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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How to change the default radix in CodeView
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Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 20:30:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 20 20:30:16 1987
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Organization: Kontron Electronics, Mt. View, CA
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> One of the people here has discovered how to find the location in CodeView
> that controls the radix that is set using the 'N' command.  We prefer to
> always start up in hexadecimal, so we have changed the default radix from
> 10 to 16.
> 
> All you have to do is find the string "AX", then search for the first
> byte containing a 0a.  Change that byte to 10 (hexadecimal) and the default
> should now be base 16.  Sorry we couldn't give a DEBUG patch, but the locations
> to change are beyond the 64K boundary.  You'll have to use one of the disk
> file patchers for this.
> 
> This technique works with either CV 1.0 or 1.1.
> 
> (Do I have to say that you should do this on a backup copy of CodeView just
> in case?)
> 
> -- 
> 			-Chris Faylor-

Here's an even easier way, works with all versions of CodeView, and doesn't
yield unpredictable results when you later discover that that byte is used
somewhere else in CodeView.

Make a command file named CV.BAT, and put it somewhere on your hard disk
where it will be seen before CV.EXE (the CodeView executable).

\codeviewdirectoryname\CV -C"N16" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

This tells CodeView to execute the N16 (set radix for input numbers to
base 16) command when starting CodeView.  %1 through %9 are input parameters
so you can specify parameters just like you are starting CodeView directly.

Clayton E. Cramer