hex2cmd(1)

💖 hex2cmd — bestie edition 💖

okay so you found the hex2cmd(1) page, the General Commands Manual one, and honestly? it's giving tiny but mighty ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

hex2cmd — literally just here to convert Intel hex format into TRS-80 CMD format. that's the whole job. she's a specialist 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

hex2cmd [infile]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea, bestie 🍓

hex2cmd reads the infile you hand it — or, if you don't hand it anything at all, it just reads from standard input like the chill little icon she is — and that input is in Intel hex format. (iykyk, it's also known as S-record format, same vibe, two names 💜)

then she writes a TRS-80 CMD file out to standard output. boom. done. no cap 🔥

now the ✨special✨ part, so listen up:

• if an S-record asks for 0 bytes to be loaded at address A, that sets the transfer address (aka the entry point) of the CMD file to A 👑
• otherwise? the CMD file gets no transfer address at all. she simply doesn't have one. and that's fine 🙈

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

hex2cmd was written by Timothy Mann. legend behaviour, fr fr 🫶

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• xtrs(1) — go read it bestie
• The LDOS Quarterly, April 1, 1982 (Vol 1, No 4) — this one has the actual documentation of the TRS-80 DOS CMD file format, so if you wanna know what's inside the file she's building, that's your source 📚

and that's the whole page!! slay 💖 this was the hex2cmd(1) page from the xtrs manual, dated 2008-06-26 — mwah, go convert something, bestie 🎀✨🦋