peraino@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Bob Peraino) (12/11/90)
Dear hp48 assembler gurus; I like to dabble in the area of data compression as a hobby. I have some algorithms that I would like to try to implement on the 48sx. However, to do so, I need to have access to the raw data that comprises an object, rather than the display version I get by using ->STR. A while back, Bill Wickes posted the ->ASC/ASC-> utility suite as a 48sx functional equivalent to uuencode/uudecode. To get at the raw data, I could run the object through ->ASC, and convert the hex back to a binary string, after stripping the checksum, but this would be incredibly stupid. How hard would it be for a 48 guru to provide two routines similar to ->ASC/ASC-> which simply returns a string object which is the raw data of an object, and vice-versa? Thanks for your time. Bob Peraino peraino@gmuvax.gmu.edu