Re: Base85 for DOS

On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:44:20 +0200
wolfgang kern <nowhere@never.at> wrote:

On 23/08/2024 09:32, JJ asked:
 

BTW, was there a tool specifically for converting DEBUG's dump to binary? Or
converting it to a series of DEBUG's Edit command?

 
back then (~1984..) there were several tools available.
I wrote one 1985  as a DOS-extender,
but we had no internet so it was never published.
you may find a lot of later attempts from many sources now:
"HEX2BIN" or similar names with .ASM,.OBJ,.COM or even .EXE.
 
this task is/was that easy and short...
so whenever needed this few bytes can be written any time.

The 'problem' with debug output is that it has address prefixes and
display values at the end that need stripping out to get pure hex.

I could post code in hex, if that's more acceptable - it's just easier
for me to just CnP a debug dump.

I did hex2bin and v versa a while back; OK I'll revisit it to have a
prog that does both.
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