How to save WP34s programs to a file?

[Harald]

I finally go round to playing with the emulator. I successfully transmitted programs from the real device to the emulator. But how can I save them to a file from the emulator?

[fhub]

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I finally go round to playing with the emulator. I successfully transmitted programs from the real device to the emulator. But how can I save them to a file from the emulator?

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Hi Harald,

if your program is in the RAM then it's automatically stored in the file 'wp34s.dat' when you close the emulator.

Then you can convert this binary file to a textfile with Neill's assembler with the following command:

wp34s_asm wp34s.dat -dis >textfile

I've just tried an other method by printing the program to Christoph's printer emulation HP82240B.exe and then copy&paste the program listing to any textfile.

In principle this method is also working, but unfortunately the text-output of the printer doesn't display all WP34s commands correctly (e.g. superscripts) - these commands are only displayed correctly on the printer's graphic output, but this can't be copied to a textfile.

Edit: I just remembered an other method that I've use long time ago.

You can also get a listing of all programs in the RAM with Pauli's commandline version 'wp34s.exe' - just enter the following command:

wp34s ram >textfile

The only problem of this method is that the resulting listing also contains the opcodes in the 2nd column.

Franz

Edited: 25 Apr 2013, 2:14 p.m.

[Harald]

Thanks a lot Franz!

Converting the wp34s.dat file seems like the best solution. But when I tried copying from the printer emulator that didn't work. Am I missing something?

Cheers,
Harald

[fhub]

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But when I tried copying from the printer emulator that didn't work. Am I missing something?

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Well, the method with the printer isn't really a good solution. Doing it with the printer's menu option ('File>Save Data') saves it as a kind of binary file, so you can't use it for further editing.

Printing the program with 'prPROG' and then using the printer's option 'File>Copy' works (puts the progam listing into the clipboard), but as I already mentioned this doesn't work with special characters, so in fact it's not of much use.

Franz

[Harald]

Because of the issue with the special characters I am not too bothered anyway, but my version of the printer emulator doesn't appear to have any menus. All I can find is a "clear" and a "quit" button.

[fhub]

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Because of the issue with the special characters I am not too bothered anyway, but my version of the printer emulator doesn't appear to have any menus. All I can find is a "clear" and a "quit" button.

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Maybe the printer included in the WP34s is not the latest version!?

I'm using the printer emulator (version 1.04) from Christoph's site:

http://hp.giesselink.com/hp82240b.htm

Franz

[Harald]

Yes, that is definitely completely different.
Thanks for the link!

[Walter B]

... as mentioned on p.188 of the printed manual.

d:-)

[Harald]

I know I should have ordered more of them. I was doing this at work and didn't have the book to hand ;)

[Walter B]

This shortcoming can be corrected most easily.

d;-)