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From: edp@jareth.enet.dec.com (Always mount a scratch monkey.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Programming request
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Date: 23 Oct 90 22:57:34 GMT
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Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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I've got a problem for the HP-48 hackers (or for HP).  I'm using C-Kermit on
VMS, and I haven't been able to send a binary object from the 48 to VMS and
back.  My guess is that VMS always sends an object with a multiple of 512
bytes, the block size it uses for binary files.  The HP-48 doesn't like this
and makes the received object into a string.

So here is the challenge:  Write an HP-48 program that takes the string,
truncates the garbage at the end, and makes it into the appropriate binary
object.  Is there sufficient information in the string to do this --
particularly to determine the proper length? 


				-- edp (Eric Postpischil)
				"Always mount a scratch monkey."
				edp@jareth.enet.dec.com