Splitting binary files for burning EPROMs...

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Tue Oct 31 08:17:52 2000

At 09:37 PM 10/30/00 -0500, Roger wrote:
>Rumor has it that Joe may have mentioned these words:
>>Ethan,
>>
>> I've done this in Wordstar in the non-document mode. MANY years ago I
>>had to transfer a 10 Mb file to a customer's computer in Canada using only
>>360K disks. I loaded the file into Wordstar (it will work on files larger
>>than it's memory) and cut it into ~330K blocks and saved each one to a
>>disk. When I got to Canada I simply copied and concatenated the files (copy
>>file1+file2+file bigfile). It worked perfectly.
>
>Hmmm... this isn't exactly what he's looking for... he also needs to split
>up the data in 8bit chunks as well, as he stated he was working with a
>32-bit word file.

   I thought that too at first but I re-read his messsage and it didn't say
that. It said that he wanted to take a 256K memory dump and break it into
64K chucks for archiving so I gathered that he wanted to leave it in 32 bit
words. I'm not sure what he's really after, his message wqasn't very clear.

>
>It sounds (at least to me) that he's writing 4 64Kbyte eproms that have to
>exist in parallel on a 32-bit data bus for the total of 256Kbyte... so the
>file would be like this:

  <snip>

   Yes, that the best way to do it if he's going to put it into EPROMs. I
think the site that Eric suggested
(http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/srecord.html) has a program to do
that. So that should take care of his needs.

    Joe
Received on Tue Oct 31 2000 - 08:17:52 GMT

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