man piklab-hex (1): Tool to check INHEX-files.

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

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.

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.

COPYRIGHT

This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

This manual page was written by Stefan <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).