HP Portable Plus - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 May 1998

Doug Yowza &lt;yowza(a)yowza.com&gt; writes:
...
  Thanks, changing the jumper and hitting reset did the
trick.  I needed to
 reformat the RAM disk after the reset, but I have a couple of "advanced
 mail" apps in ROM that seem to expect files to be present on the RAM disk. 
 Is there some special way to setup the ROM apps, or do I manually create
 directories and files as I get errors? 
That would be AdvanceMail.  I vaguely remember that you do have to 
create something for it to make it not complain.  Not that it's real
useful -- I think you need to have something for it to connect to,
and while I know there was some way to make it talk to HPDeskManager
on the HP3000s I don't think it ever got updated to talk anything like
POP3 or QWK packets or what have you.

Nevertheless there seem to be a lot of Portable Pluses out there with
the AdvanceMail software, and I can only guess that is because HP was
using HPDeskManager for its internal e-mail network until two or three?
years ago and found it useful to equip a lot of its internal-use Pluses
with AdvanceMail.

-Frank McConnell