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- From: butenuth@i30fs1.ira.uka.de (Roger Butenuth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
- Subject: Re: Format of .btl files
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 14:16:32 GMT
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe (Germany)
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- References: <1993Jan22.114632.24686@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- > When the iserver boots a transputer network with a .btl file, is the
- > iserver just sequentially picking up bytes from the file and throwing
- > them at the C011? This would imply that the .btl file had all the necessary
- > bootstrap code for the whole network inside it, in addition to the
- > program code that will eventually run on each processor on the network.
-
- You are right!
- Look in the file .../source/iserver/iserver.c from your distribution
- (ANSI C Toolset), there you can find a function `Boot' which copies a file
- down a link.
-
- Hope this helps,
-
- Roger Butenuth
-