Thread: IFI Loader problem - "Invalid HEX file"
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Re: IFI Loader problem - "Invalid HEX file"
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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
I don't know the loader's quirks, but it's possible that it requires a CR/LF pair between lines, and the files you're trying to use might have only a CR (Mac convention) or LF (Unix convention).
One of the tests I ran was binary ftp'ing the file between UNIX and Windows machines to get the change in control characters at the end of the lines and it didn't seem to matter to IFI_Loader. I didn't test between old/new Mac and Windows though.
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