Series 3000 Application Programmer's Guide

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Series 3000 Application Programmer’s Guide
Creating and Downloading a Program
In this section, you will:
compile the program QUICK.C, which prints “Hello, world”
download it to the RAM Disk on the terminal
execute it.
Downloading to the RAM disk is the quickest and simplest way of loading an
application on a Series 3000 terminal and is the method commonly used for
testing a program on the terminal.
For the following example, assume that the TDREM.EXE program is resident
in the terminal, either in NVM or on the RAM disk. The default NVM image
includes this program. If this is not the case, refer to NVM Configuration in this
guide to build and download the default image, or use the NVM loading
procedure described later in this chapter.
The following description goes through the complete process of writing,
compiling, downloading, and running a sample program called QUICK.C.
Note: If you prefer, you can substitute your own program
for QUICK.C.
For more detailed information on the remote debugging and downloading
program (TDREM.EXE), the terminal file transfer program (TFT3000.EXE), and
the symbol table converter tool (PDCONVRT.EXE) referred to in the following,
see the Utilities chapter in the Series 3000 Application Programmer’s Reference
Manual.
1. On the development PC, use a text editor to create a simple Microsoft C
source file. You can use your own program or the following program,
which we’ll call QUICK.C:
#include
void main (void)
{
printf(“Hello, world\n”);
}