HP-IPL/OS Utilities
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HPASM - the HPASM cross assembler, see HPASM.TXT for details

The following programs are written in QBASIC for dos/windows
systems, for other OS's run under dos emulation or convert
the algorithms to what is needed.

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OCT_TOOL - a utility I wrote many moons ago (and just fixed again)
that prints octal equivalents for text strings and vice versa.
Also computes octal numbers for compound instructions with an option
for processing an entire HPASM file. Note.. there is a discrepency
between OCT_TOOL and CREATE with some compound instructions,
just discovered that SLA,ALS is assembled by create as ALS,SLA
instead (oops... looks like a CREATE bug but at least it's obscure).
OCT_TOOL gets it right now but I won't swear it gets everything
right. Compound instruction packing is tricky business!

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MAKE_MT - a utility for copying files to a SIMH-compatible
magtape file that can be directly mounted or imported into
an existing magtape volume using MTRESTORE. Prompts for an
output file (overwrites if exists) then prompts for input
files. The letter case as entered is used for the magtape
"filename" displayed by HP-IPL/OS' MTDIR command. Press
return without a filename to end. Accepts standard input
so can be run from a batch file to update a group of files
at once. I use the following batch to keep my simulated
magtape file current...

@echo off
echo >make_tmp tape0.tap
echo>>make_tmp tbg.ipl
echo>>make_tmp baci.ipl
echo>>make_tmp double.ipl
echo>>make_tmp bigshift.ipl
echo>>make_tmp config.ipl
echo>>make_tmp hpib.ipl
echo>>make_tmp disk.ipl
echo>>make_tmp 7900.ipl
echo>>make_tmp ide.ipl
echo>>make_tmp tdos.ipl
echo>>make_tmp congen.ipl
echo>>make_tmp log2abs.ipl
echo>>make_tmp mkldr.ipl
echo>>make_tmp mkcldr.ipl
echo>>make_tmp mkhpasm.ipl
echo>>make_tmp cylons.ipl
echo>>make_tmp 1dca.ipl
echo>>make_tmp games.ipl
echo>>make_tmp maze.ipl
echo>>make_tmp n_rocks.ipl
echo>>make_tmp csboot.ipl
echo>>make_tmp tutils.ipl
echo.>>make_tmp
make_mt < make_tmp
del make_tmp

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MkBigIPL - a utility for combining multiple IPL files into a
single file that loads all the specified files. Prompts for a
filename to write to, then prompts for IPL files to add. Press
return without a filename to terminate. Individual IPL files
must end with CONSOLE. The last line containing CONSOLE is
removed from each IPL allowing the load to continue, CONSOLE
is added to the end to terminate the compound load.

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Some import commands require specification of filesize,
I use the following to display the size of TXT and IPL files...

---- cut, ShowTXTsizes.bat -------------
@echo off
dir /on *.txt | find/i " txt" | more
pause
cls
---- stop cutting ----------------------

---- cut, ShowIPLsizes.bat -------------
@echo off
mode con lines=50
dir /on *.ipl | find/i " ipl" | more
pause
cls
---- stop cutting ----------------------

There are often more than 23 or so IPL files so ShowIPLsizes.bat
is programmed to enable a 50 line console.

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Last updated 9/6/04
Terry Newton