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Screen 1: The palmtop's cursor is sitting on record 239,950 of a dBase IV table which
contains 242,324 records, as noted
in
the status bar at the bottom of the screen.
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Screen 2: The author's palmtop is controlling his Netware
file server while running pcANYWHERE.
my
office
and
connect to
my
net-
work.
(pcANYWHERE
is a
DOS
application
that
lets
you
remotely
access
and
control
your
office com-
puter
from
anywhere
in the world.)
This allowed
me
to correct several
problems
while
I
was
on
vacation
in
Ocean City, Maryland, as well as
perform
routine
"check ins"
with
my
network. pcANYWHERE uses
about
670KB of disk space. '
I
store
pcANYWHERE
on
the
C:
drive, leaving the slot available
for the Megahertz
modem
(which I
use interchangeably in
my
Toshiba
notebook computer). With this con-
figuration,
I'm
able
to
remotely
access
our
dBase
IV
database appli-
cations.
This
has
allowed
me
not
only to
open
databases as large as
225,000 records
and
re-index them,
but
also navigate the
menu-driven
dBASE
program
we
use to
run
the
Cardiovascular Center (Screen
1).
The
actual
work
(such
as
re-
indexing a database) is carried
out
on
my
desktop
computer
rather
than
the
palmtop,
since
the
pcANYWHERE
software
is allow-
ing
me
to
use
the
palmtop's
key-
board
to control the
desktop
com-
puter.
I'm
also able to
run
several
Novell
Netware
utilities,
such
as
RCONSOLE (see Screen 2.), which
allows
me
to
control
my
64Mb,
3.5Gb
Compaq
file
server,
and
PCONSOLE,
which
allows
me
to
control the
networked
printers.
Keeping
up
with network-based
on-line scheduling
All administrative personnel in
our
department
use
OnTime
schedul-
ing
software
stored
on
our
Local
Area Network, so that
our
business
calendars
are
available
to
our
department
heads
and
colleagues.
This
makes
it
possible
for
us
to
schedule
appointments
with
each
other
without
playing
"phone
tag."
Since several of
us
also use a 100
or
200LX to
keep
our
appointments,
we
are
in
the process of purchasing
the
necessary software to link
our
palmtops
with
OnTime
via
our
desktop computers. This will allow
us
to
download
the
Appointment
Book
on
our
palmtops
into
our
individual
calendars
in
OnTime
.
We
have
serial cables
attached
to
our
desktop
computers, in addition
to
HP's
Connectivity
Pack
soft-
ware,
to
perform
routine
backups
of the
data
on
our
palmtops.
Incidentally, I
strongly
advise
anyone to frequently back
up
their
palmtop. The first time I
used
my
PC
Card
modem
I
drained
my
bat-
teries,
including
the
backup
bat-
tery, to the point that I lost
EVERY-
THING.
Fortunately
I
had
just
done
a full backup
two
days
earli-
er, so
was
able to restore
my
sys-
tem
with
minimal loss. However, it
was
a real lesson in the importance
of
doing
regular backups.
In-flight typing
Over
the
years
I've
seen
several
articles extolling the virtues of the
palmtop
as
a
word
processor,
as
well as discussing the difficulties of
using the tiny keyboard.
However,
in
spite
of its small
size,
I've
typed
a four-page
docu-
ment
on
an
airplane while
return-
ing
from
a
business
trip
to
Minnesota to observe several hos-
pitals
. I
needed
to
submit
to
our
department
head
a
summary
of
our
findings,
and
the
palmtop
was
with
me
on
the plane. So, I lowered
my
tray, took
out
my
palmtop,
and
began
typing
with
my
index
fin-
gers.
About
45
minutes
later
my
report
was
complete,
and
needed
only to be
downloaded
to
my
desk-
top
unit
and
imported
into
Microsoft
Word.
With
about
five
minutes of formatting I
was
able to
print
the report
and
submit
it to
my
boss within
an
hour
of returning to
work.
THE
HP
PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER/ OCTOBER 1997 17