Re: CShell gives me 51k of mem...hmmm


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Re: CShell gives me 51k of mem...hmmm



Todd wrote:
>
> Peter Wilk wrote:
> >
> > Ok, I got CShell because I saw it was smaller (not much) than ZShell, it
> > has autopower off, and you can adjust the contrast from inside it (don't
> > know how to do that yet, help?).  I was looking at my free mem today to
> > see if I would have enough room for QuadForm.  I did.  But I also took a
> > look at the size of my strings, it says I have +41k!  CShell alone is
> > 24524!  This is kinda interesting considering that there is only 28k of
> > real user mem.  Here is the exact screen from my [MEM] menu:
> > MEM FREE   2037
> > REAL  585   CPLX  0
> > LIST  219   VECT  28
> > MATR  0     STRN  41456
> > EQU   222   CONS  0
> > PRGM  6780  GDB   0
> > PIC   0
> >
> > last time I knew the the TI-85 didn't have 51k of user available memory.
> >  Anyone know what is happening here?  Is it just a little text error?
> > I also have another problem, I don't know if it is related.  I have an
> > equation in the equation menu that can't be deleted it is called RegEq.
> > I have ROM version 10.0
> > I can send a backup of my calc to anyone wants it.
>
> That happened to me too, but with ZShell.  ZShell became some 24,000
> bytes!  I ignored it for a while, until I got curious.  After backing up
> my calculator, I tried to erase ZShell.85s and the Calc crashed.  After
> that, I got a none curupt ZShell, and put my programs back on.

You probably have something pointing to a location in the calculator's
ROM.  I've messed around with 82 backup files, pointing programs and
pictures to the ROM, and I've seen the same thing in the mem free menu.

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