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Re: Download from Notebook on Windows 2000
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Date: 
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".
> 
> If anyone could help with this problem, I would appreciate it.
> 
> Steve Mosiman
> 



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  Re: Download from Notebook on Windows 2000
 
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 (...) (26 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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  Download from Notebook on Windows 2000
 
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 (...) (26 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)

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