IFI Loader problem - "Invalid HEX file"

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

Doing the ftp in binary mode is guaranteed not to modify the end-of-line characters. You'd have to do it in text mode.

I was attempting to recreate David's problem and so tested windows and unix style files.

I chose binary on purpose to test the various CR/LF mixes in IFI_Loader on a windows machine. I used ftp in ASCII mode transferring to UNIX and binary coming back to maintain the UNIX style. I verified the file difference on windows. I didn't want ftp changing the UNIX style I'd created back to Windows style.

P.S. I was able to get identical symptoms to the ones David described, where the file path doesn't even appear, when I used non-ASCII characters at the beginning of the file. A pure ASCII corrupted file still displays the filename path while showing the error message.