Thanks for the long explanation, Brian, Seems i have exact the same problem, which you have since yesterday, Hanging after entering a file.name in REX while ROM upload.
I use your actual git repo, so the version is always actual. Lets hope this problem will be solved somehow. Thanks again! Pawel On Saturday, 10 July 2021, Brian K. White wrote: > I just removed the file size check entirely, which got REXCPM bootstrap > working with those cpm ramdisk image files that are even larger than > 64k, and didn't seem to hurt anything else. I can't say for sure but I'm > pretty sure I even generated a directory listing from the dir with those > big files in there, though I never tried to load them of course other > than via the rexcpm setup files. > > I'm taking another look at it now. His debug log and the fact that there > even IS a -c option in his binary means that he's using a version that > is new enough to have the file size check removed, and has the uppercase > / case-insensitivity fix, and the debug log shows that he had already > renamed all the files to uppercase anyway, and shows that he wasn't > trying to load any .BA that needed to be renamed to .DO, basically > everything looks good. Should have worked. > > However, I myself seem to be having a problem I wasn't having even > yesterday, and I haven't changed a thing. I even tried reverting to old > git commits which I used many many times and are well proven. > > I even tried a different 100, different REX with a different TS-DOS in > it, different serial cable and usb-serial cables in case the DTR line > chose now to break inside... > > Just in the course of looking into this question, I was trying to run > the rexcpm initialization files, and the bootstrap of rxcini.DO works > fine, but it hangs when you answer the prompt for the file name > "RXC_12", hang. Only a few tpdd transactions on the debug output, no > explaination why it should hang right there. I even tried using both the > same old version of dlplus, and the same old version of the rexcpm files > I actually filmed myself using sucessfully on camera: > https://youtu.be/tb0WYQCaF1I > And the same thing hangs on me right now. > > I am fully ready to believe I somehow botched things modifying dl.c, > but, I tried old proven versions on all the same hardware. > > I'm down to wondering if I need to reboot my laptop since it has updated > several times since the last time I rebooted and it has been begging me > to reboot for 3 or 4 days. :) > Or maybe I need to revert to an older kernel since I'm using the ubuntu > mainline-ppa kernels not the "safe" ones. Every now and then funny > things happen there. > > -- > bkw > > > On 7/9/21 9:25 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 6:14 PM ExPLIT | Pawel Radomychelski > > <exp...@mailbox.org <mailto:exp...@mailbox.org>> wrote: > > > > Thanks John, will try Laddie Alpha > > I alos think it has something to do with the size of the file, > > because small file transfers over dl+ works normally. > > > > > > Yes. > > > > TPDD directory enumeration include a "file length" encoded as 2 bytes > > with a range of 0 to 65,53*5*. > > Binary ROM images are 32K = 32768, which is a length of file that can > > technically be represented in an unsigned 16-bit integer (2 bytes). It > > is less than 65,536. > > But ROM */image files/* as used by REX are a hex representation, so they > > are twice that big. Each binary byte is represented by 2 ASCII > > characters encoding the upper and lower nibble of each byte, respectively. > > > > Which means those files they are */exactly/* 64K = 65,53*6* > > > > The length of a 64K file cannot be represented in a 16-bit integer. You > > can only represent file sizes exactly one byte shorter... 65,53*5*. > > > > The TPDD protocol actually supports files bigger than 65535 bytes but > > the protocol is slightly different for representing file lengths greater > > than 65,535. > > > > So IF what I suspect is happening is happening, DLPlus still has that > > bug. I used to maintain it but I don't remember. > > > > Anyway I had to fix this for LaddieAlpha to make hex files work with REX. > > > > -- John. > > > -- > bkw > -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen ExPLIT IT Soltions Pawel Radomychelski
