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From: pedz@bigben.mpd.tandem.com (Perry Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Bugs in the HP48SX
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Date: 30 Aug 90 17:08:14 GMT
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In-reply-to: edp@jareth.enet.dec.com's message of 27 Aug 90 20:49:33 GMT

> What does RCL do with lists??? I saw the code, doing *A LOT* but I thought it
> better to ask you before decoding all these routines.

Eric> HP (probably Bill Wickes?) has told us this already: It follows
Eric> the directory path specified in the list and then recalls the
Eric> last object.

I knew that but my complaint is that it actually changes the current
directory which is not what I want.  I'd like to think of { DIRLIST
VAR } as an path to VAR much like it is in Unix.

pedz