Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!hhdist From: postmaster.DUNG_BEETLE@gateway.qm.apple.com (postmaster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Steve Winters :Unknown QM u Message-ID: <9101041007.AA25675@internal.apple.com> Date: 4 Jan 91 10:10:36 GMT Lines: 55 To: handhelds@gac.edu Return-path: To: handhelds@gac.edu Mail*Link#170# Steve Winters :Unknown QM u Received: by gateway.qm.apple.com; 4 Jan 91 02:10:33 Received: from apple.com ([130.43.2.2]) by goofy.apple.com with SMTP (5.61/25-eef) id AA25520; Fri, 4 Jan 91 02:05:27 -0800 for Steve_Winters.PERIPH_PROJ@gateway.qm.apple.com Received: from gacvx2.gac.edu by apple.com with SMTP (5.61/25-eef) id AA07845; Wed, 2 Jan 91 19:57:23 -0800 for Steve_Winters.PERIPH_PROJ@gateway.qm.apple.com Date: Wed, 2 Jan 1991 19:50 CST From: handhelds@gac.edu Subject: Re: HP48 Code on a PC Sender: NEWSMGR@gacvx2.gac.edu To: HANDHELDS@gacvx2.gac.edu Errors-To: postmaster@gac.edu Reply-To: handhelds@gac.edu Message-Id: X-Vms-To: IN%"HANDHELDS@GACVX2.GAC.EDU" Comments: Forwarded from COMP.SYS.HANDHELDS by GACVX2.GAC.EDU Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0-1 14/11/90 VAX/VMS V5.4; site gacvx2.gac.edu Path: gacvx2.gac.edu!noc.MR.NET!msi.umn.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!Jake-S Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: HP48 Code on a PC Message-ID: <37442@cup.portal.com> From: Jake-S@cup.portal.com (Jake G Schwartz) Date: 1 Jan 91 00:59:50 GMT References: <1354@vision.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 24 Charles Hirst asks: > My next question is whether there is a piece of software that allows you > to write code for the 48 on your PC, and then download it to the calculator. All you have to do to write code for the 48 on your PC is to literally write it on the PC. Use the "translate code 3" symbols for special char- acters (like \<< for open french quotes, for example) as specified in the manual. Don't worry how long your lines are. Just make sure the file you create has no special editor/word processor control characters in it. Then download the file in ASCII mode to the HP48 and it should run fine. (Famous last words??) In addition, HP has just announced the Program Development Link, a package for the PC that is a text-windowing environment for editing, maintaining, uploading/downloading and testing HP48 *user* code. It provides "HP48 Immediate Mode", allowing the user to run HP48 code on the calculator from the PC (while the calc is connected via serial cable) without having to type the Kermit "REMOTE HOST" command on every line. There is also context- sensitive help on line, so you can mouse-click on any HP48 command and get reference-manual type of information. I'm sure more will be mentioned on this product in the near future. Jake Schwartz