srec_formatted_binary(5) - Linux man page
Name
srec_formatted_binary - Formatted Binary file format
Description
This is the PDP-11 paper tape format, described in the DEC-11-GGPC-D PDP-11 "Paper Tape Software Programming Handbook" 1972.
The file startes with a charcter sequence which appears as an arrow when punched on 8-hole paper tape.
- 0x08, 0x1C, 0x2A, 0x49, 0x08, 0x00
- Then follows a byte count, encoded big-endian in the low 4 bits of the next 4 bytes. The high bits should be zero.
Then follows a 0xFF byte.
The data follows, as many bytes as specified in the header.
The trailer consists of the following bytes:
- 0x00, 0x00,
- and then a 2-byte checksum (big-endian).
The alternate header sequence
- 0x08, 0x1C, 0x3E, 0x6B, 0x08, 0x00
- is followed by an 8-nibble big-endian byte count.
Size Multiplier
- In general, binary data will expand in sized very little when represented with this format.
Example
Here is a hex dump of a formatted binary file containing the data "Hello, World!".
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0000: 08 1C 2A 49 08 00 00 00 ..*I.... 0008: 00 0E FF 48 65 6C 6C 6F ...Hello 0010: 2C 20 57 6F 72 6C 64 21 , World! 0018: 0A 00 00 04 73 ....s
Copyright
srec_cat version 1.56
Copyright © 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 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.