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From: rob@ireta.cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Rob Prior)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: hp48sx: variable rename?
Message-ID: <298uZ1w163w@ireta.cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 91 22:08:36 PST
References: <1991Apr2.140223.7718@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Organization: Federation of Sentient Planets, Burnaby BC

kamidon@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Keith Amidon) writes:

> > 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 \>> \>>
                            ^^^

I think it will fall apart right here.  When you call 'old', it will
evaluate the contents of 'old' on the stack, putting you into the
directory.  My 48sx isn't handy, so I can't try this, but I think that's
what will happen.


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