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HP 49g+ User Manual

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For details on the meaning of these specifications see Chapter 2 in the
calculator’s User’s Guide.

The second line shows the characters

{ HOME }


indicating that the HOME directory is the current file directory in the
calculator’s memory.

At the bottom of the display you will find a number of labels, namely,

@EDIT @VIEW @@ RCL @@ @@STO@ ! PURGE !CLEAR

associated with the six soft menu keys, F1 through F6:

A

A

B

B

C

C

D

D

E

E

F

F


The six labels displayed in the lower part of the screen will change depending
on which menu is displayed. But

A will always be associated with the first

displayed label,

B with the second displayed label, and so on.

Menus

The six labels associated with the keys

A through F form part of a menu

of functions. Since the calculator has only six soft menu keys, it only display 6
labels at any point in time. However, a menu can have more than six entries.
Each group of 6 entries is called a Menu page. To move to the next menu
page (if available), press the

L (NeXT menu) key. This key is the third key

from the left in the third row of keys in the keyboard.


The TOOL menu

The soft menu keys for the menu currently displayed, known as the TOOL
menu, are associated with operations related to manipulation of variables (see
section on variables in this Chapter):

@EDIT

A EDIT the contents of a variable (see Chapter 2 in this Guide