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            | Subject: 
 | Re: Problem with accessing analog and digital ports on HB with IC2.81 
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            | Newsgroups: 
 | lugnet.robotics.handyboard 
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            | Date: 
 | Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:08:21 GMT 
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            | Original-From: 
 | Fred G. Martin <fredm@media.mit.+stopspam+edu> 
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 |  | you have to use the HB libraries; you're probably using the 6.270 Board libraries.
 
 get the new libs from
 http://el.www.media.mit.edu/projects/handy-board/software/ .
 
 run 'ic -config' to change the default library to lib_hb.lis.
 
 fred
 
 In your message you said:
 > Hello,
 >
 > (newbie warning - I've read the FAQ and manuals, but I may still be
 > missing something very trivial. Still, thanks for making it so far!)
 >
 > I just bought a handyboard from Gleason Research (with the expansion
 > board) and started going through the hb and ic instructions. I'm running
 > ic2.81 on a SGI O2 running IRIX 6.5.
 >
 > I've succesfully downloaded pcode_hb.s19 (if memory serves correctly)
 > and when running IC, simple stuff works OK; I can use beeper_on and
 > beeper_off withouth any problem, printf and a couple of other ones.
 >
 > On the other hand, I have tried connecting the switches that I received
 > with the HB and if I test them with a multi-meter they work fine. But I
 > get no reading on calls like analog(16), or any other ports for that
 > matter. Also left_button() and right_button() always return the same
 > thing.
 >
 > It looks like i've configured ic to look in the right place for the
 > libraries. I've also moved and reconfigured everything to /usr/local/
 > directories as in the manual.
 >
 > Somehow, though, I must still be missing something. In the
 > examples/instructions, it looks like there should be such functions as
 > start_button() and stop_button() but those do not appear when I invoke
 > the 'list functions' command under IC.
 >
 > My apologies if it's something trivial.
 >
 > Thanks!
 >
 > - martin
 >
 
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