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Re: Major breakthrough serial wise.
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Thu, 1 Jun 2000 20:01:47 GMT
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in article 39365A56.86986217@nexen.com, Steve morris at smorris@nexen.com
wrote on 6/1/00 5:43 AM:


PS. My IR connection stinks. It is seldom that I can
upload more that 5 lines of script without at least one
error.

Try posting this on a more general list if the following suggestions don't
help:

1) put the RCX and tower underneath a box to block out all extraneous light
sources

2) put a new battery in the tower

3) switch to low-intensity (the little slide switch on the tower)

4) change to a different serial port, or a different machine.

5) you're fiddling with the serial port code?  Knock it off!  :)

Apologies if you didn't need or appreciate this feedback.

--
Doug Weathers, http://www.rdrop.com/~dougw
Portland, Oregon, USA
Don't spam me - I know how to use http://www.spamcop.net
"On a clear disk you can seek forever"



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  Major breakthrough serial wise.
 
I have been fiddling with serial interrupts with little success. Today I finally figured out that interrupts are masked in the CCR until you run the word RCX_INIT. I was blindly assuming that interrupts were generally enabled and I only had to deal (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)  

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