jkg@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Jim Greenlee) (12/23/86)
Here's one for all you BASIC hackers out there. What is the format for
a BSAVE header? The IBM BASIC manual has some cryptic explanation that
I don't really care to dig through. What I've gleaned so far is that the
BSAVE header consists of 7 bytes - 1 byte of ID, 2 words of address,
and 1 word of length. My questions are:
1. Should anybody care what the ID byte is? The example in the BASIC manual
has '0FDH' as the ID. Would this be safe for most applications?
2. I assume that the address words are segment and offset. Is this true?
3. Can I just do something cheesy in Turbo Pascal to convert an Intel-Hex
file to binary (with the header inserted at the beginning), or is it
more complicated than that?
For anyone interested, our application is downloading Intel-Hex assembler
output to a Tecmar E+EEPROM programmer in an IBM PC. For reasons which are
rather complicated to explain, we want to download the files to a diskette
in ASCII format and convert them to BSAVE format (the only thing that the
EPROM programmer understands). Direct serial transmission is not possible.
Any assistance is appreciated - e-mail is fine.
Jim Greenlee
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