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Epoc Digest Thu, 03 Jun 2004 Volume 01 : Number 533
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In today's Epoc Digest 17 messages:
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- Fonts for Itamar
- Re: Backups
- Re: Fonts
- re fonts # 532
- EPOC and CF disks
- The Libretto
- Key est içi?
- Re: EPOC - The reliable OS?
- JBStopGo,
- Opera
- Re: New toy from Ebay
- Opera, Fonts, T610 + GPRS configuration,
- Re: S5MX + SonyEricsson T610 + GPRS configuration
- RE: Mail Archiving
- Re: NetBook and WiFi / Vodafone UK GPRS card
- Thanks for help with pdf+
- netBook pro reviews
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Date: 1 Jun 2004 18:41:59 +0100
From: Jon Welford
Subject: Fonts for Itamar
Itamar,
You need true type fonts try google you only need the .ttf file. Here is a
scource www.fontfreak.com but there are many others.
Cheers Jon Welford
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Date: 1 Jun 2004 20:43:39 +0100
From: Keith Giles
Subject: Re: Backups
Jack wrote:
> "error in Macro5\FGMacro does not exist".
> Re: Quoted from Fastbackup Help
> "Using Crontab : download a patch from:
> cshandley.web.users.btopenworld.com/CronTabFix.zip > WARNING! The current
version of FastBackup has a bug, so that the macro > fails to work if it is
launched as a "Macro". Instead, you must set it's type > to "App/Doc".
> You will need the above CronTab fix for this to work."
I *do* have the CronTab fix installed. My macro works as a Macro when
used via a hotkey with Macro5. As I told Chris on the PDAStreet forum,
it works with neither "Macro" nor "App/Doc" via CronTab+fix.
Chris Handley wrote:
> I have an idea - either you recently installed the new version of
> Macro5, or you are using an old/buggy version of Macro5Lib .
>
> If the latter then try installing the new version of Macro5
I *have* installed the new version of Macro5 (including the lib file).
I still get the same thing trying to use CronTab.
> it is possible the new version of Macro5Lib does not incorporate a
> fix
I gave that a try - installed the "old" fix version - it told me I had
a newer version installed and did I want to overwrite it - yes. When I
started up Macro5, I got a message "Incompatible OPX version". So I've
re-installed the lib file included in the new Macro5 zip file and
Macro5 works once again.
Maybe now that Pascal is back in business there'll be a light at the
end of the tunnel for CronTab, which I think is the varmint.
Happy Cycling,
Keith
Sunnyvale, CA
http://ohsix827.home.comcast.net
Thought For The Day: It's not whether you win or lose, but how you
place the blame.
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Date: 1 Jun 2004 21:31:57 +0100
From: Steve Hodgson
Subject: Re: Fonts
ED> Nobody seems to have pointed this out yet, maybe they thought ED> it was
too obvious, but FontMachine can use *any*
ED> truetype font file (.ttf) and everybody's PC is full of them! ED> (Well
mine is, anyway.) Assuming you have access to a
ED> PC (or probably a Mac would do the trick too) just use
ED> Windows Explorer to look in the Windows/System/Fonts folder ED> and
browse what's there, then copy the files to your desktop ED> (Psiwin doesn't
like dealing with the Fonts folder)
ED> and thence onto your Psion. Open up the Fontmachine applet in ED> the
Control Panel and choose "add New", and then you
ED> can navigate to where you put the fonts and install them.
I would only add that you also need to add the fonts to your Psion using
PsiWin in addition to the method that Alan describes. This gives you the
capability to print these fonts using the Printer Via PC option.
As the mbrainsoftware website says:
"The built-in Printer via PC printer driver will only allows you
to select extra fonts after you have added fonts with PsiWin/EPOC Connect,
and the only the fonts you have installed. Also note that this driver cannot
print symbolic fonts."
--
Regards,
Steve Hodgson
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Date: 1 Jun 2004 22:44:54 +0100
From: vlad a
Subject: re fonts # 532
Astrid, Itamar,
I believe I remember having read that this software can use any windows-fonts
on Symbian. On that page there should be some instructions.
The adress is:
http://www.mbrainsoftware.com/FontMachine/FontMachine.htm#Top
best,
vlad a
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Date: 1 Jun 2004 23:52:21 +0100
From: Bruce A.Knox
Subject: EPOC and CF disks
Andy - I've had very similar experiences. EDU hasn't crashed, but it has
found much the same troubles; I'm only glad I have bacups of the Data and
Word files it had to trash. My reaction is like yours: my long-standing
faith in EPOC is shaken. I've ordered an mBook (see other message) but I
very, very nearly cut losses to buy a new Apple iBook, which is a lovely
little machine. The deciding factor was that an mBook is about a third of
the weight and half the size of an iBook; and I've had good service from EPOC
for a long time, so that giving it a further lease may be reasonable;
besides, unless I'm travelling, I have the services of a G4 eMac running OS
10.3.4 (since the day before yesterday - the OS I mean) and it is simply
creamy, not just in its colour.
> I always thought that the OS was really good and perhaps I am just > having
terrible luck recently, but this is what happened tonight: - >
Yrs ----- Bruce Knox
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Date: 2 Jun 2004 04:13:51 +0100
From: Jim Purdie
Subject: The Libretto
Mr NO Spam wrote:--
> Mike. Well done on the Libretto purchase. They are lovely little > devices
and was going to be the device that I was going to buy
> for an in-car satnav system.
>
I bought a Libretto, and yes it is a lovely little device. Unfortunately, I
use glasses at my 19" desktop monitor, and have them giving me arm's length
viewing. I found the text on the Libretto was very small, just too small to
see. When I craned forward, I quickly developed a bad back. So I swapped it
for another Series 5. Besides, the battery on my Libretto was defunct.
Jim Purdie
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Date: 2 Jun 2004 06:42:03 +0100
From: Richard
Subject: Key est içi?
Re: Various (old) posts about mapping non-English characters onto
English keyboards:
I might have this wrong, but it seems that people want to assign all the
non-accented letters to keys, and then assign accented characters, even
if the accented characters "deserve" (because they are used frequently)
to be put on a more useful "plain" key (ie one that doesn't require any
modifiers: Ctrl, Fn or Shift)
I know that in French "é" is more common than "x", so if I wanted a
useful keyboard layout in French, I would assign "é" to the "x" key.
(And I would get "x" through a more convoluted look-up process.)
This might nave been stating the blindingly obvious! But in case those
who need foreign characters mapped to their keyboard don't do this
already, you should!
Richard
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Date: 2 Jun 2004 07:25:59 +0100
From: Marcus von Cube
Subject: Re: EPOC - The reliable OS?
Hi Andy,
>I always thought that the OS was really good and perhaps I am just having
terrible luck recently, but this is what happened tonight: -
Looks like bad luck to me :-(. In my opinion, EPOC itself is still a very
relible OS but that's apparantly not true for some applications (Just like
Windows which is designed to crash but some apps don't).
Opera was written with a C standard library and enough memory in mind, not
EPOC on a memory
contrained system. To make Opera compile, the designers implemented the C
library on top of the
EPOC classes. But that only implements the functionality and leaves the
programmer with all the
stability and security problems of C, its dangerous pointers and strings
(which are all forbidden in "real" EPOC programming.) A good EPOC program
deals very gracefully with low memory situations
while being very careful with using up memory at all. Opera seems to be
designed to eat up all
memory and then crash.
Your CF card problems seem to be related to either a hardware fault or some
corruption on the card. I
gave up on "repairing" fat formatted drives. If neccessary, I try to read as
much information as is still accessible (probably still needing a chkdisk to
be able to do just that). I then format the drive and copy back the
information. I see that you attempted the same but the netBook soft reset on
the restore operation. It is probably time to replace the CF or check if your
CF card slot as a technical problem. I assume that you did all you "repair"
work with a power supply connected?
Marcus
http://www.mvcsys.de
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Date: 2 Jun 2004 10:20:09 +0100
From: Itamar Engelsman
Subject: JBStopGo,
Answer to: Mike Alexander
Re.: JBStopGo - Thanks for that. After years of using it before backing up to
my PC I never looked at these options before <G>. Never to old to learn it
appears.
Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK
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Date: 2 Jun 2004 11:07:01 +0100
From: Phil Aypee
Subject: Opera
Hi Folks,
When Korbinian said "You can't _save_ a pdf-file with Opera (I suppose you
use Opera). Perhaps you can change this behaviour anywhere or perhaps find a
workaround (like reinstalling the pdf-app or something like that), but it's
really strange..." I remembered that I had that problem. I usually use my Mac
for PDF files now but, using Opera on my 5mx, I found that the PDF files
*were* downloaded as PDF files into the Opera cache with the right icon and
an Opera generated name. I just renamed them and moved them!
But, like Korbinian, I had altered something in the Preferences section.
The other thing I remember is that you have to load the Opera preferences
file into a text editor to do some things - particularly to move the cache.
My cache is on my D: disk (I only browse the 'Net on one of my two 5mxs with
it's 256MB CF card which is pretty much a fixture).
Happy days,
Phil.
"Conviction is strongest
when knowledge is least."
http://www.aypee2.net
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Date: 2 Jun 2004 11:27:05 +0100
From: Mike Dyer
Subject: Re: New toy from Ebay
>Date: 1 Jun 2004 08:31:57 +0100
>Mr NO Spam Wrote:
>Mike. Well done on the Libretto purchase. They are lovely little devices and
was >going to be the device that I was going to buy for an in-car satnav
system.
Thanks,
I am chuffed to bits with it.
It is is mint condition, and I got loads of accessories with it for only £151
:o)
My gadget line up is a mini laptop for the serious stuff, a pocket computer
for day to day diary functions, keeping an ebook on, sms messaging etc, and a
small light mobile phone because I don't want to carry a chunky mobile with
important documents with me *all* the time.
Regards,
Mike Dyer.
On a Toshiba Libretto.
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Date: 2 Jun 2004 13:23:53 +0100
From: Itamar Engelsman
Subject: Opera, Fonts, T610 + GPRS configuration,
Re.: Opera - I think that not many people use their Psions to surf the web at
all. Whatever program you use, it is slow and a lot of pages will not open
anyhow. I use it only in "emergency" cases when on the road, which has been
once or twice in many years. I think the experience of Andy Hayes confirms
this is not a tool for surfing the web (although others probably have done so
for many years without problems).
Answer to: Alan Jones & others
Re.: Fonts - AAAAHHHHH, now I understand why my .TTF files don't work, I
don't use Fontmachine <G>. I actually use a small program Fload which can use
only .gdr font files. After a soft reset it will automatically load the fonts
in System\fonts\custom into memory before starting the OS. I suppose I will
have to be satisfied with arila narron, bungalo and comic sans.
Answer to: Gilles G. CASANOVA
Re.: T610 + GPRS configuration - It works very well for me with my mBook and
before with my S7. Did you set the standar dial up number to "*99***2#" ?
This is the most common error I think that will stop it from working.
Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK
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Date: 2 Jun 2004 19:42:01 +0100
From: Gianluca Gallino
Subject: Re: S5MX + SonyEricsson T610 + GPRS configuration
to "Gilles G. CASANOVA"
Subject: S5MX + SonyEricsson T610 + GPRS configuration
>>>Has anyone succeeded in connecting a S 5 mx to the internet through the
T610 's GPRS modem (IR link between phone and psion). I alway get a modem
initialisation error. It perfectly works with my laptop PC though...<<<
Just one very quick guess: did you install the GPRS Mobile Connectivity
Update 2.0 on your 5mx?
just In case you have not installed yet you can browse on over Mike Mc
Connell's excellent site at http://www.mikemcc.org.uk and download the MCU
2.0 from there.
cheers
gianluca
NB: please keep on supporting the petition for an EPOC/Symbian new netBook
PRO on www.petitiononline.com/nbookpro/petition.html
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Date: 2 Jun 2004 20:23:38 +0100
From: Gianluca Gallino
Subject: RE: Mail Archiving
From: Steve Hodgson
Subject: Mail Archiving
Dear Steve,
I do not really know how to answer your question but I am dropping a few
lines about this subject anyway since I think it may be a topic which could
be interesting to others too....
I am using both apps, with a preference for SaveMail. Probably I like the
fact of a machine doing kind of a housekeeping job such as ... putting an
archive in order.
I started dealing with it in the first semester of 2003 and now I currently
have 11 data .box files in my archive folder. each one of them "weights"
about 2 MegaBytes (which corresponds to one month email messages), apart from
the very first two which are about 5 MegaBytes each. this calls for
(2*9)+(5*2)=28 MegaBytes in total at the time of writing.
Attachments are stored in a separate folder and this allow for deleting the
ones which are redundant or not necessary, while keeping the original
message. Sometimes I wonder how big is my desktop outlook programme with all
the inbox/outbox messages I have kept on it since 2002... I am afraid it is
actually *much* bigger.
As a result, the CF I do have in my nB is my "mobile archive"... or my
"personal reserve memory" if you prefer...
BTW, I experienced a major crash when the first .box reached the size of 5,5
MB about one year ago. I talked to Sergio Alisi, author of this app, and he
recommended me not to go further than 2,5 MB each file, anyway. I guess I was
probably establishing a world record of .box data file size, without even
knowing it ;-)
I am not very good at writing Macros. However, I have just been successful in
writing one which allows me to perform an automatic search in every .box data
file. For this purpose, a good guide to Macro5 has been an epoc word document
given by Keith Giles, whom I wish to acknowledge for this.
I suppose there may be others using the email application as much as I do...
any other comments about this?
cheers
gianluca
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Date: 2 Jun 2004 22:05:09 +0100
From: Gianluca Gallino
Subject: Re: NetBook and WiFi / Vodafone UK GPRS card
From: Philip Crookes
Subject: NetBook and WiFi
Ciao Philip!
>>>That's a lot of questions. I wonder if there will be any answers.<<<
why not!
>>>Do you think we could achieve anything if we all wrote in to say we wished
they would? Not in an attempt to spam them or shut down their server - but
rather an indication that there are some 781 of us (or whatever fraction of
us that would do it) that would be interested. I would pay up to EUR30.00 for
a fully functional browser for the NetBook and 5mx. If half of us would -
that would bring in more than EUR 11 000. That's more than most programmers
get by the month...<<<
there is an attempt to change the rom image of the netBook. one of the dreams
linked to this effort is to have a much powerful JVM such as the TAO intent
one. if the guys involved to this project will succeed this may open a wide
range of possibilities... to make just an example, I wish I could be able to
use the Grand Rapid Java Browser on my netBook in a more efficient way than
today
you can check the following websites:
xtep
http://gtm.tel.uva.es/xtep
John and Max
http://netbookboot.dlmax.org/tiki-index.php
the original thread at Psionplace / PdaStreet
http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/showthread.php?s=f644872e7ce8a02c8b6bd5d3d0c36
639&threadid=40798&perpage=15&pagenumber=1
printable version:
http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/printthread.php?s=f644872e7ce8a02c8b6bd5d3d0c3
6639&threadid=40798
>>>I see Vodafone are pushing pay-as-you-go GPRS cards at the airport Dixons
for GBP127. Are these the ones that will work in the NetBook? Will they work
in other countries? How can I tell if the card will work on the NetBook
before I pay the GBP127? Salesdroids at Dixons aren't keen on letting
customers try before they buy...<<<
Just in case you might want to check, here is another thread at PsionPlace
which I actually started and which may include some useful hints for your
research:
http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/showthread.php?s=cdd08504373d07344d0924acbb725
388&threadid=32604
printed-friendly version:
http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/printthread.php?s=cdd08504373d07344d0924acbb72
5388&threadid=32604
HTH
cheers
gianluca
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Date: 3 Jun 2004 04:01:37 +0100
From: Moshe Nahir
Subject: Thanks for help with pdf+
Hi All,
I am very pleased to report that my pdf+ problem has now been resolved. The
problem was that when I received an email with a pdf file attached, my 5mx
showed the dreaded '?', and of course it would not open, though I had no
problem opening it on my PC.
The help I received from Digesters, on and off the List, has been
unbelievable, absolutely overwhelming, and greatly appreciated. Thanks to
Keith Giles, George Cooke, Marcus von Cube, Phil Aypee, Kate Head, Korbinian
Demmel, Astrid and, of course, Itamar. Based on the suggestions I received,
I reinstalled the pdf+ and it now works perfectly. If only I had thought
about it earlier! It now looks so simple...
So thanks again to all
Moshe
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Date: 3 Jun 2004 07:57:36 +0100
From: Ian Chapple
Subject: netBook pro reviews
I came across an article at PDAGeek
(http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2004Jun/bpd20040601025383.htm) about the
netbook Pro, with a link to the following review:
http://smartmobileassets.com/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl/Blah.pl?,v=display,b=news,m=
1085977355
There are also two further articles, comparing the original netbook with
the netbook Pro:
http://www.johnstolk.com/Psion/
http://www.psionwelt.de/besprech/nbpro-test_ts.pdf
Cheers, Ian.
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