Re: A85: Rigel, where'd it go??

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Re: A85: Rigel, where'd it go??

On Sat, 18 Oct 1997 22:25:57 -0400, you wrote:

>82nd Deer wrote:
>
>> each file, plus the simple agony of doing something like this.  People are
>> barely competent to load one of 10 different libraries, but when 100 show
>> up people would lose their minds.  Rigel is rather nice, it would be 
>
>	As I pointed out, only the programmer would have to worry about the
>many libraries (If one can call them libraries, a more accurate name
>would be functions).  The non-assembly-literate user would not even know
>that the libraries are there.  All he (or she) would have to do is unzip
>a certain file into the libs directory (or something similar). After
>that, all that the user would have to do is select the programs he wants
>on his calculator in a certain computer program, and receive a backup
>file with the functions already in it (grouped into a single 85s file). 
>That is much faster than actually transporting 10 different large
>libraries, seperately,  using the link program as one has to do now. 
>Right now, libraries are loaded by the users.  As I propose, the
>computer would handle collecting all the functions into a library and
>attaching it to the porgrams.  Unlike people, the computer does not care
>how many libraries are needed.  (And technically there would only be one
>customized library - there would just be a choice of 100 functions that
>can be in it).
>

I'm not sure i totally understand what you are saying.  Are all of the
libraries being attached to one string?  if so, how would someone give
a single game to a friend at school?  What happens when you want to
delete a game (you won't be able to delete the library)?  You must
remember that most ti85 users do not have a link cable, so the use of
a computer is out of the question for them.

-mike pearce
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