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One reason to send a file back to the computer is to do a file comparison. This is even better than XMODEM for program verification because HAAS compresses your program when it is loaded into main memory. Thus, XMODEM when it verifies transfer is not working with the data that is in main memory. That HAAS compresses data you can see by comparing the amount of memory used in HAAS with the size of the file you sent. When you send the file back to the computer HAAS re-expands the program, By this method you actually check the data that is used by HAAS to run the program.

Another reason is that you may make program changes on the HAAS and then want to save the actual file that was used.

Still another is that you may compose a program on the HAAS and when done you want to save the program.

Also you can use DPRINT to send information to the computer.

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Even if you use file comparison for final verification of your data XMODEM can be valuable for detecting and thru resend correcting errors during communication. What file comparison does for you is detection of errors in HAAS processing after XMODEM has done its work or errors in HAAS main memory.
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