RE: [avrdude-dev] Avrdude Gui problem

[Weddington, Eric]

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> rg] On Behalf Of Ville Voipio
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:08 AM
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> Subject: Re: [avrdude-dev] Avrdude Gui problem
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> 
> > Well the ELF file is certainly not intended for something like that
> > (adding HTML, PDF, whatever), and never will be. But the 
> point is that
> > now the ELF file contains the fuse and lockbit information, which it
> > didn't before. The ELF file now has everything concerning the
> > *application* itself.
> 
> I agree, and I think this is a very good thing. But then I am coming 
> back to what I said earlier:
> 
> In _factory floor use_ it is essential to have some 
> instructions for the 
> people doing the actual work. If the instructions are sent in 
> a separate 
> file, they get lost, and sooner or later the instructions and the 
> programming files are somehow not pairs.
> 
> So, then the reasonable solution is to squeeze both files in a single 
> .zip-file which can be easily e-mailed to the factory.
> 
> 
> I hope this clarifies why I was talking about the .zip bundle.

Sure, but this places out of the scope of avrdude, or any other part of
the toolchain.