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From: kskalb@faui14.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Klaus Kalb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Using bin2asc (HP48SX)
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Date: 8 Apr 91 08:23:31 GMT
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cloos@acsu.buffalo.edu (James H. Cloos) writes:

>Responding to the followup to my followup, in which the comment was made
>that you have to know before hand whether the file is even or odd in
>lenght:  in the orriginal post, I described a procedure to determine, from
>the initial bin2asc output, whether the file was even or odd.  Obviously,
>if the file is supposed to end with a ";" (ie, B2130), this is trivial.  It
>is still possible for other data types, though.


I think it's possible, but it's tough. You have to build in some knowledge
of the HP48 datatypes. I am still convinced that theres virtually no way of
doing it without knowlegde of the internal structures( eg. about Code objects
and RPL programs). The  best thing (IMHO) is to build it into the assembler.

-KK