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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: CDA GS/OS file format
Message-ID: <44583@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 6 Sep 90 20:18:48 GMT
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In article <1990Sep5.201614.2370@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dat33228@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Derek A. Taubert) writes:
>
>  Does anyone know specifically (like in what reference I can look it up) what
>the $45 bytes is in the beginning of a CDA file?  I'm wanting to write some
>short assembly routines as CDA's, but I don't have an assembler, it's all been
>done by hand.  I've created a CDA file and I can save the code from the monitor
>using prodos, but these extra $45 bytes seem to control the way GS/OS loads the
>CDA, and I can't figure it out.
>
Apparently you're referring to the OMF header that all loadable files have.
OMF is documented in the GS/OS Reference, new from Addison-Wesley.

No assembler?  Give it up, man.  ORCA/M is only about $39 mail-order; doing it
any other way (than with an assembler) just isn't worth it.  Especially where
OMF is involved.

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