S.U.P.E.R. HP 200LX Archive
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Outliner

Version 1.0 · David Tolliver

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Description

The HP Palmtop Paper Outline Plus! was one of the early outline programs designed for the HP Portable Plus. This version, however, is designed to work on a standard PC. It works quite well on the HP Palmtops. Shareware.

Technical details

File
outl_sw.zip
Size
107.6 KB
Format
.zip
Year
1991
Added to S.U.P.E.R.
1998-12-20
Files inside
7
Author
David Tolliver
Path
anonftp/pub/outl_sw.zip

How to install it

What to send to the palmtop saves 114.7 KB

These are the files you need. You can send them from the package contents below.

  • OP.EXE → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 69.1 KB
  • OUTLINE.EXE → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 58.8 KB
  • OUTINST.EXE → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 31.4 KB
  • OUTLINE.DAT → A:\_DAT configuración 750 B

No need to put OUTLINE.MNU, OUTLINE.HLP, OUTLINE.DOC: they are manuals, source code or supporting material. Read them here and save 114.7 KB on a 1 MB disk.

Steps
  1. Copy OP.EXE, OUTLINE.EXE, OUTINST.EXE to A:\SOFT. They are DOS programs: run them from the DOS icon, or add A:\SOFT to the PATH in C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT to call them by name.
  2. Copy OUTLINE.DAT to A:\_DAT, where the 200LX looks for configuration. Open it with Memo and adjust it before use.
  3. If you edit a configuration file on the palmtop, make sure you leave a newline at the end: some programs swallow the last line without saying a word.

Derived from the package contents and the 200LX conventions. It installs to A: on purpose: C: is a RAM disk and every byte there is memory taken from the system.

The author's instructions
1.3 Getting started with OutlinePlus
2. Outliners and word processors
     2.1 What is an outline processor?
     2.2 How can an outline processor be used?
     2.3 Text editing features of OutlinePlus
     2.4 Objects of outlining in OutlinePlus
     2.5 Actions for outlining in OutlinePlus

Literal excerpt from OUTLINE.DOC, exactly as it came in the package.

Send to my palmtop

The palmtop must be waiting before you press the button, or the transfer will fail. It is the palmtop that announces it is ready, not the other way round.

First time? How to connect the palmtop, step by step →