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From: bpollard on 12 Jul 2008 17:48
Hello,
I have a HP 50G and don't like the "..." that shows up next to each
text file on my SD card when using the Files menu.
I have tried to install the SDfiler program from:
http://timandkatie.com/calc/SDfiler.zip

but can't get it to install properly.
I moved the two files (L935 and L936) from my SD card into Port 2 my
using the move function on my the calculator.
I then pressed my APPS key on the calculator, went to the bottom of
the list where I found the program "SDfiler" but when I hit on it I
get the following error message on my calc:
"EVAL ERROR: Undefined Local Name"
and my calculator is locked up and I have to remove a battery.
any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Any other good viewer's out there that will make my text files show
their full name (or as much as will fit w/out the annoying "...")?
Thanks!
Brad
From: TW on 12 Jul 2008 19:22
> "EVAL ERROR: Undefined Local Name"
> and my calculator is locked up and I have to remove a battery.
> any ideas what I am doing wrong?

He reinstalled and it is working fine. No idea what was wrong.

> Any other good viewer's out there that will make my text files show
> their full name (or as much as will fit w/out the annoying "...")?

To aid with his, and a few other people that are looking for a way to
browse text documents, I have added a bit of code and updated it to
v1.3. Now if you have Headman9 installed, you can use the Ebook and
Edocu commands directly in the filer to browse the text files.

TW
From: John H Meyers on 13 Jul 2008 20:36
Is this question about viewing only file names (in the Filer),
and/or file content (in a text viewer)?

The "J" key (or LIST menu key) shows more of each file name,
even in the built-in Filer, does it not?

Or do you mean that you don't like the symbols _before_
file names in the Filer, which identifies file _types_
("..." means a "string" or any "foreign" non-calculator file
from a computer, like most files stored on SD cards by a computer).

For viewing file content:

The built-in TOOL VIEW function (or Filer's VIEW function),
which performs DUP SCROLL, already "wraps" long lines,
except for "long words,"
which then have to be horizontally scrolled,
but still do not display ellipses [...]
except when opened in the built-in _editor_ instead
("viewing" and "editing" are not quite equivalent).

Even long words (e.g. 100-digit integers)
can be wrapped by variations found here:

"Displaying with line-wrap"
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.hp48/msg/40a94cf78e0297b3

If "black dots" appear at the original ends of lines,
these are probably the "carriage returns" used in PC files,
and can be removed from text on all HP49/50 via:

@ Remove CRs from a text string on the stack
\<< 13 CHR "" SREPL DROP \>> 'NOCR' STO

If you'd like to pre-remove the CRs on a Windows computer,
just change the file to "Unix" style,
which can easily be done by this superb text editor:
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html (free,
but a wizard-class "Pro" version is also available).

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