Guy Teague wrote:
for leaving those questions unanswered -- As someone else surmised, the
problem that Mr. Huntsman was having was due to the system flags 85 and
92 being set.
directory. So clearing out the wrong variables in the Home directory
would hose it there, too. (I'll leave the creating and modification of
the custom menu until later.) You are right that making backups to the
SD card (or just port 2 flash) is a good approach. There are a lot of
ways that you can archive data; some of them are built-in to the calc.
Look up ARCHIVE and RESTORE in the AUR. Also, look on www.hpcalc.org
for "archive" to find some helpful utilities to make it easier. My
personal favorite method is to install Filer6, by Prof. Wolfgang
Rautenberg, into the flash memory, and reassign the left-shift APPS key
to use Filer6 instead of the built-in Filer. Filer6 has a nice
backup/restore function that makes standard-format archives to either SD
or flash.
One thing to note is that the more things you have on your SD card, the
longer it takes for the calc to turn on. So I usually just keep the SD
card tucked in the battery compartment when I'm not using it.
HP-41 had. Of course, the 50G has many, many times the functions that
the 41 had, which is certainly part of the reason that no such document
exists. I have an HP-49G (not a HP-49G+) also, and it has a pocket ref,
but it fails on many levels, which underscores the difficulty.
--
Dave Boyd
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall
like a house of cards. Checkmate." -Capt. Zapp Brannigan, D.O.O.P.
> his instructions (and very detailed, clear ones they were) did not includedWell, I basically only read this list during weekdays, so I apologize
> hitting the store key.
>
> were you able to follow the example? perhaps you need to do a hard reset
> first and try the example again.
for leaving those questions unanswered -- As someone else surmised, the
problem that Mr. Huntsman was having was due to the system flags 85 and
92 being set.
> now that i know how to program (!), how do i get my program into the customThe custom menu is held in a variable called 'CST' in the Home
> menu in case i clear out the vars and delete it by mistake? or perhaps copy
> it to the sd card would be better? or both?
directory. So clearing out the wrong variables in the Home directory
would hose it there, too. (I'll leave the creating and modification of
the custom menu until later.) You are right that making backups to the
SD card (or just port 2 flash) is a good approach. There are a lot of
ways that you can archive data; some of them are built-in to the calc.
Look up ARCHIVE and RESTORE in the AUR. Also, look on www.hpcalc.org
for "archive" to find some helpful utilities to make it easier. My
personal favorite method is to install Filer6, by Prof. Wolfgang
Rautenberg, into the flash memory, and reassign the left-shift APPS key
to use Filer6 instead of the built-in Filer. Filer6 has a nice
backup/restore function that makes standard-format archives to either SD
or flash.
One thing to note is that the more things you have on your SD card, the
longer it takes for the calc to turn on. So I usually just keep the SD
card tucked in the battery compartment when I'm not using it.
> again, thanks for the great example dave. it shows up just how pitiful theYes. I'd really, really love the same kind of pocket reference the
> documentation is. i've been using hp calcs since the hp55 but i seem to have
> to re-learn simple operations weekly on the 50g.
HP-41 had. Of course, the 50G has many, many times the functions that
the 41 had, which is certainly part of the reason that no such document
exists. I have an HP-49G (not a HP-49G+) also, and it has a pocket ref,
but it fails on many levels, which underscores the difficulty.
--
Dave Boyd
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall
like a house of cards. Checkmate." -Capt. Zapp Brannigan, D.O.O.P.