Dataman S4 - Manual (Page 87)

DATAMAN S4 MANUAL
Motorola S Format 87
MOTOROLA S Format
A Motorola, Exorciser or "S" Format file can be
examined using a text editor and printed. Each
record is a single line of ASCII characters,
expressing bytes as hexadecimal pairs,
terminated with Carriage return and Linefeed
(0D,0A). All records start with an "S". The
transmission is terminated by ASCII End-of-
File
S0 Header Record
Position Character
1-2 "S0"
3-N Comments
N+1,2 Carriage Return & Line Feed
S1 Data with 2 Byte Address
Position Character
1-2 "S1"
3-4 Record length = data bytes
plus 3 2 for address & 1 for
checksum.
5-8 2 byte address as 4 HEX
characters Most Significant
Byte first.
9-N Data bytes in hexadecimal,
each byte is two HEX
characters.
N+1,2 Negation of checksum of bytes
excluding "S1". Makes the line
add up to "FF".
N+3,4 Carriage Return & Line Feed.