HINTS-28 Pinching more memory If you have, as many people do, a Z88 with 32k internally (RAM.0) and a 128k in Slot 1 (RAM.1) then you can increase the memory available to you. Only 20k of your 32k is available, and RAM.1 loses 40k for internal use (as an "expanded machine"). So you only have about 100k when you might have thought you had 160k ! If you put the 128k RAM in slot 2 instead of slot 1 you will gain 40k of memory. You will not have an expanded machine and you can only use Basic programs up to about 8k in size - no great handicap and none at all if you don't use Basic. The extra RAM available for Pipedream applications should be more than welcome. Inexplicable - but possibly helpful. Recently, I was sending files to an EPROM but it refused to accept one of them. I don't know why I did it but I re-loaded the file into Pipedream, saved it again to RAM and it went straight into the EPROM ! I swear that's all I did. May help you sometime, especially if, like me, you have cursed an EPROM, all EPROMs ! If you have an explanation I would be glad to hear it. Days between dates. To calculate the days between dates :- At a new Pipedream page, proceed as follows :- a) go to the Options ( <>O ) and type N. This will convert from text to numbers. Press ESC. b) type the later of your two dates, in the form DD.MM.YEAR in slot A1 and press ENTER. c) type the earlier date, same format, in slot A2 and ENTER. d) in slot A3 type A1-A2 and ENTER. You will get the number of days between the two dates you have entered. You can use two figures for the year if BOTH dates are in this century. Should you enter one date before 3rd September 1752 and the other after 13th September of that year then you must subtract 11 from your answer. In that month the English-speaking countries went from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar and the days from the 3rd to the 13th were "lost". If both of your dates are before or both after that period - no problem. Calculate from 1.1.0000 to the current date ( and subtract 11 ! ) and you begin to realise what a huge number is one million. The odds against any set of numbers in the Lottery winning the Jackpot is nearly 9 million/1 !! Jack Lawrie 15 Sycamore grove Southam Leamington Spa CV33 0EY Back to HINTS-INDEX