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From: kamidon@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Keith Amidon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: hp48sx: variable rename?
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.140223.7718@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 91 14:02:23 GMT
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> Etic Postpischil writes.....
>If you are doing the renaming by hand -- recalling the directory, typing
>the new name, storing it, et cetera -- then part of the speed problem is
>the time to format and display the directory.  You can suppress this by
>using a program to rename objects:
>
>	\<< \-> old new \<< old RCL new STO old PURGE \>> \>>
>
>This will still use memory because two copies of the directory are in
>memory at once, but it should be faster.
>
>

Wouldn't it be possible to do the purge before the store and thereby get
rid of the twice memory requirement also?  Am I missing something stupid?
I'm afraid I don't have my HP here to test it on.

                    Later,   Keith Amidon

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