HP Forum Archive 18

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A shortcut for running programs on a HP-35s Message #1 Posted by Antonio Maschio (Italy) on 21 Jan 2008, 6:11 a.m. Well, I bought a 35S some time ago, and I was really disappointed by its drawbacks. But since it's a very beautiful calculator, I've been using it for a self-imposed week. One of the things that upset me was to hit XEQ A ENTER to start program A. But I discovered a trick I never read here (if I'm not the first, excuse me). In the listing there should be something like: PRGM TOP 0001 GTO B001 A001 "PROGRAM A" A002 ... ... A0XX RTN B001 "PROGRAM B" B002 ... B0YY RTN ... Now, if things are designed this way, it suffices hitting R/S to start program B. But if I want to use program A? Change only the first instruction into GTO A001, hit R/S a couple of times (to reset the program pointer, or reset it manually with GTO 0001) and from now on, hitting R/S will run program A. If you have another program, say Z, change the pointer to GTO Z001. Of course, any starting point is valid (e.g. GTO A031). Do you think it's useful? -- Antonio

Re: A shortcut for running programs on a HP-35s Message #2 Posted by George Bailey (Bedford Falls) on 21 Jan 2008, 7:08 a.m., in response to message #1 by Antonio Maschio (Italy) Nice idea, very useful! Thanks! Clearly one of those 'why didn't I think of that'-ideas ;-)

Re: A shortcut for running programs on a HP-35s Message #3 Posted by bill platt on 21 Jan 2008, 11:24 a.m., in response to message #1 by Antonio Maschio (Italy) When I write a new "ad hoc" program, I always put it at the top of the program space for this very reason. This goes back to the earliest days of HP programming. But your refinement seems new to me.

Re: A shortcut for running programs on a HP-35s Message #4 Posted by Raymond Del Tondo on 21 Jan 2008, 5:09 p.m., in response to message #1 by Antonio Maschio (Italy) Hi, instead of manually doing 'GTO 0001', you could also do 'GTO ..' , like on the HP-41 and HP-42S ;-) Regards Raymond

Re: A shortcut for running programs on a HP-35s Message #5 Posted by Antonio Maschio (Italy) on 22 Jan 2008, 2:07 a.m., in response to message #4 by Raymond Del Tondo of course... -- Antonio

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