.89T <-> .TXT Converters - Usage

Note: Filenames in this document are given with their *extensions*, which Windows XP doesn't show by default.
For those who don't know, the extension is the '.txt' or '.89t' or the like which comes after the name of the file; The extension indicates what kind of file it is.

The two main programs in this package are FromTxt and ToTxt. Also, there's Sync89t.exe, update.py, and update.bat, which all go together. To run the update stuff, on Windows, you would run update.bat (for best results). On linux, you would cd to the folder update.py is in and type 'python update.py'. (Sync89t is used by the update stuff)

If you don't have Python 2.3 installed, then the update script won't be able to run (Well, it will if you have a useable version installed and you're using Linux, in which case the rest of this paragraph doesn't apply to you). If that is the case, and you want to use the update script, you could either install Python 2.3 to c:\python23 (the default location), or you could download and use update.exe instead (It comes with 5 other files that have to go with it, which is a bit more inconvenient IMHO than just having two files (the .py and the .bat), but it's up to you).

Okay, depending on what you want to do, here's what you need and where you need it:

(For Linux, ToTxt.exe is instead named 89ttotxt, and FromTxt.exe is instead named 89tfromtxt. The Linux readme says how to run them properly in Linux; The following directions are primarily for Windows.)

Personally, I keep a copy of ToTxt and FromTxt in the MyTIData folder, and when I copy files from my TI-89 to the computer, I first make a folder named after the date, and copy ToTxt and FromTxt into it, and then I go ahead and copy the files using TI Connect's Device Explorer. After that finishes, I run ToTxt to get text files. I also have a folder like the 'work' folder in the above example for the files I edit on both the computer and calculator.