From: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Using bookkeep on HP 95lx (123 Novice question)
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:37:27 GMT
Reply-To: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
Organization: UMass, Amherst MA + Temporal Sys & Computer Networks Bombay India

Hi,

  If it weren't for the 123 that HP had stuffed into the 95LX, I'd
probably never had used it. But here I am trying _expense, and 
bookkeep, and beginning to like 'em.

  This 123 novice has a few queries ... help please.

1. How can I edit/delete/correct a transaction already entered in
   BOOKKEEP ?

   The bookkeep menus do not have such a feature, I was wondering
   if such a delete/correct could be done from "beneath" the macros
   by going into 123. Or would it mess up the macros ?

2. How can I print out an account book,or a log of all transactions ?

   The macros provide for report files, which give one consolidated
   figures. But I'd also like a full dump on paper, for records
   that require paper copy.

   Do I do this by "PRINT"-ing from the 123 menus' some fields
   that Bookkeep uses to mainatin the transactions ?

   There is a ShowAccounts ... I'm looking for a PrintAccounts.

3. I guess the transactions are all saved in bookkeep.wk1 file. 
   (Am I correct ?)

   So what exactly do I do when I change months ? There is a menu
   Forward .. but do I first save the old bookkeep.wk1 file as
   Jan93.wk1, and kermit a new copy of bookkeep (guess not so)
   or merely issue a forward, and it will build a new month for
   me all automatically ?

   Confused, and dont want to loose all entries I've made by doing
   something wrong.

4. I dont recollect having entered a transaction for "boooks" for
   $10 cash. Was it there in the original file itself .. or did
   I type it while I was sleepwalking ? How do I rid myself of it.

Book keep is neat .. the displays are neat and clean, and its pretty
friendly to use.

A few minor nits .. some typos/spellos (debet should be debit
I think, and the "boooks" I refered to above).

I wish a small manual for a 123 novice like me, or a Book FAQ would
be very useful indeed. Thomas Danielson .. good job, and thanx for the
package .. do you have any plans for such a manual please ?


-- shrikumar ( shri@legato.cs.umass.edu )

PS: Re. someone who said that the HP gains time with an adapter.

Its is unlikely that the Adapter voltage would cause the clock to gain
time.  In general, such an overvoltage would cause the voltage
regulator/power supply to cook, or if its too bad for the VLSIs to
cook, releasing the blue smook trapped in them, that makes them tick.
In general the crystal osc driving the clock should not gain time like
that. I find it hard to believe it'd happen, even less likely in HP
equipment (HP is the leading high stability lab equipment manuf, after
all ... they routinely build oscillators whose accuracy around 1ppm is
like (quoting FE Terman) "measuring the distance across the Atlantic
ocean, US to Europe, accurate to an inch."

In any case, I just ran a test, the HP running SETUP with an adapter,

           UNIX host (Synced to Internet)         HP95LX
Test begin Tue Jan 12 12:08:44 EST 1993           12:09:00
Test end   Tue Jan 12 12:32:43 EST 1993           12:33:00

The above is accurate to order of Human response time, thats probably
about 500msec.

  The report mentioned a 1 minute per hour gain in time, so I should
have seen at least 24 seconds of gain. I did not.


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