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Well, I've waited and waited, but nobody has volunteered to send me the existing docs to convert to PDF. I'm afraid I don't have the facilities myself to download the entire documentation tree at the LegOS site. I thought that freely offering my (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Enhancing the motor driver
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Hi, does somebody feel up to renovating the motor driver? We have discussed a new PCM scheme earlier on the lego-robotics list, it's just a question of implementing it. This will require changes to direct_motor.c and direct_motor.h and a little (...) (26 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: PDF (was Re: legOS docs - what do people want?)
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It's Doxygen. (URL) doc++ is also a viable alternative, but I've used doxygen before in Qt-based projects, where it is clearly superior. (26 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Anyone building a Java VM based on legOS?
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At least as far as CE is concerned, you need at least 8Mo to run a java VM. This is due to the size of the classes however. On the other hand there are smartcards which have an embedded VM cf: (URL) believe the VM can probably develloped but the (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS docs - what do people want?
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(...) online (...) modem-dialup (...) US$20- (...) hourly-metered (...) 6 (...) pretty (...) The problem isn't the ISP but the phone charge. And the speed of the transatlantic connection at peak hour (like when you are home to dial). Also you still (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: PDF (was Re: legOS docs - what do people want?)
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(...) Well what about ONE html file. Nobody ever said you had to fragment html files. Or whatabout a group but zipped or tar.gzed (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: PDF (was Re: legOS docs - what do people want?)
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Well as long as there is an html version I don't care. I still think pdf is a pain to read because it doesn't scroll well. (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: PDF (was Re: legOS docs - what do people want?)
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Hello. The API documentation tool I use can generate HTML, LaTeX and manpages. Unless Dimiti expands its capabilities to also generate PDF - or somebody points me to a better tool and volunteers to convert the sources that exist already - HTML (...) (26 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Anyone building a Java VM based on legOS?
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I would be concerned about memory usage. The current Palm machines have one and two megabytes of RAM, the CE machines even more. That's a lot more than the 32kB the RCX 1.0 has (though if you think about it, for the price, compared to the palm (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS docs - what do people want?
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Thanks, Todd, I think you have (hopefully) circumvented the "I hate pdf" and "HTML sucks" threads that were cranking up in response to this... -- SeeYa ! ---...--- Jim ---...--- Hello... Is this thing on ? Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: PDF (was Re: legOS docs - what do people want?)
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I like the pdf format. I have no trouble reading it either on my laptop (800X600) or on this machine (1280X1024). I use the "fit width" option, and have never seen the text be "too small" in either case. It is becoming commonplace in the industry, I (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Anyone building a Java VM based on legOS?
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I've been noticing a lot of activity lately creating java virtual machines on micro contollers. Is anyone using legOS as the basis for an h8/300 java vm? Something like waba, (URL) be a nice programming environment for the RCX. -rick (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS docs - what do people want?
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(...) (smile) I never should have written "either ... or" above. =:*) Certainly, since there is demand for both PDF and HTML forms of the docs, and since the HTML form will just happen no matter what, and MarkT has offered to create the PDF form (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: PDF (was Re: legOS docs - what do people want?)
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(...) PDP-11? FreeBSD, Solaris, XENIX, other flavors of Unix? NT, presumably. Win 3.1? DOS? Apple ]['s? Just some off-the-top of my head paltforms, that i somehow doubt are _all_ supported... Jasper (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) True, but there are freely available PDF generators (htmldoc coming to mind most readily). Adobe Distiller is the one supplied with the commercial version of Adobe Acrobat. (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: PDF (was Re: legOS docs - what do people want?)
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(...) a web site. So (...) subtree at the (...) This is exactly the reason I would prefer a PDF version of the document. You can get the entire document in one shot. For printing, I like PDF much better than TeX. It has free viewers for Macs, (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Well I think you got a point I missed there, PDF is not free (compared to html) although the viewer is, adobe acrobat definitely is not. (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS docs - what do people want?
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Mark Tarrabain a écrit dans le message <36CE02AF.8C000243@l....bc.ca>... (...) super- (...) considerably (...) less-than not when compressed (...) document (...) slightly you can always have one html file (...) Reader is (...) name I agree with the (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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It definitely needs to be portable! (...) please no PDF, it is portable but a pain to read on a screen and I've always thought that it was easier to read api documentation on your computer screen since this is were you work (...) one) Also if you (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: PDF (was Re: legOS docs - what do people want?)
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(...) I _can_ read PDF files, but I would discourage making it the form that docs are released in. I find reading PDFs to be a painful experience. My display is only 1024x768, and at that resolution, reading the output of any page description (...) (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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