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.SH PIKLAB-HEX \- Tool to check INHEX-files.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B piklab-hex [options] [command] [file].hex
.RI

.SH DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the
.B piklab-hex command.

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\fBPiklab-hex\fP is a command line tool to check files, if they are valid Hex-files which comply with the INHEX-Standard defined by Intel corporation.

.SH OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`-').
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
	Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-version
	Show version of program.
.TP
.B \-\-author
	Show author information
.TP
.B \-\-license
	Show license information
.TP
.B \-c [command]
	Option to issue a command.
.TP
.SH COMMANDS
.TP
.B check		Check file, if it is a valid intel-hex-file.
.TP
.B info			Return information about hex file.
.TP
.B fix			Clean hex file and fix errors (wrong CRC, truncated line, truncated file).
.TP
.B compare		Compare two hex files.
.TP
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.SH SEE ALSO
.BR piklab (1),
.BR piklab-prog (1),
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.SH AUTHORS
piklab was written by Nicolas Hadacek and many others, including:
    * Alain Gibaud: author of Pikdev; main infrastructure; IDE interface; direct programmers; gputils integration.
    * Keith Baker: direct programmer support for 16F7X devices.
    * Xiaofan Chen: numerous tests of PICkit1/2 and ICD2 programmers.
    * Craig Franklin: author of gputils (disassembler and coff parser).
    * Manwlis Giannos: direct programmer support for PIC18FXX2/FXX8 devices.
    * Stephen Landamore: author of LPLAB (microchip command-line programmer).
    * Brian C. Lane: original code for direct programming.
    * Sébastion Laoût: author of Likeback.
    * Nestor A. Marchesini: tests of PicStart+ programmer.
    * Lorenz Mösenlechner and Matthias Kranz: USB support for ICD2 programmer.
    * Mirko Panciri: direct programmers with bidirectionnal buffers.
    * Sean A. Walberg: direct programmer support for 16F676/630 devices.

.B Translations:
    * Michele Petrecca: Italian translation.
    * Alain Portal: French translation.
    * Stefan von Halenbach: German translation.
    * Nagy Lázló: Hungarian translation.
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.SH COPYRIGHT
	This  is  free  software.   You  may  redistribute  copies  of  it  under  the  terms   of   the   GNU   General   Public   License
       	<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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This manual page was written by Stefan <vonHalenbach@users.sf.net>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).