Re: Quicken, OG Questions

William Ofosu-Amaah (XI6W-OFSA@asahi-net.or.jp)
Tue, 19 Mar 1996 20:13:42 +0900

At 11:25 AM 3/18/96 -0700, Cysgod Yr Arth wrote:
>It is, but the "free" offer goes up to $30.00 US for "Shipping and Handling"
>as soon as you are outside Continental US. I still don't understand how
>a product that would expectantly sell for maybe $60.00 US costs $30.00
>S&H...but there are many things in the world I cannot understand...

$30! I hope this is buy Express mail!!!

>Here's the quip...it uses its own proprietary files...but you can have as
>many as you want...If you want to have it transportable, you need the
>Expensable connection package for I believe an extra $20.00 US (and extra
>s&h) which will allow you to export the OGO Pocket Quicken info to your
>PC's Quicken.

Good to know that multiple files are possible. As for the proprietry
standard, not so good :-( Is it however possible to export the data to
QIF (Quicken Interchange Format) files for use with Quicken
for Windows, MS Money etc?

>I am not sure you CAN run BAT files...you might be able to by adding a
>"call x.bat" to the end of the autoexec.bat file and doing a soft-reset.

I figured this was the only way to do it but I was hoping there
might be a simpler method.

>> 4) FlashRAM
>> *According to Mobilis Magazine's web site, MagicRAM has developed
>> a special driver enabling flash card usage in the Omnigo. Does
>> anyone know if this driver is for generic flash cards or
>> only for MagicRAM's flash cards for the Omnigo?
>
>WHERE!?!?!? Which article?!?! I would LOVE to see my OGO have 8 MB RAM!!!!

Check out http://www.volksware.com/mobilis/ Look in their March
issue under What's New if I remember correctly.

Thanks for the help!

William