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Thanks Eddie, Sorry for posting a message I should have known the answer to. I'll have a look at the semaphore example. If anyone knows of a good refence for semaphore programming could they please let me know?Its taken me a while to get into the (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS Addressing - Packet Handler
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(...) Take the sleep(1) out of the code! The function addressHandlerPortOne() is called from an interrupt, so you must not call any function which might cause a reschedule (which sleep() definitely does). You can do all this by having a separate (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LNPD on Linux - Thanks for all the documentation
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Hi All I've just installed LNPD on Linux and have it up and running. (In the past few hours, I have installed and configured Linux as a LAN workstation, built the egcs and binutils, installed and compiled legOS and finally compiled and linked liblnp (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legOS Addressing - Packet Handler
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Hi All I have a very simple RCX legos program (which I've attached), that I'm having difficulty with. I have compiled legOS with the default host address of 0 (0x00). I am using WinLNP to send data to the RCX (simple short strings), but the RCX will (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Getting the Windows LegOS 0.2.3 compiler package to compile 0.2.4
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Hi, Dave I think it is no problem, I am using it in NT and 98, both are ok. (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: license question
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(...) I guess its all my fault :) The choice between GPL and MPL was a tough one. My main worry with using GPL was that I have a lot of "generic" code from other projects in NQC. Now if had I released under GPL, and other people made improvements to (...) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: license question
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(...) I chose MPL because Dave did! :) It probably would have been GPL otherwise though. -Kekoa (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lnpd
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Michael- Where is the link that points to arthurdent? Because I no longer live in the Duke dorms, that URL is permanently fubared, so I'm slowly trying to eliminate all the dead links that point there. If you could let me know where this one is, I (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: license question
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(...) IIRC, legOS is MPL because Kekoa released some of his code under MPL, and so Markus released the rest under MPL in order to allow him to use that particular section of code. I believe that he once mentioned that his natural leanings would (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: lnpd
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(...) (URL) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." - Dylan Thomas Mike Ash - (URL), <mailto:mail@mikeash.com> (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I've tried for several days to get a connection to arthurdent. No answer so far. Can anybody tell me another address to get a copy of the lnpd demon for linux? Mike (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Cygnus Installation troubles
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I am getting the exact same error. Is there something I am missing in the Makefile or Makefile.Common that I need to modify so it can build the .lx files correctly? I seem to be able to correctly build the legOS.srec and legOS.lds files. They are (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: license question
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The short answer is yes. The long answer... In general, free software licenses are self-compatible, meaning that you can take portions of software released under that license and create a different product using that same license. In fact, this is (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello, I'm working with TinyVM, an implementation of the Java VM for the RCX. I'm am looking into expanding the LCD capabilities to display text characters, and I was hoping to copy some of the data and/or algorithm for displaying text. I am not (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Addressing Scheme
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(...) the (...) True. (...) reflect (...) as well, (...) Two problems here: 1) There is a bug in dll that displays a fixed value. Ignore it, now is fixed on CVS. 2) You must specify host address in "raw" hex form (0x10) (...) I've patched dll to (...) (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | WinLNP usage in VC++
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Hi. Can anyone who has used the WinLNP control please help me get started with it. I have been using LNP via my own PC-side code based on Manuel Cabido Lopes' RCX Talker application (thanks Manuel) , but now want to build a server application that (...) (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Cygnus Installation troubles
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I think I am running into this problem. How do I remove all traces of my previous Cygwin 0.2.3 WinLegOS installation so the djgpp can run cleanly? Dave (...) (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi All, I've been playing around with LNP's logical layer and now want to use the addressing layer to enable communication with specific destination hosts (and ports) for my project: (URL) having a difficulty though. I understand that by changing (...) (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Mindstorm firmware C compiler for W95 platform ready for download.
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I've downloaded the files and unzipped it and tried to compile the code in C:\QC\demo which contains all the C source codes. However, when I tried to compile the hello.C program, I encountered a problem. I entered "qc hello" in the directory and (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Desperate need for help with lnpd
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Hi! I have mentioned before in this forum that I and two friends are working on a six legged robot which is supposed to learn to walk using genetic algorithms. We are now nearly finished and yesterday we finally managed to program an IR protocol (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Getting the Windows LegOS 0.2.3 compiler package to compile 0.2.4
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I have been using Rossz Vámos-Wentworth's LegOS 0.2.3 distribution for Windows and it works beautifully. I was wondering if anyone has had any luck getting the new 0.2.4 release to work under this Windows distribution of LegOS? I copied the entire (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Cygnus Installation troubles
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tnx... finally got to borrow a clean machine and got it to work (0.2.4 really does do away with the need for perl)... yep, seems like mixing the two really did mess up my installation... chrís (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: dont't fear the reaper
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(...) Jeeek. That did it, thank you. Got the new tm.c and now it all works. Mike (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Multiple RCXs
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In my latest and greatest idea I intend to run two RCXs together to control a fairly complicated arm. To do this I need to communicate with two RCXs from my PC (the program is actually going to be controlled from my PC). Now I haven't had much luck (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Mindstorms firmware
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(...) Thanks very much for everybodys help, I've got it sorted now. Rob. (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I usually just pull out a battery for a second. Note that the RCX draws very little power when turned off, and thus can retain memory for a while even without any batteries (cacitance on the power supply rails hold the RAM for a while). A good (...) (24 years ago, 2-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: dont't fear the reaper
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(...) You turned it off in between and by only having your mm.c patch zapped parts of legOS own memory. No program will survive an off/on with only your patch in 0.2.4. Eddie C. Dost ecd@skynet.be (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Michael and co.: If you want to do this type of testing, but don't want to mess with CVS, sourceforge automatically creates daily tarballs of the CVS tree, so that you can get a nearly completely up-to-date version of legOS from CVS without having (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: dont't fear the reaper
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(...) Actually, I'm using 0.2.4, last downloadable version. With this, the memory eating problem is solved with my stated patch. Might be, that the new version has the tm.c changes? (I just press "run" to stop my program, then "run" to start it (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Mindstorms firmware
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(...) No idea why that wouldn't work, it always has for me. I hold down prgm and as soon as I hit on/off, there's a little beep and the thing shuts off. When I turn it back on, it's back to the regular stuff. Of course, you can always try taking out (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Mindstorms firmware
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OK... Really DUMB question but I have to give my borrowed RCX back and buy my own so I went to remove legOS from my mates RCX to give it back and guess what... it won't go! :( I looked in the HOWTO and it says hold down Prgm and press the on.off (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: DJGPP firmdl
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Try setting the environment variable RCXTTY (or RCX_TTY, I'm not sure) to your device name (e.g. RCXTTY=/dev/ttyS1; export RCXTTY). (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: solaris + legOS
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(...) Actually you should refer to CVS files that are available from (URL) tree contains the Solaris patch too. Bye, Paolo. --- Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | DJGPP firmdl
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I've been able to build all the tools under DJGPP, unfortunately, firmdl3.exe doesn't accept anything as a valid serial port name. I've tried "com1", "/dev/com1", /dev/ttyS0", etc, but nothing works. The message is either "not a tty" or "no such (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: questions, comments, and suggestions
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(...) RCX_COMPILER is an internal gcc/egcs define, when patched correctly to support RCX interrupts. This is still used and useful, as it saves only the required registers, unlike the HANDLER_WRAPPER macro, which saves all volatile registers. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: dont't fear the reaper
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(...) This change is correct, although it will not work by itself. Using only this all memory will be freed when the RCX is powered off, including program memory. To work correctly another change to tm.c is necessary, so memory allocated by kernel (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Shure: static unsigned char matrix[100][100] __persistent = { { 0, }, }; Eddie C. Dost ecd@skynet.be (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I've tried to test the maximum memory allocation possible in legOS. For that, I wrote the following test program: #include <conio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main( int argc, char **argv ) { int i; char *cp; i = 1; while( ( cp = (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | questions, comments, and suggestions
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Hello, I'm just rooting through the kernel code, and have a few questions: [note: after actually writing this, there not all questions, more comments, or suggestions. And there aren't just a few of them. Good luck getting through it! ;-) ] *) What (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Hi again! I have found that this works with scalar variables. However, I need to make an array persistent. More specifically, I have a 100x100 matrix containing a population for use with genetic programming and I need to be able to keep this (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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