On 30Sep23 11:35, Keith Amidon wrote: > On 9/30/23 05:25, Mark Roth wrote: > > Hello Keith. I'm glad you mentioned the shell (and that you wrote it in the > > way back when) because it had slipped my mind to get back to trying it. > > I've gotten so used to using e4thcom that the tool in the repo is just > > collecting figurative dust for me. Tristan W brought it up into the python3 > > realm some time back and I think sorted some bug or another after that. > > I get the feeling there are a number of the back in the old days folks > > doing the same and glancing at the mailing list. One would hope anyway. > > Seeing the dates on the really old commits this past week really drove it > > home just how long this project has been around. :) > > Thanks! I'm not familiar with e4thcom. It looks interesting. > > I'm curious if it also solves the primary reason I had for writing > amforth-shell.py in the first place, which had to do with making higher baud > rates work reliably without overrunning the very small serial input buffer > amforth uses. When using a terminal emulator file transfer that just sent at > maximum baud rate I frequently had problems with this on ATMega 328 based > arduinos if the baud rate was greater than 19200 because amforth would fall > behind as it was storing new words. amforth-shell.py solves this problem by > waiting for a positive echo of the character it sent before sending the next > which let me run at 115k and greatly sped up larger file transfers while > ensuring they were reliable. For my project I had 12+ microcontrollers I had > to regularly reprogram with a fairly large forth program and this was > necessary to keep myself going crazy while waiting during updates. :-) > > --- Keith >
Hello Keith, Thank you for writing amforth-shell. For me it has been a core part of AmForth and a key part of many of my projects. The combination of its reliability and AmForth recognizers meant I could automate sending both commands and data as Forth words over to an mcu running AmForth. Human readable and with no additional effort on my part to deal with pc-mcu communications :) Kind regards and thanks, Tristan _______________________________________________ Amforth-devel mailing list for http://amforth.sf.net/ Amforth-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amforth-devel
