Re: TIB: Sending basic from an 86 to an 85


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Re: TIB: Sending basic from an 86 to an 85




I said an easy way.  I dont take assembly until next year at least.

At 02:05 AM 9/8/98 EDT, you wrote:
>
>> Is there an easy way to send a TI-Basic program from an 86 back to an 85.
>> I created the program on my 85, changed it on my 86, and now I need it back
>> to distribute to some friends who only have an 85.
>
>Yes there is.  I posted this here a long long time ago, let me see if I
>can find it so that I don't have to retype it...
>
>Found it!  It took me a few minutes to figure out a keyword to use
>to search my outgoing mail folder for it.  It was the fifth newest
>letter in my box containing the word "detokenize".  I was proud of
>myself for thinking of using that word (it only took me 5 minutes to
>find one that wasn't in a tenth of all the letters I've sent in the past
>year).  After all, that box only has two thousand outgoing letters in it...
>
>_______________________________________________
>Subj:  program 86 --> 85
>Date:  10/22/97
>To:  assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
>To:  assembly-85@lists.ticalc.org
>To:  ti-basic@lists.ticalc.org
>_______________________________________________
>
>I found a quick and easy way to transfer 86 progs to the 85. It's
>rather in-depth, so e-mail me and I'll explain it to you personally
>if you don't understand what I'm talking about here.
>
>First, open the program in the program editor (if it's locked, my
>method won't work). This will detokenize the program. Next,
>change the first byte of it's VAT entry (RAM page 7, around
>$BC80) from $12 to $0C. If you don't know how to do this, e-mail
>me personally. Now, send the program to the 85 using [LINK]
>[SND85] [STRING] (varname). Then open the program editor
>on the 85 (a blank program) and press [2nd] [RCL] (progname).
>And it's transferred.
>
>
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