Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer
From: schedan@eskimo.com (Daniel Scheurell)
Subject: Re: writing to the display in C
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
Date: 25 May 94 03:12:23 GMT
Message-ID: <CqC8wo.393@eskimo.com>

Ronald in 't veld (ronald@dutepp13.et.tudelft.nl) wrote:
: Lee Wheat <wheat@wg.com> writes:
: >we are using inmos' C compiler for both development work and testing. is there 
: >a way to display to the PC's screen without having the debugger loaded? we have 
: Do you mean the server program running on the PC?  If yes, it should be
: possible I think.

If you want to display to the host's screen (the PC) without the DEBUGGER 
loaded, simply use the C standard I/O routines (printf, etc.).  Multiple 
processes can use the screen by connecting them through a multiplexor on 
the root transputer (you're responsible for screen arbitration, though).

If you want to display without the SERVER running, then you need some 
program running on the PC that understands how to talk to the root 
transputer on the transputer motherboard.  One method: use the B008/B004 
link module from the iserver source code to construct your own library of 
functions that will communicate with a process running on the root 
transputer.  The program running on the PC would have to handle all of 
the I/O needs for the transputer network.  The root transputer process 
must be linked with the reduced run-time library so that it doesn't 
assume that the host link has the server running on it.

Yell for more.

--

Dan

