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HP-71 Forth/Assembler ROM fix
11-25-2018, 09:02 PM (This post was last modified: 11-25-2018 09:06 PM by J-F Garnier.)
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RE: HP-71 Forth/Assembler ROM fix
Let me add another small bug in the Forth Assembler, that has been recently reported to me by an eminent member of this community :-)

The Forth Assembler generates null-bytes at the end of some lines in the assembly listing (the file or device specified by the LISTING variable).
Null bytes have generally no effect on printers, but emu71/Dos and the ILper printer show null bytes as star '*' characters (for a good reason), and can make the listing file quite obscure.
The effect can be noticed when the listing file is the Emu71 display, or the ILPer printer window, or a HP71 file that is later printed to Emu71 or ILPer by PLIST.

When using Emu71 or ILPer, a workaround is to use a HP71 file as the listing destination, and then use LIST (and not PLIST) to list or print it.
Note also that null-bytes are also generated if the listing file is the DOSLINK device, but just editing the PC file with notepad (for windows systems) replaces the null bytes by space characters.

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RE: HP-71 Forth/Assembler ROM fix - Erwin - 11-24-2018, 09:24 PM
RE: HP-71 Forth/Assembler ROM fix - Erwin - 11-24-2018, 10:17 PM
RE: HP-71 Forth/Assembler ROM fix - Erwin - 11-25-2018, 06:12 PM
RE: HP-71 Forth/Assembler ROM fix - J-F Garnier - 11-25-2018 09:02 PM



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