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Ciaran Jessup wrote [snipped]: (...) Thanks for the offer, but after posting my question I decided to have a go at writing my own java solution, and having done so, I also like mine. Looks like all those software reuse lectures I took were wasted on (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, once again a stupid problem :) .. I've just moved all my code over from procedural C , to nice object orientated C++ legos code... the problem is... how does one compile in more than one file, at the minute I get around it by including my files (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi all I posted this everywhere else, then realised maybe some of you here might be interested. It's not a robot, but uses 2 RCXs running legOS as controllers. It's my first major project using legOS! Regards, ROSCO (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: A humble contribution to the community
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(...) now I can just go straight to your page! Together with the Windows version by Rossz Vámos-Wentworth at (URL) (I still haven't got around to trying this Rossz), we can install easily on both platforms! (...) Aren't they always 8?) ROSCO (24 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Having installed legOS on a couple of machines and always having trouble remembering the most basic of command i have made this page (URL) that i (and whoever else might need some help) can easily do it again. Considered that we might be having some (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: almost made it, but need help..again :)
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(...) Your problem is not the .so file (hasn't got to linking stage yet), but the .h file. You need to do: gcc -I/path/of/lnplib/includes name.c -o name or put the full path to lnplib.h in the include statement in name.c HTH ROSCO (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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heh guys, im back..again :) have downloaded and installed lnpd. i have: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_...lnp/liblnp so that my PC programs in ~/legOS/host/lnpd+li...plications can find the liblnp.so.x file. but i allways get an error when i try to gcc (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) The best way to do this kind of thing is to save the info you want to display in a variable or something, set a flag saying somethings there, and let another task display the data & reset the flag. You can see a simple implementation of this (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Posting your code would help a lot :-). lnp_receive_packet() is called after the integrity layer has verified the checksum from an interrupt handler. So your code should be short e never call functions that wait or may cause a task switch. dll (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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hi everybody. in /kernel/lnp.c there is a function called lnp_receive_packet. here im trying to insert a function that will display whatever came in the data field when lnp_receive_packet was called. (interested in seeing everything, including (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Simple RCX-PC communication
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I to am working on a final year cs project and had exactly the same problem :) - I solved it by using the cygwin on win2k solution..very good :) And I wrote a small java package to deal with all the lnp stuff, so I could use java, now this will work (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Unfortunately not. :\ (...) Depends on how much you want to learn. If you really, really want to learn Unix, I strongly recommend the encyclopedic "Unix Secrets" by James Armstrong. Well written, great examples, and covers everything you might (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I guess I ought to add that WinLNP isn't any good to me since I want (as far as possible) to use the same code on both linux and windows, and besides I don't have any suitable windows dev tools. Kieran Elby (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi! I'm working on a final year CS project which involves getting a lego robot to explore and map its maze-like environment, locate start and finish markers, then run between them. This is working pretty well, but I'd like to be able to download the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi (...) Yep, that works ;-) (...) Yep, that also works ;-)) Getting to grips with Unix by yourself is no easy task. Can you recommend any good sites or books to save me pestering people?? thanks mike (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I've used Cygwin some time ago, so my knowledge is not the best. Here are some thoughts based on my experience with Linux. Hope they help. (...) bash uses the backslash (\) as an escape-character. On Linux mount e:\ /e is equivalent to mount "e: /e" (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | problems installing LNP
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have downloaded dllx.tgz, lnpd+liblnp.tgz and lnpd.static have unpacked them into the $HOME/legos/host directory in lnpd+liblnp i have: make realclean make depend make all good so far in dllx i have: fixed the Makefile so that: (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi I have some problems with Cygwin B20. This may be a bit off topic, I'm not sure, but if I am can someone please point me in the right direction. I have legOS set up and running fine as directed in the howto, but I am having some problems with (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi all. I've uploaded Chris Aquila's remote control patch to Sourceforge. I've included a README, and a user-space module to make using it a bit easier. Just look under the patches section in the legOS project. Regards, ROSCO (24 years ago, 25-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: multiple "execi" with different priorities
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(...) have (...) Yes, I actually went & checked after I'd posted. Maybe I should've checked before 8?) Anyway, Stig Nielsson emailed me the following, which explains it a lot better, and will probably be useful for Thanasis to work out the original (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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