John.Wright@ucbvax.UUCP (06/11/87)
Can anyone tell me where I can find CP/M-86 software. I have a CBM-700 that will soon be able to run CP/M-86. I am new to CP/M and this bboard so I can use your help. Also would like to know if there are any CP/M Kermit programs available. I am the moderator for a "mini-Kermit" directory and would like to have some CP/M included if it exists. Thanks John
SAC.HQSAC-DOCT@E.ISI.EDU ("John A. Wright") (02/15/88)
I have my Concurrent CP/M-86 up and running on a Commodore 256-80. Unfortunately, I did not receive a HEXCOM pgm with the utility disk and because of the BIOS, none of the terms currently available will run. I do have a term called Move-It which will allow me to capture files to buffer then save to disk. Gaagin unfortunately, I can only download ascii files. Now to the real problem. Can anyone tell me how to convert HEX files to binary files without HEXCOM? I think DDT should work, but I didn't get any literature with the disk. (The joys of owning an unsupported machine) I have tried the standard DDT commands and to no avail. I have an asm utility that runs fine so I have been downloading ASM and HEX files. I would really like to try some of the very good utilities that are available. Thanks in advance, John
SAC.HQSAC-DOCT@E.ISI.EDU ("John A. Wright") (02/16/88)
Ref my ealier msg. I now have found that most utilities will run on this machine. Only problem is getting a CMD file over. Hexify seems to work until I use my form of Hexcom (gencmd). When I try to convert to cmd file, then run machine locks up. Anyone have any ideas?? I need some way of getting cmd (com) files to my machine,I cannot download binary files yet.
SAC.HQSAC-DOCT@E.ISI.EDU (John A. Wright) (02/17/88)
. As I stated before, I have trouble with cmd files. Does anyone know of a file on the TOPS-20 that will hexify a command file. I have used "HEXIFY"but it seems to place the wrong characters in the first two positions after the colon, and the line is 71 characters long. When I use asm86 and assemble a86 files, I generate hex files with a 1O after the colon, and lines that are only 65 characters long. Any ideas? Sorry if these seem like "dumb" questions, but not much information available for this machine, we are writing the manuals andgathering most of the software ourselves. Does anyone know where I cna find an A86 version of SQ and USQ as wel as DELBR for CP/M-86? Thanks in advance, John
WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA ("Frank J. Wancho") (02/17/88)
John, The number, in hex, after the colon, is the number of data bytes to follow after the PC (two hex bytes, low hex byte first) and a 00h. Thus, if the number after the colon is 10h (16d), the line length, in characters, would be: colon 1 count 2 address of PC 4 type (0 = bin) 2 data in hex 32 checksum 2 -- 43 or, an overhead of 11 characters. Thus, if the line is 71 characters long, the two characters after the colon would be 1Eh. If it were 65 characters long, the two characters would be 16h. In any event, DDT and LOAD both know how to handle counts other than 10h. All HEXIFY is trying to do is reduce the number of lines requiring that 11 character overhead by packing more data per line, all of which is perfectly legal in the Intel HEX format. --Frank