[ale] C code help

[Mark Wright]

Hi Folks,

I don't really know where to start.  The background to my dilemma is 
important but has little to do with the problem.  Suffice it to say 
that I am not a coder or very experienced writing scripts but I have a 
disk image that boots a control device that I need to reverse engineer.

The ultimate end would be to replace the code with our own but for now 
just getting diag info from it and understanding it would a great step 
forward.

I have copied the disk to my Powerbooks hard drive and decompiled two 
files  that looked important.  Anybody on the list read c well enough 
to read these and tell me what I should do next?  As I said above I 
need to understand how it logs events and decode its error reporting.


Thanks,

Mark


P.S    a little of the background.

The short story is I work for a very small company.  We have a guy who 
can probably do this but I know he will never have the time.  The 
future of my job may hinge on  knowing the secrets of this device.  
Like others have commented on their own jobs, I have tons of spare 
time.  I can't sit by and watch my reason for having a job slip away.  
I need to become a uber coder in a hurry or find enough help to get 
past this to the next issue down the road.