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Could the electronic manuals e.g. Advanced User Reference Manual,
User Guide and User Manual be put on an SD card and accessed from
the HP49G+ directly as it does not seem to make sense to have a
fantastic portable electronic device like this and have to use a
computer to reference the functions.
The first problem is that these are PDF files, and, as far as I
know, no PDF reader has been written for the calculator, nor does
there seem to be much likelihood of one being written. Any
volunteers?
Another problem is that the files are much too large to fit into
the calculator's memory.
You could use Adobe Reader's "select text" and copy and paste the
text to plain text files, or maybe use "Print to file" with MS
Windows' "Generic / Text Only" printer, but those may leave
problems with non-ISO-8859-1 characters, and problems with images.
Either way, the documents would have to be split into "chunks"
small enough to fit into the calculator's memory.
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Surely the idea of the HP49G+ is to be able to work without having
a computer on stand-by.
True, but with experience, you won't have to be looking at the
documentation constantly.
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Alternatively are these books (AURM and UG) going to be published?
I prefer reading manuals.
Me too. These kind of things I print out on an impact dot-matrix
printer using re-inked ribbons, so my cost isn't terribly high. It
is tedious and noisy; I tend to get things started and then leave
the room for a few hours. My printout is black on white only, but
I can live with that.
By the way, an improved AURM is available at
http://www.hpcalc.org/details.php?id=6374.
Note that for the new CAS commands, "HELP" is available from the
CAT operation.
What should be feasible for built-in UserRPL commands (or any
SysRPL program or library command that uses the recommended check
and dispatch argument checking) would be a SysRPL program that
tells the user which argument permutations are valid. I think that
that's what HP's USAG program for the 48 series did. Any
volunteers for a 49 series USAG programs?
Regards,
James
Edited: 25 May 2006, 8:02 p.m.
