Re: Bug#466939: ITP: hex2bin -- Converts Motorola and Intel Hex files to binary
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:11:44PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:04:19AM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Uwe Hermann <uwe@debian.org>
> >
> > * Package name : hex2bin
> > Version : 1.0.6
> > Upstream Author : Jacques Pelletier <jpelletier@users.sourceforge.net>
> > * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/hex2bin/
> > * License : GPL
> > Programming Lang: C
> > Description : Converts Motorola and Intel Hex files to binary
> >
> > Converts Motorola and Intel Hex (*.hex or *.ihx) files to binary.
>
> FWIW, you can do this with the srecord package. Despite the name, it reads
> and writes a bunch of hex formats and binary, and can convert between them
> and apply various other transformations (address shift, byte swapping)
> etc.
>
> Note that I'm not objecting to your ITP, only proposing an existing
> solution. hex2bin might be simpler to use, although it could probably be
> implemented as a simple wrapper script on-top of srecord, and packaged
> with it. You can do a hex to binary conversion with:
>
> srec_cat <infile> -Intel -output <outfile> -Binary
Yep, I'm aware of srecord, but bin2hex is indeed a bit more simple. One
of the reasons why I want to package it is that many (AVR) Makefiles out
there use it to convert *.hex files to *.bin and thus break on Debian
as we don't yet have bin2hex.
Sure, they can be fixed to use srecord, but having hex2bin in the
archive (and not having to modify external scripts/Makefiles) is still
worthwhile, IMO.
Cheers, Uwe.
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