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Epoc Digest Sun, 28 Sep 2003 Volume 01 : Number 351

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In today's Epoc Digest 09 messages:

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- Message- Psion Dacom Gold Card

- Psion Data to Apple Mac # 350 (2)

- Mystery crash update

- Re: Transfer of Psion Data to Apple Mac

- Re: Microsoft (was PsiWin)

- Re: Revo Questions

- Re: Psion Series 3 Reborn?

- Re. ZIP with Icon

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Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003

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Date: 27 Sep 2003 18:56:30 +0100

From: Edward J. Curtis, Jr.

Subject: Psion Dacom Gold Card

I got a 56K Psion Dacom Gold Card to use on my Series 7, but when I try to use it, I get a message that it's not responding and to make sure it's connected and on. It seems to be inserted securely, and the connection to the telephone line also seems secure. The Control Panel indicates that the modem is the Psion Dacom Modem. What am I missing?

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Date: 27 Sep 2003 19:33:02 +0100

From: vlad a

Subject: Psion Data to Apple Mac # 350 (2)

> Epoc Digest wrote:

> I have a netBook and would much like to transfer my Data file containing > contacts to my Apple (OS X)

You can export your Data as text.

You can convert this text to Mac-readable format (and viceversa) with: Mac2Five2Mac

a freeware program for the Mac (OS 9) from Atelier software. Atelier is gone, so if you can't find it write offline and I'll see if I still have it around.

This does not solve the problem of having your info in a data-bank, though, so you'll need some further reading:

http://www.physi.uni-heidelberg.de/~vwalter/my/Homepage.html

http://www.simonwilliams.com/html/psion5imac.html

I haven't used them in a while, so I don't know if they still exist, but these sites helped me transfer my adress-data between a Mac (OS 9) and Psion 5MX a few years ago.

I hope this helps for starters.

best,

vlad a

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Date: 27 Sep 2003 20:09:57 +0100

From: ealasaidandsimon

Subject: Mystery crash update

Thanks to everyone who has reported similar problems, I do wonder if it

is a genuine issue from 3 weeks ago or if it's like the flaws in car

windscreens, once its raised in public everyone starts noticing it?

Perhaps we should try and list what dialups do cause it and what ones

don't?

We have narrowed down the problem... we got a second Psion IR travel

modem, which made no difference (though it's nice to have a duplicate).

However we realised that it never happened using the Freeserve local

rate ("No Ties") dialup service, only the freephone 0808 ("Anytime")

service. Since only dialling up the local rate number with the netbook

and 5mx, we have suffered no crashes - and last night an experimental

"anytime" dialup caused a crash.

So we phoned Freeserve and threatened to stop paying them the £14 a

month "Anytime" fee, and they seemed interested in the problem and

promised to call us on our mobile number on Monday, to see what is

happening when we dial up. (perhaps they would have been less interested

in supporting Psion users if we had phoned their premium rate technical

support line and said we had a problem? Who knows...) Anyway we'll

report back what their verdict is.

Simon

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Date: 27 Sep 2003 21:19:58 +0100

From: Steve Hodgson

Subject: Re: Transfer of Psion Data to Apple Mac

Saturday, September 27, 2003, 8:47:56 PM, you wrote:

ED> I have a netBook and would much like to transfer my Data file ED> containing contacts to my Apple (OS X)

My guess is that there a number of ways to do this...

1. If your contacts can be moved to the contacts application you can save them as V-cards, then email them as attachments (or one zipped attachment) to your new Apple machine. The export operation can be done in one step from within Contacts. There is a utility available on the Macro5 website to transfer data to Contacts if required.

2. Again using Contacts, you could export them to a text file using an application such as C2F.

3. From data you could export the data as tab separated data and try to import this on the Apple.

4. You could synch the data (say to Outlook). The Outlook data *.PST may possibly be readable directly on the Mac if you are using Entourage.

I'm waiting on a yummy new PowerBook to arrive, so may have exactly

this problem to crack too. My plan is to try 1 - 3 in that order, avoiding the Outlook option as (a) I don't synchronise data and (b)

I've long since stopped installing any application beginning with the word 'Outlook'.

Hope one of these helps.

Cheers,

Steve

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Date: 27 Sep 2003 21:24:23 +0100

From: Steve Hodgson

Subject: Re: Microsoft (was PsiWin)

Saturday, September 27, 2003, 8:47:56 PM, you wrote:

ED> Secondly, do you really believe that Microsoft has got a team ED> of people that scrutinise other Companies software

ED> (Lotus, Psion) and design ways to make it difficult for those softwares to run on Windows?

No, but they do have the advantage that they have the inside knowledge

of Windows to enable their software to be optimised for Windows much

more than the competitors. This is an opportunity denied to all other

developers in the closed source world of MS.

Cheers,

Steve

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Date: 27 Sep 2003 23:05:03 +0100

From: Carlos Rodriguez

Subject: Re: Revo Questions

>Date: 27 Sep 2003 16:11:36 +0100

>From: Mike Dyer >Subject: Revo Questions

>Hi all,

>I have two questions regarding my Revo+.

>The first one, is it possible to sort the order of how the 'contacts' entries are presented when in 'email', especially when I go to send an MS Text message and hit the 'address' button the entries are not in alphabetical order so I have to keep scrolling down every name and phone number until I find the correct one.

>Secondly, Is it possible to set the Revo+ clock to display a 24hr clock instead of a 12hr one, also can I set it to display an analogue one like the 5mx instead?.

>you wouldn't believe I've owned it two years and still am wondering about things!.

>Regards,

>Mike Dyer.

Easy. In Email, hit address AND THAN START TYPING the first few letters of the name you're looking for.

Clock: in Clock, go Menu / Tools / Format.

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Date: 27 Sep 2003 23:32:42 +0100

From: Alan Morris

Subject: Re: Psion Series 3 Reborn?

Saj T. Jumaani wrote:-

<< Despite having ceased production by Psion almost four years ago, POS Ltd has just announced official (and large) stocks of brand new Series 3mx

palmtops >>

Now we all await a similar announcement for the 5mx. (who should be so lucky!)

Alan.

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Date: 28 Sep 2003 08:55:51 +0100

From: ian chapple

Subject: Re. ZIP with Icon

>> Don't use this if you ever intend to share the file with other EPOC users. Some of us don't use RMRzip. If I try to use Navigator to unzip a zip file that was written by RMRzip with the icon preference active, Navigator sees the RMRzip UID in the file before it bothers to check the recognizers, decides this file ain't mine to mess with and tries to hand it over to RMRzip which ain't there. ....

... So, please all EPOC Software authors, never distribute software in Zip files created with RMRzip with the icon option! <<

Owen, thanks for this tip. My MyNotes application is available from my website in both ZIP and SIS formats. However, I've recently been unable to open the ZIP file directly under Windows XP, even though it is correctly recognised as a compressed archive. I thought it might be something to do with XP itself, as the file could be opened using WinZip on my work PC, and even PkUnzip was able to extract the contents without any trouble. Now that I've followed your advice, XP can open it.