Installing "What PC? Pages" on your Psion 3a

Please read all of this section, before proceeding.

Additional information and details of other Mobile Pages products are contained in the file 'readme.1st', included on the CD.

This product contains 4 sections from the What PC? magazine's Buyer's Guide, being Desktop PCs, Laser printers, Injet printers and souncards. Additional sections will be added during 1996. The CD-ROM also contains demonstration versions of Expotel Pages and Transmedia Pages. Expotel Pages includes a worldwide hotel directory and offers preferential rates to Psion users booking through its service. Expotel book in excess of 1 million room nights per year. Transmedia Pages contains directories of restaurants in the United Kingdom and in Australia, which participate in the "Transmedia - The restaurant card™" programme. Transmedia have over half a million members, who enjoy 25% savings on food and beverage at over 6,000 restaurants, worldwide. Complete the form contained in the file apply.txt and return it to Transmedia UK. Psion members receive 6 weekly, diskette based directory updates, and, for a limited period, also receive 6 months free subscription to Transmedia's restaurant card. You can copy any permutation of the supplied databases to your Psion Series 3a, depending on your personal requirements and the storage space you have available. One copy of Pages Viewer search software, requiring approximately 95kb, is used to access any number of databases. The databases, and their approximate sizes are summarised below :

Database nameSize Code
What PC? - Desktop PCs65kb wpd
What PC? - Laser printers32kb wpl
What PC? - Inkjet printers13kb wpi
What PC? - Soundcards8kb wpn
Expotel Pages - London demonstration26kb exd
Transmedia Pages - UK demonstration46kb tmd

The first thing you will have to do is download the ZIP file into a directory created on your hard disk. Use Winzip or PKUnzip to decompress the files.

1) Installation procedure (Using RCOM or MCLINK)

On the PC, start RCOM or MCLINK. If you are installing What PC? Pages from a diskette, simply insert the diskette into your PC's diskette drive. If you are installing What PC? Pages from the hard disk of a PC, you should have selected the base directory you copied all the files into. You can easily identify this directory, as it will contain this 'readme.1st' file and the file 'pages.ini'.

You will see that with the software now fully loaded, if you re-enter PAGESmgr, you will be presented with a new menu. You will only need to use these options if, in the future, you want to download new software revisions and/or databases. Such advanced use is documented in the file readme.2nd.



2) Installation procedure (Using PsiWin, Winlink or the MAC's Psion Link)

This procedure assumes you know how to use standard Windows "drag & drop" techniques. As you do NOT want to convert files during copying, ensure PsiManager has conversion disabled. You can check this in PsiWin's Psion Manager by selecting "conversions" from the "setup" menu and ensuring the "allow convert on Drag & Drop" box is clear, ie not selected.


An introduction to using "What PC? Pages"

Use the 'Help' key and Psion-a for comprehensive 'Help'

Step 1. Select a database .....

'Tab' or left/right arrows to select left or right window.
Up/down arrows or 1st letter, to move vertically within a window.
'Enter' to select a database.
'Space' displays database device

Notes :
The database names you see on the right screen will depend on which ones you selected during software installation.
Read about our "Expotel Pages" hotel directory & reservations service & "Transmedia Pages" restaurant directory, in 'readme.1st'.


Step 2. Having selected a database, you enter the 'Search Criteria' screen, where you will define what you want to search for.

'Enter' or Psion-m to display menu of search criteria. Criteria selected from menus are displayed in top row.

Type text to search for in 2nd, 3rd or 4th row.

'Tab' Displays common search options
'Menu' Display all options
Psion-n Enter NotePad
Psion-w Enter NotePad Special
'Help' Display Mobile Pages help menu
Psion-a For more information about Transmedia

Step 3. Selecting what to search for from menus...

'Tab' or left/right arrows to select left or right window.
Up/down arrows or 1st letter, to move vertically within a window.

'Enter' to select/deselect a menu item.
'Space' toggles quantity display
Psion-r or 'Esc' to return to 'Search criteria' screen

Step 4. Menu selections added to Search Criteria screen.....

'Delete' over an item deletes that item.
Psion-f to search the database

Step 5. Following a successful database search, you enter the 'summary screen'. This screen gives you a summary of all the database entries that were found.

Up/down arrows or 1st letter, to move vertically within a window.
Psion-p Create Psion database
Psion + Add this entry to NotePad
Psion-n Enter NotePad
Psion-w Enter NotePad Special
'Enter' or to see additional information on this entry
Psion-r or 'Esc' to return to 'Search criteria' screen

Step 6. Selecting an item from the above 'summary screen' allows you to see full information on that database entry.

Psion-z or Psion-Z to move between 3 zoom levels.
Left/right arrows to move between multiple entries.
Psion-r or 'Esc' to return to 'Summary' screen
Psion-a for more information about Transmedia