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Epoc Digest Sun, 28 Mar 2004 Volume 01 : Number 487

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In today's Epoc Digest 08 messages:

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- Excuses / Epoc.exe

- Melvin Woody wireless problem

- Bluetooth Converter

- Owen's Dud CF card # 486

- Wireless Question

- Re: Re. Rogue Fax accounts

- Digest thoughts # 486

- Axel Moberg softw. sources # 486

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Date: 28 Mar 2004 18:52:15 -0500

From: Andy Hayes

Subject: Excuses / Epoc.exe

A foolproff axcuse is always "windows crashed and corrupted the file". Who would doubt it!?

Why when I try to run the emulator do I get the message "can't find epoc.exe"? It can't find it because it isn't there and I don't know where it shpuld come from or where it should go. Anyone able to help?

Thanks

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Date: 28 Mar 2004 19:17:26 -0500

From: Christopher Holly

Subject: Melvin Woody wireless problem

Melvin, I have SBC DSL with a 2WIRE router. However I am using a CISCO Aironet 340 card. Maybe some of these settings would be helpful to you:

From the Edit Ethernet settings:

Configuration method: DHCP

Hostname: My netBook

Device: Cisco Aironet ... (yours is obviously the Lucent Orinoco) Under Options:

SSID: 2WIRE... (I don't know doodah about this but I suspect this is not something I should share. It is in your 2WIRE documentation)

Under Advanced tab

IEEE 802.3 encapsulation is NOT marked

ARP cache timeout is 1800 secs

From the Internet settings:

Service tab:

Name: SBC Yahoo (call it want you like)

Connection type: Direct

Account tab:

Manual login: NOT marked

username and password (whatever SBC told you)

remember these are case sensitive and it is not difficult for clumsy typers to inadvertently turn on CAPS

Addresses tab:

Get IP address from server: checked

Get DNS address from server: checked

Use login script: NOT marked

Advanced tab:

Enable PPP extensions: checked

Allow plain text authentication: checked (probably does not need to be though)

Use call back: NOT marked

For what it is worth I have if idle, stay on line set for 15 minutes and on exit stay on line for 5 minutes

I know the Lucent card has lots of additional settings but I would be tempted to stick with the defaults. As I recall, the Aironet defaults worked just fine for me. The SBC tech people may be able to help, but my experience with getting tech help for anything on the Psion is that "you are on your own, bud." (Which usually suits me fine, thanks to all the sharp people on this listserv.) It's like everything else in this country--whatever we do is the best and nothing else is worth knowing. (Witness our smarmy president vs. the UN.) Not fair of me to say, I suppose, but dammit, _I_ know the Psion 5mx is the greatest handheld computer yet devised. Why don't the technoliterati? Boy, did I get up on the wrong side of bed this

morning! --Chris

Chris Holly

830 S. Fess Ave.

Bloomington, IN USA

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Date: 28 Mar 2004 19:50:37 -0500

From: Timothy H.D. Williams

Subject: Bluetooth Converter

RS232 Bluetooth Converter's blurb says

> This product will plug onto any RS232 port and convert the RS232 data > into a Bluetooth wireless transmission

However, am I not right in thinking that the RS232 port is slightly different on the Netpad?

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Date: 28 Mar 2004 19:56:37 -0500

From: vlad a

Subject: Owen's Dud CF card # 486

&wrote on 28.3.2004 19:21 Uhr:

> Owen's Dud CF card

> try this, but just out of Interest, what makes you think a Mac would do it > when EPOC, WindoZe (2k) and a Nikon

Arguments:

1- ... experience :-)

2- ... logic: it works because the Psion is a better little Mac :-)

3- an ad hoc thought of the day: "when you are sure you are right, try to prove you're not" (I think it's a paraphrase to a quote from Admiral Nelson, Captain ;-)

Seriously: the process is somewhat longer:

- fromat the card in a Mac (OS 9; haven't yet tried w. OS X): menu special/Delete volume. DOS is the only alternative the menu offers when a CF is inserted and selected in the Finder. You may have to try several times.

- Reformat in Psion. You may have to try several times.

In the end it always worked for me. Usually it was enough to format w. the Mac, but the Mac OS's Finder leaves invisible docs/folders behind, which may cause trouble.

My *very* lay explanation is: the Filesystem is not completely damaged, just enough to cause trouble, so the Mac wipes out what's left and formats it . Then Psion is able to reformat.

I'd like to know whether it worked for you...

best,

vlad a

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Date: 28 Mar 2004 20:37:03 -0500

From: Matthew Walters

Subject: Wireless Question

I have managed to set up peer - to - peer wireless with my netBook and Win XP, and can share the dial-up connection from XP but only if i start the connection on XP first. According to Windoze help, the dial-up connection should be started by the netBook trying to access the web. Does anybody know of a buried checkbox i may have missed?

Matthew Walters

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Date: 28 Mar 2004 20:52:31 -0500

From: U Hornstein

Subject: Re: Re. Rogue Fax accounts

Reference is made to the mail in the Epoc Digest V1 # 483 (5) : Ian Chapple wrote on 25 Mar 2004 08:24:00 (> ):

> I have no idea how I've ended up with two Fax accounts.

> They appear to be identical, but are only visible from

> Tools - Account Settings.

I have exactly the same problem.

i THINK this problem was introduced by typing (long ago) Menu-Extras-AddNewAccount-Fax or similar (I have a German MC218).

I just rechecked, Fax is not offered any more at this point. Maybe it was when there was only one existent.

If someone finds a way to get rid of the Fax account, this would help me too. Its just annoying...

With greetings from Germany

Ulrich Hornstein

For spam protection: Please NEVER type my mail address into a www page ('send to a friend' or similar)!

Sent by MC218 (EPOC palmtop)

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Date: 28 Mar 2004 19:56:37 -0500

From: vlad a

Subject: Digest thoughts # 486

> Itamar wrote on 28.3.2004 19:21 Uhr:

> to keep the balance right. Personally I believe the digest team has done a > great job until now and should be given a little bit of trust and leeway to > continue in the same way and spirit.

I certainly agree. And thanks again to the team and *all* contributors (and Alan Morris for his summary of GPS in the last issue :-)

best to all,

vlad a

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Date: 28 Mar 2004 19:56:37 -0500

From: vlad a

Subject: Axel Moberg softw. sources # 486

&wrote on 28.3.2004 19:21 Uhr:

Try:

http://www.geocities.com/arslab/compu/psion/psion.html#elect (lists links) http://www.epocboulevard.com/er5/index.php (French)

http://home.psionarchives.com/series_5_epoc.html (E)

http://www.psionwelt.de/programm/index.htm (German!)

http://www.psionplace.com/software-series5.html (E)

You should always go from there to the developers' own sites - the archives are not always up-to-date). If you look for something precise, just give the name of the software and the word "Psion" in a search engine (I recently discovered www.vivisimo.com, a meta-searchengine which returns logically clustered results, not just lists, huge help!).