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Item: 109 by detlef@mwhh.hanse.de
Author: [Raymond Hellstern]
  Subj: Flag Catalog
  Date: Fri May 22 1992

[Note: Also see MODEBROW by Bill Wickes, on Goodies Disk #3.  -jkh-]

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³ Mini-instructions: FCAT; [+/-] toggles flag; [DESC/ALL] toggles ³
³ descriptions; [USER/SYS] toggles flag set.  -jkh-               ³
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Hi everybody.

 From time to time I want to take a brief look at the 48's flags. Ok,
install FCLIB from J. Donnelly, I hear you say. No!

I have so many tools in libraries that my LIB menu takes a considerable time
to come up. In addition, FCLIB needs 5.9kb of valuable memory.

Here's the alternative:
        THE ULTIMATIVE FLAG BROWSER  (?! :-)

    FCAT (c) 1992 by Raymond Hellstern,Liebigstr.8,3000 HANNOVER 1,GERMANY
    Permission to copy this article is granted provided that the copies are
    not made or distributed for resale (excepting nominal copying fees).

    FCAT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
    WITHOUT *ANY* WARRANTY.

Features :
    - stand-alone program (NOT a Library !)
    - VERY FAST
    - 2942.5 bytes in size (chksum #6499h)
    - pure sys-RPL with embedded machine code
    - rapid key repeat
    - acts like HP's standard applications (but much faster)

You'll see a map of all 64 system flags in columns of 8. Some of
them may have a little box appearing right to the number. This means the
corresponding flag is set. One flag number is highlighted.
You can move through the map with the cursor keys. If you hold down one of
the cursor keys, it will repeat until you release. The ON-key exits the
program, <BLUE><ON> turns the calc off.

There are four menu keys available:
    USER    switches to the user flags. Now the key is labeled 'SYS', 'DESC'
            disappears.
    +/-     toggles the state of the highlighted flag.
    DESC    switches to description mode. Now the key is labeled 'ALL', 'USER'
            disappears.
    EXIT    leaves FCAT.

In description mode the meaning of the system flags are displayed, eight at
one time. Also only UP and DOWN , the '+/-', 'ALL' and 'EXIT' menu keys, the
ON-key, and the <BLUE><ON> combination are valid.

In 'USER' flag mode, no decriptions are available (Who needs 'em?!).

My credits go to Bill Wickes and James Donnelly for their honourable work on
similar items, MODEBROWSER and FCLIB (a commercial product), respectively.

Bye,
        Raymond Hellstern