HP 95LX - Page 34

Merging Two Phone Books into One
When you leave the office with your HP 95LX, you may add or edit entries in your
Phone Book while on the road. Meanwhile, back at the office, you may get other
amendments made to the phone book on your desktop PC by a secretary or
colleague. Upon your return you want to be able to efficiently merge the two phone
books on your PC. Ifboth areinthe «PBK format, then the Merge utility, provided
in the Connectivity Pack, will do the job. Here’s how it works:
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Connect the PC and your HP 95LX using the Connectivity Pack and be sure
that the Connectivity Pack software is properly installed on the PC (see pages
90-92 for detailed instructions).
Make sure that:
* Both phone books are in «PBK format. Use the HP Translate utility
(discussed on page 139) or a third party translation utility to convert a file
to the «PBK format.
¢ The two phone books have slightly different names.
* Both phone books are transferred to the PC. Merge will not work
properly if the two files are on different machines. Use the Filer to transfer
(see page 93 for details) the HP 95LX Phone Book file to the PC,
making sure to close and save the latest version of it first.
At the DOS prompt on the PC, type APP93. You will see the main menu with
its list of applications.
Press to start the Merge utility, and press (Appt Bk.
Now specify the two files you are merging:
* Move the cursor to the Input file 1 field.
* Press (F3) (Files), type in the pathname of one of the two . PBK files you
are merging, and press [ENTER].
* Press(F3)(Files), type the pathname of the other . PBK file, press (ENTER).
Itis probably a good idea to use the default name for the output file MERGE . PBK)
until the after process is completed, when you can then rename the newly
merged file. However, if you're suffering memory constraints you may wish to
give the output file the same name as one of the input files, which will cause that
input file to be overwritten. Press (ENTER).
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