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From: bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: HP-48: STAR 1.04.4 by anon FTP
Keywords: hp48 star
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Date: 20 Mar 91 15:50:18 GMT
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STAR 1.04.4 is now available by anonymous FTP as:

	ftp.ai.mit.edu:~/pub/star-1.04.4.tar.Z

Please note the change in host name from previously.


   No great changes, a few bugs have been fixed. Some rather serious.
A new feature has been added - note that it is not present in either
the AmigaDOS or MS-DOS binaries: at any time, KCRC returns a 4-digit
Kermit CRC for the code generated this far. KBEGIN resets the KCRC
accumulator. Thus:

		kbegin
		ascii	`Hello World!'
		data.4	kcrc

  Will generate a 12-character sequence followed by its Kermit CRC.  I
consider this a somewhat obscure feature which I added rather quickly
just to be able to create HP-48 library objects with a minimal effort.
Therefore I didn't bother Gadiel and Bill with sending me new
binaries; if you think this is going to be useful to you, then you
should recompile.


Archiver note:

   STAR is a macro assembler for the Saturn CPU, a proprietary
Hewlett-Packard microprocessor. STAR is licensed under the Gnu General
Public License. See the file COPYING for details.

						-- Jan Brittenson
						   bson@ai.mit.edu