RE: DATA I/O 29B

<x-flowed>So...in other words, we WANT an I/O timeout? Curious. Now I will try
setting the I/O timeout to something like a second or two and see what the
results are for Promlink 6.10.

Stay tuned!

John :-#)#

At 11:56 AM 3/17/2000 -0500, Fish, David wrote:
> > So what is Code 10? Is it a simple raw binary, or is it
> > somewhat padded?
> >
>
>This is from a 2900/3900 manual I happen to have handy, the
>translation formats are the same as in the 29B for TF-10 and
>TF16.
>
>Format Code
>Formatted Binary 10
>Absolute Binary 16
>
>"Formatted Binary Format, Code 10
>Data transfer in the Formatted Binary format consists of a
>stream of 8-bit data bytes preceeded by a byte count and
>followed by a sumcheck. The Formatted Binary does not have
>addresses."
>"The programmer store incomming binary data upon receipt of
>the start character. Data are store in RAM starting at the
>first RAM address specified by the Memory Address Begin parameter
>and ending at the last incomming data byte."
>
>Note: The START CODE looks to be FF. It's really the
>RUBOUT paper tape character.
>
>"Format 10 does not function properly unless you select
>NO parity and 8-bit data"
>
>This format was originally used for paper tape input.
>
>"Absolute Binary Format, Code 16
>Absolute Binary format is a literal representation of the
>data to be transfered, and no translation of the data takes
>place during the transfer. There are no overhead characters
>added to the data (i.e. no address record, start code, end
>code, nulls or checksum). Every byte transfered represents
>the users data. This format can be used to download unformatted
>data such as a ".exe. file to the programmer.
> Since this format does not have an end of file character
>download transfers will terminate after no more data is received
>and an I/O timeout occurs."
>
>Dave
>
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