srec_idt(5)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to srec_idt(5) from the File Formats Manual — it's the IDT/sim binary file format, and it's giving “niche format, main character energy” 💅.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This format comes from Integrated Device Technology (IDT) System Integration Manager (IDT/sim). slay, we love a corporate-acronym situation.

It is almost identical to the Motorola S-Record format, except that most of each record is in binary, and there is no line termination character. The 'S' and tag characters are the same (ascii), however all other bytes are emitted as binary, rather than as a 2-byte hexadecimal ascii encoding. the way that flips from ascii hex to raw binary is the whole plot twist, fr fr 😭.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• srec_motorola(5) — the original Motorola S-Record format. iconic ancestor vibes.
• srec_wilson(5) — for a different spin on making S-Record into a more densely packed binary file. iykyk.

💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

srec_cat version 1.65 Copyright (C) 1998... 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. periodt.

🌸 MAINTAINER 🌸

• Scott Finneran — E-Mail: scottfinneran@yahoo.com.au
• Peter Miller — E-Mail: pmiller@opensource.org.au

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okay that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this one's from the SRecord Reference Manual — srec_idt(5) — and the copyright block says srec_cat version 1.65. no date listed in the footer, so don't come for me 🙈 go off and encode responsibly 💖✨