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Re: FW: Re: Why is my executabel in DOS file format?


Meg Abyte wrote:


In addition - I just checked dos2unix .... and I see this:


"The dos2unix utility converts characters in the DOS extended
    character set to the corresponding ISO standard characters.
"

So this means that my problem still stands - and might not be a cr/lf issue-

Why is the produced S-record, have these DOS extended characters when everything is being done on Linux (yes the tools were compiled on linux etc - in fact we've compiled 3 different versions over time and all are doing this), requiring me to get rid of thes DOS extended characters by running DOS2UNIX ?

That was explained in a previous response: objcopy thinks that the srec specification requires that this be the case.


Why does it think this? I don't know. Its authors` interpretation of the specification I would suppose.

Since you know that dos2unix will make it work with your target, what is the problem with using it?

David Daney.



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