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Re: NQC (Mac) and KeySpan card?
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 11 Aug 1999 00:17:29 GMT
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In article <0E6D3D1B6E6CD111AAA20020AFD417656905B5@exchange.kvoa.com>,
Michael Griffith <webmaster@kvoa.com> wrote:
> Since I have a bunch of stuff that plugs into a serial port on my Mac, I
> purchased the KeySpan expansion card that adds four more ports.
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> I just downloaded NQC and know that you can change ports with 'nqc -e
> RCX_PORT b' (I am doing this from memory, so the -e might be wrong).
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> Does anyone know if I can address one of the add-on ports rather than
> the built-in modem or printer port?
Yes, but you need to know the name of the device driver, and this is
usually pretty difficult to find. Serial ports use two separate drivers -
one for input and one for output. Usually the names are something like
this: ".xxxIn" and ".xxxOut" where xxx is the port name. As long as the
port's dirvers are named this way you can use "-Sxxx" to set the serial
port name to xxx. If the driver names don't match this pattern, you need
"-Sxxx:yyy" where xxx is the full name (including the '.') for the input
driver, and yyy is the full name of the output driver.
I'll e-mail you a little program that lists the serial port driver names.
MacNQC, which is currently in development, should make this a lot easier.
It provides a graphical front end to NQC including a nice popup menu for
serial port selection.
Dave Baum
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reply to: dbaum at enteract dot com
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| Since I have a bunch of stuff that plugs into a serial port on my Mac, I purchased the KeySpan expansion card that adds four more ports. I just downloaded NQC and know that you can change ports with 'nqc -e RCX_PORT b' (I am doing this from memory, (...) (26 years ago, 10-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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