Re: Transfering User RPL programs from HP48GX to HP49

Special note on "Quoted-Printable" encoding
and *original* (plain text) format:

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:26:43 -0500, I wrote:

[about importing UserRPL as a text file or string,
in which "Ascii translation" is also needed,
such as when importing the original files using an SD card]

When UserRPL is posted to the newsgroup (or sometimes when mailed),
certain special characters, or even any "equals" symbol,
sometimes triggers transmission in "Quoted-Printable" format,
in which every "equals" may appear to you as "equals3D"
(because the "equals" symbol itself is hex character #3D)

The previously posted 'IN' program (or 'KINV' when used)
can be "beefed up" with an extra "tweak"
to automatically take care of fixing that as well,
by expanding the very first \->STR command to:

\->STR "equals3D" "equals" SREPL DROP

NOTE: when you do this, replace each *word* "equals"
as typed above, by the equals *symbol* instead!

The reason for posting the above "symbolically"
is of course that even in *this* post, every "equals" symbol
might otherwise get yet another "3D" appended to it,
so posting and explaining it in words, like this,
is the only way to escape further confusion.

It's also highly desirable to get as close to the *original*
posted text as possible; on Google Groups, that means
first clicking any "More options" link,
and then clicking on "Show original"

Making sure that you always copy the *original* plain text,
not HTML-formatted, will avoid paragraph reformatting,
unintended special characters, leading whitespace, etc.,
which could otherwise interfere with proper interpretation.

The extra SREPL command above then automatically takes care
of any "Quoted-Printable" mangling that still remains,
and you'll end up with a properly working program,
even when copied from email or from Google.

[r->] [OFF]
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