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<p>Don't be discouraged from posting. Nothing wrong with a quick
hack. They do tend to have a longer than intended life, and
considering the range of experience on the list, I thought it
worth taking a couple of minutes to suggest a more robust
implementation.</p>
<p>I did restrain myself and did not point out how to provide
command line arguments (foreign or DCL command table), create a
VMS help file, internationalize messages or build a VMSINSTAL (or
PCSI) kit :-) It is, after all, a QUICK hack...<br>
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<p>Later hardware uses FLASH parts, which aren't socketed (well,
very rarely), so even for people who have the hardware skills to
remove ROMs, there's a future use for a utility. Plus, it works
in simulation :-)<br>
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On 18-Mar-17 21:01, Rick Murphy wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:3216388d-290d-0927-94b8-cf9796beb063@itm-inst.com"
type="cite">On 3/18/2017 12:23 PM, Timothe Litt wrote:
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Even though someone found a utility for the 8200, a program like
this is handy for other machines (and device roms).
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A good outline of the essentials of PFN (and file) mapping, but
for general use...
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Timothe, well spotted (I actually noticed the lack of $close when
posted, and said, oh well... it does the job.)
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However, remind me to never post any quick hack here ever again.
:)
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This was used to pull an image of the ROM, initially to probe the
code with VMS PATCH, eventually to dupe the ROM. In the end, it
was easier to just pull the ROMs and duplicate them.
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-Rick
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