getting restarted
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This is soooo newbie I am embarrassed to ask.
I have a general idea about the operation of micro controllers, have
played and made some beginner applications from a few years back.
Where I am stuck at is passing information from the controller memory
to a file on my pc, a simple text file would be enough. I want to
write over the old file so to me this should be fairly simple, maybe
not.
Can someone push me in the right direction? Links, companies,
keywords, anything would be helpful.
It is probably in front of me but information overload has kicked in.
Thanks in advance.
Oh, pc is running W98.
I have a general idea about the operation of micro controllers, have
played and made some beginner applications from a few years back.
Where I am stuck at is passing information from the controller memory
to a file on my pc, a simple text file would be enough. I want to
write over the old file so to me this should be fairly simple, maybe
not.
Can someone push me in the right direction? Links, companies,
keywords, anything would be helpful.
It is probably in front of me but information overload has kicked in.
Thanks in advance.
Oh, pc is running W98.
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From: stujo [noparse]/noparse]mailto:[url=http://forums.parallaxinc.com/group/basicstamps/post?postID=GLhBVPbJ9TgK1z_F9VcIP875q-hv47fQjHI8_tmZ-A195oS3_hnAsNdlKY51V401Vx4cBVvRRZDI344UsZA5pQ]stujo@o...[/url
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 11:39 AM
To: basicstamps@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] getting restarted
This is soooo newbie I am embarrassed to ask.
I have a general idea about the operation of micro controllers, have
played and made some beginner applications from a few years back.
Where I am stuck at is passing information from the controller memory
to a file on my pc, a simple text file would be enough. I want to
write over the old file so to me this should be fairly simple, maybe
not.
Can someone push me in the right direction? Links, companies,
keywords, anything would be helpful.
It is probably in front of me but information overload has kicked in.
Thanks in advance.
Oh, pc is running W98.
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stujo@o... writes:
> I have a general idea about the operation of micro controllers, have
> played and made some beginner applications from a few years back.
> Where I am stuck at is passing information from the controller memory
> to a file on my pc, a simple text file would be enough. I want to
> write over the old file so to me this should be fairly simple, maybe
>
It's very easy to pass information from the Stamp to PC using SEROUT or even
DEBUG. On the PC end, you'll need to create an application (perhaps in
Delphi or VB) that captures your data and writes it to a file. With a custom
app, you'll have a lot of control. You could use a terminal program to
capture the Stamp's output and write that to a file. In this case, however,
the process would be manual.
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To make a visual Basic program, you must use a win95io.dll to access ports
directly, then input bytes until end of file is reached at a point in which
the program should stop writing to the file. Just thought I'd let you
know...QBasic might be easier. BTW the win95io.dll can be found <A
HREF="http://www.softcircuits.com/sw_tools.htm">here</A> but it will not work
on NT/2K systems.