Re: HP 41CV/Programming Message #5 Posted by Vieira, L. C. (Brazil) on 24 Aug 2006, 5:21 p.m., in response to message #1 by Kevin
HI, Kevin;
just to identify the origin of the isolated "END" in the HP41.
I know that when you perform some program-recovering operations with the card reader, wand and other mass storage devices, an END statement is automatically added to the last program in memory. It happens that there is always a last program in the HP41 memory (I guess it is related to the OS design), and it occupies 3 bytes (the .END.). So, it is not unusual to find some empty programs in memory when reading programs in magnetic cards, reading them with the wand (barcoded) or recovering with the HPIL resources. I am not sure right now about which operations actually do that, though.
I'm adding this post because I'm wondering about where did these empty programs come from... Thus, you can avoid this to happen in the future.
Any ideas?
Cheers.
Luiz (Brazil)
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