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Epoc Digest Thu, 08 May 2003 Volume 01 : Number 244

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In today's Epoc Digest 21 messages:

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- Re: EPOC DIGEST V1 # 242 (423)

- Space Exodus

- Re: S7 Preferred Apps

- And yet more colour icons...

- Re: Subject PGP (4 Kevin)

- Text Adventures or Interactive Fiction

- PGP

- EPOC Utilities for learning Spanish and Portugese?

- S7 Preferred Apps, Farewell, nokia6100 gprs settings, Contacts problem,

- EPOC Digest Dates,

- RE: reducing photo size

- Re: EPOC Digest Dates

- Wallpaper

- EPOC MP3 player software

- UK English ROM image for the 5mx pro.

- Re: Software licences

- Re: S7 Preferred Apps

- Re: Contacts fields

- Re: IR & S7 DIMM

- 5mx pro OS

- SpellX colour icons for S7, Netbook and Netpad

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Date: 6 May 2003 12:21:55 +0100

From: David Steer

Subject: Re: EPOC DIGEST V1 # 242 (423)

Peter,

Just to let you know, both e-mails went to the old e-mail address.

I am sending this reply via my new e-mail incase I sent ypou the wrong address last time.

Regards

David

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Date: 6 May 2003 12:40:36 +0100

From: Hoffman, Susan

Subject: Space Exodus

Has anyone else downloaded this game? I am stuck on the last level. How do you escape the lower half? I've tried up and down at every square.

Susan Katz Hoffman

Pepper Hamilton LLP (215) 981-4990

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Date: 6 May 2003 13:17:31 +0100

From: martin

Subject: Re: S7 Preferred Apps

Kevin Collins wrote:

> what four apps have you preferred to store on the 4 numbered left-side silk keys? <

Like Keith, I use mine to 'hide' certain icons mainly rather than speed their launch:-

1. CodeSafe, 2. abp5, 3. Porfolio, 4. ExtraBars (the last one is the exception to prove my own rule above!).

Cheers,

Martin

www.pscience5.net

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Date: 6 May 2003 13:22:11 +0100

From: martin

Subject: And yet more colour icons...

24 new colour icons plus 3 colour patches added a few days ago:- Atmos5, CleanMe, CountSigns, Expenses (+ patch), Find, FlWorld, FlWorld (alternative .aif + patch), FlFinger (+ patch), FreeCrypt, Golf, JTelnet, MailArc, Metro, Michelin (Mrg), MindMap, Movie, Odyssey, OPXscan, Solun, S5Dive, Signit, SpellX, Sticker, TunePal.

This brings the total up to something like 158 replacement colour icons (aif files) and 28 colour patches for programs used on the S7/nB/nP. As always, full details and instructions available on my website: www.pscience5.net

Best regards,

Martin

www.pscience5.net

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Date: 6 May 2003 14:34:40 +0100

From: Jack

Subject: Re: Subject PGP (4 Kevin)

To: Kevin Thorne Subject: PGP

>>>... PGP installed on my S7 ......... it seems a shame there isn't a quick start help guide for beginners. ........>>>

Hi K,

Have a look at :

zenobyte.com/pgp/faq.html

chapter 2 and 3

Mind! one hotkey has to be changed on ER5

Have some nice keying

Jack

Msg simply mailed through Cable ISP x Mocha, Psion netBookUK158 EpocEmail2.00 + ReplyEveryMail2.38 macro launched by Assistant1.99 + colour_icons.

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Date: 6 May 2003 15:23:03 +0100

From: Woody B

Subject: Text Adventures or Interactive Fiction

Itamar asked about Text Adventures, AKA Interactive Fiction (IF). I clipped the following from the IF FAQ reached from

http://plover.net/~textfire/raiffaq/welcome.html

"Simply put, the IF genre includes any game that tells a story as part of the game, usually with the player as the protagonist. The actions of the player affect the progress of the story, which often centers around solving puzzles or finding treasure, and leads to an endgame in which the player 'wins' and completes the adventure. ...

"Interactive fiction traces its electronic roots to a 1977 program named ADVENT, better known as the Colossal Cave Adventure. It was this program, written by Willie Crowther and Don Woods, that established many of the features now common to the genre, including noun/verb parsing (e.g. "TAKE BOOK"), mazes ("You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike") and the basis of most later IF in fantasy/adventure settings. Soon after this the game Dungeon, or Zork, was written by MIT grad students; these students were the nucleus of a 1980 startup company called Infocom, which produced a version of Zork for the TRS-80 Model I and other machines. This led to widespread popularity of interactive fiction games, and was later referred to as the Golden Age of the genre; for several years, Infocom's products were the top-selling games on the market."

You can find many of the old games online and there is a nice community of writers of new games. They have several contests a year, there are e-magazines or websites devoted to reviews of games. I'm terrible at the puzzles, but enjoy the rich, often funny, writing in the adventures. IF plays quite well on the Psion.

WoodyB

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Date: 6 May 2003 16:45:18 +0100

From: Michael Degn

Subject: PGP

Answer to Kevin Thorne

Subject: PGP

> I do have PGP installed on my S7 but have never used it. There isn't a help file as such but it does come with a couple of long documents about PGP in general. I know very little about using PGP anyway and it seems a shame there isn't a quick start help guide for beginners. Can anyone explain how to use PGP for sending my card details to them in nice and simple jargon? <

Dear Kevin,

PGP is a very good and reliable encryption method. The technology is based on a two key system - a private key and a public key.

First you need to create a private key (Keys -> Create new key) <Ctrl+N>. To get a high level of security you should use 12 characters or more. When the private key is created you'll notice that it is in bold and has a two key symbol in front.

The next step is to create a public key (Keys -> Export key) <Ctrl+S>, the file will have the extension .asc

Now you can email this public key to PSI NT (and anyone else for that matter) and ask for their public key (don't send any details yet!!!). When you receive their public key you must import it into PGP (Keys -> Import key) <Ctrl+O>. You'll notice that PSI NT's key will be in normal and only has a single key symbol in front.

Next thing is to set your preferences in PGP as you'll use one of the in a moment. The two important issues are the encryption and decryption hotkeys. By default they are <Shift+Fn+E> and <Shift+Fn+D>.

Now it's time to write your email. When you are happy with the text, highlight all the text and CUT <Ctrl+X> it into the clipboard. Now you must use the PGP encryption hotkey <Shift+Fn+E> and a list of all available keys pops up. Select the recipient(s) of the message, and always remember to include yourself, otherwise you won't be able to decrypt and read the message ever again. Then a warning shows up, but just ignore it. A message flashes for a second telling that the text has been encrypted - just paste it back in <Ctrl+V> - and voila...

You should also get the colour .aif + patch file for PGP (I can email them to you if you want).

Best regards,

Michael Degn

Esbjerg, Denmark

www.degn.esenet.dk

www.pdanmark.dk

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Date: 6 May 2003 19:06:14 +0100

From: Owen H. Morgan

Subject: EPOC Utilities for learning Spanish and Portugese?

Hi.

As I'll probably be spending next winter in the Canaries, I've just started an attempt to teach myself Spanish. Does anyone know of any useful Spanish EPOC software or files for Data, Tomeraider etc? I bought a simple cassette based Spanish course and have recorded it onto my MP3 player and am in the process of putting the contents of the little booklet that came with it into an EPOC data file. I suppose I could also install the MP3 software on my 5mx and run the language course on that.

Next year I'll hopefully be crossing the Atlantic to Brazil, so I'm also looking for useful stuff to learn Portugese.

PC-based interactive language courses aren't much use to me, as I'd rather listen while cycling to the airport and grab a few minutes every now and then between flights a work than sit in front of the PC at home (and listen to the bloody generator running to provide power for it.)

Owen

Thought for the day:

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for.

- John A. Shedd

Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-953°27.22'N 6°09.05'W

Malahide, Ireland

http://home.no.net/naomij

Phone and SMS:

In Ireland: +353 (0)87 7474173

In Norway: +47 9205309

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Date: 7 May 2003 13:01:57 +0100

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: S7 Preferred Apps, Farewell, nokia6100 gprs settings, Contacts problem,

Answer to: Keith Giles

Re.: S7 Preferred Apps - If you press Ctrl and than tap one of the 4 silk keys you will see the pretty colour icons as well <G>.

Answer to: Andy Hayes

Re. Farewell - It is always sad when people say "farewell", specially when someone who participated actively in this and earlier digests does so. Thank you for all your answers and efforts and I wish you all the best and success in your new environment. Maybe one day you will be the first Shetland subscriber ?

Answer to: Mark Deppe

Re. nokia6100 gprs settings - I also use Vodaphone GPRS with a Nokia 6310i. My settings are somewhat different :

Modem:

Speed: you made a typing error, it is 115200 (not 112500)

Init string : ATZ (and not AT&F&K4 )

Flow control : Hardware (RTC/CTS) (and not Xon/Xoff)

Modem type : Fixed line (and not mobile)

Internet :

Get IP and DNS : I have both ticked <G> and not unticked

I never have any problems connecting and / or sending. By the way, instead of the pop server of Vodaphone you can of course enter any other pop servers you have an email account with. Usually I have there the pop server of Freeserve where my main private account is with.

Answer to: Brian Dooks

Re. Contacts problem - Do you have a back-up ? If not, can you make one ? Having done that, try a soft reset which will most probably sort out your problem.

Best regards,

Itamar Engelsman

London, UK

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Date: 7 May 2003 13:02:03 +0100

From: Itamar Engelsman

Subject: EPOC Digest Dates,

Answer to: Alan Morris

Re.: EPOC Digest Dates - The "-600" depends of course on the operator of the digest at that time. Manuel, situated in NY, was probably 6 hours behind GMT.

Best regards,

Itamar Engelsman

London, UK

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Date: 7 May 2003 14:10:46 +0100

From: ealasaidandsimon

Subject: RE: reducing photo size

Daniele, here is a quick experiment for you. I had 3MB free just now on C when nconvert is running (also 8 other apps running inc.Web and Email). The photo, taken on the top setting of our antique Epson PPC600 camera, was copied from the camera's CF into the Psion's C, and kept there during processing (while the Psion's CF containing apps etc. including nConvert was replaced). The original was 1024x768, 434k. (see http://www.simon-s.net/05070050.JPG for this pic). Nconvert hapily resized it to 200x150, 11k (see http://www.simon-s.net/weepicture.JPG for this pic). I tried making a 640x480 version and got your "Out of Memory" so closed one app to leave 3.5M free in C. The it worked fine. 640x480, 78k. (see http://www.simon-s.net/mediumpicture.JPG for this pic)

My install of nConvert has bugs, not least of which is that when you open the app it offers 2 identical "Image Conversion" lines, and the first attempt at conversion always fails with a "not supported" message. All subsequent operations work perfectly however until the next time the app is closed and relaunched. Maybe you (and I!) simply need to uninstalland reinstall?

If you are still having problems you may email me ONE picture off-list and I will try it on this machine.

Simon

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Date: 7 May 2003 16:39:01 +0100

From: Keith Giles

Subject: Re: EPOC Digest Dates

Alan Morris wrote:

> Have others noticed that all Dates show -0600:-

Mine doesn't. Here's what shows up with your posting:

> Date: 5 May 2003 22:43:42 +0000

> From: Alan Morris

> Subject: EPOC Digest Dates

All mine have "+0000". I figure it's something to do with one's time zone. I'm in the Pacific time zone of the US, which is -8hrs from GMT. Don't know why it shows up as "+0000"

Happy Cycling,

Keith

Sunnyvale, CA

http://home.attbi.com/~ohsix827/

Thought For The Day: Junk is something you throw away three weeks before you need it.

All my outgoing e-mails have been checked by Norton Anti-virus.

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Date: 7 May 2003 16:48:35 +0100

From: Keith Giles

Subject: Wallpaper

I've asked this before but got no answers. Will try again.

I'm trying to get the original EPOC logo wallpaper to show up on my Malaysian netBook. Connecting my 5mx to my PC, I copied the logo from the 5mx's Z drive to the PC's C drive. Then I connected the netBook to the PC and moved the logo from the PC's C drive to a wallpaper folder on my netBook, but it won't show up on the screen. I have a lot of other wallpaper files in the folder and they show up fine when selected.

Can this be done? How? Maybe a different method of getting the logo to the netBook must be used, but what?

Any ideas anyone?

Happy Cycling,

Keith

Sunnyvale, CA

http://home.attbi.com/~ohsix827/

All my outgoing e-mails have been checked by Norton Anti-virus.

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Date: 7 May 2003 22:00:15 +0100

From: Owen H. Morgan

Subject: EPOC MP3 player software

Hi.

I know this has been mentioned before, but I wasn't paying attention at the time...

Could someone please give a quick overview of what software is required to play MP3 files on a Psion, where to get it, what format the files should be in etc. I'm thinking of using it for a language course. Any resources for audio books in MP3 format would be very welcome too.

Owen

Thought for the day:

It isn't the whistle that moves the train.

Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-953°27.22'N 6°09.05'W

Malahide, Ireland

http://home.no.net/naomij

Phone and SMS:

In Ireland: +353 (0)87 7474173

In Norway: +47 9205309

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Date: 7 May 2003 22:00:27 +0100

From: Owen H. Morgan

Subject: UK English ROM image for the 5mx pro.

Hi.

I'm buying a 5mx pro in bits (with a working motherboard) and intend to try to upgrade my standard 5mx to a pro specs by replacing the motherboard.

As my German is not what it once never was and I don't have access to the web, part of the deal is that the guy selling me the damaged pro should get hold of the UK English ROM image and put that on the 16mb CF that comes with the machine. The only problem is he can't find it! Anyone know where to find it? Anyone have it?

Owen

Thought for the day:

Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer.

Owen H. Morgan, Yacht "Naomi J.", LD-953°27.22'N 6°09.05'W

Malahide, Ireland

http://home.no.net/naomij

Phone and SMS:

In Ireland: +353 (0)87 7474173

In Norway: +47 9205309

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Date: 7 May 2003 22:17:54 +0100

From: Rolf Brunsting

Subject: Re: Software licences

Dear Phil,

<< The usual reason for shareware licences being "non-transferable" is not to stop people selling them along but to stop people *just* selling licences and still keeping/using them. To do this requires the kind of restriction often seen but if the licensers are asked they will probably say there is no objection >>

I don't think it's for us to start thinking about the intentions of the software supplier and to act according the ideas we may come up with. The license agreement is part of the contract between supplier and purchaser. Buy an application and both supplier and purchaser are bound by the license agreement. When the license agreement mentions that the license to use the software is non-transferrable than that's that - the software can't be resold to a third party.

Note that we're not only dealing with the use of the software itself but also with a number of obligations the supplier has towards the purchaser. Such things as technical support, the supply of bug fixes and the supply of new releases for free or at a discount, maintaining a support web site, etc. These activities are part and parcel of the contract and need to be financed by the sale of applications. When the application is resold by the original purchaser it can very well mean that the original supplier has to give twice the amount of technical support for the same price. Reason why is, that the reseller, who is now the supplier of the third party, won't take over the obligations as supplier with regards to the software. That burden is shifted to the original supplier i.e. the developer.

Kind Regards,

Rolf Brunsting - Darp - Netherlands

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Date: 7 May 2003 22:18:04 +0100

From: Rolf Brunsting

Subject: Re: S7 Preferred Apps

Dear Kevin,

<< ... what four apps have you preferred to store on the 4 numbered left-side silk keys? >>

1) DCLFuel

2) Data

3) Encrypt-it

4) Allegro

Kind Regards,

Rolf Brunsting - Darp - Netherlands

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Date: 7 May 2003 22:18:11 +0100

From: Rolf Brunsting

Subject: Re: Contacts fields

Dear Gianluca,

<< the fact is after syncing I had four fields related to work address that had been misplaced on the netBook ... >>

You can position the fields in any order you like by using Menu -> Tools -> Set up labels (Ctrl+L) followed by selecting the label and using the Move up (Ctrl+U) and/or Move Down (Ctrl+D) buttons.

Kind Regards,

Rolf Brunsting - Darp - Netherlands

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Date: 7 May 2003 22:18:18 +0100

From: Rolf Brunsting

Subject: Re: IR & S7 DIMM

Dear Bruce,

<< plBeam 1.3 crashed my S7 (which, after I complained, PsiNT admitted that it would) though it worked on an MC218 >>

Install plBeam 1.3 and it automatically places an icon in Control Panel that allows you to replace Psion's infrared driver by the plBeam driver. You also get a question whether you want to install a utility that's available from the Extras Bar. It's the utility that works well while using the icon in Control Panel results in the Series 7 locking up.

<< Can anyone tell me where to get a memory expansion DIMM for the S7, and how much it is likely to cost? >>

Expansys has them : www.expansys.co.uk

Kind Regards,

Rolf Brunsting - Darp - Netherlands

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Date: 8 May 2003 01:04:22 +0100

From: Darryl Kempster

Subject: 5mx pro OS

Just picked up a 16MB CF card from Expansys for £8 and they're branded Psion 5mx Pro. Had a look and they still have the OS img file loaded. No idea whether it's the English version POS were gonna load onto their refurbished 5mx Pros, or the original German version. Just thought someone might be interested!

Have managed to identify problem with my Nokia cardphone - it's locked to Orange. So trying to find a way to get it unlocked then can finally see if it'll work with my netBook.

Darryl

On tour with Electric Six in Glasgow

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Date: 8 May 2003 06:44:23 +0100

From: ExAbEtAl

Subject: SpellX colour icons for S7, Netbook and Netpad

Hi all,

You can download free colour icons for the language-dependent Extras bar icons of SpellX. See my website.