Fwd: Re: Windows Mobile 5 with filePro?--Index Problem Now

[Transpower]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Windows Mobile 5 with filePro?--Index Problem Now
Date: 5/9/2006, 11:18 AM
From: Transpower <transpower at aol.com>
To: "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>
Organization: Transpower Corporation

Brian:

The 3.6" screen is VGA (640x480 resolution), so it's plenty big.
filePro runs fast, and the unit doesn't overheat, but the indexes don't
work.  "Real" Windows programs won't run on Windows Mobile 5, so I can't
use the filePro native version, hence PocketDOS and filePro 4.1.

Regards,
Ron Satz
transpower at aol.com


Brian K. White wrote on 5/9/2006, 4:10 AM:

  >
  > ----- Original Message -----
  > From: "Mike Schwartz (PC Support)" <mschw at athenet.net>
  > To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
  > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 12:38 AM
  > Subject: RE: Windows Mobile 5 with filePro?--Index Problem Now
  >
  >
  > >
  > >
  > > I haven't worked with Windows Mobile 5 yet, but try playing with
PFDSK;
  > > something like PFDSK=CS in your config.
  > >
  > > Mike Schwartz
  > >
  > > Yes, that's what Ken said to do, and it worked.  However, now I
have an
  > > index problem.  I get an "invalid index" error message.  The index
  > files
  > > are
  > > in the directory.  I can remake the indexes, exit, but when I come
  > back to
  > > Index Maintenance, they're gone!
  > >
  > > I'm using a trial version of PocketDOS.  One negative of it is that
  > xcopy
  > > does not work!  (You're all probably thinking I've got too much time
  > on my
  > > hands...but I see great potential in using filePro on Mobile 5
  > devices.)
  > >
  > > Regards,
  > > Ron Satz
  > > transpower at aol.com
  > >
  > >     My apologies if I appear to be redundant.  I didn't see Ken's
  > posting
  > > until at least an hour after mine was sent.  I didn't even get my own
  > > posting back until more than 2 hours after I sent it.
  > >
  > >     Sorry, but I don't recall that there were any problems getting
  > indexes
  > > to work correctly with PocketDOS on something like a NEC MobilePro
890.
  > >
  > > Mike Schwartz
  >
  > Similarly a Jornada 548
  >
  > I think I did use the alternate version of the 4.1 binaries as the dos
  > emulator emulated only a 80186, but I also think both versions actually
  > worked.
  > Ken posted a little list of the various alternate dos binaries here some
  > time ago. tiny memory model, real mode, protected mode, etc.. which I
  > have
  > been unable to find in my saved mails.
  >
  > It was more or less useless anyways except as a curiosity.
  > Running the emulator killed the normally 8-16 hour batteries in about
  > 20-40
  > minutes or and made the thing hot to the touch.
  >
  > For portable devices you will have to move up to something that can
  > run the
  > real windows version natively and has a larger screen
  > or you'll have to only use the device as an accessory or a peripheral.
  > Maybe with a custom db & forms application environment on the device
like
  > handbase and some custom syncing processes for batched device-server
  > nteraction.
  > Maybe with a web based interface to cgi scripts on the server for more
  > immediate device-server interaction.
  >
  > Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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