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Thanks to both of you, I was pretty close to my understanding of it, but I did not know about the "new block creation behind the current block" but it makes sense now, if I have any other question (I am sure I will) I will def. ask. Thanks again, (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: USB/Serial Converter
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Somewhere on the LEGO site it says that Serial > USB is not compatable -- If you must, why not just buy a USB IR tower from PITSCO LEGODacta for $30? If you have the SDK 2.5, or even the SDK 2.0, it comes with the driver for the USB tower (in the (...) (21 years ago, 14-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS on Mac OS X
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Man, this is fantastic. Since moving over to OS X about a year and a half ago, I've been ignoring my RCX (retired the tired/crash prone PC forever!! Running Linux now though) and haven't played with it for lack of a development environment for OS X. (...) (21 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Question about mm.C in BrickOS
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Hi, (...) Ptr points to the length byte of the first free block (...) *(ptr-1) actually is MM_FREE and is now set to the callers id. (...) Now we can do two things: We could grab all memory we found in this block or we could allocate only the memory (...) (21 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Question about mm.C in BrickOS
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(...) <snip> (...) I've never looked at brickOS code, but here is my take: By the time you hit line 2, you've found a free block that is big enough. Line 2 sets the owner of the block. Line 5 decides if the block is oversized enough to split. Line 6 (...) (21 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Question about mm.C in BrickOS
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Hey My Senior Preoject where I update BrickOS is slowly taking shape (I am actually trying to do some now, but time is very limited). This project I am editing the Memory Managment Alg used by BrickOS. the first one I am going to add is Next Fit, it (...) (21 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) If you download the packages you can install from the previously downloaded packages without ever having to go to a mirror. In theory, at least, you shouldn't have to go back to the web unless you want a newer version of one or more of the (...) (21 years ago, 12-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) O.K. I will try a re-install of Cygwin, although I have re-installed at least four times previously. As I say, I get a little farther each time. Maybe this time I can find all the packages at one mirror. As Ed does, I also download and install (...) (21 years ago, 12-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) I am inclined to agree with Ed. I think your cygwin install is fouled up somehow. Can you check the version of the cygwin1.dll in your cygwin bin directory? I'm running 1.3.12-1 (which is a fairly old version). John Hansen (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) Tom, Max, I have seen the "Permission Denied" message before. I ussually get this error message after I have done some upgrading Cygwin packages or installling new parts, etc. The best answer I have (and the one I use) is to reinstall Cygwin. (...) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) Odd. I don't understand where that "Permission denied" message came from. What happens if you simply run "less"? Does less work on any files at all? Perhaps you would like to take this to the Cygwin mailing list (cygwin@cygwin.com). (I (...) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) Max, Here's one of your suggestions, and the cygcheck.out file is in the email (the check is in the mail) ;) Most of this is greek to me; it's been a long time since I've been able to deal with a Unix system. Tom Pugsley ===...=== (...) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) If you use "./configure && make", then make will only run if ./configure completes successfully. (...) ... (...) This suggests that your compiler is broken. Personally, I have never used the prebuilt compiler from Hitachi, preferring to (...) (21 years ago, 9-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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Ed, John, and Max, (et.al.?), Here's the output from one of my sessions. I started to follow some of John's instructions (got through the make strip alright, even though it's unnecessary), but I didn't want to go too deep until you people see the (...) (21 years ago, 8-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LNP under Cygwin(Windows)
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Hi everyone, Me again.Does anyone know how I can get LNP to work under Cygwin(Windows)? Most of the documentation I've found make references to Linux. I'm planning to use LPD for communication between 2 RCXs. Has anyone tried that yet using LNP (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hello everyone, I'm currently fooling around with my Mindstorms to get two RCX robots to ball pass between them. As there are only 3 inputs on RCX, I've used 1 for ball sensing, 1 for a touch sensor(to feel for the ball) and 1 which I'm planning to (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) My favorite means of grabbing the commands I type and their output is to set the buffer size of my DOS window to something very large and just select the text with my mouse via click and drag. Then I right click in the DOS window to copy the (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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(...) Tom, You can always use the classic pipe to command, >. For example $ make strip > output.txt But I don't think this dumps any error messages to the file; only to the screen. So I would try something similar to the commands in buildgcc.sh, (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS installation with WinME and Cygnus problems
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Thanks, Max, John, and Ed for your help. I will try some of the suggestions this afternoon after work. I will also post some more helpful output if someone will remind me how to port Cygwin output to a text file (and DOS output?) I read the command (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: sys_time not working
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It works! My mistake was that i only checked the "Command Reference" link that obviously refers to a previous version of legOS. So thank you very much. See you at the Olympic Games in our city Athens . "John Hansen" <JohnBinder@aol.com> wrote in (...) (21 years ago, 6-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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