[GreenKeys] Hmpf... Heavy metal doen't work....

[Philipp Hachtmann]

Hm.....


Bill Buzbee schrieb:
> 
> Philipp Hachtmann writes:
> >
> > Thank you for quick answer :-)
> >
> > Bill Buzbee schrieb:
> > >
> > >   The first thing I would do is try William Bytheway's RTTYArt
> > > program.  Let me know if RTTYArt work for you, but Heavy Metal
> > > doesn't.
> > Where to get?
> 
> A quick trip to google shows:
> 
> http://www.wetnet.ampr.org/~aa6ed/software/
Sorry, I asked first.......

> >
> > > Except when it tries to go behind Windows' back to
> > > directly twiddle with the UART to set the odd baud rates, Heavy Metal
> > > uses the serial port in a fairly standard way.
> > Hm.... I don't understand why it doesn't work :-(
> Could you give a bit more detail about your failure mode?  Can
> you send OK, but just not receive?  Perhaps I did not initialize
> the ports correctly and the windows driver is expecting some odd
> handshaking.
On Win98 I can write out well.
On W2K it doesn't RUN at all (exception..... before Window showed)
I've NEVER read in successfully :-(
(On several systems and Win98/2k)




 
> >
> > >  Note, though, that
> > > there may be problems if you are using Windows COM ports other
> > > than COM1: and COM2:.  If so, email me directly for details.
> > I used com2....
> 
> The issue is that Heavy Metal thinks it knows the port addresses of
> the various com devices.  It turns out that except for COM1: and COM2:,
> your address may vary.  In the current version of Heavy Metal, it
> thinks COM2: lives at 0x2f8.  If your's does not, then that may be
> the problem.
But it is :-(

 
> >
> > Hm.. If it doesn't work at all I will have to write an own application.
> > Or reuse my linux device driver for teleprinter....
> 
> If you're running Linux, you might try the Perl version of Heavy Metal
> directly.  It uses setserial rather than try to do things directly, and
> is much cleaner in general.  Heavy Metal was written on Linux, and then
> ported to Windows.
I thought so.... :-)
Perl.... 

> > P.S.: What's Transmeta?
> 
> It's a company that makes the Crusoe low-power microprocessors.  We
> were in the news quite a bit a couple of years ago, in part because
> one of my coworkers is Linus Torvalds.
Ah, the guy who is to blame for linux *ng*...
What about crusoe? It sells well? I took a glance to the website.
Sounds interesting.


Philipp ;-)



> ...Bill Buzbee
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