Re: Base85 for DOS

On 24/08/2024 15:32, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

I *think* one can do
debug hex2bin.com
e100 <Paste hex string>
rcx 34 (check!)
w
q

(might be an input limit in debug, if so do CnP in smaller bits)

could work, but I'm afraid there is a much smaller size limit.

Smaller than linelength?!

I never tried to enter more than 16 bytes at once.

Ah debug's 'E' command must have separated hex
pairs. Just for you:

debug hex2bin.com
;    0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F
e100 BA C3 01 B9 3C FE B4 3F CD 21 91 E3 F4 89 D6 89
e110 D7 57 AC 3C 30 72 0E 24 4F D4 37 30 F3 75 05 4F
e120 8A 25 D5 10 AA E2 EB 5A 89 F9 29 D1 43 B4 40 CD
e130 21 4B EB CF
rcx
34
w
q

DX=01c3 CX=FE3C AH=3F INT21  swap ax,cx  JCXZ RET :)
yes, that's what I'm familiar with since almost five decades.
BUT as said before, conversion itself is a short task.
So writing a tool apart from DOS-debug can use any format.
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wolfgang