Intel HEX formats

[David Griffith]

I'm trying to understand various hex formats so I can add them as output 
options to minipro[1].  I went looking for existing code to convert binary 
to Intel hex and found repeated copies and references to "format83.c" by 
Erik Lindberg.  It seems to do what I want, but I'm unclear what "Intel 
HEX 83 format" is supposed to mean.  Based on what I see at 
http://www.math.purdue.edu/~wilker/misc/DEVEL/0036/A-6804/BIN2INT.C, this 
program only creates hex files in the I8HEX format, as described in 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HEX.

Of course, I'm going to have to support the I16HEX and I32HEX formats too. 
Based on what I find in format83.c, this shouldn't be too much trouble, 
but I really want to know what "Intel HEX 83" is supposed to mean.


[1] https://github.com/vdudouyt/minipro/

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