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From: lien@plains.UUCP (Craig Lien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: hp28s tricks
Message-ID: <3109@plains.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 90 05:38:05 GMT
Reply-To: lien@plains.UUCP (Craig Lien)
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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During the long Christmas vacation I was at my cousins house in Arizona.
He had an hp-28S and I also have one, so I looked at his and man did he have
some neat stuff!  But when I asked how he did it he said "It took many
hours of screwing around and typing stuff in again, also some of the stuff
is kind of dangerous."  I tried to look at some of the stuff and there were
chr(0)'s everywhere so I couldn't look at things (even in the names) so RCL
wouldn't work very well.

1. He had directories that would automatically run ".profile" (like ksh on
unix) ".profile" would set all the modes and setup the custom menu.

2. He had a directory to string program to move a directory anywhere.
I could use a program like that because I have physics class directory
and a common functions directory (i.e. volumes and what not) but I would
like the physics directory to be inside the functions directory.

3. He had ".." and ".".  The ".." is like the "UP" that originated in the
manual and amended by many people on this group.  The "." would go to home
and return everything back to his defaults.  

I've read some of the stuff that has been posted to this group and have
found it interesting.  If anyone has any ideas on how this is done, could
I get your help?  I understand that most of the programs will be in
machine language.

Thanks,
Craig.

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