Re: A83: A change...

To: Phelan Wolf <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: Re: A83: A change...
From: Linus Akesson <lairfight@softhome.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 14:06:57 +0100
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Yes but a program whose name is 3 characters long takes up less space in the
vat than a program whose name is 8 characters long. So it won't work that way.
Perhaps if you ldir the vat a bit, but then you'd have to call _enoughmem
first, and update all pointers.. so it probably isn't a good idea.

Linus

On 11-Jul-98, Phelan Wolf wrote:

>I was thinking I could find the bytes that contain the name and just change
>them.

>-Phelan 'Amen' Wolf

>Ian Graf wrote:

>> creating a new variable would require that you have as much free mem as
>> the program takes up, and that is not a good approach for a file
>> manager.

References:

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