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In today's Epoc Digest 32 messages:

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- Re: Memory Problems

- Series 3a Bits

- Modem settings Psion GoldCard

- Re: EPOC DIGEST V1 # 046 "How do I know I am using GPRS?"

- Re: Modem settings Psion GoldCard & HTML & WEB

- HTML & Neuon

- Gold Card settings; How do I know I am using GPRS?;

- NetBook-

- RE: HTML & WEB

- HTML Woes

- Re: Fax Class 1

- Re: How do I know I am using GPRS?

- Re: GPRS

- 9210 MARKETING / STEVE LITCHFIELD

- 1. How do I know I am using GPRS? 2. HTML & WEB

- Oh Trygve ! Shame on you . . . (was HTML editing)

- RE: EPOC DIGEST V1 # 046

- Contacts to Data Successful

- Nokia Firmware

- Re: AW: NetBook-

- Re:EPOC DIGEST V1 # 045

- Re:EPOC DIGEST V1 # 042 : Ericsson DI-27 settings

- Re: Modem settings Psion GoldCard

- Poll

- "Not found" error message

- Agenda File Dump, Psiloc+

- ADMIN Attachments

- Memory hungry programs

- Hyperlink, Nokia IR auto off, Fax classes, Colours, PalmUser Magazine, Treo 270,

- SMS, Travel modem, Colour Magic, Email error, 9210 ads, Holland, Barclays,

- Lost icons on Extras bar

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Date: 7 Aug 2002 03:08:34 +0000

From: Korbinian

Subject: Re: Memory Problems

Hi there,

> I regularly delete System/wtldata/cache after a session.

Not to forget to compact the '\system\mail\index'-file if you use the eMail-App

This one could be very large, after saving an eMail during editing very often.

bIS denn

Korbinian

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Date: 7 Aug 2002 15:57:53 +0000

From: Philip S. Adkins Potter

Subject: Series 3a Bits

Hi,

I know it's a bit off topic but . . . . . . .

Someone I know needs a 3 Link serial cable and a 3a User Guide, preferably free (bar postage, naturally). He has a 3a from a sale and nothing else!

The stuff can be sent to me in Godalming, Surrey, UK, or direct if you're in the States. The User Guide can be a file. of course, but the cable not.

Can anyone help?

Happy days,

Phil.

"If it can't be expressed in figures,

it is not science; it is opinion."

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Date: 7 Aug 2002 17:36:25 +0000

From: Astrid Stappenbeck

Subject: Modem settings Psion GoldCard

To: Roman Frotz

Modem settings Psion GoldCard

>hope you can help me with the settings for my recently purchased Psion Dacom GoldCard >56k+Fax (GSM & ISDN ready).

>All the time im trying to dial into my local ISP I immediately receive the message "Network >problem". Don't even hear a dialtone....

I use a gold card (global) myself and had experienced some problems at first when I had the speed set at 115200 kb. I didn't manage a connection but received a differnt error message from yours (something with COM Port...). However, when I reduced the speed to 56000 it worked fine. I can't say much about the other settings at the moment, since I don't have my 5mx at hand but it looks to me as if they are the same as mine which are the standard settings for psion dacom modems. There is also a downloadable pdf-file from psion's homepage which provides setting information with screenshots. They also have a wizard for isp settings on their (German) homepage in the support section.

Hope that helps!

Astrid

______________________________________________________________________________

WEB.DE MyPage - Ohne Computerkenntnisse in nur 5 Minuten online! Alles

inklusive! Kinderleicht! http://www.das.ist.aber.ne.lustige.sache.ms/

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Date: 7 Aug 2002 17:42:51 +0000

From: "Robin Davies-Rollinson"

Subject: Re: EPOC DIGEST V1 # 046 "How do I know I am using GPRS?"

(TEXT COPY - Sorry about previous HTML message - oops)

Hi Marios!

When I make a GPRS connection from my 5mx via Siemens S45,the GPRS icon on the phone changes to show a connection has been made. Theremust be something similar on your phone I would have thought. The other

big give-away is that if you are still connecting via GSM, you will get theusual connection dialogue on the phone screen with the ISP's dialup numberdisplayed.

My Vodafone UK GPRS service is really quick. When I checked it on

my laptop, it was running at 57+Kbps.

On the Psion, web pages load really quickly - unfortunately sometimes when Istay on too

long I get a "kernel" error and Opera shuts down! I don't know why thishappens :-(

E-mail downloads very fast, but I have problems uploading an attachment. Iget a

time-out error. No attachments - no problemo...

Regards,

Robin

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Date: 7 Aug 2002 19:15:40 +0000

From: "Michael Degn"

Subject: Re: Modem settings Psion GoldCard & HTML & WEB

Answer to Roman Frotz - Subject: Modem settings Psion GoldCard

>...hope you can help me with the settings for my recently purchased Psion Dacom GoldCard 56k+Fax (GSM & ISDN ready).

All the time im trying to dial into my local ISP I immediately receive the message "Network problem". Don't even hear a dialtone....<

Hi Roman, use these settings instead.

Name - Psion GoldCard

Speed - 57600

Connect - PC Card

Fax Class - Auto

------------------

Loudspeaker in use - Never

Volume - Quiet

Pause time for "," - 4 seconds

------------------

Init (reset) string - AT+MS=11

Data - (blank)

Fax - (blank)

------------------

Flow - Hardware (RTS / CTS)

Terminal (DSR/DTR) [x] checked

Carrier (DCD) [x] checked

Type - Fixed Line

Answer to Jim Watson-Gove - Subject: HTML & WEB

> I wrote my first web page in HTML in Psion Word, then fired up up Psion Web to read it. I opened File and browsed to the file. I received the message that the file can be read in Word. I ignored the message and told it to open the file anyway. It did so and I read the file in Web and see it complete with all the tags (as a text file rather than as a web page).

My new HTML book (HTML For The World Wide Web by Elizabeth Castro) says to change the extension to .HTM or .HTML. Obviously I can't do this on the Psion. <

Hi Jim,

The Word file, among others, is UID based, hence there's no extension like .doc etc. And even if there was, changing the extension wouldn't help you any good because the file contains a lot of header and formatting information and would appear as garbage in Web (just like HTML in this Digest). But again, you can't do that on the Psion because whatever extension you would add, it will still be tight to its application. Clearly this Elizabeth doesn't know anything about files and their relationship to their applications <BG>.

The proper thing is to do as follows and actually it's very simple. When you have written your text with all the tags just export it using File|More|Export as text file..., but remember to change the suggested extension from txt to html and save the file and voila it's now a genuine HTML file with the Web icon attached.

Regards,

Michael Degn

Esbjerg, Denmark

Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by Norton AntiVirus 2002

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Date: 7 Aug 2002 19:33:13 +0000

From: Jim Watson-Gove

Subject: HTML & Neuon

I bit the bullet and downloaded the Neuon text editor on to my flash and have it making Word to HTML conversions as advertised. I will rename the Neuon files and test to sort out which files are needed for Word to HTML to shrink the memory consumption once I am satisfied that all is working well..

I'm still having a problem. Using this format in Psion

Word:

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<TITLE>Watson-Gove Poem

</TITLE>

</HEAD><BODY>

(text of poem here with proper

tags)

</BODY></HTML>

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I then convert it from Word to HTML with Neuon. Conversion looks good and I end up with an icon for the file that identifies it as Test.HTML. I pull it up in Web and I have it as I have typed it with all the tags showing.

I thought it might be a problem with Web so exported it to the Dell and viewed it with Netscape. The tags all show there so I am obviously doing something wrong.

Comments please?

TIA,

jim - oakland

ps - I highly recommend the book HTML For The World Wide Web by Elizabeth Castro. Much better than HTML for Dummies IMO.

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Date: 7 Aug 2002 19:40:35 +0000

From: Mike McConnell

Subject: Gold Card settings; How do I know I am using GPRS?;

To: Roman Frotz

<<My current settings are:>>

You don't say which Psion you are trying to connect with but, as you have selected a "Serial" connection, presumably it is a 5 or 5mx and the Psion PC Card Adaptor. With a 7 or netBook, you would use the setting for the PC Card slot.

The normal reset string for a Gold Card modem is AT&F rather than ATZ, so you could try that. Otherwise, I would suggest playing about with the Comms application to see that the modem is responding properly to AT commands and to try dialling your ISP.

You might find it useful to install John McAleely's little program "The Dialer". This lets you connect to the internet independently from any particular application, a bit like Dial Up Networking on a PC. It will also confirm that a connection has been established before trying to use an internet application such as Web, Email, Opera, RMRNews etc. One thing though if you do decide to use it, make sure that in "Control Panel / Internet" you have a time entered in the box "On exit, stay online for..." which is sufficient to allow you to open an internet application (or in

the case of Email, open a mailbox), otherwise the connection will drop immediately. The Dialer can be downloaded from the "Series 5(mx)" page of my website or there is a link to John's

site for more information.

Also, create the file path C:\Logs\Etel\ and, after your next connection attempt, there should be a log file "Etel.txt" in the Etel folder which might give an indication of any problem.

=======================================================

To: "Marios Haridimou"

<<How can I tell that I am using GPRS and not GSM to receive my E-mail on the S7?>>

You should be able to tell from the number you dial to connect. Either you dial an ISP's number to connect via GSM or you use the special dialup settings for a direct GPRS connection via your phone network provider.

Regards,

Mike [Dundee, Scotland] __________________________________________

Mobile Phone & SMS: +44 (0)7947 655778

Mobile Fax: +44 (0)7941 679797

Web: http://www.mikemcc.net

__________________________________________

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Date: 7 Aug 2002 19:41:45 +0000

From: "Tony Cabot"

Subject: NetBook-

Dear Lothar,

I am sorry to hear that you had a funeral. Yes, I have tried "Irfanview". But I could not save to the MBM format for Psion. I see that the web site shows many different plug-ins for different formats but no MBM. Do you know if one is available somewhere else?

Tony Cabot

*****Original Message*****

Date: From: Lothar.Kammann

(Lothar Kammann)

Subject: Re: Generel; # 030 A couple of questions; # 030 NetBook; # 033 (DATA).csv to Excel; # 034 Contact to Data

To all -General-

I am back to work again after a forced upon me vacation (funeral). Thank you very much to all of you who send me a note.

<<SNIP>>

To Tony Cabot -#030 NetBook-

I have heard about IrfanView, but I do not know if it is of any use to you. Please check the following URL: http://www.irfanview.com/main1_de.htm (German) v3.61

<<SNIP>>

Lothar Kammann

Germany

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Date: 7 Aug 2002 19:50:48 +0000

From: "Coleman, Sheryl E."

Subject: RE: HTML & WEB

To: Jim Watson-Gove Re: HTML & WEB

> My new HTML book (HTML For The World Wide Web by Elizabeth

> Castro) says to change the extension to .HTM or .HTML.

> Obviously I can't do this on the Psion.

Jim,

You can create your HTML page in Word, and then export it as a text/html file. In the menubar choose File: More: Export as text file...

You can then give the file a name and a .htm or .html extension. It will then open up just fine in Web.

Regards,

Sheryl

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Date: 7 Aug 2002 20:17:26 +0000

From: Jim Watson-Gove

Subject: HTML Woes

<<Did I forget to plug HTMLEdit, which is available on my site?

http://home.ci.net/trygveh/english/

:-)

Trygve>>

Tried to access the site and could not. Then went Google and found the URL should be:

http://home.c2i.net/trygveh/english/

(cough! cough! <vbg>)

Have downloaded the file (HTMLEdit.sis) and will give it a try. Also downloaded "latest version" as I suspect I may need that.

Thanks - will hold onto your URL and check it out from time to time.

Will let you know today how I fair with HTMLEdit.

(45 minutes later)

I installed HTMLEdit on my D drive. Very basic program and works a treat. My needs are simple and this promises to meet them. Thanks, Trygveh.

What's the scoop with the "latest version" download?

Still curious what I'm doing wrong with Neuon.

jim - oakland

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Date: 7 Aug 2002 20:58:54 +0000

From: Rolf Brunsting

Subject: Re: Fax Class 1

Dear Darryl,

<< Finally given up on my Ericsson R520m - modem on all current Ericssons don't support Fax class 2/2.0 but can send via Fax class 1 >>

Are you really sure? I've checked a command response log for an Ericsson T68 I had left on one of my Psions and it responded positively to the AT+FCLASS=2 and AT+FCLASS=2.0 commands.

<< So gonna have to jump ship and get a Nokia as only viable alternative seems to be 6310i. VERY hard to verify if this actually does what my old SH888 did ( Fax class 2 and send/receive via IR ) >>

All Nokias with an integrated data adapter, what others call a modem, support fax classes 1, 2 and 2.0. And you can connect a computer to the 6310i using a cable (Nokia DLR-3P), infrared or Bluetooth.

<< Alao be interested if any of our more technically minded members can explain difference between Fax Class 1, 2 and 3. >>

As there's no Fax Class 3 it appears you're confusing the Fax Group and Fax Class specifications.

The communication between fax devices is specified by a group number and there are Fax Groups 1 to 4. You won't encounter Group 1 and 2 fax machines anymore. It's mainly Group 3 with Group 4 being on the increase. Group 3 supports 9600 bps transmission and Group 4 14,400 bps transmission as well as ISDN.

The communication between computer and fax device, or faxmodem, also has four common standards. The old SendFax industry standard is, like Fax Groups 1 and 2, only of historical interest. Fax Class 1 was the first official standard but needed to be revised fairly quickly. It worked on the basis of the computer doing most of the job which didn't suit multi-tasking systems like the big UNIX boxes. The fax exchange protocol, part of the Fax Group specification, is quite timing critical an it was found that these UNIX systems hat difficulties meeting the timing requirements. The reason for the development of Fax Class 2 in which part of the processing job was transferred to the faxmodem. Modem manufacturers were so keen to equip their products with the new fax class that they put faxmodems on the market before the standard was ratified. Expecting that the Fax Class 2 specification they had would be the final one and ratified unamended. A few amendments were made to the specification, however, and the official standard was ratified as Fax Class 2.0.

<< All I know is Psions need Fax Class 2 over GSM >>

It's not mandatory to use Fax Class 2, you're free to use Fax Class 1 over GSM. What you need to reckon with is that a GSM connection behaves differently from a phone line. Also that the fax transfer protocol wasn't written with GSM in mind. Without going into a detailed technical explanation the situation is that whether Fax Class 1 works depends on a few factors that are outside the control of the user as well as Psion. It's this unpredictability that makes Psion prescribe Fax Class 2.

<< I was told that selecting to activate IR once gives you a flashing IR icon and the 2 minute cut off. But if you select it twice you get a static IR icon and no cut off. Be interested if anyone could confirm this >>

I would be surprised if it worked ... and, indeed, it doesn't. I've just tried it out with a Nokia 8810, 6310, 8310 and 6510. I get the impression that the above is based on a misunderstanding of how IrDA works.

<< One good thing about the Ericsson is the IR port stays on until I turn it off! >>

There are advantages ad disadvantages to keeping the IrDA port active. Nokia adopted one approach, Ericsson the other.

Kind Regards,

Rolf Brunsting - Darp - Netherlands

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Date: 7 Aug 2002 21:14:41 +0000

From: Emil Granström

Subject: Re: How do I know I am using GPRS?

Hi Marios,

>How can I tell that I am using GPRS and not GSM to receive my E-mail on the S7?

The easiest way is probably by checking:

1, Dial string - Should be someting like *99# or similar.

2, The phone should not say "Connecting..." and showing a telephone no. 3, There should be a download counter some where in the phone.

4, Check the last dial no after a connection and verify that it is not the number you put in your Psion.

I havent really used the T39m but I asume that there should be some kind of icon (globe or similar) that

becomes active when a GPRS session is active. Try Wap and watch the phone.

Good luck.

Brg

Emil

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Date: 7 Aug 2002 21:14:41 +0000

From: Emil Granström

Subject: Re: GPRS

Hi Rolf,

>>You can have 3+1, 2+2 as far as I know ... >>

>Sure - that's what I'd already described in a message prior to the one

you responded to.

Well my point was to say that GRPS doesnt have to be asymetrical, but it

often is.

>>... Therefore you can end up with just one PDC available, i.e.

Voice-GSM taking priority and is actually

>>reducing the GPRS capacity of the cell. For instance you tell the

radio network to reserve 3 timeslots as PDC

>>with the ability to become voice and one PDC to be GPRS only >>

>This is the fine-tuning I referred to. Trouble is that It's not without

its disadvantages. It allows for rapid

>swings in the bandwidth a GPRS user has available, for example. It's

what Jan describes - the bytes suddenly

>start to crawl over the network to the effect that the mail server

times out. Splitting up cells tends to be the

>better solution as the statistics of time slot allocation will be more

favourable. Which also has a

>disadvantage - costs.

If you tried to refer to the things I explained in my message by

writing:

"There is some scope for cell tuning but it's limited. One of the things

you don't take account of is the handover between cells when a person

moves from one cell area into that of another cell."

Perhaps you should try to explain it better next time, since your

explanation doesnt really say much on whats going on. As for GPRS varies

in bandwith - thats pretty common for all "public" IP based access

systems.

I am not defending GPRS in anyway - I am only trying to explain whats

really going on inside the network.

Not very important but, I still think that it is impossible to say that:

"Splitting up cells tends to be the better solution" because that

depends on freq. reuse, available freq. site allocation etc. It all

depends on that geographical area and under those particular

circumstances.

I have also found out that is it possible and AFAIK pretty common that

operators use the configurable PDC on all 4 PD channels which then

reults in a total loss of GPRS access in case of a congestion situation.

To recap:

<<Vodafone may have explained this to you as GSM having priority but

it's actually the way I described it - the use of a circuit switched and

a packet switched system on the same mobile network.>>

False, Voice do take precedence over GPRS.

<<Kits van Heijningen's statement about a zero bandwidth guarantee is

bullshit.>>

Incorrect, Kits are right under the conditions above, that I feel is

realistic for a number of operators.

I hope things are a bit clearer now, and perhaps people reading the

digest have some background info why GPRS behaves like it does.

Until next message <G>

Brg

Emil

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Date: 7 Aug 2002 22:27:42 +0000

From: Peter Keene

Subject: 9210 MARKETING / STEVE LITCHFIELD

Hi Guys,

Re Jan and Rolf's exchange on 9210 marketing:

I don't know about anywhere else, but here in South Africa there is a colour advert for the 9210i in the business section of the Independent Group daily newspapers every week. One also sees these same adverts in some magazines and, when first released last year, there was quite an extensive TV campaign.

Maybe we aren't buying enough of them.

Re Steve Litchfield's Treo:

Ouch! That hurts. A Psion guru going Palm. Just kidding Steve - the Treo's a great machine, but maybe the P 800 will win you back for Symbian. Hope the Psions have been reverently preserved. ;-)

Regards,

Peter

Cape Town

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Date: 7 Aug 2002 23:56:39 +0000

From: Jason Garbutt

Subject: 1. How do I know I am using GPRS? 2. HTML & WEB

Reply to: "Marios Haridimou"

Subject: How do I know I am using GPRS?

Hi Marios,

I have an S5c which I use with a T39 on GPRS.

Trust me when I say you WILL know, the difference between a basic GSM connection & GPRS is considerable. If you can't detect a difference then I would say you are connecting on GSM.

You need a new modem setting for GPRS have you set this up ? I can give you the settings for connecting on Orange in UK, but I suspect you may not be UK based. Let me know if you are, otherwise I'm sure someone on the list will have settings to use with your mobile provider, if you ask.

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Reply to: Jim Watson-Gove

Subject: HTML & WEB

Hi Jim,

You are missing a simple step here - when you have finished editing your web page you need to export the file as a text file with .html at the end.

Look in File - More - Export as text file...

Call your file pagename.html and bingo! if you've coded it correctly, web should be able to load it as a web page.

Good luck,

Regards,

Jason

_________________________________________

&nb_________________________________________

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Date: 7 Aug 2002 23:56:45 +0000

From: Jason Garbutt

Subject: Oh Trygve ! Shame on you . . . (was HTML editing)

Reply to: Trygve Henriksen

Subject: HTML editing

>Did I forget to plug HTMLEdit, which is available on my

>site? http://home.ci.net/trygveh/english/

Oh Trygve ! Shame on you . . .

First a shameless plug, but then a web address you can't access from a Psion !

You of all people (lover of handhelds), should know better. Consider yourself duly ticked off ;-)

For those who would like a copy of HTMLEdit, try:

http://home.c2i.net/trygveh/english/download/epoc/htmledit.html

Tsk, tsk,

Jason

_________________________________________

&nb_________________________________________

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Date: 8 Aug 2002 02:04:32 +0000

From: "Janet I. Fine"

Subject: RE: EPOC DIGEST V1 # 046

Just a suggestion that came to mind with a digest containing 27 messages: Since you list the topic of each message at the beginning of the digest, why not number each topic both in header list and in the message itself. Another publication that I receive electronically does that and it becomes very easy to scroll to an item of interest if I don't have time to read the entire digest at one time.

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Date: 8 Aug 2002 04:41:26 +0000

From: "Gary Y Reyes"

Subject: Contacts to Data Successful

>Date: From: Lothar.Kammann

(Lothar Kammann) >

>To Gary Y Reyes -#033 (DATA).csv to Excel-

>Thank you for the excellent explanation. I have tried it so often, but = >always failed to get it straight. I never got it to work so that all fields = >in DATA were separated in Excel in individual cells. Now it works perfect. = >Thanks again.

>Lothar Kammann

>Germany

Lothar,

You are most welcome. Just glad it turned out ok.

Gary

__________________________________

www.edsamail.com.ph

CHEAPER than free email!

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Date: 8 Aug 2002 04:42:56 +0000

From: "Gary Y Reyes"

Subject: Nokia Firmware

>Date: 6 Aug 2002 10:23:09 +0000

>From: michael robins >

>Subject: Re: Nokia IR auto off

>(I can't remembe how to check the phone o/s version - but I bought it early = >last year so later phones may have more options).

>Mike Robins

>SRL Qantas A330

>Thales Training & Simulation

Mike,

Some Nokia codes to help:

Firmware version, enter *#0000#

IMEI, enter *#06#

Activate EFR, enter *3370#

Deactivate EFR, enter #3370#

Note: Activating EFR improves send and receive but uses up more battery power.

Hope these help.

Re IR switching off. If you are transmitting to the phone over IR, it should not drop out. The 2-minute cut-off is there to conserve phone battery - IR can be quite draining. On the other hand, if the connection cuts off in the middle of a transmission, that is another story altogether.

Gary

__________________________________

www.edsamail.com.ph

CHEAPER than free email!

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Date: 8 Aug 2002 06:55:14 +0000

From: Lothar.Kammann

(Lothar Kammann)

Subject: Re: AW: NetBook-

Dear Tony,

sorry but I do not know of any other program. May be you can try to

contact the author Lieuwe de Fries at:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/platodva/MBMView.htm or

program for your requirement.

Best of luck,

Lothar Kammann

Germany

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Von: Tony Ca

Gesendet: Mittwoch, 7. August 2002 21:42

An: Lothar.Kammann

Cc: List Epoc Digest

Betreff: NetBook-

Dear Lothar,

I am sorry to hear that you had a funeral.

Yes, I have tried "Irfanview". But I could not save to the MBM format

for Psion. I see that the web site shows many different plug-ins for

different formats but no MBM. Do you know if one is available somewhere

else? Tony Cabot *****Original Message*****

Date: From: Lothar.Kammann

(Lothar Kammann)

Subject: Re: Generel; # 030 A couple of questions; # 030 NetBook; # 033

(DATA).csv to Excel; # 034 Contact to Data

To all -General-

I am back to work again after a forced upon me vacation (funeral). Thank

you very much to all of you who send me a note. <<SNIP>> To Tony Cabot

-#030 NetBook- I have heard about IrfanView, but I do not know if it is

of any use to you. Please check the following URL:

http://www.irfanview.com/main1_de.htm

(German) v3.61

<<SNIP>>

Lothar Kammann

Germany

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Date: 8 Aug 2002 07:04:16 +0000

From: "Arent Kits van Heijningen[106016.3614]"

Subject: Re:EPOC DIGEST V1 # 045

Re : Networking cards in Netbook

Several people mentioned the use of Ethernet cards in the Netbook

First there are two types of Ethernet cards available : "NE-2000"- compatible ones and "3c5**" -based ones

NE-2000 appearsto be the industry standard (sorts of ) ,while the others the "3c5**" based ones are proprietary

The "3c5**" denomination is a giveaway here as it is the abbreviation of 3Com wich is the only manufacturer of such cards

The "3c5**" type cards *won't * and *****never**** will work in a StrongArm-based machine like the Netbook/Netpad (hardware incompatibility issues ) the NE-2000-based ones will work fine

Power consumption

Even with a current handling abiity in excess of 450 mA it is strongly recommended not to use cards that draw more than about 200-250 mA otherwise your battery operating time goes down the drain

Another issue here is overall life expectancy of both card and device ,thermal stress can cause premature component failure

Warning about the Socket Low Power 10 MBit Ethernet card

This model has the ***exact*** same connector as our beloved Psions so you could accidentally think it is a Psion-compatible serial card and wonder that you coulld not get any response from the modem .....

But worse you can now plug in the Ethernet lead into the Psion's own serial port and silently fry it because of ground loop potentials

Otherwise -presence of drivers permitting -this card should work fine

*++++++++++&

Date: 8 Aug 2002 07:04:26 +0000

From: "Arent Kits van Heijningen[106016.3614]"

Subject: Re:EPOC DIGEST V1 # 042 : Ericsson DI-27 settings

When testing my Osaris , I also checked its compatibility with the Ericsson DI-27 IR adapter on my R-250S

using Msguite ((no go ) and Comms (worked )

Using C omms I got this profile :

ati5

ACTIVE SETTINGS:

E:1 Q:0 V:1 X:4 &C:1 &D:0

S0:000 S2:043 S3:013 S4:010 S5:008 S7:050

+CBST:0,0,1 +CRLP:61,61,48,6

+CPMS:"SM","SM" +CPBS:"SM"

+CR:0 +CRC:0 +CMEE:0

+DR:0 +DS:3,0,2048,32

ati6

ati7

ati8

ati

ERROR

ati9

ati10

ati11

Mike , are you reading ?

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Date: 8 Aug 2002 07:04:37 +0000

From: "Marcus von Cube"

Subject: Re: Modem settings Psion GoldCard

Roman,

>All the time im trying to dial into my local ISP I immediately receive the message "Network problem". Don't even hear a dialtone....

Maybe "Fax class: Auto" is the problem. Create the directory

c:\logs\etel and try again. EPOC logs the traffic to and from the modem

in a file name etel.txt which will hopefully reveal the problems.

Marcus

http://www.mvcsys.de

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Date: 8 Aug 2002 07:34:51 +0000

From: Martin Yirrell

Subject: Poll

Like Susan I think I'll trespass over the number five a little. :-)

1. Agenda - replaces my memory

2. Tomeraider - my current passion is H Rider Haggard

3. Word, Sheet, Contacts in no particular order

4. Email for out of office comms

5. PhoneMan for the longer SMS

6. Codesafe - like agenda it replaces my memory

7. MapGB, MapperLo, psiMind, Pdf, Calc again in no particular order

Top 5 uses

1. Diary/reminder (memory)

2. Book to read on the underground

3. Address book

4. Away from the office document reader

5. Comms tool for email & SMS

Wish list

1. A programming tool like VBA but which integrates all the application (I'd like that for the PC as well). 2. A better than 5MX screen.

regards

Martin

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Date: 8 Aug 2002 07:43:46 +0000

From: "Corrick, Paul"

Subject: "Not found" error message

Hi, whilst I was on holiday both the main and backup batteries expired on my 5MX. No great problem as most data was on a CF card and I could restore the rest from a recent backup. However, now, everytime I switch on I get an eror message box that just says "Not Found" (with just an "OK" button)... no program name, no other information. I can get rid of it but it comes back when I boot up again.

Has anyone else come across this? How can I track down the cause so I can get rid of it permanently? The only program that (I'm aware of) gets launched when I boot up is the Batcheck freeware program which I've used for ages with no problems.

TIA

P A U L

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Date: 8 Aug 2002 09:56:39 +0000

From: Philip S. Adkins Potter

Subject: Agenda File Dump, Psiloc+

Hi Mike,

Um . . . print to a text file . . . that's too simple, surely? (I don't need to export my agenda file anyway!)

PsiLoc+ is tied to a single machine and I think this is one of very few programs that can partly justify it. Unfortunately the nice people at Psiloc+ have stopped developing for ER5 and are now known as PsiNT. Pity.

The only other program I have that uses that system is TomeRaider and I will soon have to register that for another 5mx.

I didn't know about the BBC service. I'll try it today.

Hi Jim (Watson-Gove),

I'd use "File/More/Export as text file" and use an .htm(l) extension then. That should work.

Good luck,

Phil.

"A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes.

This may be the purpose of the universe."

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Date: 8 Aug 2002 11:39:23 +0000

From: "EpocDigest"

Subject: ADMIN Attachments

Hi All

Please avoid absolutely sending any attachment with your postings to the Digest.

Marcus, please re-send your posting without including editor.zip

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Nicole Carbonara

The Digest Team

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Date: 8 Aug 2002 13:38:33 +0000

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: Memory hungry programs

Hi everybody,

I just wondered where all my memory went when opening my standard programs so for once I opened them one by one by hand and took notes. I started with 6.0M:

Email 0.2 M

Agenda 0.1 M

Crontab 0.6 M

Merlin 0.7 M

Macro 0.8 M

Assistant 0.9 M

and was left with 2.7. Quite amazing how these assisting programs take up this much <G>

Bye,

Itamar Engelsman

London, United Kingdom

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Date: 8 Aug 2002 13:38:45 +0000

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: Hyperlink, Nokia IR auto off, Fax classes, Colours, PalmUser Magazine, Treo 270,

Answer to: Lothar Kammann

Re. Hyperlink - Thanks for that one, I had not yet looked at that possibillity. Certainly an easy way to start an email.

To All:

Re: Nokia IR auto off - I tried as well and failed. Can anyone else confirm they succeeded with this ? Is it maybe one particular Nokia phone instead of all models ?

Answer to: Marcus von Cube

Re. Fax classes - The possibillity to send faxes depends also heavily on the modem used. I remember that I never succeeded with a USRobotic modem, my old travelmodem was not ok but my Nokia 7110 was no problem.

Answer to: Jack

Re. Colours - I meant the bars and icons. I installed the trial version of Colour Magic and I find the change quite pleasing to my eyes. My buttons on the toolbar are now soft yellow, more contrast to read them, the Merlin toolbar is also yellow and a smaller font, I still have to play around with it. I might well decide to use it permanently.

Answer to: Steve Litchfield

Re. PalmUser Magazine - I did not complain about the actual change, you are quite right that it makes sense. I just thought that a/ the subscribers should have been prewarned and b/ given the opportunity to unsubscribe with refund of any outstanding issues. But forget about it, it is not that important. Personally I'll continue another year and than judge whether to stop or not. As you said, have an open mind.

Re. Treo 270 - Is the keyboard really comparible to the S3 one ? On the photo in the magazine it looks considerably smaller. I suppose my main problem with all these machines is the lack of the large enough screen to easily work on WORD and SHEET files.

Bye,

Itamar Engelsman

London, United Kingdom

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Date: 8 Aug 2002 13:38:54 +0000

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: SMS, Travel modem, Colour Magic, Email error, 9210 ads, Holland, Barclays,

Answer to: Thomas F.VAN DER ZIJDEN

Re. SMS - Maybe the obvious, but you do know that each network has it's own number for their SMS centre which yo have to change around in the settings ?

Re. Travel modem - Working now with this modem at work, I found out that in the afternoon when the sun shines into the office it works badly, but when I close the curtains it works perfectly again. I am quite convinced it has to do with light shining onto the IR windows, reflection from the desk (try it with a white peace of paper between the modem and Psion and it will have difficulties I think) and certain types of lighting (low voltage ?).

It appears that the failure of Psion is mainly due to unawareness of the public of the advantages of their products. All too late now !?

Answer to: Trygve Henriksen

Re. Colour Magic - Thanks for the warning, they are now at version 1.02. I installed it on the CF disk and sofar no problems. However, you can always set it back to Default which gives the original Psion settings.

Re. Email error - Thanks, it was a f.cked up email and I deleted it via "www.web2mail.com".

Answer to : Jan & Rolf Brunsting

Re. 9210 ads - In the UK we see regular advertisements for the 9210 in the newspapers and magazines like TV program ones, supplement magazines to the week-end newspapers, etc.

Answer to: David Bernstein

Re. Holland - This is off topic, as short as possible. During the centuries Holland was a big seagoing country, trading worldwide but specially with the far east (Indonesia), 17th century was called the "Golden Century". Traditionally we were tullip growers as well, and in the 17th century there was even a tullip boom much like a stock market with people investing in tullips until the market exploded and people even committed suicide. Today the country is very much a 21st century one. Clogs are warn only by farmers on the land, cheese is still made but very much in factories and not the oldfashioned ways, herrings you get both sweet and sour. It is a modern and well organised country, the economy has been very stable over the years, linked to the German one due to the close trade links and long border). It is definitely worth a touristic visit. [end of off topic]

To All:

Re. Barclays - Did anyone succeed with the Opera webbrowser to connect to the internet banking site of Barclays Bank ? It would be the only advantage for me to use Opera above Web.

Bye,

Itamar Engelsman

London, United Kingdom

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Date: 8 Aug 2002 15:13:23 +0000

From: "Philip Carlisle"

Subject: Lost icons on Extras bar

I've been a bit stupid.

Getting frustrated with the apparent inability of the ExtraBars

application to hide application icons on the 'real' bar of my 5mx, once

added to the 'Extrabar', I uninstalled the program before resetting my

choices within ExtraBars.

The result is that 2 or 3 of the applications do not now appear on the

'real' extras bar. They are all present within the Applications folder

and all fire up from there. The (rather old) FAQ section on the

author's website admits that not all applications can be hidden, but it

does not cover my present problem. The strange thing is that I have 2

Steve Litchfield games - Golf and Team Psion, one is present but the

other not, even though neither had originally hidden when I tried to.

Can anyone guide me to recover the shortcut icons, or must I reinstall

those programs to get them to show.

With thanks in advance,

regards

Philip Carlisle

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