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Overview :

MemoPack is a PC based application to be used with the Pilot from US Robotics. It is composed of 3 main programs : MemoTrans, MemoEdit and Undelete. It can also control the HotSync configuration.

MemoTrans add any text file to your memopad automaticaly. It has also an HTML code stripper integrated with an autodetect option. You can use it through :

• the interface,
• the command line,
• Drag&Drop from the File Manager or Explorer
• the Send To command in Win95 right click,
• or by throwing a file over the program icon on the win95 desktop.
• and now import text from your clipboard ! (use this command line : "Memopack.exe /c")

MemoEdit allows you to perform these operations on the memopad file : add, edit, move, delete (basicaly what PilotDesktop is doing). CAUTION : personal items will be visible in any case.

Undelete can be used before a HotSync to do what you could guess.

System requirements:

• Visual Basic 3.0 Runtime Library : vbrun300.dll
• Cmdialog.vbx ; Commdlg.dll ; Threed.vbx
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or NT or 95

Included files :

• MemoPack.exe : Windows executable file
• MemoHtm.ini : Html stripper initialisation file
• MemoPack.htm : This html file

Setup :

Run MemoPack.exe and press the "config" button. Now set the Pilot directory. Click on Save. You will now have to select in the combo boxes the Pilot User Name and category you want to use as default (as well as the options). Go back to the Config window and press Save.

Instructions :

MemoPack window :

• "Current User" list : Select in this list the user you want. The other programs will evolve depending of this selection.
• "MemoPad HotSync" : Select in this frame the HotSync configuration. The effect is immediate. Once the program is closed all the memopad HotSync configuration is set to "syncronize" for all the users. Set the option to "PC -> Pilot" is usefull when you want to keep the new entered memos in the correct order on the Pilot.

MemoEdit and Undelete :

MemoEdit looks like the PilotDesktop.The cut, copy and paste command are available through the usual key stroke (ctrl+X, ctrl+C, ctrl+V). Undelete can only restore the deleted memos since the last HotSync

MemoTrans program :

• Select the file to transform OR Drag&Drop a file from Explorer (or File Manager),
• Check the desired options,
• Press the "Transfer" button button (Pilot desktop should not be running or be set to another user),
• HotSync your Pilot
  

Command line use :

MemoPack.exe File_To_Transform "Begining_Of_Header" "Title" "End_Of_Header" -[Options]

If you don't want any Begining_Of_Header, Title or End_Of_Header insert "" (empty string)

Options are :

• d : Date stamp
• y : Date stamp with year
• p : Page number stamp
• w : Cuts at end of Word
• l : Cuts at end of Line
• r : Private
• h : Html
• t : text
• c : Specify the target category Followed by the name of the category between quotation marks

Note : if you dont specify a option, the program uses the default options saved.

Example :

Command line :

MemoPack.exe c:\data\Bigfile.txt "---" " Text from David" "---" -dplc"internet"

And you will get this kind of header : "---06/10 Text from David 1/4 ---" transfered in the "internet" category.

Icon use :

If you put MemoTrans on your office (Windows95) :

Drag and Drop a file over your MemoTrans office icon : It will automaticaly import the file in the default category in the memopad file with the header you saved with "Config.". The file name will be inserted if the middle header is selected as default.

(You can also put an alias of MemoTrans in the SendTo directory of windows95)

Clipboard import :

Create a shortcut of the program and enter this command line in the target fiel of the properties window :"Memopack.exe /c". Assign a HotKey to this Shortcut. Now each time you want to send some text to your Pilot, just copy the text to the clipboard (usually "Ctrl+C") and activate the MemoPack "Clipboard" HotKey.

Options :

• "HTML Autodetect" : When checked, the program try to detect an html file to enabled the internal stripper.
• "Stop after Drag&Drop" : when checked the program will stop if you use it trough SendTo or after you Dragged&Droped a file over the program icon on the win95 desktop (see Icon Use)
• Html stripper :

The html stripper integrated in MemoTrans is customable with the memohtm.ini file. When MemoTrans encouters a tag listed under a section ([html], [ul],...) it replaces it with the defined expression.

The expression is made of :

• cr : LineFeed + CarriageReturn
• &aaa& : String between ampersand character
• (34) : Any character defined as ASCII decimal number

But when MemoTrans encounters a tag defined as a section([ol], [ul],...) it uses the definition tag defined under the new section until it encouters the ending tag (e.g. </ul>). You should also defined ending statement under [html].

You can defined as many html tag as you like but no section. Under the [Chr] section is defined special characters.

Notes :

• When the middle header is checked but empty (and saved as default),any selected file will be enter in this part of the header.
  
• If you save the config with "HTML" checked, the autodetect is off and Memotrans will try to strip html code out of any file.
  
• If a error occurs during the writing of the "memopad.dat" file, this file can be unusable by the HotSync Manager. You are able to use the Back-up file "memopad.bak" which is a copy of your "memopad.dat" just after your last HotSync, or you can use "memopad.mmt" which is a copy of "memopad.dat" just before using MemoTrans.
  
• If you get this message when you are trying to open Pilot Desktop :
  " Pilot caused an invalid page fault in module MFC30.dll..." you should erase your current "memopad.dat" and rename one of the 2 above.
• In the config window, you must enter the Pilot desktop directory without the "pilot.exe" (but with the last "\").
  
• HotSync Manager must be running to do a HotSync.
  
• The .ini file must stay where the application is located.
  
• The number of memos on disk are the number of all the memos that have been created since the last HotSync. It includes the one you have already deleted.

Disclaimer :

I MAKE NO GUARANTEE THAT THIS SOFTWARE WILL FUNCTION FLAWLESSLY NOR WILL I TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR DAMAGES INCURRED BY THE USER EITHER ACCIDENTALLY OR INTENTIONALLY THROUGH THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS. IT IS FREEWARE AND YOU MAY DISTRIBUTE IT AS SUCH PROVIDING YOU KEEP THE PROGRAM FILES, THE ASSOCIATED DATA FILES IN ORIGINAL INTACT CONDITION. THIS PROGRAM MAY NOT BE SOLD COMMERCIALLY OR PRIVATELY WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR.

Registration :

This program is freeware, it is a part of my contribution to the internet community :-). But if you really like the program, you can send your bucks to :

Vincent Debierre
12 chemin de la saussaie
77123 Noisy sur Ecole
France

Revision information:

1.11: Bug in HotSync options

1.1 : Clipboard import

1.0 : Original release. Include MemoTrans v4.1 engine.