IBM MaxLoader manual ƒ Motorola S HEX Format, Record Length

MaxLoader User’s Guide

:02 0000 02 4A29 02

Check Sum

Index address

Record type

Address

Record Length

•The Address field is blank because this record is not data.

•The record length is '02' for index address (2 Bytes).

NOTE: If the address for the data record is '2B56', the actual address will be 4A290 + 2B56 or 4CDE6 (HEX).

ƒMotorola S HEX Format

	The Motorola S format file is an ASCII-HEX file.
Position (Byte)		Character	Remarks
1		S	Letter S indicates start of record
2		0, 1, 2, 3, or 9	A single character indicates the type of
			record.
		9: End-of-file
		3: 32-bit address data record
		2: 24-bit address data record
		1: 16-bit address data record
		0: Header
3	- 4	Bytes	Byte COUNT in HEX (multiply by two
			for number of characters). This count
			includes the address, data, and
			Checksum field.
5	- X	Bytes	Memory Address for the current record.
		X will be:
		8 : 16-bit addressing for files less than 64K.

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