Chapter 16: Programming 431
While in the program editor, you can display and select from menus. You can return to
the program editor from a menu in either of two ways.
• Select a menu item, which pastes the item to the current command line.
• Press ‘.
When you complete a command line, press Í. The cursor moves to the next
command line.
Programs can access variables, lists, matrices, and strings saved in memory. If a
program stores a new value to a variable, list, matrix, or string, the program changes the
value in memory during execution.
You can call another program as a subroutine.
Executing a Program
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Executing a Program
To execute a program, begin on a blank line on the home screen and follow these steps.
1. Press to display the
PRGM EXEC menu.
2. Select a program name from the
PRGM EXEC menu. prgmname is pasted to the home
screen (for example,
prgmCYLINDER).
3. Press Í to execute the program. While the program is executing, the busy
indicator is on.
Last Answer (
Ans) is updated during program execution. Last Entry is not updated as
each command is executed (Chapter 1).
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