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(...) Mario, Thanks for the feedback. As you all know, writin this stuff is hard. I figure 10 minutes of reading time is probably 2 or 3 hours of writing... (...) Ha! The dark side has won you over! Can you give us a tiny hint on the subject? I'll (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) try this: ../util/firmdl3 --tty=usb legOS.srec (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Dave (or anyone else who might have an idea), I'm trying to figure out a problem that a user reported regarding BricxCC and its interaction with NQC. (I've only tested it against the latest release of both BricxCC and NQC.) When attempting to (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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Hello, I have recently downloaded the legos-0.2.6 version and have built it under windows Cygwin. when I give the command being in the boot directory where legOS.srec is export RCXTTY=USB ../util/firmdl3 legOS.srec it says USB: No such file or (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Fredrik, You can check to see what Cygwin packages have been installed on your system by using the cygcheck command. Try cygcheck -c If the output is too large for your dos window you can export it to a file by using the following command cygcheck (...) (22 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Co-operative Multi tasking in pbforth 2.1
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, Ralph Hempel writes: [...snip...] (...) Ralph, your recent additions to pbForth and to its documentation are simply great. Can't wait to see the next article... I'm currently in a "pbForth phase". Not only I do (...) (22 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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You need "make" installed on your system. Run the cygwin setup.exe and install it. Good luck. -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Fredrik Helin Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 6:48 AM (...) (22 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi! The "make" command in Cygwin returns a: "command not found" after installing legOS 0.2.6 on a Windows 98 machine. I'm currently in the legos-0.2.6 catalogue and the Makefile, Makefile.common, Makefile.user, Makefile.kernel files are all there. (...) (22 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Are you sure you got the usbcore module? I'm also not quite sure it will work with 2.4.9 . Jürgen (22 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi Ralph Thanks for you reply. I have just started into the article on background monitoring, its great. I am looking forward to your articles on hooking into the one millisecond timer and use of using John Barnes' ultrasonic sensor. I was going to (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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I've just upgraded to the kernel 2.4.9-31 and tried to compile this driver. I get the following errors: [root@kelcsts38b usb_lego]# make install /sbin/modprobe -r usb_lego cp usb_lego.o /lib/modules/2.4.9-3...rivers/usb /sbin/modprobe usb_lego (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yes. It is updated from an interrupt routine that fires every 1 ms (IIRC). However.... (...) wait_event is only accurate to 20ms or so, depending on what your other tasks do. So your timing is very accurate, but you're not timing what you (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Taking a second look at this and noticing some past post about this issue with WinXP ((URL) a much cleaner code might look like the following # # WindowsNT/Cygnwin, test against several values: # ifneq (,$(findstring $(OSTYPE),cygwin32 cygwin (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Co-operative Multi tasking in pbforth 2.1
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Phil, I have some hooks in the current version of pbForth that you can use to implement cooperative multi-tasking. Have you read the article on implementing a background monitor to check for button presses? It's at: (URL) I was going to write (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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I am compiling under windows 98 using cygwin version 1.3.10. In Makefile.common (/legOS-0.2.6,/legOS....2.6/util) the logic to determine whether the OS is a windows system fails due to the fact that uname returns CYGWIN_98-4.10. I submitted a bug (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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"Michael Obenland" <obenland@t-online.de> wrote in message news:GvJ5vD.7MC@lugnet.com... <snip> (...) switch. (...) I made some modifications to the tm_sleep_wakeup that allows high priority tasks to wake up at exactly the time specified for msleep (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yes. (...) That is right. (...) It does, actually. The timer itself counts the millisec. But if you do a wait_event() call, your running program gives up its time slice, the OS waits for the event and then continues your task with the next (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I am have been programming the brick in nqc but have started to find this a little restrictive. I have just started using pbFORTH. Would anyone be able to help me with a sample script to impliment Multi-Tasking. I am using this to set up an "infra (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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I recently adopted legOS as my development environment and I have to say I tremendously impressed. Thanks to everyone who has worked so hard on it. It is really a first class, grade A product. Is sys_timer accurate to within 1 ms? unsigned long (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I noticed this the other day. The link to 0.2.6 is broken (as is one other link in the document). Please accept my apologies as I missed it during my testing. I'll fix the document source and post the new version to the web. Meanwhile please (...) (22 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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