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- CREATING THE EXTERNAL BOARD IDENTIFICATION FILE
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- If Sysinfo does not recognise a board by name, it normally
- prints the Manufacturer and Product numbers. Since version
- 3.22 it now looks in an external file (if it exists) in
- the S: directory called "sysinfo.boards" in an attempt to match
- each of these unknown board numbers with strings that you
- have supplied within the file.
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- The file *MUST* be called sysinfo.boards and *MUST* be in
- the S: directory.
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- The file must have a strict specific format as shown below.
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- Comments are allowed but *MUST* only be at the top of the file,
- and the first character on the beginning of each line *MUST*
- be a semi-colon (;) Blank lines are not allowed and will cause
- errors unless preceded with a semi-colon.
-
- Each different board must be on a new line and the
- manufacturer must be given for each product number, even
- if they are the same. For example, Commodore cards are
- known by Sysinfo, but if they were not, and you had a
- A2091 card, Sysinfo would have displayed it as Manufacturer 514
- and Product 3, and the memory portion of the board as
- Manufacturer 514 with Product 10. These two entries would
- be in the ascii file as :-
-
- 514 COMMODORE 3 A2901/A590
- 514 COMMODORE 10 FAST-MEMORY
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- See the example sysinfo.boards file with this archive
- for a complete working example.
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- ***IMPORTANT***
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- Each name that follows each number **MUST** not contain
- spaces, if you want to seperate two names then use
- hyphens, periods or slashes etc., as shown in the example
- above.
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- There must be at least one space between each of the numbers
- and the name strings on every line, as these are used
- as delimiters for seperating numbers from the names and also
- used to null terminate the strings for printing.
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