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RE: legOS Download
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 23 Dec 1998 14:52:32 GMT
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Norman Fair <{nfair@gdi}saynotospam{.net}>
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You could always go to a good sized computer store and pick up a copy of
Linux or order it. When I get to the point where I do in depth programming
of the brick, that's what I'll probably do. Of course by then there will
probably be Windows tools to do the same thing.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Donaldson [SMTP:jdonaldson@ghg.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 1998 3:25 AM
To: Ian Hall-Beyer
Cc: Laurentino Martins; Lego-Robotics; Ian Hall-Beyer
Subject: Re: legOS Download
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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