Mike, Bob, and Chris, I was thinking about what Chris just suggested (MS VC++, smaller executable and you don't have to drag that immense run time around) but was not sure that the subject would be welcomed by Motorola's legal department.
Still in all, it's reverse engineering a file structure with (I can assure you) NO prior knowledge of the code plug internal specification nor any association with Mororola (as in revealing company secrets, etc.). Chris, I am sure you know this, but the reason the RSS is so bad is that it was a different paradigm back in the late 80s; we did not have much in the way of OOP and Windows was in its infancy. Visual Studio and MFC (VB and VC++) were not due out for a couple of years and neither was Borland's 16/32 bit OWL. The RSS gets bagged on a lot, but it really was not bad for what it did and how it did it once you get the funcion keys down pat. I wonder if one could really reverse engineer the RSS completely..that is, write and app that edits code plugs and reads/ writes them to Moto radios? Technically, I don't guess there is a legal problem but -- as one of this site's excellent articles on the subject says -- the Batwing legal beagles could be like the 900-pound gorilla. As Bob suggestd, I'll continue to post my discoveries here as they get unravelled. Like Chris, I have a couple an MT1000 and a couple of HT600s that could use some looking into. Regards, Bill, k6whp (a.k.a., WKJW253) --- In [email protected], Chris Carruba <chris.carr...@...> wrote: > > Mike, > > I have a mt1000 and find the rss for it appalling to use... > I think it would be nice to wrap a VB program around the codeplug to edit it. > > If you care to elaborate more on your knowledge of the codeplug i might be able to write a wrapper for it in Visual Basic... > > Best Regards, > > Chris Carruba (WQIK389) > > CompuTec Data Systems > Custom Written Software, > Networking, Forensic Data Recovery
