Wayne,

The hideous manual strikes again, eh? :)

>What is happening after I learn a new command
>and for a period of time the C7 kind of has a
>stroke?

If it recovers on its own, I suspect it may
simply be doing garbage collection. I don't know
how much you know about programming, but often,
in some systems, you'll find that the free
(unallocated) memory is highly fragmented, so it
would make sense for the remote, after each new
key is learned (or deleted) to reorganize memory
so that all the empty areas are at the end, back
to back, forming one contiguous region of memory
in which to learn more signals. This process is
called garbage collection, and takes a moment.

>Did I see it stated somewhere that advanced
>function codes take less memory, and that if I
>were to find the codes to some of my learned
>commands I could free up yet more memory?

From all I've read on the subject, it appears
there are two completely seperate areas of
memory, one for learning, and one for everything
else. (key movers, macros, etc.)

However, finding codes for your devices is still
better, because the number of key moves/advanced
codes you can store is about 45 (assuming no
macros are taking up part of their space),
whereas the number of things you can learn seems
to range somewhere between 15 and 30, depending
on device...and now I found out, also depending
on whether you hold down the button when
recording. :) (I suspected as much, but didn't
actualy test it. Perhaps I'll rerecord all my
learned keys.)

>And Ing. what you suggest is way over my head...

It's not that hard. You just hook a solar cell
up to the LINE IN port on a sound card, start the
computer digitizing sound, point the dishplayer's
original factory remote at the solar cell, press
the remote button you'd like to digitize, and
then stop recording. You take the file
(preferably 44100 samples per second, in mono),
and you make it available on a web site
somewhere, and make its address known here.

DISCLAIMER: By reading, or acting on, the above
paragraph, you agree to bear all responsibility,
and hold me (the Author) wholly unresponsible for
any and all consequences which may arise from the
use or misuse of the above ideas. My statement
of said ideas is not to be construed as an
endorsement of, or promise of fitness of, the
proceures outlined above.

If you fry a component, like maybe your sound
card, It isn't my fault. (Although it didn't seem
to fry mine.)

I wonder if anyone else out there with the a
dishplayer is also a techie...?

-=Ingenious=-

P.S. -- Happy New Year, Everyone! :)