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Subject:	Re: Duplex Comms with RCX
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc
Date:	Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:24:23 GMT
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In article <slrn8geiq3.b1j.mattdm@jadzia.bu.edu>, mattdm@mattdm.org wrote: > Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote: > > Dave had mentioned making a listen mode w/ keep-alive in a future > > version of > > nqc. But I don't think he's gotten around to that yet. > > Not that there's any pressure or anything. :) I just haven't found a non-intrusive method for keeping the tower alive. I hate transmitting garbage every few seconds and possibly trampling incoming data. I'm also not sure this is a very good long-term solution. Really a general purpose message sender/receiver would be much better than adding yet another option (and a strange operating mode) to nqc. Dave -- reply to: dbaum at enteract dot com

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		Re: Duplex Comms with RCX
(...) Fair enough. It's too bad it doesn't have an always-on mode. (...) Definitely agreed. I'll be patient. (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

		Re: Duplex Comms with RCX
(...) It seems to me that, given the current hardware, the choices are: send junk or let the tower go dead. My thinking is that if you send junk and trample something, so be it; the tower would have gone dead anyways, forcing you to lose whatever it (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

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		Re: Duplex Comms with RCX
(...) Not that there's any pressure or anything. :) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.tele, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)

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