rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez) (02/06/91)
Are there many people doing development work on Unix with 680*0 targets? It seems to me that if enough people are doing this kind of work, there should be a lot of small utilities kicking around that are used. It might be interesting to pool all of these in a ftp site or something. Here's a few that I've written: prom - COFF to S-REC for Bytek PROM burner (Sys V) rload - Load COFF over VMEbus to memory (Sys V) machine - noodle machtype entry in sun a.out header to various values (SunOS) obj - display everything there is to know about a sun object file (SunOS) under construction: crds2sun - convert Charles River Data Systems COFF to Sun a.out (SunOS) prom - for Sun a.out, and probably for a different burner (SunOS) load - load a.out over Sun VME to BIT3 VME-VME board to remote VME rack I also frequently use the binary editor 'fm'. I've heard that there is a 68020 to 68000 converter around. Right now we're working on converting three (count 'em) types of 68k assembler sources (2 for Charles River, and 1 for Ironics P32) to Sun's assembler format. What a pain. Tons of ugly sed scripts. I can't imagine doing this sort of stuff without a suite of these tools. I realize that many of them will be very application specific, but maybe there is enough commonality to pool these together somewhere. Feedback? -Roger -- "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim" - Edsgar W. Dijkstra rg@[msel|unhd].unh.edu | UNH Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory r_gonzalez@unhh.bitnet | Durham, NH 03824-3525