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4. The camera welcome prompt is displayed
including the OS version number and the
$ prompt. The camera shell is now
accessible.
4. Only the $ prompt is displayed. The full
welcome prompt is displayed only, if the
camera is restarted (power interrupted
for a few seconds).
Notes:
From camera OS VCRT 5.26:
→
Added KEEPALIVE to FTP and TELNET Server: If link is down for more than 100
seconds the tcp connection will be closed
→
Added telnet session TAKE OVER feature: Telnet currently deals only with one shell
connection. Now its possible to take over a running telnet connection and drop the old
one.
→
do gracious ARP at boot time to force ARP cache updates
→
Refer to “Appendix C: Communication Troubleshooting” if you are unable to connect to
the camera.
If the camera executes a program started after power up, this is started through an autoexec file in the
camera memory. Refer to section 8.6 on information about bypassing the autoexec execution.
8.3.1
Converting “*.out” Files into “*.msf” Files for Serial and Telnet upload
After establishing a connection with the camera via RS232 or Telnet, programs can be uploaded. As
described at the beginning of section 8 and section 8.3.2, the shell command “lo” is used for uploading
“*.msf” files into the camera.
Msf files, or Motorola S-Record files are a file format chosen for safer serial and Telnet file
transmission, including checksums. Note that ONLY *.msf files can be uploaded via RS232 or Telnet!
This does not only count for programs, but any other file (*.txt, *.jpg, *.dat, etc) as well. Refer to the
“Supplied Utilities” section of the “VCRT5” manual for a complete documentation of available file
conversion utilities.
The conversion of program files (lCOFF compatible *.out) files is shown in the following table. Also
compare with the “final build steps” in the CCS Build options (4.6.2). The file conversion is already
included in all supplied project files (see section 4.6.1).
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