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- History of this program:
- This program was written by Terry Fisher. Its purpose: to fix some of
- those nasty programs that were written before people started using fast memory.
- Now, it can also be used as a valuable 'C' development tool, similar in function
- to the Assembly language Atom utility. By running this program on your
- executable, you can avoid having to copy image data into chip memory. Simply
- put 'Hunker <file> d=c' into your Makefile, and all initialized data will
- be loaded into chip memory automatically.
-
- Usage:
- This program can only be used from the CLI. The format for invocation
- is: Hunker <file> [-v] [c/d/b]=[c/f/e]
-
- Order is not important except that the file name must be the first arguement.
- The other arguements may be typed in any order. Their meanings follow.
-
- -v sets verbose mode. It isn't really useful, but its there.
-
- [c/d/b]=[c/f/e] These are the switches which specify where each hunk type are
- to be loaded into memory. The characters on the left of the
- '=' are the hunk type. The characters on the right are the
- type of memory to load these hunks into.
- ie d=c would put all data hunks into chip memory
- c=f would put all code hunks into fast memory
- b=e would put all uninitialized data into either chip or fast
-
- Note: to change more than one type of hunk at one time, you
- must have a separate argument for each hunk type.
- ie to load data into chip memory, and code into fast,
- the CLI command would be:
- Hunker <file> d=c c=f
-
- Distribution:
- Hunker may be freely distributed as long as: this README file is
- kept with it, and it is not included in any commercial distributions without
- my consent. If you find this program useful, and it is going to save you
- several hours, I would appreciate any contribution. (If its going to make
- your $50 commercial software run, I feel I deserve a small contribution :-)
-
- Terry Fisher,
- RR #2,
- Harriston, Ontario, Canada.
- N0G 1Z0
-
- See also the section on ATOM in the Bantam AmigaDos Manual.
-
- Thanks to Carolyn Scheppner at CATS for helping figure out how the loader
- works.
-