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 diskette
This product contains 4 sections from the What PC? magazine's Buyer's Guide, being Desktop PCs, Laser printers, Modems and Scanners. 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 :
What PC? - Desktop PCs 65kb wpd
What PC? - Laser printers 32kb wpl
What PC? - Modems 26kb wpm
What PC? - Scanners 18kb wpb
Expotel Pages - London demonstration 26kb exd
Transmedia Pages - UK demonstration 46Kb tmd
Download the setup file from the CD.
After you have copied the file onto your hard disk run the program (setup.exe) and follow the instructions contained therein.
Connect the Psion 3Link serial cable between the PC and your Psion 3a. On the Psion, from the System screen, use Psion-l to set 'Remote link' to 'On' and ensure the 'Baud rate' is set correctly.
The installation procedure differs considerably depending on whether you will use the DOS based RCOM or MCLINK programs supplied with earlier versions of the Psion Serial Link, or whether you use Windows based PsiWin.
Go to SECTION 1, if you will use MCLINK or RCOM, or Go to SECTION 2, if you will use PsiWin (or are a MAC user)
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'.
Upgrading from an earlier software revision - Delete the file \app\pages\mp_pages.opo on your Psion. Then continue with the next step.
Copying the software - Copy the file pagesmgr.opa from your PC to any \app directory on your Psion and use Psion-i on the Psion to install the PAGESmgr program. Enter PAGESmgr on the Psion., answer a few simple questions, and the software will be copied to the Psion.
Copying the database(s) - PAGESmgr will ask you if you want to load a database from the PC. Answering "Y" (for YES) will present you with a menu of databases available on the PC. Select a database, answer a few simple questions, and the database will be copied to the Psion. You can repeat this step for every databases you want to download. You can repeat it at any time in the future, by simply entering PAGESmgr and selecting the appropriate option.
Exit PAGESmgr and use Psion-i to install PAGESi.opa on your Psion. The PAGESi icon will then appear on the screen. Pressing 'Enter' on the PAGESi icon will take you into 'What PC? Pages', allowing you to access, search and view the databases you have just downloaded.
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.
Copying the software - Manually create the \app\pages directory on your Psion, if it doesn't exist. Copy the 2 files in the \app directory to a \app directory on any device on your Psion 3a and then copy all files in the \app\pages directory that start with the 3 characters 'mp_' and all files that start with the 3 characters 'ex&', to a \app\pages directory on your Psion.
Copying the database(s) - For each database you want to copy to your Psion, copy all files beginning with its 3 letter database code, (eg wpd ... see above) from the \app\pages directory on the diskette, to a \app\pages directory on any device on your Psion.
Installing the software & database(s) - Use Psion-i to install the PAGESmgr and PAGESi icons on the System screen. Enter PAGESmgr and select 'Database Install/Remove'. Having selected the Install button, for each database you copied to your Psion, enter the 3 letter database code (e.g.: wpd) to make the databases active. Exit PAGESmgr. You will only need to use PAGESmgr again if, in the future, you want to download new software revisions and/or databases. Such advanced use is documented in the file 'readme.2nd'.
Press 'Enter' on the PAGESi icon, which will take you into 'What PC? Pages', allowing to access, search and view the databases you have just downloaded.