RE: Reading from the memory card.

["Albertson, Chris" <CAlbertson@primeadvantage.com>]

Tom's got it right.  No need to write assembly code.
I've got something that runs at nearly the fastest
theoretical speed possible.  All we need to someone
who has the tool to build MS Windows .exe files.
I don't own an MS Windows based system and have no
desire to get one either.  Just download the code
add some "glue" and compile it.  I'd estimate it as
a one evening job if you are fast and lucky 3 or 4
if you are neither.  I'll modify my code to suit and
maintain it too.  Just need someone with a Windows 
development system to do some of the work.

Arne has his tass control computer on the 'net now.
in a "while" we will have a native Linux based control
program.  This is the best solution but "while" could
be a while.  What Tom asks for could be done in a week
easy.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Droege [mailto:tdroege@veriomail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 5:45 PM
> To: Bob May; tass@listserv.wwa.com
> Subject: Re: Reading from the memory card.
> 
> 
> Bob and all,
> 
> The problem is not how to link to it, the problem is to get 
> someone to take 
> on the job of writing assembly code to transfer the contents 
> of the Memory 
> card to disk.  Chris has already done a lot of the work.  One 
> just needs to 
> put together the pieces.
> 
> The SHELL process works just fine for this task.  It is a lot 
> easier (for 
> me) to shell out to a program than to call a library program. 
>  Most of the 
> time I want to be running in the QBasic environment.  I have 
> built a large 
> QBasic program in the past - much too large to fit in the 
> environment - it 
> was a pain since one constantly had to recompile and link.  
> Of course this 
> was on a much slower machine.  It took about an hour.
> 
> Tom Droege
> 
> At 03:40 PM 1/31/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >What you really need to read the data fast from the data 
> card is not a shell
> >program (that method takes a while to just start the 
> procedure) but rather
> >do a library call to read the data into your array.  The 
> assembly of a
> >library isn't that hard to do for QB and the code is usually 
> written in
> >assembly language.  The only problem with this approach is 
> that anybody
> >compiling the full program needs to have that library.
> >Bob May
> >My new web space address is http://webu.wigloo.com/bobmay/ or
> >http://nav.to/bobmay
> >and my new email address is bobmay@nethere.com
> >Bob May
> 
>