Don't be discouraged from posting. Nothing wrong with a quick hack. They do tend to have a longer than intended life, and considering the range of experience on the list, I thought it worth taking a couple of minutes to suggest a more robust implementation.
I did restrain myself and did not point out how to provide command line arguments (foreign or DCL command table), create a VMS help file, internationalize messages or build a VMSINSTAL (or PCSI) kit :-) It is, after all, a QUICK hack... Later hardware uses FLASH parts, which aren't socketed (well, very rarely), so even for people who have the hardware skills to remove ROMs, there's a future use for a utility. Plus, it works in simulation :-) On 18-Mar-17 21:01, Rick Murphy wrote: > On 3/18/2017 12:23 PM, Timothe Litt wrote: >> >> Even though someone found a utility for the 8200, a program like this >> is handy for other machines (and device roms). >> >> A good outline of the essentials of PFN (and file) mapping, but for >> general use... >> > Timothe, well spotted (I actually noticed the lack of $close when > posted, and said, oh well... it does the job.) > However, remind me to never post any quick hack here ever again. :) > > This was used to pull an image of the ROM, initially to probe the code > with VMS PATCH, eventually to dupe the ROM. In the end, it was easier > to just pull the ROMs and duplicate them. > -Rick >
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