Error in creating flash files-**Error in creating intermediate files **

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Hi Friends , 

  I'm getting error while generating flash files using sof2flash command i used "sof2flash --input=TR4.sof --output=TR4_hw.flash --offset=0x00020000 --pfl --optionbit=0x18000 --programmingmode=FPP"  then i'm seeing the following errors     Info: ******************************************************************* Info: Running Quartus II 32-bit Convert_programming_file  Info: Version 11.1 Build 173 11/01/2011 SJ Full Version  Info: Copyright (C) 1991-2011 Altera Corporation. All rights reserved.  Info: Your use of Altera Corporation's design tools, logic functions  Info: and other software and tools, and its AMPP partner logic  Info: functions, and any output files from any of the foregoing  Info: (including device programming or simulation files), and any  Info: associated documentation or information are expressly subject  Info: to the terms and conditions of the Altera Program License  Info: Subscription Agreement, Altera MegaCore Function License  Info: Agreement, or other applicable license agreement, including,  Info: without limitation, that your use is for the sole purpose of  Info: programming logic devices manufactured by Altera and sold by  Info: Altera or its authorized distributors. Please refer to the  Info: applicable agreement for further details.  Info: Processing started: Mon May 27 17:32:49 2013 Info: Command: quartus_cpf -c tr4_hw.pof tr4_hw.hexout Info: Quartus II 32-bit Convert_programming_file was successful. 0 errors, 0 war nings  Info: Peak virtual memory: 410 megabytes  Info: Processing ended: Mon May 27 17:33:33 2013  Info: Elapsed time: 00:00:44  Info: Total CPU time (on all processors): 00:00:32 java.lang.nullpointerexception  at com.altera.utilities.launcher.read(launcher.java:307)  at com.altera.utilities.launcher.read(launcher.java:362)  at com.altera.sof2flash.pflflashgenerator.converthextosrec(pflflashgener ator.java:241)  at com.altera.sof2flash.pflflashgenerator.pflgen(pflflashgenerator.java: 37)  at com.altera.sof2flash.sof2flash.<init>(sof2flash.java:122)  at com.altera.sof2flash.sof2flash.main(sof2flash.java:77) may 27, 2013 5:33:33 pm - (severe) sof2flash: error creating intermediate files,  exiting      And not able to generate flash files .. Please friends help me out ..I'm using quartusII 11.1 & Nios II 11.1 EDS , windows 7 32 bit OS..  Thanks & Regards, Rohit

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hi , 

 Have you ever solved this , because i have this message too : Error: Error code: 3 for command: sof2flash --input="C:/altera/13.1/projects/My_System_time_limited.sof" --output="C:/altera/13.1/projects/flash/My_System_time_limited_CFI_Flash.flash" --offset=0x0 --verbose   thanks in advance ,

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Me too. ~SysTom

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Found elsewhere - must run from Nios cmd shell. So much for easy integration with make