Re: Thanks to Luiz for Scans Message #9 Posted by Vieira, Luiz C. (Brazil) on 24 Jan 2003, 11:16 a.m., in response to message #8 by Bill Hemphill
Hello, Bill;
please, be my guest. It's a pleasure to do something to anyone who gives to our gesture the consideration you are giving now. As I always say, this is gold... Thank you for your feedback.
About your converting program, have you considered the possibility of having a final ASCII code that can be directly used by other converting programs? I mentioned this because there is a DOS-based program named HP41UC.EXE (UC = Universal Converter) that converts programs listed in almost any code (if not all) available for the HP41 to the other. You may input ASCII (text), RAW, LIF and other formats and generate an output file coded in any of these codes, or an extra, printable, HP41's barcode-compatible file. If your program reads an HP67/97 list and generate an ASCII file with the equivalent listing for the HP41 that can be directly read by HP41UC.EXE, than you may also have the converted output from the HP41UC.EXE, allowing the HP41's version of the original HP67/97 listing to be directly loaded in an HP41 with HPIL connection (or recorder in a floppy) or printed as a barcode.
I do not remember were the HP41UC.EXE is available at the net for download, but I still have the original .ZIP file. In this file there is a .DOC (or .TXT, I don't remember) that describes how to perform any of the conversions and mostly how should the text be organized so that it can be read by HP41UC.EXE. As you are reading text and reordering and substituting strings, formatting the final text accordingly will not be so much trouble, right? I know it is another task and if you allow me to, I'd suggest trying one of both: > focus this subject in the main program, what would lead you to two concerns, and would probably take a lot more of your development time, OR > generate a first source as a first task, save it into a file, and slightly change it to an HP41UC.EXE compatible format and save it into another file (that's what I would do)
I hope you forgive-me being so nosy (as if I am not nosy...) but sometimes good suggestions may come form were we do not expect, right? This is just a guess because I think it can be done...
Best regards.
Luiz C. Vieira (Brazil)
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