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Well, Markus is probably better qualified, but I'm going to try to get to it eventually. Don't bet on it for anytime soon- I seem to be getting less and less freetime, instead of more :( -Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Spirit.ocx Win NT and VB
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Anyone tried accessing spirit.ocx from Visual Basic 5 in Win NT 4? I get a "failed to load dll" error. Thanks, Garry Hayne (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Notes on WinNT and legOS 0.2.2
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(...) I think that making .lx files doesn't involve Perl, even though building legOS.srec and the util stuff still uses Perl. This implies that you could distribute a precompiled legOS.srec and a smaller set of tools, sans Perl, for people to build (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Notes on WinNT and legOS 0.2.2
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Thanks for the notes. I briefly tried to get legOS to compile on NT and gave up before I got as far as you did. Let us know if you get it all working. (...) Joel Shafer joel@connect.net (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Notes on WinNT and legOS 0.2.2
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(...) It's quite possible that the -nostdinc line will block out the getopt.h mentioned in an earlier post. Could this be what you recall having to move? (...) This would be Markus's bit, but do we have anyone who knows cross-platform make stuff (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling legOS
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(...) getopt.h is part of the standard gnu C libraries. In a normal Linux system, it is in /usr/include/. What compiler are you using on Solaris? Is it gcc or something else? If it's gcc, then it should be there. IF you are not using gcc, then there (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Notes on WinNT and legOS 0.2.2
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No, I don't have it working yet. However, I've made progress, and I thought my experience might be helpful to others who are more savvy with the GNU tools than I am. - I did get everything to compile. As Luis suggested, the -nostdinc flag takes care (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | compiling legOS
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Hi all, I think we have finally gotten a cross compiler built for Solaris. I am still not 100% sure. I will not say that we have until I have seen a robot driving around the table which has a program written in legOS and downloaded in it. However at (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: local echo (MMOOTTOORR__SSEETT instead of MOTOR_SET)
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(...) Thanks Sergey. Erik, if you check out the website, there is a link to automagically subscribe to be notified whenever pbForth gets updated... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: argh
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Hmm. I'm using 2.95.2 and getting all these weird errors. Oh well- I'll report more later. -Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous ###...### (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: argh
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(...) Do you mean gcc 2.95.x ? If so, yes, i did it 2 days ago. The native compiler on my linux box (kernel 2.2.13, glibc 2.0 ) is a self compiled gcc 2.95.1. The cross compiler egcs-1.1.2 for h8300 built without problems on this machine, and i was (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: local echo (MMOOTTOORR__SSEETT instead of MOTOR_SET)
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Hi Erik, Starting after the 1.0.7 version, echo from RCX was disabled (controlled by RCX_ECHO variable, off by default). Current version (1.1.0 as I remember) shouldn't show any echo. At least with "standard" terminals. I've tried Hyperterminal, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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hi guys, I just started the pbforth for the first time! definitely interesting experience. I use the minicom to communicate with rcx now. it looks like it's working, I can start/stop motor etc... however it always puts every character I type twice (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | argh
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So, I have a quick question: has anyone built egcs 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 with gcc 2.9.5? I'm getting some very weird errors when I try to build the cross compiler- basically, it appears that the parser is trying to read certain comments as assembly (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Palm Pilot and the RCX
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Thanks for pointing that out, Kory. I've since downloaded the .zip files and I'm sure I'll have more success. See you in the l.r.p group... Ed (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Palm Pilot and the RCX
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Hi folks, all you Palm owners out there, don't forget to check out the lugnet.robotics.palm newsgroup. The earlier problem with BrickRemote and LRemote turned out to be the server. The programs work fine now that they are in a .zip file. See: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | rotation sensors
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Hello, one of my beautiful new rotation sensors was jammed right out of the box. I built a robot to try out dynamic equilibrum, i.e., balancing a weighted stick, only to notice that my construction didn't turn at all because of sensor friction. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | dkey_multi (was: Kernel dies after loading)
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(...) Now I know what makes the RCX freeze: On my RCX , the variable dkey_multi, which stores the status of the keys, always has the first bit (0x1) set. This causes the debounce loop at boot up to hang, because it thinks that the On-Off key is (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Serial Comm with RCX
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Well, it's hard to say what the problem might be. Since you've got the green LED going, you've probably got the cable wired correctly. And yes, it's 2400 baud, 1 start, 1 stop, 8 data, odd parity. Perhaps the packet isn't correct. Here's a sample (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: I love my mailbox
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(...) I have to comment here that the O'Reilly "The Unofficial Guide to LEGO® MINDSTORMS™ Robots" (By Jonathan B. Knudsen, 1st Edition October 1999, 1-56592- 692-7, Order Number: 6927, 266 pages, $24.95) is one of the best "tech" books I've read in (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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