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Contents of the calculator’s display

Turn your calculator on once more. At the top of the display you will have

two lines of information that describe the settings of the calculator. The first

line shows the characters:

RAD XYZ HEX R= 'X'

For details on the meaning of these symbols 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:

ABCDEF

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 default menu, 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

and Chapter 2 and Appendix L in the user’s guide for more

information on editing)

@VIEW B VIEW the contents of a variable

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