#garfield Logs

Mar 06 2017

05:52 PM Tom_L: mmm 57mph wind gusts with wildfires in the area
05:54 PM Tom_L: http://www.kake.com/story/34674010/fire-burns-more-than-5000-acres-in-central-kansas-no-injuries
09:09 PM Tom_L: rue_house around?
09:10 PM Tom_L: i found some code i wonder if it's the pp led blink thing..
09:11 PM Tom_L: i can't figure it out and i can't remember why i wrote this file...
09:39 PM rue_shop3: whats up?
09:39 PM rue_shop3: just unloaded the steel from the truck
09:39 PM rue_shop3: pp?
09:39 PM Tom_L: yeah i can't tell what i wrote this for..
09:41 PM rue_shop3: parallel port
09:43 PM Tom_L: it's for clipper but i have no idea..
09:43 PM Tom_L: i'm starting to get this linker error figured out i think
09:43 PM Tom_L: i'm trying to use a newer version of the compiler
09:44 PM Tom_L: i had a custom library i made for it
09:44 PM Tom_L: the new version requires a recompile and build of the library
09:44 PM Tom_L: so that could be part of it
09:44 PM Tom_L: i can't find the library code :(
09:45 PM Tom_L: i can get a symbol table so i know what was in it
09:45 PM Tom_L: part of it was asm and i think part may have been c
09:45 PM Tom_L: with a pascall like wrapper around it for clipper
09:46 PM rue_shop3: ok
09:46 PM Tom_L: ever try to remember something you did 20 yrs ago?
09:47 PM Tom_L: i did find a library that will probably replace one of the functions i need though
09:47 PM Tom_L: for the old compiler
09:47 PM rue_shop3: :) last time I tracked it down to a failed hard drive
09:47 PM rue_shop3: which is STILL in the freezer
09:49 PM Tom_L: i don't mind using the older compiler if i can make functions i need to replace ones in the newer compiler
09:49 PM Tom_L: one of my library functions was an IS_SERIAL()
10:11 PM Tom_L: yay
10:11 PM Tom_L: found a lib i can use for directory manipulaton
10:17 PM Tom_L: yay hat part is fixed now
10:17 PM Tom_L: that*
10:18 PM Tom_L: directory manipulation was a big deal back then. it didn't support it natively
10:46 PM Tom_L: i remember why i had the IS_SERIAL now
10:46 PM Tom_L: it was for a cash drawer open routine i had
10:46 PM Tom_L: i think
10:47 PM Tom_L: no, maybe that's what the parallel port code is.. come to think of it
10:47 PM Tom_L: it woudld be easier to do on a parallel port
10:50 PM Tom_L: hah i think i found all my lib routines
10:54 PM Tom_L: wow, this gray matter hasn't been accessed it a very long time :)
10:55 PM Tom_L: commcopy
10:56 PM Tom_L: intercepts a com port and logs it and spits it out another port logging both directions to files and a combined file
10:57 PM Tom_L: target device knows no different
10:58 PM Tom_L: try this sometime:
10:58 PM Tom_L: char far (*jump)() = 0xFFFF0000L
10:59 PM rue_shop3: hmm
10:59 PM Tom_L: (*jump)();
10:59 PM Tom_L: inside a main wrapper
10:59 PM rue_shop3: hmmm
10:59 PM Tom_L: cold boot
10:59 PM rue_shop3: a protected OS wont let you do that
11:00 PM rue_shop3: throw a page error
11:00 PM Tom_L: maybe not nowdays
11:00 PM Tom_L: i still don't think i've found the pp led test though
11:01 PM Tom_L: code to flash a rom chip
11:02 PM Tom_L: found something by a Rue_Mohr guy in the directory :D
11:05 PM Jymmm: Tom_L: Oh that guy?! He's a raal bastard!
11:05 PM Tom_L: this is like going thru boxes you stored in the attic only on a pc :D