Re: A85: String85


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Re: A85: String85




What ever happened to Magnus?

-mike pearce

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Dines Christy Justesen wrote:

> 
> TI-VARS.TXT is something different (a document i wrote some time ago about
> TI85 vars). However you can find the format on ticalc.org, when I
> downloaded it it was multiple files (one for each type of file). I think
> the files where written by Magnus.
> 
> DInes
> 
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> On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Michael Pearce wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I think that the information is already at ticalc.org.  i think there is a
> > file (or multiple files) about the file format of strings, and all other
> > type of variables.  maybe it's called ti-vars.txt - i don't really
> > remember.
> > 
> > -mike pearce
> > 
> > On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Ben Sferrazza wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > There's a little more than that.  You must know the format of the *.85s
> > > variable.  There are bytes in the header which tell the length of the
> > > variable, the length of the VAT entry, etc.  When I wrote Rigel, I had
> > > to determine all of this for my STRING85 equivalent program.  I was able
> > > to determine what all the bytes meant just by looking at a sample *.85s
> > > file.  I wrote the format down somewhere, but who knows where that is
> > > now.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


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