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From: lien@plains.NoDak.edu (Craig Lien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Directory structure unearthed
Message-ID: <6993@plains.NoDak.edu>
Date: 2 Dec 90 21:08:01 GMT
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In article <2758b6f2:1124.1comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> akcs.dnickel@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Derek Scott Nickel) writes:
>Jim,
>
>In reguards to that 3 nibble field near the start of a directory.  You
>stated that it was 7FF.  I've played around with the ATTACH command and
>have discovered this:  
>
>For the HOME directory:  this field is the count of the Library objects
>that are attached to the HOME directory, including the two standard
>libraries 2 and 1792.
>

Lately I've been doing menu commands on every Library number that I know of.
When I saw the above posting I did menu 2 I didn't expect anything
spectacular.  However menu 1792 is quite unique.  What I get on a REV E. is 

IF THEN ELSE END -> WHILE
REPEAT DO UNTIL START FOR NEXT
STEP IFERR HALT XLIB -> >>
<< >> ' ' END END
THEN CASE THEN DIR PROMPT XLIB
XLIB XLIB XLIB XLIB XLIB XLIB
the above menu contiues for as long as I can tell.

Will the XLIBs ever stop?  I realize that numbers in computers are finite
and it will stop when the menu number rolls over.

I hope someone follows up on this.

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>        Derek S. Nickel

Craig
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