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From: dirk@dksoft.incom.de (Dirk Koeppen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Trouble with the FM set to ',' on HP48SX
Message-ID: <1358@dksoft.incom.de>
Date: 6 Oct 90 00:21:04 GMT
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Organization: Koeppen EDV-Beratung, D-6050 Offenbach, FRG
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I've some trouble when I set the decimal dot to ',' using the
MODES menu FM, function. Maybe this has been reported some time
before and there is a solution for this. My ROM rev. is D.

Mainly I am not able to enter a dot in a string. The dot is always
replaced by a comma even when the string is quoted. Mainly the
problem seems to be that if something contains a dot and is showed
as a dot, internaly the dot is handeld like a comma.

This causes:

	- I am not able to download a file with a '.' (dot) in the
	  filename using the RECVN command (e.g. the PCLPRINT.LIB
	  file that comes with the interface)
	  
	- I am not able to remove the variable (e.g. PCLPRINT.LIB)
	  from a directory using PURGE. If I enter ' and then
	  press the function key in the VAR menu the display shows
	  up 'PCLPRINT.LIB' then pressing PURGE gives the error
	  'Invalid Syntax' and the cursor stands just over the dot,
	  still displaying a dot not a comma

All these problems clear up if I set the FM back to a dot.

Is this ok or is it a bug. Maybe I have not read the right chapter
in the manual. The manual says that the FM, command replaces the 
dot by a comma for the decimal delimiter, it does not say that it
substitutes it everywhere.

cu,
dirk
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