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Re: Download from Notebook on Windows 2000
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Fri, 11 Aug 2000 16:29:59 GMT
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I don't know why HBDL doesn't work sometimes.
Can you try dl.exe. It's part of the stock Interactive C
distribution.
There are command line switches to tell it to use COM2. You'll have
to throw away the PIF file that comes along. Sometimes it works
better in full-screen mode.
Please let us know the result...
Fred
In your message you said:
> Last year I had a desktop Compac running Windows 95. I used HBDL and never
> encountered any problems. We now have IBM thinkpads running Windows 2000 and
> I can't get the downloader to work. I went through the hardware sanity check
> on the HB pages and com2 works and communicates with the HB nicely. Followin • g
> a suggestion I read (somewhere), I set the transmit & receive buffers to the
> minimum size available on com2. (The 9 pin serial port is com2 on my
> machine.) I get one of two errors. If the charger is plugged in, it looks
> like the download is going smoothly, but at the end I get an error message
> which says "Error at address 0x0000". If the charger is not plugged in, the
> error message is "Wrong port or board mode".
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> If anyone could help with this problem, I would appreciate it.
>
> Steve Mosiman
>
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 | | Re: Download from Notebook on Windows 2000
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| Fred, I used dl in full screen mode as you suggested and successfully downloaded the pcode interpreter. I haven't actually tried to load an IC program yet, but at least I'm heading in the right direction. (I forgot your advice about throwing away (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Download from Notebook on Windows 2000
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| Last year I had a desktop Compac running Windows 95. I used HBDL and never encountered any problems. We now have IBM thinkpads running Windows 2000 and I can't get the downloader to work. I went through the hardware sanity check on the HB pages and (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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