A82: Re: What is FIX

To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: A82: Re: What is FIX
From: Dines Christy Justesen <c958362@student.dtu.dk>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 12:13:55 +0100 (MET)
Reply-To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org

David Boozer wrote fix com (in x86 asm I think), and he never did release
the source. David Boozer is really hard to contact and I do not know his
current email address. Creating the check sum is however no problem at
all. The following PASCAL code will make the checksum

  seek(dst,$37);                             {Goto start of data
  checksum:=0;                              {fix checksum}
  for i:=1 to filesize(dst)-$37 do begin {For all bytes in file do}
    read(dst,b);   {Read a byte}
    checksum:=checksum+b; {Add it to the check sum}
  end;

dst is the file which you want to check the checksum off..

Dines
-----Original Message-----
From: Asmti82 <Asmti82@aol.com>
To: assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-82@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: 24. december 1997 05:58
Subject: A82: What is FIX


>
>Hello, as many of you know already, I am trying to put together a Mac
>assembler package.
>
>Thanks to you guys, I found a lot of good information, and spent the last
3
>hours or so perfecting the use and writing about it.
>
>However, all good things must end, and I realized several minutes ago
that the
>checksum at the end of the link file has a much larger role than I had
>originally suspected.  It is the one thing preventing me from being able
to
>use the link software to transfer the programs.
>
>Once again, I ask of you: do any of you know where I can find the code to
FIX
>(which apparently fixes checksums) and/or where I can find the person who
made
>it.
>
>That is the one thing standing inbetween me and this first release. 
Please,
>if you know of anything that could help me, let me know.  Thankyou, and I
>think I'll go to sleep now (for the first time in 3 days...since this
project
>started).
>
>Your dedicated ASM, Matt Stack
>

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Dines Justesen
Email: dines@post1..com or
       c958362@student.dtu.dk
WWW  : http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c958362/
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