Inspect Alinco DX-SR8 firmware
Alinco DX-SR8 firmware updater software DX-SR8 Flash Writer Ver01.12.zip = DX-SR8 Flash Writer Ver01.12.msi extract msi (unzip) extract msi (unzip) Instal01.cab File named _B2AB... contains compiled code and data section in Motorola S-record format. Remove lines before and after data section and with some Python scripts clean the data section. import re import argparse import sys def clean_file(path: str) -> None: try: with open(path, 'r', encoding='ansi') as f: text = f.read() except FileNotFoundError: print(f"File not found: {path}", file=sys.stderr) sys.exit(1) cleaned = re.sub(r'[^S0-9A-F\r\n]+', '', text) with open(path, 'w', encoding='ansi', newline='') as f: f.write(cleaned) def main() -> None: parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( ...