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RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - Joe Horn - 11-05-2014 05:46 AM
(11-01-2014 10:45 PM)RMollov Wrote: on top of page 60:
Quote:The DESTORY command doesn’t just clear a variable; it
completely destroys it!
Thanks. It's fixed now.
(11-02-2014 12:47 AM)Dave Frederickson Wrote: On page 37 of the pdf under ERRN the text is:
TAN(90) because error 14 is “TAN=Inf”.
it should be:
TAN(90) because error #4 is “TAN=Inf”.
Thanks! Fixed.
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - Dwight Sturrock - 11-08-2014 04:26 AM
Thanks Joe, very nice.
I have the original book, and it made the 71 comprehensible.
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - Oulan - 11-08-2014 03:11 PM
In page 121, line 170 should be POKE DTH$(A), C$ @ POKE DTH$(A1),A$
And when entering the REVLEX example, for the last entry line there is a missing '-' in the display ... (it display 006: -------)
Should line 90 be A$=A$&C$ @ A=A+37 @ N=N*2+32 @ Q=3 @ SFLAG 5 ?
Regards and thanks for this wonderful manual
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - Joe Horn - 11-09-2014 06:44 AM
(11-08-2014 03:11 PM)Oulan Wrote: In page 121, line 170 should be POKE DTH$(A), C$ @ POKE DTH$(A1),A$
Thanks. I poked the missing dollar signs into that line, and uploaded it.
Quote:And when entering the REVLEX example, for the last entry line there is a missing '-' in the display ... (it display 006: -------)
The checksum was misplaced. It's now in the correct column.
Quote:Should line 90 be A$=A$&C$ @ A=A+37 @ N=N*2+32 @ Q=3 @ SFLAG 5 ?
I don't think so. The listing of MAKELEX in my book, as well as the actual MAKELEX program on the CHHU01 swap disk and on the ATCHCO swap disk, all have +31 in line 90, not +32. I haven't tried running it with +32 instead. Have you?
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - Jim Horn - 11-10-2014 04:54 AM
To Joe: Thanks for the chance to re-read it again (my copy is in storage). Brought back lots of fond memories. I'm still humbled at the credit.
To All: If you've not had the chance to meet Joe in person, he's very much as you'd suspect when you read this book. A tremendous fount of humor, knowledge, empathy, enthusiasm and all-around goodness. Yes, I'm biased, and proud to be.
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - Marcus von Cube - 11-10-2014 07:33 AM
(10-26-2014 01:09 AM)Joe Horn Wrote: I finally got around to converting my 1985 book "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" into a searchable PDF file.Many thanks for this. I almost read it cover to cover this weekend.
Code:
30 X=IP(MIN(MAX(X,1)16))This is from the CMDSTK program. It's obviously missing a comma before the 16.
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - Joe Horn - 11-10-2014 12:58 PM
(11-10-2014 07:33 AM)Marcus von Cube Wrote:Code:
30 X=IP(MIN(MAX(X,1)16))
This is from the CMDSTK program. It's obviously missing a comma before the 16.
Thanks! The online version is now fixed.
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - RMollov - 11-12-2014 10:51 AM
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(11-10-2014 07:33 AM)Marcus von Cube Wrote: Many thanks for this. I almost read it cover to cover this weekend.Me too. Great read.
Too bad it's all history now.
I find the HP-35S heaps more useful today; it beats even the greatest HP-41, IMHO!
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - Oulan - 11-12-2014 12:30 PM
On the nice website of Joe : http://holyjoe.org/HP71/lexlist.htm I encountered a nasty bug : the lex SHOWPORT lead to a memory lost on my HP71B (rev 1BBBB-HPIL 1AAAA)
The entry was ok for the checksum, the first use display some info then 'memory lost'
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - Joe Horn - 11-13-2014 12:01 AM
(11-12-2014 12:30 PM)Oulan Wrote: On the nice website of Joe : http://holyjoe.org/HP71/lexlist.htm I encountered a nasty bug : the lex SHOWPORT lead to a memory lost on my HP71B (rev 1BBBB-HPIL 1AAAA)
The entry was ok for the checksum, the first use display some info then 'memory lost'
Sorry to hear that, but I just verified that the hex listing there is correct, so that's not what caused your crash. I strongly suspect that your copy of the MAKELEX program (in your HP-71) contained an error. Did you save MAKELEX on cards or print a listing from your '71? If so, please compare it character by character with the listing in the book.
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - kakima - 11-14-2014 10:11 PM
Minor nits:
Page 28: "REAL-WORLD EXAMPLES..."
Last word should be "USAGE"
Page 80: The table at the top could be realigned.
Page 85: "HOH TO EXPAND..." should be "HOW TO EXPAND..."
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - Joe Horn - 11-15-2014 12:29 AM
(11-14-2014 10:11 PM)kakima Wrote: Minor nits:
Page 28: "REAL-WORLD EXAMPLES..."
Last word should be "USAGE"
Page 80: The table at the top could be realigned.
Page 85: "HOH TO EXPAND..." should be "HOW TO EXPAND..."
After fixing those errors and re-saving the file using Nitro PDF, the file bloated from 1.63MB to a ridiculous 3.84MB for no apparent reason. The original bookmarked version was less than 1MB! Does anybody have a tool that can LOSSLESSLY* minimize the size of a PDF file? Thanks in advance for recommendations. Note: I tried an online PDF minimizer; it nuked several tables.
Edit: *Losslessly = by removing only invisible, unnecessary junk, like perhaps editing history(?), redundant formatting, that sort of thing.
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - Dave Frederickson - 11-15-2014 01:08 AM
I ran the "Reduce File Size" tool in Acrobat which reduced it to 828 KiB.
Edit: File removed as it was obsolete.
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - Joe Horn - 11-15-2014 04:51 AM
(11-15-2014 01:08 AM)Dave Frederickson Wrote: I ran the "Reduce File Size" tool in Acrobat which reduced it to 828 KiB.
THANKS!!! The online version has been replaced with yours. I guess I gotta buy Acrobat.
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - Marcus von Cube - 11-15-2014 01:58 PM
(11-15-2014 04:51 AM)Joe Horn Wrote: I guess I gotta buy Acrobat.
Have you tried the Export to PDF function of your word processor? Both Word and OpenOffice offer this option.
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - kakima - 11-15-2014 04:24 PM
More nits (does this seem like an infinite loop?):
Page 4: Chapter 7 "clock" probably should be "Clock" (capitalized) for consistency
Page 38: INT(X) the greater-than-or-equal-to should be less-than-or-equal-to
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - Joe Horn - 11-16-2014 01:02 AM
(11-15-2014 01:58 PM)Marcus von Cube Wrote:(11-15-2014 04:51 AM)Joe Horn Wrote: I guess I gotta buy Acrobat.
Have you tried the Export to PDF function of your word processor? Both Word and OpenOffice offer this option.
That's how I made the original non-bookmarked version, but then Bill added the chapter bookmarks. Rebuilding it from Word would lose those bookmarks.
(11-15-2014 04:24 PM)kakima Wrote: More nits (does this seem like an infinite loop?):
Page 4: Chapter 7 "clock" probably should be "Clock" (capitalized) for consistency
Page 38: INT(X) the greater-than-or-equal-to should be less-than-or-equal-to
Incredible: Nitro PDF Pro 6 can't paste the "≤" character from Word (!), so these two fixes are #2 on my To Do list. #1 is: Get Adobe Acrobat.
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - Les Bell - 11-16-2014 02:54 AM
(11-16-2014 01:02 AM)Joe Horn Wrote:(11-15-2014 01:58 PM)Marcus von Cube Wrote: Have you tried the Export to PDF function of your word processor? Both Word and OpenOffice offer this option.
That's how I made the original non-bookmarked version, but then Bill added the chapter bookmarks. Rebuilding it from Word would lose those bookmarks.
I'm surprised you've never taken the LaTeX route, Joe.
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - Oulan - 11-16-2014 09:00 AM
(11-13-2014 12:01 AM)Joe Horn Wrote:(11-12-2014 12:30 PM)Oulan Wrote: On the nice website of Joe : http://holyjoe.org/HP71/lexlist.htm I encountered a nasty bug : the lex SHOWPORT lead to a memory lost on my HP71B (rev 1BBBB-HPIL 1AAAA)
The entry was ok for the checksum, the first use display some info then 'memory lost'
Sorry to hear that, but I just verified that the hex listing there is correct, so that's not what caused your crash. I strongly suspect that your copy of the MAKELEX program (in your HP-71) contained an error. Did you save MAKELEX on cards or print a listing from your '71? If so, please compare it character by character with the listing in the book.
I checked this MAKELEX twice before using it.
I used this MAKELEX to enter REVLEX and it was working ... perhaps it is a bug linked to the HP71 rom rev (I have a 1BBBB + HPIL 1A)
RE: "HP-71 BASIC Made Easy" in PDF form - Dave Frederickson - 11-16-2014 02:45 PM
SHOWPORT was written for 1BBBB firmware as it's already in the 2CDCC version. I've used this LEX file with no problem. You have HP-IL so have you tried loading the file from disc or the PIL-Box?
You should consider splitting this topic off onto it's own thread as it has nothing to do with Joe's book.
Dave