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Epoc Digest Sun, 07 Mar 2004 Volume 01 : Number 465
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Sent to: 787 subscribers
In today's Epoc Digest 16 messages:
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- Apple Airport wireless dial-up
- Re: T-Online From:-Header / SMTP authentication
- PSION and GPS # 464 (8)
- Re: SmtpAuth updated to version 0.7
- Re : TCP/IP update (4 Chris); Jotter update?
- Re: Setting up my Mbook
- http://psion-gmbh.com/
- PSION and GPS # 464 (8)
- T610 / Lifebook # 464 (8)
- For Psion Siailors
- Emulator?
- SumIF formula in Sheet
- Crontab problem, Nokia 9500,
- Re: HTML Mail macro
- Owen's Virues (well, not his exactly)
- BCC Bug Fixed
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Date: 6 Mar 2004 10:42:37 -0500
From: simon
Subject: Apple Airport wireless dial-up
Terry, at home we have an apple airport wireless base station that connects to the internet via its internal modem. The way we have it set up at present is for the airport to connect automatically, as Martin suggests, but also we set the airport to disconnect automatically after 2 minutes idle (I am in the habit of abruptly finishing my computing sessions by shutting the lid of my iBook and expecting everything to take care of itself!)
However Martin your utilities sound like they could be very useful...
Simon
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Date: 6 Mar 2004 10:51:21 -0500
From: Marcus von Cube
Subject: Re: T-Online From:-Header / SMTP authentication
Antony,
>You then decide to send email from your client, setup was the senders address, via t-onlines SMTP server. You would then have a senders addresswhich doesn't exist.
Antony, T-Online can replace the From: header completely. This is because they kow the account details from the IP address. A RADIUS server maps the IP adress to the T-Online account (adresses outside that range have no access to the T-Online SMTP server). The account info is then used to replace the From: line in the header of each mail.
>I don't think EPOC mail has the facility to use SMTP authentication, although I do believe there is an additional piece of software written by one of the digest members.
SmtpAuth from http://www.mvcsys.de/doc/smtpauth.html or http://www.mvcsys.de/download
Marcus
http://www.mvcsys.de
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Date: 6 Mar 2004 11:51:54 -0500
From: vlad a
Subject: PSION and GPS # 464 (8)
> Jaap Laméris wrote on 6.3.2004 2:24 Uhr:
> Jaap Laméris
> Subject: PSION and GPS (Possible OT)
There are quite a few apps that can write and read from Garmin. Here are
some links, some may be outdated. If you vivisimo or google for Garmin AND
Psion you'll find a lot more.
The cable is a problem, but you can make your own or have the people here
help you:
http://pfranc.com/index.htm
http://pfranc.com/projects/e2Plug/index.htm
http://pfranc.com/projects/g45contr/4sale.htm
http://www.millican.f2s.com/realmaps/gpsconn.htm
Software:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.duff/
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Orchard/5730/the_software.htm
http://www.millican.f2s.com/realmaps/index.htm
http://freespace.virgin.net/patrick.fox/codriver/
Steve Litchfield's own :-)
http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/mapper.htm
A quite complex mapping and tracking software:
http://www.physi.uni-heidelberg.de/~vwalter/my/VWATLAS/vwAtlas.html
Let me know how you get on, if you will. I have only looked at these
programs, but am using my eTrex in a much simpler way...
best,
vlad
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Date: 6 Mar 2004 11:59:25 -0500
From: Rolf Vonau
Subject: Re: SmtpAuth updated to version 0.7
Marcus von Cube worte at 5 Mar 2004 18:42:27 -0500
> Rolf von Au asked me to update SmtpAuth to fix the
> EPOC Bcc bug. I just did it.
Hi Marcus,
GREAT !!
I tried the new function, immerdiately. It works fine.
At last the BCc bug, which Psion's "great" developers could or want not fix, is rendered harmless.
I would stress also Marcus' speed.
I asked him at 5th of March 1 a.m. conc. the bug fixing and he informed me at the same day at 5 p.m. about the new version.
Thank you, Marcus!
--
Best Regards
Rolf
Munich
http://home.arcor.de/rhvonau/index.htm
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Date: 6 Mar 2004 15:41:50 -0500
From: Jack
Subject: Re : TCP/IP update (4 Chris); Jotter update?
To Chris,
>>>...Now PERSONALLY, I would not use this fix because it has not (AFAIK) been definitely proven to originate from Psion... And that means it could easily be a nasty Trojan (which also happens to fix the freezing)...<<<
Re :
¿ What could be wrong with ?:
http://www.psionteklogix.com/teknet/pdk/netbook-pdk/update.htm
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Hi Timothy H.D. W.,
To : >>.. The updated Jotter version could be downloaded as part of the Netbook > or Netpad. I did so ages ago but alas, I suffered a broken CF card and > lost all data. Can anyone remind me of the link which I can not relocate?..<<<
You replied :
>http://www.psionteklogix.com/teknet/pdk/netpad-pdk/epoc_downloads.htm<
Re :
Does the "jotter.sis update" from this page is to be installed on the Netpad? or an "Emulator"??!
Jack
Never mind ._,.-*'`\._,.-*'`spring will be back`'*-.,_./`'*-.,_.
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Date: 7 Mar 2004 05:32:51 -0500
From: Melvin Woody
Subject: Re: Setting up my Mbook
Perhaps I simply haven't found the right instructions in the Manual on the CDRom, but for now, I'm still perplexed about how to really make use of my MBook. For example - I bought and Orinoco card so that I could connect with my DSL wireless modem. But the Orinoco came with a CDRom which I used to install software on my desktop PC. All well and good. But don't I have to get some of that software onto the MBook? How can I do that? I can't use the connecting cord that I bought from Expansys because that needs a 9 pin serial port at the desktop end and I don't have one free. So I'd hoped to use the Orinoco card -- for which purpose I gather than I need to be able to get the Orinoco drivers onto the Mbook, which takes me into a vicious circle.
HELP!
jmwoo
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Date: 6 Mar 2004 11:51:54 -0500
From: vlad a
Subject: http://psion-gmbh.com/
Looking for info for Christopher, I went to
http://www.psion-gmbh.com/support/icw/index.mv?r=starttop
and found a pharmacy... which partly uses exactly this adress (see also "page info"). How is that possible?!
Here there used to be "the internet configuraton wizard", a small online application which helped create a .sis with modem settings... very smart... where would it be?
best,
vlad
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Date: 6 Mar 2004 11:51:54 -0500
From: vlad a
Subject: PSION and GPS # 464 (8)
> Jaap Laméris wrote on 6.3.2004 2:24 Uhr:
> Jaap Laméris
> Subject: PSION and GPS (Possible OT)
There are quite a few apps that can write and read from Garmin. Here are
some links, some may be outdated. If you vivisimo or google for Garmin AND
Psion you'll find a lot more.
The cable is a problem, but you can make your own or have the people here
help you:
http://pfranc.com/index.htm
http://pfranc.com/projects/e2Plug/index.htm
http://pfranc.com/projects/g45contr/4sale.htm
http://www.millican.f2s.com/realmaps/gpsconn.htm
Software:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.duff/
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Orchard/5730/the_software.htm
http://www.millican.f2s.com/realmaps/index.htm
http://freespace.virgin.net/patrick.fox/codriver/
Steve Litchfield's own :-)
http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/mapper.htm
A quite complex mapping and tracking software:
http://www.physi.uni-heidelberg.de/~vwalter/my/VWATLAS/vwAtlas.html
Let me know how you get on, if you will. I have only looked at these
programs, but am using my eTrex in a much simpler way...
best,
vlad
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Date: 6 Mar 2004 11:51:54 -0500
From: vlad a
Subject: T610 / Lifebook # 464 (8)
> Chris wrote on 6.3.2004 2:24 Uhr:
> settings info for Sony Ericsson T610 with 5mx/revo.
Try these adresses:
http://www.psion.com/mypsion/HelpGuides.asp
(.pdf-s for download)
http://www.fingertech.co.uk/ericssont39.html
http://www.fingertech.co.uk/psiontricks.html
(on-site instructions)
I don't think settings change much with models, so this might be useful.
best,
vlad
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Date: 6 Mar 2004 20:09:59 -0500
From: Jon Welford
Subject: For Psion Siailors
Hi,
Stephen Denholm of Wizworld has released a new much updated version of Navigate it can work on several operating systems.
See http://www.wizworldservices.co.uk/navigate for a demo version.
Nice to see another new prog for our machines. It needs to run off c or the data files need to be relocated out of system as the java can't see them there. This is apparently a limitation of the epoc java machine.
No connection just a happy user of Navigate.
Jon Welford
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Date: 6 Mar 2004 22:24:43 -0500
From: robertsont
Subject: Emulator?
Can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of the Psion 5 emulator for windows (actually I think it was DOS). Has anything more recent been developed?
Regards,
Tom Robertson
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Date: 6 Mar 2004 22:31:38 -0500
From: David
Subject: SumIF formula in Sheet
1st time poster here, so sorry for the dumb question.....
I'm a huge fanof the Sheet feature on my Psion 5MX but i can't figure out how to do a SumIf style formula, such that if i had
1 a
45 b
23 a
12 b
34 a
I wanted to add all the values for "a" and show the result in a cell.
Any ideas greatly received.
Dave
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Date: 7 Mar 2004 01:46:16 -0500
From: Itamar Engelsman
Subject: Crontab problem, Nokia 9500,
Answer to: Chris Handley
Re.: Crontab problem - I think I found another problem with Crontab. It appears that this year again the program does not recognise what are working days and what not. Even though I have set the working days in the Control Panel to Monday to Friday, macro's I set in Crontab to be activated on workdays only are activated in the week-ends as well.
Answer to: Steve Litchfield
Re.: Nokia 9500 - How well or not can one synchronise between a S7/nB and a Nokia 9500 ? it sounds interesting but I would not put my mBook aside for the Nokia.
Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK
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Date: 7 Mar 2004 07:51:01 -0500
From: Chris S Handley
Subject: Re: HTML Mail macro
Hello Antony,
> I compared the
> files and found that all, carriage return/linefeed
> combinations (0D0A) were replaced by ACK (06) in the macro
> temporary file and can only determine that ClipRead: has a
> bug?
No, it is not a bug in Macro5, but rather a "feature" of EPOC's internal clipboard format. Although I am surprised you did not find (07) characters, since Email is rather wierd.
Anyway, this can be solved VERY efficiently by replacing the (06) characters by (OA) directly in the string, using a little knowledge of how OPL stores strings in memory. Here's how:
PROC example:
LOCAL string$(255)
string$ = ClipRead:
convert:(ADDR(string$), 006, 010) REM 010=&0A
ENDPROC
PROC convert:(addr_string&, from%, to%)
LOCAL pos&, len&
len& = PEEKB(addr_string&)
pos& = 1+addr_string&
WHILE len& > 0
IF from% = PEEKB(pos&)
POKEB(pos&),(to%)
ENDIF
pos& = pos& + 1
len& = len& - 1
ENDWH
ENDP
BTW, this won't work on ER6+ Smartphones because of the use of Unicode, but this is really the fault of OPL because it does not allow read/writing of the string as if it was an array. But anyway, fixing it for Unicode should be pretty easy.
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Chris Handley
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Date: 7 Mar 2004 10:10:16 -0500
From: Philip S. Adkins Potter
Subject: Owen's Virues (well, not his exactly)
Hi Folks,
The attachment "Information.pif" that apparently contains a virus was sent to me too, though I don't remember the full "From" address, juI also got another "*.pif" attachment the same day, fr
I hadn't received any nasties at this eAddress until the recent 3.
I am certain no-one on the Digest is responsible for the virus but maybe someone, unprotected, has had eAddresses harvested from their eMails by a virus. It does happen. I'm certain it's not me as I only keep eAddresses on my Psion and very rarely use my Mac for eMail at all (and my anti-virus software, Norton, is current). But many Digestives do use a PC and as this is a Windoze nasty perhaps this is a good time for them to ensure that their a-v software is current.
This is not an accusation, far from it, but everybody, not just us, needs to be on their toes about this. It is easy to be unaware of nasties - I know as my ISP blames it's infected customers for being infected but expects them to disinfect themselves without even being informed. That's bloody wilful ignorance and blameworthy whereas ignorance of infection is usually only sad.
People who write these nasties are usually, pretty much by definition, ahead of a-v writers. But since Psions have a very good Agenda program alarming a regular a-v update/scan is easy. We should all do it because Owen is right.
Good luck,
Phil.
"All faults are more pardonable than
the methods used to hide them."
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Date: 7 Mar 2004 13:07:32 -0500
From: Manuel Campos Galvan
Subject: BCC Bug Fixed
Great Work! Cheers for Marcus!. But, how does it work?
Regards,
Manuel Campos
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