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From: NU123952@VM1.NoDak.EDU (Mark A. Ordal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: HP41 to HP48 transfers
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Date: 22 Jan 91 20:46:21 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network
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I tried sending mail directly to Christopher Jelinek at his UUCP address
but that didn't work.  Since this might be of interest to list, I'm
posting it directly to <handhelds.gac.edu>.


The "Serial Interface Kit" includes an HP48SX program called INPRT.
The INPRT program captures IR printer output from the 28C, 28S, 42S,
or the HP41 IR Printer Module.  The transferred information ends up as
a quoted string on the HP48 stack.  If what you received was an HP28
program, you can edit out the line breaks (little square boxes on the
screen), get rid of the quotes and save it under some name.  You've
then got a working program for the 48.  (Assuming of course that the
HP28 program wasn't doing anything HP28 specific.)


To run HP41 programs on the HP48, you need the HP41 Emulator Card
which lists at $100 and discounts (in Elek-Tek) to about $72.  According
to what I've read about it, you don't need to do ANY editting of the
transferred program.


I have an HP41CX, HP28S, and an HP48SX but I don't have either the
HP41 Emulator for the 48SX nor do I have the IR Printer Module for my
41CX.  However, I have successfully transferred programs from my 28S
to the 48SX.  They've run fine after the editting I mentioned earlier.

               Dr. Mark A. Ordal
               Physics Department
               North Dakota State University
               Fargo, ND 58105
               NU123952@NDSUVM1