> > Theres a bunch of extra info stored in the hex file- all the colons for
a
> > start, plus bytes that tell the programmer what each line means, and
some
> > addressing information.
>
>     And the checksum at the end of each line, and (most importantly)
>     4 ASCII characters for every word of PIC code memory.

Don't forget, every line ends with a CR/LF.  There are 13 extra bytes of
overhead for every line of hex stored in the file.

michael brown

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