installing a 131kb .bin on ihp48

[Raymond Del Tondo]

If you load the .bin file to your HP 48 (either emulated or real) you'll get a long string, not a binary object.

Actually the long string contains the libary, but it's wrapped into a string. The string is just a few bytes larger than the room of a 128K card.

According to the Readme, the .bin file is a dump from a Sparcom card.
So you first have to "undump" it to get a binary file again.

This can be achieved easily with a small program which chunkwise reads the string chars from the first char on, and copies the chunks to a freed RAM card, until the whole binary contents of the string have been copied to the RAM card.
Note that not the string object will be copied, only the chars in it. The chars make up the ROM image.
I'm sure that such a copy program exists on hpcalc. If not, jut let us know, and maybe someone will write one;-)



For the STO Error: This happens if the object you try to store is not a library.