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I can also do it, tomorrow- sorry I've been out of the loop (exams.) Rossz, if you've already done it, great; otherwise, I'll take care of this (and also the firmdl3 stuff.) Luis (...) ---...--- "Nobody ever said that democracy was simple or (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Because I would rather just pass the buck myself!!! :) That, plus I don't use LegOS much at all, and would rather have somebody else decide what pieces of code might be good or bad to update. -Kekoa (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Sorry, I should have said "jack". No jack, no adaptor... -Peter "Kevin Loch" <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message news:G5oHCt.GqJ@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I found the problem, the SHELL environment variable requires forward slashes, not backslashes. My apologies for the error in my HOWTO. I've corrected the mistake on my website and included an additional note about this error. Rossz (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yeah, I'll just pass the buck. Why don't you have Luis give you developer's access to the project? You certainly do enough work to justify it (more than me, in fact). Rossz rossw AT jps DOT net (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I don't see how registry traces could affect a DOS program. Did you remove all the environment variables used by cygnus? I have a faint memory of one used by MAKE that instucts whether MAKE is in DOS or UNIX mode, though I don't remember what (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Cool. Beans. (...) The normal procedure in this case would be to do a fresh CVS checkout into a new directory, make the changes there, and then do a checkin from there too. But only if you want to be the one to commit the changes. I say pass (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I tried your new procedure and got the same result as before. Then I transfered the whole installation (not the zip and tar files) to my notebook. I set the same environment variables on this machine. Then I tried and it worked perfectly. Inspecting (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I committed your changes to the float library a few minutes ago. I think I'll leave the firmdl alone for the moment. I have my source code to that program hacked up (porting to MinGW) and don't want to screw things up. Rossz (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) If you want to commit the changes, and if you have the authority to do that, go right ahead. The purpose of my message was to say there is action to be taken. Who actually takes action doesn't really matter much to me. Same goes for the update (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I haven't heard much from Luis or Paolo recently - who are in charge of the legOS project at SourceForge. I can commit the changes if you wish. Rossz (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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This morning, Kieran Elby sent me a report of a "0 - x" bug with subtraction in the floating point routines, which I fixed. In the process I reread the IEEE specs and decided I could do something simpler for both subtraction and negation. The (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I've been working with another person who is experiencing the exact same error. I've made a slight modification to my instructions, but I have not received verification that he has the environment working. Take another look at (URL)What means (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Following a discussion on lugnet.robotics on firmware versions and firmware checksumming, I realized firmdl3 was broken for the latest firmware files (firm0325.lgo and firm0328.lgo). The problem was these files were too big. I have modified firmdl3 (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Just to clarify, did it have a power *jack* on the unit and not the ac adaptor, or did it have neither? KL (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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