<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">> But the emulator could check for e.g. the presence of a</span></font><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">> named pipe and use that for RS232 I/O, set on the command</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">> line for the first or both invocations, and falling back</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">> to looking for the presence of those trigger files.</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">> Then you'd just extend PCLink1 to be able to initiate</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">> the conversation.</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">I was thinking pretty much along those lines (and wanted to</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">know </span></font><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">whether someone did it already.. but apparently not).</span></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">I guess the easiest way is to do it via an additional command</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">line </span></font><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">argument (and not as a menu in the emulator as I had</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class="">originally contemplated).</span></div><div class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: monospace;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Then one only has to add yet another command line option</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">that “boots from the serial line” - and there is your</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">test bed for testing Oberon0.Mod without having to</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">carry your FPGA hardware with you..</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">> Don't forget to take into account the zero-length</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">> final packet, some idiot forgot that ;-)</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Really? How can one possibly forget that? ;-)</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">-AP</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div></body></html>