(User.programs)
Item: 293 by _joehorn at hpcvbbs.UUCP
Author: [Joseph K Horn]
  Date: Tue Jun 04 1991

BTYPE, an HP 48 BYTES/TYPE Utility

Here's a little program I keep assigned to a key.  I call it BTYPE, because
it's a cross between the BYTES and TYPE commands. It identifies IN ENGLISH the
object type of whatever's in level 1, unless it's a defined global name, in
which case it identifies the object type of ITS CONTENTS.  (If not defined, it
just says "Global Name").  This is tagged onto its BYTE COUNT.  To make it
useful for quick keyboard use, it doesn't eat the argument, but lifts it to
level 2, so that you can just press backarrow to resume whatever you were doing
before pressing BTYPE.

[By the way, if you have a foreign language translator in your 48, the object
types will automatically be translated!]

This is another example of how sweet "system RPL" can be.

--  Joseph K Horn  --  Peripheral Vision, Ltd.  --