Code to an External Programmer

There are three methods of transferring code to an EPROM programmer for Production code generation.

From within IRTC two words BIN>PROG and HEX>PROG allow a binary or an ASCII Hex download via COM1:. Both these require the code start address and end address.

The Binary has no checksum or address, it is just a dump of the code at the addresses from the Target image in the Host.

Similarly the Hex is just a code dump, again with no checksum or address transmitted.

Both give a checksum, on the screen, for the bytes sent for comparison with that generated manually in the programmer.

The last method is to use the INTELLEC file appl.HEX. This contains records with address and checksum. To download this to the programmer MS-DOS COPY may be used. This may be from the command line of DOS or from within IRTC with:

The word SHELL may be used to send any combination of DOS commands from within IRTC. SHELL alone will shell out of Win32Forth, returning via EXIT.

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