How do I take an Intel standard .hex programming produced by Quartus II software and convert it to binary?

Description

Altera^® does not supply a hex2binary utility directly. However, you can use any hex2binary utility that are available off the web, that accept standard Intel .hex format. For the Quartus II produced .hex file to run successfully with this program, all the lower case alpha characters in the .hex file MUST be converted to uppercase. Otherwise hex2binary will give an error.