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- Installing "What PC? Pages" on your Psion 3a
-
- Please read all of this section, before proceeding.
-
- This product contains 3 sections from the What PC? magazine's Buyer's Guide,
- being Desktop PCs, Portables and Printers. 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. The databases, and their approximate sizes are
- summarised below :
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- Database name Size Code
- What PC? - Desktop PCs 67k wpd
- What PC? - Portables 45k wpp
- What PC? - Laser printer 35k wpl
- Expotel - London demo 28Kb exd
- Transmedia - UK demo 46Kb tmd
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- 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)
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- 1) Installation procedure (Using RCOM or MCLINK)
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- On the PC, start RCOM or MCLINK. If you are installing What PC? Pages from
- a CD-ROM, or from your hard disk you should have selected the base directory
- What PC? Pages is found in. 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. Use Psion-i on the Psion to install the PAGESmgr
- program. Enter PAGESmgr on the Psion. After you've answered a few simple
- questions about which PC device you want to load from and which Psion device
- to load to, PAGESmgr will check there's enough space on the Psion device you
- specified, and then copy the files to your 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 database you want to download. You can repeat it at any time
- in the future, by simply entering PAGESmgr and selecting the appropriate
- option.
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- 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 or the MAC's Psion Link)
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- This procedure assumes you know how to use standard Windows "drag & drop"
- techniques.
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- Copying the software - 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_' to a
- \app\pages directory on the same device on your Psion. You will have to
- manually create the \app\pages directory on your Psion, if it doesn't exist.
-
- 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
- Introduction section) 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.
-
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- 3. Terms & Conditions of Use
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- a. Great care has been taken throughout this product to be accurate. However,
- recognising that the information has been provided by a Third Party
- company, Mobile Software Ltd cannot accept responsibility for any errors
- or their consequences.
-
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- 4. Other Mobile Pages products
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- a. Expotel Pages
- o Hotel Directory and Reservations service
- o Approximately 3,000 hotels, worldwide
- o Search database on AA star rating, leisure facilities, services,
- price range, county, country, city, postal area, etc ...
- o Significant savings if hotels booked via dedicated, local rate
- telephone number.
- o Available immediately for a nominal cost from Widget Software
- (01438-815444)
-
- b. Transmedia Pages
- o 25% savings on food and beverage at over 6,000 restaurants,
- worldwide.
- o 6 months free subscription to Psion owners
- o Telephone Transmedia on 0171-930-0700 for free information pack.
-
- b. Create your own "Mobile Pages" database
- o "Pages Generator" is the PC based database generation package, used to
- create relational, compressed databases, to be accessed on the Psion 3a
- by our "Pages Viewer" software.
- o "Pages Generator" can import information from virtually any corporate
- database, via comma or tab separated text files, and as such,
- is independent of the source database or application.
- o Contact Mobile software for more information
-
- 5. Other
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- a. The software supplied on this CD-ROM is the latest version available
- and supercedes any previous releases.
-
- b. Mobile Pages will always create small parameter files in the directory
- m:\app\pages. It will create this directory if it does not exist.
-
- c. The file "pages.ini", stores information about databases held on the
- diskette, including their names and storage space requirements. It is
- used as a part of the PAGESmgr based installation process described above
- and does not need to be copied to the Psion.
-
- d. Contrary to general expectation, very often, searches on the database
- will get increasingly faster when you add more menu based search criteria,
- ie items that, having been selected, are displayed in the top row of
- the search criteria screen. This position is only true when you have
- the multiple types option set to ALL, ie all of the selected criteria
- must be true. The opposite happens when it is selected to ANY!
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- Mobile Software Ltd, PO Box 3369, London, NW7 3EN
- Tel & fax : +44-(0) 181-906-0002
- Email : sballan@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Web : http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mobile_pages
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