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(...) That doesn't work with the DJGPP Make program, unfortunately. Rossz (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yup. Remember that the Forth interpreter can't deal with text in special packets. It may be an improvement by limiting the time between characters. I think that ascii-xfr may dump chars without enough time between them... (...) If you use the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) huh? Do you mean it just writes text to the RCX without any synchronization or checksums? Then how is it going to be an improvement over a plain ascii upload using e.g. ascii-xfr? (...) But then you can't use those constants (i.e the words, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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Actually, there is a whole newsgroup devoted to using a PlamPilot as the controller. lugnet.robotics.palm I have an Apple Newton 110 that I would love to get more use out of (I use it to track projects and my time involved in them now). -_eric (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) That's because the SREC upload uses the native upload code in the RCX ROM. It works really well but has to send each byte as a pair with the bits inverted. Also the header and trailer have to be added. The result is that it would be impossible (...) (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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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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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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Actually, you could replace $(shell uname) with $(OSTYPE). Markus. (25 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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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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"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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(...) 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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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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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 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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