[Techtoolslist] 9100 script? - identify address

William Stillwell ki4swy at gmail.com
Wed Apr 12 01:46:54 EDT 2023


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On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 9:04 PM John Robertson via Techtoolslist <
techtoolslist at flippers.com> wrote:

> On 2023/04/08 10:49 a.m., John Robertson via Techtoolslist wrote:
> > On 2023/04/05 3:38 p.m., John Robertson via Techtoolslist wrote:
> >> On 2023/04/03 5:46 p.m., John Robertson via Techtoolslist wrote:
> >>> On 2023/04/03 2:52 p.m., David Shoemaker wrote:
> >>>> I remember seeing a script like this for the 9010, should be simple
> >>>> enough to port to 9100
> >>>> ...
> >>>
> >>> Or perhaps the script is hiding in the 9100 Training?
> >>>
> >>> Actually the LEARN (AUTO_LEARN) function is in the 9100A/AF
> >>> Technical User's Manual - and the disc image is in the UUT Test Disk.
> >>>
> >>> John :-#)#
> >>>
> >> Well, I found the disk (and the 6.0 Service Disc) and forgot that
> >> when you copy a Service disk onto the HDR it will over-write the
> >> operating system. So now I have to reload 6.1 (found the floppies).
> >> At least my floppy drive is working well.
> >>
> >> I don't know/remember enough about the 9100 yet, but it seems that
> >> for the most part you should always save programs on floppies. That
> >> isn't going to end well!
> >>
> >> The LEARN function is handy. I'll scan the documents and put them on
> >> TTL shortly. And once I remember how to use the added USB function I
> >> added to the 9100 years ago (along with the SCSI Micro-SD card) I'll
> >> copy the accompanying floppy disc.
> >>
> >> John :-#)#
> >
> > I've uploaded the section on 9100A/AF LEARN to the /Fluke/9100/PDFs
> > directory and also tidied up the directory a bit, and added
> > -searchable to the files that are.
> >
> >
> https://www.flippers.com/public_ftp/flip/public/TTL/TestEquipment/Fluke/9100%20Series/9100_Fixture_PDFs/9100A_3_TechnicalUsersManual_PN864637_AF_Addendum-searchable.pdf
> >
> >
> > Sooner or later I'll upload the UUT companion disc to the FTP site,
> > once I remember how to create an image file...it's been perhaps 12
> > years since I last did one.
> >
> > John :-#)#
> >
> Further - I have extracted the text from the UUT Test Disk image (using
> SAMdisk - https://simonowen.com/samdisk/ ), it is written in TL/1
> language, and I have uploaded that raw extract to:
>
>
> https://www.flippers.com/public_ftp/flip/public/TTL/TestEquipment/Fluke/9100%20Series/9100_Fixture_PDFs/9100-UUT_TEST_DISK.TXT
>
> It is not a perfect extraction, and I suspect there are some errors,
> hopefully folks here who may be interested are more familiar with TL/1
> and can tidy it up further.
>
> Here is the description of the tests on the UUT disk:
>
> !! auto_learn -- AUTOTEST and LEARN
> !! ================================
> !!
> !! This program provides a LEARN and AUTOTEST capability similar to the
> !! FLUKE 9010A.  This program provides a softkey driven user interface
> !! to invoke the learn algorithm (a seperate program "DO_LRN"
> (copyrighted))
> !! and to test the resulting learned descriptors.  Additionally, it
> provides
> !! a facility to view the learned descriptors and to add additional ones.
> !! The learned descriptors are stored in a local text file named
> "LEARN_INFO".
> !!
> !! Note:  since TL/1 does not have access to pod space information, when a
> !! LEARN is performed it uses the address space active when this program
> !! (AUTO_LEARN) is invoked and stores it with each descriptor.
>
> John :-#)#
>
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