Helpful suggestion

[Keith D. Miller]

Sounds like you need better software. That that I use runs
fine under windows (w2k may be a problem, tho').

We burn many proms at work, and each needs a few bytes
changed for configuation. So years ago I wrote a dos prog
to manage the changes and spawn the burner prog. Since
moving that to a windows PC, the only problem has been the
person doing the eproms tends to start multiple copies of
the program. Causing strange things to happen at times.
One day I'll convert it to a windoze prog, or wimp out and
make it so they can't start anything else while it's
running.

Even if you don't change software, or don't want too. NICs
are cheap and far faster than sneaker neting. Might be
hard to find a copy of WGAO these days though.

Keith
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gmecm at diy-efi.org
> [mailto:owner-gmecm at diy-efi.org]On Behalf
> Of Shannen Durphey
> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 8:51 PM
> To: gmecm at diy-efi.org
> Subject: Helpful suggestion
>
>
> I dunno how many guys are doing this, but it works extremely
> well for me.  I use
> Windows to run whatever tuning software I'm using.  That
> allows me to compare
> multiple .bins at once, or open a hex editor simultaneously,
> or to find where I
> saved that missing .bin file, compare Excel spreadsheets...
whatever.
>
> But doing this means restarting the pc in DOS mode every time
> I want to burn a
> chip, then going back to Windows for the next round of
> tuning.  It gets to be a
> PITA, and if your pc takes a while to boot, the restarts can
> easily eat up the
> better part of an hour.
>
> So I've got my keyboard and monitor hooked to a switch that
> allows sharing between
> 2 pc's, and I use an old 386 to operate the burner only.  I
> simply make the .bin
> files I want, save them to the hard drive of the Windows
> machine, and transfer them
> to the DOS only machine via 3 1/2" floppy.  It works great,
> and it makes me feel
> good because I didn't have to throw that old pc away (I
> probably have it because
> someone else threw it away).  Plus I have automatic backups
> of all my .bin files.
> The used pc store sells switches allowing 2 pc's to share
> keyboard/monitor for $15.
>
> For anyone who's burning many .bins, this can be a real timesaver.
>
> Shannen
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