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From: akcs.falco@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Andrey Dolgachev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP41 to HP48 transfers
Message-ID: <279dd1c5:1776.2comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 91 18:40:06 GMT
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Dr. Mark A. Ordal writes:
> he 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.)

Well, to make it easier, all you have to do is OBJ\-> to change the
string into whatever object was in it.  In other words, it removes the
strings and keeps the line breaks (which you need, or at least can use to
make the program more than one line, like it was originally)