Re: A86: 86g File Quirks

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Re: A86: 86g File Quirks

At 05:16 PM 9/28/97 -0700, you wrote:
>I just spent the last couple hours tracking down an odd quirk with some
>86g files.  I have had many files cause strange errors in xlink86 (my
>personal hacked up version of xlink85 for use on my linux box) when I
>tried to send them.  After ruling out xlink (lots of gdb), I noticed
>there seems to be a recurring error in the files.  Referring to the
>85g.txt (which should be the same for 86g) file:
><snip>
>  +05h      01h       Byte: Name length
>  +06h       *h       Name (plain data, no terminating null or padding
>                      spaces)
><snip>
>
>At the name length offsets in all of the files that didn't work, I found
>that the length stored there was correct (0x05 for a variable named
>"Sqrxz") but the name that followed always contained 8 characters.  In
>the Sqrxz.86g, the Sqrxz was followed by 3 spaces (0x20) then the
>correct data length.  In Aurora, the first variable, APic1, was followed
>by null characters.  Later in the same file, the variable named AuroraO2
>(which has 8 letters) has a name length of 6 stored in the file.  It
>seems like whatever program that everyone else is using ignores the name
>length byte and assumes that the name has 8 characters no matter what. 
>Did I miss something in the standard?  Do 86g files differ from 85g
>files?
>

Yes, I noticed that when i was making a 86p maker for object code.
(prgm86.exe) 
I don't know why they would do it, besides to make each file more equal in
format.  They also might do this so that the 85 graphlink doens't read 86
files but the 86 graphlink can read both.  possibly...



>Also, I was wondering if everyone uses the same program for converting
>their object files to 85p/85g files?
>

i just use the graphlink sofware for DOS, don't know about linux


>Stan Seibert
>
>


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