- Re: Slufoot

- Re: PSION connection to XP as in The Digest V1 # 669

- Re: For Owen on Leaving the Digest

- Re: new Email Reply (indenting) macro

- Re: Connecting to an XP with PsiWin

- Re: Slufoot

- PsiWin Removal

- Re: Email_Reply.opl

- RE: Revo re -set options

- Re: The Digest V1 # 670

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005
From: Digest administrator
Subject: Re: Slufoot

Melvin Woody wrote:
> I'm on this list and received nothing from Slufoot,
> so he can't have simply gotten this list and mailed
> Spam to the list.

Hi Melvin,
your address is in the CC list of addresses in the Slufoot mail !
That you didn't get the mail, it is probably to "blame" the anti SPAM program of your ISP.
Do you have the possibility to see the mails blocked by your ISP as SPAM? If not, I fear that you didn't get more emails, beeing not SPAM but recognized as SPAM by your ISP.

With best regards
Rolf Vonau
The Digest Team

Date: 7 Jan 2005 08:50:50 +0100
From: Gilles CASANOVA <address truncated>
Subject: Re: PSION connection to XP as in The Digest V1 # 669

PSIWIN and XP
Hi !
Fortunately enough I've bee using my Psion 5, and 5MX with an ACER notebook with very few problems.
I'm using PROLIFIC's USB to Serial Adapter ( I don't know about the Belkin ..)
Anyway, there are a few Caveats (= beware ) that you should know about.
1) Though all USB ports should be equal, I noticed that it works straightforwardly on one of the ports, more reluctantly on others.
2) Plugging the USB to serial Adapter raises a new COM port in the ports section of the devices manager (right click on THIS Workstation, choose properties .. ) BUT : it happens to be sometimes COM6:, sometimes COM4: etc... The PSIWIN software then needs to be configured accordingly, or the connection will never happen (right click on MyPsion, properties, order the com ports in the connection tab ).

I'm using Windows XP Pro, and went through the SP2 without problems ... regarding the PSIWIN connection, that is !

To summ it up, YES it can work with XP, might need a little trials and errors in the beginning.
I also tied to link them though IR, but this is not as straightforward.
As the laptop and the PSION dont use the same version of IrDa (Infra Red protocol), an additional software is needed to emulate a classical serial port on the IR interface ( XP side) , and I was never able to make it work properly.
So I stick to the serial to USB solution.

Hoping this might help ...

Best regard

Date: 9 Jan 2005 17:40:21 +0100
From: Owen H. Morgan <address truncated>
Subject: Re: For Owen on Leaving the Digest

Howdy!

Gary Y Reyes wrote (> ):

> First of all, it will be sad to see you leave the
> digest - hopefully just for a short while.  Your
> insights on Psion and on sailing are fun to read.

Barring miracles, I'm afraid it'll have to be for a long time. The cost of using GSM for e-mail is just too much. I don't even know whether it'll be possible in Brazil. In Portugal, there was no Internet access with a PAYG card in the phone. My e-mail access with the HAM radio and Pactor 1 modem is just too slow to receive daily digests. I'll miss you guys, but not enough to stay here and work another year...

> Good luck on your new journeys and may the gods of
> the seas keep your sails full, your bilges dry and
> your bow pointed always in the right direction.

Thanks for that. As long as I listen to what the boat is trying to tell me, I think I'll be all right. She's always talking to me giving me little nudges:
"A reef in the main please?" ...
"I'd really like to have a reef in the main now." ...
"If you don't put a reef in the main NOW, I won't be responsible" ...
Then a bit later:
"Hey, this is a bit slow, how about shaking out that reef." ...
"Hey are you asleep? Let's have that reef out, we're practically parked!"
Like all females, she knows what she wants and how to get it. I'm just a passenger...

> As to spam software.  If only we were all so lucky
> as to have your experience of no spam.  I get a
> few every day on the two email addresses that I
> maintain.  Not much as to be annoying but still
> not spam-free.

It may be possible that the fact that I use a relatively obscure Norwegian ISP has something to do with it. Also, my e-mail address is not my name nor on the same domain as my web site. I never used the e-mail address that came with the domain where I have my web site. For all I know, it may be full of SPAM, but I never used it and never checked it.

I don't know if we can call the Sluface NYC mail SPAM. It was obviously from a digest member trying to make a point, and relatively harmless at that. How can anyone be offended by someone just saying "Hello there"? A bit of harmless fun I think.

Owen

Thought for the day:
Anything is possible, unless it's not.
--
Owen Morgan
Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-9311 / LA7QZ-MM
Anchored @ 27°46.28'N 15°41.65'W
Anfi Del Mar de Gran Canaria

http://home.no.net/naomij
Phone and SMS:
Spain +34 620520079
Norway +47 92053097

Date: 9 Jan 2005 17:40:30 +0100
From: Owen H. Morgan <address truncated>
Subject: Re: new Email Reply (indenting) macro

Howdy!

U Hornstein wrote (> ):

> thanks for your big work with this large macro.
> But I wonder a little why you seem to invent the
> wheel anew: On Rolf Vonau's pages
> home.arcor.de/rhvonau
> you can find the app ReplyEveryMail

I use both. ReplyEveryMail most of the time and the indenting macro when I want to reply to an e-mail that has already been SaveMailed into a Data file or in the few instances where REM refuses to work. (Like if the "To" field of the message is empty which happens if the sender has put all the addresses in the BCC field.)

I haven't got the latest indenting macro though, so can't comment on the improvements.

Owen

Thought for the day:
If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
--
Owen Morgan
Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-9311 / LA7QZ-MM
Anchored @ 27°46.28'N 15°41.65'W
Anfi Del Mar de Gran Canaria

http://home.no.net/naomij
Phone and SMS:
Spain +34 620520079
Norway +47 92053097

Date: 9 Jan 2005 17:40:38 +0100
From: Owen H. Morgan <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Connecting to an XP with PsiWin

Howdy!

Melvin Woody wrote (> ):

> I received serveral responses to my call for help
> about connecting my Diamond Mako and Mbook to my
> laptop using PsiWin 2.3.3.  Alan Morriss wrote:

> That can't be the source of my problems because
> I'm connecting with the cable from the Revo/Mako
> cradle to the serial port on the Dell laptop.

I have two Revo/Mako cradles. One of them is faulty, but as you also have problems with your Mbook, this is probably not the fault in your case.

First of all, turn the link on your Psion on at 115200 baud, then open Hyperterm or another terminal emulator on your PC at 115200 baud, 8 databits, 1 stop bit, no parity. If you get some strings of funny characters on screen, that is the Psion attempting to connect. Now close Hyperterm and try to connect with Psiwin. Sometimes this helps.

!!! There is a bug in some versions of Hyperterm which means that if you change the settings, you have to exit Hyperterm and open it again before the new settings work. !!!

> I have it trying to use Com 2 and Com 4.  So far
> as I can discover, only Com 1 is already
> committed, but it uses the same IRQ as Com 3, so
> I've taken both off the list.

That's a lot of serial ports for a laptop! Are some of these on a PCMCIA extension card? I've never heard of a laptop with four RS-232 ports. Most only have one and any others that appear as choices in software are either internal modems or IrDA ports or similar. I suggest you disconnect (temporarily) whatever you have on COM1 and try that first. On a laptop, a serial port is always a nine pin male D connector. Anything that looks vaguely similar, but with more pins is a screen connection. If you have a 25 pin female connector, this is a Centronics parallell port for connecting a printer, not a RS-232 port.

I would avoid letting PsiWin scan the ports. I find it works better if you select the actual port the Psion is connected to and select 115200 instead of letting the software "experiment".

Another thing to try is to open Hyperterm or whatever and set it to 115200 baud, 8 databits, 1 stop bit, no parity and handshaking to Xon Xoff. Switch OFF the link on your Mbook, open Comms (the Revo doesn't have it) and select the same parameters. Ctrl-K opens the communications settings dialogue in the EPOC Comms program.

You should now be able to type text on either computer and see the text appear on the other one. If this works, try to set handshake to RTS CTS on both devices. If it still works, you have proven that the RS-232 ports on both devices are OK and also determined beyond doubt which COM port you are connected to on the PC. If you get garbled text, the two computers are not using the same baudrate. (Does the Mbook have two COM ports? If it does, I think they will be numbered 0 and 1.) Now close Comms and Hyperterm, switch the link on in EPOC and try to connect with PsiWin again.

Owen

Thought for the day:
Inside every big problem, there is a small problem trying to get out.
--
Owen Morgan
Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-9311 / LA7QZ-MM
Back in the anchorage @ 27°45.56'N 15°41.06'W
Arguineguin de Gran Canaria

http://home.no.net/naomij
Phone and SMS:
Spain +34 620520079
Norway +47 92053097

Date: 9 Jan 2005 19:18:51 +0100
From: Melvin Woody <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Slufoot

I'm on this list and received nothing from Slufoot, so he can't have simply gotten this list and mailed Spam to the list.

Melvin Woody

Date: 9 Jan 2005 21:54:05 +0100
From: Steve Hodgson <address truncated>
Subject: PsiWin Removal

A quick question regarding PsiWin removal. I suspect that it may have been asked before but hopefully no too often - I tried searching the web fow an answer but with no luck.

I have just un-installed PsiWin after moving to Palm but I still get a message related to PsiWin whenever I run Outlook. This is all on my Windows 2000 box at work so I can't be too specific on details. Outlook is running via an Exchange server rather than POP3 and I get a message about a dll that cannot be loaded at startup.

Any idea where to start looking to disable this?

Cheers,

Steve
--
Regards,

Steve Hodgson                          mailto:<address truncated>

Date: 9 Jan 2005 22:15:10 +0100
From: Jack <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Email_Reply.opl

To: U Hornstein
> Subject: Re:  new Email Reply (indenting) macro
> Hi Chris & Andrew,
> thanks for your big work with this large macro.
> But I wonder a little why you seem to invent the wheel anew:
Re
I use Email_Reply.opo for this very answer
It's clean and quick
and allows to set up any signature,txt file of my choice
Indead there are already QuotemyMail and Savemail doing similar task and more but their look&feel is much heavier IMHO.
Jack
Please, *NEVER* type my @ddress onto a web page i.e. 'Send to a friend' or similar.

Date: 9 Jan 2005 22:37:51 +0100
From: Jack <address truncated>
Subject: RE: Revo re -set options

To: andrew searle
>>>>... posting this agian as I didn't put a subject onthe first time I posted it
I have a Psion Revo Plus. I have noticed on the rearcase there are 2 re-set holes , could anyone enlightenme as to their function<<<<
RE
Fn+? =Help
then "reset"
HTH
Jack
-
The rest is silence.  W. Shakespeare (Hamlet V,ii)
--

Date: 9 Jan 2005 22:57:05 +0100
From: Bernard Hill <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 670

In message <address truncated>, The Digest <address truncated> writes
>Does anyone here still use a series 5? I have one with a 128mb cf card. >What cool things can I do with it? I can't find any routing software >for it... I have a few programs for it.. great battery life.
>
>-Chris


Good gracious, yes! Besides the Agenda and Contacts and my CD collection in Data here are some of the things I use regularly on my Ps5:

Route.
Street Map
Halliwell's Film Guide
Procyon (star map program)
About 30 e-Books using Vreader5
Tome Raider with a LOT of data files. I mostly use IMDB (International Movie Database), Bible, a 15Mb encyclopaedia, UKDATA (information about places in the UK), and some other stuff...
Frotz5 (gives access to many text adventure games using the data files for about 20 games I bought years ago for the PC). Like HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Here are some I use less frequently:

SimCity
Monopoly
Chess

LOADS of things for your Ps5!

--
Bernard Hill
Selkirk, Scotland