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From: edp@jareth.enet.dec.com (Eric Postpischil (Always mount a scratch monkey.))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP-48 misfeatures
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Date: 1 Apr 91 19:26:21 GMT
References: <14452@life.ai.mit.edu>
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In article <14452@life.ai.mit.edu>, bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan
Brittenson) writes:

> . . .
>   Press LAST MENU; notice you end up in the VAR menu, not the LIBRARY
>menu as one might expect.

Owner's Manual, page 57:  "Pressing [right-shift] LAST MENU (found over
the 3 key) returns you to that menu.  Menus of menus (such as the MTH
menu) aren't stored as the last menu.

The LIBRARY menu is a menu of menus, so it is not stored as the last menu.

>   One would expect the menu to blank out when the library is
>detached. The LIBRARY menu is appropriately updated.

When you press LIBRARY, the menu is created and stored as a temporary
menu.  This remains the menu until something causes it to be updated,
such as pressing LIBRARY again.  Similar effects can be seen by doing
certain things with the Solver or TMENU.


				-- edp (Eric Postpischil)
				"Always mount a scratch monkey."
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