[101] | 1 | Read Me(SRecord) Read Me(SRecord)
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| 5 | NAME
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| 6 | SRecord - manipulate EPROM load files
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| 8 | DESCRIPTION
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| 9 | The SRecord package is a collection of powerful tools for manipulating
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| 10 | EPROM load files.
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| 11 |
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| 12 | I wrote SRecord because when I was looking for programs to manipulate
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| 13 | EPROM load files, I could not find very many. The ones that I could
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| 14 | find only did a few of the things I needed. SRecord is written in C++
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| 15 | and polymorphism is used to provide the file format flexibility and
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| 16 | arbitrary filter chaining. Adding more file formats and filters is
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| 17 | relatively simple.
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| 18 |
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| 19 | The File Formats
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| 20 | The SRecord package understands a number of file formats:
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| 21 |
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| 22 | Ascii-Hex
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| 23 | The ascii-hex format is understood for both reading and
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| 24 | writing. (Also known as the ascii-space-hex format.)
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| 25 |
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| 26 | ASM It is possible, for output only, to produce a serices of DB
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| 27 | statements containing the data. This can be useful for
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| 28 | embedding data into assembler programs. This format cannot be
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| 29 | read.
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| 30 |
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| 31 | Atmel Generic
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| 32 | This format is produced by the Atmel AVR assembler. It is
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| 33 | understood for both reading and writing.
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| 34 |
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| 35 | BASIC It is possible, for output only, to produce a serices of DATA
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| 36 | statements containing the data. This can be useful for
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| 37 | embedding data into BASIC programs. This format cannot be
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| 38 | read.
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| 39 |
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| 40 | Binary Binary files can both be read and written.
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| 41 |
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| 42 | B-Record
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| 43 | Files in Freescale Dragonball bootstrap b-record format can be
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| 44 | read and written.
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| 45 |
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| 46 | C It is also possible to write a C array declaration which
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| 47 | contains the data. This can be useful when you want to embed
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| 48 | download data into C programs. This format cannot be read.
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| 49 |
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| 50 | COE The Xilinx Coefficient File Format (.coe) is understood for
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| 51 | output only.
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| 52 |
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| 53 | Cosmac The RCA Cosmac Elf format is understood for both reading and
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| 54 | writing.
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| 55 |
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| 56 | DEC Binary
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| 57 | The DEC Binary (XXDP) format is understood for both reading and
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| 58 | writing.
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| 59 |
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| 60 | Elektor Monitor (EMON52)
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| 61 | The EMON52 format is understood for both reading and writing.
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| 62 |
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| 63 | Fairchild Fairbug
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| 64 | The Fairchild Fairbug format is understood for both reading and
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| 65 | writing.
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| 66 |
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| 67 | Formatted Binary
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| 68 | The Formatted Binary format is understood for both reading and
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| 69 | writing.
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| 70 |
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| 71 | Four Packed Code (FPC)
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| 72 | The FPC format is understood for both reading and writing.
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| 73 |
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| 74 | Hexdump It is possible to get a simple hexdump as output.
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| 75 |
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| 76 | IDT/sim The IDT/sim binary file format is understood for both reading
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| 77 | and writing.
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| 78 |
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| 79 | Intel The Intel hexadecimal format is understood for both reading and
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| 80 | writing. (Also known as the Intel MCS-86 Object format.)
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| 81 |
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| 82 | Intel AOMF
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| 83 | The Intel Absolute Object Module Format (AOMF) is understood
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| 84 | for both reading and writing.
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| 85 |
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| 86 | Intel 16
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| 87 | The Intel hexadecimal 16 format is understood for both reading
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| 88 | and writing. (Also known as the INHX16 file format.)
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| 89 |
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| 90 | LSI Logic Fast Load
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| 91 | The LSI Logic Fast Load format is understood for both reading
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| 92 | and writing.
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| 93 |
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| 94 | Memory Initialization Format
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| 95 | The Memory Initialization Format (.mem) by Lattice
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| 96 | Semiconductor is understood for writing only.
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| 97 |
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| 98 | MIF The Memory Initialization File format by Altera is supported
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| 99 | for both reading and writing.
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| 100 |
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| 101 | MOS Technology
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| 102 | The MOS Technology hexadecimal format is understood for both
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| 103 | reading and writing.
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| 104 |
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| 105 | MIPS-Flash
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| 106 | The MIPS Flash file format is supported for both reading and
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| 107 | writing.
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| 108 |
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| 109 | Motorola S-Record
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| 110 | The Motorola hexadecimal S-Record format is understood for both
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| 111 | reading and writing. (Also known as the Exorciser, Exormacs or
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| 112 | Exormax format.)
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| 113 |
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| 114 | MsBin The Windows CE Binary Image Data Format is supported both for
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| 115 | reading and writing.
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| 116 |
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| 117 | Needham The Needham Electronics ASCII file format is understood for
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| 118 | both reading and writing.
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| 119 |
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| 120 | OS65V The Ohio Scientific hexadecimal format is understood for both
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| 121 | reading and writing.
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| 122 |
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| 123 | PPB The Stag Prom Programmer binary format is understood for both
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| 124 | reading and writing.
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| 125 |
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| 126 | PPX The Stag Prom Programmer hexadecimal format is understood for
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| 127 | both reading and writing.
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| 128 |
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| 129 | Signetics
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| 130 | The Signetics format is understood for both reading and
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| 131 | writing.
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| 132 |
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| 133 | SPASM The SPASM format is used by a variety of PIC programmers; it is
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| 134 | understood for both reading and writing.
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| 135 |
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| 136 | Spectrum
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| 137 | The Spectrum format is understood for both reading and writing.
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| 138 |
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| 139 | Tektronix (Extended)
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| 140 | The Tektronix hexadecimal format and the Tektronix Extended
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| 141 | hexadecimal format are both understood for both reading and
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| 142 | writing.
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| 143 |
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| 144 | Texas Instruments Tagged
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| 145 | The Texas Instruments Tagged format is understood for both
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| 146 | reading and writing (both 8 and 16 bit). Also known as the TI-
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| 147 | tagged or TI-SDSMAC format.
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| 148 |
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| 149 | Texas Instruments ti-txt
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| 150 | The TI-TXT format is understood for reading and writing. This
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| 151 | format is used with the bootstrap loader of the Texas
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| 152 | Instruments MSP430 family of processors.
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| 153 |
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| 154 | TRS-80 The Radio Shack TRS-80 object file format is understood for
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| 155 | reading and writing.
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| 156 |
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| 157 | VHDL It is possible to write VHDL file. This is only supported for
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| 158 | output.
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| 159 |
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| 160 | Verilog VMEM
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| 161 | It is possible to write a Verilog VMEM file suitable for
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| 162 | loading with $readmemh(). This format is supported for reading
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| 163 | and writing.
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| 164 |
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| 165 | Wilson The Wilson format is understood for both reading and writing.
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| 166 | This mystery format was added for a mysterious type of EPROM
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| 167 | writer.
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| 168 |
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| 169 | The Tools
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| 170 | The primary tools of the package are srec_cat and srec_cmp. All of the
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| 171 | tools understand all of the file formats, and all of the filters.
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| 172 |
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| 173 | srec_cat
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| 174 | The srec_cat program may be used to catenate (join) EPROM load
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| 175 | files, or portions of EPROM load files, together. Because it
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| 176 | understands all of the input and output formats, it can also be
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| 177 | used to convert files from one format to another.
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| 178 |
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| 179 | srec_cmp
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| 180 | The srec_cmp program may be use to compare EPROM load files, or
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| 181 | portions of EPROM load files, for equality.
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| 182 |
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| 183 | srec_info
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| 184 | The srec_info program may be used to print summary information
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| 185 | about EPROM load files.
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| 186 |
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| 187 | The Filters
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| 188 | The SRecord package is made more powerful by the concept of input
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| 189 | filters. Wherever an input file may be specified, filters may also be
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| 190 | applied to that input file. The following filters are available:
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| 191 |
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| 192 | bit reverse
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| 193 | The bit-reverse filter may be used to reverse the order of bits
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| 194 | in each data byte.
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| 195 |
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| 196 | byte swap
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| 197 | The byte swap filter may be used to swap pairs of add and even
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| 198 | bytes.
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| 199 |
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| 200 | CRC The various crc filters may be used to insert a CRC into the
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| 201 | data.
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| 202 |
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| 203 |
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| 204 | checksum
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| 205 | The checksum filters may be used to insert a checksum
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| 206 | into the data. Positive, negative and bit-not checksums
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| 207 | are available, as well as big-endian and little-endian
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| 208 | byte orders.
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| 209 |
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| 210 | crop The crop filter may be used to isolate an input address
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| 211 | range, or ranges, and discard the rest.
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| 212 |
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| 213 | exclude The exclude filter may be used to exclude an input
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| 214 | address range, or ranges, and keep the rest.
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| 215 |
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| 216 | fill The fill filter may be used to fill any holes in the
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| 217 | data with a nominated value.
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| 218 |
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| 219 | length The length filter may be used to insert the data length
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| 220 | into the data.
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| 221 |
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| 222 | maximum The maximum filter may be used to insert the maximum
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| 223 | data address into the data.
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| 224 |
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| 225 | minimum The minimum filter may be used to insert the minimum
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| 226 | data address into the data.
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| 227 |
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| 228 | offset The offset filter may be used to offset the address of
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| 229 | data records, both forwards and backwards.
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| 230 |
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| 231 | random fill
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| 232 | The random fill filter may be used to fill holes in the
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| 233 | data with random byte values.
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| 234 |
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| 235 | split The split filter may be used to split EPROM images for
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| 236 | wide data buses or other memory striping schemes.
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| 237 |
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| 238 | unfill The unfill filter may be used to make holes in the data
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| 239 | at bytes with a nominated value.
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| 240 |
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| 241 | unsplit The unsplit filter may be reverse the effects of the
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| 242 | split filter.
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| 243 |
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| 244 | More than one filter may be applied to each input file.
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| 245 | Different filters may be applied to each input file. All
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| 246 | filters may be applied to all file formats.
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| 247 |
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| 248 | ARCHIVE SITE
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| 249 | The latest version of SRecord is available on the Web from:
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| 250 |
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| 251 | URL: http://srecord.sourceforge.net/
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| 252 | File: index.html # the SRecord page
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| 253 | File: srecord-1.62.README # Description, from the tar file
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| 254 | File: srecord-1.62.lsm # Description, LSM format
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| 255 | File: srecord-1.62.spec # RedHat package specification
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| 256 | File: srecord-1.62.tar.gz # the complete source
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| 257 | File: srecord-1.62.pdf # Reference Manual
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| 258 |
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| 259 | BUILDING SRECORD
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| 260 | Full instructions for building SRecord may be found in the
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| 261 | BUILDING file included in this distribution.
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| 262 |
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| 263 | It is also possible to build SRecord on Windows using the Cygwin
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| 264 | (www.cygwin.com) or DJGPP (www.delorie.com/djgpp) environments.
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| 265 | Instructions are in the BUILDING file, including how to get
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| 266 | native Windows binaries.
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| 267 |
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| 268 | COPYRIGHT
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| 269 | srecord version 1.62
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| 270 | Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
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| 271 | 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Peter Miller
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| 272 |
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| 273 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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| 274 | modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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| 275 | published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of
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| 276 | the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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| 277 |
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| 278 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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| 279 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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| 280 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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| 281 | GNU General Public License for more details.
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| 282 |
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| 283 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
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| 284 | License along with this program. If not, see
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| 285 | <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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| 286 |
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| 287 | It should be in the LICENSE file included with this
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| 288 | distribution.
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| 289 |
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| 290 | AUTHOR
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| 291 | Peter Miller E-Mail: pmiller@opensource.org.au
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| 292 | /\/\* WWW: http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/
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| 293 |
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| 294 | RELEASE NOTES
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| 295 | This section details the various features and bug fixes of the
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| 296 | various releases. For excruciating and complete detail, and
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| 297 | also credits for those of you who have generously sent me
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| 298 | suggestions and bug reports, see the etc/CHANGES.* files.
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| 299 |
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| 300 | Version 1.62 (2013-Jun-05)
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| 301 | * Luc Steynen <LucSteynen@edna.be> discovered that the -hecksum-
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| 302 | big-endian opion was a counter-intuitive alias for the the
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| 303 | -checksum-bitnot-big-endian option. The -checksum-big-endian
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| 304 | option is now deprecated, in favor of the -checksum-bitnot-
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| 305 | big-endian option; the code will warn uers of the old option
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| 306 | they will need to change. Ditto little-endian variants
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| 307 |
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| 308 | * Alin Pilkington <apilkington@moog.com> found that the
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| 309 | Tektronics Extended format was calculating the record length
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| 310 | incorrectory. Thanks you for the bug report. This has been
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| 311 | fixed for both reading and writing.
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| 312 |
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| 313 | * Dr. Benedikt Schmitt <Benedikt.Schmitt@safeintrain.de>
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| 314 | suggested being able to inject arbitrary data into the file
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| 315 | header (such as NUL termination characters). This change set
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| 316 | adds URL-style escapes (e.g. %25) to the string on he command
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| 317 | line. For example: -header or -generate -string
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| 318 |
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| 319 | Version 1.61 (2013-Jan-04)
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| 320 | * Izzet Ozcelik <izzetozcelik@cscope.co.uk> discovered a bug in
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| 321 | the Tektronix-Extenden format line checksum calculations. The
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| 322 | comparison should have been in 8 bits, not int.
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| 323 |
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| 324 | * Daniel Anselmi <danselmi@gmx.ch> contributed a Memory
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| 325 | Initialization Format by Lattice Semiconductor, for output
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| 326 | only.
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| 327 |
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| 328 | * Daniel Anselmi <danselmi@gmx.ch> contributed a Xilinx
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| 329 | Coefficient File Format (.coe) output class.
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| 330 |
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| 331 | Version 1.60 (2012-May-19)
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| 332 | * There are now several additional CRC-16 polynomials, plus the
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| 333 | ability to select a polynomial by name, rather than by value.
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| 334 | See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check for a
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| 335 | table of names and values.
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| 336 |
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| 337 | Version 1.59 (2012-Feb-10)
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| 338 | * A number of additional CRC-16 polynomials have been added, as
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| 339 | well as the ability to select a polynomial by name, rather
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| 340 | than by value. See srec_input(1) for more information.
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| 341 |
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| 342 | Version 1.58 (2011-Dec-18)
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| 343 | * The -guess command line option, for guessing the file format,
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| 344 | now also tells you the command line option you could have used
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| 345 | instead of -guess for the exact format.
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| 346 |
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| 347 | * The Intergated Device Technology (IDT) system integration
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| 348 | manager (IDT/sim) binary format is now understood for both
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| 349 | reading and writing.
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| 350 |
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| 351 | * The Stag Prom Programmer binary format is now supported for
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| 352 | both reading and writing.
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| 353 |
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| 354 | * The Stag Prom Programer hexadecimal format is now understood
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| 355 | for both reading and writing.
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| 356 |
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| 357 | * The MIPS-Flash fiel format is now supported for both reading
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| 358 | and writing.
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| 359 |
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| 360 | * Bernhard Weirich <Bernhard.Weirich@riedel.net> discovered that
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| 361 | a backward compatible option had been omitted when the
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| 362 | -INtel_16 option was renamed -INtel_HeX_16 to more closely
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| 363 | match the usual abbreviation (INHX16) for this format. The
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| 364 | backwards compatible option name has been reintroduced.
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| 365 |
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| 366 | * The windows build instructions have been greatly imptoved,
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| 367 | based on the experiences of Jens Heilig <jens@familie-
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| 368 | heilig.net> which he has generously shared.
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| 369 |
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| 370 | * The documentation in the manual about sequence warnings has
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| 371 | been improved. The -disable-sequence-warnings option must
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| 372 | come before the input file on the command line. My thanks to
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| 373 | Emil Gracic <emil_kruki@yahoo.com> for reporting this problem.
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| 374 |
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| 375 | Version 1.57 (2011-Jun-09)
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| 376 | * The byte order of the fletcher16 output has been reversed.
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| 377 |
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| 378 | * The meaning of the -address-length option has been change for
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| 379 | the Intel output format. Previously, 2 meant using i16hex
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| 380 | 20-bit segmented addressing, and >2 meant using i32hex
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| 381 | extended addressing. This has been changed: a value of 2
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| 382 | requests i8hex 16-bit addressing, a value of 3 requests i16hex
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| 383 | 20-bit segment addressing, and a value >=4 requests i32hex
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| 384 | 32-bit addressing. My thanks to Stephen R. Phillips
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| 385 | <srp@CSECorporation.com> for reporting the absence of i8hex
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| 386 | support.
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| 387 |
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| 388 | * The -generate -repeat-string option is now able to take a
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| 389 | string that looks like a number as the text to be repeated. My
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| 390 | thanks to Stephen R. Phillips <srp@CSECorporation.com> for
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| 391 | reporting this problem.
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| 392 |
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| 393 | * Luca Giancristofaro <luca.giancristofaro@prosa.com> discovered
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| 394 | a WinAVR linker that is a sandwich short of a picnic: it
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| 395 | generated non-conforming Intel hex end-of-file records. This
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| 396 | is no longer an error, but only a warning.
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| 397 |
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| 398 | * There were some problems with the RPM spec file, these have
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| 399 | been improved. My thanks to Galen Seitz
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| 400 | <galens@seitzassoc.com> for reporting this problem.
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| 401 |
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| 402 | Version 1.56 (2010-Sep-15)
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| 403 | * A bug has been fixed in the MsBin output, it now concatenates
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| 404 | records correctly, and calaulate checksums appropriately.
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| 405 |
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| 406 | * It is now possible to ask the Fletcher 16 filter to give you a
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| 407 | specific answer, and adjusting the checksum to achieve that
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| 408 | result. It is also possible to specify different seed values
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| 409 | for the sums.
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| 410 |
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| 411 | * There is a new srec_cat -enable=optional-address option to
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| 412 | cause output formats capable of omitting addresses, to omit a
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| 413 | leading zero address, as those formats usually default the
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| 414 | address to zero, if no address information is seen before the
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| 415 | first data record. Defaults to false (disabled).
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| 416 |
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| 417 | * There is a new srec_cat(1) -output-block-packing option, that
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| 418 | may be used to pack output records even when they cross
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| 419 | internal SRecord boundaries.
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| 420 |
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| 421 | * There is a new srec_cat(1) -output-block-size so that you can
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| 422 | specify the block size exactly, rather than implying it with
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| 423 | the line length option.
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| 424 |
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| 425 | Version 1.55 (2010-Feb-10)
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| 426 | * The Makefile.in has been improved, it now copes with non-
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| 427 | standard --prefix options.
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| 428 |
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| 429 | * The rpm.spec file has been improved, it now separates the
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| 430 | commands, shared libraries and development files.
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| 431 |
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| 432 | Version 1.54 (2010-Jan-29)
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| 433 | * There is now a shared library installed, including the
|
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| 434 | necessary header files so that you can use all of the file
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| 435 | formats and filters in your own projects.
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| 436 |
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| 437 | * The license on the shared library code is GNU Lesser General
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| 438 | Public License, version 3.0 or later.
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| 439 |
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| 440 | * The code can cope with older versions of GNU Libgcrypt. In
|
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| 441 | the case of very old versions, by ignoring it.
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| 442 |
|
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| 443 | * A number of build problems have been fixed.
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| 444 |
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| 445 | Version 1.53 (2009-Nov-10)
|
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| 446 | * There is a new MsBin (Windows CE Binary Image Data) file
|
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| 447 | format, supported for both reading and writing.
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| 448 |
|
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| 449 | * The lintian(1) warning about hyphen in the manual pages has
|
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| 450 | been silenced, by careful use of -, - and - as appropriate.
|
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| 451 | Sure makes some of the sources ugly, tho. The lintian(1)
|
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| 452 | warning about the undefined .XX macro has been silenced, by
|
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| 453 | making it conditional.
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| 454 |
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| 455 | * The code will build without libgcrypt.
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| 456 |
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| 457 | Version 1.52 (2009-Sep-17)
|
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| 458 | * There is a new srec_cat -generator -l-e-constant data
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| 459 | generator (and also -b-e-const) that may be used to insert
|
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| 460 | multi-byte constants into your data. See srec_input(1) for
|
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| 461 | more information.
|
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| 462 |
|
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| 463 | Version 1.51 (2009-Sep-13)
|
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| 464 | * A number of gcc 4.4 build problems have been fixed.
|
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| 465 |
|
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| 466 | * A bugs has been fixed in the Intel output format. When using
|
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| 467 | the segemented format (address-length=2) records that span the
|
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| 468 | end of segment boundary are tricky. The code now carefully
|
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| 469 | splits such output records, to ensure the two parts are
|
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| 470 | explicitly placed into separate segments.
|
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| 471 |
|
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| 472 | Version 1.50 (2009-Jul-09)
|
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| 473 | * The CRC16 code has been enhanced to provide low-to-high bit
|
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| 474 | order, in addition to the previous high-to-low bit order. It
|
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| 475 | is also possible to specify the polynomial, with the default
|
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| 476 | the CCITT standard polynomial, as was in the previous code.
|
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| 477 | See srec_input(1) for more information.
|
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| 478 |
|
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| 479 | * The MD5, RipeMD-160, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA 512 and
|
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| 480 | Whirlpool message digests are now supported. See
|
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| 481 | srec_input(1) for more information.
|
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| 482 |
|
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| 483 | * There is a new srec_cat -bit-reverse filter, that may be used
|
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| 484 | to reverse the bits in each data byte. See srec_input(1) for
|
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| 485 | more information.
|
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| 486 |
|
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| 487 | Version 1.49 (2009-May-17)
|
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| 488 | * A typo in the srec_input(1) man page has been fixed.
|
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| 489 |
|
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| 490 | Version 1.48 (2009-Apr-19)
|
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| 491 | * There are new Fletcher Checksum filters, both 32-bits and
|
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| 492 | 16-bits, both little-endian and big-endian.
|
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| 493 |
|
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| 494 | * There are new Adler Checksum filters, both 32-bits and
|
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| 495 | 16-bits, both little-endian and big-endian.
|
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| 496 |
|
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| 497 | Version 1.47 (2009-Feb-19)
|
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| 498 | * Memory Initialzation File (MIF) format by Altera is now
|
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| 499 | supported for reading and writing.
|
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| 500 |
|
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| 501 | Version 1.46 (2009-Jan-13)
|
---|
| 502 | * There is a new option for the --x-e-length filters, they can
|
---|
| 503 | now accept a width, and this is divided into the byte lenght,
|
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| 504 | so that you can insert the length in units of words (2) or
|
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| 505 | longs (4).
|
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| 506 |
|
---|
| 507 | * Some small corrections have been made to the documentation.
|
---|
| 508 |
|
---|
| 509 | * The -minimum and -maximum options have been renamed -minimum-
|
---|
| 510 | address and -maximum-address, to avoid a command line grammar
|
---|
| 511 | syntax problem.
|
---|
| 512 |
|
---|
| 513 | Version 1.45 (2008-Sep-30)
|
---|
| 514 | * A bug has been fixed in the srec_cat(1) command. You are now
|
---|
| 515 | able to specify several inputs within parentheses, instead of
|
---|
| 516 | just one. This allows filters to be applied to the
|
---|
| 517 | concatenation of several inputs.
|
---|
| 518 |
|
---|
| 519 | * The srec_cat(1) command is now able to write FORTH output.
|
---|
| 520 |
|
---|
| 521 | Version 1.44 (2008-Aug-29)
|
---|
| 522 | * Some compilers issue a warning when const appears before
|
---|
| 523 | extern. "warning: storage class is not first". The C output
|
---|
| 524 | has been updated to conform to this expectation.
|
---|
| 525 |
|
---|
| 526 | * The manual page for srec_cat(1) has been enhanced to describe
|
---|
| 527 | the in-memory data model, and the resulting output data order.
|
---|
| 528 |
|
---|
| 529 | * The -motorola optional width argument now produces a better
|
---|
| 530 | error message when it is out of range.
|
---|
| 531 |
|
---|
| 532 | * The -fill filter now checks the size, and fails for absurdly
|
---|
| 533 | large fills, with a -big override if they really want >1GB
|
---|
| 534 | fills.
|
---|
| 535 |
|
---|
| 536 | * A bug in the .spec file for rpmbuild has been fixed, it now
|
---|
| 537 | takes notice of $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
|
---|
| 538 |
|
---|
| 539 | * There is a new -line-termination option, which may be used to
|
---|
| 540 | select the desired line termination of output text files.
|
---|
| 541 |
|
---|
| 542 | Version 1.43 (2008-Jul-06)
|
---|
| 543 | * The srec-cat -data-only option has been broken down into four
|
---|
| 544 | separate controls. It is now possible to -enable and -disable
|
---|
| 545 | individual features, such as "header", "data-count",
|
---|
| 546 | "execution-start-address" and "footer". See srec_cat(1) for
|
---|
| 547 | more information.
|
---|
| 548 |
|
---|
| 549 | * The srec_cat -start-address option has been renamed
|
---|
| 550 | -execution-start-address to remove any confusion with the
|
---|
| 551 | -offset filter. The documentation now explicitly explains the
|
---|
| 552 | difference between the two.
|
---|
| 553 |
|
---|
| 554 | * Examples of converting to and from binary files have been
|
---|
| 555 | added to the srec_examples(1) man page.
|
---|
| 556 |
|
---|
| 557 | * A bug has been fixed in the MOS Tech format, it now emits an
|
---|
| 558 | end record even when there is no execution start address
|
---|
| 559 | passed in.
|
---|
| 560 |
|
---|
| 561 | Version 1.42 (2008-Jun-01)
|
---|
| 562 | * The MOS Technology format was not reading and writing end
|
---|
| 563 | records correctly, this has been fixed. The name of the
|
---|
| 564 | company has been corrected.
|
---|
| 565 |
|
---|
| 566 | * Some examples of how to insert constant or scripted data into
|
---|
| 567 | your EPROM load files have been added to the srec_examples(1)
|
---|
| 568 | man page.
|
---|
| 569 |
|
---|
| 570 | Version 1.41 (2008-May-12)
|
---|
| 571 | * False negative being reported by tests on Cygwin have been
|
---|
| 572 | fixed.
|
---|
| 573 |
|
---|
| 574 | * There are six new filters (-be-exclusive-length, -le-
|
---|
| 575 | exclusive-length, -be-exclusive-maximum, -le-exclusive-
|
---|
| 576 | maximum, -be-exclusive-minimum and -le-exclusive-minimum)
|
---|
| 577 | which are very similar to their non-exclusive equivalents,
|
---|
| 578 | except that they do not include the adress range covered by
|
---|
| 579 | their output in their output.
|
---|
| 580 |
|
---|
| 581 | * A bug has been fixed in the C word-array output. It was
|
---|
| 582 | getting offsets and lengths wrong in some cases.
|
---|
| 583 |
|
---|
| 584 | * A bug has been fixed in the generated C array header file, it
|
---|
| 585 | no longer omits the section descriptor arrays.
|
---|
| 586 |
|
---|
| 587 | * A problem with building RPM packages with the names of the
|
---|
| 588 | executables in the .spec file has been fixed, and the
|
---|
| 589 | BuildRequires has been updated.
|
---|
| 590 |
|
---|
| 591 | Version 1.40 (2008-Mar-13)
|
---|
| 592 | * An RPM build problem has been fixed.
|
---|
| 593 |
|
---|
| 594 | * The dependency on the Boost library is now documented in the
|
---|
| 595 | BUILDING file.
|
---|
| 596 |
|
---|
| 597 | * Some build problems with g++ 4.3 have been fixed
|
---|
| 598 |
|
---|
| 599 | * A bug has been fixed in the calculation of ranges on the
|
---|
| 600 | command line, it no longer goes into an infinite loop for
|
---|
| 601 | "-fill 0xFF -over { foo.hex -exclude -within foo.hex }"
|
---|
| 602 | construct, which should have been calculating an empty fill
|
---|
| 603 | set, but was instead calculating a 4GB fill set.
|
---|
| 604 |
|
---|
| 605 | * The CRC32 filters now take an -xmodem option, to use an
|
---|
| 606 | xmodem-like (all bit zero) initial state, rather than the
|
---|
| 607 | default CCITT (all bits on) initial state.
|
---|
| 608 |
|
---|
| 609 | Version 1.39 (2008-Feb-04)
|
---|
| 610 | * A bug has been fixed in the use of parentheses to group
|
---|
| 611 | filters and override the default precedences.
|
---|
| 612 |
|
---|
| 613 | Version 1.38 (2008-Jan-14)
|
---|
| 614 | * The CRC16 filters now support a -Broken option, to perform a
|
---|
| 615 | common-but-broken CRC16 calculation, in addition to the CCITT
|
---|
| 616 | and XMODEM calculations.
|
---|
| 617 |
|
---|
| 618 | * A link has been added to the CRC16 man page section to the
|
---|
| 619 | www.joegeluso.com/software/articles/ccitt.htm web page, to
|
---|
| 620 | explain the difficulties in seeding CRC16 calculations.
|
---|
| 621 |
|
---|
| 622 | * A buglet has been fixed in the srec_motorola(5) man page, it
|
---|
| 623 | now includes S6 in the list of things that can appear in the
|
---|
| 624 | type field.
|
---|
| 625 |
|
---|
| 626 | * The ability to negate expressions is now mentioned in the
|
---|
| 627 | srec_examples(1) man page.
|
---|
| 628 |
|
---|
| 629 | Version 1.37 (2007-Oct-29)
|
---|
| 630 | * It is now possible to have negative expressions on the command
|
---|
| 631 | line, to facilitate "--offset - -minimum foo" usages.
|
---|
| 632 |
|
---|
| 633 | * The srec_cat(1) command now has a simple hexadecimal dump
|
---|
| 634 | output format.
|
---|
| 635 |
|
---|
| 636 | * The use of uudecode(1) in the tests has been removed, so
|
---|
| 637 | sharutils is no longer a build dependency.
|
---|
| 638 |
|
---|
| 639 | Version 1.36 (2007-Aug-07)
|
---|
| 640 | * A bug has been fixed in the CRC-16 CCITT calculation; the
|
---|
| 641 | algorithm was correct but the start value was incorrect,
|
---|
| 642 | leading to incorrect results.
|
---|
| 643 |
|
---|
| 644 | * The CRC16 filters have a new --no-augment option, to omit the
|
---|
| 645 | 16 zero bits augmenting the message. This is not CCITT
|
---|
| 646 | standard conforming, but some implementations do this.
|
---|
| 647 |
|
---|
| 648 | * A problem has been fixed in the generated Makefile.in file
|
---|
| 649 | found in the tarball.
|
---|
| 650 |
|
---|
| 651 | * The license has been changed to GNU GPL version 3.
|
---|
| 652 |
|
---|
| 653 | Version 1.35 (2007-Jun-23)
|
---|
| 654 | * A major build problem with the generated makefile has been
|
---|
| 655 | fixed.
|
---|
| 656 |
|
---|
| 657 | Version 1.34 (2007-Jun-22)
|
---|
| 658 | * The C and ASM output formats have been improved in the word
|
---|
| 659 | mode.
|
---|
| 660 |
|
---|
| 661 | * Several build problems have been fixed.
|
---|
| 662 |
|
---|
| 663 | Version 1.33 (2007-May-18)
|
---|
| 664 | * More examples have been added to the documentation.
|
---|
| 665 |
|
---|
| 666 | * It is now possible to perform set intersection and set
|
---|
| 667 | difference on address ranges on the command line.
|
---|
| 668 |
|
---|
| 669 | * There is a new category of data source: generators. You can
|
---|
| 670 | generate constant data, random data and repeating data.
|
---|
| 671 |
|
---|
| 672 | * The assembler and C-Array outputs now support additional
|
---|
| 673 | options to facilitate MSP430 systems. They can also
|
---|
| 674 | optionally write shorts rather than bytes.
|
---|
| 675 |
|
---|
| 676 | * You can now round address ranges on the command line to be
|
---|
| 677 | whole multiples of a number of bytes.
|
---|
| 678 |
|
---|
| 679 | Version 1.32 (2007-Apr-24)
|
---|
| 680 | * The TI-TXT format output has been improved; it is less spec
|
---|
| 681 | conforming but more reality conforming. It now allows odd
|
---|
| 682 | alignment without padding. It also ends with a q instead of a
|
---|
| 683 | Q.
|
---|
| 684 |
|
---|
| 685 | * The warning for odd input addresses has been dropped. The
|
---|
| 686 | spec didn't like them, but the MSP430 handles them without a
|
---|
| 687 | hiccup.
|
---|
| 688 |
|
---|
| 689 | Version 1.31 (2007-Apr-03)
|
---|
| 690 | * The Verilog format now suppresses comments when you specify
|
---|
| 691 | the --data-only option.
|
---|
| 692 |
|
---|
| 693 | * The Texas Instruments ti-txt (MSP430) format is now understood
|
---|
| 694 | for reading and writing.
|
---|
| 695 |
|
---|
| 696 | Version 1.30 (2007-Mar-21)
|
---|
| 697 | * The ascii-hex output format has been improved.
|
---|
| 698 |
|
---|
| 699 | * The ti-tagged 16-bit format is now understood for reading and
|
---|
| 700 | writing.
|
---|
| 701 |
|
---|
| 702 | * The Intel format no longer warns about missing optional
|
---|
| 703 | records.
|
---|
| 704 |
|
---|
| 705 | * A bug in the ti-tagged format has been fixed, it now
|
---|
| 706 | understands the '0' tag.
|
---|
| 707 |
|
---|
| 708 | Version 1.29 (2007-Mar-13)
|
---|
| 709 | * A serious bug has been fixed in the generated Makefile.
|
---|
| 710 |
|
---|
| 711 | Version 1.28 (2007-Mar-08)
|
---|
| 712 | * It is now possible to read and write files in the Freescale
|
---|
| 713 | MC68EZ328 Dragonball bootstrap b-record format
|
---|
| 714 |
|
---|
| 715 | Version 1.27 (2006-Dec-21)
|
---|
| 716 | * [SourceForge Feature Request 1597637] There is a new warning
|
---|
| 717 | issued when input data records are not in strictly ascending
|
---|
| 718 | address order. There is a new command line option to silence
|
---|
| 719 | the warning.
|
---|
| 720 |
|
---|
| 721 | * [SourceForge Feature Request 1592348] The command line
|
---|
| 722 | processing of all srecord commands now understands @file
|
---|
| 723 | command line options, filled with additional space separated
|
---|
| 724 | strings witch will be treated as of they were command line
|
---|
| 725 | options. This gets around absurdly short command line length
|
---|
| 726 | limits in some operating systems.
|
---|
| 727 |
|
---|
| 728 | Version 1.26 (2006-May-26)
|
---|
| 729 | * It is now possible to place parentheses on the command line in
|
---|
| 730 | more places to clarify your intent.
|
---|
| 731 |
|
---|
| 732 | * This change prepares SRecord for the next public release.
|
---|
| 733 |
|
---|
| 734 | Version 1.25 (2006-May-18)
|
---|
| 735 | * The assembler output has been enhanced to produce ORG
|
---|
| 736 | directives, if necessary, to change the data address.
|
---|
| 737 |
|
---|
| 738 | * The srec_cat(1) command now only writes an execution start
|
---|
| 739 | address into the output if there was an execution start
|
---|
| 740 | address present in the input.
|
---|
| 741 |
|
---|
| 742 | Version 1.24 (2006-Mar-08)
|
---|
| 743 | * Additional information has been added to the lseek error when
|
---|
| 744 | they try to seek to addresses >= 2**31
|
---|
| 745 |
|
---|
| 746 | * The CRC 16 filters have been enhanced to accept an argument to
|
---|
| 747 | specify whether CCITT or XMODEM calculations are to be
|
---|
| 748 | performed.
|
---|
| 749 |
|
---|
| 750 | Version 1.23 (2005-Sep-23)
|
---|
| 751 | * A segfault has been fixed on x86_64 when running the
|
---|
| 752 | regression test suite.
|
---|
| 753 |
|
---|
| 754 | * A compile problem with the lib/srec/output/file/c.cc file has
|
---|
| 755 | been fixed.
|
---|
| 756 |
|
---|
| 757 | Version 1.22 (2005-Aug-12)
|
---|
| 758 | * The -byte-swap filter now has an optional width argument, to
|
---|
| 759 | specify the address width to swap. The default is two bytes.
|
---|
| 760 |
|
---|
| 761 | * The motorola file format now accepts an additional 'width'
|
---|
| 762 | command line argument, so you can have 16-bit and 32-bit
|
---|
| 763 | address multiples.
|
---|
| 764 |
|
---|
| 765 | * A bug has been fixed in the VMEM output format. It was failing
|
---|
| 766 | to correctly set the next address in some cases. This fixes
|
---|
| 767 | SourceForge bug 1119786.
|
---|
| 768 |
|
---|
| 769 | * The -C-Array output format now uses the const keyword by
|
---|
| 770 | default, you can turn it off with the -no-const option. The
|
---|
| 771 | -C-Array output format can now generate an additional include
|
---|
| 772 | file if you use the -INClude option. This answers SourceForge
|
---|
| 773 | feature request 942132.
|
---|
| 774 |
|
---|
| 775 | * A fix for the "undefined symbols" problem when using g++ 3.x
|
---|
| 776 | on Cygwin and MacOsX has been added to the ./configure script.
|
---|
| 777 |
|
---|
| 778 | * There is a new -ignore-checksum command line option. The
|
---|
| 779 | -ignore-checksums option may be used to disable checksum
|
---|
| 780 | validation of input files, for those formats which have
|
---|
| 781 | checksums at all. Note that the checksum values are still
|
---|
| 782 | read in and parsed (so it is still an error if they are
|
---|
| 783 | missing) but their values are not checked.
|
---|
| 784 |
|
---|
| 785 | Version 1.21 (2005-Feb-07)
|
---|
| 786 | * More Doxygen comments have been added to the class header
|
---|
| 787 | files.
|
---|
| 788 |
|
---|
| 789 | * There is a new srec_cat --crlf option, which may be used for
|
---|
| 790 | force CRLF output on operating systems which don't use that
|
---|
| 791 | style of line termination.
|
---|
| 792 |
|
---|
| 793 | * A number of problems with GCC, particularly with the early 3.x
|
---|
| 794 | series.
|
---|
| 795 |
|
---|
| 796 | * There is a new "Stewie" format, an undocumented format loosely
|
---|
| 797 | based on the Motorola S-Record format, apparently used in
|
---|
| 798 | mobile phones. More information would be most welcome.
|
---|
| 799 |
|
---|
| 800 | * A number of build problems have been fixed.
|
---|
| 801 |
|
---|
| 802 | Version 1.20 (2004-Feb-08)
|
---|
| 803 | * The AOMF format now accepts (and ignores) more record types.
|
---|
| 804 |
|
---|
| 805 | Version 1.19 (2004-Jan-03)
|
---|
| 806 | * It is now possible to set the execution start address in the
|
---|
| 807 | output using the srec_cat -Execution_Start_Address command
|
---|
| 808 | line option.
|
---|
| 809 |
|
---|
| 810 | * The Intel Absolute Object Module Format (AOMF) is now
|
---|
| 811 | supported for reading and writing.
|
---|
| 812 |
|
---|
| 813 | * There is a new srec_cat -Random_Fill filter, like the srec_cat
|
---|
| 814 | -Fill filter except that it uses random values.
|
---|
| 815 |
|
---|
| 816 | Version 1.18 (2004-Jan-01)
|
---|
| 817 | * The VMEM format is now able to output data for 64 and 128 bits
|
---|
| 818 | wide memories.
|
---|
| 819 |
|
---|
| 820 | * A bug in the SRecord reference manuals has been fixed; the
|
---|
| 821 | CRCxx had a copy-and-paste glitch and always said big-endian
|
---|
| 822 | where little endian was intended half the time.
|
---|
| 823 |
|
---|
| 824 | Version 1.17 (2003-Oct-12)
|
---|
| 825 | * There is now support for Intel Extended Segment addressing
|
---|
| 826 | output, via the --address-length=2 option.
|
---|
| 827 |
|
---|
| 828 | * There is now support for output of Verilog VMEM format. See
|
---|
| 829 | srec_vmem(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 830 |
|
---|
| 831 | * There is now support for reading and writing the INHX16
|
---|
| 832 | format, used in various PIC programmers. It looks just like
|
---|
| 833 | the Intel Hex format, except that the bytes counts and the
|
---|
| 834 | addresses refer to words (hi,lo) rather than bytes. See
|
---|
| 835 | srec_intel16(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 836 |
|
---|
| 837 | Version 1.16 (2003-Jul-28)
|
---|
| 838 | * Some updates have been made to cope with GCC 3.2
|
---|
| 839 |
|
---|
| 840 | Version 1.15 (2003-Jun-16)
|
---|
| 841 | * The ASCII-Hex implementation is now slightly more complete. I
|
---|
| 842 | still haven't found a definitive description.
|
---|
| 843 |
|
---|
| 844 | * The Fairchild Fairbug format has been added for reading and
|
---|
| 845 | writing. See srec_fairchild(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 846 |
|
---|
| 847 | * The Spectrum format has been added for reading and writing.
|
---|
| 848 | See srec_spectrum(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 849 |
|
---|
| 850 | * The Formatted Binary format has been added for reading and
|
---|
| 851 | writing. See srec_formatted_binary(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 852 |
|
---|
| 853 | * The RCA Cosmac Elf format has been added for reading and
|
---|
| 854 | writing. See srec_cosmac(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 855 |
|
---|
| 856 | * The Needham EMP programmer format has been added for reading
|
---|
| 857 | and writing. See srec_needham(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 858 |
|
---|
| 859 | Version 1.14 (2003-Mar-11)
|
---|
| 860 | * Numerous fixes have been made to header handling. It is now
|
---|
| 861 | possible to specify an empty header with the -header command
|
---|
| 862 | line option.
|
---|
| 863 |
|
---|
| 864 | * Some more GCC 3.2 build problems have been fixed.
|
---|
| 865 |
|
---|
| 866 | Version 1.13 (2003-Feb-05)
|
---|
| 867 | * Bugs have been fixed in the Texas Instruments Tagged and VHDL
|
---|
| 868 | formats, which produced inconsistent output.
|
---|
| 869 |
|
---|
| 870 | * A couple of build problems have been fixed.
|
---|
| 871 |
|
---|
| 872 | * There are two new output formats for ASM and BASIC.
|
---|
| 873 |
|
---|
| 874 | Version 1.12 (2002-Dec-06)
|
---|
| 875 | * It is now possible to put -minimum input.spec (also -maximum
|
---|
| 876 | and -length) almost anywhere on the command line that you can
|
---|
| 877 | put a number. It allows, for example, the -offset value to be
|
---|
| 878 | calculated from the maximum of the previous file. The values
|
---|
| 879 | calculated by -Minimum, -Maximum and -Length may also be
|
---|
| 880 | rounded to arbitrary boundaries, using -Round_Down,
|
---|
| 881 | -Round_Nearest and -Round_Up.
|
---|
| 882 |
|
---|
| 883 | * The malformed Motorola S5 records output by the Green Hills
|
---|
| 884 | tool chain are now understood.
|
---|
| 885 |
|
---|
| 886 | Version 1.11 (2002-Oct-21)
|
---|
| 887 | * The Ohio Scientific OS65V audio tape format has been added for
|
---|
| 888 | reading and writing. See srec_os65v(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 889 |
|
---|
| 890 | * Some build problems have been fixed.
|
---|
| 891 |
|
---|
| 892 | Version 1.10 (2002-Jun-14)
|
---|
| 893 | * The Intel format now emits the redundant extended linear
|
---|
| 894 | address record at the start of the file; some loaders couldn't
|
---|
| 895 | cope without it.
|
---|
| 896 |
|
---|
| 897 | * The Binary format now copes with writing to pipes.
|
---|
| 898 |
|
---|
| 899 | * The Motorola format now understands the S6 (24-bit data record
|
---|
| 900 | count) records for reading and writing.
|
---|
| 901 |
|
---|
| 902 | * The DEC Binary format now works correctly on Windows machines.
|
---|
| 903 |
|
---|
| 904 | * The LSI Logic Fast Load format is now understood for both
|
---|
| 905 | reading and writing. See srec_fastload(5) for more
|
---|
| 906 | information.
|
---|
| 907 |
|
---|
| 908 | Version 1.9 (2001-Nov-27)
|
---|
| 909 | * The DEC Binary (XXDP) format is now understood for both
|
---|
| 910 | reading and writing. See srec_dec_binary(5) for more
|
---|
| 911 | information.
|
---|
| 912 |
|
---|
| 913 | * The Elektor Monitor (EMON52) format is now understood for both
|
---|
| 914 | reading and writing. See srec_emon52(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 915 |
|
---|
| 916 | * The Signetics format is now understood for both reading and
|
---|
| 917 | writing. See srec_signetics(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 918 |
|
---|
| 919 | * The Four Packed Code (FPC) format is now understood for both
|
---|
| 920 | reading and writing. See srec_fpc(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 921 |
|
---|
| 922 | * Wherever possible, header data is now passed through by
|
---|
| 923 | srec_cat(1). There is also a new srec_cat -header option, so
|
---|
| 924 | that you can set the header comment from the command line.
|
---|
| 925 |
|
---|
| 926 | * The Atmel Generic format for Atmel AVR programmers is now
|
---|
| 927 | understood for both reading and writing. See
|
---|
| 928 | srec_atmel_generic(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 929 |
|
---|
| 930 | * The handling of termination records has been improved. It
|
---|
| 931 | caused problems for a number of filters, including the -fill
|
---|
| 932 | filter.
|
---|
| 933 |
|
---|
| 934 | * A bug has been fixed in the checksum calculations for the
|
---|
| 935 | Tektronix format.
|
---|
| 936 |
|
---|
| 937 | * There is a new SPASM format for PIC programmers. See
|
---|
| 938 | srec_spasm(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 939 |
|
---|
| 940 | Version 1.8 (2001-Apr-20)
|
---|
| 941 | * There is a new "unfill" filter, which may be used to perform
|
---|
| 942 | the reverse effect of the "fill" filter.
|
---|
| 943 |
|
---|
| 944 | * There is a new bit-wise NOT filter, which may be used to
|
---|
| 945 | invert the data.
|
---|
| 946 |
|
---|
| 947 | * A couple of bugs have been fixed in the CRC filters.
|
---|
| 948 |
|
---|
| 949 | Version 1.7 (2001-Mar-19)
|
---|
| 950 | * The documentation is now in PDF format. This was in order to
|
---|
| 951 | make it more accessible to a wider range of people.
|
---|
| 952 |
|
---|
| 953 | * There is a new srec_cat --address-length option, so that you
|
---|
| 954 | can set the length of the address fields in the output file.
|
---|
| 955 | For example, if you always want S3 data records in a Motorola
|
---|
| 956 | hex file, use the --address-length=4 option. This helps when
|
---|
| 957 | talking to brain-dead EPROM programmers which do not fully
|
---|
| 958 | implement the format specification.
|
---|
| 959 |
|
---|
| 960 | * There is a new --multiple option to the commands, which
|
---|
| 961 | permits an input file to contain multiple (contradictory)
|
---|
| 962 | values for some memory locations. The last value in the file
|
---|
| 963 | will be used.
|
---|
| 964 |
|
---|
| 965 | * A problem has been fixed which stopped SRecord from building
|
---|
| 966 | under Cygwin.
|
---|
| 967 |
|
---|
| 968 | * A bug has been fixed in the C array output. It used to
|
---|
| 969 | generate invalid output when the input had holes in the data.
|
---|
| 970 |
|
---|
| 971 | Version 1.6 (2000-Dec-03)
|
---|
| 972 | * A bug has been fixed in the C array output. (Holes in the
|
---|
| 973 | input caused an invalid C file to be produced.)
|
---|
| 974 |
|
---|
| 975 | * There is are new CRC input filters, both 16-bit and 32-bit,
|
---|
| 976 | both big and little endian. See srec_cat(1) for more
|
---|
| 977 | information.
|
---|
| 978 |
|
---|
| 979 | * There is a new VHDL output format.
|
---|
| 980 |
|
---|
| 981 | * There are new checksum filters: in addition to the existing
|
---|
| 982 | one's complement (bit not) checksum filter, there are now
|
---|
| 983 | negative and positive checksum filters. See srec_cat(1) for
|
---|
| 984 | more information.
|
---|
| 985 |
|
---|
| 986 | * The checksum filters are now able to sum over 16-bit and
|
---|
| 987 | 32-bit values, in addition to the existing byte sums.
|
---|
| 988 |
|
---|
| 989 | * The srec_cmp program now has a --verbose option, which gives
|
---|
| 990 | more information about how the two inputs differ. See
|
---|
| 991 | srec_cmp(1) for more information.
|
---|
| 992 |
|
---|
| 993 | Version 1.5 (2000-Mar-06)
|
---|
| 994 | * There is now a command line option to guess the input file
|
---|
| 995 | format; all of the tools understand this option.
|
---|
| 996 |
|
---|
| 997 | * The "MOS Technologies" file format is now understood for
|
---|
| 998 | reading and writing. See srec_mos_tech(5) for more
|
---|
| 999 | information.
|
---|
| 1000 |
|
---|
| 1001 | * The "Tektronix Extended" file format is now understood for
|
---|
| 1002 | reading and writing. See srec_tektronix_extended(5) for more
|
---|
| 1003 | information.
|
---|
| 1004 |
|
---|
| 1005 | * The "Texas Instruments Tagged" file format is now understood
|
---|
| 1006 | for reading and writing. (Also known as the TI-Tagged or
|
---|
| 1007 | SDSMAC format.) See srec_ti_tagged(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 1008 |
|
---|
| 1009 | * The "ascii-hex" file format is now understood for reading and
|
---|
| 1010 | writing. (Also known as the ascii-space-hex format.) See
|
---|
| 1011 | srec_ascii_hex(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 1012 |
|
---|
| 1013 | * There is a new byte swap input filter, allowing pairs of odd
|
---|
| 1014 | and even input bytes to be swapped. See srec_cat(1) for more
|
---|
| 1015 | information.
|
---|
| 1016 |
|
---|
| 1017 | * The "wilson" file format is now understood for reading and
|
---|
| 1018 | writing. This mystery format was added for a mysterious type
|
---|
| 1019 | of EPROM writer. See srec_wilson(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 1020 |
|
---|
| 1021 | * The srec_cat program now has a -data-only option, which
|
---|
| 1022 | suppresses all output except for the data records. This helps
|
---|
| 1023 | when talking to brain-dead EPROM programmers which barf at
|
---|
| 1024 | anything but data. See srec_cat(1) for more information.
|
---|
| 1025 |
|
---|
| 1026 | * There is a new -Line-Length option for the srec_cat program,
|
---|
| 1027 | allowing you to specify the maximum width of output lines.
|
---|
| 1028 | See srec_cat(1) for more information.
|
---|
| 1029 |
|
---|
| 1030 | Version 1.4 (2000-Jan-13)
|
---|
| 1031 | * SRecord can now cope with CRLF sequences in Unix files. This
|
---|
| 1032 | was unfortunately common where the file was generated on a PC,
|
---|
| 1033 | but SRecord was being used on Unix.
|
---|
| 1034 |
|
---|
| 1035 | Version 1.3 (1999-May-12)
|
---|
| 1036 | * A bug has been fixed which would cause the crop and exclude
|
---|
| 1037 | filters to dump core sometimes.
|
---|
| 1038 |
|
---|
| 1039 | * A bug has been fixed where binary files were handled
|
---|
| 1040 | incorrectly on Windows NT (actually, any system in which text
|
---|
| 1041 | files aren't the same as binary files).
|
---|
| 1042 |
|
---|
| 1043 | * There are three new data filters. The --OR filter, which may
|
---|
| 1044 | be used to bit-wise OR a value to each data byte; the --AND
|
---|
| 1045 | filter, which may be used to bit-wise AND a value to each data
|
---|
| 1046 | byte; and the --eXclusive-OR filter, which may be used to bit-
|
---|
| 1047 | wise XOR a value to each data byte. See srec_cat(1) for more
|
---|
| 1048 | information.
|
---|
| 1049 |
|
---|
| 1050 | Version 1.2 (1998-Nov-04)
|
---|
| 1051 | * This release includes file format man pages. The web page
|
---|
| 1052 | also includes a PostScript reference manual, containing all of
|
---|
| 1053 | the man pages.
|
---|
| 1054 |
|
---|
| 1055 | * The Intel hex format now has full 32-bit support. See
|
---|
| 1056 | srec_intel(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 1057 |
|
---|
| 1058 | * The Tektronix hex format is now supported (only the 16-bit
|
---|
| 1059 | version, Extended Tektronix hex is not yet supported). See
|
---|
| 1060 | srec_tektronix(5) for more information.
|
---|
| 1061 |
|
---|
| 1062 | * There is a new split filter, useful for wide data buses and
|
---|
| 1063 | memory striping, and a complementary unsplit filter to reverse
|
---|
| 1064 | it. See srec_cat(1) for more information.
|
---|
| 1065 |
|
---|
| 1066 | Version 1.1 (1998-Mar-22)
|
---|
| 1067 | First public release.
|
---|
| 1068 |
|
---|
| 1069 |
|
---|
| 1070 |
|
---|
| 1071 | Reference Manual SRecord Read Me(SRecord)
|
---|