30 Oct
2000
30 Oct
'00
12:37 p.m.
Rumor has it that Joe may have mentioned these words:
Ethan,
I've done this in Wordstar in the non-document mode. MANY years ago I
had to transfer a 10 Mb file to a customer's computer in Canada using only
360K disks. I loaded the file into Wordstar (it will work on files larger
than it's memory) and cut it into ~330K blocks and saved each one to a
disk. When I got to Canada I simply copied and concatenated the files (copy
file1+file2+file bigfile). It worked perfectly.
Hmmm... this isn't exactly what he's looking for... he also needs to split
up the data in 8bit chunks as well, as he stated he was working with a
32-bit word file.
It sounds (at least to me) that he's writing 4 64Kbyte eproms that have to
exist in parallel on a 32-bit data bus for the total of 256Kbyte... so the
file would be like this:
byte1 byte2 byte3 byte4 byte5 byte6 byte7 byte8 byte9 byte10 byte11
byte12.............. etc.
And the four files would start out like this:
File 1:
byte1 byte5 byte9 ...
File 2:
byte2 byte6 byte10 ...
File 3:
byte3 byte7 byte11 ...
File 4:
byte4 byte8 byte12 ...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's how I interpret what he needs to do...
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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