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Loading ASCII files
VECTor
No data is allowed in the same line as the VECTor command. The line
termination in the VECTor command line IS included in the character count
for the file.
The <char_count> field is not required as part of the VECTor command
when creating a disk file, and will be ignored if included.
Example:
VECTor #800010457
Vector Data
The data portion of the ASCII file is basically an array of hexadecimal data
fields. Each row of the array corresponds to a single line of the main program.
Each column of the array corresponds to a single label as defined on the
format menu.
Data fields are separated by one or more blank characters. A line termination
(carriage return or carriage return + line feed) signals the end of a line and
the start of a new line. If a data field has more data than the label width
would indicate, only the least significant bits of the data field are used. If
there are more data fields in a row than there are labels, the extra data fields
(last data fields in the row) are ignored. If there are fewer data fields in a row
than there are labels, the data for the extra (right-most) labels will be zero.
Data lines consisting of only line termination characters are ignored.
The MAIN SEQUENCE must have at least two data lines. In the ASCII data
file, a row consisting of only '*M' is used to signal the start of the main
sequence. If there is to be no data in the init sequence, the first row of the file
after the VECTor command must be '*M'. Note that the quotes in '*M' are not
really in the file. The line termination after the '*M' (as well as the '*M') must
be included in the character count for a file loaded via a remote bus.
Any characters that are not valid hexadecimal digits (i.e.: 0 through 9, or
upper/lower case a through f) are ignored and treated as field separators.
This could cause problems if a typo appears in the middle of a data value (for
example, '12R4' will be assigned to two labels as '12' and '4').
The last data row of the file must end with a line termination as this is the
flag to load the data row into the data structure. Failure to do this will result
in a short main program.
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