PC-3000/3100 Utilities Products like the SHARP PC-3000/3100 which are wide spread in the market and have some restrictions like memory capacity or batterylifetime challenge a lot of well experienced users to create programs for making things better or easier to handle than the original. This way is well established in the USA and UK, where people are used to communicate via a lot of Bulletin boards. To disclose these utilities also to the customer of SHARP ELECTRONICS (EUROPE) we put this collection of utilities into several mailboxes. The programs, listed in here and to be find in the autoextracting file 3000UTIL.COM are of different sources and may help some of the end-users' trouble or giving more value to his application. Some come with a Readme file, some have help facilities to be invoked by name /? or name /h. There is no real manual available. All of them are public domain and can be copied and distributed. SHARP Electronics (Europe) is not the originator of these programs and cannot give any warranty for the correctitude of these programs. Since these programs cannot be tested in all combinations and environment, we kindly ask the end user to make his trial and in case of trouble to deinstall the troublemaker program. Contents and description as follows: CHECKSET.BAT 3253 07.05.92 14:44 Shows all the internal settings, established with the POPUP-Function Options / Setup the machine or established by the SETUP command. PC1600.BAS 780 27.10.92 13:32 BASIC program for GWBASIC to transfer files from the SHARP PC-1600 Pocket computer to the PC-3000. READ.ME 2126 16.07.92 7:56 Description for some utility programs that follow now. TICKS.COM 10 25.01.91 23:11 Utility to allow certain applications to run in low power mode by enabling the clock timer whilst keeping the machine in low power mode. LEVELCLK.COM 161 14.07.92 9:18 TSR utility to maintain the clock speed at 10Mhz, overriding the power management facility which reduces clock speed as the batteries become drained. CLK11.COM 242 03.07.92 16:39 TSR utility to reduce the processor speed from 5Mhz to 1Mhz after a delay of 10 seconds without any keyboard activity. This can give an increase in battery life of up to 30%. MONITOR EXE 7519 22.01.91 23:13 Utility to monitor the battery life over a period of time. this utility writes to a log file every 5 minutes indicating the time when the batteries go flat. SDF2PIM EXE 10725 20.01.91 17:29 This utility converts .SDF files, as created by Organiser Link of SHARP IQ-xxxx (ZQ-xxxx), into PC-3000 PIM compatible files. CLK12B COM 272 28.01.91 20:31 TSR to reduce the clock speed from 5Mhz to 1Mhz after a period of 10 seconds since Ring Indicator was set high. CLK12C COM 272 28.01.91 20:26 Similar to CLK12B.COM, this utility reduces the clock speed from 5Mhz to 3Mhz. This has the effect that applications still run at a reasonable speed but has the disadvantage of a shorter battery life. CLK12J COM 451 01.01.00 17:37 Similar to CLK12x above, but without detailed description. SERON COM 18 03.08.92 9:21 Switch the serial power support on, when the Low-power mode is set ON. SEROFF COM 18 03.08.92 9:22 Switch the serial power support off, when the Low-power mode is set to OFF. PMREAD ME 697 06.11.92 8:30 Readme file for the PM.EXE below. PM EXE 4604 06.07.92 14:04 Power management utility to switch on/off a certain number of internal devices. Invoke PM /? for help and parameter. TICKOFF COM 18 10.06.92 13:35 Disables the internal clock to save power. TICKON COM 18 10.06.92 13:34 Enables the internal clock. With this utility DOS- programs that do not run under Low-power mode ON may run. CLOCK SYS 768 15.04.92 19:47 Patch to bypass the problem, when the date in the POPUP hasn't change after 2 midnights of power off. Include into the CONFIG.SYS: DEVICE=D:\SYSTEM\CLOCK.SYS DVC_BOLD COM 27 18.09.92 11:53 Set the whole character display to bold. The contrast of the character will be increased. This mode can be reset only by restarting the system. NR EXE 1215 10.09.92 17:09 This utility speeds up the internal software to almost twice as fast as the original. UPDATE SYS 1032 21.08.92 16:00 Establishes some debugging of different minor bugs, detected in the past up to June 1992. It must be installed in the CONFIG.SYS file DEVICE=D:\SYSTEM\UPDATE.SYS DRV INP 36 26.10.92 11:33 Input file for the DRVPATCH.BAT program below. With this debugging, programs like LLPRO or Norton Commander will detect the IC-card drive B:. DRVPATCH BAT 69 26.10.92 11:40 Batch program to install the Debugging code of DRV.INP above. This should be included into the AUTOEXEC.BAT. BIGCSR EXE 4363 06.11.92 8:53 Compressed file for BIGCSR.COM. This file is autoextracting. BIGCSR.COM makes the cursor visible as a block. For details please read BIGCSR.DOC below, which is also part of the compressed file. BIGCSR DOC 2473 27.09.92 23:50 Detailed explanation from the author about BIGCSR.COM above. CU COM 1392 20.03.92 21:18 This TSR utility helps you to find the small cursor in the applica- tions. Call CU for options. Example: CU 1011 makes CTRl+Q the hotkey. Questions and additional suggestions please send to: SHARP ELECTRONICS (EUROPE) GmbH, Computer & Peripheral Department Michael Sch”nfeld, Sonninstr. 3, 2000 Hamburg 1 Tel.: +49 40 23760; Fax.: +49 40 23762654; Compuserve: 100020,1660