[bookport] Re: Saving BP Settings

  • From: Paul Henrichsen <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:05:23 -0700

Yes. But what good is d e f if your battery goes dead<grin>?
I sure wish we could set this from the transfer tool.
At 10/21/2004, you wrote:

>Pete:
>
>Pressing D+E+F does preserve the current time/date.
>
> >>> ptorpey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 10/21/04 03:53PM >>>
>Here are two suggestions for preserving the time/date, in addition to
>the other settings which can be preserved as Dale points out below:
>
>1.      The BP Transfer software itself could grab the time/date from
>the computer upon connection.  I vaguely remember APH staff saying that
>the hardware did not support this, but I'm not sure.
>
>2.      If pressing the D-E-F key combination also saved the current
>time/date and the user quickly changed batteries, the time/date would be
>very nearly correct.  I wouldn't mind losing 15 seconds or so - One
>wouldn't even notice this since the clock is only accurate to the
>nearest minute, and most people usually replace the batteries within a
>day/month/year!
>
>-- Pete
>
>From: "Dale Laser" <drlieser@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: [Bookport] Saving BP Settings
>Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:46:00 -0500
>
>The d-e-f command saves the voice settings. Obviously, keeping the time=20
>rolling would require power, so that is not maintained.
>
>Dale



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