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From: peraino@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Bob Peraino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Need a ML routine; HELP!
Keywords: hp48sx
Message-ID: <3098@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Date: 11 Dec 90 15:40:16 GMT
Organization: George Mason Univ., Fairfax, Va.
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  Dear hp48 assembler gurus;


     I like to dabble in the area of data compression as a hobby. I have
some algorithms that I would like to try to implement on the 48sx. However,
to do so, I need to have access to the raw data that comprises an object,
rather than the display version I get by using ->STR.
A while back, Bill Wickes posted the ->ASC/ASC-> utility suite as
a 48sx functional equivalent to uuencode/uudecode. To get at the raw data,
I could run the object through ->ASC, and convert the hex back to a binary
string, after stripping the checksum, but this would be incredibly stupid.
How hard would it be for a 48 guru to provide two routines similar to 
->ASC/ASC-> which simply returns a string object which is the raw data of an
object, and vice-versa?


Thanks for your time.

Bob Peraino

peraino@gmuvax.gmu.edu