[A83] Re: App signing
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[A83] Re: App signing
Actually, it seems that apps aren't filled up to the 16kb barrier on the PC.
This would make sense, because making apps larger than they need to be would
increase transmission time, and possibly write more bytes to the flash
(although these bytes may be written by the ROM anyway, depending on how
it's implemented)
Kirk
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From: assembly-83-bounce@lists.ticalc.org
[mailto:assembly-83-bounce@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of Henk Poley
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 8:59 AM
To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: [A83] Re: App signing
> Van: Gavin Olson <gtolson@snet.net>
>
> >> Forgot to mention, I asked TI for the rabsig source (calcsig.c),
> >> now to see if I really get it from them :-)
> >
> >I see you have looked some further inside the exes themselves, also
found
> >the html-page with a commercial about lipstick? Any idea what it's doing
> >there? Probably a joke from Ti programmers ;-)
> >
> >Or just to fill their fillapp-program?
>
> Whatever it takes to fill the full 16K :-)
Uhm, sorry, but the fillapp program is a DOS32 program, not a Flash-app...
It's probably used to fill your .hex file up to the next 16k 'barrier'. If
you want to see what I'm talking about, download the files Hyperbyte send a
link to, and hex-edit (..read-only..) the fillapp.exe (btw: it's somewhat
illegal, but since you probably don't know anything about x86
(dis)assembly, never mind.)
Henk Poley
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