On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 07:58:15AM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 10:09:28PM -0700, Cameron
Kaiser via cctalk wrote:
There used to be a cross-compiling gcc for MIPS
specifically for the VR4121 in
the Agenda VR3 PDA, but it doesn't seem to be on any of the remaining sites.
Anyone out there got it or, he asked hopefully, the entire SDK? Binaries OK,
source better.
This not a solution, but maybe a step closer to it.
[...]
As an afterthought, given that Agenda operating system is actually a
Linux with X for graphical part, only small, but still a Linux, thus
Unix...
So if you could bring up xterm (or anything-else-term) on your device
and tap on it this command:
find / | less
If there is /usr/bin/less and /usr/bin/find on it, you will get full
list of files on it. less reacts (it should) to up/down keys, also to
page up/down and scrolls.
Do not count on gcc, but there should be sh, maybe awk. Some kind of
editor, although you could do without it (edit files on desktop and
copy-paste into remote terminal, see below).
If you can do ppp connection to your desktop (over serial), you might
then be able to run xterm on Agenda and display it on a desktop. It
will be slow like (expletive) with stones in hell, but should be
bearable, especially since in this way you would be able to use full
sized keyboard for writing on this terminal.
If you can get to this point, it will be a bit easier to make it
useful.
It might be possible to connect to it with kermit instead of ppp -
again, a terminal for you, and quite faster to work with.
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Regards,
Tomasz Rola
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