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nbrok

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Posted: 05:50am 13 Feb 2023

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Hi,
This is my first post in this forum and I found something strange in mmbasic on pico.
When i type ? mm.info(flash) I get 0. But I can create files in the 5 flash slots.
What does mm.info(flash) mean? I have a raspberry pico board.

Greetings,
Nick de pe1goo

phil99

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Posted: 06:18am 13 Feb 2023

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The only mention of mm.info(flash) that I can see in the latest manual is:-

"MM.INFO(FLASH SIZE) Returns the size of the flash memory chip"

So "? mm.info(flash)" returns 0 as it doesn't exist.

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That also returns 0 on beta 18. Something not quite right!

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Welcome to the forum.
Edited 2023-02-13 16:25 by phil99

TassyJim

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Posted: 06:20am 13 Feb 2023

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Hi and welcome

MM.INFO$(FLASH)
Reports which flash slot the program was loaded from if applicable

zero should mean that the current program was not run from a flash slot.

Jim

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nbrok

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Posted: 06:45am 13 Feb 2023

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phil99 said The only mention of mm.info(flash) that I can see in the latest manual is:-

"MM.INFO(FLASH SIZE) Returns the size of the flash memory chip"

So "? mm.info(flash)" returns 0 as it doesn't exist.

Edit
That also returns 0 on beta 18. Something not quite right!

PS
Welcome to the forum.

Thanks for the answer. mm.info(flash) makes sense... I don't use the slots, but mm.info(flash size) should return the amount of flash space available but it doesn't

. So as you discovered also we found a bug?
I did save a program in flash slot 1 and reloaded it from that slot, but mm.info(flash) does also return 0. Probably something not quite well?
Edited 2023-02-13 16:58 by nbrok

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TassyJim

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Posted: 07:06am 13 Feb 2023

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MM.INFO$(FREE SPACE) returns the free space in the flash drive.
MEMORY reports memory used and free for program space.

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phil99

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Posted: 07:07am 13 Feb 2023

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So it would seem. Saved a short test prog. that included "? mm.info(flash)" and "? mm.info$(flash)" to Flash 3 and they still return 0 with "FLASH RUN 3"

("mm.info$(flash)" Gets tokenised to "mm.info(flash)")

Grogster

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Posted: 07:08am 13 Feb 2023

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Hello - welcome to the forums.

Yes, I am getting that report of zero also. Not sure if I am on the latest PM firmware, I need to check that.

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