A86: Reading files

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: A86: Reading files
From: "Muhammed Galadima" <mj_galadima@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 08:27:33 GMT
Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org

>Muhammed Galadima wrote:
>> 
>> hello,
>> 
>> does anyone know how to select a file in the calculator's memory, 
read
>> it's contents and store it to a register, 1 byte at a time in hex?
>
>you cant store a file in a register, registers can only hold 8bits of
>data, but you can store it after the textmem (gets deleted after 
exiting
>program) or make a table and store it to that
>

Do I have to store a prog to a table or to the textmem before using it's 
contents? can't I just use one byte of it at a time as it is being read?

my question was how to read a specified file from the calculator's RAM 1 
byte at a time.  ie. how do I know where it starts in the RAM?

Lets say I have aurora on my calc and a few games: pj, tetris, frogger, 
sqrxz, penguins, etc. Now I make a program that copies files to another 
calc. The program looks through the RAM of one calc like hexview/memview 
and displays the files it saw. Now I select tetris and the program reads 
1 byte of the file starting at the mem address found with the RAM 
viewer. The byte is sent to another calc. The other calc has a prog that 
reads the byte from the link port and puts it into a file. This is 
repeated until the whole program has been transferred.

Or maybe I am overcomplicating this?

Thanks for any help
Muhammed

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