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Re: Name of Robolab RCX2 Firmware file?
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 11 Dec 2001 03:24:37 GMT
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In article <Go4owE.BJF@lugnet.com>, "Brian C. Rakitin"
<rakitin@mac.com> wrote:
> HI,
> Thanks for the responses.
> The first line of the file
> ROBOLAB:Engine:VI.LIB:Rcx1:Text:firmaware.txt is:
> S00F00006669726D303332382E6C676F05
> The first line of the file
> ROBOLAB:Engine:VI.LIB:Rcx1:Text:firmaware325.txt is:
> S00F00006669726D303332352E6C676F08
> The last line of both files is:
> S90380007C
>
> Unfortunately, nqc seems to be having trouble downloading the firmware
> to
> my rcx2. It tells me that:
> Error: 'firmware.txt' is not a valid S-Record file
> In addition MacNQC 3.0a2 can't find the Firmware folder.
> Any suggestions?
NQC is picky about line endings for firmware files. On a Mac, it
assumes Mac line ending, on Windows, it expects DOS endings, Unix for
Unix. There are a few cross-platform combinations that work ok, but not
all work. If you have BBEdit Lite, you can open the firmware file in
BBEdit and select a different line ending style and re-save the file.
If you can't open it in BBEdit, then perhaps the file type isn't TEXT.
There are lots of utilities that let you change file types/creators. If
you don't have one already, you can grab one from my site-
http://www.enteract.com/~dbaum/mac/HyperTyper.sit.hqx (its simple, but
effective)
If changing the line endings doesn't help, please email me the file
(compress it with Stuffit first - that will preserve line endings more
reliably than sending text as an attachment).
I've fixed the S-Record reading code to now accept any line endings on
any platform, so next release of NQC won't have this problem.
Dave
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reply to: dbaum at enteract dot com
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 | | Re: Name of Robolab RCX2 Firmware file?
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| Thanks again Dave. As it turns out, nqc on Mac OS X expects a firmware file with UNIX line endings. BBEdit Lite 6.1 for OS X did the job just fine. After saving with UNIX line endings, nqc was able to download the firmware. B. (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Name of Robolab RCX2 Firmware file?
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| HI, Thanks for the responses. The first line of the file ROBOLAB:Engine:VI.LI...maware.txt is: S00F00006669726D3033...2E6C676F05 The first line of the file ROBOLAB:Engine:VI.LI...are325.txt is: S00F00006669726D3033...2E6C676F08 The last line of both (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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