On 25-Apr-08, at 7:58 AM, Robert Wierschke wrote:

> I don't find the VMMaker package in the Squeak3.9 final or Squak3.9  
> dev image. Is there a way to load these packages into the image?

I hope I don't sound rude here, but if you're so new to using Squeak  
that you haven't yet had to learn about loading packages etc. you may  
have quite a bit of trouble understanding enough of the system to  
start hacking image formats.

There is already an image reader and writer, as well as the  
SystemTracer for writing a differently formatted image. Once you have  
the VMMaker package you will find it includes all you need (well, I  
won't promise there aren't bugs) to read an image into a simulation of  
the VM, run it and write it. IIRC Craig has probably been the most   
recent user of simulation so hopefully he can chime in with more info.  
When you have an image loaded into the simulator it is possible to  
find out all sorts of things about it, though more tools might be  
interesting.

I vaguely remember reading of some code to remotely access image files  
being mentioned some time ago; perhaps Yoshiki or Takashi can help?

It would be very helpful if you could explain what you want to do with  
the image.


tim
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