2010/1/8 Flying Electron <[email protected]>:

> The best I can think of so far is to have the gcode turn on one of the
> digital output pins using M64 and then having the hal multiplex the two
> parallel port pins into the probe pin, but maybe there is an easier way
> that won't waste one of the four digital output pins.

Wire the probes in series?

>   Is the number of
> digital output pins controllable by gcode hardcoded, or can it be
> increased through a setting somewhere?

You can change it (the 2.3.0 release notes say so)
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?action=browse&diff=3&id=Released

I read that it was an INI parameter a few days ago, but I can't recall
where (or more importantly, what)

-- 
atp

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