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Things happen. HASH is displayed; then ERASING; then WRITING along with a percentage
progress. Each stage takes several seconds. In the end you should see the message
“Loading OK; Press a key to start”.
•
Press a key!
•
Press the EXIT key when asked to do so. After a short delay the WP43C stack display will
appear. You’re in!
What can you do now?
•
Other documents describe the available functions in great detail. Here are some basic
pointers.
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The number, arithmetic, ENTER, and scientific function keys work in the expected way.
•
Pressing
shift-0 (SETUP)
brings up a three-line menu called the
HOME
menu. Other keys
(e.g., BASE or PROB) may also bring up menus with up to three rows.
• To select a menu function in the bottom row, just press the function key below it.
• To select a menu function in the middle row, press “shift” (an “f” appears in the display
when you do this) followed by the function key.
• To select a menu function in the top row, press “shift” twice (a “g” appears in the display
when you do this) followed by the function key.
•
With the HOME menu displayed, the up- and down-arrow keys cycle through a range of
different menus.
•
The keyboard layout (see the diagram elsewhere in the “differences document”,
) shows
that each key has a yellow- and a blue-shifted function. The yellow function comes from a
single shift press; the blue function from a double shift press.
•
You can’t see the blue shifted functions on the keyboard but they are all available from menus.
•
Some menu options have a diagonal “strike through” line. These are options that haven’t been
coded yet.
•
You can get a
lot
more information from the main WP43S manuals, along with the “WP43C
Differences” document. Even without these you should be able to get a lot done.
•
If / when you do find a bug I suggest you report it to the WP43C thread first to avoid flooding
the WP43S thread with bugs that may be due to the added WP43C code.
Returning to DM42 / Free42
Eventually, you may want to go back to the DM42 / Free42
application. This is straightforward.
•
Press shift-[+/-] to bring up the MODES menu. The SYSTEM
menu is reached from this by pressing “shift” twice, and then
the leftmost function key.
•
Select option 3 (Load Program). As before, this displays the
files in flash memory. One of these files should be called
DM42-3.14.pgm, or something similar.
•
Use the arrow keys to highlight this file, and press ENTER.
Then press ENTER again to confirm.
