Call for standards: EPROM/cal editing software

[ECMnut at aol.com]

Great post Dig.  We all have our favorite program, either
becase of hardware/software requirements, size, user interface, etc.
Hope this catches on.
MV
> 
>  I've recently become more involved in a couple 
>  different projects to develop EPROM/cal editing
>  software for different ECMs/cals.
>  
>  From the research I've done into things so far, it
>  seems that the authors of most of the S/W packages
>  are fairly close to having the same or similar 
>  ECM table definition files (TDFs). However, close,
>  as they say, only counts in Horseshoes and Hand
>  Grenades.
>  
>  What I'd like to propose is that we work to define a
>  standard for TDFs. This standard would have the 
>  following requirements:
>  
>  1)Be portable across all operating environments.
>  2)Be Human Readable and easily defineable. (ie ASCII)
>  3)Would allow the user to define any size table or
>    single value, including the appropriate conversion
>    factors/formulas to convert the hex value to
>  meaning-
>    ful data.
>  4)Would include appropriate labels for the tables and
>    indexes
>  5)Would include offset addresses of tables and parms.
>  6)Would allow any subset of tables to be defined,
>    ie, you wouldn't have to use all the tables, unless
>    you wanted to.
>  
>  I've uploaded a file into ftp.diy-efi.org/incoming
>  called table.ini. It's a sample TDF format file 
>  written by Warren Bowley. It's pret
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