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you view and edit information in the
database files. It will let you add or
delete category words and subsets.
However it will not let you create or
modify a database. You must create
custom databases on the Palmtop (or
in CPack) before they can be accessed
with GOBWin. As a result the program is of use only to owners of the
HP 100/200LX Palmtops.
Windows and Palmtop's database
engine without the need to convert
from one platform to the other. A
Windows version of the database
engine would also let me view a database file on my desktop without having to use the CPack program.
Enter GnBWIN
About three months ago I noticed
an email on the HPLX-L mailing list
from Alan Striegel. The message mentioned a Windows program called
GOBWIN by a Japanese programmer.
The note included a hot link to download the file.
Sad to say, the hot link didn't link,
but I persisted. I did my own search
of the World Wide Web and found
an English description of GOBWin
along with a way to get a copy of the
program. Here's my version of the
description and the way to get your
own copy of GOBWin.
Getting Your Own Copy of GnBWin
Using your WWW browser go to
www.PalmtopPaper.com and we will
have instructions to guide you
through the necessary steps to download your copy of GOBWin.
A Brief ffistory of GnBWin
The author of GOBWin, TORU
MIYAMORI, apparently started
working on the program in 1996 and
continued to develop it up to
November of 1999 when he posted
the most recent version of the program on the Web. The version number (0.90) probably means that the
program is not yet finished. However,
work on the program seems to have
come to a standstill. The author's Web
site is still alive; however, repeated
attempts to contact the author have
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proved futile. TORU states that he
will only accept email written in
Japanese and mayor may not
respond.
The Good Features
Over the past three months
GOBWin has become the second
most-frequently-used piece of software on my Win98 computer. First
place goes to my email program.
I've used GOBWin to access copies
of my current Palmtop database files
and have been using it to develop a
NoteTaker file of "miscellaneous
reflections" (MRNOB).
The MRNOB file is currently at
SOOK bytes and growing. It contains
the standard Title, Category and
Notes fields common to NoteTaker
files. I've been able to do all the data
entry on my Win98 machine and perform such tasks as adding category
words such as "analogies", "pensees",
"questions", "suggestions", etc. Using
GOBWin I can even create subsets
and Smart clips on the fly.
If I get an idea or a question I'd
like to ponder, I click on a desktop
icon that is a shortcut to the MRNOB
NoteTaker file. In less than a second,
the list view of the file pops up on the
screen. I can press the F2 (Add) key
and type in a Title for the new record.
If the Note is more than a few lines
long, I'll start TextPad, a Window's
text editor, and type the Note,
spellcheck it, reformat it and cut and
paste it into the NoteTaker Notes
field. Likewise, If I find an answer to
a question on the WWW, I can highlight the text on the screen and copy
and paste it directly into a Notes field
in GOBWin.
Compared to the ~OS-based,
CPack program the whole operation
using GOBWin is almost too slick.
The ease of operation is probably why
the MRNOB file has grown to SOOK
bytes in a couple of months.
The GOBWin program has some
other "nice" features. For one thing,
there are no installation woes. Simply
unpack the archive, put the files,
GOBWIN.EXE and HPOBOLL.OLL,
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