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Hi to all, 

 
I have just downloaded the bin2hex utility available on the keil
site and tried to run it on the computer having WINDOWS7 OS
installed. The exe failed to execute and displayed the error message
as below. 

 
&amp;quot;This version of E:\BIN2HEX</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 10</generator><item><title>RE: Bim2Hex utility not working with windows7</title><link>https://community.arm.com/thread/59738?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:35:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">dd9e70c8-6d3c-4c71-b136-2456382a7b5c:ce8f4a7c-f112-4b44-ba77-4668f46b4776</guid><dc:creator>HansBernhard Broeker</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;i&gt;doesnt work on any machine having windows7.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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I&amp;#39;m pretty sure you&amp;#39;re mistaken there. The problem is not Windows
7, it&amp;#39;s that those boxes you tried it on were all running the
&lt;b&gt;64-bit&lt;/b&gt; version of Windows 7. You would have had the same
problem with machines running 64-bit versions of XP or Vista. Which,
of course, is a significant part of the reason those versions never
really took off.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
The core of the problem is that these Keil add-on tools are
extremely old. They&amp;#39;re actually still 16-bit DOS programs. Now 64-bit
operating systems put CPUs into a mode in which the possibility to
run 16-bit programs natively in so-called &amp;quot;virtual 8086 mode&amp;quot; no
longer exists. This means that no 16-bit programs can run directly in
a 64-bit Windows (nor 64-bit Linux, for that matter).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
So: you need some other tool. SRecord appears to be turning into
the default option. I&amp;#39;ve used GNU binutils for simple jobs in that
area, too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Bim2Hex utility not working with windows7</title><link>https://community.arm.com/thread/91164?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:21:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">dd9e70c8-6d3c-4c71-b136-2456382a7b5c:14be863b-e92f-4aa5-be5e-5549aac5aee3</guid><dc:creator>Tamiryan Michael</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;i&gt;But you&amp;#39;ll have to read some manuals first.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
Sweet mercy !&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Bim2Hex utility not working with windows7</title><link>https://community.arm.com/thread/59742?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:10:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">dd9e70c8-6d3c-4c71-b136-2456382a7b5c:d53adbad-ed1b-442b-9b38-9b6e15ba12eb</guid><dc:creator>Mike Kleshov</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
SRecord will definitely work. But you&amp;#39;ll have to read some manuals
first.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;
&lt;a href="http://srecord.sf.net"&gt;http://srecord.sf.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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