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Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Trouble with the FM set to ',' on HP48SX
Keywords: FM,
Message-ID: <1990Oct7.111727.25656@wuarchive.wustl.edu>
Date: 7 Oct 90 11:17:27 GMT
References: <1358@dksoft.incom.de> <1990Oct6.074820.18403@santra.uucp> <1990Oct6.144403.8736@DRD.Com>
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In article <1990Oct6.144403.8736@DRD.Com> mike@DRD.Com (Mike Rovak) writes:
>jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) wrote:
>} 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.
>...other stuff deleted
>} 
>} I have version E ROMs and the same thing happens.
>...other stuff deleted 
>} As long as you avoid names with periods, there isn't any real problem.
>
>Page 108 (chapter 6, variables) of the Manual Volume I states that
>characters that separate objects cannot be included in names, and
>specifically names BOTH comma and period.
>...signature deleted

Often I get names with a decimal point, also called a period in them.
In some cases even tjhe HP48 will create names with a period in them,
but I am not sure when. I think it is the case when downloading to
an already existing name.

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