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[f-bert]

hiho,

i want to write link programm in C, so that i can transmit and recive files (*.cat) to from the calculator under <{GNULINUX}>. But i don't know, in which way i have to speak with the calculator, so that i could tell them here is a new programm. Where can i get information? Has anyone an idea?
Or has anyone written such programm?

thanks daniel

[Andy.Davies]

to see the protocals for casio to pc communication i suggest the casio graph site it has a section on the protocalls, and a dll called casIO for real time comunication between Calc and PC

[mastermage]

dlls do no work under <{GNULINUX}> (only for window$), f-bert has to write the entire communication protocol !
as for now the best site about the casio communication protocol is the one andy gave !

[ross8653]

done wine work correctly with the serial ports under <{GNULINUX}>? you could try that

[mastermage]

Maybe FA-123 or FXInterface could work since they are standard win32 exes with no dlls, surely written in C/C++. I can't say for CasioCom.

[huhn_m]

nearly every windows application works with wine.

Even if it uses dlls or similar stuff. The only things not supported are such programs
like Smartsurfer that use DUN or similar deep integrated programs.

[f-bert]

i dont want to use wine. i only want to write a programm in c, which can talk with the calculator (at first commandline only).

the problem is i dont know if the information from http://users.pandora.be/gp/casio/ are enough. i think with the information from "How Send( and Receive)" i only can talk with the calculater in programms with the send and recive command. So i think that isn't the protokoll to upload/recive any files.

thanks

[huhn_m]

give it a try and mail the author of casiocom.

His e-mail adresse should be located in the about dialog. maybe he can help you.

[f-bert]

up to now i can recive files on the pc. now i want to save the recived programm in the cat file format. so i am looking for the cat specification.
i search for table in which stand on the one site the string for the cat file and in the other site the appropriate (int)value.

thanks

[Andy.Davies]

i have emailed the author of casiocm several times, but he does not respond

[Andy.Davies]

i want to make my own prog, similar to casioCOM, i could use it as my VB project, what i need isw someone else to make a DLL with send/recive program commands for athe AFX, and i would do the rest. what is sourceforges address?

[Bob Vila]

http://sourceforge.net/

[f-bert]

i also emailed the author of cascom and he didn't respond me, too
i had done a look to the cafix sourceforge project. i couldn't compile, but i did a look to the source. the table isn't implemented by them up to now, too. so i will make the table myself.
and thanks for that link

(my icq 99830930)

[Andy.Davies]

i have added you to my contact list, my ICQ is:289225216

[f-bert]

i have created a token file to convert the recived data directly in the cat-file-format.

but a have a problem. 3 numbers are used by two commands

hex 10 is used for line break and "/peta"
hex 7F 0A is used for "\Tptch" and "\D Start"
hex F7 0A is used for "\Do" and "\Break"

i don't know how to decide which i have to take???

[huhn_m]

this is not possible. are you sure?
The calc must have some way to decide what command to use!

[f-bert]

oki i was not complet in the raw modus so the system changed 0x0D in 0x0A

[f-bert]

\ClrText
"A"?\->A
"B"?\->B
\If A<B
\Then A\->V:B\->A:V\->B
\IfEnd
A-\Int (A/B)*B\->R
\While R>0
B\->A
R\->B
A-\Int (A/B)*B\->R
\WhileEnd
\ClrText
"GGT="
\Locate 5,1,B
\Locate 1,2,"? F-Bert 2002"
\Locate 1,3,"www.outset.de"

can anybody say me how i can convert this back in the calculator format?
the problem is that i don't know how many characters i have to take after "\" .
i havn't found any rulez up to now....

[Andy.Davies]

ah, that one i know, the / indicates that the folowing word is a command, such as ClrText. all you will need to do is to make a function to find / and then select / and the following word. then yuo can convert it to the code that is transmitted

[zar]

most commands end with a space or a newline. not all, but it's a rule anyways.

[f-bert]

oki i have it ;-)
the problem was that the length after a \ was unclear because not every \.... ends of a space

[rstweb]

sounds interesting. i have <{GNULINUX}> and i need such a program. =D

my icq: 81950298 - i have added you

[f-bert]

so the programm is ready...
oki its a smallversion
lfa can be downloaded from http://www.f-bert.net

[Bob Vila]

i have <{GNULINUX}> and i need such a program

which distro?

[f-bert]

any distribution ;-)

you only have to unpack
change in the directory
do make
and than you can do ./lfa

its all for the command line

[Andy.Davies]

does someone want to give me instructions on how to use it, i have just instaqlled SuSE 8.0 on a Virtual Machine.....

[Bob Vila]

@andy
i'm not at my <{GNULINUX}> box now, but i'm guessing that you extract the file to a folder (make sure that you make a new folder first, we'll just call it 9850 or something), then at the command prompt, you type "do make" (just "make" might also work, but i dont know), it will compile, then just type "./lfa" to run it

[Andy.Davies]

sounds simple enough, i will have a go in a while, gotta love VMware Workstation

[Bob Vila]

trial version?

[f-bert]

why?

it could only up and download programms up to now.
more to implement should be easy
work it?

[Bob Vila]

sorry, i was talking to andy about vmware

[Andy.Davies]

nah, full version, got the <{GNULINUX}> full version too

[rstweb]

for installing on <{GNULINUX}>:

download the file to a directoryx of your choice (i.e. /home/user)
change to console (terminal) and change to that directory
do "tar -zxvf lfa.tar"
change to directory lfa
do "make"
for starting do "./lfa"

that's it

[Andy.Davies]

i i have put the files in a folder called FX transfer, and they are already extracted (i did that in windows before i put the files into <{GNULINUX}>), could someone give me instructions on how to do what rstweb said in the console please, as i have no idea what the commands are or anything

[rstweb]

in the console change into the directory
do "make"
do "./lfa"

"tar -zxvf lfa.tar" is only for extracting the files from the tar-archive

[Andy.Davies]

1. how do i change to a directory in Konsole?
2. when i tried do "./lfa" all i get is an error

when i say i am new to <{GNULINUX}>, im not joking, i know nothing....

[rstweb]

1) cd [directory] - directory is propably /home/rstweb/lfa
2) before running ./lfa you have to do "make"

[Bob Vila]

i will probably be on AIM later today, so if you have any more problems, i will try to help