31 Oct
2000
31 Oct
'00
3:17 a.m.
At 09:37 PM 10/30/00 -0500, Roger wrote:
Rumor has it that Joe may have mentioned these words:
I thought that too at first but I re-read his messsage and it didn't say
that. It said that he wanted to take a 256K memory dump and break it into
64K chucks for archiving so I gathered that he wanted to leave it in 32 bit
words. I'm not sure what he's really after, his message wqasn't very clear.
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:
<snip>
Yes, that the best way to do it if he's going to put it into EPROMs. I
think the site that Eric suggested
(http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/srecord.html) has a program to do
that. So that should take care of his needs.
Joe