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Because I couldn't get the Cygnus solution get to work on Win98 I tried Rossz Vàmos-Wentworth DJGPP solution. Unfortunately this doesn't work too. I followed the steps described on Rossz site. When I tried the first "make" I got the following error (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: looking for programmers
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Why not invite some FLL teams to show off their robots? Get some kids involved! -Peter Coach, FLL Team #1096: The Unibots (we're in California, so we probably wouldn't qualify... ) "anthony" <huberman@hotmail.com> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: V2.0 will be out in Nov. 2001
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(...) That sounds wrong. I believe 2.0 was *supposed* to be due out Nov 2000 but was delayed *slightly* due to software problems, because FLL teams were supposed to get the Beta of the software (no, not just the firmware) but we did not due to some (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Mindstorm Recall?
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(...) The FLL kit received this August was from DACTA and DID NOT have the power adaptor. -Peter Coach, FLL Team #1096: The Unibots (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Cygnus Installation troubles
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Did anybody find the cause and a solution to the problems Christopher Arquiza had in July? I have the same problem now. Thomas (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: getpid?
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(...) I wouldn't want to do so, not because the H8 does not implement inline, but because cpid is a local variable to tm.c (although it is not declared as such...). I think it's cleaner to have this user - kernel interface in real functions. Eddie (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: getpid?
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Eddie, Would there be any problem making these inline, seeing how they're one-liners? (I'm assuming here that the H8 target implements inline) Regards, ROSCO (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: getpid?
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(...) The following patch will add both getpid() and getppid() to legOS: diff -u -r1.2 unistd.h --- include/unistd.h 2000/08/01 01:12:40 1.2 +++ include/unistd.h 2000/12/14 21:49:56 @@ -94,4 +94,7 @@ //! kill all processes with priority lower or (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Any difference btw RCX1.0 and RCX1.5?
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(...) Seems there are some nice additions (differential, optic fiber), but not many. See (URL) However, one big difference is that if the RIS 1.5 is operated with (...) Correct me if I'm wrong, but my impression is that the plug of the 1.0/2.0 is (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: getpid?
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(...) [code snipped] Ah, I understand. You could still use my method, but you'd have to pass the pid in as a parameter to the functions that need to know it, which would be ugly. (...) Well, get hacking! ;) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Any difference btw RCX1.0 and RCX1.5?
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(...) I don't know if there are differences in the sets (pieces). However, one big difference is that if the RIS 1.5 is operated with re-chargeable batteries, the batteries cannot be charged in the RCX since there is no plug anymore. Best regards (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: getpid?
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(...) this is not exactly what I meant. What I am looking for is how can a piece of code determine which process is currently executing it. something like: main(...) ... create 2 processes with pid1, pid2 ... these processes occasionally call (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: getpid?
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(...) AFAIK there aren't any built-in mechanisms. However, when a thread is launched, the launching process does get its PID as a return value from execi(). I'm thinking you could pass in a pointer to some storage in the argv, and then update that (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | looking for programmers
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Dear Sir- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY (www.ps1.org), a major contemporary art museum affiliated with the Museum of Modern Art in New York is opening a new exhibition in a few days, this Sunday, the 17th, called Some New Minds. As part of the (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Any difference btw RCX1.0 and RCX1.5?
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Is there any difference between RCX1.0 and RCX1.5? I have seen them on sale at two different prices. (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | V2.0 will be out in Nov. 2001
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1. First of all, thanks for the replies guys. 2. To Peter; I was told that version 2.0 will come available in November of 2001. But get this, in the mean time, there will be absolutely no Robotics Invention Systems of any number available at all; (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | getpid?
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Hello, I am looking for a way how to obtain an identifier of a calling thread/process... I have to distinguish between different threads in the code and thus missing some equivalent to UNIX-like thr_self() / pthread_self() / getpid() any (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Mindstorm V2.0 RCX
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Does anyone know if the new Mindstrom V2.0 RCX come with the AC power adpater like the v1.0 has? I perfer to have this option for stationary robots than the non version like 1.5 RCX brick. ahui Also, will LEGO still sell the rcx 1.0 or will that (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Mindstorm Recall?
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(...) The difference in parts seems to be minor, look here: (URL) of course the RCX 1.5 doesn't have a power adaptor, so they won't be able to recycle them. Also, as far as I could see, DACTA always sold bricks with the power adaptor. Jürgen "should (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Mindstorm Recall?
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(...) My mother-in-law runs a toy store chain, and she got a stock-balancing note from TLC requesting the old 1.5 kits back. It stated that the 2.0 kits will be out in Q1 of 2001. No mention of upgrade kits. I suspect that the component bags WILL be (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Mindstorm Recall?
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I suspect there is a combination of things going on here: 1. Christmas rush for the kits that are out there. 2. No further production of 1.5 since 2.0 will be out shortly (anyone know when, exactly?) 3. Possible recycling of kits still in TLC's (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Mindstorm Recall?
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Last week I called S@H about getting a 9719, the Robotics Invention System: version 1.0. No problem, they said they had plenty. This week when I talked to them; they said that they were out of them, that they were now discontinued! I told the lady, (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RCXTCL.ZIP is repaired - finally!
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Thanks for the flood of email indicating that RCXTCL is broken! My own stupidity kept reloading the cached version, and it was, of course, OK. Once I reloaded Windows on my machine, the problem was obvious. Anyways, the new RCXTCL.ZIP can be loaded (...) (24 years ago, 9-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Cygwin
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Hi All, I've recently installed the new cygwin distribution on my system, and tried to get legos working with it..... my legos works fine with cygwin b20, but this new distribution seems to kill it :( Now, I think the reason is because the older (...) (24 years ago, 10-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Compiling Utilities under Windows/Dos
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I've been experimenting with the Mingw port of the GCC toolchain and have succesfully built almost all of the utility programs. firmdl3.exe even works in the fast mode! The only thing left is dll.exe. Specifically, keepalive.c won't compile because (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Makefile change
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I recommend the following change to Makefile (in the main legOS directory: old: SUBDIRS=util lib boot demo new: include makefile.common ifneq (,$(findstring $(OSTYPE),MSDOS msdosdjgpp MS-DOS)) SUBDIRS=lib boot demo else SUBDIRS=util lib boot demo (...) (24 years ago, 3-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Voting Robot
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(...) I would have said "...a Lego robot _stupid_ enough to vote for Gore..." [duck] [run for cover] (...) Franklin (*Please* notice the "follow-up" redirection!!!) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Voting Robot
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Somebody should get their hands on one of the Florida butterfly ballots and see if they can create a Lego robot smart enough to punch the correct hole for Gore. :) Rossz (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNPD problem..again :)
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(...) Have you set up a packet handler on the RCX before sending this? I would guess that if there isn't one, you'll run into something like TCP's "connection refused", which might be what you're seeing. Otherwise, I assume that other LNP stuff (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LNPD problem..again :)
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hi everybody, im having some trouble with LNPD and was hoping someone out there might get me on the right track again :) PC side: #define MY_PORT 8 #define DEST_HOST 0 #define DEST_PORT 0 #define DEST_ADDR (DEST_HOST << 4 | DEST_PORT) i am trying to (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | DJGPP (Windows) for Legos
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For anyone who encountered problems with the DJGPP tools for legOS, I found an omission in my instructions at (URL) Specifically, I had left out the requirement for ftp://ftp.simtel.net...hl112b.zip My web page has been updated to correct for this (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | WinCVS
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There is a module which helps configure WinCvs for Sourceforge. It helped. Check it here: (URL) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: help with lnp
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(...) ah yes.. now i c it.. in fact. theres no reference to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the legOS HOWTO written by luis willa, but in the "lnpd+liblnp" directory there is a REAME file that says exactly what you said. (guess i should have read that more (...) (24 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | help with lnp
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hello all, im tryin to run the lnptest program within the /lnpd+liblnp/applications directory, but all i get when i type "./lnptest" is "./lnptest: error in loading shared libraries: liblnp.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or (...) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Strange problem using 2 active sensors at the same time with 0.2.4
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I could send you a copy of the Legos Kernel (legOS.srec and legOS.lds) files I am using and you can see if your code compiles and works better under it (actually I am using a patched version of 0.2.4, a early beta from Luis for what will most likely (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Strange problem using 2 active sensors at the same time with 0.2.4
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(...) Unlikely, i've worked on my office machine, 0.2.4 was the first compilation of an legOS on this machine. Later in the evening i installed 0.2.3. Carsten (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Strange problem using 2 active sensors at the same time with 0.2.4
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I also have a LegOS 0.2.4 program that uses two rotation sensors on input ports 1 and 3 as well as another active sensor (the Technostuff Dual IRPD sensor) on port 2. All work flawlessly, no counter drift noted on the rotation sensor. Perhaps it is (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Fixed-point Math
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(...) That's true. However, IMO, man pages are good for reference but not good for first-time learning. A quick tutorial with a couple of simple code examples might be nice. I didn't have too much trouble with the man pages, but I *did* have trouble (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Fixed-point Math
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(...) And, of course, if you want, feel free to use CVS to get the HOWTO and add it directly to there- I'm always happy to see another contributor :) Luis ---...--- "Nobody ever said that democracy was simple or efficient." Florida Election Board (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Fixed-point Math
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(...) That'd be great. I'm in no hurry, since time is not opening up for me either any time soon. (...) I've never bothered, since semaphores are basically POSIX compliant. If you have "man" installed you should be OK ;) Luis ---...--- "Nobody ever (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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