Re: A89: help

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Subject: Re: A89: help
From: "Dux Gregis" <assets@eden.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 16:17:39 -0700
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>
>In a message dated 12/20/1998 6:30:49 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>assets@eden.rutgers.edu writes:
>
>> not true.  on the calcs that have asm support the program variable begins
>>  with a token to identify the program as asm
>>  how do you think the calc knows when it can and can't run a program
using
>>  the asm( command?
>
>The TI-89 has a VAT (similar to a FAT on a hard drive).  The VAT has the
name
>of all the files in the directory, the type, any special attributes, and
the
>memory handle that each files has.  You can dereference this handle to
access
>the file.  I don't know where the VAT for the main folder is stored, but I
do
>know that every variable and program, except maybe system vars, is in the
VAT.
>
>Daniel Imfeld

and your point is?  I don't really see how that follows from what I posted

anyhow, on the subject of the vat: does anyone know if the clipboard is a
variable, in that it would have a vat entry?

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