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From: ervin@pinbot.enet.dec.com (Joseph James Ervin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Problem with Voyager
Message-ID: <953@sousa.enet.dec.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 18:28:56 GMT
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Reply-To: ervin@pinbot.enet.dec.com (Joseph James Ervin)
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>My problem is that I can't get Voyager to run in the way I
>believe it is meant to. I get an error saying "-illegal far-pointer
>use-". Do I have to  dump the HP48's memory before running it?

When I tried to run Voyager with no HP48.MEM file present, 
I got a different error message, but I believe the problem
you are seeing is probably related.  You must upload the 
contents of the HP48's ROM as outlined in VOYAGER.DOC.

Then you have to run DMPTOMEM on it to reformat it in the
way that Voyager wants it.  Then you can run Voyager and 
you should be all set.

>And now to something more pleasant. There is a competitor to
>Voyager. Erik Bryntse has wrote a program that he calls SDIS.
>The advantage with this program is that you can scan the memory
>online. It uses the serial port and peek. I don't know if Erik
>has the intention to release it here on the net, but if he get
>sufficiently many begging letter I guess he has to. 
>
>Jonas Linden

I really don't see how using the HP48 interactively to look
at the ROM is any advantage at all.  Quite the contrary, the
way Voyager does it, I can do all the Voyager-hacking I
want while my wife stays busy playing Tetris2.  
THAT is what I call an advantage!

>>>Joe Ervin