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wp34s flashing successful at last Message #1 Posted by Glenn Becker on 4 Aug 2013, 12:11 p.m. This is a followup to http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/archv021.cgi?read=246692#246692 First: I didn't need a computer with a serial port -- I had an old Kensington dock with one built in. So I borrowed a Windows laptop from work, got that serial port working, and finally flashed my 30b with MySamba. My question now is -- since I plan to return this laptop tomorrow -- is it in my best interests to install r3436 (which appears, upon exploration of the trunk directory at the sourceforge site, to be the most recent available), or stick with r3375? Thanks, Glenn

Re: wp34s flashing successful at last Message #2 Posted by Barry Mead on 4 Aug 2013, 1:18 p.m., in response to message #1 by Glenn Becker I would use 3436 as it fixes several bugs reported since 3375. I personally know of two bugs that were fixed (Because I reported them). 1. Complex Hyperbolic Tangent was erroneously converting the imaginary part into radians before calculation. (It should have assumed radians). 2. The factorial of -1 was showing (- Infinity) as a result instead of "Domain Error" I don't know of any reason to stick with the older version. Also grab the latest emulator from here. The emulator was at 3438 last time I checked and fixes a few emulator specific bugs as well. Edited: 4 Aug 2013, 2:03 p.m.

Re: wp34s flashing successful at last Message #3 Posted by Walter B on 4 Aug 2013, 4:33 p.m., in response to message #2 by Barry Mead I concur. Generally, we strive for curing SW errors instead of introducing new ones ;-) Thus, newer builds are most probably better than older ones (we had some exceptions admittedly - but a long time ago). So take the newest integration build you find on SourceForge for flashing - you won't be disappointed. d:-)

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