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- SNAP.COM
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- Size (recs) CRC Version Author/Latest Issue Disk
- SNAP.COM 1k (8) 5BD2 1.2 Rob Friefeld 4/90 Z3COM8
- SNAP.CIM 1k (8) BB78 1.2 Rob Friefeld 4/90 Z3COM8
- SNAPRCP.COM 1k (4) 600A 1.1 Rob Friefeld 5/89 Z3COM8
- SNAPRCP.CIM 1k (4) 67C8 1.1 Rob Friefeld 5/89 Z3COM8
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- 1- Usage 2- Notes 3- SNAPRCP
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- SNAP is based on Bob Andersson's LAP.COM. It saves an image of the ENV,
- TCAP, RCP, FCP, IOP, NDR, and PATH, together with a small loader to the file
- named on the command line. When the output file is run, it puts the images
- back where they came from, then calls the IOP initialization if present. The
- overhead for the loader is less than 2 records. For further flexibility,
- command line options permit saving only the segments wanted.
- :1
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- Syntax SNAP file[.typ] /oo...
- o = (T)cap, (R)cp, (F)cp, (I)op, (N)dr, or (P)ath
-
- Usage SNAP SYS <- Save current packages to file SYS.COM
- LDR OTHER.ENV,OTHER.RCP,OTHER.NDR,OTHER.FCP
- SNAP OTHER <- Save this version to OTHER.COM
- SYS <- Reload all original packages at once.
- OTHER <- Run the other configuration.
- SNAP OTHERNDR /N <- Save only NDR
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- SNAP Notes - 1/3
-
- a. SNAP is not a package relocator. It just plugs a package setup back
- into memory. If you load snap into an incompatible system configura-
- tion, you will crash. (w/ NZCOM, use NZBLITZ or JETLDR.) Note that
- SNAPRCP is now obsolete.
-
- b. Although the space allocated to each package may vary, you cannot load
- one size system over another with SNAP.
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- c. The same scheme is followed as that in LAP.COM - disabling of
- interrupts, loading the image, calling the IOP initialization routine at
- IOPBASE+9, and enabling interrupts.
- SNAP Notes - 2/3
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- d. Vs. 1.2 updates:
- - As distributed, SNAP will ask whether or not to erase an existing
- file. The default list of segments to be automatically saved can be
- configured. (Use SNAP12.CFG with ZCNFG.COM by A. Hawley.)
- - Uses internal stack (lack of one caused a crash with Kaypro TurboROM).
- - New command line options.
- - The package loader does some mininal error checking before overwriting
- memory. It makes sure that the current ENV descriptor is at the same
- location as the one about to be loaded. If an extended environment
- has been installed, the loader then checks to see that the CCP, BDOS,
- and BIOS have not moved. Finally, if only a few segments have been
- saved, the loader insists that all of the ENV addresses be the same
- currently as when the snap was taken. If all segments were saved, the
- user is allowed to load a differently configured system. This makes
- sense only if the large system packages (RCP, FCP, IOP, NDR) occupy
- contiguous memory and are of constant total size.
- SNAP Notes - 3/3
-
- e. Vs. 1.1 updates:
- - A patch byte at 10Dh (800Dh for CIM files) may be set to 00 to cause
- SNAP to erase an existing file without warning. Any character on the
- command line at "o" reverses the sense of the default setting.
- - The loader does more error checking. In addition to making sure the
- ENV descriptor is at the same address as when the image file was made,
- it adds up the total memory allotted to the RCP, FCP, IOP and NDR
- packages to make sure there's enough room to overwrite them with the
- stored image (RCP, FCP, IOP and NDR must be contiguous in memory). The
- PATH size is checked separately. If a Z34 ENV is loaded, the addresses
- of the CCP, DOS, and BIOS are compared.
- - The type3 version runs at 8000h and so does its output file.
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- SNAPRCP
-
- SNAPRCP saves an image of the RCP segment to an executable COM file. The
- output file will reload the RCP as long as the system running at the time has
- an RCP of the same or larger size at the same address.
-
- Usage SNAPRCP RCP/SYS - Save current RCP to file RCP/SYS.COM
- LDR CALC.RCP - Load some other RCP
- SNAPRCP RCP/CALC - Save this one
- RCP/SYS - Origial RCP is back
-
- The advantage of using SNAPRCP is that the RCP loads very quickly. Unless
- you use a huge RCP, it is handy to have several packages to load - e.g., a
- file oriented package (CP PROT ERA REN TYPE LIST ...), a system-oriented
- package (P POKE REG WHL Q MOVM FILL FIND ...), etc.