What won't this objcopy split work?

[Russ.Shaw]

Hi all,

I'm producing code for a 16-bit h8/300h cpu, and want to
generate an srec file for all the even bytes, and an srec
file for all the odd bytes, using objcopy:

h8300-hms-objcopy --output-target=srec --interleave=2
                          --byte=1 flash.coff flodd.srec

However, it responds with flodd.srec: illegal operation

What can be wrong?

I'm using mandrake-7.0

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