Question about HP71B Variable Names

[Garth Wilson]

What I've done is write programs in text with my text editor, with variable names being anything I want, then use the search-and-replace to substitute-in names the 71 can accept, then TRANSFORM it into BASIC. You'll need to keep a copy of the original text file so you'll still have the original names for the iterative write-transform-try cycle. Doing it this way, I can also have white space, and write without line numbers, and I have a utility to add the line numbers before it transforms the program into BASIC.