User Manual For CYCLONE Programmers
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SAP CONVERTER UTILITY
Customers who have used our older Cyclones, such as the Cyclone PRO and Cyclone MAX, etc.,
will find that their SAP images for these older generation Cyclones will not work on the newer
CYCLONE
and
CYCLONE
FX
programmers. Simply recreating these images for current
generation Cyclones could potentially introduce errors and lose information about commands,
settings, and configurations.
Therefore, we created the “SAP_Convert_Console.exe” which must be used to convert older
generation SAP images into current generation SAP images. Once converted, an image will work
not only on
CYCLONE
and
CYCLONE
FX
programmers, but it will also remain compatible with the
Cyclone for which it was originally created.
SAP_Convert_Console.exe is a Windows command line utility and the software must be run
through the Windows Command Prompt. The utility can be found in the same folder as the
Cyclone’s software install path.
The command line parameter syntax:
>SAP_Convert_Console [old_SAP_path] [new_SAP_path]
Where:
[old_SAP_path]
The relative or full path to the SAP file. Usually has the .SAP file
extension.
[new_SAP_path]
Optional parameter where the user can specify a relative or full path to
dump the output of the conversion. If path and file name matches the
input, then the output file will replace the input file. If this parameter is not
specified, the output will be dumped in the same path as the input file
renamed with postfix “_2”. For example if the input is myfile.SAP, then the
output will be myfile_2.SAP and will not replace the original input file.
