- Ref: Belgian Pay-as-you-go SIM card

- SE M600i_first impressions, 5mx friendly game, Nokia N73 or SE K800i,

- Getting 5mx keyboard back into its tracks

- Approaching the 1,000 mark

- New version of IndentOPL - a macro to format your OPL programs automatically

Date: 18 Sep 2006 21:02:13 +0100
From: Thomas F. van der Zijden <address truncated>
Subject: Ref: Belgian Pay-as-you-go SIM card

Hello PRAR,

The most interesting Belgian network is BASE (www.base.be) with its (nearly
discontinued) formula BASE prepaid 1-2-3. Do *not* confuse this with BASE
prepaid, as the latter one has very big advantages... for BASE.

A SIM-card costs EUR 28 with a EUR 28 value of communications.

Again: *do* insist that they sell you BASE prepaid 1-2-3 instead of BASE
prepaid. It would be best to go to a BASE shop.

http://www.base.be/BASE/en/Home/Products/Without_invoice/Other_products/BASE
-prepaid_1-2-3/page.aspx/1390

Then the best way to go on Internet would be

- either subscribe for the BASE I-Mode service at the same BASE shop (7
euros per month), which gives you unlimited web (and only) web access on
your Psion. I have this and I check my mail with www.mail2web.com/pda
Again: *do* insist. They are not aware that a Psion supports I-Mode. Your
phone should support GPRS of course - GPRS is the carrier for I-Mode.
- or subscribe to a free formula on www.scarlet.be , called Scarlet Free.
This has the BASE dialup number 4200.
If you have a Nokia phone, this number will support HSCSD (fast dialup
internet).
I tried to make an account for you - the site is in Dutch or French - but
the online subscription site is offline. Drop me a line if you want such an
account.

Further details:

To use I-Mode:

1. Download ispwriter.opo from Martin's site
http://www.pscience5.net/Psion/SupportDocs.zip and make an ISP file.
The APN is portalmmm.nl
2. Use the standard Infrared Phone settings as your modem settings
3. Your browser should use the proxy http://10.10.100.10

To use Scarlet Free

Username and password: from your inscription
IP and DNS: from server
Dialup number: 4200

To use HSCSD (on Nokias only) put as strings in your Psion's modem settings:

Init (reset) string AT&K4+CBST=0,0,1
Data init string AT+CHSN=4,0,0,0

By the way: we have Proximus and Mobistar available as other networks, but
BASE is the only one that has a special dialup number, HSCSD and GPRS
(through I-Mode) on its prepaid cards.

The name in French would be "BASE prepaid un-deux-trois" and in Dutch "BASE
prepaid één-twee-drie"

Do drop me a line if you pass through Antwerp. It would be interesting to
talk Psion in the city centre.

And to all: Belgian Pzion meeting in Antwerp every first Friday of the
month.

Hope this helps.

Yours sincerely,

Thomas VAN DER ZIJDEN

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Date: 19 Sep 2006 12:38:06 +0100
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: SE M600i_first impressions, 5mx friendly game, Nokia N73 or SE K800i,

Answer to: Franco Cozzani

Re.: SE M600i_first impressions - Thanks for the first impressions and I for one look forward to your further reporting about this UIQ 3.0 machine. I am (satisfiedly) hanging on to my P910i as I am not convinced that a UIQ 3.0 will give me that much of an advantage (not using the camera either) to spend the money.

Answer to: larry mortlock

Re.: 5mx friendly game - A "good" game is of course very personal. However, there are a tremendous number of games available for the 5MX, both commercial (which might by now be free as well) and freeware. Just to mention a few in random order :

Monopoly, Chess, Bridge, Othello, Sokoban, Poker, Strippoker, SimCity, Terra Force, Psolly, Go, etc. Tucows used to have a full ist of all the games but I am not sure EPOC is still on their website. There were many more games available that I was not interested on but others could maybe mention them ?

Answer to: Hugh Dibley

Re.: Nokia N73 or SE K800i - The only part I can help you with is the Street- Routeplanner. I use Route66 for all of Europe and it works very well. However, it will work (according to their website) only on a P900/910 or an older version on the P800/900. I don't think you will find such a program for the K800i. The program itself has already been upgraded to version 7, but of course only for Nokia and PPC phones, not for SE ... .

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 19 Sep 2006 14:44:22 +0100
From: Chris Cooper
Subject: Getting 5mx keyboard back into its tracks

Some weeks back someone was asking how to get the plastic lugs on the bottom of the sliding keyboard to go back into their guide tracks. I had exactly the same problem at the time. Doing things with knives and bent paper clips got me nowhere.

Now I've just read a tip on a forum, nearly seven years old: loop fishing wire or dental floss round the lugs, and pull. Well, I made it work with floss. I had to pull bloody hard - wearing a glove because the floss cut into my hand - while squeezing the 5mx together. And one after the other, they both went in.

Date: 20 Sep 2006 01:10:22 +0100
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: Approaching the 1,000 mark

Back in May 2002 the up5s digest suddenly disappeared without a trace and without prior warning and I decided to try and start a new digest. Little did I know that over 4 years later we would reach our no. 1,000 digest and that a small team of opeartors would be so dedicated to keep it running on a volunteer basis, of course not to forget Rolf Vonau who wrote the program to handle the digest on our Psions and reached version 82 of the program.

However, without over 700 subscribers still interested in receiving the digest it would have been a futile exercise and the digest is for all of you.

If anyone has a bright idea for the1,000th digest to make it a special one we are open for suggestions.

Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK

Date: 20 Sep 2006 07:40:44 +0100
From: U Hornstein <address truncated>
Subject: New version of IndentOPL - a macro to format your OPL programs automatically

Hello Psion programmers,

on my website
http://psion.uh-lab.de/index.html#IndentOPL
you can find the new version 1.58 of IndentOPL.

This macro (for the Psion Macro5 system by P. Nicholas) redesigns all indentations (German: Einrückungen) in your OPL code. It must be used within the built-in OPL editor.
IT WILL SAVE YOU A LOT OF TIME: no code-formatting with the keyboard any more.

New in V1.58: a) Bug removed: Long lines >255 characters are no longer truncated; b) LinesProcessed& and SumLinesProcessed& in all terminating messages.
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With greetings from Germany
Ulrich Hornstein
http://psion.uh-lab.de
For spam protection: Please NEVER type my mail address into a www page ("send to a friend" or similar).
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