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Sorry I've been out of the loop for so long, guys... I'm moving tomorrow, so I've been packing and such. (...) cool. Which Cygwin, though? It'd be really nice if we could "move up" to Cygwin 1.0, which is a lot easier to install than the beta (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | GCC - Cross-compiler
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(...) Some (good!) news: 1) I've compiled gcc-2.95.2 for h8300-hitachi-hms using cygnwin and it works. :-) 2) I'm working to a script to automate the process 3) I'm still gettind some warnings (but it works well, does some warnings appear on Linux (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Idle Powerdown
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Also, Paolo gets credit for the code that resets the idle counter inside IR activity. It will not reset on invalid packets or packets sent to a different RCX unit, so a unit will quietly go to sleep after 15 minutes in the midst of LNP (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Idle Powerdown
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Paolo was kind enough to check into Sourceforge my changes to implement idle powerdown. The default is 15 minutes of idle time (no programs running, no buttons pressed, no LNP activity) before automatically turning itself off. BTW, in my previous (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Multiple RCXs
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(...) You can control RCXs via LNP using different addresses. The problem is that no example and no working code is available in legOS distribution, but you can find something searching this newsgroup. A good possibility is using WinLNP (URL) LNP (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: CVS write problem solved
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(...) Well, after fiddling lots, I finally got it working. Turns out :ext: is correct, dunno why the CVS page at SourceForge says :pserver:. Anyway, I successfully commited CONTRIBUTORS (had my name wrong!), and will soon be putting in some code to (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Idle Powerdown - CVS write problems
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(...) Sorry. Linux. (...) Hmmm. Tried this (checked out the whole module to a new dir), but same problem. (...) My connection string is the same except ext->pserver. Must be a Unix thing. Is there any developers out there using cvs under Linux? I (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Idle Powerdown - CVS write problems
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(...) login (...) But when I (...) I've checked sourceforge and you have correct permissions. What platform are you using? Windows? (...) before - (...) My problem was that if you checked-out files as "anonymous", you need to re-check-out them. CVS (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Paolo, Maybe you can help with mine, too. Luis gave me CVS access, and I can login using my sourceforge name & password, and checking out's no problem. But when I try to check in, I get: cvs [server aborted]: "commit" requires write access to (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Idle Powerdown
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(...) need to (...) You can send the code/patch to me, Rossz. I can commit it for you. As anyone knows :-) I've solved my old problems with CVS (WINCVS). Please feel free to contact me if you need to solve your CVS problem too. :-) Bye, Paolo. --- (...) (24 years ago, 13-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Idle Powerdown
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I've successfully implemented an idle powerdown into the legOS kernel. On more than one occasion I have left my RCX on overnight, resulting in the need to buy a new set of batteries. The tricky part was doing a successful powerdown from within the (...) (24 years ago, 13-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Multiple RCXs
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If the functions you wish to perform can be done in simple tasks you could probably program each RCX to recognize a specific range of message numbers. In this way, a 'function' on the RCXs can be 'invoked' by the PC by having it send a specific (...) (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: questions, comments, and suggestions
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(...) If you don't find it defined in gcc-2.95.2/config/h8300/*, then yes. Eddie C. Dost ecd@skynet.be (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) only (...) Do you know if RCX_COMPILER patch need to be used in GCC 2.95.2 cross compiler too? (...) Fixed right now. I'm ready to commit. (...) indicator (...) could (...) It will be changed in 0.2.5, but two notes: 1) The counter is in ms. (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS Addressing - Packet Handler
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(...) Semaphores: You said you installed Linux, try "man sem_post". Also kernel/program.c is a good reference for a semaphore use. A more complicated example is the tx_sem in kernel/lnp-logical.c and kernel/lnp.c. Eddie C. Dost ecd@skynet.be (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS Addressing - Packet Handler
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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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| | LNP Addressing Scheme
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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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