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From: jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Trouble with the FM set to ',' on HP48SX
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Date: 6 Oct 90 07:48:20 GMT
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In article <1358@dksoft.incom.de> dirk@dksoft.incom.de (Dirk Koeppen) writes:
>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.

I have version E ROMs and the same thing happens. I would call this an
extremely annoying feature or what HP calls an anomaly (let's save the
B-word for times when we want to make the HP guys feel really bad). :-)

Just one more question: When in the "FM," mode, my keyboard doesn't
produce a period, but when in the normal mode, I can't find the ";".
Now where is that character? I just tried it and you can make the
keyboard produce those characters by assigning them to USER mode
keys.

As long as you avoid names with periods, there isn't any real problem.

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