Re: A86: VManage
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Re: A86: VManage
Well, I was thinking it was the same thing as the GOTO option when a BASIC
program bombs on you. I figured the OS just got "confused" on what it was
doing because the memory was corrupt.
At 10:18 PM 7/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Well, in theory you could make the name shorter and leave the name
>length value what it is, only fill the remaining name bytes with 0s.
>As for making the name longer, yeah, you'd have to move the VAT
>around. It can get quite messy, I wrote a TI-92 create program
>routine.. and the TI-92's VAT is alphabetically sorted! Trust me,
>if you can use the ROM VAT calls, you definitely should.
>
>I'm thinking that VAT dumping thing could be some kind of old debug
>code left into the production ROM.. anybody have any other theories?
>
>David Phillips wrote:
>>
>> I don't see the point in changing variable types? About the only thing
>> would be to change between a string and a program. And how is renaming a
>> program with a different sized name possible? Wouldn't that require moving
>> the entire VAT?
>>
>> I noticed an intersting bug, where you can change the type to a blank one.
>> The name is changed to the ALPHA cursor, and it quits the menu. When you
>> go back, you get the MEMORY 15 error. Hit goto, and it dumps the VAT to
>> the homescreen. Weird.
>
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>
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