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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 12:34:14 GMT
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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.
In lugnet.robotics, Dave Baum writes:
> 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?
>
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> 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)
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> 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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| (...) 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, (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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