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Screen 3. The author uses QuickVerse to access the King James version of the Bible.
Transferring data between
Windows 95 and the palmtop
I attached my palmtop to my
Toshiba laptop computer via the
serial port and ran the Connectivity
Pack software to download several
Mb of data to the Palmtop.
However, my Toshiba's operating
system is Windows '95, and even
though I was running the software
on the palmtop from the MS-DOS
prompt via the Program Manager,
during file transfer Windows
brought up its screen saver.
Although I didn't initially real-
ize it, several key files
on the palm-
top were garbled, including one of
the directory names. So, the pro-
gram I was loading initially would-
n't run. I re-transferred all of the
files after rebooting in DOS-only
mode. Following that problem I've
found it best to restart Windows
'95 in MS-DOS mode when trans-
ferring files to the
palmtop, rather
than just "shelling out" to DOS
from the Program Manager.
Tagging favorite
Bible passages
Earlier I mentioned that my
Palmtop is useful to me in church.
This may sound extreme, but I
often refer to it
when my wife and I
attend Sunday school to check my
personal calendar against. plan~ed
class activities, as well as fmd BIble
passages stored on my 4Mb
MagicRAM Flash Card.
Since
obtaining the card, I've
downloaded QuickVerse Version
2.13 from Parsons Technology onto
it. (See
Screen 3.) The program,
with only the King James Version,
the Bible Index and the files I've
found needed to run it, takes about
3Mb of disk space and runs quite
well.
I'm even able to place "book-
marks"
in various verses, allowing
me to quickly hotkey from one
book to another. On a desktop
computer, bookmarks are placed in
QuickVerse using the [Shift] key
and the regular number keys locat-
ed above the top row of letter keys
(not the separate numeric keys).
Since the palmtop doesn't have
these keys and the numeric keypad
doesn't work with QuickVerse, I
discovered
that bookmarks may be
placed using the [Shift] key in as~o
ciation with those characters whIch
are normally represented on a
"regular"
computer with the shift-
ed value of the number keys.
For example, the shifted value
of the
[2] key on a desktop unit is
the
"@" character. To place a book-
mark on the palmtop I use the
[Shift] key with the "@" key, which
is the
Appointment Manager's hot
key. For those who might plan on
using Quick Verse on your palm-
tops, you need to remember the
shifted values of the number keys
on a regular keyboard for placing
bookmarks.
I've begun using only my
palmtop in church rather than my
regular King James Bible. The
printing is a bit smaller than my
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regular printed Bible, but moving
to any chapter and verse is a snap.
I can even search for specific
words
or phrases, although a long list of
matches can take a bit longer
than
one would want, since the program
is running on an 80186 processor.
Turning off the sounds that
indicate an error is a good idea,
using the palmtop's system setup.
This helps avoid having any
embarrassing computer · sounds
occurring during the service.
Our pastor is very enthusiastic
about using his desktop computer
with various Bible software pack-
ages, so he has no problem with
my using my palmtop in church.
Being familiar with Quick-
Verse allows me to use it with a
minimum of manipulation, so my
hand movements with the palmtop
are about the same as if I were
using my printed Bible.
Collecting family history data
As the historian for our family I've
used Brother's Keeper . for sever-
al years to maintain
our family his-
tory records. Although
I'm current-
ly using the Windows version on
my Toshiba notebook, I've recently
downloaded several of the pro-
gram files from my older D?S
Version 5.2 and all of the data fIles
to my palmtop (see Screen 4.).
Although I have only a small
portion of the program on the
palmtop, I have everything I need
to
add new people to my files and
modify their listings, including the
note files. Now, when I'm paging
through church baptismal and
death records in the local County
Historical Society's library, if I find
any listing for a "Steckbeck" I can
check
my records to see if they're
already in our files. Being able to
run this program on my palmtop
has been a tremendous boon to my
research. And being able to down-
load the data files back to my desk-
top unit allows me to keep our per-
manent records up to date.
Palmtop and personal life
The built-in applications of the
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