SECTION 1
Getting Started
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6200/6300 Hand-Held Computer Programmer’s Reference Guide 1-27
Norand Utilities and Communications
Norand Utilities
See the
Norand Utilities
paragraph in Section 5 for a description of calling
Norand Utilities from an application, to perform data communications.
The following paragraphs describe the use of Norand Utilities for Initial Program
Load.
Creating a (Host) Download Include File
Most of the communication options for performing an initial program load
require a download include file to be used on a host computer.
First, to create a download include file, create a download list file.
You create a download list file, as follows:
A download list file contains the names of the files to be sent to the HHC. Each
line in the file specifies one name. The file names may include path information
so that all the files need not be in the same directory on the host. However, the
file is transmitted to the HHC without the source path information and placed in
the current directory of the HHC.
To specify a destination path on the HHC or to rename a file, use a line of the
“newname=oldname”
format. This causes the file
oldname
" to be read from the
PC and transmitted to the HHC with the name
newname.
" Both
oldname
" and
newname
" may include path information.
The following is a sample download list file (6200 Computer):
CONFIG.SYS
ROMINIT.BAT
6X00DOS\PC4800.SYS
6200DOS\FONTMAP.EXE
6200DOS\GR12X22.FNT
MYAPP.EXE
The following filenames cannot be used in a download list file because they are
used by Norand Utilities to perform communications:
NRTLOG.DAT
NRUPLD.CTL
PSROM0C.DAT
PSROM0C.INI
Execute the following command to create the download include file:
IPLFMT.EXE <list file> <include file>
where:
<list file>
is the name of the download list file created, above.
<include file>
is the name of the download include file. The Norand
Utilities program specifically requests a file named <workgroup>.INC, where
<workgroup>.INC is the value of the WORKGROUP field in the UNIT ID menu.
For the 6200 Computer, the default for this field is 6200IPL; for the 6300
Computer, the default is 6300IPL. This file is created by IPLFMT.EXE.
Please note that IPLFMT.EXE can be found in the toolkit.
IPLFMT.EXE concatenates files listed in the list file, inserting appropriate
Intermec file headers for download. See
TCOM Session Overview
in Section 5 for
a description of file headers.
1. Getting Started
