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Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: sending code to a chip - Palm and bootloaders

2004-06-26 by Mike Murphree

On Jun 26, 2004, at 2:09 PM, Dave VanHorn wrote:
>
> I see..  An AVRISP could be used, if you could write NSB code to drive 
> it.
> I'll warn you of this though, there's no way to send $FF to the serial 
> port
> in NSBasic.
> Originally there was no way to send a null, because he uses null 
> terminated
> strings.
> So, he "fixed" it by translating FF to 00...
> AARRRRGGGHHH..
>
> Now we just convert FE to FF, and FD to FE, and....

Seems like there was a similar case with the KISS firmware for TNCs.
I seem to recall there was an escape sequence for certain characters.

Mike

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