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    More linux feedback. firmware upload doesn't work for me. —Steven J. Morris
    Firmware download is not working. I'm sorry but I never tried this with the first release. A second problem is that it gives no error message if the firmware download fails. I got suspicious because the download was too fast and the LCD was not (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
   
        RE: More linux feedback. firmware upload doesn't work for me. —Ralph Hempel
   (...) This is wierd. I had it working on my Caldera Linux 2.2 which has TclTk 8.0.4 I'll try again. One of the problems is that I can't seem to get a nice NFS system running here, and I have to FTP the files around... :-( I'll try and make a better (...) (24 years ago, 16-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
   
        proposed new word for deleting pbforth —Steven J. Morris
   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)
   
        RE: proposed new word for deleting pbforth —Ralph Hempel
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: proposed new word for deleting pbforth —Steven J. Morris
   (...) 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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