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Epoc Digest Sun, 04 Jul 2004 Volume 01 : Number 554
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In today's Epoc Digest 13 messages:
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- Re: Sorting on Sheet
- Re: Sorting on Sheet (longer)
- TomTom CityMaps .sis # 553
- Free Psion Happy Sherlock Holmes MP3's - Mother's Day
- Typos
- Email setup
- RE: TomTom Maps
- Re: Sorting on Sheet
- elongating keyboard
- Extracting and sorting agenda information, Holiday power,
- knowledge base, Moonclock woes, Sorting on Sheet, Navigator in car&
CoDriver, E
- Re: # 530 [Backup with low battery] [Jeeves has difficulty with technology]
- Re: RoutePlanner (# 540)
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Date: 2 Jul 2004 12:13:20 +0700
From: Jack
Subject: Re: Sorting on Sheet
To: Manuel Campos Galvan
Sorting on Sheet
>>>>>.... For example the entries are:
...... 29/06/2004 Airfare $200
24/06/2004 Taxi $23
What I would like is ...... something like this:
...... 24/06/2004 Taxi $23
29/06/2004 Airfare $200....<<<<<
Re:
Shift+Ctl+O
Jack
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Date: 2 Jul 2004 12:20:00 +0700
From: Jack
Subject: Re: Sorting on Sheet (longer)
To: Manuel Campos Galvan
Sorting on Sheet
>>>>>.... For example the entries are:
...... 29/06/2004 Airfare $200
24/06/2004 Taxi $23
What I would like is ...... something like this:
...... 24/06/2004 Taxi $23
29/06/2004 Airfare $200....<<<<<
Re:
Shift+Ctl+O
Jack
PS from the Epoc Help file (Fn+? "sort")
quote follows:
Sorting (Sheet)
You can sort the information in rows and columns in ascending or descending
order. You can specify the sort order for up to three rows or columns at a
time.
To sort rows:
1. Highlight the rows which you want to sort.
2. Select Sort|Left-to-right from the Tools menu.
3. Specify the first row you want to sort on the 1st row line, and the
order in which you want to sort it.
4. To sort more than one row, select the row on the 2nd row and then the
3rd row lines, and select the order in which you want to sort.
Note: If you want to make the sort order case sensitive for one or more
rows, tap the Options button and tick the box beside the row.
To sort columns:
1. Highlight the columns which you want to sort.
2. Select Sort|Top-to-bottom from the Tools menu.
3. Select the first column you want to sort on the 1st column line, and the
order in which you want to sort it.
4. To sort more than one column, select the column on the 2nd column and
3rd column lines, and then select the order in which you want to sort.
Note: If you want to make the sort order case sensitive for one or more
columns, tap the Options button and tick the box beside the column.
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Date: 2 Jul 2004 12:46:46 +0700
From: vlad a
Subject: TomTom CityMaps .sis # 553
> Itamar Engelsman wrote on 2.7.2004 14:25 Uhr:
> (as the program we cannot use on our Psions) ?
I thought CityMaps (in fact an update of Street to version 3.?) is also
Psion-compatible... ?
best,
vlad
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Date: 2 Jul 2004 12:49:29 +0700
From: Will Green
Subject: Free Psion Happy Sherlock Holmes MP3's - Mother's Day
Dear Sherlockian Psion Fans,
If you visit www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk and go to the Radio Broadcasts
section, there are over 200 free mp3 downloads of the adventures.
Even better is they all seem to play on my 5mx with no editing! I would
recommend the BBC feature length Sherlock Holmes v Dracula from 1981.
Also many thanks to Greg Monney for helping to solve my Mother Macro
problem - it really works well now - I am not a number, I'm a free man!
Cheers,
No. 6
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Date: 2 Jul 2004 20:08:52 +0700
From: Phil Aypee
Subject: Typos
Hi Folks,
When Euan quoted Steve's faux pas,
: • )
it might have been better if he hadn't re'laze'd the trail - or was that
another typo!?
But it does, in an extremely good-natured way, show that we can all make
such silly mistakes. Certainly I have made many.
Apparently it's good nettiquette to ignore such mistakes unless there is
good reason not to. It doesn't apply in this case, that I realise, but I do
know that elsewhere such criticism has caused offence, even when meant kindly.
Happy days,
Phil.
"I know you believe you understand what you thought
I said but I'm not sure you realise that what you heard
was not what I meant."
http://www.aypee2.net
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Date: 2 Jul 2004 20:52:55 +0700
From: Neil Thompson
Subject: Email setup
Have been setting up my Revo to collect email and notice that there seems
to be way to set separate login details for the SMTP server. I guess that
this is because it uses the POP3 details correct? If so that's no use to me
as my SMTP and POP3 servers are different and have different credentials.
Anyone know if it is possible to have different login details for POP3 and
SMTP?
Thanks
Neil
www.neilthompson.co.uk/psion
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Date: 3 Jul 2004 02:37:33 +0700
From: Bob
Subject: RE: TomTom Maps
I have many of the products from before the company was called TomTom. I
have Enroute 1.0 currently on my Series 5mx, my Netbook and my 7Book. I
have a Update file that gives all the updates for the Programs that I have,
and some have no updates and some do. I at one time had Route Planner
Millennium and have misplaced it along the way. It was one of those
download things, so I don't have the CD for it, if there was one. At least
with the CD you can always keep installing it if you need to. Anyway, the
Update program said to go to TomTom for the 2.13 update of Route
Planner---well if you look on TomTom there is no Psion/EPOC Stuff any more.
Does anyone know where to get those old programs????
Also, its interesting about how Psion got its name. I read somewhere years
ago that it was Potters Scientific Invention or nothing, I thought---but
the "instruments" might be right, as they talked to Mr. Potter himself.
Interesting stuff.
Thanks,
Bob
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Date: 3 Jul 2004 16:34:33 +0700
From: Korbinian Demmel
Subject: Re: Sorting on Sheet
Hi Manuel
> ...therefore I would
> like to ask if there is a function in Sheet that
> will allow you to sort by date.
Providing you don't use a Serie5 classic (i.e no R3 machine) you can simply
use the sort-function of sheet ('extras/sort/top to bottom' ?).
Alphabetic sort will work as well with dates because all dates are treated
internal as a number of days since any special date.
(In your case: 38162 and 37703)
The Epoc R3 Sheet version sadly doesn't provide a sort function as far as I
know.
But I'm sure there will be some tool (perhaps a macro) which fullfill this
job.
regards
Korbinian
(germany)
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Date: 3 Jul 2004 21:50:40 +0700
From: Trygve Henriksen
Subject: elongating keyboard
Greetings!
Jakfish wrote:
> P.S. Am I hallucinating, or was there an early Psion model that had a
> butterfly keyboard? A clamshell that when you lifted the lid, the
> keyboard elongated. I remember it costing a fortune at the U.S.
> Radioshack chain.
You're hallucinating...
(But can I have a taste of what you had? :-)
The only machine I know of which had anything like that design was an IBM
Thinkpad. The one in my collection is a 701CS model, which is an old i486
system.
And that time IBM PC's used to cost an arm and a leg.
And yes, IBM called their design for a 'butterfly keyboard' :-)
Contrary to popular belief, the keyboard on that machine is quite sturdy.
(It's a VERY solid machine)
The reason they used that keyboard back then was that it allowed them to
shrink the machine's width by 2" as it no longer was the keyboard, but the
screen, which decided the size of the machine.
(the 15" LCD panels we have today was unheard of back then and a 12" was
pure luxury)
:-)
Trygve
Currently on vacation...
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Date: 3 Jul 2004 23:07:54 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman
Subject: Extracting and sorting agenda information, Holiday power,
Answer to: Bob Hancock
Re.: Extracting and sorting agenda information - I still think it would be
much easier to enter the information in a spreadsheet, probably a sheet for
each client or job, and work per client from such a sheet. You can enter
the starting time and finish tim in two columns with the sheet
automatically calculating the time spent. If your price per hour is set,
another column will than automatically give you the price for that time
spent. In the end you just add up what you want to charge them and that is
all. What is the advantage of linking it to the Agenda file ?
Answer to: Cathy Roberts
Re.: Holiday power - All you have to do is buy an adaptor to the standard
European sockets. These will work in all of Western Europe. [I travel
frequently to Holland, Belgium, France, Germany and sometimes to
Switserland as well. ]
Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK
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Date: 3 Jul 2004 23:07:55 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman
Subject: knowledge base, Moonclock woes, Sorting on Sheet, Navigator in
car& CoDriver, E
Answer to: Martin Guthrie
Re.: knowledge base - And post the website address in the digest after you
have done it please ? Thanks
Answer to: Moshe Nahir
Re.: Moonclock woes - Strange, I installed it on my mBook and have/had no
problems at all. Could it be you used the incorrect .SIS file ? When you
open the zip file, there are two .SIS files, one for the 5MX and one for
the S7/nB/mB. I believe the top one is for the netbook and the bottom one
for the 5MX. If you expand the field you will find the descriptions. Using
the incorrect program could maybe have caused your problem ?
Answer to: Manuel Campos Galvan
Re.: Sorting on Sheet - The answer is rather simple, Menu -> Tools -> Sort.
On older Psions (I believe the S5) this option does not exist (working from
memory here !) but there were third party macros that did the job, look at
the Macro5 or other websites with Macros.
Answer to: Alan Morris
Re.: Navigator in car & CoDriver - Yes, I was looking to add the voice
instructions. However, the 2610 has been replaced by the 2620 and costs
around 1,000.- pounds in the UK. That is slightly over my budget <G>. I
tried to set up CoDriver and succeeded quite well. I got it working with
Streetplanner and now started to look at Routeplanner. Unfortunately the
functionality between the 2 is not good due to the inabillity of
Routeplanner to give "left" and "right" instructions, prefering instead to
give "go to" or "go on". Following a map you can see whether it is right or
left, but without the map it gets very hard. Apparently it works a lot
better with a route from PC software, but I don't have any. Could someone
create for me a route description in the UK and print it to a text file as
per the following details :
"The Manual method of importing a routefile doesn't use the clipboard as an
intermediary. Instead, you will need to save the route data to a plain text
file on the PC, with tabs between the columns (perhaps best done by pasting
the data into Notepad, then saving this file). Copy the file to the Psion
and choose the "Import from plain text file" option."
This will enable me to assess CoDriver with such a route. Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK
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Date: 4 Jul 2004 09:55:29 +0700
From: Armin Podtschaske
Subject: Re: # 530 [Backup with low battery] [Jeeves has difficulty with
technology]
Re: Backup with low battery
Hi Chris,
> FastBackup *does* check the battery level [...].
> However [...] I do not know what battery level below which disk
corruption can occur
Which levels do you actually use?
How about making them user-adjustable?
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Re: Jeeves
Hi Andy,
>Armin. Jeeves has difficulty with technology - unlike his master of course!
Of course his master has already considered configurating his Psion to
switch on at opening it. ;-)
Oh wait, I have an even better Idea:
Let the Psion open at night on it's silver plate, and install an arrow
pointing to the ON-key at the left side of the screen with the words "Press
here once - 5 minutes before waking the master!" on it.
Isn't that a brilliant idea? ;-)
Regards,
Armin Podtschaske
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Date: 4 Jul 2004 09:55:35 +0700
From: Armin Podtschaske
Subject: Re: RoutePlanner (# 540)
Hi Nils,
> I have a spare [5mx], and have been able to restore all my data
> [...] my copy of Tom Tom's Route-planner calls for a re-installing
> I know there is a file that contains the info needed to migrate
> from one machine to another, but I can't find the specs for it.
The file is EnRoute.App in the \System\Apps\EnRoute - folder.
To migrate the program to another machine, you need a copy of it in the
state fresh after installing. At the first start, all Palmtop/TomTom
programs change the *.app file so that it can only be started on that machine.
You need to find someone who can send you an "unused" EnRoute.App (326172
Byte).
I'm sure someone will contact you offlist ;-).
To prevent you and others from this situation: immediately after
installation make a copy of EnRoute.App and keep it (e.g. as
EnRoute.App.original in the application's folder) somewhere. If the program
requests reinstallation, just delete EnRoute.App, make a copy of
EnRoute.App.original, rename that to EnRoute.App and off you go.
Psee you,
Armin Podtschaske,
Munich, Germany
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