CREATING THE EXTERNAL BOARD IDENTIFICATION FILE
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If Sysinfo  does not  recognise a  board by name,  it normally  prints the
Manufacturer and  Product numbers. Since version  3.22 it now looks  in an
external file (if it exists) in  the S: directory called SysInfo.boards in
an attempt to match each of  these unknown board numbers with strings that
you have supplied within the file.

The  file  @{b}*MUST*@{ub} be  called  SysInfo.boards"  and  @{b}*MUST*@{ub}  be in  the  S:
directory.

The file must have a strict specific format as shown below.

Comments are allowed  but @{b}*MUST*@{ub} only be  at the top of the  file, and the
first character on  the beginning of each line @{b}*MUST*@{ub}  be a semi-colon (;)
Blank lines are  not allowed and will cause errors  unless preceded with a
semi-colon.

Each different board  must be on a  new line and the  manufacturer must be
given for  each product number,  even if they  are the same.  For example,
Commodore cards are known by Sysinfo, but  if they were not, and you had a
A2091  card, Sysinfo  would  have  displayed it  as  Manufacturer 514  and
Product 3,  and the memory portion  of the board as  Manufacturer 514 with
Product 10. These two entries would be in the ascii file as :-

514 COMMODORE 3 A2901/A590
514 COMMODORE 10 FAST-MEMORY

See  the example  SysInfo.boards file  with  this archive  for a  complete
working example.

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Each name  that follows each  number @{b}**MUST**@{ub}  not contain spaces,  if you
want to seperate  two names then use hyphens, periods  or slashes etc., as
shown in the example above.

There must be at least one space  between each of the numbers and the name
strings on  every line,  as these  are used  as delimiters  for seperating
numbers from  the names and  also used to  null terminate the  strings for
printing.

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