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From: sburke@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Scott Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Archiving Libraries to PC: ARCHER
Keywords: HP48SX, Archiving, ARCHER
Message-ID: <10918@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 91 21:26:37 GMT
References: <1991Feb21.005542.3955@engin.umich.edu>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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Hi.

I would make one suggestion for ARCHER--namely, that it be given some more
intelligence.  For someone on a tight RAM budget, it is not going to be 
possible to make copies of all the libraries in a new directory/file for
transmission during backup.  I would suggest that ARCHER scan the ports with
PVARS and automatically loop through, recalling a library to the stack, then
purging it from the port, then storing it in a variable.  Unless you are 
incredibly short of RAM, this method will work without any user manipulation
or intervention.  Then continue on as before, backing up all the data (since
the libraries are now stored in variables).  Modify the RESTORE version of
ARCHER to figure out where to put all the libraries, and so on.

Scott.
sburke@jarthur.claremont.edu