29 Jan
2006
29 Jan
'06
1:31 p.m.
I am building an eprom adapter for a DEC Unibus M9301 bootstrap
terminator so I can use 8bit wide 2732 eproms in place of the 4bit wide
fuse proms. The goal is to boot RX02 disks which the M9301 roms don't
support
Are there any good unix tools for manipulating intel hex files or any
binary image files?
I wrote my one hex <-> binary converters. Not good code (they are likely
to crash if fed something other than a valid hex file, etc), but they did
the job. If you think you can take ideas from them, I can send you the C
source code. They should compile on just about any unix system, they read
from STDIN, write to STDOUT only.
As regards manipulating binary files (e.g. to split a 16 bit file into 2
8 bit files to burn into EPROMs), again it's the sort of thing I write a
quick-and-dirty program for. I;m no programmer, but I've found it's
quikcer to do this than to try to find aome more general utilitiy to do
the job, download it, and then get it to run on my machine.
-tony