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(...) The cygnus.bat file sets some environment variables (MAKE_MODE and PATH). You could probably call cygnus.bat from the MS command prompt, although i haven't tried that. (...) Well, the instructions do say to use "tar xvfz", maybe we should (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: (Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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Hi, thank you all for your help. (...) works now. I think the problem was that I used MS Command Prompt and called bash there instead of using the cygwin window directly. (...) Could fix that as well. I used Winzip to unpack legOS instead of tar (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Call for debugging support
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Sorry to digress, but I just wanted to ask a question: is "equal sign B 4" supposed to be a code for the apostrophe? (They're not translating to apostrophes on my viewer.) How then would you make other symbols? Does this code reference some (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Call for debugging support
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(...) hello Markus, i´m still working on a (hopefully) portable, robust version of linux LNP, that allows multiple client tasks or threads on the PC to communicate with one ore more RCX´s simultanously via one tower, ( one of them could be gdb, in (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Article on Forth in Electronic Design
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The November 22, 1999 issue of Electronic Design had an article on Forth. "Although Sometimes Viewed Merely as an Interesting Relic, Forth Still Holds a Role in Today's Embedded Systems." Here is the URL of the Online edition: (URL) G. (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: Call for debugging support
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(...) I'm not sure what the issues are, Markus. But I could have a look at it in the new year. The lack of debugger support in legOS was one of the main reasons behind my development of pbForth. That and the fact that you can (one day) host pbForth (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Call for debugging support
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Hello everyone, a while ago several people discussed decent debugging facilities for legOS, possibly in the form of remote gdb support. Did work in this avenue progress to something faintly usable already? If not, what are the key problems? Ciao, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: How did you made nqc?
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I second that. Thanks for the explanation. It made a good after word for your book! (...) Joel Shafer joel@connect.net (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: How did you made nqc?
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(...) Yes, a lot of work...which is why the "iteration" part was so important. Individually, none of the steps were too time consuming, and each had a lot of positive feedback associated with it...which served to motivate me for the next step. The (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: How did you made nqc?
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(...) Thanks for your reply, this exactly what I (and probably others) wanted to know. It seems that it took a lot of work, time and knowledge... Thanks again ! Philippe (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RE: wired expiriences UPLOADING & SAVE-IMAGE
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(...) Yes, Sergey. either that or a separate zip file with appropriate tools for each platform. Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- Reply to: rhempel at bmts dot com ---...--- (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Whitespace and comment remover in perl
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(...) :) (...) unfortunately i've broken my palm III by stepping on it. (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: wired expiriences UPLOADING & SAVE-IMAGE
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(...) Yes i've done a stty ispeed 2400 ospeed 2400 </dev/cua0 before (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: wired expiriences UPLOADING & SAVE-IMAGE
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Hi Ralph, If I understood well, do you have plans to make an alternative "tools" directory in your next release? In that case I would be glad to propose my "terminal" for your collection. (I will send you the code by e-mail) Sergey (...) My (...) (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: wired expiriences UPLOADING & SAVE-IMAGE
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I've got the similar effect with my Cygwin+'rx'. One of the problems was the COM port speed: it was 9600 instead of 2400. Have you checked your port settings? Anyway, something other remain... I will try it again tonight. Sergey. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: Whitespace and comment remover in perl
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(...) OOPS! I guess that those pesky regexps are not for the faint of heart. The new Tcl standard also allows you to specify less greedy regexps. The nesting of comments as you suggest is illegal FORTH anyways. It only specifies that a close comment (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Whitespace and comment remover in perl
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(...) Your statement of the LONGEST match may be correct for TCL but not for perl! look at the second regexp: the '?' inside means expand to the smallest match ( this is a perl specialty i think) the only thing is, if you nest comments like ( (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: Whitespace and comment remover in perl
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(...) <snipped script> Carsten, This is a good start. Here's my comments on each of the regexp lines... By the way, my Tcl script handles most of this stuff properly, but I'm waiting until the new year to develop XMODEM uploads for it.... (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Whitespace and comment remover in perl
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Hello, i've written a little perl script, which removes white spaces and comments from a forth source code. If called without any parameters, it reads from STDIN and writes to STDOUT. If called with 1 parameter, this parameter is interpreted as an (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: wired expiriences UPLOADING & SAVE-IMAGE
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(...) Ok yesterday evening i tryed to track down this problem. Using a y cable and my old terminal. The communication starts normaly. The first frame was transmitted correct, 'rx' answered with <ACK> but the RCX never sees the <ACK>. If i type the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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