Epoc Digest Thu, 01 Jul 2004 Volume 01 : Number 552
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In today's Epoc Digest 09 messages:
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- Unsubscription
- Extractring and sorting agenda information, CoDriver,
- agenda information # 551
- How to get TomTom CityMaps .sis files
- Re: History of Psion
- Re: Epoc Digest V1 # 551
- Re: Extractring and sorting agenda information
- Trying to contact Rolf Brunsting
- Darryl Kempster
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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004
From: Digest administrator
Subject: Unsubscription
Unfortunately Giacomonacci and Peter Marks were temporary unsubscribed and Evian and Roger Haslock were unsubscribed due to the digest continuously being returned by their ISP's. We hope that you will all read this via our website (or other means) and either solve the problem or resubscribe with a different email address.
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The Epoc Digest Team
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Date: 30 Jun 2004 17:32:04 +0000
From: Itamar Engelsman
Subject: Extractring and sorting agenda information, CoDriver,
Answer to: Stephen Stone
Re.: Extractring and sorting agenda information - Maybe sometimes we try to be too lazy ? I don't know how many clients you have got, but why not create a small spreadsheet for each of your clients and just enter the few details you need after each consultation where the spreadsheet will than calculate the time spent ?
To All
Re.: CoDriver - I finally got it to work with Streetplanner as well and used it today to get me to the eastern part of London. The program works reasonably well although it showed once the incorrect direction (left instead of right). You can use it in combination with the map of Streetplanner where in between junctions it will show you the map and update it every 15 seconds (or more). However, I am not sure I like it as for example the instruction was to turn left at a roundabout into Hampstead Lane (example name) but there were two roundabouts straight one after the other and of course I took the first one and went wrong ...... . It is quite easy to correct yourself once you are back at the route by choosing from the menu which junction you are at, however the program will not automatically recalculate a new route like the more modern versions (not available for EPOC) do. I will try and do some more testing and eventually write a more detailed report, probably for the Psion Computer Magazine.
Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK
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Date: 30 Jun 2004 18:02:29 +0000
From: vlad a
Subject: agenda information # 551
> Stephen Stone et al
http://www.jwolfe.clara.net/PsiMedEpoc.htm#Top http://www.jwolfe.clara.net/PsiMedEpoc.htm#PatientTrackers http://www.ericlindsay.com/epoc/simed5.htm
some medical software links etc. which might help for apointment/client management, possibly in any business. I do remember there were quite a few such data managers, but I never had any need for it so I don't know.
Hope this helps.
best,
vlad a
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Date: 30 Jun 2004 22:33:23 +0000
From: Arne Christensen
Subject: How to get TomTom CityMaps .sis files
I have been asked how to get .sis installation files out of the newest TomTom CityMaps installation CDs.
This was back in April. I did not remember the details back then, but now I have been forced to reconstruct my method. Here goes, but first some explanations:
The Windows-based CityMaps installation program is able to install onto four platforms (EPOC, EPOC for Nokia 9210, Pocket PC, Palm). Because the map files are the largest part of the data on the CDs (yes, two of them!), they are included only once -- in a format (.abk file) which is suitable for conversion to any of those four formats. For EPOC the desired format is a .sis file.
The installation program asks a few questions (approve license etc) before you can start installing maps. The map installation process is a bit convoluted: You are asked to name the city or location (large or small) for which you want a map. This name is then looked up in a table, giving the .abk file name (which you don't normally see, but wait a second!) The installation program then gives you the list of other (small) locations that are found in the same map. Normally, this is quite a long list. Once you approve this is indeed the map you want, the important stuff happens.
First, a (fairly fast) conversion process takes place, whereby the .abk file is converted to each of the supported formats. Yes indeed, all four of them, even though you have already indicated that you have an EPOC device. Then the PsiWin SIS installer is invoked and passed the name of the EPOC .sis file.
And now the trick: DO NOT CONNECT the cable to your Psion! This will (naturally) cause PsiWin to complain after some time that the Psion cannot be contacted. The important thing is that -- before PsiWin is invoked -- the .sis file is stored somewhere in a directory on your PC. If you can find it, you can also copy it to some other place. Once you have done that, cancel the installation (in PsiWin). The CityMaps installation program will then clean up (remove the generated files) and give you the opportunity to select another map. If you are like me, you will do this numerous times, with one map after the other, thus collecting .sis files for all the maps you need.
Oh, somebody is asking "where is that !@#$ .sis file stored?" Say the map file is Cannes.abk. Then the generated .sis file is {temporary directory}\Cannes\Cannes.sis. The {temporary directory} differs from one Windows version and installation to the next. In my case, it is "E:\Documents and Settings\arne\Lokale indstillinger\Temp" because I have my Windows installation on "E:", it is Win2000, and my login name is "arne". The easiest may be to use the File Search function of Windows to find the .sis file. Once you have found the first one, the rest will be located in the same place. Note that "Cannes" is both a directory name and the main part of the file name. You will find installation files for the other platforms in other files in the same directory. Nokia 9210 files are also .sis files, but a placed in a subdirectory.
Why would you go to such great length in order to get .sis installation files for your maps? I do it in order to avoid drowning the Add/Remove function of my Psion with maps. Each installed map is visible here. Thus I bring we me to exotic locations a set of .sis files, and install the maps I need when I need them. One caveat: When installing on the Psion a .sis file that resides already on the Psion, it needs to be NOT write-protected, and the installation process will remove the file afterwards! Be sure to make a copy of the file before installing it.
I have one offer here: I have made an overlay file for the French map in RoutePlanner with approximate locations of all the CityMaps maps. I use this to figure out which city map to install. Anybody who volunteers to put this overlay file on a Web site or FTP server for others to use? I have built the overlay file based on the map file names, which almost always matches a city name, but no doubt I have made a mistake or two. Contact me off list, arne (at) chr (dot) dk. I may be slow in responding, as vacation is coming up.
-- Arne Christensen
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Date: 1 Jul 2004 01:21:10 +0000
From: Euan Mee
Subject: Re: History of Psion
On 28 Jun 2004, at 14:49, Steve Litchfield wrote:
> If anyone would like to correct anything on
> http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/historyofpsion.htm
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> then feel free! I've attempted an update on my old article from Palmtop. > See what you think.
As intrigued as I am by the green technology trail-lazed in the first paragraph, I can't help but feel it's a typo...
"Imagine how much more convenient and simple your life could be
with a full-feature microcomputer-including screen, keyboard, moss storage and software-in your pocket."
I guess this wasn't a rolling Psion! :-)
Cheers,
Euan
xlucid@users(.remove this).sf.(antispam.)net
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Date: 1 Jul 2004 07:40:46 +0000
From: Edgar Brazda Ph.D.
Subject: Re: Epoc Digest V1 # 551
>From: Itamar Engelsman - Digest Operator >Subject: Memorial
>
>I have just received the very shocking news that Darryl Kempster, a >longstanding and active member of the digest, was murdered in South Africa >while on tour with the the stage show "Lord of the Dance".
This is where South Africa has "developed" in the last few years. I think all of us heard about evenly terrible events. Many British expats moving to Hungary from South Africa gave me unbelievable descriptions about security, better to say, about the lack of security over there. I remember a very active member on our list from Cape Town and interested in his opinion. Edgar, from sleepy Budapest
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Date: 1 Jul 2004 09:58:12 +0000
From: Chris S Handley
Subject: Re: Extractring and sorting agenda information
Stephen Stone wrote:
> My week is comprised of consultations with clients
> interspersed with other activities. I want to be able to
> extract from my agenda the client visit information: date,
> time of visit, client name(actually initials), some sort of
> text symbol indicating that the meeting actually took place .
> . . .
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> Then I want to sort the records by client (all of John's
> consultations together, all of Jane's consultations together)
> by date.
My suggestion would be to do it the other way-around; input client records using another application, and then sync these with Agenda.
Now, I haven't thought about it in detail (and I am in fact a bit rusty), but the Mentor application may well fit the bill (if being slightly over-kill). You would enter a client visit as a task which needed doing, storing this in a folder named after the client, and then choose to sync with Agenda. When the meeting finished, you would tell Mentor the task was completed.
I never used Agenda sync functionality, but I believe it works reasonably well with ER5 Psions (i.e. any Psion after the original 5).
N.B. Mentor can seem quite a daunting app, but it isn't so hard once you have memorised what all the little symbols mean next to each task, and it has a VERY good manual. When I registered, I was actually sent a real print-on-paper manual!
Oh, and it is shareware, and has a limited trial period after which you will loose access to your data (until registered). The trial period shouldn't stop you from creating a new Mentor file, if you need more time to evaluate it.
Regards,
Chris Handley
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Date: 1 Jul 2004 10:01:57 +0000
From: Chris S Handley
Subject: Trying to contact Rolf Brunsting
Hi
I tried to contact Rolf Brunsting using rbrunsting@planet.nl , but got back the following error message:
Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:
Recipient address: bruns132@ims-ms-daemon
Original address: rbrunsting@planet.nl
Reason: Over quota
Is there another address I can try?
Regards,
Chris Handley
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Date: 1 Jul 2004 12:08:27 +0000
From: Itamar Engelsman
Subject: Darryl Kempster
Dear Subscribers,
Gary Jenkinson has taken the initiative to try and arrange for a wreath to be delivered to the funeral or flowers to the family (depending on how fast we can arrange this) of Darryl. As there is very little time it is impossible to start opening a separate account for this matter only, and anyone interested in joining this idea can send his/her donation in cash or by cheque (on UK bank please) to Gary Jenkinson, 10 Vinecote Road, Coventry CV6 6EA, United Kingdom.
Gary will contact Darryl's family via his former work and will make the necessary arrangements. Any money left will be given to a charity to be choosen by the family. Gary will report back to the digest how much he received, spent on the flowers and sent to the charity. Please send Gary a short email to "garyjenkinson@email.com" if you want to participate so he will know as soon as possible how much money will be coming.
We thank Gary for his initiative and hope that many of the subscribers will join him and us.
Itamar Engelsman
[PS. Until now we stayed clear of monetary matters in the digest. We understand that some of you might not agree with this appeal. We request you kindly not to start discussions about this. If you don't agree, just don't participate. We will not make this a general idea, it is clearly a very special exception to the rule]
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