- Re: The Digest V1 # 962

- Replace All at the 9500?

- Re: Another Psion Psaga

- nConvert on SDK?

- Best series 3 model

- SiBO

- Spreading!

- Re: Replace All at the 9500?

Date: 22 Jul 2006 07:01:45 +0100
From: Martin Maxwell <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 962

Subject: 5mx with build in USB?
Answer to:<address truncated>

Dear bas psion

>Use a SD-CF adapter (Minolta SD-CF1) with SD-card with build USB connector (Sandisk SD Ultra II Plus USB)? I don't know if >it works. Someone else does? If so, you have a 5 mx with build in USB connection.

As far as I know, this will not work as the 5mx does not support serial communication over CF, only memory access.

On the netBook, however, it might work via the PC-Card slot, but not the CF slot.

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Date: 22 Jul 2006 09:11:30 +0100
From: Simon Jeffree <address truncated>
Subject: Replace All at the 9500?

Answer to: Rolf Vonau

The OPL editor, that comes with the latest version (1.56 I think) of the OPL development pack (the one for on-device use) does have a search & replace function with a 'replace-all' option.

If your file is big enough & worth the effort & if you don't mind losing any special formatting, you could transfer it to the OPL editor as a text file, do the replacement, then transfer it back.

Regards,
Simon

Date: 22 Jul 2006 11:02:07 +0100
From: Chris Cooper
Subject: Re: Another Psion Psaga

Betsy Baker wrote:

> Regarding Keith's Psion Psaga, I had a similar experience while traveling
> in Europe a few weeks ago. Woke up one day to find my Series 5mx screen a
> mass of horizontal black lines! ...

Happy the Psioneer who's never experienced the screen-connector failure. I've lost at least two 5mxes to it. When my current one goes, I'm moving on to a Symbian smartphone.

Once it had happened to me, I found I could never quite relax with my 5mx again. I don't consult my shopping lists in the supermarket, for instance, because that would mean opening and closing it frequently, and I try to avoid doing that. I tend to carry it round the house in the open position, just to extend its life.

Sad, but it shows how much I cherish it. I'm sure you'll go on cherishing yours, Betsy. Look at all the things Phil Aypee uses his Psions for ! I've filed his message for all the ideas it contains for software to get in the future.

> if I opened the machine only a tiny bit, enough to get some light into the
> crevice between keyboard and screen, I would be able to read something.

Clever design feature by Psion, that!

Date: 22 Jul 2006 13:55:53 +0100
From: bas psion <address truncated>
Subject: nConvert on SDK?

Helo,

Does any one know how to make nConvert, xConvert or _2connectU running on the epoc ER5 SDK?
I tried using Neuons OPLs in the SDK (suggested on a site), but that didn't help.

tanx!

Bas

Date: 23 Jul 2006 10:28:39 +0100
From: Cyril Catt <address truncated>
Subject: Best series 3 model

Hi Peter,

I only had a 3a, so cannot comment on which was the best. But I can say that it was superior to my Model 5 in two main aspects: (i) it had a 40 hour battery life, so I could go for a month or so 
without worrying about batteries; and (ii) it had inbuilt file conversion to text or RTF, so file transfer 
with a Macintosh was a simple operation.
The two main cons were (i) expensive non- standard removable memory 
files; and lack of a sort facility in Sheet.

When the 3a screen cable finally broke I got a P5, but was sadly 
disappointed by the short battery life, and the complexity of file 
transfer with Macs. The less detailed manual didn't help.

I still think it curious that in just a few years the format of 
available PDAs changed from a selection of about half a dozen 
machines with convenient landscape displays, useable keyboards, and a 
protective clamshell format, to a plethora of squinty square-faced 
Palm lookalikes with inadequate, or no, keyboards, little protection 
from damage, and predominantly with built-in rechargeable batteries 
that confine users to a few hours distance from a power socket.

I would have thought that there was still a reasonable market for 
portable, Psion style machines, with enough oomph to handle 
reasonable jobs well, in remote locations, where the physical hazards 
did not warrant overly expensive equipment. Am I the only Robinson 
Crusoe left?

Cyril Catt

Date: 23 Jul 2006 11:34:13 +0100
From: Phil Aypee <address truncated>
Subject: SiBO

Hi Folks,

Peter, the differences between the 3a, 3c and 3mx are really minor.

The 3a uses a proprietary comms interface (the famous ‘soap-on-a-rope’) and this also allows two-way serial comms networking to another Psion. I back mine up by transferring the RAM/Flash RAM cards to a 3c as I can’t find half of my comms lead.

The 3c has minor improvements to the software and added programs. Some models have a backlight - but not mine It also uses a Honda socket making life much easier for me. I back up to this 5mx (which in turn is backed up to my o-l-d PC).

The 3mx is faster, has a backlight (all models) and uses a different Lithium cell for battery backup, the same one as the 5mx.

Though the 3a/c/mx are older than the 5/5mx (with a 16 bit OS rather than 32 bit) the programming language is rather more powerful as it allow direct access to many system functions. In OPL32 this access is provided by OPX files. Since SiBO programs are small (and how!) this direct access is often a boon and allows OPL16 programs functions that need C extensions in OPL32 (and apparently some functions still can’t be accessed).

There is an abandoned shareware (maybe crippleware) program to allow the 3c/3mx infrared port to communicate with a standard IR port as on the 5/5mx. I haven’t tried it as the dedicated networking is apparently more reliable. There is a free IR solution written by a guy who uses it to communicate with a Palm. Apparently the interface is standard.

Oddly, the 5mx (I assume 5 as well) cannot see the SiBO machine but is itself visible. Essentially, as in proper networking, it becomes a series of drives fully available to the SiBO machine. Though I haven’t tried it I imagine SiBO programs on an EPOC32 machine will run over the link.

I suppose the better machines are the 3cs and 3mxs - but they’re all very good. Even eMail and web cruising are possible (though I wouldn’t recommend either now). To be honest, there’s little to choose between the 3c and 3mx.

Happy days,
Phil.

http://aypee1.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/index.html

Date: 23 Jul 2006 12:02:52 +0100
From: Prar <address truncated>
Subject: Spreading!

Hiya all.

My French MC218 has started to spread Français to other machines! Using EpocSync to synschronise the email means my Netpad now has all the folders in French! In return though syncing Contacts has overwritten the French with English labels... I predict future skirmishes.

I've managed to muck up the web application though. It starts up, and then ends with

Application interrompue
Application Internet
Code justificatif KERN-EXEC
Numéro justificatif 3

I'm guessing I've managed to break something during the file restore process - but what?

Otherwise we're doing alright.

Merçi d'advance

PRAR

Date: 23 Jul 2006 16:02:30 +0100
From: Rolf Vonau <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Replace All at the 9500?

Simon Jeffree wrote:
> Answer to: Rolf Vonau
> The OPL editor, that comes with the latest version (1.56 I think) of the OPL development pack (the one for on-device use) does have a search & replace function with a 'replace-all' option. > If your file is big enough & worth the effort & if you don't mind losing any special formatting, you could transfer it to the OPL editor as a text file, do the replacement, then transfer it back.

Hi Simon,
many thanks for this hint.
I installed the V. 1.56 of OPL and OPL-Dev and, behold, now
even the word editor also has the functions "Replace and
Replace all"!!
I don't know, why. But so there is no need, to import and export word
files to and from the OPL editor.

To Steve (Litchfield):
is this an information worth to publish at your site?

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Thanks

Rolf