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How do you convert a HEX file to ASCII

Hi, Does anyone know how to convert a large (20mb) HEX file into ASCII or another viewable format? What is the fastest method?

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Andy Neil over 18 years ago in reply to ImPer Westermark +1

If by "Hex" you mean "Intel Hex", then it already is ASCII! Intel Hex is an ASCII representation of binary data. The format is described here: http://www.keil.com/support/docs/1584.htm There...
Kevin B over 6 years ago +1 suggested

Hello Brody, Thank you for your interest in the Keil tools. Do you know what microcontroller this hex file was meant to run on? Was it for an Arm device, an 8051? What you have is the actual raw...
Andy Neil over 6 years ago in reply to Kevin B +1

I very much hope that brody miles is not still stuck on this after over 12 years ... !!

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0 Andy Neil over 18 years ago in reply to brody miles

That's a binary file, then.

UltraEdit is displaying it 16 bytes to a line, and showing the start address to the left of each line:

00000000h: 8C C5 97 2B 5C D6 00 00 00 00 93 98 30 00 30 00 ;
^^^^^^^^^  ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
Address     |  |  |  +-- 4th byte - at Address +3
            |  |  +----- 3rd byte - at Address +2
            |  +-------- 2nd byte - at Address +1
            +----------- 1st byte - at Address
etc

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0 Andy Neil over 18 years ago in reply to brody miles

That's a binary file, then.

UltraEdit is displaying it 16 bytes to a line, and showing the start address to the left of each line:

00000000h: 8C C5 97 2B 5C D6 00 00 00 00 93 98 30 00 30 00 ;
^^^^^^^^^  ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
Address     |  |  |  +-- 4th byte - at Address +3
            |  |  +----- 3rd byte - at Address +2
            |  +-------- 2nd byte - at Address +1
            +----------- 1st byte - at Address
etc

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