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I have a tentative solution to this problem. I've written a DLL that will also allow me to change some interesting stuff like baud rate and imeouts on the tower. This may allow us to finally get full control of the RCX USB tower! Hopefully I can (...) (20 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: LEGO Tower API and Filenames
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(...) One other thing you could try is to physically disconnect and then reconnect the USB tower from the system. I've found that (on Win98 at least) the driver sometimes freezes up and won't open until after I do that little dance. Also, you could (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Yes, I escaped the characters. The identical code works on the Win2K machine and does not work on the win98SE machine with identical LEGO drivers installed. Hmmmm Ralph (20 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Did you escape the backslashes in the C string? CreateFile("\\\\.\\LEGOTOWER1", GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE, 0, 0, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, 0); Just a thought... it's easy to forget sometimes. Mark (20 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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(...) Ralph, I retried it with a Delphi-program that I wrote some time ago. This opens "\\.\LEGOTOWER1" without any problem: ... const DEFAULT_PORT_NAME = '\\.\LEGOTOWER1'; ... function USB_Open():Longint;stdcall; var hFh:Longint; begin (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-04, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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