Service manual

PROGRAMMING
4-4
April 2001
Part No. 001-9800-203
Copying Files to Hard Drive
The Personality, Flash, and Radio Tune programs
are not compressed. Therefore, they can be run
directly without the need for any type of conversion.
The name of the personality program is
PLATFORM.EXE and the associated help file is
PLATFORM.HLP. These files are approximately
448K and 92K in size, respectively.
The program can be run from the floppy disk, but
you will probably want to copy these files to the
programming directory of your hard disk. To do this,
use Windows Explorer or File Manager or the DOS
COPY command.
Creating a Windows Shortcut or Program Icon
If you want to try and run the program from
Windows 95, a shortcut icon can be created that can
then be double clicked to start the program. To create
this shortcut icon, select Start, Settings, Taskbar. Then
select the Start Menu Programs tab and click the Add
button. Information is then displayed to guide you
through the process. If Windows 3.1 can be used (see
Section 4.2.1), select File, New from the program
manager and follow the instructions to create an icon
for starting the program.
4.2.4 STARTING THE PROGRAM
General
If your computer is running one of the Windows
operating systems, double click the icon for the
program. If the program does not run properly,
Windows must be exited and the program run from the
DOS prompt (see Section 4.2.1). When running it
from the DOS prompt, make sure the current directory
is the one containing the program (see preceding infor-
mation) and then type PLATFORM to start the
program.
Starting in Monochrome Mode
The program can be started in the monochrome
mode if necessary by typing PLATFORM M. This
may be necessary if the program does not automati-
cally detect a monochrome video card and the screen
is difficult to view.
Starting Without Help Files
If the amount of free memory available is greater
than 515K but less than 585K (see Section 4.2.2), the
program can be run if help information is not loaded.
To run it in this mode, type PLATFORM NOHELP. If
not enough free memory is available, an error message
is displayed when the program is started.
4.3 MISCELLANEOUS PROGRAM
INFORMATION
4.3.1 HEADER INFORMATION
The following information is contained in the
header area near the top of the screen (see Figure 4-2).
FREE SPACE (AAAA/BBB)
- Displays the amount of
space remaining in the various nonvolatile memory de-
vices (see following) if the transceiver was pro-
grammed with the current information. With high tier
models, the maximum number of systems that can be
programmed is limited to approximately 40-100 as de-
scribed in Section 1.2.3. If either of these two numbers
reach zero before all data is entered, fewer systems,
groups, or channels need to be programmed. If a third
number is displayed, it is not used and is always “0”.
AAAA = Space remaining in user personality
portion of Flash memory U108 and also EEPROM
U102 with high tier models. These are the primary
storage areas for personality information.
BBB = Space remaining in the microcontroller
EEPROM. This space is used mainly for storing
tune data.
RADIO MODEL
- Displays the specific transceiver
configuration that has been selected for the file being
edited. The last seven digits of the transceiver part num-
ber are used to indicate this information (see
Section 1.3).
The configuration is specified when a new file is
created by the “Set Up Configuration File” function
described in Section 4.5.2. Before data is downloaded,
the program checks to make sure that the transceiver is
the same type as is specified in the program. If it is
not, the information cannot be downloaded. This radio
type information specified for the current data file