piklab-hex(1)

piklab-hex1

Tool to check inhex-files.

Usage

piklab-hex [options] [command] [file] .hex

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the piklab-hex command.

Piklab-hex is a command line tool to check files, if they are valid Hex-files which comply with the INHEX-Standard defined by Intel corporation.

Options

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-h, --help

Show summary of options.

-v, --version

Show version of program.

--author

Show author information

--license

Show license information

-c [command]

Option to issue a command.

Commands

check Check file, if it is a valid intel-hex-file.
info Return information about hex file.
fix Clean hex file and fix errors (wrong CRC, truncated line, truncated file).
compare Compare two hex files.

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

  1. 5.0–6.0

Authors

piklab was written by Nicolas Hadacek and many others, including:
* Alain Gibaud: author of Pikdev; main infrastructure; IDE interface; direct programmers; gputils integration.
* Keith Baker: direct programmer support for 16F7X devices.
* Xiaofan Chen: numerous tests of PICkit1/2 and ICD2 programmers.
* Craig Franklin: author of gputils (disassembler and coff parser).
* Manwlis Giannos: direct programmer support for PIC18FXX2/FXX8 devices.
* Stephen Landamore: author of LPLAB (microchip command-line programmer).
* Brian C. Lane: original code for direct programming.
* Sébastion Laoût: author of Likeback.
* Nestor A. Marchesini: tests of PicStart+ programmer.
* Lorenz Mösenlechner and Matthias Kranz: USB support for ICD2 programmer.
* Mirko Panciri: direct programmers with bidirectionnal buffers.
* Sean A. Walberg: direct programmer support for 16F676/630 devices.

Translations:
* Michele Petrecca: Italian translation.
* Alain Portal: French translation.
* Stefan von Halenbach: German translation.
* Nagy Lázló: Hungarian translation.

From piklab 0.15.7-1 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.