Re: A86: browsing files...

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A86: browsing files...
From: Joshua J Seagoe <rabidcow@juno.com>
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 15:29:51 -0700
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On Thu, 6 May 1999 23:12:56 -0400 Chris Magill <v8r@juno.com> writes:
> Remember that the link port sends a certain byte for the opening byte 
>to tell the ti86 what type of information it is being sent...  If you 
>are talking about downloading ti83 programs from the internet and 
>storing them on you calculator then you would also need a computer 
>program that
>would change the first byte...

not if you had the proper program on your calc to recieve it.  besides,
mostly the transfer programs choose what byte to send by the file
extension, so merely renaming the file will fix that.  oh, yeah, i am
aware the there are other differences in the file format, but that often
doesn't matter.  (i hope...)

-josh

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