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- Rom capture utilities for PC and AT
-
- This is a set of utilities that allows the user to capture the contents
- of the rom sets in either the PC or the AT. It allows the content of the rom
- to be written to a file called xtrom for the XT or atrom for the AT. A
- utility called romsplit is provided for the AT that allows the atrom file to
- be split into two files that represent the even and odd bytes and which are
- called tempeven and tempodd, respectively. Note that this is not necessary
- for the XT. Another utility called lsplit is provided to allow the large
- files produced by romsav to be split into files that will fit into the desired
- destination eproms. For prom burners that accept data format in the Motorola
- S record format, a utility called binex is provided that converts a binary
- file into standard S record format. A typical session is described below for
- an AT.
-
-
- 1. Run the command "romsavat". This will produce a file called "atrom".
-
- 2. Run the command "romsplit" (copy "atrom" to a new file temp). This
- will produce two files called "tempeven" and "tempodd".
-
- 3. If the destination eproms are 27256 then it is not necessary to split
- the files into smaller ones, otherwise run the command "lsplit <epromsize>
- tempeven", where <epromsize> is the decimal size of the destination file in
- bytes (e.g. "lsplit 16384 tempeven" to make tempeven into two files called
- "F0" and "F1" that will fit into 27128 eproms. Rename the files to some
- new name so that they will not be overwritten at the next step. Now run
- the command "lsplit <epromsize> tempodd" to produce files for the odd byte
- eproms.
-
- 4. If you are producing S records run "binex <source> <destination>" on
- each file that you wish to convert to S record format.
-
- 5. Feed them to a prom burner and keep track of which eproms were even
- and odd and the order in which they were burned to allow you to install
- them properly in the target system.
-
- THE ABOVE PROGRAMS WERE COMPILED WITH MICROSOFT C