Excellent point Oleg !!!!

One thing that can be done to simpilfy the alignment process if Carroll still wants to just use Hyper terminal for programming is to take the hex file from the linker and run it through the HEX2BIN utility. Then take the resulting BIN file (and make sure to back fill the unuses areas properly with HHEX2BIN) and run it back through BIN2HEX. This will create a smooth file with say 32 bytes per record that all start on 32 byte boundaries. Result is a HEX file that will load properly becasue it steps over the FLASH block boundary between two records.

Michael Karas