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Epoc Digest Sun, 29 Feb 2004 Volume 01 : Number 460
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In today's Epoc Digest 33 messages:
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- Subject: OT: Windoze executable
- Psion sale of Symbian
- RE: Nokia 9500
- Re: TCP/IP upgrade
- Re: TCP/IP upgrade / Moving Opera
- Re: wireless cards and netbook
- Re : TCP/IP MaylayBook (2 Jim W-G)
- RE: Email
- RE: The Psion as a standalone computer
- Email / Virus
- Install / Email / Virus
- Older version of Opera | Psion emulator questions | replacements for WinXP apps?
- Installing .sis file
- Re: Email program
- Re: Epoc to P800
- Re: Epoc Digest V1 # 456 (1)
- Re: XP Documents
- Psion 5 repair query
- Re: OT: Windoze executable
- Direct printing from the Psion
- Re:Malaybook to PC Connection
- Re: Saving emails, On/Off problem 2x, Windoze executable, , Nokia9500
- Re: TCP/IP MaylayBook
- Re: OT: Windoze executable
- Re: Re : Owen's 450kb e-mail
- Re: Xp Documents & backup
- IPSwitch, sysram1.oxh,
- Re: Emulator Idiot's guide
- RevTran
- Revo batteries
- Re: Emulator hints
- Tasty OPL ebook converter
- RevTran
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Date: 26 Feb 2004 23:58:58 -0500
From: Carlos Rodriguez
Subject: Subject: OT: Windoze executable
>Date: 26 Feb 2004 12:15:18 -0500
From: Philip S. Adkins Potter Subject: OT: Windoze executable
>Hi Folks,
I received an eMail today from li.garland_yz (at) arturipr.co.uk asking me if I sent a file final.txt.scr (22016 bytes, I think). It is a Windoze executable and I don't have a Windoze machine, though I wouldn't run it anyway. This (and the fact that I haven't sent anything to that address) makes me suspect that the file may harbour a virus.
Yes it does. I received the same mail - sender being unknown to me. My AntiVirus program caught it straight away - why doesn't yours? In any case, a .scr file from an unknown sender is so highly suspicious that it's guilty til proven innocent (by your AV program).
Regards
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 03:49:23 -0500
From: Timothy H.D. Williams
Subject: Psion sale of Symbian
On 26 Feb 2004, at 23:16, Steve wrote:
> Basically I bought shares more for sentimental reasons than anything > else although I was hopeful at the time and I knew they could go down. > I've seen the monetary value plummet over the last few years which is > disappointing but not too earth shattering.
Steve,
How can Symbian shares be losing money if they've never been shipping as many phones with the system as they now are.
Does this mean that the sell-out will not bring you nice returns?
How do Psion shares compare with their initial selling price?
T
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 07:32:23 -0500
From: Ing. Michael Asteriou
Subject: RE: Nokia 9500
Hi Itamar!
To answer your question: This seems like the future replacement of my 5MX...
Greetings from snowy Austria
Michael Asteriou
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 08:09:37 -0500
From: Marcus von Cube
Subject: Re: TCP/IP upgrade
Hi Jim,
>I'm trying to upgrade the TCP/IP to stop the lockups and what happens is: >
> 1. I moved the TCPIP_UP.SIS file into System/Install.
That's wrong! System\Install keeps stubs of installed software to make uninstall possible. Create a different install folder. Before you install stop all applications. You will have to reboot after the install anyway, if I remember correctly.
Make sure you install the correct version of the update; the mBook needs the Ethernet enabled driver!
Marcus
http://www.mvcsys.de
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 08:14:49 -0500
From: Marcus von Cube
Subject: Re: TCP/IP upgrade / Moving Opera
Hi Jim,
TCP/IP:
>I'm trying to upgrade the TCP/IP to stop the lockups and what happens is: >
> 1. I moved the TCPIP_UP.SIS file into System/Install.
That's wrong! System\Install keeps stubs of installed software to make uninstall possible. Create a different install folder. Before you install stop all applications. You will have to reboot after the install anyway, if I remember correctly.
Make sure you install the correct version of the update; the mBook needs the Ethernet enabled driver!
Opera:
> it is my plan to move my Opera folder onto the D drive, renaming it and some files in the folder
If Opera is installed on Z (in "ROM") you can't move or delete it. If it is on C, you should be able to uninstall it properly from the control panel. If you ever need it again or want it on D, reinstall it from the SIS file. The SIS installer has an option to not purge the SIS after installation (see control panel Add/Remove->Options). Making SIS files read only doesn't help but blocks installation!
Marcus
http://www.mvcsys.de
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 08:35:29 -0500
From: Marcus von Cube
Subject: Re: wireless cards and netbook
George,
>wireless cards and netbook
I have the Orinoco Gold working with a Netgear access pojnt, even with WEP. If you give me the details of your setup, I can check your settings against mine.
Did you try the NetStatRf application? It should tell you about the connection state. It is specifically written for the Lucent cards. You will probably have to download the app from Teklogix but I can try to find it in my download archives if you can't get hold of it.
Marcus
http://www.mvcsys.de
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 09:20:24 -0500
From: Jack
Subject: Re : TCP/IP MaylayBook (2 Jim W-G)
Hi Jim,
>Some kind soul (thank you - I lost your name) sent me the update zip for the TCP/IP fix (to stop hangups in email) and the Web Browser for the MaylayBook.<
Re :
I'ld be the soul
>> 1. I moved the TCPIP_UP.SIS file into System/Install.<<
Re:
Remove it from /System.
Isn't C:\ easier?
>>>....then receive: "Get Information: In Use"....<<<
Re:
Reread the howto text file I mailed X the sis
Set Link off, Close ALL running apps and do a soft reset.
As the MnB has Ethernet installed in RAM, make SURE to select ONLY:
TCPIP_UPDATE(Ethernet).SIS
Install via Control Pan. / AddRemove/Add new....
>>>>.. it is my plan to move my Opera folder onto the D drive, renaming it and some files in the folder (just in case), and then install Web onto C drive......<<<<<
Re
You can keep installed, and use simultaneously : Web + 2 Opera(s).
I'ld NOT move any Opera folders anywhere else.
App (3.62) resides on Z:/ & its ini and parameters files in C:/... where they should stay.
You could edit the opera.ini file parameters to "allot to D" the Cache folder only.
What I also suggested is to KEEP your MnB Operav3.62 (for its much better jpeg rendering and Secure sites managing, than v5)
One could like to have the choice between the 2 Operas : ie download DualOpera (from psionwelt.net/) and opera 5.14 (from Opera/download or from a registered nB CD);
install DualOpera (on D) then use it (DualOpera) to install v5.14(.sis) on C (+its .ini Cache on D, to lighten C).
Good multi-browsing
Jack
Last year's resolution of not procrastinating is still in beta.
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 09:24:38 -0500
From: Daniele Squarci
Subject: RE: Email
Owen Morgan wrote:
>> HTML email is an abomination<<
I would generally agree with you, but HTML mail does have its uses, such as constructing a table with data that often gets screwed up in standard emails. And I do receive HTML mail from contacts that would be illegible if it were not for the excellent HTMLMail macro.
>> if you create one subfolder for each e-mail address and keep the Inbox empty, you can select and copy all the e-mails wholesale into the appropriate folder after they've beed downloaded.<<
For those who synchronize with Outlook this isn't a solution, as PsiWin ignores all subfolders. This is a big PsiWin limitation, IMHO.
>> You can check several accounts and you can have several POP3 mailboxes open in the same session. You can even send e-mails with different "from" addresses in the same session.<<
How do you change the "from" addresses in the same session, Owen? I can do this trick on the fly in Outlook, but on the Psion it means going laboriously through Email's account settings and then resetting the old address after I sent the message. A right pain in the posterior, which means that my private mail sent on the Psion tends to have the work address. Or do you have a special macro you use?
>> I agree that the Email application has its limitations, but most, if not all are easily overcome by using free tools (Merllin isn't free, but you can use Macro5 instead).
I've been using the EPOC Email application for all my e-mails for years and this is in fact the most important use of my Psions.<<
I wholeheartedly agree, Email on the move is the main reason why I got my first Psion, and I only discovered the other features afterwards! Once I got used to Email's quirks, I never give them a second thought.
Ciao
Daniele Squarci - Italy
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 09:33:29 -0500
From: Daniele Squarci
Subject: RE: The Psion as a standalone computer
Owen Morgan wrote:
>>The one thing all the EPOC Psions miss is easy access to mass storage without the use of another computer. This would have been reasonably easy to acheive if the CF port supported using external devices. If the CF port had been able to work with the door open, I'm sure someone would have brought out an interface for connecting stuff like external harddrives or even CD-roms and CD burners. The interface could be made with a CF slot so the Psion could access the external drive and the CF at the same time. It would still be possible, but users would have to modify their Psion by cutting a hole in the CF door for the cable and many people would not be willing to do that, so sales would be too low for it to be an econimically viable product.<<
I suspect it's more to do with a lack of proper drivers rather than having an open CF port. The netBook has a PCMCIA port that could be used for connecting external stuff, but apart from a CF card adaptor and the few cases where drivers are available or not required (some modems, WiFi cards, and GPS cards), the Psion will simply not recognize it.
Ciao
Daniele Squarci - Italy
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 11:18:25 -0500
From: Rick Gillyon
Subject: Email / Virus
> From: Owen H. Morgan
> > and possibly HTML email.
> No thanks! HTML email is an abomination.
I agree there is no real justification for HTML email and I never use it. However, we can't convince everyone, and it's the default setup in OE, so an inability to read it can be a problem.
> From: Itamar Engelsman
> Re.: Email program - Wow, that is a lot of negatives <G>.
:) I sometimes think that in our enthusiasm for these machines, we defend the indefensible...
> But when do you really use all of these ?
Most of these features? Every time I use email.
> Multiple in-folders: Most email programs on a PC don't have this either.
The Bat! does.
> From: Owen H. Morgan
> but with the addition of REM, it has the most configurable quoting options of any e-mail application I'm aware of.
I doubt that it's any more configurable than good email clients, but I've never used it so can't really comment. Once again, you have to tack on a third-party product to make it usable.
> > it's slow,
>
> ??? In what way?
In that you wait ages for the headers to appear, then wait ages longer for the emails to be copied down, then wait even longer moving through the emails if you have any number in the app. I find it all a bit grim. I much prefer to tell my email client to just go get the messages, sort them for me and tell me when it's finished.
>When I used Outlook
Don't use that either!
> > it's too easy to overload and corrupt its
> > indexes,
>
> Has happened to me maybe three times in six years,
It's happened to me a few times, despite keeping mail on C and using proper batteries.
> Outlook crashed on my mother's PC and she lost a couple of months worth of e-mails.
Wouldn't use Outlook, but always keep backups!
> What more do you want? What you can't do is automagically sort the inbound mail to different folders or tell it to download all mail on all servers without further user interaction.
Those are two things that I do want!
> > no ability to download automatically,
>
> For which I am very grateful. I would be in deep shit if the Psion always grabbed everything in my mailbox
I said "ability" not "requirement". Any reasonable email client gives a max. size option, so to only download the first 10k or 50k of any message, with the option to get the rest later. Then you can download the lot *if you want*, and go back for the biggies later.
> If I open the mail server and when the headers come through, I want to download everything there, I hit a Merlin toolbar button which selects all the headers and moves them to the Inbox.
Another third-party hack! I know all about these, I've used Merlin and Macro5 extensively.
> > no filtering,
>
> I don't really miss it. I use SaveMail to sort my inbound e-mais into diffrent EPOC Data files.
I prefer my emails in email, where I can search and forward as necessary. I know another third-party add-on gives a lot of this functionality, but I want it in my email client dammit!
> > no sigs,
>
> REM will give you all the sigs you need. When I write a "new" e-mail rather than replying to one I've received, I insert the sig as a clip text item from Merlin.
:) See above...
> > no decent address book with groups
> Contacts?
No grouping.
> > no one-button reading
>
> Easy to solve with a macro if you want it.
Not quite so easy, as the "one button" (spacebar) has to do different actions depending on whether you're reading or composing. I've written a number of macros myself (see the Psion section at www.gillyon.com) but this was pretty tricky.
> I haven't bothered. I use two-button reading instead. (Fn+down)
But this isn't two-button reading, as it doesn't skip to the next message.
> > no redirection
>
> Aren't you expecting a bit much out of a pocket device?
Probably!
> > no decent headers
>
> I'm not with you. If what you're missing is the ability to look at the header of inbound crap, you can find them in the logs if you've set up the log folders.
I want to optionally see it in the message, but that is a usable workaround.
> I agree that the Email application has its limitations, but most, if not all are easily overcome by using free tools (Merllin isn't free, but you can use Macro5 instead).
I agree, a lot of its problems can be alleviated if not overcome by third-party add-ons - this in itself shows you how poor the client is.
> I've been using the EPOC Email application for all my e-mails for years and this is in fact the most important use of my Psions. This is one of the reasons I've never seriously considered changing platforms.
I have in the past used Mail on my 5mx extensively while on holidays (with most of the workarounds you've suggested used). It's always such a relief when I get back to my PC! In fact, so much so that last year I took my laptop as well as my 5mx.
>I don't believe there is any other handheld past or present that would give me the same versatility as I get with the EPOC Email application in combination with REM and SaveMail.
Perhaps not, the limitation is the form factor. I have to say, though, I find VersaMail on the Palm much easier for my occasional use, although I wouldn't fancy using it full-time.
> When the day comes that my last Psion dies and I don't have a replacement, it's good to know that I have all my e-mails from the past 5-6 years in EPOC Data files so I can export to text (in the WINS simulator if necessary) and read them on any platform.
IME all email clients allow for exports. Myself, I only save business, commerce, shopping and membership emails. Since I started this whole email thing in the early 90s, this has added up to around 2000 emails. They are all stored in the appropriate folders in The Bat!, where they are also fully searchable. The Bat!'s in-built Spam filter copes with 99% of Spam, and I have multiple other filters set up for sorting. I can check the headers on the server or download, redirect and filter multiple accounts simultaneously. It has a good address book with groups handled well. Overall, no handheld *could* compete, and I think the fundamental fact is that EPOC email, on its own, is a very poor product which needs to be enhanced to make it at all usable. You obviously disagree... :)
> From: Philip S. Adkins Potter
> I received an eMail today from li.garland_yz (at) arturipr.co.uk asking me if I sent a file final.txt.scr (22016 bytes, I think). It is a Windoze executable and I don't have a Windoze machine, though I wouldn't run it anyway. This (and the fact that I haven't sent anything to that address) makes me suspect that the file may harbour a virus.
It is a virus, just reply and tell her that you didn't send it, the From address is faked. Someone with your address has the virus, nothing really to do about it.
Rgds,
Rick
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 11:31:20 -0500
From: Rick Gillyon
Subject: Install / Email / Virus
> From: Jim Watson-Gove
> 1. I moved the TCPIP_UP.SIS file into System/Install.
> "Get Information: In Use"
> and it drops out.
> What am I doing wrong?
You can run it from anywhere *but* System/Install... :)
This is where EPOC will put a stub TCPIP_UP.SIS for Add/Remove, but it can't because you've just dumped an in-use file of the same name in there! Just run it from C:, all will be well.
> From: Jack
> Use Scroller 1.11 macro
> ... Space => read further... "n" => next msg
Obviously not one-button! :)
So what key do you use to run the macro?
> Could U do anything similar X Windon't.
Sorry, don't get your meaning on that one.
> From: Steve Hodgson
> This may have changed with XP but backups with Windows have never been particularly straightforward in my experience (I've avoided that awful
> pun this time). Windows tends to be very sloppy about where user data
> is stored in that while most documents are located in users' areas,
> other files such as mail (Outlook Express), Schedule data (Outlook)
> and Favorites tend to congregate under the user profile somewhere like
> C:\WINNT\Profiles\shodgson\appdata.
This *has* changed with XP. All that data is stored in the folders under C:\Documents and Settings\Username.
> From: Trygve Henriksen
> >> no ability to download automatically,
>
> I have a 230KB mail waiting for me which I'll probably download at the office
There are less awkward ways around that than viewing all headers.
> If it looks like it was an automatically generated message, you can either delete it and forget, or you could email support or abuse at the ISP and complain about their annoying anti-virus software.
Why would you complain about that? At least they have AV software, and most of the older viruses still doing the rounds don't fake Froms, so it's a valid thing to do.
> If the message seems like it was written by a person, it should be OK to explain it to him, and possibly tell him to invest in a decent anti-virus package which would have told him what the file was....
Agreed.
Rgds,
Rick
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 13:10:38 -0500
From: Antony
Subject: Older version of Opera | Psion emulator questions | replacements for WinXP apps?
To: Boudewijn
Take your pick: -
EPOC Versions
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/epoc
If it's not there, it's not going to be easy to find.
To: Owen Morgan
>Well, as I said, I think this is a function of Psion not really expecting the machines to be used as fully standalone computers. Actually, I suppose we should be glad of the limitations because if the Email application had been a bit more advanced, SaveMail and REM would probably never have been written, and the combination of these two applications have made it more versatile than most other e-mail applications.<
I consider my Psion a standalone device and see backing up to a PC as limitation, which is why I use RMRzip to a CF card instead. To overcome limitations of the email application via macros is not to the credit of the email application.
> No thanks! HTML email is an abomination. ... <
Maybe so, but I do not get to choose the senders message format. Also, I have a web browser built into my Psion OS and so have the facilites to view them, but the email application, which comes as a package with the psion web browser application for S5/Mx/Revo and Opera with S7/Netbook, has no facility to view the message via a browser, so I have to either use a macro or copy and save as an htm document, open a browser then open the doc. More often than not, I simply read the html source, which is not ideal and again highlights a limitation, whether I wish emails to be in HTML format or not.
>I think you're expexting too much out of a mobile device. However, if you create one subfolder for each e-mail address and keep the Inbox empty, you can select and copy all the e-mails wholesale into the appropriate folder after they've beed downloaded.<
>I use a Merlin button to select all (Ctrl+a) and move them to the inbox (Shift+Ctrl+i). I agree that it would have been nice to be able to just log on, get everything and log off again, but then every now and then there's a virus or a large attachment on the server and I'm very glad that I see the header and can skip it or delete it before I download the other e-mails.<
I would have expected a mobile device to be more mobile friendly than PC based mail apps. Having multiple accounts setup simply because my location has changed is a very annoying limitation. For 1 email account I need 3 accounts setup. This cannot be right. Selecting all emails and downloading, then copying them to a subfolder depending on the account I use; These are all manual workaround processes to compensate for the email applications limitations. Something like this should have some automation features so human error doesn't move everything to the wrong place and creating a macro for it is the result of the limitations.
>One thing you shouldn't do is give the simulator access to the backup folders in such a way that the System folders of the backup become \System on the simulator. If you do that, the applications that are installed on the Psion become installed on the Simulator, and as they are not WINS versions, they can cause havoc. Far better to give the simulator access to the backup folders one level lower.<
I didn't mean the simulator should open the backup folder. I meant you could copy backed up documents to the emulators 'C' folder and open them with the native application, without having to convert them to a windows application document format first.
>Din Psion develop CE.NET for the Netbook Pro hardware, or did Microbloat do it for them?<
I suspect Psion used the CE.NET SDK like everyone else does.
Antony Booth
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 13:24:43 -0500
From: Trygve Henriksen
Subject: Installing .sis file
Greetings!
Jim Watson-Gove wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade the TCP/IP to stop the lockups and what happens is:
> 1. I moved the TCPIP_UP.SIS file into System/Install.
Ouch!
That folder contains the 'remnant' of previously installed .sis files, including such things as the uninstall script. When you start installing something from a .sis file, the installer automatically creates a new file with the same name in this folder.
Keep the .sis file on the root of your disk and all should work OK.
:-)
Trygve
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 17:48:34 -0500
From: Dick Chatjaval
Subject: Re: Email program
Hello,
>> > and possibly HTML email.<<
>>No thanks! HTML email is an abomination. Supposedly, it allows users to format the text, but the _ONLY_ e-mails I've ever received where there has been any attempt of formatting is Spam,...<<
Unfortunately the opposite is true for me. I have a couple of ecommerce customers who send orders in html format. I did ask them to change once but their business is substantial enough for me to stop pestering them. The orders I receive on my S7 look like this:
<html><div style='background-color:'><P><BR><STRONG>order:5085</STRONG></P> <P><STRONG>Delivery date: </STRONG>25/02/04 <BR><B>To: </B>Khun <BR><B>Address: </B...
But on my P800, the formatting is just fine. Unfortunately, though, I have not found a way to fax this information to vendors directly from the P800 like I can from the S7.
Would anyone know how to set a default BCC (to myself) from the S7, without having to add it everytime? Thanks.
Overall, though, i am quite happy with Email on my Psion.
Best regards,
Dick Chatjaval
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 17:48:41 -0500
From: Dick Chatjaval
Subject: Re: Epoc to P800
Hello,
>>I´m checking into buying a P800. What experiences and/or possibilities are there with migration from EPOC (5mx/Series7) to a p800 ?<<
I use both the S7 and P800 together now. I tried to use only the P800 for several months when I first bought it but long emails/documents were torture. Too many mistakes with text recognition and very small onscreen keyboard. Also the screen is too small to be of any use for my spreadsheets. So, for my uses it cannot replace the S7. But they work very well together.
My main uses for P800:
Phone
Check email (and short replies) via gprs
SMS
Phonebook
Mobipocket (for dictionary and thesaurus)
Basic calculator
Modem for S7
S7:
Digest program
DigHandler (for Digest and Yahoo groups)
Sheet
Word
Database
nConvert
Mobipocket (ebooks)
I try to keep the functions of the two machines entirely separate and dont bother to synchronize. For example, my phonebook in P800 will have mostly phone numbers since I use that as a phone and sms alot. Contacts in S7 are mainly email addresses. P800 is excellent for reference i.e dictionaries, but not for ebook reading, I prefer the large screen of S7.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Dick Chatjaval
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 22:30:40 -0500
From: ketil
Subject: Re: Epoc Digest V1 # 456 (1)
Owen (>) and Trygve (>>) wrote:
> I just had a thought. Most of you are probably aware of metal with a > memory, used amongst other things for spectacle frames that can be bent > in all directions and and will return to their normal shape. This might > be useful for the frame for a floppy screen.
Well, except that memory metal requires heating to activate the memory effect, which may prove rather impractical on a PDA...
While flexible screens are a very enticing idea, durability will probably be a problem. Large, flexible screens would be very cool though... (I just remembered: In the movie "Red Planet" the expedition's portable computer/navigation unit has a large, transparent and flexible display that rolls up into the unit.)
> > Unfortunately, I don't think it'll be possible to
> > get flexible touch-screens for a while yet. (It'll
> > take another layer of plastic. Just try to glue
> > two sheets of plastic together, then roll them
> > into a tight roll...)
> Hmm It might not work at all. Touch sensitivity may need a hard back for > something to press against.
Not necessarily - in the "good old days" (i.e. the early/mid eighties :-)) there were two touch screen technologies on the market: The one currently used, where a resistive or capacitive (don't remember which is actually used these days) film is placed on top of the screen, and another involving placing a frame around the screen which had infrared transmitters and receivers actively scanning the aperture of the frame. These could be bought separately and fitted on bog-standard monitors.
This technology could perhaps be refined and miniaturized to the point where fitting it to a PDA would be practical. Aside from the problems of shrinking the physical dimensions and retaining reliability, there is the additional problem of using IR-based systems outdoors. But that is probably solvable too.
But there are at least two other problems too: Power consumption (probably far less than the backlight of a colour display though) and price...
Best regards,
-K
--
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it,
doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
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Date: 27 Feb 2004 23:01:54 -0500
From: Alan Morris
Subject: Re: XP Documents
>> I've not fully investigated what's happening yet, but don't rename 'My Documents' and similar folders in that path. [Win XP]
Thanks to all on and off list for their comments.
--
Alan R Morris, G4ENS.
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
Using a Psion netBook & Nokia 6210e.
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Date: 28 Feb 2004 00:51:12 -0500
From: Roger C Haslock
Subject: Psion 5 repair query
Hi
My psion no longer receives screen taps. I traced this fault to a broken ribbon from the display unit: the ribbon has snapped 1/2 cm from the screen.
Can I get a replacement ribbon anywhere? The psion repair centre charges are out of this world.
Regards
- Roger -
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Date: 28 Feb 2004 07:57:09 -0500
From: Chris S Handley
Subject: Re: OT: Windoze executable
Philip S. Adkins Potter wrote:
> I am loth to ignore this eMail. The sender may be legit. and
> honestly worried. But replying may validate *my* eAddress for
> all sorts of nasties.
> Has anyone any advice beyond simply ignoring this eMail?
Yes, get a second email address that you can easily "throw away". Most ISPs offer several extra email addresses for free.
Of course, when you reply you should try to avoid including anything which a computer could easily use to identify the original email you recieved. So (for example) avoid reference to any wierd filenames, or more likely, a subject line containing a number.
Oddly enough, my "throw away" address is several years old, and still does not recieve any spam, despite being used for the most risky situations! I guess thats another confirmation that simply keeping your address out of the public domain (and not replying to spam) is enough to thwart 99.9 percent of spammers...
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Chris Handley
(Competition for the shortest Digest email signature starts here!)
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Date: 28 Feb 2004 11:44:58 -0500
From: Thomas F. VAN DER ZIJDEN
Subject: Direct printing from the Psion
Hello group,
I have received as a gift a Psion parallel printer cable for my Malaybook.
We have here a Canon Multipass C20 and an Epson Stylus C62. The first does not react on the Psions input, the latter only produces gibberish.
I tried the drivers from Andrew Johnson, but apparently the Epson is not a Postscript printer (I see the raw code). PCL5 is only for HP's, ísn't it ?
This XSM raster printer driver or whatitscalled does not seem to work either.
I tried printing to fax and then printing to the printer from Fax.
Does anyone have any ideas how to make this work ? Thank you in advance.
Yours sincerely,
Thomas VAN DER ZIJDEN
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Date: 28 Feb 2004 17:11:25 -0500
From: Melvin Woody
Subject: Re:Malaybook to PC Connection
I got my Malaybook a weekor so ago and have had scant time to figureout how to use it. Some things trasfer over from the Revo/Mako veryreadily - but not the connection to my PC, which seems to be essentialin order to take advantage of whatever software I install from the CDthat came with the MBook - which will,of necessity, have to load ontothe PC. I ordered and received a "PsiWin cable" from expansys in orderto make that connection -- only to discover that I would have to have amale 9 pin plug free on the back of my CPU in order to use it - which Idon not have. (I had gotten the notion that I could connect through myUSB hub, but find that I was wrong.) So how can I make the connectionso as to be able to back up etc. to the PC? Is there a simple 9pinfemale to USB connecting plug? I get the impression that there isnot,thought I might shell out another $35 to expansys for some sort ofconnecting cable. I read through the wonderfully helpful discussion ofthe MBook at http://hasbrouck.org/netbook/ and he says:
>"(I find I don't really need a PsiWin cable. For file transfer, I eitherrun the >FTP server on the netBook, and "drive" it from an FTP client onmy desktop PC, or I >use a USB CF card reader. For backups and sync, youcan use EpocSync over FTP, >either with an FTP server on a PC on a LAN,or with an Internet FTP backup site. >EpocSync's "sync with FTP server"option would enable me to restore remotely in a >pinch.)
Does this sound like a sensible solution? I could return my PsiWincable and exchange it for a CF card reader, which I think would be a lotcheaper. As for the FTP solution, where could I look to learn how towork that in more detail? (I've never used FTP, so his account is uttelyopaque to me.
Meanwhile, I can't quite figure out how to use the Orinoco card I gotto connect with my DSL WiFi modem/router. The CD that came with theOrinoco got installed onto my hard drive - which leaves me puzzlingabout how to get the driver onto the MBook.
That should be plenty for now. I'm sure I'll have lots of otherquestions about how to proceed. I'll try to split them up.
Sincerely
J. Melvin Woody
Professor
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Date: 28 Feb 2004 22:05:28 -0500
From: Owen H. Morgan
Subject: Re: Saving emails, On/Off problem 2x, Windoze executable, , Nokia9500
Howdy!
Itamar Engelsman wrote (> ):
> WOW !! You keep ALL your
> emails from the last 6 years ? How many bytes of
> files that is ?
A year of personal mails is around three to four Mb in EPOC data. I keep them zipped up in a folder on the CF card.
> Re. On/Off problem - Interestingly enough after a
> soft reset the other day suddenly everything is
> behaving, the mBook switches off the first time I
> try and the battery keeps it charge while the
> mBook is closed.
So, it probably wasn't a mechanical problem.
> Re.: Nokia 9500 - I typed in Nokia 9500 in Yahoo
> and got to the www.forum.nokia.com.
<SNIP>
> it has got MMS,
¿Que? - Good it hasn't got PMS...
> SMIL,
¿Que? - "Smil" means "smile" in Norwegian. It would be nice if new hardware brought a smile to your face!
> instant messaging and email. Connectivity options
> include EDGE and WLAN, bluetooth wireless
> technology, USB 2.0 and infrared.
I assume the USB is only for connecting the Nokia to a PC, not for connecting other stuff to the Nokia?
> Well girls and guys, this looks like quite a
> machine, properly updated to the latest technology
> and ... still with Symbian OS.
The one thing you forgot to tell us is how much memory it has. That's the main problem with the older models.
> Any takers ?
I know even without asking the price that I can't afford it! :o(
Owen
Thought for the day:
Saint:
A dead sinner revised and edited.
- Ambrose Bierce
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Date: 28 Feb 2004 22:05:36 -0500
From: Owen H. Morgan
Subject: Re: TCP/IP MaylayBook
Howdy!
Jim Watson-Gove wrote (> ):
> I'm trying to upgrade the TCP/IP to stop the
> lockups and what happens is:
> 1. I moved the TCPIP_UP.SIS file into
> System/Install.
There's your mistake. You can run the SIS file from just aboout anywhere _EXCEPT_ System\Install. During installation, EPOC creates a new SIS file in System\Install with the same name as the original. This is a small file which contains uninstall information. If you have placed the original SIS file containing the application in System\Install, EPOC will not be able to create another file of the same name in the same folder.
The "In Use" error message is rather frustrating when it doesn't tell you what it is that's in use. I think this is just about the only occasion I've been able to guess! The file that is in use is the original "TCPIP_UP.SIS". Move it out of the System\Install folder and run it again and all should be well.
I'll leave someone elso to reply to your Opera/Web question. I don't use either of them.
PS. It's useful whenever you've installed new stuff to go to System\OPX and make sure all your OPX files are write protected. That way, you won't risk OPX files that are in use by several applications being deleted when you uninstall one of those applications and the author didn't know how to build a proper SIS file.
Owen
Thought for the day:
These days, I spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter.
I go somewhere to get something and then wonder what I'm here after.
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Date: 28 Feb 2004 22:05:52 -0500
From: Owen H. Morgan
Subject: Re: OT: Windoze executable
Howdy!
Philip S. Adkins Potter wrote (> ):
> I received an eMail today from li.garland_yz (at)
> arturipr.co.uk asking me if I sent a file
> final.txt.scr (22016 bytes, I think).
Files with double suffixes are _ALWAYS_ nasties!
> I am loth to ignore this eMail. The sender may be
> legit. and honestly worried.
My guess is he is legitimate. However, the only thing you can tell him is that someone you've both been in touch with has got a virus on their machine.
> If my eAddress is being used to distribute nasties
> I want it stopped.
Nothing you can do about it. The virus plucks the from and to addresses from the addressbook on the infected machine.
> Has anyone any advice beyond simply ignoring this
> eMail?
Yes, let the poor SOD know it is a nasty and that you didn't send it.
Owen
Thought for the day:
It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.
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Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands
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Phone and SMS:
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Date: 28 Feb 2004 22:05:59 -0500
From: Owen H. Morgan
Subject: Re: Re : Owen's 450kb e-mail
Howdy!
I wrote (>> )
>> there's a 450kb e-mail sitting in my mailbox
>> right now, and I'm letting it sit there until I
>> have a chance to get to an Internet café to
>> download it.
Jack wrote (> ):
> No need to leave your bunk... jTelnet or Hermes
> manage every rogue msg from your psion alone
> Jack
It wasn't a rogue, it was something I wanted, but didn't want to pay cell phone charges to receive. My point was that thanks to EPOC Email, I was able to leave the e-mail with the big attachemenet sitting there until I had a chance to download it over a cheap connection and still collect my other e-mail on the Psion.
> Free yourself from any nasties.... use Epoc Email
> ONLY
No need to evangelize on this digest. We're all EPOC users allready...
Owen
Thought for the day:
Once a can of worms is opened, the only way to recan them is in a bigger can.
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Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands
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Date: 28 Feb 2004 23:05:05 -0500
From: Alan Morris
Subject: Re: Xp Documents & backup
Steve Hodgson wrote:-
> This may have changed with XP but backups with Windows
> have never been particularly straightforward in my
> experience (I've avoided that awful pun this time).
> Windows tends to be very sloppy about where user data is
> stored in that while most documents are located in users'
> areas, other files such as mail (Outlook Express),
> Schedule data (Outlook) and Favorites tend to congregate
> under the user profile somewhere
> like C:\WINNT\Profiles\shodgson\appdata. Then there is all
> that useful user data stored in the registry...
Steve, I've been using PCs long before IBM made them and I 'lost' my first floppy disk's data. So I've always been very keen on backups. In the early DOS days, I started to use PKzip. Moving to Windows95, I continued using batch files to backup with PKzip, but then had to upgrade to the long file name version.
So on a desktop with four C: partitions, I use 3 batch files (one on each C: partition, apart from the last) to PKzip to a folder on a common D: drive. I then use two more batch files on the last C: partition, to copy all files to two CD-RW. As an example, I backup the 'Send to' folder, as I've got a large number of Psion folders there and re typing them would take a long time.
This allows any number of folders to be put in a backup, without forgetting any. I've yet to use this on XP - hope it still works.
--
Alan R Morris, G4ENS.
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK.
Using a Psion netBook & Nokia 6210e.
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Date: 29 Feb 2004 01:40:16 -0500
From: Itamar Engelsman
Subject: IPSwitch, sysram1.oxh,
Answer to: Jack
Re.: IPSwitch - You forgot to mention that the macro is packed in a zip file of 3 macros called "WebTools". I checked the macros and for me they would not work as I have got too many different choices beyond the three allowed in the macro.
Re. sysram1.oxh - Can someone be so kind to send me this file ? Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK
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Date: 29 Feb 2004 11:50:41 -0500
From: Euan Mee
Subject: Re: Emulator Idiot's guide
On 26 Feb 2004, at 12:wrote:
> have never managed to make the emulator work satisfactorily on my PC. > Perhaps someone could write an idiots' guide and offer it for publication > in the new Psion Magazine?
There are some steps towards an idiot's guide at the
Symbian/Epoc wiki.
(A wiki is a web-site that any visitor can edit, as idf they were the web-master)
It's accessible from the link graphic at the top of
www.gawnsoft.co.sr
If any obvious steps seem to be missing, feel free to put a 'But how
do I do...?' sentence on the page, and then hopefully someone
else will come along and answer that particular query.
Cheers,
Euan
xlucid
this).sf.(antispam.)net
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Date: 29 Feb 2004 11:59:23 -0500
From: Owen H. Morgan
Subject: RevTran
Hi.
Does anyone have RevTran? I'm sure I have it somewhere, but I can't find it.
Owen
Thought for the day:
Don't hate yourself in the morning. Sleep till noon.
<28°14.86'N 16°50.54'WSanta Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands
Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-9311
c/o Idrettsveien 6, 3188 HORTEN, Norway
Phone & SMS: In Spain: +34 620520079 In Norway: +47 92053097 *++++++++++& Date: 29 Feb 2004 15:30:50 -0500 From: Timothy H.D. Williams Subject: Revo batteries Yesterday my Revo refused to turn on at 76% charge. The batteries go off when the machine is opening a file or in some energy-demanding process. Why is it all my Revos have given me a bad time? Bad karma or incorrect recharching? I suspect both. T *++++++++++& Date: 29 Feb 2004 19:17:26 -0500 From: Colin & Ali Messer Subject: Re: Emulator hints Hi Itamar, Itamar Engelsman wrote at 25 Feb 2004 13:25:10 -0500 in Epoc Digest V1 # 458 (12) > I kindly asked whoever interested to send me an email I've been intending to set up the emulator for a while now, and would be very pleased to receive the emulator hints. Since buying a netBook I seem to be setting up a range of environments, PsiLinux, savaJe XE and now the emulator. It keeps me of the streets but the DIY is suffering. Incidentally, after three months of recording GSM and GPRS activitiy I gave up trying to work out the relative expense. GPRS seems significantly quicker so I stick with that. Thanks for the sheet anyway. Regards Colin *++++++++++& Date: 29 Feb 2004 20:53:21 -0500 From: Grant Mearns Subject: Tasty OPL ebook converter After spending many hours fiddling in vain with OPL and Macro5 trying to create a shoddy tool for tidying ebook text, I discovered a rather neat and well featured chunk of code on the Foxpop site. www.foxpop.co.uk/micro/File%20Converter.zip As the source is available, I wonder if anyone with better OPL skills than myself fancies taking it a step further and integrating the command line Aportis conversion app into it... Regards Grant *++++++++++& Date: 29 Feb 2004 22:13:27 -0500 From: Owen H. Morgan Subject: RevTran Hi! I've got enough copies of RevTran now thanks! :o) Owen Thought for the day: Mouse: An elephant built by the Japanese.
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