Date   : Thu, 01 Dec 1983 1241-:00PST
From   : Ted Shapin <BEC.SHAPIN@usc-ecl>
Subject: FORTH-83 HELP

It sounds like the source files did not transfer correctly.
The *.BLK files contain FORTH screens or blocks.  Each screen
is 1024 printable ASCII characters without carriage returns
or line feeds.  The screens are written sequentially.  Each
screen starts with a comment line of the form:

\ Some kind of title                            16Oct83Map

Here are the results of running the 8080 CRCK program
on the original source disks I tried to upload,
first on the 8080 files:

--> FILE:  CPU8080 .BLK         CRC = 16 7F
--> FILE:  EXTEND80.BLK         CRC = 80 10
--> FILE:  F83     .HEX         CRC =       [I don't have this one]
--> FILE:  F83     .COM         CRC = A1 A8 [This is the loaded F83.HEX]
--> FILE:  META80  .BLK         CRC = AD 86

--> FILE:  UTILITY .BLK         CRC = 21 4F

and on the 8086 files:

--> FILE:  CPU8086 .BLK         CRC = 16 7F
--> FILE:  EXTEND86.BLK         CRC = 80 10
--> FILE:  F83     .CMD         CRC = A1 A8
--> FILE:  META86  .BLK         CRC = AD 86


I checked the TOPS-20 checksum on the blocks that I uploaded
to ECL and to my own TOPS-20 system and they agree so I hope
the problem was in your reception of the files.  Let me know
what checksums you get.

Ted.

TOPS-20                  Checksum

 CPU8080.BLK.1    232106
 DIRECT.BLK.1     713166
 EXTEND80.BLK.1   212023
 META80.BLK.1     447557
 UTILITY.BLK.1    513245