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CREATING THE EXTERNAL BOARD IDENTIFICATION FILE
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If Sysinfo does not recognise a board by name, it normally
prints the Manufacturer and Product numbers. Since version
3.22 it now looks in an external file (if it exists) in
the S: directory called "sysinfo.boards" in an attempt to match
each of these unknown board numbers with strings that you
have supplied within the file.
The file *MUST* be called sysinfo.boards and *MUST* be in
the S: directory.
The file must have a strict specific format as shown below.
Comments are allowed but *MUST* only be at the top of the file,
and the first character on the beginning of each line *MUST*
be a semi-colon (;) Blank lines are not allowed and will cause
errors unless preceded with a semi-colon.
Each different board must be on a new line and the
manufacturer must be given for each product number, even
if they are the same. For example, Commodore cards are
known by Sysinfo, but if they were not, and you had a
A2091 card, Sysinfo would have displayed it as Manufacturer 514
and Product 3, and the memory portion of the board as
Manufacturer 514 with Product 10. These two entries would
be in the ascii file as :-
514 COMMODORE 3 A2901/A590
514 COMMODORE 10 FAST-MEMORY
See the example sysinfo.boards file with this archive
for a complete working example.
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***IMPORTANT***
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Each name that follows each number **MUST** not contain
spaces, if you want to seperate two names then use
hyphens, periods or slashes etc., as shown in the example
above.
There must be at least one space between each of the numbers
and the name strings on every line, as these are used
as delimiters for seperating numbers from the names and also
used to null terminate the strings for printing.