srec_spectrum(5)
NAME
srec_spectrum - Spectrum file format
DESCRIPTION
In this format, bytes are recorded as ASCII code with binary digits represented by 1s and 0s. Each byte is preceeded by a decimal address.
- The file ends with a Control-C character (0x03).
- Size Multiplier
- In general, binary data will expand in sized by approximately 14 times when represented with this format (or 15 times on DOS or Windows).
EXAMPLE
- Here is an example Spectrum file. It contains the data "Hello,
World[rq] to be loaded at address 0x0.
- ^B
0000 01001000
0001 01100101
0002 01101100
0003 01101100
0004 01101111
0005 00101100
0006 00100000
0007 01010111
0008 01101111
0009 01110010
0010 01101100
0011 01100100
0012 00100001
0013 00001010
^C
COPYRIGHT
srec_cat version 1.55
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Peter Miller
The srec_cat program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use the 'srec_cat -VERSion License' command. This is free software and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; for details use the 'srec_cat -VERSion License' command.
AUTHOR
- Peter Miller E-Mail: pmiller@opensource.org.au
/\/\* WWW: http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/