Texas Instruments TI-89 Developer's Guide

Appendix A: System Routines — Variables
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92 Plus Developer Guide
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Beta Version January 26, 2001
EX_stoBCD
Declaration:
void
EX_stoBCD
(UCHAR *
name
, BCD16 *
bcd
)
Category(ies):
Variables
Description:
Stores BCD value into a variable in the calculator’s symbol table.
Inputs:
name
— Pointer to the name of a calculator variable where the BCD
value should be stored. The name is a standard C
zero-terminated string except it consists of unsigned characters
since the names of variables in this calculator may contain
international letters in the range ‘\xC0’ to ‘\xFF’.
The name may be an eight-letter variable name or eight-letter
folder name and variable name separated by a back-slash.
bcd
— Pointer to BCD value to store.
Outputs:
None
Assumptions:
Variable named in
name
will be created if it does not already exist. Value in
name
will be overwritten unless it is a protected type.
Side Effects:
May cause heap compression. Throws an error if variable
name
cannot be
created or overwritten.
Availability:
All versions of the TI
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89 / TI
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92 Plus.
TI
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89 / TI
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92 Plus
Differences:
None
See Also: EX_getBCD
Example:
BCD16 csum;
.
. /* calculate csum */
.
EX_stoBCD((UCHAR *)"myfold" SYM_SEP_STR "csum", &csum);

Texas Instruments TI-89 Specifications

General

Display size (HxV)	100 x 160 mm
Memory type	639K FLASH ROM, 188K bytes RAM
Compatible operating systems	Operating System 2.09
Battery type	AAA