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Some character entities had missing semicolons. It's &CPU; The os9l1guide and os9l2guide are now much more modular simply because the sections that are not to be included in one of them is defined as the empty string in the <!ENTITY declaration Split exbin and binex pages so the occur at the right place in the manual. Got the content for wcreate from the Internet.
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1 <refentry id="exbin">
2 <refnamediv>
3 <refname id="exbinname">EXBIN</refname>
4 <refpurpose>Convert S-Record To Binary File</refpurpose>
5 </refnamediv>
6
7 <refsynopsisdiv>
8 <cmdsynopsis>
9 <command>EXBIN</command>
10 <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>path2</replaceable></arg>
11 <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>path1</replaceable></arg>
12 </cmdsynopsis>
13 </refsynopsisdiv>
14
15 <refsect1><title>Description</title>
16 <para>
17 S-Record files are a type of text file that contains records that
18 represent binary data in hexadecimal character form. This
19 Motorola-standard format is often directly accepted by commercial PROM
20 programmers, emulators, logic analyzers and similar devices that are
21 interfaced RS-232 interfaces. It can also be useful for
22 transmitting files over data links that can only handle character-type
23 data; or to convert OS-9 assembler or compiler-generated
24 programs to load on non-OS-9 systems.
25 </para>
26 <para>
27 &quot;Path1&quot; is assumed to be an
28 S-Record format text file which EXBIN converts to pure binary form on
29 a new file called &quot;path2&quot;. The load addresses of each data record
30 must describe continguous data in ascending order.
31 </para>
32 <para>
33 EXBIN does not generate or check for the proper OS-9 module
34 headers or CRC check value required to actually load the binary
35 file. The IDENT or VERIFY commands can be used to check the
36 validity of the modules if they are to be loaded or run.
37 Example:
38 </para>
39 <screen>
40 exbin program.S1 cmds/program
41 </screen>
42 </refsect1>
43 </refentry>
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