[A83] Re: extra storage
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[A83] Re: extra storage
At 01:04 PM 12/17/2002 +0100, you wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:37:54 +0100
> > "Henk Poley" <hpoley@dds.nl> wrote:
> >
> > > Sending a var seems vaible to me, but how do you get one back? There's
> > > only 'push', but no 'pull'. And then there's silent-link on the newer
> > > Ti models, off coarse. So you could send a string (or some 'never
> > > used' Y-var) with the name, and the devices pushes it via silent link
> > > on the calc.
> >
> > There are get() and send() commands aren't there?
> >
>
>Those are intended for CBL/CBR use. So, if the mem-expander uses the CBL
>protocol (fakes the calc into believing it's a CBL), that might be possible.
>(Potential problem: I don't think the CBL can hold programs, not sure
>though.)
What Sami's device did was put one var per cell of memory card, so that to
get them back you switch to the right cell and go recieve on the calc and
push send on the device. It works well only with large vars and groups,
otherwise you waste a lot of space.
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