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From: lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu (a.k.a. Chri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Reset button under foot (was Re: HP48sx ROM Version?)
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.180357.7754@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu>
Date: 27 Aug 90 18:03:57 GMT
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frechett@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (Mac the Ripper/ / / /) writes:
>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.  
>[...]
>I got the standard..
>Try to recover memory?
>Yes                No
>and I tryed Yes.  Then got
>Recovering Memory                and it froze.  

Yeah, I accidentally created a directory like this while porting some
library translation software.  Except when I went to recover memory, I
got all my directories (minus the offending directory) in the home
directory, except each had a numeric name.  In other words, my entire
directory tree seemed to have been collapsed in the recovery. 

Undaunted, I restored my memory from a prior backup.  It is times like
these that I silently praise those who designed full (and convenient!)
I/O into the hp48.

>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. 

OK, WAIT A MINUTE!  What reset button?  I just looked in the index of
my manuals under "reset," "clearing memory," "button," and even "feet"
but found no mention of a hardware reset switch.  Then I removed all
of the feet, and sure enough under the upper-left-hand foot (when it
is turned over) there is a hole (with what looks like metal
underneath) next to a capital "R".  I assume this is the reset button.
Will someone please tell me what this does exactly (HP?)?  I would
press it now, but I haven't done a backup recently.

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