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From: bill@videovax.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Directory structure unearthed
Message-ID: <6200@videovax.tv.tek.com>
Date: 3 Dec 90 22:17:23 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@videovax.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden)
Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton OR
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In article <6993@plains.NoDak.edu> lien@plains.NoDak.edu (Craig Lien) writes:
->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 tried it.  I noticed that pressing each of the menu keys put the
corresponding name in the command line.  The 16th item (the XLIB
on the third menu page) resulted in XLIB 1792 15.  After a little
more experimentation, I found that all the menu items were numbered,
starting with zero.  Hence, the 30th item (the XLIB on the fifth
menu page) gave XLIB 1792 29.

Next, I tried 1792 MENU and pressed PREV, which got me to the end
of the XLIB list.  Pressing the last non-blank menu button revealed
XLIB 1792 2088.  So there are 2089 items in this "menu."

Evaluating any of them gave uninteresting results, e.g., the same
as if I had typed them on the command line.
-- 
Bill McFadden    Tektronix, Inc.  P.O. Box 500  MS 58-639  Beaverton, OR  97077
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