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(...) That is really bad news. Since we are writing a genetic programming system with six RCXs involved that communicate with each other, the programs tend to get pretty long. Often things fail. Right now I have the problem that if I save a program (...) (24 years ago, 21-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Very strange problems
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(...) As far as I can tell, legOS has some really strange bugs. I've learned to take it for granted that some programs (without warning) will just crash and lock up the machine. This is unfortunate, but I've never found a pattern to them so there is (...) (24 years ago, 21-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lnp communication question
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(...) lnp does a checksum and throws away bad data. I think it is a 1 byte checksum so 1 out of 256 errors gets through anyway. There is no retry so timeout and retry has to be handled by some higher level code. (24 years ago, 21-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Very strange problems
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Hi! I am experiencing some very strange problems when programming my RCX. Sometimes (too often) the RCX just locks up when I run my program and I have to remove the batteries and reload the firmware. I have now found that very small changes in my (...) (24 years ago, 21-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Did anyone ever write the wrapper to allow motor_dir(motor_label x, MotorDirection dir) or some such? There was a variant of it way, way back (0.1.5?) but I don't see anything like it in the current CVS code. Anyone? Anyone? -Luis ---...--- "Going (...) (24 years ago, 20-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lnp communication question
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(...) Ok, this brings up more questions :). I have never had any problems with errors when sending messages. Sometimes the message is not recieved but when it is, I have never seen any errors in the transmission. Am I missing your point? Second, (...) (24 years ago, 20-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | DJGPP GNU cross compiler tools
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It looks like my ISP has changed their policy about anonymous ftp and now allow it. I've placed the DJGPP port of the GNU tools on my website here: (URL) It's a 5 meg download. Please let me know if you have any problems downloading this file. I (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: We need a FULL install of everything!
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On Thu, 18 May 2000 18:00:11 GMT, "Matt McDevitt" <maktos@maktos.com> wrote: <snip> I aggree fully with your statement Matt. I've tried to install LegOS several times and i always failed because of lack of time (and of course lack of knowledge <s>). (...) (24 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Does anyone have Spirit.OCX?
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You can download it at www.legomindstorms.com. Just click look for RCX SDK. "Matt McDevitt" <maktos@maktos.com> wrote in message news:Furpv7.JMH@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Does anyone have Spirit.OCX?
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Could someone send me the file SPIRIT.OCX ? Matt maktos@maktos.com (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | We need a FULL install of everything!
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In response to your e-mail message: I realize it's *technically* better from a logistics standpoint to require people to download everything seperately, so they'll get the "absolute" latest version. However, I think that you have to give a little (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: New Windows HOWTO
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I seem to have missed this message. :( If someone would like to do it, great, elsewise I may be doing something similar this weekend. Let me know, Rossz... Luis (...) ---...--- "Going to California with an aching in my heart. Someone told me there's (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HOWTO going down
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Like I said later, they are all at (URL) bad in forgetting the ~louie earlier) Since it is nearly 100M at this point (including all the various compilers and such) I think we'll just leave it there, until I can move it to sourceforge (which'll (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New Windows HOWTO
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Why doesn't someone do all this, and put it all in a big ZIP file? Better yet, someone could make an "install" so it would be a big self-extracting EXE. Matt Rossz V$BaN(Bos-Wentworth wrote in message ... (...) you (...) preserves (...) (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Can't get Windows compiler!
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Everything is now at (URL) for the dead links, but I had to move out of my dorm :( Luis (...) ---...--- "Going to California with an aching in my heart. Someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair." -Led (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HOWTO going down
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I'll put them up on Maktos.com's server! Just e-mail them to me. I'll send you the link when they're uploaded. Matt Luis Villa wrote in message ... (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Can't get Windows compiler!
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The main LegOS site has some MAJOR dead links! Does anyone have a mirror I could use? I need the Windows version of the cross compiler, etc. A LOT of links were dead...probly because it was a university server, and they all go down for the summer. (...) (24 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: local variables
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(...) This is completely true and is basically a feature of the C language. Globals aren't technically "initialized" at all. They are just loaded as part of the image. You could consider that they are initialized at compile time. On a workstation OS (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lnp communication question
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Remember the medium... cheap IR basically stinks for transmission. You get transients from the lights in your room, the outdoors, yadda, yadda. Luis (wishing for RF like the Europeans get ;) (...) ---...--- "Going to California with an aching in my (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lnp communication question
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(...) This suprises me. I have never heard of such high packet losses. How does dll do this? With some kind of ack and retry mechanism? dll seems reliable. Of course dll is going in the other direction. (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lnp communication question
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You just pass an array and give the length, to send it. In theory you can send packets with a size up to 255 bytes (look in this group, the info is in here somewhere), but sending 1 byte has a packet loss of aprox. 1% and 4 bytes aprox. 10%, over (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: local variables
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(...) I think you're confusing the issue a little bit. LegOS only initializes GLOBAL variables when the program is loaded. So, for example, a global variable declared like: int foo = 4; Will only be initialized to 4 when the program is loaded. If (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | local variables
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Hi! I read that legOS only declared varibles the first time the program is run. Does this mean I cannot use local variables. I have loops in different functions using 'i' as looping variable, which is locally declared. Should I avoid this? Tobias (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lnp communication question
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(...) So the length-argument tells lnp_integrity_write how many bytes to send? Doesn't that mean that it would be possible to send an array consisting of many integers, for example? How would this be done? (...) We plan to build a six-legged lego (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | winlegos compiler problem
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I am trying out the lnp functionality with addressing and such, and of course I had to recompile the legos kernel. That, in itself, seemed to go without a hitch, but when I later tried to compile one of the demo programs, this is what I got. djecho (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lnp communication question
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Hello Tobias, (...) Why do you think there's only 1 byte that can be sent? If your data buffer is longer, bytes are sent one-by-one serially in a packet... (...) look into lnp.c and you will see that both lnp_integrity_xxx and lnp_addressing_xxx are (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | due to popular demand
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The HOWTO and other legOS archives will be available (until I get it to sourceforge) at (URL) for the people who wrote and volunteered to serve it- the archives now total something like ~100 meg (several different copies of compilers are in there) (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | lnp communication question
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Hi! When using lnp_integrity_write(&data, length), what is the length argument used for? The data can only be one byte long if I understand it correctly. Can I use the length argument to send an additional byte of information? Is there anyway I can (...) (24 years ago, 14-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: It's time to release some patches for LegOS 0.2.4
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"Harald Mährer" <hmaehrer@debis.com> wrote in message news:391bcf0d.129529...net.com... (...) (URL) - on my NT i have more than one (logical) drive to keep system, (...) I have cygnwin in my NT partion and legOS in another one. No problem at all. I (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: HOWTO going down
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One other thing- this will of course mean that the various other files accessible at arthurdent.dorm.duke.edu will be unavailable. I will try to move as many of these as possible to legOS.sourceforge.net before I lose my ethernet connection, but I'm (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | HOWTO going down
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I'm taking down the HOWTO for the next couple of weeks while I move out of my dorm and back home for the summer. When it comes back up (two weeks, three at the most) it'll be up to date (0.2.4!) and on legOS.sourceforge.net (probably /HOWTO/). Just (...) (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | rcx remote for video (LANC or IR)
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did anyone try to use the rcx as a controller for camcorders either using LA NC (Control-S) or Ir ? (24 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: It's time to release some patches for LegOS 0.2.4
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(...) Hi all. So far, i've got the 0.2.3.1 Version running on my laptop (W95) but not on my desktop (WIN NT). Questions remaining - where do i find the 0.2.4 version? I followed the ftp link on the cvs server to find 0.2.3 but where's 0.2.4? - on my (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Has anyone used lnpd succesfully?
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(...) Of course, but also currently not very available. But i still would like to fix this problem, or at least find the reason. Sporadically, i'm working or better say thinking about an enhanced version of lnpd, but i think this doesn't make much (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: make error in Linux build for LegOS 0.2.4
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(...) This was one of the first things that I tried but it complained about other tools it couldn't find. It's been a while but I think it had pass1 in the name. Nothing in my bin directory seemed to match. Frankly I stopped working on it since I (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: make error in Linux build for LegOS 0.2.4
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Steve morris <smorris@nexen.com> wrote in message news:390EC1B5.416273...xen.com... (...) c++.cpp. The (...) I must have an (...) the cross tools. (...) Try changing the references from <h8...>g++ to <h8...>gpp. Rossz (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: make error in Linux build for LegOS 0.2.4
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(...) /root/legos_new/legOS. (...) "s/legOS.*/legOS/i") which ends up (...) it out doesn't (...) sed support (...) something like: (...) I've modified in: export LEGOS_ROOT=$(shell pwd | sed -e "s/\\(.*\\)LegOS.*/\1legOS/i")/ that should works. (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Windows communication to the RCX
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Hello all, after playing a bit with Manuel's application, I ended with a console Win32 application to send/receive LNP messages. It's more simple and ready to be used in combination with other applications. However, it doesn't use overalapped I/O (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: make error in Linux build for LegOS 0.2.4
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(...) I tried that already. I since tried to interpret the output of "make -d" and think I found it. The problem is in the definition of LEGOS_ROOT. I am in /root/legos_new/legOS. In Makefile.common it is calculated with (pwd | sed -e (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: make error in Linux build for LegOS 0.2.4
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"Steve morris" <smorris@nexen.com> ha scritto nel messaggio news:390E39A3.D49806...xen.com... (...) Have you tried using: $ make clean $ make realclean $ make depend I suspect that you miss .depend files (but I'm not sure). Bye, Paolo. --- Anyone (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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