[A83] Re: extra storage

To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Subject: [A83] Re: extra storage
From: "Ronald Teune" <rtwolf@gmx.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:54:54 +0100
References: <20021217114938.6cfea9e4.tijl@ulyssis.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20021217103729.00a7e650@mail.comcast.net>
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> 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.

yes... that's one way to do it...
If the memory card has enough cells it would work quite well, I guess.

Groeten,
Ronald Teune
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References:

[A83] Re: extra storage

From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org>

[A83] Re: extra storage

From: Gavin Olson <gtolson@comcast.net>