[A83] Re: extra storage

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Subject: [A83] Re: extra storage
From: "Henk Poley" <hpoley@dds.nl>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:47:56 +0100
Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org

> Van: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org>
>> "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?

Yes, but these are only for vars, not for programs. "Send(prgmABC)" gives a
"ERR:SYNTAX". btw, Get() works also between normal Ti's, as long as they
are in Pause mode. Once wrote a Ti-BASIC program that would rotate a block
in "3D", if you connected annother calc with the same program it would
rotate simultaniously. 

> Van: Gavin Olson <gtolson@comcast.net>
>
> 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. 

A driver would be a better option. It wouldn't be that big. You could even
do the recieve-trick with the just the driver (or a couple of drivers) so
you could send it like Sami's device does.

Just use a Venus-shell, these are small, and add a fetch/send routine
(directories anyone?). Would fit within 800 bytes (?). Could even put a
little reloader in it (much like the MS-DOS COMMAND.COM does) that would
refetch the shell afterwards.

	Henk Poley <><