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- PsiOn - V1.4 - 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.
-
- 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 V1.4 |
- |---------------------------------|
- |.Power on password ________ |
- |.Switched off time 00:15:00 |
- |.Control Agenda No |
- |.Agenda View Key W |
- |.Control Sound Yes |
- \---------------------------------/
-
- 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 Agendas, 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.
-
- Control Sound :- How many times have you turned off all the
- Sound in the System screen when you go into a meeting, to find the
- next day that you missed an important alarm like a wake-up call.
- Never? No me neither, but some people do. This option will allow
- PsiOn to turn the sound back on when it turns the password on.
-
-
- 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_V1.4_(C)Paul_Hargreaves
- ^A Arm Now ^P Pause ^T Time
-
-
- 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. You can cancel this at any time by
- pressing a key in the PsiOn screen.
-
- You can change your Switched off time while PsiOn is running if you
- press Psion-T. This will not change your default time, and can be
- canceled at any time by pressing a key in the PsiOn screen.
-
-
- 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 the
- 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 minutes 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 !!
-
- PsiOn can take anything upto 2 and a half seconds to notice that a
- key has been pressed, so please be a little patient.
-
-
- Contacting the author [please!!!!]
- ---------------------
-
- Snail Mail
- ----------
- PAUL HARGREAVES
- 48 ALBERT ROAD
- LONG EATON
- NOTTINGHAM
- NG10 1JZ
- ENGLAND
-
- Fail Mail
- ---------
- PsiOn@hargreavesp.demon.co.uk
-
- 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 -
- Chris Phelps, Garry Box, Geoff Morrison, Jens Bonse, Joz, Tim Kiel,
- Paul Bird and Joseph Reger.
-
-
- PsiOn is (C)1996, 1997 March by Paul Hargreaves