Re: pbLua Newbie question

[Ralph Hempel <rhempel@...>]

RJP Computing wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2008 5:25 PM, Ralph Hempel <rhempel@hempeldesigngroup.com 
> <mailto:rhempel@hempeldesigngroup.com>> wrote:
>
>     You either type them in by hand, or send them as text files
>     from your serial terminal emulator.
>
>  
> Oh boy, I wasn't expecting it to be that rough around the edges. What 
> baud rate should I use? Does the Robot just start after the transfer?

Baud rate does not matter. Define "rough around the edges" :-) If you
mean no GUI - then you can help out by figuring out how to make
Eclipse work for us...

>     I have a new version to be released either this weekend
>     or next week that fixes a nasty bug in the USB driver code.
>
>
> If I am using Linux and not Windows is there still a bug? How likely am 
> I going see this when I start to work with the robot?

Yes, it's a firmware bug in pbLua. You'll see it as soon as you send
a file to the NXT - typing will be fine.

You cna work around it by putting at least 1 msec between characters,
but the xfer will be really slow.

Ralph