HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: 95LX databases
Date: 25 Dec 92 08:38:57 GMT
Reply-To: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
Organization: UMass, Amherst MA + Temporal Sys & Computer Networks Bombay India

In article <ljki4jINNa2m@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk) writes:
> In article <20809@acorn.co.uk> asmith@acorn.co.uk (Andy Smith) writes:
> >It loads into the phone book,...
> 
> That's clever, to use the phone book to access a database.  What do
> you do if you want the records sorted by other than alphabetic order?

 uh ho !

 I had just logged in with the intention of writing up on 
precisely this... when I see this post ! I've been beaten to it ! ;-)

 Yes indeed. The PHONE book can be used as a very convenent database. 
That coupled with the 95Buddy features (renaming of the fields,
date, time stamps, and the great phone-link !) make it a very
neat and tidy unstructured database.

 You cannot sort or rearrange the records in different orders, but
for what use I have put it to, that is not necessary. Search and
find are very much needed, and they work very well.

 Over the last weekend I've compiled a database with most of the useful
parts of the HP95lx documentation, and command documentation for all
the commands (including debug etc) Each record shows up on the index
screen with the NAME and USAGE sections, calling up the card shows the
DESCRIPTION and BUGS also. For extra long entries, the 95Buddy expCard
features warps me into MEMO-land.  And any entry in an extended record
(aka expCard) can chain back to another record in the PBK databases,
hypertext style .. thanx to 95BUddy's Plink.  (Thank Jeff Mattox, my
registration soon in the mail ... 95Buddy for this alone !) The
entries are in sort of UNIX man like style, but very brief.

  Also, I found a nice tight FORTH, MINI4th (aka min4th25.arc)
out on one of the simtel20 mirrors. Only 4K or so makes a very
small and nice package. I have the entire source documentation of the
words of mini4th in a PBK database, making a very convinent refernce.

 For a while now, I've been using the Phone book to also note
down tidbits that I pick up. The Find and Only features are a great
boon here, since I tag each record with a keyword.

  I found no reason to use something like LXfile instead, since
this served my purpose of orgainsing flat data very well indeed!

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

Xref: sparky comp.sys.palmtops:4082 comp.sys.laptops:4772
From: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Need dead PCMCIA cards ..
Date: 22 Dec 92 04:45:03 GMT
Reply-To: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
Followup-To: comp.sys.palmtops
Organization: UMass, Amherst MA + Temporal Sys & Computer Networks Bombay India

Hi,

  My fingers itch towards my soldering iron, and watch me wish that
I had a few PCMCIA connectors with me, for a hardware project!

  +-------------------
  If you have a dead PCMCIA card, could you consider throwing it my
way please ? I'll pay the postage.
  +-------------------

  Dead PCMCIA cards, RAM/ROM/Flash/modem whatever make or kind, colour
or political leanings in its past life!

Many thanx in advance ...

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

snail-mail:

H. Shrikumar
#48 Presidential Apts,
Amherst MA 01002

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: gingell@rock.concert.net (Michael J Gingell -- Personal Account)
Subject: Can you wake up HP95 and run a program
Organization: CONCERT-CONNECT -- Public Access UNIX
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 15:41:14 GMT


Having some specific needs for an automatic remote control
I have just installed myRemote on my HP95 and it works very well.
So far I have tested on 3 different VCRs, 2 satellite receivers,
a pioneer multi-cassette tape deck and a remote control AV switch.
All work perfectly.

Now my problem.  What I would like to do is to be able to program
a sequence of events at different times on different days and have
it run the myRemote program. (It does have a built in timer but
only up to 24 hours from the time you launch a command).  Ideally
the apointment book would wake up the 95 at the right time and
call a .bat file to run myRemote which is a DOS compliant program
only.

I have tried several vanilla DOS scheduling programs some work and
some don't.  Those that work only do so if the 95 is awake at the
time of the event.

As far as I can see there is no built in feature to do this - has
anyone got any suggestions?

Thanks - Mike
From: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: WEEKABK 3.7.5 - PEND FEATURE?
Date: 25 Dec 92 23:59:22 GMT
Reply-To: shri@unreal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
Organization: UMass, Amherst MA + Temporal Sys & Computer Networks Bombay India

In article <2b056451.8cdd57.4@BEIZ.mediatex.ch> 
   Programmierer@BEIZ.mediatex.ch (055485666: MEDIAtex AG) writes:
> But this does not work, at least not on my 95!
> If I have a blank on position 20 in WEEKABK.ENV no entry comes on the pend
> display, but there should be all entries.
> What did I do wrong ?

Hi,

  I dont think you've done anything wrong :-)

  Seems like a small bug in weekabk ..I have noticed too that
' ' in position 20 does not wildcard, but instead shows all
entries that begin with a ' '  ! 

  So I left it with a heart !

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

BTW ... can the c-yield(..) be called from inside DOS ?
    Get what I am upto dont you? If I have shelled out with
    DOS.exm, I could run a small program which can free all
    memory not used by DOS back to sysmgr, do whatever cleanup is
    necessary (what is ?) and issue a c_yield(...) leaving the
    DOS.exm task Suspended.

    I guess its not possible, else someone would have done it by now.

    Yes I do realise most DOS programs muck up far too much to
    totally rule out the above, but I guess some programs dont and
    under that risk, if I could switch back and forth, that will
    be great.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: dish@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Tony Goldish)
Subject: HP95 remote
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:47:33 GMT

I see everyone posting about these programs to turn the HP95lx into a 
universal remote control...but no mention of where to get these programs
are they available through anonymous Ftp, and if so where...
thanks in advance...I just might start doing enough things with this
"toy" to make it worthwhile...now if I can just figure out how to export 
files from it to Lotus Organizer for windows?
From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Atari Portfolio Questions
Date: 25 Dec 1992 02:45:50 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <1992Dec25.003325.2722@cactus.org> cheselka@cactus.org (Michael R. M. Cheselka) writes:
>I am thinking about buying an Atari Portfolio, but I hear it only has 48k
>of ram!  Isn't that way too little?  Can that be the correct info?

The machine has 128KB RAM, which is partitioned into system RAM and RAM
disk.  This is adjustable using the fdisk utility that is built into
the machine.  From what I remember the maximum RAM disk size was 80KB,
I don't know the minimum.  A certain amount of system RAM is needed for
overhead.  RAM cards are available up to at least 128KB, these are not
PCMCIA compatible, and so are not compatible with what the HP-95LX and
other PCMCIA machines.  Nor are the cards the same was what is used on
the HP-48SX or Smith-Corona machines.  I've heard that certain
synthesizers use the same kind of cards as the Atari.

There is a third party upgrade for the machine, and some kind of PCMCIA
option.  You can get postings on the Atari and several other palmtops
via anonymous ftp from csd4.csd.uwm.edu:/pub/Palmtop.

The Atari is a nifty cheap little machine, however it hasn't been
supported well by either Atari or third parties.  Be aware that there
are several other machines available such as the Psion 3, HP-95LX,
Fujitsu Poqet, Sharp PC-3x000, and various dedicated organisers.
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<-:(= Anthony Stieber	anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu   uwm!uwmcsd4!anthony
From: fugitt@tempus.Corp.Sun.COM (Lem Fugitt - Nihon Sun US Office)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Sharp 9600?
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:06:10 GMT
Reply-To: fugitt@tempus.Corp.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: tempus.corp.sun.com

In article 11459@ozrout.uucp, thierry@ozrout.uucp (Thierry Daigneault) writes:
<=>  So my question is: is there a difference betweem both models? If so,
<=>how much more can they expect to pay for the 9600 model if the 9000 model is
<=>already 900$ CDN!? (But I must admit, it looks great!)

The 9000 is supposed to be the Canadian model of the 9600 -- this is
according to the e-mail traffic in the forum on Compuserve.

As for pricing, in the US the 9600 is selling for just under $500 USD after
discounts. It is, however, hard to come by.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka)
Subject: Your chance to spend someone else's $$$!
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:25:40 GMT

Everyone should have my problems.

For tax reasons I need to spend about $850 by the end of the end of
the year, and I have decided I need :-) a palmtop. (PDA?  Whatever.)

I consider PC data exchange a necessity, so the cost of a
"Connectivity Pack" or equivalent should be included.

My primary use for this will be multiple-project management.  With two
jobs and multiple tasks at each job, I need something to remind me of
impending milestones / deadlines.

Next priority would be maintaining a list of contacts:  Name, Company,
Phone number, and freeform notes.  Need to be able to search for
things like "The guy in California with the laser".

While I don't plan on playing Lacrosse with this thing in my pocket, I
don't want to have to baby it, either.  (Then again, perhaps I could
project some game stats...)

The Newton isn't out yet.

I've played with the HP95, the Psion 3, and the OZ-9600.

If you had to drop $850 on pocketable computer hardware in the next
week-and-a-half, what would _you_ get?  Where would you get it?

Email or post; I read this group daily.  I'll post my shopping list
first thing next year.

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Vote straight ticket Procrastination party Dec. 3rd!
From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: Your chance to spend someone else's $$$!
Date: 22 Dec 1992 14:55:56 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <1992Dec22.042540.22754@vpnet.chi.il.us> cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka) writes:

>I've played with the HP95, the Psion 3, and the OZ-9600.
>
>If you had to drop $850 on pocketable computer hardware in the next
>week-and-a-half, what would _you_ get?  Where would you get it?

How pocketable does it have to be?  The three machines you mention are
all roughly shirt pocket sized, but there are larger machines, most of
which run MS-DOS and have large keyboards that are can be touch
typable.  It really depends on what you're looking for, there is no one
best machine.

The HP has the most internal RAM of all the machines and has the
cheapest and the greatest amount of online card storage available.
It's as cheap as $200/MB for SRAM (max 4MB), and $100/MB for flash (max
10MB).  Runs MS-DOS (this may or may not be a feature).  For $850 you'd
have about 2MB of storage, minus system RAM.

The Psion has a larger keyboard, display, and very possibly better
built in software.  The latest model has a spreadsheet built in.
Storage is more expensive, and only Psion makes modules for it.
Doesn't runs MS-DOS (this may or may not be a feature).  SRAM is
512KB/$300 (max 1MB), flash 1MB/$300 (max 2MB).  For $850 you'd have
about 1.25MB storage, minus system RAM.

I don't know much about the Sharp at all.

I have the HP, this is in part because of my previous experience with
Psion.  Psion Organiser (an earlier machine much different from the
Series 3) storage modules actually became more expensive over time, and
third party support in general was poor.  The machine itself is quite
solid and has good software.  When I wanted to upgrade, I found that
for the cost of just the serial adapter and a 256KB flash module, I
could buy an HP with 512KB.  Current Psion S3 aren't quite so bad but
Organiser prices still are.

Unfortunatly Psion continues to use proprietary storage modules and
serial adapters.  However, third party support seems to be improving
for Psions.  So it depends, if you want lots of storage I suggest
a PCMCIA based machine like the HP.  Otherwise the Psion has a lot
going for it.
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From: george@ucs.ubc.ca (George Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: So where is IR95?
Date: 24 Dec 1992 04:30:40 GMT
Organization: University Computing Services, UBC, Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: swiss.ucs.ubc.ca

In article <smiller.725145848@qualcom> smiller@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Scott Miller) writes:
>IR95.exe doesn't seem to be on eddie.mit.edu...where can I find it?  I
>I was hoping to play with this and my TV this Christmas...  :-) 

IR95 isn't on eddie yet. The author doesn't have a connection to the net.
I'm still waiting for my copy to arrive by mail...

George
From: glenn@hpsanaeo.nsr.hp.com (Glenn Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: 95LX for Sale - New!
Date: 31 Dec 1992 23:47:51 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hpsanaeo.nsr.hp.com


Folks,

I have a brand new 95LX Palmtop for sale.  This is the 1MB version, 
complete with the connectivity pack.

This system is my second 95LX, as I won both during a sales contest.

I would like $460 for the 95LX, Connectivity Pack, and related disks
and cable.

Regards,




Glenn



-- 
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(1|619) 541-7320
(1|619) 562-4071 (Home)

internet: glenn@hpsanaeo.nsr.hp.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: cedler@boi.hp.com (Chris Edler)
Subject: Re: ir95.zip posted to eddie.mit.edu
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:12:37 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

Ira H. Fuchs (fuchs@tsar.princeton.edu) wrote:
: I have placed a copy of the ir95 software from Gilles Kohl in  
: eddie.mit.edu:distrib/hp95lx/inbound.

..there must be a TON of stuff in the inbound directory!!!

Does anyone know when eddie will be re-administered?

-Chris
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cedler@boi.hp.com				Boise, Idaho USA
From: Programmierer@BEIZ.mediatex.ch (055485666: MEDIAtex AG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Re: WEEKABK 3.7.5 - PEND FEATURE?
Date: 25 Dec 92 21:15:27 GMT
Organization: MEDIAtex AG, CH-8807 Freienbach/SZ

In WEEKABK.DOC is written that in WEEKABK.ENV the character number twenty
(normaly the heart-sign (ASCII 3)) is used to define wich yearly-appointments
goes to the pend-display. It' s also written in WEEKABK.DOC, that if that is
a blank, every appointment goes to the PEND-display.

But this does not work, at least not on my 95!

If I have the heart on position 20 in WEEKABK.ENV those with the heart comes on
the PEND display.
If I have a blank on position 20 in WEEKABK.ENV no entry comes on the pend
display, but there should be all entries.

what do I do wrong?




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From: edbsba@sio25.uio.no (Stein-Aksel Basma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: GNU oleo for 88k - anyone
Date: 31 Dec 92 10:00:53 GMT
Organization: University of Oslo
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Has anyone successfully compiled GNU oleo for a 88k-machine. Preferrably
a Triton 88k 20 MHz from Dolphin Server Technologies. Are there
any diffs available.

Thanx in advance, and a happy new year
:-)


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
Subject: 8bit clean cu or alike
From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:37:16 GMT
Reply-To: frank@ifi.unibas.ch
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik

Help!

I am in desperate need of an 8 bit clean cu (or alike) for the MPC series of  
Motorola. Best would be a source which will compile.

Any body (in Europe?) ever wanted/had to comunicate with a host that sends DEC  
multinational characters? I NEED to pass the ISO-Latin 1 character set.

I tried to find cu sources with archie but to no avail.

Thank's for any help.

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Institut fuer Informatik             fax  + (061) 321 99 15                 
University of Basel, Switzerland                                            
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CH-4056 Basel          X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
From: martineau@MacMartineau.ccr.hydro.qc.ca (Alain Martineau)
Subject: fastest 88k VME board ?
Followup-To: comp.sys.m88k
Organization: Hydro Quebec
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 13:53:04 GMT

A program I want should run three times as fast as it runs on the fastest
Aviion to be usable. It is written in 88k assembler. I want it to run on
a VME board. It is single threaded, so a multiprocessor is not the
solution.
My question is: is there something faster out there now. Or are there new
88k models announced ?

Alain Martineau
Hydro Quebec
martineau@macmartineau.ccr.hydro.qc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
From: brian@piano.grot.starconn.com (Brian Smithson)
Subject: Re: Postscript Printers and Motorola System V/88
Organization: Grot Shops, Ltd.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:47:48 GMT

frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) writes:

>In article <1992Dec16.090820.12346@kreutler.de>  writes:
>>we have problems running a Postscript printer in the following configuration:
>>   Motorola System V/88 R32V3.1
>>   LP model ptnnx with MODEL=ptLW
>>[...]
>> Should we rather use other software for spooling to this printer?

>[...] Motorola doesn't support anything other than it's  
>own printers (a bit narrow minded), this was the only way I got things to work.
>If there is anything better out there on (preferably PD) printer spoolers, I'd
>be very gratefull to hear.

Motorola didn't follow the normal System V.3 printer configuration conventions,
and instead rolled all of its supported printer models into a single model
file "ptnnx".  Even for those printers that Motorola supports, it doesn't
fully support the printers with things like terminfo entries, and becuase
of that, a number of lp options, lpforms, and some other printing stuff
simply doesn't work.

You have a few options when dealing with printers on Motorola systems, none
of which are terribly pleasant, but here they are:

(1) Muck with ptnnx to modify existing printer definitions or create new ones.
    I got a Panasonic laser printer to work this way, and it wasn't too
    difficult.  This isn't a bad way to go if the printer you want to add
    uses emulation modes which are supported by the existing models.

(2) Create a new model file from scratch or from one of the non-ptnnx model
    files.  Add terminfo entries and the other stuff that one is supposed to
    have for System V.3 printers, and everything should work.  I say "should"
    because as far as I know, Motorola never tested things like lpforms or
    any of the lp options that it didn't support.
   
    You might be able to find the appropriate model files, etc., for your
    printer if you ask around on the net (comp.printers?) or if you ask
    your printer vendor.

(3) Purchase the Commercial Networking Extensions Package from Motorola.
    It contains an lpr/lpd system.  Beware that lpr simply passes print
    jobs into the System V.3 print system, and so you may end up with the
    same problems.  However, if you happen to have another system with
    lpr/lpd, then connect your printer to *that* system and pass your
    print jobs over from the Motorola system using lpd.


In any case, call your Motorola rep and complain.  When I worked for Motorola,
I thought that their printer support was shoddy and short sighted.  Hardly
the "open systems" that they advertised! :-(

-- 
-Brian Smithson
 brian@grot.starconn.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
From: rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Subject: Re: Why does login(1) so slow...
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 19:32:43 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: QueerNet

In article <1993Jan3.062634.14694@texhrc.uucp> linje@texhrc.uucp (Jeff Lin) writes:
>I just started to use a DG AViiON workstation, and am
>quite puzzle with the extreme slowness that login(1)
>verifies the user password. If one mis-types the password,
>it'll take almost 8 seconds before it displays "Login
>incorrect" message.
>
>Is this a setup problem? Should I ask my sysadm to apply
>a patch? or, is this a standard behavior on SVR4 hosts?

This is a delay deliberately imposed in the source to attempt
to deter automated password-guessers.
-- 
ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                              +1 415 ALL-ARFF
rogerk@unpc.QueerNet.ORG              {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!sgiblab!unpc!rogerk
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k
From: jkenton@world.std.com (Jeff Kenton)
Subject: Re: Single precision underflow rounding
Organization: Kenton Systems Corporation, Weston MA
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:37:37 GMT

fsset@bach.lerc.nasa.gov (Scott Townsend) writes:

>I've recently discovered a discrepancy between my underflow handling for
>single-precision results and that of SGI and SUN machines.  I can't seem to
>get the rounding to match, yet the SGI and SUN match each other, so I assume
>I'm wrong ;-)

Well, it's getting to be quite a while since I did this, but I'll give
it a shot.

First thing you need to do is to check the addone bit to see if rounding
added one to the mantissa.  If it did you need to subtract one from the
mantissa.  If the mantissa had only the hidden bit set, this will unset
it and leave the rest of the mantissa bits set.  Set the hidden bit (the
same as shifting left and or'ing the low bit) and decrement the exponent.

Concatenate the mantissa with the guard, round and sticky bits, figure out
how far to shift the mantissa, and shift.  Recalculate the resulting GRS
bits (sticky could be the only thing left -- get it right).  Now decide
whether you need to round up.  I did it by concatenating the sign, rounding
mode and GRS bits, and doing a table lookup.

Once you've added the rounding to the mantissa, go reconstruct your number.

Hope that helps.

[Hi, Scott]


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