On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:56:59PM -0700, Carl Helquist wrote: > With the help of the responses so far I have keystick running in a > bash shell. For now I haven't applied all of Jon's changes to the emc > start script. Well, actually a copy called emcnox so I don't mess up > my currently running set-up. I just commented out the line that > started xterm and replaced it with sleep 2; and $EMC2_BIN_DIR/keystick > -ini $INIFILE. Can anyone tell me why the sleep 2; is required? I was > stuck until I added that line.
emc is made up of several smaller programs. there's no guarantee which one will become ready first. in emc 2.2, keystick fails if it becomes ready before the part known as "milltask". the "sleep 2" makes it almost always become ready second, at an expense of adding two seconds to the startup time. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
