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Re: NQC software for Mac? (Robolab back ordered)
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Thu, 17 Dec 1998 07:00:07 GMT
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Original-From:
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Bob Stern <(stern@batnet.com)IHateSpam()>
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> Garry Paine <garry4@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> If it is just having RTS=CTS, a software solution may be possible. E.g.:
> patch the SPIRIT.OCX so that it always returns RTS=CTS, patch the Mindstorm
> so that it doesn't care if the tower is connected, or patch windows or DOS
> so that RTS=CTS.
Exactly! Someone would have to disassemble spirit.ocx or the Windows
serial port driver to figure out how to do this. (It makes much more
sense to work on spirit.ocx, because various versions of Windows will
have different drivers.)
Bob Stern
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 | | RE: NQC software for Mac? (Robolab back ordered)
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| It's been a long time since I worked with serial hardware, but isn't there an alternative pair of pins to RTS/CTS? DTR/DTS or something like that? If the Mac sets the other pins you might be able to short them to the RTS/CTS pins. I know I've done (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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