Re: Closing apps...

Nick Dolezal (sdolezal@montana.com)
Fri, 27 Sep 1996 16:28:49 -0600

>> Well, I just took back my Zaurus and bought an OG120. The screen is a
>> small and the apps are lower quality, but I like it better. The
>> dumb-userness and things like the inability to check memory easily make
>> it very un-HP like.
>
> Lower quality? Really?

Yes, the Zaurus software was a bit better overall, except when it came to
task switching. This is strictly talking about built-in capabilities, though.

> Press FN-F3 instead of clicking on the checkmark box.

Ahhh... cool...

>> What are the limitations of the internal DOS? Can you run "complex"
>> programs like QBasic and Nettamer on it?
>
> I doubt it, but some users have run DOS utilities like Volker commander
>(sp?).

I tried QBasic but it didn't seem to work.

> I doubt this is possible. You'd have to modify the GEOS.INI file and it's
>extremely doubtful that it would work since the TableClass and JTableClass
>objects wouldn't have the correct spui to work.

Well, it didn't. Maybe if you had a complete copy of GEOS on a flashdisk
and used the drivers in ROM for the OG's screen, etc...

> Fortunately you rarely need the : except for changing drives. There are
>five batch files for changing drives on the OGO: mca, mcb, mcc, mcd, and mce.
>They change to drives A:, B:, C:, D:, and E: respectively. Also, when
>changing directories you can use the / instead of \.

I just got a program called keys.bat that solved all these problems! Highly
recommended.

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