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From: billw@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM (William C Wickes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Assorted HP48 questions
Message-ID: <25590014@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 90 21:41:03 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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* There is only one key assignment list maintained by the 48, so there
is no automated way to make directory-sensitive key assignments.  Note
however, that the custom menu IS directory-dependent--you can have
a different custom menu in every subdirectory.

* The BYTES command works in two ways: 1) if its argument is a global
name, BYTES computes the total memory size of the associated global
variable, and the checksum of the stored object; 2) for any other object,
the memory size and checksum of the object itself are returned.  Thus
you will get a smaller size (since it doesn't include the variable
overhead) for an object on the stack than for the same object stored
in a variable (the checksums will be the same).  I might guess that
you are using BYTES on stack objects, whereas the programs you
are checking against are using BYTES on the names of stored objects.