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(...) online (...) modem-dialup (...) US$20- (...) hourly-metered (...) 6 (...) pretty (...) The problem isn't the ISP but the phone charge. And the speed of the transatlantic connection at peak hour (like when you are home to dial). Also you still (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Well what about ONE html file. Nobody ever said you had to fragment html files. Or whatabout a group but zipped or tar.gzed (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Well as long as there is an html version I don't care. I still think pdf is a pain to read because it doesn't scroll well. (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello. The API documentation tool I use can generate HTML, LaTeX and manpages. Unless Dimiti expands its capabilities to also generate PDF - or somebody points me to a better tool and volunteers to convert the sources that exist already - HTML (...) (26 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Small misunderstanding... The RCX firmware contains a small interpreter which runs "RCX bytecodes". These are very different from H8 machine language. NQC generates code that runs within the interpreter, and asm statements just generate raw (...) (26 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I'm going to follow Dave's suggestion in an earlier post, and post to this group, on an issue I raised to him earlier: The three principal limitations to "large" program development on the RCX are: 1. 32 variables globally 2. 8 subroutines/ program (...) (26 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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The thing to remember about legOS is that pretty much anything you can do in C (gcc, egcs) in 32k of RAM, you can do with legOS. I believe that both legOS and NQC have definite places in the RCX programming universe. I happen to have been using gcc (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Well, those are still cool new functions...I will keep wishing the RCX firmware allowed runtime evaluations instead of constants. Maybe LegOS does...does anyone know? Rich (URL) Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) No, you still wouldn't be able to do that since the RCX bytecode to play a tone requires compile time constants as its arguments. The scoping would let you put variables inside of tasks (hiding them from other tasks), if you wanted... task foo (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Yep, MT-newswatcher can do that. Sorry I didn't remember to crosspost - must've been brain dead or something. (...) Very cool. A lot of people send me e-mail about NQC. I'll encourage them to raise issues on lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc instead - (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I would be concerned about memory usage. The current Palm machines have one and two megabytes of RAM, the CE machines even more. That's a lot more than the 32kB the RCX 1.0 has (though if you think about it, for the price, compared to the palm (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Thanks, Todd, I think you have (hopefully) circumvented the "I hate pdf" and "HTML sucks" threads that were cranking up in response to this... -- SeeYa ! ---...--- Jim ---...--- Hello... Is this thing on ? Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I like the pdf format. I have no trouble reading it either on my laptop (800X600) or on this machine (1280X1024). I use the "fit width" option, and have never seen the text be "too small" in either case. It is becoming commonplace in the industry, I (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Hi Dave, Cool to see a separate beta-testing page! BTW, does MT-NewsWatcher 2.4.4 allow you to crosspost news articles and set the followups? I noticed that you posted the above message to 2 groups as 2 separate messages instead of 1. If your (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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There have been substantial changes to the code generation algorithms, so I'm going to run a longer (and more formal) beta cycle for 1.2. Details can be found at: (URL) reply to: dbaum at enteract dot com (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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I've been noticing a lot of activity lately creating java virtual machines on micro contollers. Is anyone using legOS as the basis for an h8/300 java vm? Something like waba, (URL) be a nice programming environment for the RCX. -rick (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) (smile) I never should have written "either ... or" above. =:*) Certainly, since there is demand for both PDF and HTML forms of the docs, and since the HTML form will just happen no matter what, and MarkT has offered to create the PDF form (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: PDF (was Re: legOS docs - what do people want?)
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(...) PDP-11? FreeBSD, Solaris, XENIX, other flavors of Unix? NT, presumably. Win 3.1? DOS? Apple ]['s? Just some off-the-top of my head paltforms, that i somehow doubt are _all_ supported... Jasper (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) True, but there are freely available PDF generators (htmldoc coming to mind most readily). Adobe Distiller is the one supplied with the commercial version of Adobe Acrobat. (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: PDF (was Re: legOS docs - what do people want?)
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(...) a web site. So (...) subtree at the (...) This is exactly the reason I would prefer a PDF version of the document. You can get the entire document in one shot. For printing, I like PDF much better than TeX. It has free viewers for Macs, (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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