programs came with DOS 5 0 512K of memory and a CGA compatible screen The price is reported to be about half HP s list price However several 95LX users saw t
134. pt PT1 P O Box 500 Midwood Station Brooklyn New York 11230 Error Solve cell must be a value That s right Solve can only change numbers It can t modify formulas So press the 1 2 3 blue key Press F2 to bring the formula into the edit Fast HP 95LX Outftliner and Text Processor Introducing fastLINE Supports up to 8MBvtes per Outline Up to 32K per entry aeh plan ati 17 67 pe SwiTCHable LA Auto Time and Date Stamping Context Sensitive Help ingre dients Patent 2 jt PE TO PrRIcIes Imports ASCII file for Text Retrieval applications fastLINE Features cus on the Fani lucParenting Chris anis Today Missions HEBTCRL Bk ey hondrosis 61 11 93 98 61 e Oste oar the ys is ose Fone er pe mice dit Easy to use Menu Interface Supports up to 8MB Outlines and can be used for Text Retrieval with global searching Auto date and time stamping for PIM functions Built in File Manager with extended filenames Exports in Legal and Roman outline structures Requires less than 200KB of RAM and is fully SWITCHable with built in applications For more information Call 800 825 9977 ACE ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zonker Rood Suite 103 Son Jose Callfornio 95134 U S A Deolers amp Detributors Welcome fastLINE version 1 0 C1 105 nn irarsses 32 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 line Press F9 to force a recalculation
135. r Palmtop s phonebook today PLEASE NOTE The ASK THADDEUS HP Palmtop Helpline is designed to help you get the most out of your HP Palmtop PC The information we provide is advisory only and is correct to the best of our knowledge Thaddeus Computing Inc is not responsible for any loss of data time or money or for any expense whatsoever resulting from the use or implementation of our services Any outcomes from use or non use of our suggestions are the sole responsibility of e recipient 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 differentiated enough from Quick Tips Do you have any tips Please write The Editor The HP Palmtop Paper Thaddeus Computing 57 E Broadway Fairfield IA 52556 Appt THE 95LX IS A TWO TIMER The Local City feature in APPT can be quite useful when traveling press Watch World City As you move across time zones you can let your home base time serve as an always accessable time anchor You can continually update the current time as you change time zones Keeping the two times up to date is simple The World City represents your home base When traveling the Local City is where you currently are The Local City s time is normally the current time that shows up in your applications Setting the time is simple Set up the Local City first Move the cursor to Local Ci
136. r anyone you send to automatically Pas ee eee eee 1 800 736 9666 Call this number or send us an E mail message through Internet at the following address airmail ram com If you prefer the old fashioned way write to RAM Mobile Data 10 Woodbridge Ctr Drive Suite 950 Woodbridge E NJ 07095 A business venture between RAM Broadcasting and BellSouth oe ON ON ON D ON ON EN Continued from page 27 5 Finally press END lt Snit gt to move the cursor to the end of the line 6 Press lt Shift gt CHAR F5 to stop recording the user key This user key opens the data card erases the and moves the cursor to the end of the date so that you can enter notes about the call If you were unable to complete the call simply press twice with 95Bud dy installed to erase all the changes After you are done with the call and writing your notes press to return to the list Notice that the person you just called is no longer listed since the was erased from the beginning of the date Rescheduling User Key Fs This user key lets you reschedule calls left over at the end of the day to the next business day With the cur sor on the first record in the list follow these steps 1 Press lt Shift gt CHAR F8 to start the recording process 2 Press to enter the first re cord 3 Press to move the cursor to the date field 4 Press to move to the right of the then press to
137. r they have anything to worry about Space only allows a descrip tion of a procedure for end users to determine if they have a problem Program mers can obtain a more complete explanation by downloading FIXUP ZIP i from the HPHAND Compu Serve forum by obtaining this issue s Palmtop Paper ON DISK or by sending The HP Palmtop Paper a self ad dressed stamped envelope There is an easy way to check all of your EXM pro grams to determine whether any contain fixups using the DEBUG command hidden in English Language 95LX s This can be done by going to DOS and entering C _SYS DEBUG lt path program You will then see the prompt Enter a d and sev eral rows of double digits will be displayed Examine the first row and count six pairs over If the next two pairs are not 00 then you have found a program with fixups Obviously if none of the programs that you use have any you need read no further Also if you find only one program with any you are still ok If you have found more than one pro gram with fixups then un less they all have the same number you need to take the following preventive action to prevent possible data loss A program that performs the debug function and displays the number of fixups in an EXM will be on the PTP ON DISK 1 Inform the author or com pany that distributes the software of this problem You might also refer them to this article 2 If you must continue to use these
138. rd Battery Low warning it may already be too late This means that BATTCK COMHI on the 1992 Subscribers Disk should not be relied upon to report the sta tus of the RAM card battery The recommended procedure with SRAM cards is to change the battery every 11 months Set an 11 month reminder in APPT and change the battery whether you ve received a low battery warning or not When your 95LX is off it sends no power to the card This occurs when you turn the 95LX off by press ing or when the 95LX automati cally shuts off after three minutes If you do get a low battery warning do not turn off your 95LX Connect your Palmtop to the AC adapter so your 95LX doesn t time out and change the battery If you don t have an AC adapter handy press a key every three minutes until you can change the battery You can also disable it from timing out with TIMEOUT COM E TALEH Spr Let La inde lt mr THEM ES 2 SET aani ie PRESS bitin AN Ny MR FOSTER S From how many pocket palmtops did Peter Piper pick to peck One peek and Peter picked a Hewlett Packard packed pocket palmtop to peck SRAM cards do have advantages First they re the fastest of all the memory cards especially when writ ing to them Next they have virtually an infinite life with no drop off of performance over time They also are both readable and bootable without FRS a 29 AN HP 95LX HELPS YOU
139. rea 71 9982 This particular method of numeri cal integration is the simplest but its accuracy is limited Note that the final algorithm will let you find the numeric integral of any continuous function Just substitute your function for x2 in the above equation For a different algorithm that does the same thing but more precisely see page 36 of the booklet Technical Applications HP 27S HP 19B Hew lett Packard 00027 90044 The booklet is available from EduCalc Viewing the Area Under a Curve To see the area under the curve Y X42 start the SOLVE Editor and enter the following equation then land else are comments AreaGr IF L Z Z 1 gt 0 then X 2 t else 0 Press Graph and set XMIN 0 XMAX 6 1 and RES 360 Press F3 AUTO and watch the area between the curve and X AXIS get shaded in Function plotting 20 Function plotting Area Under Curve How does this work The answer is that Graph has its own built in loop mechanism which feeds increasing values of x into the equa tion Each time a new value is fed into the equation the L Z Z argu ment is evaluated This causes L to flip flop between positive and nega tive values If the value is positive then X 2 is plotted otherwise the line y 0 is plotted As Solve plots the graph and X increases each point connects to the next point Since Y alternates between X 2 and 0 as X increases the area between Y X 2 and
140. ree public access BBS has been started in the Chicago area for support of the HP48 95 41 42 28 and 71 75 File areas include Frequently Asked Questions HP48 Go odies Disks HP95 etc with files being added daily Internet Usenet news groups weekly updates com 1 800 733 5017 EC 95 ENVIRONMENTAL CASE for the HP95LX Rugged aluminum case with high gloss finish Waterproofs and shock mounts the HP95LX for hostile environments Built in rechargeable power supply Options include handstrap carrying case auxiliary battery and high capacity NiMH batteries Corvallis Surveying Systems 919 NE 2nd St Corvallis OR 97330 800 733 5017 503 752 4419 e FAX 503 752 7037 in CANADA 604 756 6199 JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 7 NEW THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS ing in January First time callers have full access privileges 120 min utes day no file ratios Comm Specifications 8 data bits no parity 1 stop bit 120 0 14400 bps V 32bis V 42bis MNP5 LAPM supported easy to use Zmodem file transfers now working Any questions call Brian Walsh at the number below by voice at other times or leave a comment to sysop when online Availability joys Now Hours of Operation 1tpm to 8am Central Time 7 days week other times on request call the above number by voice first CONTACT PHONE 708 304 0666 Upgrades Updates Corrections acCIS amp Upgraded to Version 1
141. rk Scardina is a computer consultant based in San Francisco specializing in palmtop based applications He can be reached at 415 681 9672 or CompuServe ID 76711 732 for commercial projects 10 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 REVIEWS RAM Cards 95LX and it s becoming less expen sive While SRAM cards are still very expensive when compared to floppy and hard disk technology SRAM prices have plummeted by almost 70 in the past year from 500 per megabyte to 180 SRAM s only other disadvantage is that its memory is retained by the presence of a battery The lithium backup batteries used in the cards provide a one year life However there is a problem with this on the 95LX The earlier versions of SRAM cards sent exact data on the level of the backup battery to one of the pins in the card The 95LX has circuitry to enable it to interpret this voltage and give you a warning in time to change the card s backup battery before it dies Current SRAM cards including HP s cards have this battery level circuitry built in and only report one of three conditions OK Warning and Data Not Guaranteed Unfortu nately the Warning indication can not be read by your 95LX because the Boba o iA MSG Te 06 am F oe 42 pm ren prm E F about ippech i today IE yed wor regues j review 524 time at 4 fa LEE un pin is not hooked up This means that when you get the Ca
142. rk of Stoc Electronics DoubleFlash DoubleCard and DoubleRAM ore trademarks of ACE Technologies Inc
143. rs but DRAM cards cannot be used by the 95LX Read Only Memory ROM Cards PERSONA FOOD ANAL VS Some developers put software on ROM cards ABOUT THE AUTHOR They used to store at most 1MB of data and cost more than 500 a megabyte Now Flash cards with file compression software can store up to 20MB of data and cost as little as 50 a megabyte ROM cards have been available since before the introduction of the 95LX They are the least expensive form of memory card but are read only and cannot be written to ROM cards are most suitable for storing software programs or data files that do not need to be changed A software program on a ROM card can be installed simply by in serting the card into the 95LX elimi nating the need of a disk drive or file transfer from another computer The ACE Gamecard Personal Food Ana lyst Derive HP s Dictionary The saurus card and the Global Transla tion card are examples of software programs on ROM cards Most 95LX software is not available in this form because the card cost is 50 to 100 times that of a floppy disk ROM cards are more stable than their writeable counterparts The soft ware program is etched permanent ly into the card s microchips and can never be altered or lost through any action short of physically destroying the card Static Random Addressable Memory SRAM Cards SRAM cards are the most popular card storage technology used on the Ma
144. s Automatic creation of new data file at beginning of each year Prints the pentes 0 log formatted text file for your oto te Written in C and Assembler for small program size 13K and minimal memory usage 45 00 including S amp H check or money order foreign orders add 7 50 a ichards Salt Lake City UT 84115 InfoSelect is not limited to lists of phone numbers You can use it to store birthdays project information a list of the records or video tapes in your collection etc In addition to simple information retrieval InfoSelect can automatically dial a phone number found in a note remind you of to do notes based on dates entered into the note and link multiple notes with hypertext Infoselect is designed to run as a TSR on desktop PCs However it can also be run as a stand alone applica tion This mode is recommended for use with the HP 95LX as well as with multi tasking environments such as Desqview and Windows While InfoSelect is designed for a standard 80 column by 25 row screen an interesting adjustment described below makes it highly compatible with the 40 column by 16 row screen on the 95LX When run as a DOS TSR Info Select can grab a screen full of data from the underlying application and paste data into underlying applica tions It includes a decent editor that supports Wordstar like editing com mands The editor supports cut and paste within a window note and b
145. s When done these two lines should look like this sfc yes hfc no Many modems that support error correction data compression have hardware flow control enabled as their default setting A modem that is set for hardware flow control will dial normally when connected to the HP 95LX but appear to freeze once connection is made with the remote computer Consult your modem man ual for instructions on how to change the modem s default setting to XON XOFF software flow control The command that works for many Hayes compatible modems is AT amp K4 If you are using the built in COMM program on your HP 95LX you can enter the above command manually each time you turn on your modem If you want to make this setting permanent in your modem add amp W to the end of the above com mand before executing it If you are using COMMO just add amp K4 to your modem initialization string in the COMMOSSET file Note Certain file transfer proto cols such as Zmodem require the use of hardware flow control and will not work without it Additional ly some communications programs require signals not provided by the HP 95LX hardware handshaking Carrier Detect in order to operate properly Most AC Powered Modems Work Most AC powered modems will work with the HP 95LX However their size and the need to be close to an AC outlet makes them inconvien ient to use with the HP 95LX Most Line Powered Modems Don t Work Wit
146. s blank It is likely that the main bat teries are low and that the HP 95LX is being powered by the backup battery The backup battery will maintain your data for a few hours but is not strong enough to dis play data on the screen Ei ther plug into an AC adapter or change the main batteries as soon as possible If it is not a power problem you can try a hard reset see page 1 13 in the HP 95LX User s Guide If this does not work contact your Service Center My keyboard is locked up and the HP 95LX won t respond to any keys What do do Start by pressing ESC If that doesn t work simultaneously press CTAL ALT DEL If that doesn t work you can use a hard reset see page 1 13 in the HP 95LX User s Guide Should buy a RAM card instead of the 1MB version The 1MB version has twice as much memory RAM which means you can store more files and run larger programs The maximum size program you can open on the 512K version is about 480K bytes The maximum size program you can open on the 1MB is about 600K bytes A 512K RAM card will let you store more files but the size of a program you can open will not increase Using a RAM card is analogous to using a floppy disk in the A drive on your desktop PC How do start a new Phone Book In the Phone book applica tion press File New Insert some names and num bers Then press File Save and type in a name for the new file and press EN TER Now
147. ses what many people think will be the most significant new computer technology of the 1990 s The PCMCIA card The HP 95LX leads the way using an industry standard PCMCIA card slot Many people think that the future usefulness of a palmtop will be deter mined by the PC card being used rather than by the particular palmtop The HP 95LX card slot supports RAM and Flash Cards extra storage space ROM cards software and even a fax modem card Speaking of modems Larry Lefkowitz contributes a definitive piece on how to get battery powered modems to work with the HP 95LX For those of you who wish to make better use of built in applications look to David Shier s ideas about using PHONE as a contact manager Then roll up your sleeves and step through Ed Keefe s contributions See how easy and useful it is to extend 1 2 3 s capabilities to backsolving with HP CALC Then see how to use the HP CALC Sigma function to solve college algebra and calculus problems Ed s writing is clear and full of insights for making more out of the powerful HP CALC built in application Beginning users should also consult BASIC Tips and the Getting Started review of fundamentals Quick Tips includes a listing of known HP 95LX bugs For a great collection of tips check out the four pages of Most Frequently Asked Questions to HP Support If you want to make use of your HP 95LX at the video store check out my User To User column We continue our series that describes
148. sk cards are marketed under the Altec Electron ics label in Germany When you purchase a Sundisk card from Altec you get an additional ROM card with the device driver on it making it easier to install As we go to press ACE Technologies has announced their version of the Sundisk card to be called the DoubleFlash Card The ACE card will also include the device driver on a ROM card t should be noted that the device driver used is specific to the HP 95LX If you want to use the Sundisk card in another notebook s or desk top s memory card drive you have to first get the appropriate device driv er At this time only the 95LX driver is available Databook and Zeos driv ers have been announced Addition ally AMI and Phoenix have an nounced device driver availability as a BIOS option This will allow newer palmtops to read these cards without having to install a device driver Flash RAM cards while having a virtually unlimited read life have a limited write life That means that there is no limit on how many times you can access data However there might be a limit on how many times you can change data Flash RAM write life has been greatly increased through improvements in the memo 12 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 7 ASCERTain a 1 2 3 Add in Automatically convert your l 2 3 spreadsheets into fuzzy scenarios that incorporate real world uncertainties Use it for 4 Budgets 4 Estimates 4 Sc
149. so InfoSelect will have the least effect on your 95LX s auto shutoff Setting the screen saver to zero keeps the Info Select screen active all the time and the 95LX auto shutoff does not work To reduce the time for activation of the screen saver function in Info Select press A djust V ideo Then press twice to bring up the Auto Screen Blanker display press 1 ENTERJ ESCJ ESC to return to the Note display Press D isk S ave to save the settings This completes the InfoSelect adjustments Using InfoSelect on the 95LX If you use your 95LX primarily in DOS mode load InfoSelect as a TSR just as you do on your desktop This involves placing a command in your AUTOEXEC BAT file or manually starting InfoSelect in the normal manner InfoSelect will not pop up over the built in applications when loaded as a TSR program If you mix DOS and built in applications you will need to run InfoSelect in the non resident mode Batch File for Loading InfoSelect A good way to start up InfoSelect is to create a batch file IS BAT E that performs three actions First it turns off cursor tracking on the 95LX to make sure your one InfoSelect win dow is always visible on the 95LX Full Featured 95LX Communications Software Introducing fastCOMM SWITCHablel Transfers up to 14 4k baud Full Macro Programming Welcome to fastCOMM Language CHORD L N1 6 for the HP 95LXx Pop up Window for File
150. so large and consistent 1 wonder if the problem isn t really a software bug in the SysMgr clock logic AnyBuddy want to dis assemble the code When using the IBM Proprinter driver specified by pressing Printer Config Name sometimes a few characters are output at the beginning of printing followed by normal printing for about half a page and then the printing stops The solution is to set both your printer and your 95LX over to Epson emulation Check your printer manual to see how to config ure the printer Use the SET UP instructions above for the 95LX Jeffrey Mattox CompuServe ID 71044 2356 HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF A SECOND HP 95LX 1 With the Connectivity Pack two serial cables a gender bender and a null modem adapter you can add the disk space on your 2nd unit to your primary unit Cable your units together using the hardware described or solder two serial ca bles together Run DCS95 on your second unit and DC95 on your primary unit Voila have two batch files for this the first turns on the serial port runs DC95 and adds the new drives to my search path SET PATH The second file removes DC95 DC95 U turns off the serial port and restores my path 2 Use COMMO Il MostHost and a modem to turn your 2nd unit into a small really small BBS Then you can call it to save and retrieve files and messages COMMO and MostHost are shareware 3 Use the 2nd unit to control your house usin
151. sure e DUBLHDR DublHdr adds an extra PCMCIA slot to your HP9SLX Now you can have your favorite application with that additional memory card IL Adapter This adapter adds HPIL to your HP95 system without giving up your PCMCIA slot or your RS 232 interface Now you can use those L Printers and Disk Drives on a desktop LAN Data Acquisition amp Control e Robotics Motion Control C2 interloop inc 706 Charcot Avenue San Jose CA 95131 Tel 408 922 0520 Fax 408 922 0545 greasy hands and the rugged abuse of bouncing around over rough and dirty farm roads sitting all day in 120 temperatures One modification I ve made is to place a piece of velcro on the bottom of my 95LX and another on the top of my briefcase The briefcase acts like a small desk and gives the 95LX a relatively stable base Modern agriculture is a long way from the mule and plow of 100 years ago Using the HP 95LX is just one more way American farmers are applying the latest technological advances to the problem of produc ing the lowest cost highest quality food for our country and the world Sat are Et NES Mentioned in This Article _ On the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK cis sha Multiday Nov Dec 92 issue scis sur 95Buddy Nov Dec 92 issue FARM ZIP Jan Feb 93 issue EQUIP PBK in FARM ZIP CIS Also available in the HP Handhelds forum of CompuServe SHR SHAREWARE is software distribut
152. te SUNDISK SDP Cards uire no battery so your data will have unazpersadly RIGGE ks battery failure 2 408 562 0500 rs D GAZ SUN DIEK Corporation SUN DHSS and SDP are modems pre M dar mendoned are the property of their pespective overs Vediabdiry data extepolaied kometens sires esting of high empereurs JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 sion is an even split This is the best setting for most us ers The 1 MB version default maximizes the allocation of system RAM and minimizes the RAM disk Most users don t need more than 300k of system RAM and should reallocate in favor of the RAM disk You should expand your RAM disk if you have no more space to store files You should expand your System RAM if you don t have enough space to run your programs or your Lotus spreadsheet has the MEM indicator showing When type APP95 to run the Connectivity Pack on my PC get the SYSTEM RESOURCE MISSING error message You have installed the Con nectivity Pack on a drive other than the C drive or in GoldLink9S Goldmine Translator for the HP9SLX Transfer appointments phone list to do list and notes between Goldmine the premier Contact Manager and your HP 95LX built in applications Network and single user versions of Goldmine also available ask for a free fully functional demo Available early 93 Systronix Inc 555 South 300 E Salt Lake City UT 84111 TEL 801 534 1017 FAX 801
153. tegrated program gives me a quick and easy way to access other Taking care of yourself is the easiest way to ensure a long and healthy life The Personal Food Analyst will help you monitor your food intake to give your body what it needs to function at peak efficiency Now purchasing the Personal Food Analyst has never been easier Try it FREE for 30 days with no obligation It s that simple Included in this offer is our video on using the software for better health plus you ll get the handbook Secrets of a Professional Dieter Anyone inter ested in better health shouldn t be without this ALYST Video available to domestic market only exclusive information and getting it has never been easier Call us today 800 732 7707 or 719 598 5276 MIRIC amp L CORPORATION JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 23 HOW TO USE Farming databases D base amp Framework Outlines Spreadsheets and text files on the HP 95LX Framework lets me import export to 95LX file formats State law requires that we must be able to produce on demand a list of any pesticides and herbicides ap plied to any field within the last year Framework on the 95LX lets me have those records at my immediate dis posal Should a worker become ill at the job site I can quickly look up and see if he has been exposed to any chemicals and then call ahead to have a material data safety sheet for the product faxed to the doctor Multi
154. ter first name first be sure to do so consistantly To find a name just type the first one or two letters For example if you have entered last name first and want to find Sam Jones just type J and you will whisked away to the J s in your phone book lf you are inconsistant and have Jim Smith listed with Sam Jones it will be more cumbersome finding the name you want The second important trick is to enter key words especially when you are entering a new acquaintence whose name could be easily forgot ten For example suppose you just made a new business contact with a gentleman that trades in coins and who has a beard On the last line of the address field you could type the words coin beard bus Coin and beard are words to remind you of the individual bus is a word you use for all your business contacts Six months later when you want to recall the gentleman s name you might remember he had a beard or that he sold coins You could press find and do a search on coin or beard to find him Alternatively you could press only type in bus and press ENTER to tum up all your business contacts and select him from there JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 53 aaa QUICK TIPS 444 Lotus LOTUS PBK HELP FILE There is a Lotus help file have created that may be of use to the other users The file 123 FUNC PBK E is used with PHONE can add working examples in it for future use Many of the exampl
155. the main Phone Book screen Call Placing User Key F5 Schedule two or three more calls in your sample database so that you have a reasonably sized list to work with Now before creating the user key to place calls sort the database so that only a list of the people to be called today is displayed To do this press F6 type followed by the date and press ENTER Now move the cursor to the first call to be made and generate the call placing user key as follows 1 Press lt Shift gt CHAR F5 to start the recording process 2 Press to open the card 3 Press to move the cursor to the date field 4 Press to erase the Continued on page 30 Finally a Database With a Difference Info Manager the free form database is also available for your desktop PC A Free form Database allowing you to combine structured and unstructured data together in a single record Support wildcard and Boolean searches for lightning quick data retrieval Instant recall of your last 50 search inquiries or records with the press of a button One keystroke word indexing Unlimited forms per record unlimited fields per form Performs mathematical calc ulations Great for Invoicing Inventory and Quotations Form customizer allows you to update and change data layouts quickly and easily System manager compliant The Import Export features allows easy data transfer with other software The versitile Print Menu
156. the modem to get ready to accept a command The amp D0 tells the modem to ignore the DTR signal The amp W records this command permanently in the mo dem s non volatile memory which means that you will not have to re execute the command the next time you turn on your modem If your modem does not respond to this command with OK you may need to use a PC or laptop computer to send the command This is because some modems will not even accept a command to ignore the DTR signal without the DTR signal being pres source code examples 10 say about UTIL UTIL Forth Version 2 4 The 95LX Toolkit For Programmers And Non Programmers Harness all the power of your 95LX 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 to
157. ther for connecting to printers CONTACT Local HP dealer Products are also carried by EduCALC 27953 Cabot Road Laguna Niguel CA 92677 USA Phone 800 677 7001 or 714 582 2637 Fax 714 582 1445 Telecoupler Il Acoustic Coupler This coupler lets you connect all but line pow ered modems to the handset of any telephone RJ 11 jacks are not required Transmits up to 2400 baud for modems or 9600 baud for fax SPECIFICATIONS Price 139 95 CON TACT EduCALC 27953 Cabot Road Laguna Niguel CA 92677 USA Phone 800 677 7001 or 714 582 2637 Fax 714 582 1445 E available on the HP Palmtop Paper ON DISK cis GVCMOD 95 on the Fall 91 disk cis HAYPKT 95 on the Jan Feb 93 issue cls PM2400 95 on the Sep Oct 92 issue cls TINYMO 95 on the Sep Oct 92 CIS Available in GompuServe s HP Handhelds forum User to User REVIEWS It s Tough Finding a Good Movie and Product of the Year Nominations You don t need Siskel and Ebert when you ve got a 95LX and a product called Movie Guide Readers nominate three more Products of the Year PalmModem acClS and VDE By Hal Goldstein 95LX At the Video Store A couple of months ago I saw an ad from Banner Blue about their 49 Movie Guide Movie Guide is a data base of over 9 000 movies giving you a plot description actors and direc tor rating 1 4 stars category come dy drama etc award nominations and wins box office sales
158. to cells B12 B13 Put the cursor Electronic Pop Up Notes for HP 95LX Introducing fast NOTES Resizable and Overlapping Windows Imports and Exports Memo ASCII files Kiwi Pill Call John Callahan des em 499 999 5788 Ik Wy Easy to use Pop up Menus ti Fa fastNOTES Features Create organize and access information as pop Up notes on your HP 95LX Automatic time stamping and text formatting SWITCHable Global Searching of Note contents Index allows fast access to any Note Index For more information Call 800 825 9977 e Provides free form database with global search capability Instantly zoom any Note to full screen Fully SWITCHable with built in applications fastNOTES version 1 0 C1095 ie cceepececeeeteeeeeeeerees JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 AACE ACE Technologies Inc 2280 fonker Rood Suite 103 on Jose Colitamnia 95134 U S A Declers amp Distibulor welcome THE HP PALMTOP PAPER 33 HOW TO USE Backsolving on B11 and press Copy ENTER move the cursor to B12 and press ENTER Follow the same procedure for B13 At this point the numbers in column B should look exactly like the numbers in column A When you re ready press and in the Solve 1 2 3 screen When the worksheet appears make cell B14 the Formula cell by high lighting it and pressing ENTER Back in Solver key in 500000 and press VALUE and Solve In the worksheet
159. ture and 9 other games Enjoy MUS95 amp SNDPLAY Music quotes sounds on the 95LX Plus travel organizer language compilers screen printing utilities other games and lots more See inside back cover of each issue for complete listings HOW DOES IT COMPARE WITH THE SUBSCRIBER DISK The HP Palm Paper ON DISK is not to be confused wit the ee te p RERO PSE r 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 Publisher s Message Freezing rain makes our Fairfield lowa streets impassable today January 20 1993 A great excuse to stay home and watch the inaugura tion of the new President of the United States of America As I listen to the speeches I think of the HP Palmtop users in 70 different countries throughout the world who will read this The fact that we carry the same little machine around in our pockets and purses allows us to transcend national boundaries In the letters I receive and the conversations I have with subscribers there s never any thought about nationality or ethnic group We re only inter ested in how we can get more out of our 95LX The only real difference is in our level of computer sophistication No matter what your level of computer experience is you should find most of the articles in this issue of practical value In our lead story Mark Scardina discus
160. tween the screen and the keyboard gets loose and wobbles a little One way to tighten the hinge up is to take the left hinge cap off and wedge a small folded piece of your business card into the little slot now exposed on the end of the hinge see graphic Left Hinge Cap Hinge End Slot ne ht Some 95LX owners have wedged Dymo label tape and thin pieces of black plastic shim stock in the exposed slot One owner removed the right hinge cover stretched a rubber band over the opening and replaced the cover Jeff Zorn CompuServe ID 71165 1650 David Rosenfeld CompuServe ID 70020 677 HP 95LX BUGS Excerpted from the 95BUDDYigi manual Don t blame 95BUDDY for these 95LX bugs The worst ones are listed first found them the hard way This is very likely only a partial list If you find more bugs send them to me or The HP Palm top Paper e When you cold boot press CTRL SHA ON one of your RAM disk files may be corrupt ed even if you answer no to the disk format prompt You will get an I O error when you try to read it This is bad very bad The problem can be corrected with a small TSR program called UNRESET avail able from ACE Technologies for 29 This problem does not occur on 1MB units with a RAM disk size of 512K or less w MEMO will claim your disk is full when it is not and destroy your file if you use cut amp paste on a large file over 30K If this happens to you
161. ty and press City Type the first letters of your local city and the cursor will jump there If your city doesn t appear either use a nearby city with the same time zone or better press Insert and type in your city s information Enter the World City in the same way Both entries should be the same at home When you travel change the Local City When you change the time zone of the Local City the HP 95LX asks you whether to change the system date and time for all applications to the new Local City time Normally you will answer yes Then for example the time that shows up on the top line of the MEMO screen will reflect the new local time HP Calc CUTTING AND PASTING NUMBERS INTO HP CALC You can use the 95LX s CUT and PASTE features to bring numbers into and copy them from HP CALC Let s say you have a MEMO note that refers to a 23 50 cash withdrawal you made from one of those automatic teller machines ATM Copy this to an HP CALC LIST using the following steps First with the MEMO note open move the cursor to the beginning of the number press Mark move the cursor to the end of the number and press Copy Next press List Move the cursor to the location in the list that you want to insert the number Press and hold down to expose the COPY and PASTE keys and press F4 PASTE The copied number appears at the bottom of the screen Press and the pasted number placed on the list The new sum appears at the botto
162. ty converts the formats of Sidekick Plus Lotus Metro and PC Tools DOS Connect lets you set up the HP 95LX like an additional disk drive to your desktop PC The Connectivity Pack does not include Lotus 123 or the Datacomm software It must be installed and run on a local hard drive The Con nectivity Pack software is not designed to run from net worked drives How Do Get Technical Support for my HP 95LX ASK THADDEUS Thaddeus Computing Inc Call 800 767 4795 or 515 472 7584 or fax 515 472 9595 the publishers of The HP Palmtop Paper your HP 95LX problem Rates are 2 00 per minute plus an additional charge for non U S callbacks to cover the cost of international long distance rates HP Technical Support HP offers these options E 90 DAYS FREE SUPPORT is offered to all 95LX users and is avail able by calling 503 757 2004 a FREE AUTOMATED SUPPORT is offered 24 hours a day by calling 800 443 1254 m G MONTH SUPPORT CONTRACT for 149 you get a toll free number and 6 months of unlimited support Call 800 443 1254 a 900 NUMBER SUPPORT available on a pay as you go basis first minute free 2 00 per minute thereafter Call 900 288 0025 a COMPUSERVE GO HPHAND FORUM Call 800 848 8199 or 614 457 0802 For membership state 231 The Connectivity Pack can be ordered from your HP dealer using part number HP F1001A You can get the cable only by ordering part number HP 82222A A Windows based con n
163. u Software ACE Computer Instructors peace Point css Databook DataViz EZ Software EduCALC Product Information Mana DoubleCard RAM Switch BATTman Battery scl Sic myREMOTE Classic Lu ena Cards and Card Drives ar Supplement serial Parallel Connectivity Pocket Sales Force Pocket Field Force 95LX Lotus ACT Training wee Leather Case Ea Case Card Drive Maclin oe Essex Marketing Services FastAid as Genus Software GlobalLink Greenwich Instruments Log Amortization Software Language Translation Software Imaging Supplies Express RAM Memory Cards IntelliLink Interloop EAU Windows 95LX Connectivity Software Double Header HPIL Interface Serial to Parallel ld be de ahs me rien da een tn dira dates ett ero 15 PalmData oan Pe carlin s atop 1G Sete ee he 17 Personal Information Manager Han Card Associates Palmtop Solutions Mirical Corp On Site Info Palmtree Products PSI Internet Pouch Q A Systems RAM Mobile Date p Sportsware Software Systronix Sundisk Thaddeus Com Thaddeus Comouting Wid dget Personal Food Analyst Nav95 E mail s The Pouch QA Palm custom database builder Wireless E Mail ASCERTain 1 2 3 Add in Wireless Information Service M Memory Cards software amp hardware BoxScore Baseball Scorekeeping Software GoldLink 95 Software EasyData Acquisition and Process Control Mass Storage Memory Cards Ask Thaddeus Tec
164. ue 234 and press VALUE Finally press Solve This will return you to the worksheet Move the cursor to the cell where the answer will appear say A2 and press ENTER The Solve 1 2 3 screen will reappear the num bers will roll and soon you ll see Solve Result 3 7282 Press the 1 2 3 blue key and observe that cell A2 now shows 3 728208 Now suppose you want to restore the worksheet to its original values Press to return to the Solve 1 2 3 screen and press F5 UNDO You ll get an error message that says Error 1 2 3 did not accept data This happens because cell A2 was blank before we started backsolving UNDO restores the original value and for some reason Solver can t restore a cell which has no value i e and empty cell The work around for this gotcha is to put zero or any value in cell A2 prior to backsolving In other words give Solver a value that it can restore and it will work like a charm A More Complicated Example From Financial Math Suppose you re contemplating a mortgage for 125 000 00 The bank wants to charge 8 interest for a 30 year loan You want to know what the monthly payments will be More over you want to know the total principal and interest paid back over 30 years You decide to use 1 2 3 to solve the problem rather than the TVM function in CALC Press 123 and put the cursor in cell A5 Key in mortgage price 125000 and press ENTER Next go to cell A6 to
165. volt battery or the 95LX s AC adapter The modem includes CCITT V 22bis 2400 bps compatibility plus V 22 V 21 and Bell 212A 103 Compa N t also includes V 42 V 42bis error control and data compression The WorldPort 2400 V 42bis can also be used with an acoustic coupler where direct connection to the prone line is not possible SPECIFICATIONS Baud 2400 List price 249 CONTACT U S Robotics 8100 N McCor mick Blvd Skokie IL 60076 2999 USA Phone enacts or 708 982 5010 Fax 708 982 WorldPort Palmtop Fax Data Modem A portable send fax modem with a 2400 bps data channel designed for palmtop computers Users have reported good results with this modem and it does not require any hardware modification This modem and the New Media Palm Modem currently presents the only pracica way to send faxes directly from the 95LX The modem converts ASCII text into fax format without the need for fax software on the 95LX Units with early ROMs have trouble sending long faxes SPECIFICATIONS Baud 2400 data 9600 Le List Price 249 CONTACT See contact above WorldPort 2400 This is the modem recommended by HP for use with the 95LX There are widespread reports of success with this modem Modems with serial numbers over 50 000 have a special modification that allows them to work with the HP 95LX on battery power By placing switch 3 in the ON position the modem will not require DTR for power on to occur When switch 3 is o
166. wer for me as to why the first problem occurred They are still looking into it In the meantime I decid ed to try copying the file to PRN instead by typing STOP Before you buy another set of batteries BATTIman wew NiMH batteries SWITCHablel M If you are tired of throwing away batteries BATTman will allow safe hassle free use of rechargeables on your 95LX EE COR OnoN of BATTman works flawlessly and never once lost data With NEW Features Palmtop paper August 1992 BATTman now reports Hours used NiMH provides 200 more capacity than standard NiCds amp Rechargeable up to 1 000 times No memory effects and non toxic to our environment Join thousands of other 95LX users start using BATIman battery management software with NiMH Nickel metal Hydride rechargeable batteries and SAVE BATTman NEW version 1 2 on 3 5 floppy BATTman with two Ni metal Hydrides 0 cece BATIman with two Ni metat Hydrides amp charger 4 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 For more information on our products and how to order call 800 825 9977 ACE ACE Technologies Inc 2880 Zonker Rood Suite 103 San Jose Callformia 95134 U S A 408 428 9722 FAX 408 425 9721 Dealers amp Distributors welcome COPY MAP TXT PRN PRN stands for the default printer To my surprise this worked correctly printing the line draw characters AND supporting the ne
167. when you press File Open all the phone book files in the DAT directory will be displayed What do need to transfer files to my Macintosh PC The HP 95LX supports file transfers in the Datacomm application Both Kermit and Xmodem transfer protocols are provided on the HP 95LX If you have software on the Macintosh that trans fers files using either of these protocols you only need the cable to connect to the HP 95LX The cable can be or dered from your HP dealer by specifying part number HP 82223A some third party prod ucts have been developed to provide the Macintosh HP connection Sparcom and DataViz have solutions ad vertised in The HP Palmtop 38 THE HP PALMTOP PAPER JANUARY FEBRUARY 1993 Paper What do need to transfer files to my IBM PC The Connectivity Pack pro vides the cable adapter and software to transfer files be tween the desktop PC and the HP 95LX The Connectivity Pack includes the Appointment Phone Calculator Memo Filer and Setup software which is similar to the soft ware on the HP 95LX The key difference is that the MENU key on the HP 95LX is replaced with the ALT keystroke on the desk top PC The Connectivity Pack also includes some software not on the HP 95LX Merge Translate and DOS Connect utilities The Merge utility merges phone books and appointment books The Translate utility converts formats of Phone and Ap pointment files The Translate utili
168. with a new follow up date Creating the User Defined Keys for Phone Call Tracker The best way to understand the func tioning of a specific user key macro is to use the 95LX s Learn Mode This records into a user key each keystroke as you enter it You can also enter a new user key or modify an existing one with the User Mode Instructions for creating the user keys in this article are given using the Learn mode For more information on both the Learn and User Mode see page 21 16 of HP 95LX User s Guide First generate a phone book file with a few names and numbers re member that we are reserving the address lines for our schedule Next create the call scheduling user key macro as follows Call Scheduling User Key F9 1 Highlight with cursor the name of a person you wish to call 2 Press lt Shift gt CHAR F3 to record your user key Note that both and are sticky keys which means you can press the keys individually without having to hold therefore you don t need to hold down all three keys simultaneously You should hear a two tone beep tone inform ing you the user key is being re corded If you hear a single tone beep the F9 key has already been programmed If you make any typos you should press the lt Shift gt CHAR F5 sequence again to end the user key recording Then press CHAR delete the F9 user key and start again 3 Press Fi0 to open the card then Down gt
169. y and Physical This program lets you enter patient history information and the results of physical exams directly into a special database eliminating tran scription costs and hand writ ten forms You can select from over 560 patient ques tions using yes no keys me dical reference tables multi ple choice etc PC version included and specialty pro grams available Availability Now Medium ROM Card amp Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr Yes PGM Duran sa ce 86 Sas 9 399 CONTACT ComputerBooks 20321 Irvine Ave Suite 2 Santa Ana Ca 92707 USA Phone 800 848 2023 or 714 966 2023 Fax 714 966 0117 Personal Info Managers Instant Recall 2 0 This popular well reviewed time management and per sonal information manager for desktop PC s comes with translation software that con verts back and forth between its file formats and the 95LX s ABK and PBK formats Availability Now Medium Floppy disk Runs under SysMgr No FOR DESKTOP PC s ONLY PIRING seins viata 26000 129 CONTACT Chronologic Corporation 5151 N Oracle Suite 210 Tucson AZ 85704 USA Phone 800 848 4970 or 602 293 3100 Fax 602 293 0709 HP 95LX Productivity Pack Includes a clipboard en hancer three versions of a spelling checker and two games as a bonus You can edit the clipboard and copy its files to disk See Advertising page 20 a eee i Now

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