- RE: GMail Anyone

- Printing via 9500

- Infra-red connectivity: back-up and restoring files using IR dongle

- Re : Planning & Task Management

- SmallBase anyone

- Series5 Security Patch

- Re: The Digest V1 # 783_16

- Are my batteries dying?

- 9500 availability in the UK

- 9500 keyboard not being backlit

- Search & Replace (automatically)

- RE: Your message to The Digest - 17jul05

- Re: Are my batteries dying?

- 9290 internet and email set up

- Nokia 9500 & 9300 - reply to Itamar Engelsman

- Are my batteries dying?, email on Pxxx, automatic Search & Replace, Fax via 9500

- Dead 5mx and APB Bank question

Date: 5 Aug 2005 20:23:00 +0700
From: Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated>
Subject: RE: GMail Anyone

Date:  3 Aug 2005 10:50:52 +0700
From: nic <address truncated> Subject: GMail Anyone



<<have been on gmail (2GB free storage) for almost one year now and I am very happy with it.  Yes, it works very well with POP mail.>>

Nic,

I have GMail up and working on my Windows machine and see how the web brouser on my palm or my psion should be able to access the mail at the site.

What defines POP mail compatibility?  I assumed there would be a way to set up the browser on the palm or the psion to access mail off of the site without using the web browser.

jim - port townsend, wa, usa

Date: 6 Aug 2005 11:02:16 +0700
From: Simon Jeffree <address truncated>
Subject: Printing via 9500

Answer to: Charles Davies

I too would have difficulty printing from my 9500, were it not for the fact that I'm using an older HP printer with a parallel interface, rather than USB.  I've got an IrDA to parallel adapter (from Actisys) plugged into it & the parallel lead from my PC piggy backs into that.  This allows me to print from either the 9500 by just pointing it at the infrared 'eye', or the PC, without fiddling with any leads.

The only trouble is, the printer is not compatible with any of the drivers listed in 'Tools/Control panel/Extras/HP printer selection', even though it's an HP, so I just use the 'General' printer type, selected in the print options.  This is OK, as I only ever use it for letters & other text only stuff like that & I'm not interested in pretty fonts or formatting, but still it's a shame I can't print pictures to it.

There are some printers coming on the market with bluetooth.  That sounds quite neat.  Or you could get a bluetooth to USB printer adapter if your printer does USB.


Now for a question of my own:

Subject: IrDA to serial adapter

I'd be interested if anyone knows if it's possible to get an infrared to serial adapter, which is small enough to carry around with me, as this would be handy for connecting to the console socket of the various Unix servers I look after at work.  Also, does anyone know of a good VT100 terminal emulator for the 9500?  I used to use Hermes on my 5mx.

Regards,
Simon Jeffree

Date: 6 Aug 2005 21:23:09 +0700
From: Kim Smith <address truncated>
Subject: Infra-red connectivity: back-up and restoring files using IR dongle

Greetings fellow Psion enthusiasts!

Since my last entry (asking for the netBook emulator for Windoze) I had numerous positive responses: thank you all for your input; it was, as usual,  invaluable and appreciated.

I've managed to obtain both an old series 5 (which isn't up to my demands, but my wife loves it!) and a 5mx in need of some TLC (a trip to POS is imminent)

I wonder whether any of you have ever tried to sync files/perform back-ups or restores using IR between a PC and a Psion?  The reason I ask is that I have an infra red dongle which will happily commmunicate 
between my  laptop and mobile phone(s) but  /not/ with the IR port on a 5mx. (Come to think of it, it didn't work with the netBook either)

Has anybody ever tried to use the link?  Is it worth pursuing this enquiry? My laptop (like most nowadays) has no serial port (I know about the USB/serial adapter but don't have one - yet!) so I am curious as to whether I /can/ use the infra-red facility or not or whether I Should just fork out the cash for the adapter.

BTW has anybody obtained a PsiXpda or whatever it is that POS are advertising? It looks like a 5mx Pro - is it?

Once upon a time I recall a small business in Watford who would upgrade the ROM in a 5mx Pro to as much as 64Mb! Are they still around? Alas, I can't recall what they were called.

Until we speak again - enjoy those Psions, they were, and still are, way ahead of their time.

Date: 6 Aug 2005 22:22:07 +0700
From: Jean Guillonneau <address truncated>
Subject: Re : Planning & Task Management

To Chris Malcolm, Andrew Morphett, Marky... and the others.

In my turn I would like to explain my point of view on this topic, in a clumsy english (sorry !).
After a while I am often disappointed by third party programs, because they are too restrictive. What I appreciate most in EPOC programs is their extreme versatility, you can still increase with macros. Fast everywhere, you can change the police, you can add embedded objects, you can link to any other file or program (thanks to Symlink), you can paste quickly something (with Magickeys for example), you can look for (and paste) an information (spelling, synonyms, translation, OPL use - thanks to macros). In Agenda, you can mix in the same view to-dos, schedules, events..., you can change easily a to-do to an appointment etc. In addition : inbuilt EPOC programs (fast) never crash !
I used Mentor a year or two. I abandoned it, because I wanted my tasks to appear in the daily view of the agenda at any place I whished, and because it was not possible to link to other files (except with a macro, of course). I used also X-Link a lot, but it has several nasty bugs (you can avoid them when you know them) and  if you change your machine there is no mean to get a new registration key (I even tried to buy a new one for my spare 5mx, but I couldn't becaused the web page required the EMEI number ! Martin, wouldn't it be a case where an app is "lost", at least for ER5 ?). I tried others programs which I found a bit "heavy" and not so easy to manage on a daily basis : DCP, Notepad, Businesswarrior, Plan 5, RMRTask... Most of them have many features I do not need and have not what I am looking for. I use also VoiceMan5 to remind of voice notes. PsiMind is really clever, but its speed slows down too heavily when the file increases (on a 5 mx). I did'nt think of using Orga as an outliner, but I wil try.
But besides that, I want to limit the number of programs where I must look into every day : Agenda, Email, Voice Notes - that should be enough and is already to much. I hate to enter a program, look for an information into another, import, export, copy, paste... I have sometimes no time to have a glance at my Agenda, so what for the others apps... And I would like also to end and to follow up the job I am doing without changing x times program and machine, without formatting and reformatting. That's the reason why I do not use Jotter : another place to store items... and forget them... and have difficulties to retrieve them if ever needed.
I ask from a computer to help me behave diffently from what I do on my real desks, where I pile up all sorts of papers : most of them are of no real use and should go straight away to the paperbasket (but I don't dare to do it - I might need them some time), and when I really need them I waste a lot of time to retrieve them - not always with success. Not to say about things I should do before a defined termin : alas ! papers do not ring when they ought to be "done" and remain so easily forgotten inside the pile !
Computers did help me. Everything which is electronically storable can be quickly and rationaly stored, backed up, automated, easily retrieved (By the way, Ferret is lightning fast ! but crashes when I am searching words inside my agendas). But organizing things is until now not so well done by computers. They could do much better !
I read some years ago an article (at Foxpop I think) discussing this topic. The author whished a better integration of the different softwares and thought that it should be the next step, especially for PDAs. This step has not been made so far.
I read also (probably in the same article) that the Newton (Apple) offered some integration of that kind : when you were searching "Paul Smith", it offered immediately all the occurences of "Paul Smith" in the machine (it's what I understood, but I had never a Newton in hands).
I think programmers should build such a system. A system where : When you come to "Paul Smith", you just press a key, and not only the occurences where "Paul Smith" is involved come to the screen (Contacts, Appointments, Texts and so on), but they appear in form of a tree or a spinweb where you can easily see the different contexts (projects) and then navigate where you need or want to. Each app would have its own goals and means, but every app should be "open" : it should permit an access to and from a sort of "Central organisator". A sort of Big Brother in a computer (the only place where a Big Brother is wanted !). Or rather a WWW in the computer, with the advantage that the user could plan initially - and not only a posteriori - some kind of organisation. (I like the way "The Brain" works on a PC - a sort of PsiMind with more means)
EPOC has not this integration (neither Windows or Linux or whatever OS). A hint of integration comes for example in Email, where you can have direct access to Contacts and paste without effort email adresses - i.e. you don't need to have a special contact file for Email).
With macros it is possible to overcome this limitation in some extent. But macros are not always possible (it's impossible - I think - to get the value of a numeric field in a dialog box) et it is a lot of work (and I am a very poor programmer !). A useful work though : all the procedures you use more than ten (or less) times in a month should be automated ! For Email, to take the same example, I use SaveMail (often to save The Digest and read it later !) and ViewHTMLMail, which offer both some of the required integration : Email to Word or Data, Email to Web.
So having to deal with an imperfect world, I needed to take an imperfect decision. I decided to make Agenda one of the two Centers of my Psion, for at least three reasons : it is the only application which I am viewing several times almost every day of the year - because I have got many appointments, meetings... and the Agenda is synchronized with the desk PC which the secretary uses ; it's the app which can contain the most different and complete pieces of information (appointments, to-dos etc., plus embedded objects, links via Symlink...) under the most differents views (day view, year planner, different sorts of lists...) ; it is very robust, crashes very very rarely, becomes very rarely corrupt (sometimes still) and can become huge without noticeable reduction of speed. The EPOC agenda is in a way not so versatile as the SIBO one (especially 3c), but the graphical and embedding abilities are a much appreciated benefit.
There is a lot of ways to use Agenda. Although I had not heard of "Getting Things Done" (neither the book from Roger Black nor the one from David Allen), I followed intuitively its prescriptions. I linked projects with symbols (a macro makes it more transparent) ; next actions (NA's) contexts are the to-does lists. So if "home" has got the symbol "h", a phone call to my daughter will be noted as "h" and listed in the "Phonecalls" list. Then, two sorts of lists are possible : all what is related to home for a definite day or a period (with search, or in the year planner, or in the day view at a definite time - for example 5 am) ; or all the phonecalls I must have (with a to-do list), when I have the opportunity to phone, may it be for "home", for "work", or for the project "so-and-so". All that is very fast. Another advantage : in the symbol list, you can get all sorts of entries, to-does and/or appointments etc. So you can view easily all what is related to a project.
The second Center of my PDA is a set of macros : to automate repetitive tasks (for example postponing the dates of a to-do in Agenda, or just helping create a new one more quickly) ; to link the different apps together, like ViewHTMLMail does ; to create new fonctions. So I do not use Jotter : a macro creates a task (or a new task with an embedded text or sketch) inside Agenda. So the item remains among the things I see everyday. Or :  I can call from anywhere the agenda year planner  with all "home" (or whatsoever) entries. And so on.
I tend now to organize all macros in menus, a bit like MaM does. The only difference is that MaM offers the possibility to create new customized menus for each application (and only for applications). I prefer having menus which are in a way bound to an application but also containing cross-actions between and over all applications and can be called from anywhere.
Is everything all right that way ? Of course not, because the world is not perfect ! I could think of many macros, which do not exist and I have no time to write. But above alle I miss some features within Agenda. At least three of them.
*    First, a hierarchical view, like in Mentor. X-Link is the ideal solution : you can create agenda entries in X-Link, but also insert existing ones (but : the bugs... and it seems to be now practically "lost" ! Anyway I can't use it any longer). I tried to link agenda entries to PsiMind or to CreativeMind : but well, it's too complicated and the apps don't like large files. Hierarchical view is perhaps also not the most important for me.
*    Another feature of Mentor would be very nice : the automatic or semi-automatic repositionning of undone tasks in the time. I have always so many undone tasks and it is a lot of work to postpone them individually ! If I don't, it becomes quickly impossible to overwiew what I have to do. One could use priorities to perform some automatisation : priority "1" could not be postponed, priority "2" only in a certain extent, and so on. It would be hard to perform that with macros, because (unlike the 3c), priorities are of litte use in agenda. It is the same in BusyView. And with OPL and Agenda2.opx, you can't neither handle repeated entries nor entries with embedded objects -and all formatting disappears !
*   A sort of Gantt chart is perhaps what I'm missing the most. The year planner is quite usable, but it has not the evidence of a Gantt chart. I don't need a very complete app like Plan5, but I would like to see selected entries under that form and modify them from there. I made different attempts to obtain this. I even asked Lieuwe de Vries, before he died, if he couldn't plan to do that. He answered his priority would be to add printing to Busyview. I wrote a rough program for to-does only with Agenda2.opx (but it had the limitations quoted above). Now I'm writing a macro which transfers Agenda entries to Sheet (through "printing to a file") under the form of a Gantt chart.  It could be improved but it's already usable. I can even plan that way the holidays of a little staff of 6 persons : I can see in Agenda who is present, and we can all have a "real" planning on paper out of that - through Sheet... or Excel or Presentation... I would like also to be able to do the reverse : modifying the entries in sheet would modify backwards the entries in Agenda : it would offer real planning possibilities.
To say it in few words, I think too many efforts are made to do again (a bit better or a bit worse) things that have been already done, and too little to discover really useful things. A last example, I had the idea to install Linux on my old PC. I read thoroughly the Mandrake Linux user guide... and the installation is still waiting : OK, Linux works better as Windows, but does it really bring a new and interesting way of doing things ? I couldn't saw that (out the manual, indeed).

Jean Guillonneau

Date: 7 Aug 2005 16:59:59 +0700
From: Donald <address truncated>
Subject: SmallBase anyone

Does anyone use smallbase that can tell me if this is a solid program?

I'm not sure where I pick this up from - but I am very impress about this whole program - mainly how I can have the same look as the EPOC data program but with all the bells and whistle

However
not sure if this is a complete program - I have version 4.02 and have tried to email Eric Sebban but never received any reply - using 5mx & NetBook

Question;
I always seem to do something that makes this program shut down on me losing data :mad:

Is this because it is unregister? Can I get a reg. code from anywhere?
or just un stable

I have been playing with PsiDat but smallbase seems to be more user friendly

Donald

Date: 7 Aug 2005 20:47:22 +0700
From: Keith Giles <address truncated>
Subject: Series5 Security Patch

I came across mention of a password security problem on the Series5 C drive, PWSecPatch, v1.02 dated 8/23/99.
http://www.psionwelt.de/programm/indexe.htm

Has anyone used this? Should it be used on the netBook as well?

Happy Cycling,
Keith
Sunnyvale, CA
http://ohsix827.home.comcast.net

Thought For The Day: Save your money - someday it may be worth something.

All my outgoing e-mails have been checked by Norton Anti-virus.

Date: 7 Aug 2005 22:14:14 +0700
From: jAnO <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 783_16

On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 19:01:44 +0200, The Digest 
<address truncated> wrote:

>
> - Are my batteries dying?
>
> Date:  5 Aug 2005 10:29:35 +0700
> From: Joop Gerritse <address truncated>
> Subject: Are my batteries dying?

(Sorry for my English:)
Yes, it's Revo's knwon problem - like the 5/5MX... cable problem:((( You need change your accumulator -  accordingly I don't like the palmtop 
with only accumulator.(


--
jAnO

Date: 7 Aug 2005 22:55:27 +0700
From: Karl Wagner <address truncated>
Subject: Are my batteries dying?

>Date:  5 Aug 2005 10:29:35 +0700
From: Joop Gerritse <address truncated>
Subject: Are my batteries dying?

>I have a problem with my Psion Revo. When I operate it on mains power, it runs fine. However, when I carry it for a day, it refuses to start up and when I reconnect it back home, all files are gone. But... the battery is still at 100%. OTOH, the red light comes up when I reconnect it, indicating turbo charging, despite the 100% reading. What is happening here?
thanks in advance,

A well know battery problem; I think all of us Revo users have come across this one, or something similar, over the years. I've had it twice (since 1999), and it boils down to the life expectancy of the batteries. There are only so many recharging cycles in a battery, and after some 3 years or so the battery is simply dead. If your batteries are that old, you need to have them replaced - I used SRS at www.srsgmbh.de and am quite happy with their service (check their payment conditions, I'm not sure what it's like re the Netherlands).
Regards
Karl

Date: 8 Aug 2005 07:47:54 +0700
From: Simon Jeffree <address truncated>
Subject: 9500 availability in the UK

I got mine from the O2 shop by phoning their online shop.

Also, when I was looking around, Vodafone advised be that hardly any of their high street shops would actually be stocking it, so I'd do best to order it.  This is a shame, 'cos I think it looks so distinctive (when open), it might catch quite a few impulse sales from people who just fall in love with it when they see it in the flesh

Simon Jeffree
UK

Date: 8 Aug 2005 07:48:00 +0700
From: Simon Jeffree <address truncated>
Subject: 9500 keyboard not being backlit

Hi all,

There's been a couple of comments about fact that the keyboard on the 9500 is not backlit.  I just think I need to come to its defense & say that it's not the end of the world.  All you have to do when typing in the dark, is close the screen hinge a little & let some light from the screen fall on the keyboard.  It's not ideal but it's really the least your problems when typing on it.  I find the lack of 'feel' to the keys a much bigger problem.

One good thing I find though, is that the shift key is 'sticky'.  You can either use it normally or you can press & release it, then it will 'shift' the next key that is pressed.

The *!REALLY!* unforgivable problem is not with the keyboard, but the lack of a vibrater.  What are Nokia on!!!  This is a business phone for goodness sake!  What do business people do a lot of, where they need to be discrete? Yes, you guessed it - meetings! Derr!!

(Sorry about that little rant.  I feel a bit better now)

Regards,
Simon Jeffree
UK

Date: 8 Aug 2005 08:31:54 +0700
From: Phil Aypee <address truncated>
Subject: Search & Replace (automatically)

Hi Peter (Rand),

I don't think there's a program/macro to do *exactly* that, though one would be possible. A basic macro using "Search and replace" would be trivial to a programmer. Even I wouldn't find it too difficult (I think). But the search & replace criteria would probably have to be hard coded to keep it simple. As it would be simple one would simply rewrite it to include more criteria.

The trouble with a program/macro to do this automatically is that the apparent abbreviation might not actually be an abbreviation. Going back a few (!) years Pluto was both the planet and the "pipeline under the ocean". It's a silly example itself but the idea is bang on. Also the search criterion should allow for spaces, commas and all kinds of stops in the text. That's not too difficult but it does make things *much* more convoluted, not to mention unreliable.

That's probably why there are few such programs/macros generally - and none for EPOC.

There are other ways of using abbreviations and then expanding each *singly*. There's Macro5 itself (which I use), Huub Linthorst's ExAb and Colin Shearing's Autophrase macro - that's three and there are several more.

Take care,
Phil.

http://www.philaypee.co.uk/index.html

Date: 8 Aug 2005 22:08:37 +0700
Subject: RE: Your message to The Digest - 17jul05

Date: 8 Aug 2005 22:31:09 +0700
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Are my batteries dying?

Joop Gerritse <address truncated> wrote:-

> I have a problem with my Psion Revo. When I operate it on mains power, it runs fine. However, when I carry it for a day, it refuses to start up and when I reconnect it back home, all files are gone. But... the battery is still at 100%. OTOH, the red light comes up when I reconnect it, indicating turbo charging, despite the 100% reading. What is happening here?

Joop your posting has prompted me to report a theory I have on the "Revo Battery Problem".  I tested this theory some time ago, but never got round to reporting it.  I use ChaDis on my Revo.

Before I retired, I used my Revo+ every day, often using up a fully charged battery in a day.  The battery always worked correctly and charged correctly.

After I retired, all my Psions (3mx, 5mx, 7, nB & Revo+) got less use each day.  Sometimes the Revo would not get used for many days.  Eventually it gave the symtoms reported by others.

It would not charge properly.  The red & green LEDs on one ocasion did not agree with the ChaDis screen.  This got me thinking.

I also use two rechargable shavers, one with a charge level display.  Before I retired, the main one with the display, was used almost every day.  When I retired I reduced my shaving activity and at one time went for days without shaving.  Then when I switched it, on the display was flashing red - indicating an almost flat battery.  But I was able to shave every day for a week with it flashing red.  Red normally meant, quickly finish the shave and recharge before the next shave.

This shaver and a Revo must have similar battery monitoring electronics.  I think that the electronics is counting down while the device is not being used, but the battery is not being discharged.  If the Revo is then charged, it will quickly increase the battery voltage.  This confuses the electronics.

I decided to leave the Revo on charge for two days or more (I also did similar on the shaver) and the problem disapeared on both.

If your battery is in a similar condition, the Revo will indicate that the battery is fully charged, when in fact it is not, so when you try to use it, it is flat.

A property of batteries that are under used, is that when charged their voltage rises quickly - fooling the electronics to thinking that it is fully charged and then reducing the current to low.  So switch off and then on again a few times.  Then charge for a few days.

It works for me.  A side effect is that the length of available time reported by ChaDis, is now a little bit higher.

Alan Morris.

Date: 9 Aug 2005 05:45:39 +0700
From: Bob <address truncated>
Subject: 9290 internet and email set up

I have a 9290 and am trying to set up internet and email.  My provider is Cingular and I took the sim card out of my N-gage QD, and the phone works fine.  With Cingular MEdia Net is the access point from where you browse and get you email.  In the set up on the 9290 it asks for a phone number for the acess point---on my QD you don't use the phone number for an access point, it just opens up the browser when you click on it.  Not sure what it is asking for with a phone number.  It seems to me if the phone works great that the message stuff should work also.  Need some help please?

Thanks,
Bob

Date: 9 Aug 2005 08:36:35 +0700
From: Franco Cozzani <address truncated>
Subject: Nokia 9500 & 9300 - reply to Itamar Engelsman

Repy to Itamar:

In his reply to a previous posting where I bashed Nokia over the fixed opening angle of the 9500 and the lack - among other things - of an illuminated keyboard on the 9300, Itamar quite correctly wrote:

Answer to: Franco Cozzani

Re.: Nokia 9500 & 9300 - Just out of interest, your old 5MX had a fixed angle as well and the keys wer enot illuminated either .... so comparing to the 5MX they are not worse of for these reasons (there might be others). But than on the other hand, with a touch screen you could use something like "Nightkeys".

Itamar is quite right, of course, for I kept my message short and - by doing so - I took something for granted that I should have explained better.

Our old Psion 5Mx opened indeed on a fixed angle, but thanks to the clever design with a sliding action, the screen lays rather flat and is - at least for my body size - quite confortable to read. The 9500 opens at such an angle that I cannot use it confortably on a table and need to hold it in my hands, tilt it backward and use thumbs while holding the device. Nothing wrong with it if this were one way, among others, to use it. But I do not like it being the only way to use it with visual confort.

Of course our 5Mx did not have illuminated keys either (a shame for the Nokia 9300). Actually almost all laptops do not have either, with the notable exception of the Apple Powerbooks in 15.2" and 17" sizes (the 12" PB alas has not). My point is that the Nokia 9300 claims to offer keyboard fuctionality (plus a good OS) in a pocketable, take-it, use-it-everywhere and everytime format. In a car, on a plane at night, in a theater waiting for the curtains to lift etc. In all these situations, a lighted keyboard is IMHO a must, and it is a serious mistake not to have included it, to spare a few grams or euros of optical fibres in the end.

Kind regards,


Franco COZZANI
Brussels

Date: 9 Aug 2005 14:58:13 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Are my batteries dying?, email on Pxxx, automatic Search & Replace, Fax via 9500

Answer to: Joop Gerritse

Re.: Are my batteries dying? - Did you try already to do a hard reset ?  If I am not mistaken, the Psions do not actually measure the voltage in the batteries but calculate it with software. A hard reset might correct this problem.

Answer to: Ian Chapple

Re.: email on Pxxx - Basically I agree with your assesment. I could do all my emailing on the P910 as well, but my difficulty is still to read a fax that came into the office and sent on to me via email. The screen is simply too small to read it, so I have to take my mBook with me anyhow.      Some time ago we heard about a new version of the software for these phones that would not return programs to base when switching, but it went rather quiet about this. Has anyone got an update on this ?

Answer to: Peter Rand

Re.: automatic Search & Replace - It should not be too difficult to to this in a MACRO but I don't have the knowledge to write it. You would need a routine to create and update a list of terms and than run the macro for each of these terms. I hope someone from the digest will answer your call !

Answer to: Donald

Re.: Fax via 9500 - AFAIK it is not possible to send or receive faxes via the P910. The only you could do this probably is to use one of these services where you send your fax via email and they send it on by fax. Look for example at www.yac.com.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 9 Aug 2005 15:55:02 +0700
From: Hoffman, Susan <address truncated>
Subject: Dead 5mx and APB Bank question

My trust old (and I mean old) 5mx finally succumbed to the dreaded screen cable problem -- I watched my screen morph from its usual clarity to a single line across the middle, then a series of lines across the middle. Fortunately, I have been expecting this, so I have not used password access, and left the cable link active, for the past few months.  So I was able to do a backup and to restore to my even older but very beaten up classic 5.  I am waiting to hear back from the Canadian repair place so I can send the 5mx in for a rehab job.  How long does it take between sending in the form on the web and getting the repair authorization from them?

Other question -- I printed out my recent transactions on APB bank so I can use hard copy as my "checkbook" until my repair is done.  The current and reconciled balances are correct, but the running balance on the side is a negative 60 grand or so.  On the screen itself, it is right.  Why does the printed version show up this way?  It seems to start with the first deposit, and then subtract all of the subsequent checks.  I tried it both with and without "print initial balance".  I can live with it, I guess (since the current balance is shown), but it seems odd.

Since my beat up old classic 5 is really not travelworthy, I am planning to use a Mako for the interim.  Will APB work?  Do I need to download a Revo version of that software?

Susan Katz Hoffman
Pepper Hamilton LLP--------------
3000 Two Logan Square
18th & Arch Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Tel: 215-981-4990
Fax: 215-827-5909
e-mail:<address truncated>
web address: www.pepperlaw.com