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WIN-SITU 4.0 USER’S GUIDE

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10 POCKET-SITU

Pocket-Situ provides instrument control in the field using a handheld PDA
(Personal Data Assistant). Several models of PDA are supported. Pocket-
Situ uses the same code base as Win-Situ 4. If you have used Win-Situ,
you already know how to use Pocket-Situ.

PRINCIPAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WIN-SITU AND
POCKET-SITU

Installation. Microsoft

®

ActiveSync

is needed to install the application

on a PDA and to transfer data files from the PDA to a desktop or laptop
computer.

Installation

is described below.

Device Clock display. Due to the screen size, the miniTROLL or

TROLL 9000 real-time clock is not displayed. To insure the device
clock is correct, set the PDA clock if necessary, then synchronize the
device clock as described in

Section 2, Getting Started.

• Vertical and/or horizontal scroll bars appear when information exceeds

the PDA screen size.

• To resize the top or bottom of the screen, tap the dividing bar with the

stylus and drag it up or down.

• The software version is displayed in title bar (In Win-Situ, it is acces-

sible on the Help menu.)