Re: Strangeness...

Subject: Re: Strangeness...
From: Paul M. Bruner <z_brunerpm@TITAN.SFASU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:27:19 -0600
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.93.961016152624.18231D-100000@saturn.superlink.net>

Isin't because the calulator still thinks the program is there and trys
to run it?  I am sure some random garbige is still taken for machine
code. It might do ca but it still cant tell the differece inbetween
garbige and code.


On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Tony Lieuallen wrote:


> On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, GreatLlama wrote:
>
> > The same thing kept happening to me except that it did it when I deleted
> > ZShell.  I'd go to my custom menu and see all kinds of crap there.  If you
> > press a button on the crap, your calc will lock up.
>
> There is a reason for this.  The "ZShell" you see in the custom menu is simply
> a pointer to the ZShell string, and it sees the right part that says ZShell in
> it, and displays that.  When you delete the ZShell string, other things move
> there, and the calc tries to display that.  I can't explain this part exactly
> why, but when you then try to run what is where zshell was, it locks up because
> it isn't program instructions.
>
> Tony Lieuallen = zarniwoop@juno.com = marvin@mars.superlink.net
>
> "If cars had experienced the same technological progress that computers
> have experienced in the last two decades,  cars would get 400 miles per
> gallon, have 40,000 horsepower, cost under $500, and blow up at least once
> per week, killing all occupants." - Unknown
>

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