John H Meyers

ID:60
First Name:John H
Last Name:Meyers
Last Change:2008-08-17
Number of Files:77 (9th most prolific)
Number of Downloads:467,611 (7th most downloaded)
Biography:John was an extremely prolific contributor to the comp.sys.hp48 newsgroup, helping fellow calculator users for decades with in-depth, useful posts. Was a resident of Fairfield, IA. December 28, 1942 - January 30, 2014

%TILE Replacement   (details) 48 ENG   2KB/1KB
Replacement for the buggy %TILE command in the EXAMPLES directory.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

Algebraic Calculator 1.5   (details) 48 ENG   6KB/1KB
ScreenshotThe best algebraic calculator simulator I have seen. It supports constant calculations, taking numbers from the stack, placing numbers back on the stack, a memory function, and more.
By John H Meyers. 1998/09/20

All Roots   (details) 48 ENG   4KB/1KB
Supply the start and end points of an interval, and an increment for evaluating the function at equally spaced points within the interval; then the program searches the whole interval, looking for roots (as indicated by sign changes or exact solutions at consecutive incremental points along the interval).
By John H Meyers. 1998/06/25

APLY Replacement   (details) 48 ENG   3KB/1KB
Replacement for the buggy built-in (after running TEACH) APLY program.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/19

ASCII to Binary Converter 2.0   (details) 49/50 48 ENG   11KB/1KB
System RPL program to translate ASCII files into binary files so they can be used in Emu48 or a 49G+ using only an SD card, and vice versa.
By Eric Rechlin, John H Meyers, and Christoph Gießelink. 2005/05/30

Battery Drain Information   (details) 48 ENG   4KB
Lists some things that use up more battery power. This information is provided to help you conserve battery life.
By John H Meyers. 1998/01/10

Buzz   (details) 48 ENG   5KB
The real reason why the HP 48's keyboard buzzes.
By John H Meyers. 1998/06/12

BZDIR 3.2Get It   (details) 48 ENG   7KB/1KB
Compresses entire directories with BZ.
By John H Meyers. 1998/06/25

BZM in User RPL   (details) 48 ENG   4KB/1KB
Program similar to BZM but written in User RPL.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/19

Caller ID   (details) 48 ENG   3KB/1KB
Routine to find a variable's name from within the program.
By John H Meyers. 1998/11/13

Casio-like Fraction Calculator   (details) 48 ENG   3KB/1KB
Fraction calculator that acts like the Casio fraction calculating abilities.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/21

Change Object Type   (details) 48 ENG   3KB/1KB
Converts between common object types, such as string to name, bint to real, binary to bint, and more.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/24

Checksum Collision   (details) 48 ENG   3KB/1KB
Calculates strings that have the same checksum.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/21

Compile Batch File   (details) 48 ENG   3KB
DOS batch file which makes it easy to compile and assemble programs with RPLCOMP, SASM, and SLOAD.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/23

Compiling a String   (details) 48 ENG   3KB
Explains several methods of compiling a string into an object, and lists advantages and disadvantages of each.
By John H Meyers. 1998/08/29

Constant Factor   (details) 48 ENG   5KB/1KB
Allows the user to set up a factor (or dividend, summand, or minuend) to apply repeatedly, like most algebraic calculators. Uses vectored ENTER. Two versions.
By Len Fellman and John H Meyers. 1998/08/17

Conversion Toolbox   (details) 48 ENG   2KB/1KB
Converts lists to matrices and vice versa and more.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

Custom Unit Conversion Menu   (details) 48 ENG   4KB/1KB
Replacement for the entire units menu system, with menus you choose yourself. You get a main units menu, with as many sub-menus as you wish, plus an additional program which goes immediately to a menu of units you can convert to, given any existing unit object.
By John H Meyers. 1998/10/17

Day of Week   (details) 48 ENG   1KB/1KB
Tiny program which prints the date tagged with the day of the week, or gives a number representing the day of the week.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

DE   (details) 48 ENG   3KB/1KB
DIS and ED: front end for ED/TED with undo and automatic assembly/disassembly.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/21

DISPF   (details) 48 ENG   3KB/1KB
Replacement for the DISP command, allowing one to display a string of text on any line of the current screen (even line 8, if the screen is big enough).
By John H Meyers. 1998/10/10

DOLST and DOSBS   (details) 48 ENG   2KB/1KB
"Normalizes" DOLIST and DOSUBS.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

Eight Line Stack   (details) 48 ENG   2KB/1KB
Tiny eight-line stack routine written in User RPL.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

Encryption   (details) 48 ENG   7KB/1KB
Encryption program; XOR stream cipher with 32-bit random IV, 12-digit numeric key.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/02

Eq Solver Tools   (details) 48 ENG   2KB/1KB
Some tools for the equation solver to purge unneeded variables as well as an easier to use front end.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

EXCO   (details) 48 ENG   1KB/1KB
Expands and collects and expression until it can no longer be simplified. Tiny, but slow.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

Factor Small Numbers   (details) 48 ENG   3KB/1KB
Can factor any 6-digit number in less than 4 seconds, or any 8-digit number in less than 40 seconds, although most arguments can be factored much faster than these worst-case times.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/21

Fast Vars   (details) 48 ENG   5KB/1KB
Fast replacement of the VARS command.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/19

Fibonacci Sequence   (details) 48 ENG   1KB/1KB
Tiny program to generate the Fibonacci Sequence using SEQ.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

FIN49A 2.1   (details) 49/50 ENG   36KB/45KB
ScreenshotFinancial package for the 49G, including Bonds and Stocks, irregular cash flows, etc. Original program written by Don Phillips; 49G port by John H Meyers.
By MacDonald R. Phillips and John H Meyers. 2003/05/21

FIXN   (details) 48 ENG   2KB/1KB
Fixes the number of decimal digits to the right amount for the number on level one of the stack so it is shown with thousands separators.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

Function Table   (details) 48 ENG   4KB/1KB
Shows a table of values of a function like on the TIs and the HP 38.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/19

Get Equation Library Grobs   (details) 48 ENG   2KB/1KB
Extracts grobs from the equation library.
By John H Meyers. 1998/08/28

Hidden Directory Tools   (details) 48 ENG   3KB/1KB
Small directory of programs to store and recall variables within the "hidden directory" rather than the current directory, without having to do anything to change the current directory.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/24

HideVars   (details) 48 ENG   6KB/1KB
Small variable hider; works in any directory.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/02

Hiss   (details) 48 ENG   5KB
An alternate explanation for the "hiss" that comes out of the HP 48 keyboard.
By John H Meyers. 2008/08/17

Info on UBASE Bug   (details) 48 ENG   4KB
Information on a bug in the UBASE command.
By John H Meyers. 1998/10/17

Library install/uninstall/backup   (details) 48 ENG   3KB/1KB
Help with installing, uninstalling, and backing up libraries (either along with user memory or directly from port).
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/21

MCHOOS 1.0   (details) 49/50 48 ENG   4KB/1KB
ScreenshotMCHOOS is an elementary User RPL program which allows creating a set of nested CHOOSE levels within a single list of choices.
By John H Meyers. 2006/05/14

Median Bug Fixed   (details) 48 ENG   4KB/1KB
A series of Usenet posts that explain how to fix a bug in the MEDIAN command that is made available by the TEACH command.
By John H Meyers. 2003/01/15

MENUADJ   (details) 48 ENG   3KB/1KB
Protects variables from being accidentally stored over.
By John H Meyers. 1999/01/06

MES and User Equation Library   (details) 49/50 ENG   4KB/1+KB
Explains how HP 48 owners can access the Multiple Equation Solver in the 49 and provides a user equation library.
By John H Meyers. 1999/11/04

Multi-level User Equation Library   (details) 48 ENG   5KB/1KB
Has features resembling the built-in Equation Library, but allows you to supply the equations. It also has units support.
By John H Meyers. 1998/06/08

Numeric Integration Helper   (details) 48 ENG   3KB/1KB
Makes it easier to do numeric integration.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/21

OBJN   (details) 48 ENG   3KB/1KB
Safer version of OBJ->.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

Order with and without Hack   (details) 48 ENG   4KB/1KB
Shows how to call the ORD function if the Hack library exists, ORDER otherwise.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/19

PFCTR   (details) 48 ENG   1KB/1KB
An extremely small and fast polynomial factoring program.
By John H Meyers. 1998/01/22

Polynomial <-> Coefficients   (details) 48 ENG   6KB/1KB
Extracts the coefficients from a polynomial and vice versa.
By John H Meyers. 1998/10/14

Print Directory Tree   (details) 48 ENG   4KB/1KB
Prints a directory tree of your variables, including size and type.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/01

Print Directory Tree   (details) 49/50 ENG   4KB/1KB
Prints a directory tree of your variables, including size and type.
By John H Meyers. 1999/08/13

Purge and Store Prevention   (details) 48 ENG   3KB/1KB
Utility that prevents the accidental purging and storing of variables.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/19

RAND Tricks   (details) 48 ENG   6KB/1KB
Assembly language source code and binaries to, among other things, recall the previous random number generated with RAND.
By John H Meyers. 1998/12/02

Random Numbers   (details) 48 ENG   9KB
Lots of information on random numbers with the 48, including chances of getting a repeated number.
By Klaus Wolferts, John H Meyers, and Steve VanDevender. 1999/01/06

RatPower   (details) 48 ENG   2KB/1KB
Computes exact real-valued answers (with correct sign) to, say '(-8)^(5/3)' ==> -32 rather than the usual slightly inexact and possibly complex-valued result.
By John H Meyers. 1999/03/06

Rename   (details) 48 ENG   2KB/1KB
Renames a variable without affecting its position in the directory.
By John H Meyers. 1998/08/29

ROLDXJ 1.0   (details) 49/50 48 ENG   12KB/2KB
ScreenshotVery small (about 1K) yet efficient Rolodex database system for all HP 49/HP 48G series, in directory form (not a library), with case-insensitive general text searching.
By John H Meyers. 2006/05/14

Save Unlimited Last Commands   (details) 48 ENG   4KB/1KB
Uses vectored enter to save an unlimited number of last commands; update on the Vectored Enter Example program below.
By John H Meyers. 1998/08/01

Seeing Garbage Collections   (details) 48 ENG   2KB/1KB
Allows you to graphically see how memory and garbage collections work.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

Set Operations   (details) 48 ENG   2KB/1KB
Performs basic arithmetic operations on mathematical sets, including intersection, union, and XOR.
By John H Meyers. 1998/09/01

Slow Integer Square Root   (details) 48 ENG   2KB/1KB
Calculates the square root of an integer in User RPL.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

SOLVE   (details) 48 ENG   3KB/1KB
Equation solver that acts like the solver on the HP 18C/19B.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

Sort Directories   (details) 48 ENG   2KB/1KB
Sorts the contents of directories so the subdirectories are placed first.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

Stopwatch in RPL   (details) 48 ENG   4KB/1KB
User RPL stopwatch/chronograph.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/19

SX List Tools   (details) 48 ENG   14KB/2KB
Adds the list management tools that were new to the G series to the S series. Includes DOLIST, DOSUBS, STREAM, REVLIST, DeltaLIST, SumLIST, PILIST, HEAD, TAIL, and SORT.
By John H Meyers. 1998/06/25

SYSEVAL Translator Package   (details) 49/50 ENG   6KB/1KB
Makes it easy to transfer User RPL programs containing SYSEVALs between the 49 and the 48.
By John H Meyers. 2000/01/21

Ten Line Stack   (details) 48 ENG   2KB/1KB
Tiny ten-line stack routine written in User RPL.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

Tiny Spreadsheet   (details) 48 ENG   4KB/1KB
Includes two very small spreadsheet routines.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/19

Tiny String Viewer   (details) 48 ENG   3KB/1KB
ScreenshotTiny program that allows any string to be displayed one screen full at a time.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

TRI1 Triangle Solver 4.1d   (details) 48 ENG   10KB/2KB
ScreenshotUser RPL program which solves a triangle immediately after being given three inputs. Also solves the dual-solution SSA problem. Includes commented source code and gives information on how to modify it to show both SSA solutions after only running the program once.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

Unit Scaling   (details) 48 ENG   7KB/1KB
Automatically adjusts the unit prefix in steps of 1000 (by multiplying or dividing accordingly, like certain Casio calculators having both ENG-> and <-ENG keys and unit symbols).
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/19

Units   (details) 48 ENG   4KB/1KB
Given a unit object, this program goes to the appropriate unit menu for converting it, plus some other unit conversion aids.
By John H Meyers. 1998/10/15

Unlimited Level Stack   (details) 48 ENG   2KB/1KB
ScreenshotDisplays the entire stack at once, pausing between screenfuls of data.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/22

UserRPL Port Tools   (details) 48 ENG   12KB
Many small (but very useful) programs for managing port memory.
By John H Meyers. 1998/01/22

UserRPL Port Tools   (details) 49/50 ENG   14KB/1-2KB
Many small (but very useful) programs for managing port memory.
By John H Meyers. 1999/08/13

Vectored Enter Example   (details) 48 ENG   4KB/1KB
Shows how vectored Enter can be used, with a "Last Commands" function that saves a user-determined number of commands.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/25

WEIGHT3   (details) 48 ENG   3KB/1KB
Another Weighted Statistics package.
By John H Meyers. 1998/07/21

XC49 3.0   (details) 49/50 ENG   7KB/1KB
XC49 performs hassle-free HP 49G/G+ CAS commands (in RPN mode) so that they don't force you to delete variables, don't fail because of variables which already exist, don't prompt for any mode changes, and don't leave any modes changed after execution.
By John H Meyers. 2006/03/19

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