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I don't know if this has already been discovered a dozen times before (I would search to find out, but the text search cgi is down!)... but I just found something cool. If you put a link to any RCX Code program with a .rcx extension in a web browser (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I should add that this was Internet Explorer 5.5. I just discovered that this does not work with Netscape... although maybe there is some setting that you can do to make it happen. Of course, I could always link the .rcx extension with launching (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) That is not very surprising, as RCX Code is text. So there is no LEGO-awareness in the browser. (...) Yes, they did the right thing using text for storage of programs. Jürgen (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) it surprised me, since i dind't know that rcx code was text... (robolab sure isn't text) and yes, i realize that the browser has no lego-awareness and that a similar effect can be seen with some text editors. i still think its cool. (...) yeah (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) This is probably related to how IE and Netscape handle mime types, especially application/unknown (or application/x-unknown, I forget.) Netscape seems to entirely rely on mime types, but IE appears to be more versatile. If I had to hazard a (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Ben Erwin" <ben@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message news:G5ovr6.Jro@lugnet.com... (...) my (...) programs, (...) I don't think the real RCX Code is ever in this text form. You find these text files on the CD, but when you make RCX Code programs they (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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"Michael Gasperi" <gasperi@alynk.com> wrote in message news:G5s1Dx.KnC@lugnet.com... (...) in (...) The "real" 1.5 RCX code is a text file, when you make a program, that's what it makes. It appears to be a slightly less elegant version of RCX2 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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"Aaron Nabil" <nabil@spiritone.com> wrote in message news:G5s74v.ECM@lugnet.com... (...) what (...) mindscript (...) I stand corrected. I guess I should have upgraded to 1.5 after all. RCX2's Mindscript language does appear to be much better than (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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