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Klukan wrote:

> Would anyone be interested in a monthly or bi-monthly (every other
> month) archive of new programs for TI graphing calculators?  You
> probably don't understand what I'm saying here so I'll try to explain
> it.  If anyone is familiar with ABC's (All Basic Code's) BASIC program
> packets (for computer BASIC), this is what I'm saying.  For those of you
> who don't, the ABC packets are files that come out every 2 months.
> These packets contain lots of BASIC code for various platforms (QBasic,
> QuickBASIC, PowerBASIC, etc.) and different subjects, such as assembly,
> graphics, EGA/VGA, games, memory, mouse, etc.  Between releases, source
> code is sent to ABC's author and he puts them into the packet.  When
> it's time to distribute the packet, it is posted on the ABC home page
> and can be downloaded.  A program written for these packets extracts the
> 'grouped' files from the packet and adds them to the existing 'grouped'
> files contained in the program's directory.  The program then allows
> viewing and extraction of individual BASIC programs from these files.
> Since I'm writing a link program, I could probably create a second
> version of it with support for a similar system.  Every month or two, I
> could release TI-program packets with all the new programs and
> information collected since the last packet was released.  This program
> could, rather than just extract the file to your hard drive, also send
> the program to your calculator.  If anyone's interested in this, please
> let me know.  If there's enough interest, I'll work on adding support to
> my link program and have details ASAP.
>
> -Jeremy

Do you know how large those packets would be?  A couple megabytes at least.
I don't think I would benefit from that because I (like most others) get the
new TI stuff from ticalc.org everyday.

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