On Sunday, May 06, 2012 12:24:59 AM Jon Elson did opine: > gene heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > As I read the hal manuals getting started section, where the keywords > > loadrt, setp, addf, and net are defined, I didn't understand at first > > that arg[3], arg[4] arg[5] etc of a "net" commend can be repeated to > > add sending something from arg[2] to more than one load. But I can't > > name a previously used output and send it to the 2nd place it needs > > to go. Its s show stopper error. > > > > Is this intentional, or do I likely have a deeper miss-understanding? > > If some process is feeding data to a pin, you can't feed different data > to the same > pin. First, you have to UN-link the original sender of the data before > you can > link a new sender. The less well known command unlinkp <pin name> > unlinks that > pin from any signal that is sending it a value. You can then link it > with a new > net command. > > I am not sure this is the info you needed, but since nobody else made > this interpretation > of your question, I thought I should mention it. > > Maybe THIS is what you are asking, though! You have an output pin, > linked to > a signal. You now want to link that output pin to a different signal. > that is not > permitted, as far as I know. BUT -- you can link the already existing > signal > to MORE input pins later. So, the following is legal : > > net siga out.pin.1 in.pin.1 in.pin.2 > net siga in.pin.3 in.pin.4 > > Now, the output pin out.pin.1 is sent to siga. The second net command > extends > what pins the value of siga is sent to, so the same value is now sent to > in.pin.1 through in.pin.4 > > Jon
Precisely Jon. I have it working now, and at some point I'll put it on my web page so you all can throw bad eggs at me. ;-) Thanks to all who helped, I cut another thread this evening, wrong of course but at least I now know why it was wrong. Hopefully the next one will be right. ;-) Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? -- Bertold Brecht ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
