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| (...) Just to confirm that, I successfully installed the GUI in my NT system (NT4.0 Build 1381, SP 5) following Jeff's procedure. It works great, no need of the giveio driver, no problems with the COM port though not having the Admin rights. Thanks (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| Jeff wrote... (...) Thanks Jeff, I was worried it might be taken the wrong way after I posted it... (...) I've snipped the rest of the description, but the result is that it works without the giveio driver, if I understand correctly. This is VERY (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| Ok, Ok, I'm an idiot....this is such a polite group that no one ever says RTFM ;>) Well, you did Ralph, but very, very nicely.... This GUI works great in NT (NT4.0 SP3), with very little work (once you start to think). Download and unzip TclTk ( I (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| (...) Yup, it's your COM port. Rather than put it in a dialog, which is THAT much more code to write and DEBUG, I've put it in rcxoption.tcl - which you would know if you read the installation notes on the web page...:-) (...) Thanks for more (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| I poked about a bit also and found: (URL) 3.html This is one source of both givio.sys, and the instdrv.exe which will register the giveio.sys as a system device driver. Instdrv is a console app which has been adapted from the Microsoft DDK version. (...) (24 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| Jeff Hazen wote: (...) Me too. I got tired of dinking around with HyperTerminal... I'm not sure at all about an NT installation, so I'm hoping some others will step in here... (...) No, If you unzip the distribution, there should be a .lnk file (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| This is a great idea, Ralph. I've wanted to just fool around in pbForth, but have been intimidated by the apparent front-end learning curve. I'm a mechanical guy, I don't do TclTk, Gnu, etc., I've been spoiled by GUI front ends and install programs. (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
| | | | | Re: proposed new word for deleting pbforth
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| (...) As a guess the following string tells the ROM that there is valid firmware. This might need to be stepped on before jumping to the reset vector. .string "Do you byte, when I knock?" (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| (...) Kekoa, feel free to jump in here... Personally, I think just jumping to the reset vector 0x0000 should do a total cold start, right? Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) ---...--- Reply to: (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| It would be handy if there was a word that deleted firmware. It is often inconvenient to get at the batteries. At Kekoa I see the opcode but no rom entry point. Trashing the header in memory and jumping to the reset vector might do it. I wonder if (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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