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From: kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rich Kaul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: Motorola "S records"
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Date: 30 Apr 88 23:45:57 GMT
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In article <7439@mcdchg.UUCP> michael@mcdchg.UUCP (Michael Bodine) writes:
>swackham@violet.berkeley.edu.UUCP writes:
>> Motorola "S records".  What is the format/structure of these records?
>> Please E-mail responses to:  swackham@violet.berkeley.edu
>Altho you requested mailed responses, i've noticed requests for Srecord
>format a couple of times recently, so i'm posting this for general
>interest:
>

You might also want to know that there exists a public domain program
called tohex that will convert Unix a.out files to Motorola S-records,
Intex hex format or Textronix hex format.  This program was written by Phil
Harbison quite a while back and put out on the network (I dug it up in our
archives from 1984).

I sent a copy of this program to the guy who requested info on S-records.
It certainly makes life easier.  We have a guy here who uses it to program
a robotic arm with a MC68020 controller.  The controller fits into a
MicroVax, so he compiles the programs for the arm on our Sun 3/260,
converts the a.out, ftps to the MicroVax and downloads the records.  The
system works well.  If anyone else is interested in the converter, drop me
a line and I'll send it to you.
-=-
Rich Kaul 	kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu	kaul@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
"You must realize that the computer has it in for you.  The irrefutable
proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do."