Re: A89: help
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Re: A89: help
> >
> >In a message dated 12/20/1998 6:30:49 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> >assets@eden.rutgers.edu writes:
> >
> >> not true. on the calcs that have asm support the program variable begins
> >> with a token to identify the program as asm
> >> how do you think the calc knows when it can and can't run a program
> using
> >> the asm( command?
> >
> >The TI-89 has a VAT (similar to a FAT on a hard drive). The VAT has the
> name
> >of all the files in the directory, the type, any special attributes, and
> the
> >memory handle that each files has. You can dereference this handle to
> access
> >the file. I don't know where the VAT for the main folder is stored, but I
> do
> >know that every variable and program, except maybe system vars, is in the
> VAT.
> >
> >Daniel Imfeld
>
> and your point is? I don't really see how that follows from what I posted
>
> anyhow, on the subject of the vat: does anyone know if the clipboard is a
> variable, in that it would have a vat entry?
No it is not stored into the VAT, but it should have a special handle
assigned to it.
It should not be difficult to find it with VTI68k ;-)
Xavier VASSOR
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