- Re: The Digest V1 # 688 (13)

- RE: Dead 5mx - ideas?

- All your Psion/Epoc questions answered

- Transfer of files from S7 to laptop via infrared

- Web crashing on Ericsson MC218

- Google mail on a Psion?

- Re: Program Closed error

Date: 4 Feb 2005 14:31:33 +0700
From: Ian Colvin <address truncated>
Subject: Re: The Digest V1 # 688 (13)

Dear Chris,
Thank you for your help. I have now recovered my registration code. Perhaps Ben will get back to me one day, but I'm not holding my breath, and am very glad to be able to use Mentor in the meantime.

I had in fact tried the Mentor.ini but had been confused by the error I got after substituting my saved one. As it turned out I had to recreate the
folder structure on the old machine so that Mentor could find the Mentor database in the position it was expecting.

I have added the reg code to my database. It is a sensible precaution ...

Thanks again for your help.
Best regards,
Ian

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Ian Colvin
Historian (Late Antiquity, South Caucasus)
Worcester College, Oxford.

Director Anglo-Georgian Archaeological Expedition to Nokalakevi-Archaeopolis.

Date: 4 Feb 2005 23:04:49 +0700
From: Psion Flexi <address truncated>
Subject: RE: Dead 5mx - ideas?

Hi Alan

I run www.psionflexi.co.uk and think that your machine may have the usual broken flexi problem.  Try taking all the batteries out and
reinserting.  If the machine beeps at first switch on then it is almost certain that the motherboard and internals are fine.  This then only leaves
the display not showing which is almost always the flexi that has fractured.

For more details and full disassembly instructions see my site.

Hope that helps.

Regards

Paul
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Date: 5 Feb 2005 18:42:39 +0700
From: Itamar Engelsman <address truncated>
Subject: All your Psion/Epoc questions answered

Dear Subscribers,

Steve Townsend, the Director of Great Aope Software, has agreed to answer
all questions about Psion and Epoc from you, the subscribers. Steve has
been around for a very long time and started his connection with Psion in
the years 1983-4 developing games for Psion. He worked for Psion from 1987
to 1997 and worked on both the Epoc 16 operating system as well as the
initial development of the Symbian Platform. He than switched to Purple Software before joining Great Ape Software. (Below is his full CV).

You can ask Steve any question you like from why Psion did this or that to specific questions about the hardware or software to questions about the Symbian platform.

Please send your questions to my personal email address
"itamar<at>post.com" and I will forward the questions to Steve who will
than send me his answers which I will post in the digest (Steve requested
this format as he is a very busy man).

I hope you will all take up this chance to find out anything you always wondered about concerning Psion/Epoc/Symbian.


Best regards,
Itamar Engelsman
London, UK


======  Fulll CV  ======

1998-... Great Ape Software Ltd

Worked on a mixture of products for Great Ape Software and contract work developing the Symbian platform

2004-2005: Working on UIQ and Series 90 versions of No Man's Land
2003-2004: Contract via Mobile Innovation on Nokia Series 80 and 7710
projects .
2001-2002: Contract via Psion on future Symbian smartphones.
2001: Contracted to Psion on the Odin project.
2000: Contracted to Symbian working on ER6 Contacts model and Bluetooth projects
1999: Developed the Power Point viewer for Nokia 9200 devices.
1999: Worked on Revo 'Today View' for Psion Computers.
1999: Developed the No Man's Land game.
1998: Worked on ER5 Contacts model and user interface.
1998: Modifications to the Window server for the R380.
1997-98 - Purple Software

Major applications developed for Symbian platform at Purple Software:

Presentation manager.
ColorShow for the Geofox 1.
User interface for the Allegro application.
1987-97 - Psion

1995-1997: Worked on the initial development of the Symbian Platform

Developed the Window server.
Managed the development of the graphics components.
1987-1995: Worked on EPOC16 O/S

Developed the Window server and graphics code for all the EPOC16 computers.Developed the graphs for the EPOC16 spreadsheet.
1984-7 - Gained a BSc in software engineering at Birmingham university.

1983-4 - Worked on games development at Psion.

Including work on the Chequered flag, Match point and Flight simulator projects.
1982-3 - Developed games for the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum.

For the ZX81:

Scramble
Asteroids
For the ZX Spectrum:

Scramble
Cosmic raiders
Galaxians
Space Zombies
The above games were marketed by Mikro-Gen and Psion.

Date: 5 Feb 2005 18:47:22 +0700
From: Kevin Thorne <address truncated>
Subject: Transfer of files from S7 to laptop via infrared

I frequently need to transfer various files from my S7 to my laptop.  I currently simply use a CF in a PC card adaptor to do the transfer, which
works fine, but I was wondering if I could use the infrared ports instead
as this would save me doing the "memory card shuffle" everytime as I do transfers on a regular basis.  The laptop sees the S7 trying to send but
the Psion comes up with "cannot send to this machine".  Can anyone tell me why?

Regards
Kevin Thorne

Date: 5 Feb 2005 20:28:45 +0700
From: Peter Rand
Subject: Web crashing on Ericsson MC218

Recently I got an Ericsson MC218 to replace my ailing RevoPlus, and have
been having problems with the Web application (called "Internet" on my
German OS version) which is included in the ROM. Surfing with Web is no problem, but when I try to download files from the Internet, Web always
crashes with the message:

Error code: user
Error number: 23

Is there a known cure for this problem?

I'd be grateful for any advice.

Peter

Date: 5 Feb 2005 20:28:50 +0700
From: Peter Rand
Subject: Google mail on a Psion?

Just curious whether anybody has got a free 1 GB gmail account working on their Psion. If yes, I'd be very interested in the account settings that
have to be used.

Peter

Date: 5 Feb 2005 22:34:33 +0700
From: Alan Morris <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Program Closed error

Jack <address truncated> wrote:

>>Anyone any idea, if the error could be caused but a corrupt Email data file.

> One  "simple" (out of others) solution is to recreate (with Editor) its "Index" file

That's a possibility Jack.  I've never had a problem with Email on a 5,
5mx, 7, nB and now a new Clove 5mxPRO.

It's possible that at some point a few files got corrupted due to a power glitch.  It's screen cable needs the logo pressing to much now (loss of
touch registration and brightness change), so this may have caused
it.  I've been putting this off as someone posted that he had broken his connection.

I intend going back to the 7 and do a start from all new on the nB.  But it all takes time.

Thanks for your comments.

Alan