Pc link, Installing the supplied software, Transferring records – Radio Shack 65-790 User Manual

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PC LINK

You can transfer phone directory
records and schedule records to or from
your organizer to or from another Ra-
dioShack 256K Desktop Electronic Or-
ganizer or to a PC (personal computer)
using an optional PC Link cable and
software (available through your local
RadioShack store).

Cautions:

• Always turn off your computer

before connecting or disconnecting
the PC Link cable to or from the
organizer or computer.

• When disconnecting the cable from

your organizer or the computer, hold
and gently pull on the connector
plug. Do not pull the cable.

Insert the cable’s connector into

PC LINK

on the side of the organizer, then con-
nect the other end of the cable to a PC
or the other organizer.

INSTALLING THE
SUPPLIED SOFTWARE

1. Close all programs in use, then

insert the diskette supplied with the
optional PC Link cable into your
computer’s floppy disk drive.

2. From the Start Menu, select Set-

tings, then click on Control Panel.

3. Double click Add/Remove Pro-

grams.

4. Click Install, then follow the instruc-

tions that appear.

5. Select

Model

J

on the PC Link

Menu.

TRANSFERRING
RECORDS

Note: In the following steps, we refer to
the organizer or PC that contains re-
cords you want to transfer as the
“source,” and the organizer or PC where
you want to store transferred records as
the “target.”

1. Use the source organizer or PC to

select the phone directory or sched-
ule records you want to transfer.

2. Follow the directions in the PC

Link’s owner’s manual to specify the
serial port used to connect the
source and target organizer and PC,
and to select the same function that
you selected on the source orga-
nizer and PC.

3. To transmit records to a personal

computer, press

SEND

on the orga-

nizer.

transmit

all?

Y/N

ap-

pears.

4. To transmit all selected records,

press

Y

. Otherwise, press

N

.

To transmit a single record to a PC,
open the record you want to trans-
fer, send it to the top of the display,
then press

SEND

on the organizer.

transmit?

Y/N

appears. To

transmit the record, press

Y

. Other-

wise, press

N

.

To receive records from a PC, press

RECEIVE

on the organizer.

re-

ceive?

Y/N

appears. To receive

the records, press

Y

. Otherwise,

press

N

.

To cancel the transfer at any time, press

DELETE

on the source or target orga-

nizer.

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