BIN Tool Chest

[timsiford at hushmail.com]

Dave,

Many thanks.  Cool.  I'll have this in the program in a matter of a few 
minutes ... then, of course, triple that time in testing ;-)

Tim

At Wed, 22 Nov 2000 15:48:02 -0500, "Dave Zug." <dzug at delanet.com> wrote:

>
>Tim (and others just FYDIYI)... Heres the calc part of A VB Checksum
>routine... No cracks about the speed deficiency... its designed to stand
>alone. Its useless for me to make a baby app that just does this (remember 
>I
>posted if anyone HAD made one a bit ago?).. Tim's will do it all in 
>one.
>
>Go man..
>
>CkBytes = 0
>Filesize = 32768
>For Position = 9 To (Filesize - 9)
>   Get #1, Position, AByte
>   CkBytes = (CkBytes + AByte)
>Next
>CkBytes = CkBytes Mod 65536
>MsgBox ("Checksum = " & CkBytes)
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <timsiford at hushmail.com>
>To: <gmecm at diy-efi.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 12:23 PM
>Subject: Re: AFR Modifier ... bugs reported
>
>
>> OK,
>>
>> I double checked my work.  I received a complaint that the modified 
>bins
>> changed more than just the WOT PE modifiers.  I rechecked and double
>checked.
>>  According to both Hex Editor and CATS Bin Compare Utility it is only
>changing
>> the Modifiers.  If anyone else has any data to show otherwise then 
>please
>> let me know.  I can't seem to find a problem with the program with 
>regard
>> to this.  However, admittedly, I did find two problems when
>troubleshooting
>> this.  I am neglecting to write to address &H617 for the NEW value. 
> This
>> is the first RPM modifier for 0RPMs.  Basically, the program doesn't 
>write
>> the new information to the BIN for address &H617.  It keeps the old 
>value.
>>  Not a critical error but misleading.  Ok.  That's the easy one.  
>There
>> is, however, a critical error.  I am not recalcing the checksum.  
>So, just
>> like with the older version of WinBin, you will have to force a Recalc
>through
>> a utility like the CATS Checksum utility.  Both of these will be fixed 
>in
>> the next version.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> At Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:55:02 -0500 (EST), timsiford at hushmail.com wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >Recieved some bug issues.  Gonna check into them now and post here 
>when
>> >done.  As a precautionary measure I would only use this program to 
>view
>> >information about the AFRs and the modifiers.  Don't burn the bin 
>on
>> >an
>> >EPROM yet.  Will post shortly.
>> >
>> >Tim
>> >
>
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