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OK... This is how it works.. The TI-92 has no built-in 'backup' link command like all of the previous calcs have. All backup procedures are initiated by the graph-link. If you are using the mentioned parallel link, what you need to do is run the program 'link' in your fargo distribution. This is designed to allow the parallel link to download a backup, and send this backup from the calculator. It works quite well, and does everything you need. Don't use link92xp any more, the link.exe program by David Ellsworth is MUCH more capable.
Once you have made a backup from the calculator using link.exe (call the backup something like fargo.92b) then go to the command prompt. In the Fargo directory, type 'putfargo fargo[the name of the backup file]'. Once this is done, send the fargo.92b file back to the calculator. It will stop a few bytes short, but this is okay. Now send shell.92p, romlib.92p, and flib.92p. You're all set to run Fargo, transfer all of the programs you'd like, and all will be cool.
Aaron
At 11:25 AM 11/27/96 -0600, you wrote:
>I just got my 92 not too long ago, and I made the homemade $5 link cable
>designed by Andreas Westfield. The software available on his page,
>link92xp, worked very well. However, I wanted to install Fargo, and that
>required getting a memory backup from the calculator. I went to the
>Var-link menu, and the only thing that looked like a mem backup was the
>folder entitled "Main". So I downloaded the main folder, and tried to do
>a putfargo on that. The file had a 92@ after it instead of a 92b or
>92d. What is the difference between the different suffixes @, b, d,
>and whatever else exists? This is all very confusing, and I'd like to
>understand it all. I next attempted to use the link program supplied
>withe the fargo folder that I downloaded from the ticaalc homepage.
>Everything I tried always came back "unsuccessful". Is this program
>supposed to work with the $5 link? Should I invest the $60 in the link
>available from TI? Any answers/comments are welcome.
>
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