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having some sort of forwarding mechanism from the old legos group to the new brickos newsgroup IMHO would be the best solution for old and new customers :) old users, use the new brickos newsgroup, new users, who still think its called legos, gets (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Have a curator for robotics/rcx/legos ? and...
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(...) As (...) I would prefer to see a single newsgroup for several reasons. brickOS is a morphing or molting from legOS if you will not a diverging or evolutionary different creation (i.e. it is only a name change). brickOS and legOS are the same (...) (22 years ago, 19-Aug-02, to lugnet.admin.curators, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Where does "win-h8-egcs-1.1.2.zip" come into all this?
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Ralph, (...) All the material, stuffing, code, etc. comes from the ~14MB of downloads for cygwin. Using some of the tools you download, configure and make, you can create the cross compiler. You might want to check out some of the following GNU (...) (22 years ago, 18-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Where does "win-h8-egcs-1.1.2.zip" come into all this?
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Hi Ralph, (...) I don't know what you want to tell but if you want to build the cross compiler from sources you must closely follow the steps mentioned in the instructions. I haven't done that but running brickOS under Linux. But: (...) This has (...) (22 years ago, 18-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Ralph, make realclean looks good. The first error I see is it looks for cc instead of gcc for the compiler. I am assuming you picked up legos-0.2.6 distrubition version. If I am not mistaken this is an error in the Makefile which causes the wrong OS (...) (22 years ago, 18-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'd be REALLY grateful if someone could sort out my problem. Below I have listed the output of when I type 'make realclean' and then type 'make depend' (having followed the sourceforge cygwin instructions up to this point). If anyone could tell me (...) (22 years ago, 18-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Where does "win-h8-egcs-1.1.2.zip" come into all this?
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After typing make realclean: for i in util lib boot demo ; do make - --unix NODEPS=yes -C $i realclean ; done make[1]: Entering directory `/legos-0.2.6/util' make - --unix -w -C dll-src clean make[2]: Entering directory `/legos-0.2.6/util/dll-src' (...) (22 years ago, 18-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Where does "win-h8-egcs-1.1.2.zip" come into all this?
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Ralph, What does the output from the first command, make realclean, look like? Ed Ralph Clark <ralph.clark@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:H119uM.HHG@lugnet.com... (...) working (...) (22 years ago, 18-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Where does "win-h8-egcs-1.1.2.zip" come into all this?
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Hi. I'm still not getting this thing to work under Win98 under Cygwin. I'm using these instructions: (URL) and when I compare them with other instructions I can't see why the sourceforge cygwin instructions don't contain anything about the file with (...) (22 years ago, 18-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Have a curator for robotics/rcx/legos ? and...
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Stephen, (...) I'd gladly second that (self-)nomination! (...) I would consider keeping the old group and creating a new one for brickOS. My main reasoning is that there are sure to be queries about previous releases of legOS for quite some time, (...) (22 years ago, 18-Aug-02, to lugnet.admin.curators, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS newsgroups
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I believe this is the most active group you will find. It seem right now, no one has anything to say. (or ask) Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Clark" <ralph.clark@ntlworld.com> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 16:54:30 GMT To: (...) (22 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Win98 install help
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Ralph - You need to drill down into the various packagte categories objects (Admin, Base, Devel, ...). For Example: the Base category contains - ash, bash, cygwin, etc.; the Devel category contains - autoconf, automake, etc. Just click on each item (...) (22 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Could someone give me the address of a more active BrickOS newsgroup please? This one seems to be a bit dead. Maybe all the experts are on holiday..... (22 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: 0.2.4 and W2k...I really need help...
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(...) ... (...) Did you try to use a current version of cygwin ? looks like cygwin-B20 which is a little bit stoneaged -Volker (22 years ago, 14-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi there. Please can someone help me. I've been following the instructions at: (URL) word for word and then I got to the bit where it says: "Last setup I've tried let you choose which modules you need to download and setup. Here is a minimal list (...) (22 years ago, 10-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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In working with the DJGPP "port" of brickOS it is noted that DJGPP does not provide getopt. The solution to this is for one to compile it in the process of compiling one's software. As I check my machine I find two versions of it, a GNU version (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello there, I've really tried to make it work myself...I've spent about three days and nothing...I've tried Linux - Slackware, Cygnus. I tried follow (URL) and I can't make it work. Now I'm trying (URL) when I'm trying to compile legOS I'm getting (...) (22 years ago, 1-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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"Stephen M Moraco" wrote in message (...) I tried to send out a message from the BrickOS mailing list, but didn't see it pop up in my email... do we need to "sign-up" for the new one? Or will the old one be "copied" over? // Joe p.s. I am (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Thanks for the heads up, Mark. What's broken? (I did seem to misspell a URL to the brickOS website.) I'm fixing that now. See anything else? Stephen -- stephen@debian.org stephmo@users.sourceforge.net (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legos.sourceforget.net broken
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I'm not sure who would be responsible for this but the legos website at sourceforge is broken. (URL) doesn't work. It looks some changes were underway for the brickOS name change. mark (22 years ago, 29-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Does anyone have any programs that would make for a cool demo of the mindstorms package for 8-14yr olds and their parents? Preferably that would work well with the basic roverbots and would involve communication amongst multiple robots. I was going (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | legOS and Windows
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Hello to all, I'm new here, I finally decided to play a bit with legOS (was only using NQC until now). After reading all the posts describing problems with installing it under Windows, I am happy to say that everything works without too many (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RCX and legOS users in the Chicago metro area
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I'm looking for Mindstorms RCX users in the northern Chicago metro area. Are there swap meets or competitions or working groups? I'm using legOS and emuLegOS in a Linux environment. (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNPD and Cygwin
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I put it on a temporary account: (URL) luck :) Michael (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hmm well i would like to see the lnpd ported to windows but, the client is a very good start. WinLNP was pretty much useless so any code you can put out would be very helpful. Good luck with the porting, Jason Hensler (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: LNPD and Cygwin
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Actually, last night, I was able to get .NET talking to the IR tower, and have a method for (most of the time) reading an LNP packet, but not processing. If I tidy up the code, would anyone be interested in it? Matt -----Original Message----- From: (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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4 weeks ago (26-Jun-02) i offered a port of liblnp for windows where the daemon lnpd still has to run under linux, but at least clients can run under windooze. but nobody answered to that message. porting lnpd to windows is hard, because for (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Running legOS under DJGPP Status
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(...) Ummm.... Ok. Your call :-) But if the necessary porting turns out to be harder than expected, remember Cygwin. Max. (22 years ago, 21-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) This whole thread is about using legOS under DJGPP, not Cygwin. I really don't know why, but some people, me included, like DOS better. (22 years ago, 21-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) What about using Cygwin instead of DJGPP ? Max. (22 years ago, 21-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Is it possible to build and use LNPD under cygwin? None of the windows implementations of LNP really fit my needs (WinLNP might, if it would ever work) And if it is possible to build it, how? I attempted to and just ended up with build errors about (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: lnp on alternate microcontrollers
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I'm very interested in this as well. I hope to work on it this winter, when I spend my free time on legos and computers instead of boating and playing sports. I've ordered a couple Hitachi h8 series microcontrollers and developer kits. If anyone (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: new name
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When I checked last, getting a trademark on a name costed (I believe) about $45. Just my 2 cents Matt -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Frank Carney Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) If it helps, I got binutils to compile by using the --disable-bfd-assembler option to configure. Then I ran into gcc troubles. I just gave up and bought Linux. dll and firmdl3 will need major rewrites because DJGPP has no tty functionality. A (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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You might consider getting a trademark so that not even lego can say anything to us about the name. Is this an expensive prospect? How about a superfund for it? Probably would want to get it in the names of all the major authors. Frank (22 years ago, 20-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Has anyone tackled putting lnp on a non-lego microcontroller? This would be an interesting project. Frank (22 years ago, 20-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Nice to see that someone is so involved in BrickOS like you are. Just don't go dissapear. /Joel (22 years ago, 19-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | *** legOS new name: And the winner is... ***
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It is over now. There is a clear winner. The votes with the following phrases for osmOS are as follows: Too late for brickfest obscured by clouds since the open source alchemie... lbDPL cos' the brick is thick fischkopp more things considered next (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: is it possible to remove lnp_handler while running ?
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Have you tried the 0.2.6.05 ?? I remember something in this area while I was debugging RCX message passing. There is a different semaphone for the xmit buffer separate from the transmitter (TX) in 0.2.6.05 that was not so in 0.2.6 The very latest (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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no..wait.. im fairly sertain that i did have a context shift while in lnp_addressing_write..after all .could that be why it never returns ? Falco, i tried looking at your thread safe example in emulegos, but im afraid i didnt understand much of (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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