Re: REL file documentation

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

John B. Matthews wrote:

> My article was unclear: REL modules do _not_ need to be page aligned.
> They have all the information needed for arbitrary relocation. RLOAD
> merely page aligns a module because the ProDOS memory allocation routine
> (GETBUFR) happens to allocate a page aligned buffer.

Thanks for the clarification: it's not your article, it's my brain;
should've paid more attention to the file format. I misinterpreted the
information about only storing the low order byte of relocation info in
the file...

Cheers too, for the command summary. I moved halfway across the country
(Australia, from Melbourne to Brisbane) a few months back and my Merlin
Pro manual seems to have found a very secure location within a packing
box, and recalling Merlin commands from memory is becoming more and
more difficult. I did most of my assembly work on the Apple II under
Pascal anyway - big believer in premature optimisation being the root
of all evil :-)

I think I'll follow Micheals lead and have a dabble with the ProDOS
Toolkit. Funny, I have the manual for the old DOS version around
somewhere too - perhaps the shipping company misplaced a box.

Matt