larsbrinkhoff / pdp10-its-disassembler

Disassembler and other tools for files in ITS formats
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The "shr" format is not the .SHR format. #113

Closed larsbrinkhoff closed 2 years ago

larsbrinkhoff commented 2 years ago

The file shr-format.c implements the TOPS-20 sharable .EXE format (later adopted by TOPS-10?) However, the TOPS-10 .SHR file format is different. Thus the "shr" name can be confusing, and it would be good to come up with another name.

larsbrinkhoff commented 2 years ago

Here are some suggestions and objections:

Note, in this context: compressed = nonsharable.

larsbrinkhoff commented 2 years ago

SHR format is flat binary to be loaded at 400000. The first 10 locations:

<kiteguy> jobhsa,0
<kiteguy> jobh41,1
<kiteguy> jobhcr,2
<kiteguy> jobhrn,3
<kiteguy> jobhvr,4
<kiteguy> jobhda,10
<kiteguy> 0 is copied to JOBSA
<kiteguy> 1 to JOB41
<kiteguy> 2 to JOBCOR
<kiteguy> 3 LH to JOBHRL
<kiteguy> 3 RH to JOBREN,LH
<kiteguy> 4 to JOBVER
larsbrinkhoff commented 2 years ago

Renamed in #117.