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On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 09:04:26PM +0000, Ralph Hempel wrote: [...On a TCL program to communicate with the RCX...] (...) Uploading srec files has been without problem for me; it's uploading text that's painful. Does your program uses some protocol (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Can't wait for the official Mindstorms ATAT ???
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So, look at (URL) has made an ATAT with the Microscout ! Sad that there is no picture for the mechanic inside :-( Can someone translate the page in English ? Gonna to try to do the same, and after with the RCX... Christophe (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.microscout, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Another possible makefile change
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Actually, you could replace $(shell uname) with $(OSTYPE). Markus. (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: CVS and SourceForge
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(...) Did that solve your problem? I also used mixed case when I registered (Rossz). If your 'commit' problems have gone away, then I will re-register as well. Rossz (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I did some testing today of the new cross-compiler tools I have built on a Windows 2000 system. The bad news is things did not go very well. MAKE would simply stop in the middle without completing the build process. A little newsgroup research (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Build on Win2K
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"David Cawley" <dave.cawley@tesco.net> wrote in message news:Fr69tB.MIK@lugnet.com... (...) You can try Legos-0.2.3 direction at this url (need some url refinish for files link but you should have already almost all files): (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Build on NT?
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(...) You can try Legos-0.2.3 direction at this url (need some url refinish for files link): ftp://legos.sourcefo...-0.2.3.htm Bye, Paolo. --- Witten's Law: Whenever you cut your fingernails, you will find a need for them an hour later. (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | nt build
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Okay. I have determined the majority of my problems so far are related to command line length... when make variables are expanded in the djecho and/or make they exceed 80 chars(?)... and that is what djecho is for... i have had to create multiple (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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I might be able to help somewhat. I use my PC running FreeBSD to talk to my RCX (RIS 1.5). After much heartache I found that if I used "ecu" as my terminal, it worked. I tried everything just to try them, and ecu worked the best. Ecu is old, but it (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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(...) Depends on which side of the fence you are on... (...) Hmmm. This is not good. I have ghad very good success with CRT, but I'm going to try a more general solution with Tcl. (...) I stopped supporting it late last year because it only worked (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: CVS and SourceForge
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(...) No problem for checkout on my NT, now. I read that you can checkout too. Now the problem is on commit! Got the usual: cvs [server aborted]: "commit" requires write access to the repository I've tried: - Via WINCVS - Via CVS - Via SSH working (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, I'm trying to get a legOS build environment set up on my PC, running under Windows 2000 professional. I've downloaded LegOS-0.2.3.tar.gz I'm using Peter Van der Beken's directions from //arthurdent.dorm.du...egOS-0.2.2 All seems to go well until (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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(...) Does that count as `tempted by the dark side' or `seen the light'? :) (...) itself. (...) I tried near and far mode, several distances, putting the tower and the RCX under a dark cloth... Everything I could think of except putting 'em where (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: The pain of communicating with the RCX
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(...) Good. I'm glad your on-side so far :-) (...) You are right. I have found that getting a reliable connection is very dependent on ambient light, the voltage of the RCX batteries, and the tower itself. Try to use the tower in NEAR mode so that (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | The pain of communicating with the RCX
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The power of Forth lies in the ease with which a system can be built and and tested both incrementally and interactively. Unfortunately I'm experiencing severe difficulties estasblishing a reliable communication channel between my PC (Linux) and the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Question on Spirit.ocx
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Hi Andy, The library Spirit.ocx cannot to this operation. You can however program it yourself pretty easily. The following is taken from the lugnet archive: Subject: Sending a message to a RCX using a PC From: Denis Cousineau <decousin@indiana.edu> (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Build on NT?
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You can download the WinlegOS package for development on an NT. You will need a special utility program to fix a problem with long filename support (a bug in WinNT). legOS for Windows (5.5megs): (URL) Long filename support: (URL) you wish to rebuild (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Build on NT?
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Is anybody successfully building legOS on NT? If so we need to talk... please email offline. Thanks Tom (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Another possible makefile change
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(...) great, Rossz, but i see one little problem here. I'm suspecting that it's no good idea to include Makefile.common in the Makefile for dll-src, because Makefile.common sets some standard Variables and rules to values appropriate for cross (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Newbie question : IR comms with PC.
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Hi all. I'm a third year engineering student from South Africa who is trying to complete a soccer playing robot in time for our robot intervarsity the 29th of March.I only started using the RCX (and legOS) days ago. I'm trying to transfer some (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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