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- PsiOn - V1.3 - By Paul Hargreaves
- ---------------------------------
-
- PsiOn is a very small program (with source) that controls your system
- password in a more sensible manner. PsiOn turns off the PSION's power
- on password and after your PSION has been switched off for a while,
- PsiOn wakes up and turns the system password back on. It can also
- show your Agenda screen after your password has been entered.
-
- PsiOn is designed to run on the PSION Series 3a, 3c and Siena.
- PsiOn will not run on a 3 classic - sorry.
-
-
- Changes
- -------
- Changes have been moved into the file CHANGES.TXT.
-
-
- Installation
- ------------
- Copy the PSI-ON.OPA into your INTERNAL drive. It's only 3k. Copy the
- PSI-ON.ICO and PSI-ON.OPL into the \OPL directories if you want to
- re-compile PsiOn.
-
- I wouldn't advise putting PsiOn onto a flash/ram disk..if the program
- is running and someone takes the SSD out then you'll get errors......
-
- From the System screen, press Psion-I to install.
-
- PsiOn will create a file called \OPD\PSI-ON.ODB on your default disk
- whenever you change your PsiOn settings.
- YOUR PASSWORD IS NEVER SAVED TO A FILE !!
-
- THE ICON (C)1993 BY RIGHT HAND SOFTWARE.
-
-
- Running PsiOn
- -------------
- Go to the icon and press Enter.
-
- You'll be shown a screen that looks like this.....
-
- /---------------------------------\
- | PsiOn V1.3 |
- |---------------------------------|
- |.Power on password ________ |
- |.Switched off time 00:15:00 |
- |.Control Agenda No |
- |.Agenda View Key W |
- \---------------------------------/
-
- Power on password :- The password you type every time you switch on
- your PSION. THIS IS NOT SAVED ANYWHERE, NOR WILL ANY VERSION OF PsiOn
- EVER SAVE IT AWAY.
- PsiOn need to know this password, as there is no way for a program on
- the PSION to "tell" what the password is. Without this password, the
- Password control functions of the PSION cannot be accessed. You can
- see this when you try to change your password. You have to enter
- your current password before any details are shown.
-
- Switched off time :- How long your PSION is switched off and unused
- until PsiOn turns your password back on. The default is 15 minutes,
- but if you change this setting then it will be saved away for the
- next time you run PsiOn.
-
- Control Agenda :- You can have PsiOn show an agenda screen either
- Each Morning (after 4am) or Every time you type in your password.
- This works by looking for a running "process" called Agenda. If PsiOn
- finds it, the screen will be shown in the mode selected below. If 2
- different Agenda's are running, then one of them will be shown. There
- is no way for you to select which agenda to use, but it will Normally
- be the first Agenda that is started.
- [You can use Spy before opening any Agenda's, then start each one in
- turn. The one with the lower Task number is the one PsiOn will show]
-
- Agenda view :- If the Control Agenda is set to yes, then you
- can select which view you'd like Agenda to be shown in.
-
- Here are the keys that you should select on a UK/US machine
- Week View : W
- Day View : D (or blank)
- To Do List : T
- List View : L
- Year View : Y
- Anniversary View : A
-
- And for the S3c and Sienna, you also have
- Busy View : B
-
- Non UK/US machines may have different letters. Go into your Agenda
- screen and press Menu, scroll over to the Diamond list, and the keys
- you can select will be shown.
-
-
- After you press Enter, and assuming you typed in the right password,
- the screen will clear and you'll be taken to the System screen. PsiOn
- HAS NOT CRASHED OR QUIT. PsiOn returns you to the System screen. To
- see that PsiOn is running press Enter on the icon again.
-
- The screen will now look like this......
-
-
- PsiOn_V1.3_(C)Paul_Hargreaves
- ^A Arm Now ^P Pause mode
-
-
- PsiOn sits in the background. If a key is pressed while the screen is
- displayed, or the machine is switched on, PsiOn will notice after a
- second or so and will take any necessary actions.
-
- Please be patient when you press a key - PsiOn will change the screen
- when it notices a valid keypress, but this could take anything upto 2
- seconds.
-
- If you press Psion-A, then PsiOn will act as if your machine had been
- left switched off for a long time, and it will re-arm your password.
- This is useful if you leave your machine lying around when you go to
- lunch or whatever.
-
- Pressing Psion-P will make PsiOn leave your password off until 4am
- the next day. This is useful for weekends - you switch your machine
- on once on a Saturday, and you won't be forced to enter your password
- until the next Sunday.
-
- PsiOn takes /very little/ processor time while it's running. You can
- use the SPY (3a) Application to verify this.
-
- You can switch your machine off and on, and the password screen will
- not be shown. PsiOn has turned off your password for you.
-
- Now go back to the System screen and select Control-Auto switch off,
- you can reduce this to a much shorter time. That way your machine
- will switch off quicker, but since PsiOn has disabled your password,
- just pressing Esc or any of the System keys will switch your machine
- back on. This will also help save your battery power.
-
-
- Now switch off your PSION and wait a while (15 mins if you left the
- default set), and you'll see your PSION switch on for a brief second.
-
- PsiOn has turned your system password back on, just as if you'd done
- it from the system screen yourself. There is no way of getting past
- the password screen...it's the real thing!
-
- After you have typed in your password, PsiOn will disable it and
- will reset it's timers again.
-
-
- Notes
- -----
- DO NOT CHANGE YOUR SYSTEM PASSWORD WHILE PsiOn IS RUNNING. PsiOn will
- quit automatically if it notices that you've done this!
-
- PsiOn does not affect any alarms that you have running, nor will it
- interfere with your remote link, or anything else !!
-
-
- Why choose PsiOn over pason4c??
- -------------------------------
- PsiOn works differently to pason4c. The main difference is that
- pason4c starts counting down when your PSION is turned on, not while
- it's switched off. This means that if you have a password time of
- 5 minutes (for some strange reason) and you switched the PSION on and
- used it for 6 minutes, then switched off and on, you'd be shown the
- Password screen. This, in my opinion, is wrong.
-
- Please try pason4c and choose for yourself. I think mine's a lot
- simpler to use and backups will stop PsiOn from running like all good
- applications should.
-
- I also include FULL source code with comments, so you can be sure
- that my program isn't doing anything it shouldn't(I'm NOT saying that
- pason4c does!), and you can tweak to your hearts content!
-
-
- Contacting the author [please!!!!]
- ---------------------
-
- Snail Mail
- ----------
- PAUL HARGREAVES
- 48 ALBERT ROAD
- LONG EATON
- NOTTINGHAM
- NG10 1JZ
- ENGLAND
-
- Fail Mail
- ---------
- PsiOn@hargreavesp.demon.co.uk OR pauhar@symix.com
-
- Web page
- --------
- http://www.hargreavesp.demon.co.uk/
-
-
- This program is yours for Free! You don't HAVE to send me anything.
- I wrote this program for myself, if you make use of it great....drop
- me a line telling me what you think, what your settings are, and what
- features you think might be useful. If you make any nice changes, or
- spot any bugs, then send me a copy of the program and I'll see what I
- can do...
-
- If you play Magic, The Gathering, I do like magic cards!! I'll even
- take those Mummies off you :-) Just stick 'em in the post.
-
- I have included the source for your viewing pleasure. Please do not
- change PsiOn in any way when you re-distribute PsiOn, unless you have
- my written permission.
-
-
- And Finally
- -----------
- A big thank you to my beta testers -
- Paul Bird, Garry Box, Joseph Reger.
-
- A Special thank you to Geoff Morrison, who spent a lot of time and
- effort beating me up with little suggestions and comments (especially
- about the size of the program).
-
-
- PsiOn is (C)1996 Nov/Dec by Paul Hargreaves
- PsiOn is (C)1997 Feb by Paul Hargreaves
-
- (I'm sorry if the notes look a little hurried... but I hate doing
- documentation, and anyway, PsiOn is simplicity itself)
-