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From: frechett@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (Mac the Ripper/ / / /)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Re: HP48sx ROM Version?
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Date: 24 Aug 90 06:49:32 GMT
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In article <1214@rust.zso.dec.com> stoppani@rust.zso.dec.com (Pete Stoppani) writes:
>> In article <1990Aug22.233736.26923@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> byu@csri.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu) writes:

Nope Nope Nope.  Twas frechett@snoopy.colorado.edu that wrote this.  Tas me.

>>
>> into it, I am stuck.  What can be done, if anything?  Is there the equivalent
>> of "rm -r" on the 48?  I could really use it.
>> 
>
>	The last page of the MEMORY menu has a PGDIR (purge directory)
>	command that will allow you delete a non-empty directory.

Nope... Thanks for the tip, BUT this is the *Directory From HELL*.
It is realllllly screwed.  I tryed a PGDIR and it locked up on me.  
ON wouldn't stop it....
ON-C wouldn't stop it.
Finally I had to resort to 
ON-A_F and That stopped it.  
I got the standard..

Try to recover memory?
Yes                No

and I tryed Yes.  Then got
Recovering Memory                and it froze.  
Nothing would kill it at this point.  I would have resorted to pulling the 
batteries but luckly someone sent me a message about the little reset button 
under the foot as a responce to my second post.  So... it is clean again. 
Too bad PGDIR doesn't work.  There must be something that is really confusing
to the calculator in that directory.  Any ideas as to what it could be?
Another person mentioned the use of "." in directory names.    What's wrong
with . in the name?  All of the stuff that I download has .dl stuck to the 
end.  The directory in question doesn't.  But I can easily create use and
destroy a directory named "tetris.dl" or "hexatom.dl"  ;). 
Could this use of . be affecting other parts of the memory?  soooo odd

	ian                        frechett@snoopy.colorado.edu