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Re: legOS Download
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 23 Dec 1998 08:25:25 GMT
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John Donaldson <JDONALDSON@GHG.avoidspamNET>
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The problem is Mindstorm came out for the PC crowd. Not everyone that
is buying these systems have UNIX or LINIX . CYGNUS has come out with
tools that allow one to compile UNIX code on his/her MSDOS PC. This IMHO
is a god-send. The other problem is there seems to be some
imcompatiblity in utilities. Example is I was able to run Cygnus's Gzip
on LegOS, but the Tar utility failed to unarchive it. Another user sent
me the LefOS firmware code via PKZIP. Not only was I able to UNZIP it, I
found the archive was over 50% smaller (70K - ZIP, 220K - TZ), thus
shorter download time. Another incompatibility is Netscape vs IE4. That
is why I say ZIP, by PKWARE, is better, since ALL platforms have a
version. Also I have not found a site yet where a ZIP file is offered
that I could not download and dezip correctly using Netscape. At the
least, it should be offered in both formats.
All I need is a good copy of the Cross-Compiler tools and I should be
in good shape. I can not download them, because of the IE4 - Netscape
problem.
John A. Donaldson
Ian Hall-Beyer wrote:
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> > I wish it was ziped using the standard Intel PKZIP. I also wish it was
> > 100% usable under Win95/98 or WinNT.
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> That's only standard on MS platforms. the rest of the world uses tar.
> PKZip is from PKWare, not Intel.
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| (...) That's only standard on MS platforms. the rest of the world uses tar. PKZip is from PKWare, not Intel. (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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