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There is no 0.2.5 as of yet- there may be within a couple of weeks. There really aren't many substantial changes (mainly C++, two very, very small bugfixes.) If you are interested in testing what is in CVS right now I've posted a tarball here: (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Millenium and ActivePerl
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(...) No worries, think I was being dumb - i re-installed it without the ISAPI support ,and it seemd to work just fine :) thanks - Ciaran (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi all, I've been having lots of fun with LegOS 0.2.4 (after a month of frustration trying to get it to run), and things have been going smoothly. It is much more stable than 0.2.3 however, I understand some patches have been made to the 0.2.4 code (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: asking
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Cromok- In the future, direct emails to lugnet.robotics.rcx....ugnet.com. Thanks :) (...) legOS.srec is the file that contains the legOS kernel, which is the "core" of the legOS operating system. (...) When using this, (at least in the HOWTO) it (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiler problem - help needed please
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(...) No :) Just making sure that you hadn't. (...) Well, I'd hope it is not the distribution. However, it is possible- RedHat 7.0 uses a "new" compiler version (egcs 2.96) that has been known to cause some problems with certain programs. makelx is (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LegOS: Crosscompiler problem
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Sorry to not respond earlier, Niels. It looks like the .rpms I linked to are slightly broken :| If you do not have permission to write to /usr/lib/legOS/ (which is probably the case, given what I know about the default permissions in /usr/lib/ in (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiler problem - help needed please
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(...) No, should I? (...) I've installed from the tarball, just as described in the HOWTO. (...) Ok, thanks for your reply. I just have to try some more. Maybe try another linux distribution. Niels (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: text location for apps and q?
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(...) I don't recall for certain, but I think that those are hardware specific. You could always try changing them to see what happens :) (Anyone who is more up-to-date on the compiler magic, feel free to correct me.) (...) Unfortunately, there are (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Packet Handlers on RCX
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Michael- I seem to recall something about LNP not being completely thread safe. However, there is no documentation on that at all. Stig Neilsson (if he is around) may be a good person to ask, since he has studied the threading model in detail, and (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: text location for apps and q?
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Ooops. Did not finish my last email before sending it. (...) It sounds like it was built improperly (i.e., without --exec-prefix). Where did you get it from exactly? Luis ---...--- "It's clear to us that Microsoft isn't the competition anymore. They (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiler problem - help needed please
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Niels- Sorry about the delayed response. Have you modified your Makefile.user at all? It does appear like it is getting called correctly, but I want to be sure. Also, how did you install legOS? From tarball or via the RH 6.x rpms? If you installed (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Millenium and ActivePerl
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Haven't heard of anything. Sorry about that. Then again, I run Linux for a reason- it isn't possible for a program to do that to me. On the plus side, unless you recompile your kernel, you shouldn't need Perl for a legOS install anymore. Luis (...) (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Millenium and ActivePerl
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Its been a while since I've posted in here, but I finally started my dissertation on Genetic Programming with Lego Mindstorms, and I'm already (day 1) having problems. I was ruuuunning Legos on a Win2K machine with no problems, however when I (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LNP Packet Handlers on RCX
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I remember reading somewhere a while back, when I first started dabbling with LNP, that LNP handlers on the RCX side were called from interrupts and therefore doing things like memory allocation, msleep, heavy processing, etc. were not good ideas. (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | compiler problem - help needed please
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Hello everybody I have installed the crosscompiler and legos 2.4 as descriped in the HOWTO. My system is redhat 7.0. The kernel seems to compile just fine, but whenever I try to compile one of the demo programs I get an error. Here is an output from (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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hi all, in Makefile.user there are BASE1 and BASE2 which point to 0xb000 and 0xb210. are those address changeable or are they defined by h8/300 platform? also what is makelx? what does it do with .ds1 and .ds2 which both are the same object file? (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RCX communication
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Hi, (Sorry, my English is not good) I would like to know if it's possible to use legOS (LNP) to get communications between RCXs without the PC, I mean, without an intermediate between the RCXs. And, if it's possible, how can I do that ? I'm using 3 (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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prizes: - three LEGO Droid Developer Kits - three LEGO Vision Comand - three Ultimate Accessory Sets Check it out under (URL) are: - Fred Martin MIT media lab - Scott Savage Marshal Space Flight Center, NASA - Dennis Clark Colorado State University (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Memory Usage
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(...) Ok, thanks. I'll try everything else first, then try this if I get desperate. The main thing I hit a wall with was when I switched to floating-point, which increased my .lx filesize by about 2k, so if I go back to fixed-point, turn sound off (...) (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Memory Usage
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(...) changing (...) place for (...) program for (...) optimized for (...) working for (...) I've further investigated and you can gain some more bytes compiling kernel (and your programs) with -Os option instead of -O2 (Makefile.common, COPT (...) (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Memory Usage
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(...) Well, I was thinking along the lines of having gcc optimize my program for space instead of speed. Of course, I'd be better off if *I* optimized for space instead of speed, but it can't hurt to have the compiler working for me, if it's (...) (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Memory Usage
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(...) itself in (...) allocate (...) annoying, (...) You can test memory left using the routine from Eddie: (URL) Anyway, my question is, how can I reduce memory usage? I think cutting (...) HOWTO, (...) that (...) a (...) in (...) process is (...) (...) (24 years ago, 15-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Memory Usage
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Well, I've gone and run out of memory with my RCX. It manifested itself in a task that refused to run, presumably because the OS couldn't allocate enough memory for its stack. Took a while to track down and was annoying, but it was my own fault for (...) (24 years ago, 14-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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well, one page is still up... (URL) sure if anyone wants to pursue that or not (Yannis, if you are around, and need space to mirror your files, legOS.sourceforge.net is there for you ;) Luis ---...--- "It's clear to us that Microsoft isn't the (...) (24 years ago, 13-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Questions
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(...) No idea. Not even sure how much interest there was in it in the first place. I knew I should have mirrored those files :| On the plus side, I know that at least some work was done in porting the "real" LNP tools to the Cygwin installation. (...) (24 years ago, 13-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Questions
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(...) Well, one "people" is enough for me. (Especially this particular "people"!) So, I will work on this thing and let you know when I have something to show you. Btw, I checked on the Windows version of LNP (I run Linux, but I figure Windows ought (...) (24 years ago, 13-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP Questions
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(...) I have no idea if "people" would, but if you want to write something up for the HOWTO, I'll bend over backwards to get it into the posted version ASAP. It is really the one major thing that the HOWTO lacks, and that people consistently request (...) (24 years ago, 13-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LNP Questions
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I've been doing a lot with LNP lately, and I have a few questions. First, the lnpd package I have says in the readme that there is a bug in the legOS kernel with sending LNP packets from multiple tasks. Accordingly, all of my LNP-sending functions (...) (24 years ago, 13-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | At last legOS on NT!!
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At last! I decided to test the cygwin installation on NT and it worked! I still have to use the -s option with firmdl3 but the rest is perfect. Now I have the djgpp distribution on Windows9x and the cygwin distribution on NT. (24 years ago, 10-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: liv@duke.edu
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Do I still mention arthurdent in the HOWTO? Please point me at the section of the HOWTO that still points to arthurdent, because that machine/url have been disconnected for several months now, and I want to ensure that there are no references (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | liv@duke.edu
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Luis, could you please send me the demo.c you mention in the HOWTO. I can't connect to arthurdent Thanks -- ___...___ Oscar Deniz Suarez odeniz@dis.ulpgc.es Becario de Investigacion - Research Grant Holder Centro de Tecnologia de los Sistemas y la (...) (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS doesn't work under NT?
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Oscar Deniz Suarez <odeniz@dis.ulpgc.es> wrote in message news:G2016F.L1z@lugnet.com... (...) some (...) problems, (...) Maybe, but I know there's differences - I can't get NT to talk to my qv-100 digital camera over the serial port, but Linux & (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS doesn't work under NT?
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(...) are some (...) problems, (...) Absolutly Yes. (...) 0.2.3 and (...) memcpy.c. I (...) to (...) Begin from these two URLs: (URL) Paolo. --- Indecision is the key to flexibility. (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS doesn't work under NT?
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(...) computer (...) have (...) correctly (...) I don't think it's the serial port handling under NT, because there are some guys out there who have been able to work with legos and NT without problems, isn't it? By now, I think it could be a bug in (...) (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS doesn't work under NT?
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(...) problems. (...) appears (...) Only thing I can think is maybe the serial port driver does something funny in NT. I'm not familiar with the serial comms used in firmdl & dll, and don't have the source here at work, but maybe this causes the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legOS doesn't work under NT?
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I've been using legOS for Windows (Vamos-Wentworth's distribution) both on Windows 95 and Windows 98. Due to some reasons, I'll have to use a NT computer from now on (I'm the administrator). I installed everything, even the long filename support (...) (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: IRPD sensors and LegOS (long)
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OK, the IRPD rover just smarter. I had an error in the comments in the previously posted version, references in the initial comments about the Right Side Motor being hooked up to Output B were incorrect, it is actually hooked up to Output C. This (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: 0.2.4 API
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I can put one up as a tarball or .zip file- pick which output format you'd prefer. Luis (...) ---...--- "It's clear to us that Microsoft isn't the competition anymore. They are our environment." WordPerfect manager, talking about Word ---...--- (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | 0.2.4 API
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Hello everybody. I am currently looking for the API for legOS 0.2.4. I did find one at legos.sourceforge.net (i think it was), but it was poorly suited for downloading. anyone happend to have the API as a downloadable file ?(html/ps/pdf, doesnt (...) (24 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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