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- From: bogus@go.away (Mike Neus)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: What the .HEX?!?
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 19:29:02 GMT
- Organization: Texas Instruments
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- In article <Pine.SGI.3.91.960318072837.22107A-100000@heart.engr.csulb.edu>,
- dlegan@engr.csulb.edu says...
- >
- >While prowling around the Kermit.columbia.edu ftp site, I was investigating
- >a Forth implimentation of Kermit, and found a file with .HEX extension,
- >apparently for the executable encoded in some form.
- >Does anyone have any idea what .HEX means in relation to Commodore
- >computers - this file didn't seem to be following the format for
- >.HEX for CP/M, and it seemed to be character data, but not in
- >UUencoded format.
-
- I've seen this before from the Kermit site. Unless things changed (very
- possible in the last 8 or so years...) the .HEX file is MOS 65XX format.
- Don't know how to best describe it, but this is the format you typically send
- an EPROM programmer. Each line contains an address, data, and a checksum.
- Each CPU vendor (at least 8 bit CPUs) have their own format for doing this.
- Why? I dono. This is also the same format that the Commodore Macro
- Assembler spits out. You can load it with one of the "loader" files that
- comes with the package...but it is the same as the Kermit executable found at
- the same site.
-
- -Mike Neus
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