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  Attention cygwin and windows users
 
For those using the cygwin tools under a windows OS as described in the article "LegOS 0.2.4 - Instructions for installing on NT/Win9x with Cygwin" you could be experiencing a conflict with dos and cygwin tools. In particular is you are following (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
 
  Re: Compile error when make demos
 
Zhengrong, I know this is an old post but what was your setup for this build (OS,cygwin?, etc)? Ed (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
 
  Re: Makefile command to make *.map files
 
For clarity I am running under Win98 using CYGWIN tools as outlined by the instructions "LegOS0.2.4 - Instructions for installing on NT/Win9x with Cygwin". I was looking for help on the sort command using $sort --help but I was getting a similar (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
 
  Re: Part 572 in UBS
 
I see one reason for that: 1x1 Square Plates tend to turn and don't stay aligned. You don't have this problem with round pieces... Philo www.philohome.com (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Makefile command to make *.map files
 
Quoting Ed Manlove (emanlove@ieee.org): (...) I can't speak for absolute certain about this, not being familiar with that part of the code, but sort -u is used to unique a list of strings. That is, if you pipe a file: spam spam spam eggs through (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
 
  Makefile command to make *.map files
 
What is the sort command doing in the command to create *.map files within the Makefile.kernal? # how to make map files %.map: %.coff $(NM) $*.coff | sort -u > $*.map Doing my build I get the following error and the resulting map file has size zero. (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
 
  Part 572 in UBS
 
Hi. I just received a Ultimate Builders Set today and I'm having a lot of fun with it. I have however a pair of questions that maybe someone could explain me. 1. There are four 'Technic Liftarm 1 x 9 (7 x 3)' (572) included (in very funny colors) (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  NQC "No reply from RCX" Help Please
 
Ahhh..can someone please help me out here. I'm at my last straw with this problem. I'm Using: Bricxcc 3.3 NQC 2.4 a4 Windows 98 USB Tower from RIS 2.0 This has all worked about a month ago.. I haven't made any hardware changes to my system recently, (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Are these Robolab parts?
 
(...) Thanks a lot! Now I at least know WHAT I have... too bad I can't use it. I have 2 sets, if anybody's interested, drop me a line at javanree@vanree.net and I'm sure we can work something out :) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
 
  Re: Are these Robolab parts?
 
(...) Jan This comes from the original LEGO TC Logo materials (1980s) and was used as a counting wheel. You could use it as a rotation sensor by counting the number of seperations between black and white. It could also be used as an angle sensor. (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
 
  BricxCC release 3.3.4.2
 
I've just released a new version of BricxCC. This release add support for downloading non-standard firmwares (such as pbForth). I've also added support for several languages other than NQC with user customizable syntax highlighting. These languages (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 
  Re: binutils?
 
(...) It has several useful things in it, but the one most important for legOS is probably the linker, ld. ROSCO (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
 
  binutils?
 
when i first got legOS up and running i used rcx-egcs-1.1.2-1.i386 rcx-egcs-c++-1.1.2-1.i386 rcx-binutils-2.9.5.0.22-1.i386 i'm assuming the first two are the c and c++ compilers, however what is the function of the binutils? thanks (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
 
  backing up programs
 
Hi, I have a couple of RCX's and was wondering if anyone has done any work on a way to transfer a program from one rcx to another in the case of a battery failure, etc. instead of replacing the rcx in the robot with the other one. thanks (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
 
  Re: exponents, e^
 
i tried the lejos environment and found the exponent and trig functions worked very well. and they work with doubles. so if anyone is having trouble with using trig, log, exp functions in legOS, you might want to try lejos. plus it was easier to (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
 
  Problems RCX - Computer communication
 
Hi, i'm trying to write a program that makes a Legoroboter able to navigate in different rooms / labyrints. For this the computer needs to know, when one of the touch-sensors is pressed. I use poll(9,x) for this. My problem is that the returned (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Single acting pneumatics with spring return
 
(...) How coincidental, but it too struck me that we needed to backtrack as the thread was getting pretty muddled up. It seemed to me that we may not be working on the same assumptions. So here's the re-play... The post that you quoted (URL) in (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Firmware RIS2.0 Linux
 
(...) That depends. If the .exe file is actually a self-extracting ZIP file, then "unzip" should be able to handle it, even on Linux. --Bill. (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: exponents, e^
 
(...) Only one I can think of off-hand is support for the remote control, I've been thinking about looking at that if I can get some time (though it's still only a patch in legOS, have to do something about that, too). There may be others I don't (...) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
 
  Single acting pneumatics with spring return
 
Hello again, I think I should have another go at this... I wanted to say "Check this out, I found an interesting application for the old pneumatic cylinders" What it came out sounding like was "Mr. Soh was wrong! Look at me prove him wrong!" Sorry (...) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-02, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)


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