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I wrote a simple addition to pbforth that allows it to receive text with a checksum across every line. Every line is ACK/NAK-ed and if necessary resent. Timeouts are not implemented. Now, the main word looks like this: : PBX-RECEIVE ( -- ) BEGIN (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | RE: Checksum download of text to RCX
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(...) This is a neat idea, Ernst. I think it would be a good addition to the pbForth system if we can allow the user to use it for text uploads and then switch to normal mode for interactive use. (...) I'll have to think about this a bit.. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Checksum download of text to RCX
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(...) would (...) Can do... Currently a line is transmitted as <text>NL<checksum>, so a checksummed line can already be distinguished from a non-checksummed, CR-terminated line. Adding a line header (any objections against STX?) is more failsafe, of (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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