Hello Steve, I gather that you are on the editing staff of EMC "paperware". I have been reading a lot and printed the manuals so I could read them in a more comfortable position than sitting at the desk. I wanted to keep back my suggestions until I knew what I'm talking about, but now you asked for it....
- What I missed reading the manuals were drawings. One picture says more than a thousand words. - How about a schematic of where EMC2 is installed in the Linux tree. - If I had had an overwiew right from the beginning in which order all those .ini and .hal files are read by what program I could get a better feeling editing them (and faster!). - A very humble suggestion: it should be possible to arrange the .pdf's pages so that when printing the manuals the odd page numbers are at right, the even ones at the left and the page numbers appear in the upper (or lower) outside corner like in ordinary book printing. Part of the problem is that the contents pages at the front end are numbered by roman numerals which are not correctly recognized by the adobe printing tool (?) or my printer driver. In any case, to avoid hard feelings and because I myself feel the urge to say it: let me express my great appreciation for the way newcomers like me are treated in this forum and for the patience the "gurus" show toward them even with seemingly silly beginner's questions. I'm a little farther now than this but way from completely understanding what the system does in detail. And even more appreciation for the energy and time the developers are devoting to this community! Thank you all very much Peter Blodow At 21:22 04.02.2009, you wrote: >Steve Blackmore wrote: > > >On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:32:23 -0500, you wrote: > > > > > >>You can beta test now, if you want to compile EMC2 yourself. I don't > >>know what alpha/beta/RC versions will be packaged, so compiling may be > >>the only option for trying EMC2 2.3 before it's released. > >> > >>The process isn't all that hard, and is explained pretty well here: > >><http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Installing_EMC2#On_Ubuntu_6 > _06_or_8_04_from_source> > >> > >> > > > >Sorry Steve, I'm a simple Engineer and CNC lathe operator, to non Linux > >Guru's like myself it's not clear, it assumes far too much :( > > > > >Even simple engineers can do it! :) > >I just looked through those instructions with my newbie hat on, and I >see that there are parts that aren't needed if you already have EMC2 >installed. I'll go through the instructions and try to make them >clearer. Once I do that, please try to follow them and let me know >where they aren't clear for you. The best way to do that is on IRC from >the EMC2 machine, since it's a lot more realtime. > >Getting feedback from people for whom the wiki doesn't work is the only >way that we can make it better. Well, there's also the possibility of >someone figuring out what we're trying to say and editing the wiki >themselves, but I understand that many people don't have the time to do >that. > >I'll reply to this thread after I've finished editing that wiki page. >- Steve > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) >software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to >build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local >resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and >Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com >_______________________________________________ >Emc-users mailing list >Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
